Nom de plume: Rivrdog

"Jesus" stomping was more than offensive - UPDATED!

At Florida Atlantic University, a professor had his students write Jesus in full-page letters on a sheet of paper, then place it on the floor and stomp on it.

The University is trying to roll this back by saying that it was not a mandatory participation exercise, but that doesn't wash because when a student, a practicioner of the Mormon faith, refused, he was booted from the class.

The University has "apologized"

Two things: this phony "communications" or "feelings" exercise was put on as Easter Week, Christendom's holiest holiday, approached. Second, this professor just happened to use the most powerful insult that a MUSLIM could use to defile something blasphemous in the Eyes of Allah.

It's strange that none of our stalwart newhounds on the Right have brought up my second point.

By his orders to his class, the Professor has identified himself as an adherent of Islam, and a rather pointed adherent at that. The islamic codeword for lying when it benefits Islam is "Taqiyya", and the professor obviously know what it means.

The proof of the Islamic Connection? The professor would have been playing more to Western mores by telling the students to rip up the paper with "Jesus" on it, because shredding or dividing the image would have been more to the point for a Western audience.

Offensive to Christians and a coded message to Islam, is more like what the professor did.

Fire his muzzie ass.

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The Patriot Padre reports that the professor in question has been placed on "administrative leave" by the University. Is this a two-minute Minor penalty-box visit, or a five-minute Major? Time will tell.

A dilemma inside a conundrum

Nothing like a little brainwork to start your day, so I present this little teaser.

I can hear that monkey wrench clanking around in the various chambers of the SCOTUS like a ships reduction gears about to come to a grinding halt.

My position on this subject remains the same: "marriage" IS a religious concept, one which should never have been allowed to creep into civil law. It belongs in Canon law, and canon law only. Civil Unions? Sure, the State might have reasons to define those, and this loose-definition-of-marriage is one of those reasons.

Just don't call Civil Unions "marriage".

The SCOTUS courld make that important distinction now, but it'll be a cold day in Hell before they find the balls OR the Reason to do so.

Chutzpah

The definition. The practical application: take an audience of Jews who know all about the subjects you will speak on, pretend that they know nothing about them, and give them an hour-long, tub-thumping lecture on "how to be a Jew 101". To make it REALLY effective, your sense of Chutzpah should tell you to deliver this lecture 4 days before the start of Passover, the most important Jewish High Holiday.

That's OUR President! He's nothing if not a chutzpanik.

But, note that he couldn't find the time to visit the Western Wall, traditionally THE place where those seeking the enlightenment of the Jewish traditions (and seeking thereby, the support of Jews) go to.

I have Jewish roots. What would I have done differently, had I been in Obama's shoes? I would have shitcanned this speech, started my own by thanking my gracious hosts, commented on their bravery in establishing and defending their homeland, then examined the previous attempts at Palestinian Statehood and why those attempts have failed (hint: it has something to do with Islamic extremism). I would have ended by reminding the Muzzies that they alone are responsible for the failure of Palestine.

Instead, Obama told the youth of Israel to reject their older and wiser leaders, stalwart men and women who have established Israel and got it to the point where it can afford to have a do-nothing, know-nothing generation like we do in the USA, and addressed those wasted youth telling them to reject the teachings of their forefathers.

What gall!

What tripe!

What an utter ass he is!

Catholic musing...

Disclaimer: I'm not Catholic, the closest I came was a "catechism lite" that I had to take before my first wife and I could become married in a Catholic Church (her father's insistence, he was a K of C). Of course, since I divorced her, I am excommunicated by Canon Law.

That said, the dummies in the Press are overlooking the most important thing about the election of Pope Francis.

He is a Jesuit.

The Jesuits, of course, are the hard-core of the Catholic Church. The "SpecOps", if you will.

I am eagerly awaiting the new Pope's first Encylical, or if not an Encyclical, at least some papal letter that begins to define the Church in the role it used to have, the "original" form of Christianity.

Hell, there was a time when I could read and write in Latin. I had enough of it and tested well enough that I got college credit for a foreign language for my Bachelor of Arts degree.

Yep, the Church, under Pope Francis' leadership, could arrest the slide of Christianity into the dustbin of history. The Church could now give the Muzzies a run for their money.

I will be happy to see Latin Mass again, now only some insignificant "pirate" parishes do them, and at that, they have to be "extra" masses.

I look forward to a vigorous defense of Marriage under Canon Law, and I hope that the Church will see it's way to sanction (de-frock) any priest who fails that Canon law.

Almost everyone who went to a Jesuit school pays taxes, has never been to prison, and either is happily married or has taken the vows of priestly celibacy.

Yep, the Jesuits have the spine to take on our cultural decline, and now they have the leadership to do it as well. 

NPR on Christmas

NPR has a valid purpose: project the Christian culture. They do a very good job of it on Christmas with two liturgical pageants, one fron Temple Square with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and one from Luther College with their excellent symphony orchestra and 470-voice choir, which is really a collection of smaller choirs which sing well together. My favorite sub-choir is the "Norsemen" a male choir composed of mostly baritones. Good stuff, lets me celebrate being a WASP & Christmas at the same time.

End foreign aid to Egypt

We spend $1.55 billion per year on foreign aid to Egypt, they now have a self-proclaimed strongman, who started out as a duly-elected President*, and now one of their Courts just sentenced the motor-mouth Florida Christian pastor Terry Jones to death in absentia for blasphemy against Islam. Seven others, all citizens or legal resident aliens of the USA (one also resides part of the time in Canada), all former Egyptians and all Coptic Christians, were also sentenced.

Look, it shouldn't be US Policy to tell other countries what to do with their internal rule, but likewise, all money we give other countries for support of their governments ought to have a few strings attached. One of those strings must be basic human rights. It is NOT okay, in our country where religious freedom is the rule of our law, to fork dollars over to another country which orders the killing of people in the name of their officially-established religion, for offenses which are strictly religious and NOT recognized as any other level of crime by any other form of court.

In case you don't know, Dear Readers, Egypt is the largest recipient of US foreign aid after Israel. Politically, we've been giving Egypt all those dollars to artificially support them in a style they oughtn't be used to, but primarily, we gave them money to have them as a bulwark against radical Islam in the region (80% of the money went to the Egypt Army). Now that there has been regime change there (including in the Army), and they have evidently adopted radical Islam as their State Religion, it's time to end the foreign aid, entirely, or at least, reduce it to say, the level of aid we give Yemen.

I have an idea. Let's tell the government of Mohammed Morsi that they have ten calendar days to produce an official document over Morsi's now-all-powerful signature telling us and the world that their kangaroo court proceeding against our citizens/protected aliens is symbolic only, means nothing more than, say, Catholic Ex-Communication would, and would never be physically enforced even if any of the affected people showed up in Egypt (a possibility due to bounty-kidnapping), or, if Egypt fails to so state, we not only cut off all the foreign aid, but we immediately give it to Israel, for direct military support.

If that document is not forthcoming, and it won't be, we not only end the aid and increase Israel's, we put Egypt on the list of nations our citizens may not visit under penalty of having their passports suspended. IIRC, tourism is Egypt's biggest producer of foreign currency, ironic since people don't go there to see the current culture, only an ancient one long gone. We next make an extreme effort to persuade the European Union to do the same. We might or might not succeed with Europe, it all depends on how we sweeten the price in Brussels, but just making the effort will scare the Izar off of Morsi.

President Obama has been frittering away our global power, some say by design. We still have one global power-arrow left in our quiver, though, and that is the Almighty Dollar.

It's time to use the Dollar as the persuasive tool it always is.

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* ...as some, including this writer, have suggested that our President might also try out as his path to glory.

Thursday Thuds - Post-election special edition

Thud the First: Goes to FEMA. With the Nor-Easter "Athena" hammering the Northeast Coast of the US just a week after Hybrid Storm Sandy paid her call, and the recovery and re-constitution effort from Sandy just getting started there, guess what? FEMA took a "snow day" yesterday! Yep, the EEE-mergency filk our Government is so in love with took the day off to stay warm and dry as about 4 to 6 inches of wet snow pelted down in the damaged area. That rates a resounding F.A.I..L. If you are the nuts of a recovery and reconstitution effort (I have managed in that regard in the military AND in my work as a Deputy Sheriff), you DO NOT take a day off. You stay at your post until the clean-up is done and all affected residents have services restored with which they can carry on basic life. My orders? First Sergeant, put FEMA on the list of agencies which will NOT be brought back in the Second Republic. That is all.

Thud the Second: Goes to the Grand Old Party. Yep, the Republicans, the dear "Rs". I think that it can be safely said that you good 'ol boys fairly well farged this election up, and did it by the numbers! Because I might want to do something else today besides hammer on your sorry asses, here's a bullet-point list of how this failure of yours went down:

• You were too "fair", way back two years ago when the campaign started. You let the nomination process drag on for an eternity, and that overly-long process sapped the patience and reserve of everyone who has adopted your political philosophy. How many "front-runners" did we have? Five or so, one after the other? I don't know about you hosers, but I was bored silly after the first two, eh?
• You failed to set your standard. You never gave any guidance to your nomination prospects as to what was an acceptable version of your politics, and as a result, we had political philosophies ranging from Ghengis Kahn to Karl Marx trying for the brass ring. Especially, we had the religious fundies who are guaranteed losers on a national stage (read the farging polls, idiots).
• You failed to see the threat. When Romney finally DID lock it all up, the opposition had been gifted with a full year to get his number, and they nailed their opposition down: concentrate on his work as a hedge-fund CEO, which requires the closing of some underperforming businesses. Make him look like the evil capitalist, and ignore the fact that he ran several other major entities very successfully, including the Democratik People's Republik of Taxachusetts and the Winter Olympics. You failed to predict these attacks on your man, and you also failed to steer him towards any effective response to the attacks.
• Romney's fail. You, big guy, kept your excellent executive personna hidden until the first debate. Didn't you read anything about Ronald Reagan? After years of economic malaise, Reagan got out his cheerleader suit and successfully raised everyone's hopes for recovery, while painting Carter as a guy who would never lead the USA to recovery. You should have just copied that act, but you remained Mister Starched Collar CEO Guy, and inspired no one, at least until the first debate, by which time it was too late.
• Truth Squad. Where was the GOP Truth Squad? If there was one, it was a shadow of what it should have been. Obama got away with the most outrageous lies. At least when Kerry's Swift Boat lies were exposed, and Dan Rather was exposed for leading that liar's brigade, Bush's folks managed to get it out to the voting public effectively. Not one of Axelrod's or Plouffe's lies was ever successfully refuted, or even exposed as to origin, except in the blogs, and you filk completely failed to use THAT resource.
• Voting strategy. Obama won with barely a one-percent bulge in the popular vote, but with a 10% overage of Electoral College votes. How did THAT happen? Why couldn't you see THAT coming? Instead of concentrating on trying to marginally boost your statewide take in seven states, why didn't you concentrate on taking Obama out of the race in his strongholds, such as Cuyahoga County, OH or Fairfax County, VA? You were scrambling for pebbles in the riverbed while the entire mountain was sliding down to bury you (yeah, yeah, hindsight is always 20-20).
• The abortion nuts. Mitt, you did a masterful job of keeping your controversial Mormon religion out of the spotlight, but some of the idiots carying your banner were not so masterful as to THEIR controversial religion. Akin and Mourdock come to mind with their bonehead ideas on abortion. Look, let's put it this way: the Christian religion is morally flexible enough to forgive the major sin of murder when a life is taken in a just war, or a criminal's life is taken when he is committing serious crime, so why is it wrong to abort a fetus which is only there as a result of the sin of rape? If and when you GOP wallahs take the field of political battle again, you'd better strike the Abortion streamer from your battle colors. Far too few of your followers will stay in the battle with that streamer on your battle-standard.

Okay then, those are the high points of Romney's fail. Personally, I would add to it an aggravating financial team, dunning me for dollars every time I turned around to read my emails, and trying to phone me at all hours of the day and into the night with annoying robo-dialing machines (I was TOTALLY successful, and intercepted every one of these hundreds of calls without answering any of them). This fail of 2012 was epic. A President who had a record of non-performance as bad as Obama's, and a record of dictatorial over-reach as bad as Obama's should have been an easy target. Your failure to end his predation on our society is doubly regrettable, as history is likely now to write your failure down as the last gasp of a constitutional, principled society in the battle to save itself from Socialist mediocracy. America dies, not with a stilled battle-cry on it's lips, but a whine of defeat.

I'm ready for the Second Republic now. Perhaps we'd better see what can now be done to bring the formal end of this First Republic and properly start the Second Republic.

Dancing in the flood - Earl Blumenauer, whatta Maroon!

You've heard of Dancing in the Blood, of course, if you've read this blog for long. That particularly nasty terpsichore is done whenever there's some sort of mass-murder with firearms, and the anti-Civil Rights groups immediately use the event to try to further their un-Constitutional agenda to kill the Second Amendment to the Bill of Rights of the US Constitution. That's Dancing in the Blood.

The envirowhackos have their own version of this danse macabre, which I will call "dancing in the flood". The "science" behind the discredited theory of man-made global climate change has been discredited sixteen ways to Sunday, but the adherents of that strange religion remain unconvinced by the debunking of their phony "science". Not only do they remain unconvinced, they grab at straws in the wind, hence the Dancing in the Flood whenever a major adverse-weather event happens. Hurricane Sandy was just such a Weather event.

So it goes with our Greenie-Weenie, Earl "the Pearl" Blumenauer, Democrat representing the 3rd District of Oregon in Congress. He's just Danced in the Flood of Hurricane Sandy. He danced earlier this year in the big Heat Wave. The flood that time was in the tears of farmers and ranchers ruined by the drought, a continuing Weather event.

Earl, you dolt, there's Weather and there's Climate, and they are NOT the same, in fact, they share few connections in science. Climate is the continuing record of Weather events, and that's as close as it gets. Weather isn't even discussed in real Climate-science circles unless it's discussed as as a long, continuing record, the longer, the better, and it's specifically NEVER discussed in relation to a single Weather event.

Let this be a lesson to the Climate-scare Socialists* who have un-Constitutionally established their earth-religion as science-fact in US law: Weather is NOT Climate, never was, never can be.

But, these pearls of wisdom are lost on Earl, because, as my Momma done told me, you should never cast Pearls before Swine.

Representative Earl Blumenauer, (D) 3rd District, OR, you are the Maroon of the Month!

Your blogger may or may not be the Punster of the Month. You decide.

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* My forever challenge: the Climate-Scare religion is purely a function of Socialism. This blog challenges all readers to try to find proponents of that religion who are NOT Socialists.

"October Suprise"? Not quite...

So the babble on the weekend talks shows was how the "October Surprise" of Obama, in his "startling" announcement at the Grate Dee-bate tonight, will be that he has initiated some sort of direct talks with Iran over their nukes. The "surprise" for Obama will be that we won't be taken in by this ruse like we're supposed to be, and forget all about the startling foreign policy incompetence, followed by criminal lyings, that has become the Benghazi Effect.

Sorry, Mr. Obama, enough people know about Taqiyya, that permission in the Quran which says that all good Muslims may lie, cheat and steal as long as it is in furtherance of establishing the Grand Caliphate, or Islamic takeover of the planet.

So, Fearless Leader, either you have to be the dumbest fool who ever fell off of a turnip truck and found his way into town, or you are deliberately using Taqiyya on your own people (lie to your own people, for those who still haven't gotten the Taqiyya thing down), in telling them that the Iranian nuke quest is all but over because you are in charge of negotiating nukes away from them.

Nope, not an October Surprise, unless you count the voter's surprise at YOU, Mister President, for thinking they were that dumb to be taken in so easily. YOU may be taken in by Taqiyya, Mister President, but we didn't just fall off that turnip truck like you did. My proof? Just how many ordinary Americans have converted to Islam recently? If you discount the prison inmates who are always converting to some religion or other because they get out of their cells more often that way, not many 'murcans have fallen for the Islamic line. The President did, but it was in his yute, and he's supposed to have become a Christian since then. Is he or isn't he a Christian? If he is, he shouldn't fall for Taqiyya, either. Could Obama's Christianity be just another Taqiyya smokescreen, and he's really the First Islamic President? Are these "talks" just a way of loosening the US/EU sanctions against Iran? The payback of our Islamic President to the Grand Ayatollah, maybe?

I think that this "October Surprise" could be a smokescreen for a more serious surprise, one which the Won declares war somewhere, so he can complete the imposition of his Dictatorship by Executive Order blitz.

Alternatively, Fox News had a rumor last night stating that there was going to be some sort of last-minute reveal of some past Romney peccadillo today. That hit the airwaves just once, and nothing has come out from (D)onk HQ, so there may be nothing to it.

Oh, one last thing: the "polls". More Taqiyya. Several days ago they had Romney up across the board, and now the Won is "even going into the final debate"? WTF,O?

As for this pundit's guess, I think the Won will retain the White House. I don't like that, but I think it will happen, not because of the polls, not because of the President, but because that little nagging voice that tells a lot of folks how to vote as they walk into that booth will say it's okay to vote for the Won because he doesn't have the Congress in his pocket now. That's fallacious, of course, but it's also traditional political thinking, and 'murcans are nothing if not traditional, eh? I also think that the next Congress will look a lot like this one, and I think that it's only 15 days until we see Hillary start to campaign for 2016.

I'm about punditted out, and it's only 0717...

Where's the world headed?

Yeah, I know, that's too vague a question to have a tidy answer, so I'll break it down some.

Where's the world headed under the Socialists?

Here's a prominent libertarian thinker, and his succinct take on it. It will take you maybe three minutes to read his short essay, and it WILL be the most important thing you read today.

It's hard to know just where to start reversing the tide of collectivism, but it seems fairly clear to me that we have an opportunity to get that reversal process going on November 6th by voting for Mitt Romney and voting to put GOP candidates in the US Senate and House of Representatives.

After you read Mr. Smith's take on who should go to Washington (better, who shouldn't), consider supporting your favorite candidate, and maybe also JPFO.

Jews hold a strong belief that given the proper intellectual content, Man will usually make the correct decisions. Their JPFO organization is based on one glaring exception to this concept, because Jews generally don't support the enumerated right of individuals to own forearms over the claimed right of the Government to restrict that ownership. From within the religion, JPFO, a stalwart band of Jews, stands in support of the enumerated right to keep and bear arms that resides in our Bill of Rights as the Second Amendment.

My grandfather Phillip was a Russian Jew who came to this great Nation in the 1880's, fleeing from the Empire of Russia and the Tsar's "pogroms", or eradication of Jews. My father followed him in the religion, but married a gentile. I did not follow my father in the religion, but blood is thicker than water, so I have a soft spot in my heart for the Jews, and support them as they defend themselves against the incessant persecutions they face. I support JPFO because it tries to work within the religion to convince it's adherents of the necessity to defend themselves, and that such defense also includes fending off any government hostile to the very idea of self-defense.

Stay strong, my friends, personal strength is never a weakness, no matter how much the Socialists try to tell you that group strength is better.

Buy ammunition, my friends, I'm predicting that this Government will try to restrict the supply of it very soon. Consider it an investment in your future, because it is.