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Jason Cuadrado's "Reap What You Sow"
Congratulations to our pal Jason Cuadrado, who's released his painstaking creation of a "new" vintage Twilight Zone episode to YouTube. "Reap What You Sow" replicates the look, sound, and feel of a vintage TZ episode more closely—more perfectly—than any other tribute I've seen. It's a remarkable achievement. But let us allow Jason to speak for himself:
I've been obsessed with The Twilight Zone ever since I was a kid. No other show sparked my imagination and horror like Rod Serling's original anthology opus. I've had to live with the crushing disappointment of missing an opportunity to be part of that seminal moment in television history.
Thanks to Unreal Engine, I was able to enter The Twilight Zone myself by going back in time to write and direct an episode of the original series.
This is that episode as it premiered in 1964 for season 5.
The film was written and completed in about a month using Unreal Engine 4.25 as the main creative hub (and time machine). Characters were designed in Daz Studio, imported into Reallusion's Character Creator 3 for mesh refinement, and finally iClone 7 as the main bridge to UE via Auto Setup and LiveLink.
Motion capture was recorded using the Perception Neuron Pro system. Facial capture and finger animation were achieved with iClone's Motion Live (plus an iPhone X and Leap Motion controller).
Props and locations from Daz would go through Maya for smoothing before being exported to Unreal. The wonderful Unreal Marketplace supplied the rest.
Audio was recorded with the Rode Wireless Go and a Maono AU-A04H.
The opening credits were done in Unreal and After Effects. The final edit was completed in Premiere.
Although I did most of the performance capture myself, I didn't do it alone. I had to rope in my dad and aunt since, during a pandemic, you work with what you've got. Thankfully my aunt is a professional and my dad is a trooper. Just goes to show what you can create with the resources around you on a single computer in your living room.
This short film was made with love for fans of the series (and just in time for the traditional New Year's Day marathon). And if you haven't seen the show, please check it out in all its incarnations (available on CBS All Access) to truly appreciate Rod Serling's legacy.
Disclaimer: The Twilight Zone, logo, and its music are the property of CBS Television Distribution. This is a not-for-profit fan production and is not affiliated with the rights owners. This is not for commercial use. It's for the love of the show.
This has been The Twilight Zone...
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A gargantuan newt can be noticed over and over again twinkling a light in Tower Park at night.
A space invader has from time to time been noticed meditating by Black Creek.
The extraterrestrial technician of an alien spaceship is from time to time made out in a deserted location close to Warren.
The ghost of an old Indian chief has supposedly been seen on one or two occasions trying to get cars to stop alongside a murky highway in the vicinity of Warren.
A black as coal cat that turned into a lady may sometimes be witnessed mailing a parcel at a Warren post office. A number of of the residents allege this ghost likes frightening people who come trying to find ghosts in Warren.
A Stegosaurus has repeatedly been witnessed chatting into the air as if somebody else was nearby.
An enormous wombat is regularly observed staring through apartment windows in Warren on a dark night.


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Item - The New York Saturday Star Journal, v. III, no. 105, March 16, 1872
New York Saturday Star Journal — v. 3 no. 105
The Sweet Girl That I Adore (Work, page 1)
Madeleine's Marriage; or, The Heir of Broadhurst (Work, chapters I-IV, pages 1-3)
Laura's Peril; or, The Wife's Victory. A Story of Love, Folly, and Repentance (Work, chapters XXVII-XXVIII, page 3)
Fairy Stories: Patchkin's Gold (Work, page 4)
The Seaside Stone's Story (Work, page 5)
Tracked to Death, or, The Last Shot (Work, chapters XXV-XXVIII, page 5)
The Red Mazeppa; or, The Madman of the Plains, A Strange Story of the Texan Frontier (Work, chapters XI-XIII, page 6)
"My Boys" (Work, page 7)
The Dark Secret; or, The Mystery of Fontelle Hall (Work, chapter XXIX, page 7)
Why She Married Him (Work, page 7)
A Happy-Taph (Work, page 8)
The Blacksnake Tragedy (Work, page 8)
Recollections of the West: The Early War-path (Work, page 8)
Beadle and Adams (1872-1898) (New York (N.Y.)) -- United States
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Also includes: Beat Time's Notes (department), Our Arm-Chair (department), Foolscap Papers (department), Readers and Contributors (department), Short Stories from History (department); plus mission and editorial, publisher's advertisements, and short filler items.

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Breeding Cockroaches for your Reptiles Diet is not as difficult as you may think!
Most cockroaches are oviparous, with the eggs being located outside of the mother's body. This commonly referred to as "live bearing". The eggs are carried in an egg sac (ootheca), which are attached to her abdomen. Often the eggs are hidden or dropped just before they hatch. Other species carry their eggs after they are born.
Some species continue to carry the hatching eggs and care for their young after they are born. It is important that this egg sac remain moist otherwise the eggs will not develop properly. If low humidity conditions persist for long periods the productivity of the colony will reduce or stop breeding. Some species are ovoviviparous, with the ootheca located inside the mother's body.
Newly hatched roaches, are known as nymphs. When born their exoskeleton has not hardened and is white in color. At this stage they are prone to dehydration. Shortly after birth the exoskeleton hardens and they resemble small, wingless adult roaches. Nymphs undergo a number of molts before becoming adults. The period between each molt is known as an instar. Each instar results in the cockroach becoming more adult like. Some species live for a few months, others live for more than 2 years.


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Q: how to remove polyline path from source to current position while moving i want to remove the previous polyline while moving, i am using the GoogleDirection class to draw the polyline. please refer below code snippet
   GoogleDirection.withServerKey(getResources().getString(R.string.google_maps_key))
                .from(origin)
                .to(destination)
                .transportMode(TransportMode.DRIVING)
                .alternativeRoute(true)
                .execute(this);

 @Override
public void onDirectionSuccess(Direction direction, String rawBody) {
            mMap.clear();
            mMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions().position(destination));
            ArrayList<LatLng> directionPositionList = direction.getRouteList().get(0).getLegList().get(0).getDirectionPoint();
            polyline = mMap.addPolyline(DirectionConverter.createPolyline(this, directionPositionList, 3, Color.BLACK));

}
  @Override
public void onDirectionFailure(Throwable t) {
    Log.e("Direction fail Sorry", " no route found for this location.");

    }
Please refer screenshot, need to update polyline according to current location.

A: You can test for each polyline segment for current position on the polyline segment laying with  Google Maps Android API Utility Library namely PolyUtil.containsLocation(LatLng point, java.util.List<LatLng> polygon, boolean geodesic).
...
int ixLastPoint = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < path.getPoints().length; i++) {
    LatLng point1 = path.getPoints().get(i);
    LatLng point2 = path.getPoints().get(i);
    List<LatLng> currentSegment = new ArrayList<>();
    currentSegment.add(point1);
    currentSegment.add(point2);
    if (PolyUtil.isLocationOnPath(currentLocation, currentSegment, true, 50)) {
        // save index of last point and exit loop
        ixLastPoint = i;
        break;
    }
}
...

And than delete points from path from 0 to ixLastPoint like that way:
...
List<LatLng> pathPoints = path.getPoints();
for (int i = 0; i < ixLastPoint; i++) {
    pathPoints.remove(0);
}
path.setPoints(pathPoints);
...

NB! This is just approach, not complete solution.

A: To remove a polyline you should simply use remove() method
//Add line to map
Polyline confirmPathPlotLine= mMap.addPolyline(new PolylineOptions()
            .add(new LatLng(location.getLatitude(), location.getLongitude()),
                    new LatLng(this.destinationLatitude, this.destinationLongitude))
            .width(1)
            .color(Color.DKGRAY)

//Remove the same line from map
confirmPathPlotLine.remove();

A: Use you Current location as your Origin. then everytime onLocationChange gives you location clear the map, and request new Route under Direction API. everytime you request for new location it also request new Route.

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A retired construction worker was shocked to discover two 19th-Century tombstones while doing some landscaping in his Michigan backyard. One headstone bore a name, William E. Turner, but the name had worn-off the other. A family plot in the cemetery across the street belongs to the Turners and a city clerk said some kids used to tie headstones to horses and pull them down in acts of vandalism.
I include this account because it is evidence of how a little legwork can expose the mundanity of what might otherwise be a creepy, little mystery. Oh, and because a woman showed-up at the city clerk's that same day and mentioned she was a relative of an E.D. Turner. "We we were all very shocked by the coincidence," the city clerk said. Officials are hoping the woman reappears so they can question her about any historical significance.


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Observations on Culture, Faith, Politics and the Roots of American Freedom
The Amazing Herman Cain Money Machine
I've been raising funds for candidates, causes and institutions for more than 40 years. I had the privilege of being Ronald Reagan's fund raiser when he first ran for President in 1976. I've raised money for half a dozen presidential campaigns, but my experience with the Herman Cain campaign, although it was cut short, was the most interesting and amazing program I have even participated in.
Richard Norman worked for me for a number of years, doing a great job, first as a copywriter and account executive and later as Vice President of our creative team. He is a smart and talented leader and when the folks at the Herman Cain campaign picked Richard to be their Finance Director, they made a very smart move.
I had talked with Herman Cain at CPAC in early February of 2011. I told him that there were lots of candidates running, but he was the only one I wanted to raise money for. He must have believed me because we signed a test mailing agreement with his campaign and on March 1. Initially things moved fast. I wrote a fund raising letter within a couple of weeks and submitted it to the campaign before the end of March. After some delays, it went into the mail on June 6 and when the money began to pour in I knew that Herman Cain was a serious candidate indeed. The final numbers were very similar to the results that we generated from our first mailing on behalf of Ronald Reagan. To put it quite simply, the net revenue from just 50,000 prospects was more than $2.50 per name mailed! It was a very exciting start to the fund raising program.
Unfortunately however, for various and sundry reasons, with the exception of some house appeals (with similarly phenomenal results) the fund raising effort moved forward very slowly. In fact, I was about to throw in the towel until I received a call from Richard Norman in late October. Richard, Mark Block (Cain's campaign manager) and the candidate were about to land in Las Vegas for a Presidential Debate. It was then that Richard informed me that he was now on the Cain campaign team as its Finance Director. Being the gentleman that he always is, he invited me to participate in a meeting at a hotel in DC the following Friday (November 4) with the other members of the fund raising organization he was putting together. What Richard accomplished in just one week was incredible.
Tammy Cali, President of Campaign Funding Direct, Bill Griffiths, CFO of the Eberle Communications Group, Mike Hiban, President of Omega List Company, and I planned to attend. Unfortunately, Tammy became ill and was unable to participate. The team that Richard assembled in such a short time was amazing for both its breadth fund raising mediums and its depth of experience. In seven short days Richard had brought on board three telemarketing firms, one major gift organization, an expert on radio advertising, and a seasoned professional at raising funds via TV infomercials. In addition, of course, Eberle Associates as well as the Richard Norman Companyand ActiveEngagement a company run by his son, J.D. Norman, were represented. Richard had put together a comprehensive team of fund raising professionals who were ready and willing to get up and running fast. In fact, with marching orders from Richard, they did just that. A short appearance at the meeting by Herman Cain simply increased the enthusiasm and determination of the entire fund raising aparatus.
Shortly thereafter serious money began rolling in to the campaign. Rebecca Hagelin(Rebecca Hagelin Communications and Marketing) began running fund raising appeals on the Rush Limbaugh show, the Sean Hannity show, the Mark Levin Show and the Glenn Beck show that generated literally tens of thousands of donors to the Cain campaign overnight. The live operator telemarketing efforts produced by Paul Wilson (Strategic Fundraising), and the artificial intelligence calls created by Gabe Joseph(ccAdvertising) provided similarly astounding results. Stephen Clouse (Stephen Clouse and Associates), a pioneer in video based efforts targeting major donors was preparing a campaign and the DRTV (Direct Response TV) spots being created by Ron Guberman (Media Reactions) were in the production stage. In one extended weekend the online effort produced by JD Norman brought in more than $1.2 million dollars. And, as you might expect, the major donor results soared as did the direct mail efforts of the Richard Norman Company and of Eberle Associates. By the first of December, in spite of unrelenting attacks and efforts to sidetrack the Cain Campaign, more than $13 million had been raised and the campaign was on track to bring in more than $30 million by the end of the year!
Unless something unexpected happened, Friends of Herman Cain was going to be in a position to match the other candidates dollar for dollar in spending on advertising, polling, getting people to caucuses, travel, etc. And, contrary to the news media reports, the ground game in Iowa was better than the Romney campaign and the Perry campaign combined. At that point, Newt had virtually nothing on the ground. Cain was also moving up in New Hampshire and was 30 points ahead of Romney in South Carolina.
The fact is the Cain train was picking up steam and rolling down the tracks toward victory in Iowa, South Carolina and Florida. The nomination was seemingly within Herman Cain's grasp. But I don't have to tell you what happened. You already know.
My stomach still churns when I think of the opportunity lost by Herman Cain and all his loyal supporters. But the past is past. Even though the Herman Cain fund raising effort was aborted before it could reach its zenith, it was an effort I'll always remember. My hat's off to Richard Norman and the entire team he assembled. My respect for Herman Cain is undiminished. He treated his team and his vendors with respect and treated them honorably. Commitments were met and bills were paid. It is a good reflection on him as a man of great personal character and integrity.
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"Unto Us a Child is Born…"
Are you ready for Christmas? That's a question you and I hear a lot this time of the year. "I guess I'm ready" is my usual answer. I know December 25th will soon be here. We also hear the question asked, "What's the real meaning of Christmas?" The simple answer is that Christmas is about Jesus and God's plan of salvation. Just what is that plan?
After the fall of man, God immediately instituted his plan of salvation. Throughout the Old Testament he reminded his followers of the coming of the Messiah. So strong was the confidence of Adam and Eve that when she gave birth to their first son she said jubilantly, "I have gotten the man that the Lord promised" referring to the promise of the Messiah to come. Of course, the Messiah had not yet come, but it was the promise of the Messiah that the people of the Old Testament believed in for their salvation.
Repeatedly throughout the Old Testament the prophets reminded the people of the coming of the Savior—the path that God chose for sinful, imperfect people like you and me to reach heaven.
More than 500 years before the birth of Jesus the prophet Isaiah wrote,
"A child will be born to us. A son will be given to us. The
government will rest on his shoulders. He will be named:
Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince
of Peace." (9:6-7)
And then in fulfillment of that prophecy, as told in familiar Christmas story of Luke,
"At that time the Emperor Augustus ordered a census of the
Roman Empire. This was the first census taken while Quirinius
was governor of Syria. All the people went to register in the
cities where their ancestors had lived.
So Joseph went from Nazareth, a city in Galilee, to a Judean city
called Bethlehem. Joseph, a descendent of King David, went to
Bethlehem because David had been born there. Joseph went there
to register with Mary. She had been promised to him in marriage
and was pregnant.
While they were in Bethlehem, the time came for Mary to have her
child. She gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in strips
of cloth and laid him in a manger because there wasn't any room
Shepherds were in the fields near Bethlehem. They were taking
turns watching their flock during the night. An angel from the
Lord suddenly appeared to them. The glory of the Lord filled the
area with light, and they were terrified. The angel said to them,
'Don't be afraid! I have good news for you, a message that will fill
everyone with joy. Today your Savior, Christ the Lord was born
in David's city. This is how you will recognize him: You will
find an infant wrapped in strips of cloth and lying in a manger.'
Suddenly, a large army of angels appeared with the angel. They
were praising God by saying, 'Glory to God in the highest heaven,
and on earth peace to those who have his good will.'"
God sent his son for you and me so that we might have a path to heaven. That was and is the depth of his love. But Jesus' role in our salvation wasn't complete just because he was born in Bethlehem.
No, Jesus went on to live the perfect, sinless life that you and I are incapable of and then gave his life up on the cross for our sins. And finally, the most important part, Jesus rose triumphant from the grave on Easter morning guaranteeing that you and I will rise again too if we only put our confidence and trust in Jesus.
It was and is God's plan. That's what you and I celebrate at Christmas, the beginning of the fulfillment of God's plan to take us to be with him in a perfect place where there is no anger, no hurt relationships, and no sorrow. It's a wonderful plan and the most amazing thing of all is that it is free, absolutely free. All we have to do is to believe in Jesus. Nothing else is needed.
My wife, Kathi, and I and our entire family wish you a truly joyous Christmas celebration and many, many blessings in the New Year.
Gingrich vs. Obama Early Thoughts
Guest Blog By: Mike Hiban
It's never a given that presidential elections will be determined over policy questions. The 20% undecided voting block that the candidates fight over can swing depending on how voters personally feel about the men that are running. Three qualities that could be important in 2012 are personal life, intelligence and patriotism.
The Democrats can't believe their luck that they are getting to run against Gingrich. "He would be the best thing to happen to the Democrats since Goldwater," said Barney Frank in a parting shot on his way to retirement. Remember that comment. It's going to become famous if Gingrich wins in a landslide.
Clearly the Democrats are looking forward to the contrast between Obama's and Gingrich's personal lives. Barack Obama is a reliable family man in the Ward Cleaver/Cliff Huxtable mold. His credentials as a loyal husband and father can't be challenged. As a Dad he is a legend. Despite being the most powerful man in the world, he's dedicated enough to pitch in as assistant coach for Sasha's basketball team. Are you kidding me? Never again will an American parent have an excuse for not pouring time into their children. If Obama can do it, so can you. Congrats, Barack, you put us all to shame.
The president needs to have his likeness chiseled on the Mount Rushmore of presidential family men. Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter (lusting in one's heart is no disqualification), John Tyler (15 kids), and Barack Obama.
Gingrich's failings as a husband are legendary. While there are discrepancies concerning how his first divorce transpired and who initiated the process,it's safe to say that Newt's probably a very difficult man to be married to, and not the type of guy that you'd ever want your daughter to fall for. Advice to the Gingrich campaign: don't let your candidate go on the Dr. Phil show. It won't be pretty.
So Obama wins if the election is about personal life. But what about intelligence?
Gingrich might just be the most intelligent presidential candidate we've ever had. Not just in an egghead kind of way like Adlai Stevenson. But also in a street smart way like Andrew Jackson and Theodore Roosevelt. Newt has a master's degree, a PHD from Tulane in European History and has written 24 books on a variety of topics including religion, history and energy policy. Obama's written two books on the same topic: himself.
Joe Biden got in trouble for claiming Obama was clean,articulate and intelligent. He might be clean and he reads a mean teleprompter, but upon further review, he may not be so smart. He won't release his grades from college or a copy of his college thesis so it's hard to tell. But, think about it for a minute. If your teenager refuses repeatedly to show you his report card, what kind of grades do you think he's getting?
Obama did graduate Harvard Law so he's no dummy. But he's probably not too much smarter than George W. Bush who graduated from Harvard's legendary Business School. Wouldn't it be fun to sit the two of them down for an IQ test and see who gets a better score? I'm betting on Barack, but by no more than 2-3 points.
If intellect is a factor in 2012, the White House has to be sweating out the battle between the geography professor and the young President who thinks we have 57 states.
What about patriotism? Shouldn't it be a given that a president loves his country?
Gingrich recently wrote a book called "A Nation like No Other: Newt Gingrich's Manifesto of American Exceptionalism." Obama, on the other hand, when asked if he believed in American Exceptionalism said "I believe in American Exceptionalism just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British Exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek Exceptionalism."
Wow! Let's imagine somebody asking Obama if he loved Michelle. "Sure, she's a decent person. But I'm sure Joe Biden and Bill Clinton have good things to say about their brides as well." When somebody is in love it's obvious, and Obama clearly doesn't love America.
At this point you may be asking if I'm questioning Obama's patriotism. Yes I am! Webster defines a patriot as, "a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors." Obama has had chances since he took office to "vigorously defend" his country against "detractors", how has he done?
When former Communist dictator Daniel Ortega slammed America for sixty minutes over the Bay of Pigs invasion, Obama's response was "I'm grateful President Ortega did not blame me for things that happened when I was three months old." While certainly the Bay of Pigs was not our finest hour as a nation, if Barack truly loved America he would have fought back a little harder. How about putting the invasion in historical context by slamming Castro or the Soviet Union? Or he could have taken on Ortega for the atrocities the Nicaraguan committed while in power. Instead, all he could do was make it about Obama. Let's say your father has a drinking problem and somebody walks up to you and calls him a worthless alcoholic. Are you going to respond by saying, "you are correct, sir, but I myself don't drink." Love sometimes means defending the object of your affection even when they fall short. Obama needs to learn to show a little love to the country that elected him.
So in one corner we have Newt Gingrich: the brilliant Jingoist with a history of philandering. In the other corner we have Barack Obama: the semi-intelligent family man who hates his country and loves himself. Who will win?
America's Luddite President
Over the past few weeks President Obama has, among other things, bemoaned the fact that we no longer have telephone operators, that we have ATM machines, and that the Internet was invented (Al Gore beware!). Certainly this must qualify the President for the Luddite Award of the Year. As you may recall, the Luddites were a 19th Century English political movement that turned violent and destroyed machines because they believed that they were destroying their jobs. The Luddites were against progress of any sort and apparently Barack Obama is fully on board.
One can only hope that this is crass political rhetoric, because if the President does indeed believe that technical advancement kills jobs it is not only an embarrassment, but economic ignorance on a colossal scale. In fact, it is hard to find a word to describe such an excursion from reality.
On the basis of the President's reasoning we should have scuttled the first wheel because it put the folks who built skids out of work. We should have outlawed the first automobile because it put the buggy manufacturers out of work. We should have grounded the first airplane because it made train travel obsolete. In fact, trains should have been derailed because they ended jobs of moving freight by oxen and people by stagecoach. Tractors should have been scrapped because they put donkeys and oxen out of work.
All of this is so silly. The President should be embarrassed. Does anyone really believe such nonsense? Is this a measure of the low regard that the President and his advisors have of the American people? Do they really think the American people are that stupid? Or are they truly that ignorant?
All you have to do is to look around you to see that technical advances create jobs and make all of our lives better. When government stifles technological advances it reduces the standard of living of all Americans. Contrary to the ignorance of the Luddites, the industrial revolution raised the standard of living of the entire world. Food production became abundant and diets became more healthful. Luxuries became within the reach of average citizens. Travel became faster, more comfortable and less expensive.
It was, of course, of the miracle of the free market that made the industrial revolution possible. It spread wealth among the people farther and wider than ever before. The free market made it possible to rise from the most meager circumstances to become successful beyond your wildest dreams. Prior to the free market, widespread food shortages were common, diseases killed tens of millions, and poverty gripped hundreds of millions around the globe. Yes, the poor and impoverished are still with us because dictatorship still reigns around the globe, especially in the Third World. Dictatorships and all centralized governments can only regulate misery. They are the sole source of poverty and shortages in the world.
The idea that a few "enlightened" bureaucrats or politicians or a benevolent dictator can allocate goods and services better than the free market is a dangerous myth. Centralized governments of all kinds can only ration goods and services. When you kill off the miracle of the free market and the distribution of goods and services is driven by a few autocrats instead of by you and me, only misery ensues. Obamacare is a good example of such silliness. Socialized medicine brings to an end all efforts to develop new drugs or new techniques. It is based on the false assumption that a powerful few can better distribute limited medical services than can the free market.
When the Nazis (members of the National Socialist Party) took over in Germany all innovation in the private sector came to a screeching halt. Nothing changed when the Soviet Socialists replaced the German socialists. After Ronald Reagan brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union and Germany was reunited West Germans were given the opportunity to purchase manufacturing plants and facilities in the East. Of course, those in West Germany were recipients of William Röpke's "German Economic Miracle" (re-institution of a free economic market). When a neighbor of a friend of mine who lives in Germany visited a plant he was considering buying in East Germany he was shocked. Nothing had changed since the Nazi's took over in the 1930s. The roads were awful, the telephone system antiquated, the sewage system inadequate, the water supply system out of date, the electrical systems dangerous—nothing had improved. Everything was in total, absolute disrepair and East Germany was the "showcase" of the Soviet Union of Socialist Republics! The situation in East Germany is indeed a showcase for socialist schemes like Obamacare. In fact, the socialized medicine provided in East Germany was also of a 1930s variety.
Don't folks who believe in this nonsense get away from their Marxist theories to study history? Where has centralized government ever worked? And please don't tell me that this time it will be different. No, before we ever listen to such silliness again you must provide empirical evidence of socialism/Marxism/ Fascism working just once in past history.
Our president is clearly uninformed about simple economics—reality, not theory. Nor does he apparently have any knowledge of human nature. If he really believes that the advent of the internet, automated telephone switching, and ATMs destroy jobs he is an economic ignoramus. But should I really be surprised?
I have observed over the years that liberals and fascists and Marxists have two common failings. First, they have no confidence in the power of freedom for the average citizen. They feel that if left to his or her own devices that the average person will make a mess of things. Second, they work backwards. They don't start with facts and empirical evidence, but rather start with the answer they want and then try to make the facts fit their cockamamie solution. It's no wonder that they come up with such inanities as progress puts people out of work. Instead of having an open mind to explore all the possibilities, including expanding individual human freedom as a means to address a problem, they are wedded to the idea that only a few elite can and should solve everyone else's problems. Liberals-Progressives-Luddites (is there a difference?) are the most closed minded, anti-intellectual movement to ever establish a foothold on American soil. They deal in fantasy and ignore the truth of reality. There is nothing intellectual about an ideology that always has the same solution to every problem—less freedom and more government control.
President Obama seems to be a nice family man. He is youthful, handsome and stays in good shape physically. He also is apparently clueless when it comes to understanding human nature or to understanding the marketplace. He is a poster child for American liberalism. In all of American history there never has been a more unqualified man to sit in the Oval office. He has no real world experience. He has never held a job that produced anything. He has no understanding of economics. He sees America through a distorted prism.
I believe it was Edmund Burke, the great English statesman who said, "People get the kind of government they deserve." If Americans really believe such nonsense as that ATM machines, automated telephone call switches, and the internet destroy jobs then they deserve Barack Obama.
Are You Threatened by Exxon?
Are you threatened by IBM? Are you threatened by Apple? Are you threatened by Coca Cola? Are you threatened by Microsoft? Are you threatened by any large or small corporation? Do you fear them? Are you afraid they will take away your freedom, or enslave you? Of course not!
Big companies, medium sized companies, and small companies are operating in a free marketplace to the extent that government allows them to do so. If you don't like one company, you can use another that provides similar services or products. If you don't like Microsoft products, you can use Apple. If you don't like Coke, you can drink Pepsi. If you don't like Ford, you can drive a Toyota or a dozen other cars or trucks. If you don't like Exxon you can buy your gas somewhere else.
Companies must persuade individuals to buy or use their products. There is no force involved. If you don't like one doctor, you can choose another. If you don't like one lawyer, you can hire another. If you don't like one barber, you can choose another. It's all part of the legacy freedom that you and I inherited from those who came before us. No one gets up in the morning in fear that some company will limit their freedom. No one wastes hours worrying about being enslaved by a company.
No, in reality there are only two things to fear in life, government and God. This thought is not original with me. In fact, in a recent conversation with a good friend he recounted this observation from his father, "No one fears a business, but everyone should fear government."
No business has ever enslaved someone, but government has done it repeatedly. In fact, throughout human history government has enslaved men, women and children over and over again. It is the natural tendency of government. In the 18th century, the King of England encouraged the enslavement of African Americans because it made him personally wealthy. Repeatedly early Americans—George Washington, Patrick Henry, et al sought to outlaw the importation of slaves, but every time it was vetoed by the King because it would have reduced his personal wealth.
Creation of the US Constitution involved a "compromise" on the issue of slavery. Some have referred to it as the fatal flaw of the Constitution. And indeed it was. Less than one hundred years after ratification of the Constitution a bitter and bloody civil war was fought over the issue of slavery. It was government and only government that made slavery possible.
In the 20th century slavery was widespread. The greatest mass murderer of all time, Chairman Mao Zedong murdered more than 90 million Chinese as he enslaved an entire nation. Flowing close behind was Russian Dictator Joseph Stalin who murdered more than 20 million. And, of course, another all-powerful government maniac, Adolph Hitler and his National Socialist Party (NAZI) systematically killed upwards of 10 million.
Government is to be feared. Government is always a threat to individual freedom. Or as Thomas Jefferson put it, "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
This was the understanding of the founders of our nation. From the very beginning of time until today the concentration of power into the hands of one or a very few in government is a threat to your freedom and indeed, to your life. There is no difference between the would-be rulers of today and Mao, Stalin and Hitler, except opportunity.
Where did the founders understanding this truism come from? They comprehended the very real threat of big, centralized government because they were students of history. They knew that human nature never changes. They knew that man always tends toward self-aggrandizement, toward control over the lives of others because they were also students of the Bible. In fact, as previously noted, it was the original sin—to become like God. That's what the devil promised in the Garden of Eden. God had told Adam and Eve that they would die if they ate from "…the tree of the knowledge of good and evil…" (Genesis 2:16). But the devil said, "You certainly won't die. You'll be like God…" (Genesis 3:4).
The founders knew what Isaiah meant when he said "Every word that passes through my lips is sinful (Isaiah 6:5). They knew what the apostle Paul meant when he said, "Because all people have sinned, they have fallen short of God's glory." (Romans 3:23). They also knew that God is a just God, therefore violation of his will, sin, was something to be feared. While government is something that can enslave you, rejection of God can mean permanent separation from God and his love. And of course, it was his love and mercy, as foretold in Isaiah that the founders also trusted in, "The people who walk in darkness will see a bright light. The light will shine on those who live in the land of death's shadow." (Isaiah 9:2). And that light, of course, was Jesus, the promised Messiah.
This was the orientation and the perspective of those who signed the Declaration of Independence and of those who crafted the United States Constitution. When men and women quit fearing God nothing restrains them from their most base instincts. A reduction in individual restraint erodes freedom and inevitably leads to larger and more powerful government that limits personal freedom. When free men and women fear the wrath of God for disobeying his will and they simultaneously show their love to Him because he sent a Savior, freedom thrives. When trust in God declines and trust in ever bigger government grows, the end result is always human slavery.
You and I have nothing to fear from Exxon or Microsoft or Coca Cola, but we do have something to fear from large, all-powerful government. That is what the 2012 election is all about. Shall we continue to be led down the road to bigger government and less freedom by President Barack Obama and company, or shall we return to the vision of our founders? That's the real choice of 2012, perhaps an irreversible one.
Who Will You Thank?
This week we'll celebrate that very unique and wonderful American holiday, Thanksgiving. Although the residents of the Virginia Colony actually celebrated a special day of thanks for their survival a few years earlier than the Pilgrims, it is the Pilgrims Thanksgiving celebration whose story is most often recounted.
Thanksgiving is, of course, a day known for its turkey dinners, football games and being with friends and family. It's recognized by everyone as a day to be truly thankful for all the blessings we have, but who are we thankful to?
Today our public schools teach our children to be thankful to the Indians who taught the Pilgrims about shell fish like oysters, about corn, about tomatoes, and even potatoes. In fact, I am thankful that the peaceful Indians like Squanto were so helpful to the Pilgrims. But is Thanksgiving about giving thanks to the Indians?
But who are you thankful to? Who do you credit for all your blessings and who did the Pilgrims and our Forefathers credit for all their blessings? Who do you believe is responsible for the blessings, the physical abundance of your life? Yourself?Government?God?
Here is Massachusetts Governor William Bradford's 1623 Thanksgiving proclamation…
Inasmuch as the great Father has given us this
year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat,
peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetables,
and has made the forests to abound with game
and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as
he has protected us from the ravages of the savages,
has spared us from pestilence and disease, has granted
us freedom to worship God according to the dictates
of our own conscience.
Now I, your magistrate, do proclaim that all ye
Pilgrims, with your wives and ye little ones, do
gather at ye meeting house, on ye hill, between
the hours of 9 and 12 in the day time, on Thursday,
November 29th, of the year of our Lord one thousand
six hundred and twenty-three and the third year
since ye Pilgrims landed on ye Pilgrim Rock, there
to listen to ye pastor and render thanksgiving to ye
Almighty God for all His blessings.
Can any doubt that this proclamation of Thanksgiving was directed at any other party than the God of the Bible which the Governor and his fellow Pilgrims relied so heavily upon?
Moving along 166 years later to the Thanksgiving proclamation of our first President, General George Washington, to who did the Father of Our Country give thanks?
WHEREAS, It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge
the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will,
to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore
His protection and favor;
WHEREAS, Both the houses of Congress have, by
their joint committee, requested me "to recommend
to the people of the United States a day of public
thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by
acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and
signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording
them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of
government for their safety and happiness:"
Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday,
the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by
the people of these States to the service of that great
and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of
all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that
we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our
sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and
protection of the people of this country previous to
their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold
mercies and the favorable interpositions of His
providence in the course and conclusion of the late
war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and
plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable
and rational manner in which we have been enable to
establish constitutions of government for our safety
and happiness, and particularly the national one
now lately instituted' for the civil and religious liberty
with which we are blessed, and the means we have
of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in
general, for all the great and various favors which He
has been pleased to confer upon us.
And also that we may then unite in most humbly
offering our prayers and supplications to the great
Lord and Ruler of Nations and beseech Him to pardon
our national and other transgressions; to enable us all,
whether in public or private stations, to perform our
several and relative duties properly and punctually; to
render our National Government a blessing to all the
people by constantly being a Government of wise,
just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully
executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns
and nations (especially such as have show kindness to us),
and to bless them with good governments, peace,
and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice
of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science
among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all
mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He
alone knows to be best.
Washington's proclamation wasn't about some vague God, but about the very personal and loving God of the Bible to whom Washington ascribed all power, glory and honor. Washington was, after all, not just a certified parishioner of the state church in Virginia, but an active Vestryman who not only worshiped regularly, but also prayed regularly to the God of the Bible.
Only 15 years earlier, Washington, as a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses supported a resolution in support of the beleaguered Massachusetts Colony calling for a day of fasting, humiliation and prayer which read…
Being deeply impressed with apprehension of the
great dangers, to be derived to British America, from
the hostile Invasion of the City of Boston, in our Sister
Colony of Massachusetts bay, whose commerce and
harbour are, on the first Day of June next, to be
stopped by an Armed force, deem it highly necessary
that the said first day of June be set apart, by the
members of this House as a day of Fasting, Humiliation,
and Prayer, devoutly to implore the divine interposition,
for averting the heavy Calamity which threatens
destruction to our Civil Rights, and the Evils of civil
War; to give us one heart and one Mind firmly to
oppose, by all just and proper means, every injury to
American Rights; and that the Minds of his Majesty
and his Parliament, may be inspired from above with
Wisdom, Moderation, and Justice, to remove from
the loyal People of America all cause of danger,
from a continued pursuit of Measures, pregnant with
their ruin.
Ordered, therefore that the Members of this House
do attend in their Places, at the hour of Ten in the
forenoon, on the said first day of June next, in Order
to proceed with the Speaker, and the Mace, to the
Church in this City, for the purposes aforesaid...
Now, let's move forward in time another 74 years to Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Day Proclamation of October 3, 1863…
The year that is drawing towards its close, has
been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and
healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so
constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget
the source from which they come, others have
been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature,
that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even
the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever
watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst
of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity,
which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to
invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has
been preserved with all nations, order has been
maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed,
and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in
the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre
has been greatly contracted by the advancing
armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions
of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful
industry to the national defence, have not arrested
the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has
enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the
mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious
metals, have yielded even more abundantly than
heretofore. Population has steadily increased,
notwithstanding the waste that has been made in
the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the
country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented
strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance
of years with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal
hand worked out these great things. They are the
gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing
with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless
remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and
proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and
gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one
voice by the whole American People.
I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of
the United States, and also those who are at sea and
those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart
and observe the last Thursday of November next, as
a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent
Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend
to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly
due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings,
they do also, with humble penitence for our national
perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender
care all those who have become widows, orphans,
mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in
which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently
implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal
the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as
may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full
enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.
Lest there be any doubt as to what God Lincoln was thanking, let us move back in time just a few months to March 30, 1863 when President Abraham Lincoln, at the request of the United States Senate set aside a day of fasting…
And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of
men, to own their dependence upon the overruling
power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions,
in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine
repentance will lead to mercy and pardon; and to
recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy
Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations
only are blessed whose God is the Lord.
And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law,
nations like individuals are subjected to punishments
and chastisements in this world, may we not justly
fear that the awful calamity of civil war, which now
desolates the land, may be but a punishment,
inflicted upon us, for our presumptuous sins, to the
needful end of our national reformation as a whole
People? We have been the recipients of the choicest
bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these
many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown
in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation
has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have
forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in
peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened
us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness
of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced
by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become
too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming
and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God
that made us!
It behooves us then, to humble ourselves before the
offended Power, to confess our national sins, and to
pray for clemency and forgiveness.
Now, therefore, in compliance with the request, and
fully concurring in the views of the Senate, I do, by
this my proclamation, designate and set apart Thursday,
the 30th. day of April, 1863, as a day of national
humiliation, fasting and prayer. And I do hereby
request all the People to abstain, on that day, from
their ordinary secular pursuits, and to unite, at their
several places of public worship and their respective
homes, in keeping the day holy to the Lord, and
devoted to the humble discharge of the religious duties
proper to that solemn occasion.
All this being done, in sincerity and truth, let us then
rest humbly in the hope authorized by the Divine
teachings, that the united cry of the Nation will be
heard on high, and answered with blessings, no less
than the pardon of our national sins, and the restoration
of our now divided and suffering Country, to its former
happy condition of unity and peace.
Every presidential proclamation of Thanksgiving, right up until the present time has clearly identified the source of our blessings, the God of the heavens and the creator of the universe. The following Thanksgiving Day Proclamation by President John F. Kennedy is particularly poignant…
"It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord."
More than three centuries ago, the Pilgrims, after
a year of hardship and peril, humbly and reverently
set aside a special day upon which to give thanks to
God for their preservation and for the good harvest
from the virgin soil upon which they had labored.
Grave and unknown dangers remained. Yet by their
faith and by their toil they had survived the rigors of
the harsh New England winter. Hence they paused in
their labors to give thanks for the blessings that had
been bestowed upon them by Divine Providence.
This year, as the harvest draws near its close and the
year approaches its end, awesome perils again remain
to be faced. Yet we have, as in the past, ample reason
to be thankful for the abundance of our blessings. We
are grateful for the blessings of faith and health and
strength and for the imperishable spiritual gifts of love
and hope. We give thanks, too, for our freedom as a
nation; for the strength of our arms and the faith of our
friends; for the beliefs and confidence we share; for our
determination to stand firmly for what we believe to be
right and to resist mightily what we believe to be base;
and for the heritage of liberty bequeathed by our
ancestors which we are privileged to preserve for our
children and our children's children.
It is right that we should be grateful for the plenty
amidst which we live; the productivity of our farms,
the output of our factories, the skill of our artisans,
and the ingenuity of our investors. But in the midst of
our thanksgiving, let us not be unmindful of the plight
of those in many parts of the world to whom hunger is
no stranger and the plight of those millions more who
live without the blessings of liberty and freedom...
I urge all citizens to make this Thanksgiving not merely
a holiday from their labors, but rather a day of
contemplation. I ask the head of each family to recount
to his children the story of the first New England
thanksgiving, thus to impress upon future generations
the heritage of this nation born in toil, in danger, in
purpose, and in the conviction that right and justice and
freedom can through man's efforts persevere and
come to fruition with the blessing of God.
Let us observe this day with reverence and with prayer
that will rekindle in us the will and show us the way not
only to preserve our blessings, but also to extend them
to the four corners of the earth. Let us by our example,
as well as by our material aid, assist all peoples of all
nations who are striving to achieve a better life in freedom.
Our nation has a rich heritage of faith and freedom. In fact, it is freedom rooted in faith that has blessed our nation with abundance far, far above that of any nation on the face of the earth. It is through faith that we understand the fallen state of man, his human frailties and his sinfulness. It is through faith that we have confidence that God will bless us as long as we bend our knee and acknowledge Him as our creator and redeemer. And it is through grace that our forefathers were granted the faith and the understanding to create a society that restricted the power of those in government to control our lives. They were wise men whose goal was to secure freedom for themselves and those that followed. For more than 200 years their "experiment" has proved to be successful. May it continue to be so for our children and for their children.
Let me take this opportunity to wish you a very Happy Thanksgiving. Enjoy the good food, the football, family and friends as you give thanks for the blessings we enjoy as Americans.
A Scandal Worse than Watergate?
I just finished reading Injustice, a recently released book by J. Christian Adams (copyright 2011, Regnery) that describes a widespread scandal in Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). This is not a personal scandal like Watergate that consisted of a failure of character, and political machinations, but rather an officially supported undermining of the rule of law and of due process of law. The threat posed by the Civil Rights Division not only undermines the rights of Americans of all colors, but also threatens the integrity of the entire electoral process, especially in 2012.
The scandal does not consist of incompetence, or laziness, or a lack of intellect, but has its roots in the rejection of honesty, integrity, adherence to the rule of law, and to the American tradition of equal justice under the law. Essentially, it consists of those charged with law enforcement openly disregarding the law and in giving comfort and aid to individuals who are actively working to subvert the integrity of the electoral process.
This book is not written by some ideologue, nor are the facts it cites disputed by men and women who have fought long and valiantly to protect the rights of all Americans, especially black Americans. In some cases the victims are men who risked their own lives to advance the cause of equal rights for African Americans in the 1960's Civil Rights era. These honest men and women understand that when you condone the undermining of the rights of any member of American society, you threaten the rights of all members of that society. When the rule of law is forsaken and man puts himself above the lawbecause he "knows better than those who wrote the law" we have started down the certain road to despotism. It is the rule of law that protects everyone and underpins our free society. Without it, freedom will die.
I won't try to reveal all the details of the Adams' book. In fact, I strongly encourage you to get a copy and read it. Here, however, are a few tidbits taken directly from Injustice.
Adams documents repeated cases of attorneys in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice refusing to protect the rights of all voters, but instead openly discriminating against and making it harder for anyone but pro Democrat voters to get a fair shake. One of the cases assigned to Adams was the New Black Panthers voter intimidation case in Philadelphia. It was a cut and dried case captured on video by FOX News that was seen by millions of Americans. When the militia dressed New Black Panthers did not respond to the legal efforts of DOJ, all that was needed to lock them up and put them in jail was to file for a summary judgment. But that was vetoed by the Holder DOJ. When the legal team at DOJ, including author Christian Adams was told to dismiss the case against the New Black Panthers, they were stunned…
This was a blatant act of voter intimidation by a race-hate
group that was caught on tape and seen by the whole nation,
yet we were being ordered to do almost nothing about it. At
that moment it became clear to me that the people running the
division under the Obama administration were irredeemably
rotted and corrupt. Our superiors had sided with thugs, and
all we could do was silently look at each other; helpless and beaten."
"…I told a good man who was willing to stick his neck out
to protect the right to vote that he could count on the DOJ.
And I was wrong. After a lifetime fighting for civil rights,
[Bartle] Bull deserved better from his government—and so
did the American people."
Bartle Bull is a veteran civil rights activist who has a long history of working for Democratic candidates including Charles Evers in Mississippi, Robert F. Kennedy and Jimmy Carter. He was outraged by the intimidation tactics of the New Black Panthers at the polls in Philadelphia in 2010. Bull said to Adams…
"Bobby Kennedy didn't die so jackbooted thugs could stand
out in front of the polls."
"Bull noted that in his forty years of involvement in politics
and civil rights, he had 'never encountered or heard of another
instance in the United States where armed and uniformed men
blocked the entrance to a polling location."
In a sworn statement by Bull in front of a Senatorial Committee he said…
"To me, the presence and behavior of the two uniformed
men was an outrageous affront to American democracy and
the rights of voters to participate in an election without fear.
It would qualify as the most blatant form of voter intimidation
I have encountered in my life in political campaigns in many
states, even going back to the work I did in Mississippi in
Attorney General Eric Holder was sanctimoniously outraged…
"When you compare what people endured in the South in the
60s to try to get the right to vote for African Americans, and
to compare what people were subjected to there to what happened
in Philadelphia…to describe it in those terms I think does a
great disservice to people who put their lives on the line, who
risked all, for my people."
Adams responds…
"It was a telling moment. One might think the Attorney General
of the United States would regard the entire American people as '
his people.' But no—for Holder, only one race of Americans is
his people."
According to Adams…
" the Civil Rights Division is now being utilized to energize
the president's political base and alter the electoral ground
rules to benefit Obama's campaign."
The Voter intimidation case of the New Black Panthers on election day 2008 was dismissed by DOJ even though there was abundant evidence of their intimidation efforts at the polls. In countless similar cases of black extremists threatening both black and white voters with physical harm, the Civil Rights Division of DOJ didn't just turn a blind eye to their fraudulent activities, but in fact openly aided them in corrupting the integrity of the election process. The result of turning a blind eye to these illegal activities is that they have continued and expanded in subsequent elections. They will likely play a major factor in the outcome of the 2012 election.
Christian Adams fellow DOJ attorney, Chris Coates, has a long record of fighting for the rights of African Americans. However, when he sought to also protect the rights of white Americans at the ballot box he was the subject of open hostility by radicalized lawyers in the Justice Department. Here is an excerpt from the Adams' book…
"A Voting Section lawyer who entered the United States
as an illegal alien, Luz Lopez-Ortiz, referred to Coats in
a DOJ email as a 'Klansman.' For militants like Lopez-Ortiz,
enforcing the law equally was tantamount to joining a group
of racist terrorists."
When a blatant case of voter intimidation and vote fraud came to the attention of Chris Coats he was told by Voting Section attorney, Avner Shapiro…
"I didn't come to work in the Civil Rights Division at the
Department of Justice to sue black people."
Adams also explains how the balanced hiring of attorneys from a wide variety of viewpoints was scuttled once Eric Holder took charge as the Attorney General.
"Under Eric Holder, if a candidate has not worked for a
leftist activist group or otherwise demonstrated some affinity
for the Left's causes, he or she will not be hired at the Civil
Rights Division—period."
The new hires at DOJ weren't just lawyers who believed in enforcing Civil Rights laws on a colorblind basis or even attorneys who had a long history of working on behalf of civil rights. To the contrary, these new hires were men and women who had and have low regard for the law, the US Constitution, and for equal justice under the law. Instead, they see their position as an opportunity to wield power to advance their radical agenda. And it has often gotten them into trouble.
According to Adams' book, the current Civil Rights Division of the current DOJ…
"…has been sanctioned $4,107,595 for bringing frivolous
cases or engaging in misconduct, none of which was assessed
during the Bush administration."
Requests for information under the Freedom of Information Act (something that Eric Holder recently sought permission to lie about) were treated unequally at DOJ. While responses to FOIA inquiries from any party they disagreed with regularly took six months or more for a response, their radical allies often received same day service. According to Adams, high ranking DOJ political appointee…
"…Julie Fernandes exploits FOIA requests to benefit
Obama's leftwing allies. Specifically, sources say she
instructs Voting Section staffers to inform leftwing groups
about specific data from DOJ files that they might find useful
in advancing their agenda."
Contrary to some mainstream media reports, Adams documents that this kind of radical, off the reservation politicization of the DOJ has never taken place previously under any administration, Republican or Democrat that he worked under.
What Adams describes is corruption at the highest levels of government with the full support of Attorney General Holder. It apparently exists on an unprecedented scale with the goal of dishonestly affecting the outcome of the 2012 and future elections. It's what might be expected from Hugo Chavez in Venezuela, but not in the United States of America. The defenders of the law have become the law breakers according to Adams and they have the power and the will to provide comfort and assistance to their allies as well as the power to alter the outcome of the election process.
Buy this book! Read this book. Liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, if you are an honest person who believes in equal justice under the law you will be shocked.
First, for those of you who do not know, I am not a disinterested party when it comes to Herman Cain and his run for President of the United States. I was an early fan and I am currently under contract with his campaign to raise money on his behalf. I have also personally donated to his campaign on several occasions and I have volunteered to help get his name on the ballot in Virginia.
One of the first things that drew me to Herman Cain was his integrity and his character. I was tired of politicians who claimed to be Reagan Republicans, but were willing to change their positions to personally advance themselves. I wanted to support a man of principle like Ronald Reagan, not someone who you cannot trust when the chips are down. That's basically what I told Mr. Cain when I offered to raise funds on his behalf. I believed that Herman Cain was a man of unquestioned integrity the day I met him and I still believe that today. I have not been disappointed. While other politicians I have worked with didn't want to pay their bills, Herman Cain has run his campaign like a business, spending no more than the net revenue generated by the fund raising effort. Such integrity is nearly unheard of in the political fund raising business and it gives testimony to his character and his honesty.
I do admit to being stunned when the first charges were levied against him for sexual harassment. Although I felt that the charges could not be true, I had reservations. Perhaps I was mistaken about Herman Cain's integrity.
As I write this I just finished listening to his news conference after the vivid allegations of an alleged sexual attack by an alleged victim, Sharon Bialek. Mr. Cain's rebuttal of those charges was very persuasive, but I wasn't there and neither were you. So, how do we sift fact from fiction? How can we borrow some of the wisdom of Solomon and discern the truth? Evaluating people on the basis of God's standards of conduct, primarily the Ten Commandments, is a good place to start.
I wish Ms. Bialek no ill or harm, but she has placed a very damming and unsubstantiated charge on the table. It is in legal terms, hearsay, nothing more, nothing less. This is not to say that the charges are not serious, but only to observe there is no evidence, pro or con, that the alleged sexual attack took place. It is just an accusation that may be true or false. There is no evidence, but only the word of Sharon Bialek versus the word of Herman Cain.
Therefore the only basis with which you and I can judge her charge in the court of public opinion are the character traits of the two parties, their pattern of integrity or lack thereof, and their record of making moral and ethical choices. There is no other legitimate basis upon which to judge the accusation made by Ms. Bailek against Herman Cain. All else is just speculation.
You and I can never know for certain who is lying and who is telling the truth, but based on past actions and choices we can determine the likelihood of who is the liar and who is telling the truth. Let's take a look at the past of both individuals in terms of facts, to see who is most likely to have veracity in this situation, Herman Cain, or Sharon Bailek.
Here are some facts about Ms. Bailek.
In less than 20 years she has held nine different positions. Of course, lots of people move from job to job for various reasons.
She has been terminated (fired) from at least one position for non-performance. Some people get fired when they can't do a job because it is simply a position for which they do not have the necessary skills.
She has filed for personal bankruptcy on several occasions, being unable to pay her bills or meet her obligations. Others have filed for bankruptcy, but rarely twice.
In her verbal statement to the news media she alluded to the fact that she was living out of wedlock with her boyfriend in New Jersey, expressing no shame whatsoever for this adulterous relationship. I realize that it is old fashioned to talk in these terms, but it's not my personal standards that count, only God's standards are important.
Ms. Bialek filed a paternity lawsuit to force the man who she believed to be the father of her child to support her and the child. Clearly the identity of the father was in doubt and thus the need for a lawsuit.
In court proceedings between Bialek's current boyfriend/fiancé, Mark Harwood and his ex-wife, Patricia, Bialek was subpoenaed but failed to appear in September for a deposition regarding her finances. Failure to appear for a subpoena is grounds for being held in contempt of court. Source: Chicago Tribune
In her statement to the press she said she complained to Herman Cain about his alleged attack because she had a boyfriend in New Jersey. That's hardly a statement of shock or moral concern.
She waited 14 years to bring up the alleged attack, only doing so after Herman Cain became a front runner for the Republican Presidential nomination.
Admitting that she has no funds, she has hired a very high priced, high profile, Feminist attorney, Gloria Allred, who is a big donor to Democratic and liberal causes.
No one has identified where the funds are coming from to pay Gloria Allred even though there is no possibility of a lawsuit against Herman Cain.
Thus far, on a strictly factual basis, these are all the facts we have in regard to the character and integrity of Sharon Bailek. While I suspect that new facts will be divulged in the future, this is all we have to go on at the present time.
What about the character, integrity, and moral principles of Herman Cain? What are the facts?
Herman Cain was born into extreme poverty and spent his early years in the Atlanta, Georgia projects.
Cain came from an intact, functional family where his mother worked as a domestic worker and his father held down three jobs to support his family.
In spite of Cain's impoverished background, and thanks to the hard work and values passed along to him by his father and mother, Herman Cain went to college, eventually receiving an MBA from Purdue University.
Herman Cain was raised as a Christian, a believer in Jesus Christ.
After getting his BS at Morehouse College in 1967, he married Gloria Etchison in 1968 and has been married to her for more than 43 years. They have two children, Melanie and Vincent.
Herman Cain steadily worked himself up the corporate ladder, facing and overcoming challenges along the way.
At the age of 32 Cain joined the Pillsbury Company in Minneapolis, Minnesota where after hard work and many commendations and promotions he became a Vice President of that organization.
After an extremely successful stint at a Pillsbury subsidiary, Burger King, Cain was given the opportunity to become President of Godfather's Pizza based in Omaha, Nebraska, a struggling restaurant chain on the brink of bankruptcy. In less than 15 months he turned that chain into a very profitable business and when presented the opportunity to purchase it, did so along with other key employees.
While in Omaha he was appointed to the board of the Midwest Federal Reserve, eventually becoming a successful Chairman of that entity.
After selling his interest in Godfather's Pizza, Cain became President of the National Restaurant Association, turning that organization into a powerful voice for the restaurant industry. Upon leaving NRA, he went on a motivational speakers tour and eventually became a talk show host in his native Atlanta, Georgia.
Being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in 2006, he sought out the best medical care and put his faith in God that it would work out for the best in His sight.
Herman Cain and his family have always been active Christians, working, praying and serving others through their church where he serves as an Associate Pastor.
Until the recent charges of sexual harassment and a sexual attack, there has never been a hint of any kind that Herman Cain is a sexual predator even though he has held positions of authority and power for many decades.
Herman Cain would readily acknowledge that he is a sinner saved by the blood and righteousness of Jesus Christ. It's not that Herman Cain or you and I aren't capable of the worst kind of sins. As believers, we don't condone such immoral behavior, but always repent and ask God to forgive us.
King David of the Old Testament was one of the greatest leaders of all time. But he committed adultery and murder. When he was confronted by the prophet, Nathan, with his sin David said, "I have sinned against the Lord." (2 Samuel 12:13)
During my lifetime I have seen high profile Christians exposed for their sin. Christians are not exempt from being sinners, but the difference is that they repent and are forgiven by God as he promises. All men (and women) sin daily, but to not understand that the violation of the Ten Commandments is always a sin and to publicly acknowledge living in sin with a man or woman not your husband or wife, shows that there is no repentance, there is no forgiveness. In fact such public actions show contempt for the laws of God and for His moral standards. It is a clear indication that there is no respect or commitment to any one of the Ten Commandments including the one forbidding the giving of false testimony against someone.
You and I have all violated every one of God's Ten Commandments. You say that you haven't killed anyone, but God says that he that hates his brother is a murderer (1 John 3:15). You say that you haven't committed adultery, but God says that he who looks at a woman with lust has committed adultery in his heart (Matthew 5:28). There are no saints on this earth, only sinners (Romans 3:23).
The issue, of course, is not who is a sinner, Herman Cain or Sharon Bailek, but who is telling the truth. Just what are the odds that someone who by her own admission has low or no regard for God's moral standards is lying? Just what are the odds that a man who reveres God's laws and has been married for 43 years, living a circumspect life without a hint of sexual impropriety for decades is lying? It's possible, but does it stand to reason that it is likely?
A man getting entangled in the Devil's web of non-marital, immoral sex usually starts early in life. While that person may be successful in business, he develops a very well known reputation for being a skirt chaser. Where is the evidence that Herman Cain has ever been a skirt chaser?
Looking at the facts only, it is evident to me that it is highly likely that Sharon Bialek is motivated by political considerations, and possibly by a financial payoff, not by telling the truth. Who is lying and who is telling the truth between Herman Cain and Sharon Bialek? I believe it would take a great deal of bias and prejudgment to conclude that Herman Cain is lying and Sharon Bialek is telling the truth. One would have to suspend logic and reason to conclude that the attacks on Herman Cain are anything less than a carefully contrived political attack.
The real question is not whether these attacks are true or false, but rather who is paying for and orchestrating these scurrilous attacks? That's the question the media should be trying to answer, not if a man who has lived his life beyond reproach is a sexual predator. Someone or some organization has to be paying the very large bill that has created this political maelstrom that is designed to take out Herman Cain as a presidential nominee. Who is it?
High Tech Lynching
"High Tech Lynching" was the way that Clarence Thomas described the venomous attacks on his character by the establishment Democratic Party and their allies in the so-called mainstream media. It was an accurate description of the attacks orchestrated against him by the Democratic Party apparatus. They were in a full-blown panic. They executed a character assassination like one never seen before. It was driven not by any concern for truth or accuracy, but by a fear that the elevation of a black conservative to the high bench would mortally wound the Democratic Party.
Today the Democratic Party is an embarrassment to its name. It's not the Party of Harry Truman or John F. Kennedy. This noble old political party has been captured and subverted by far left ideologues that previously populated the fringes of American politics. The interlopers come from the Socialist Party of Norman Thomas and the Communist Party of Gus Hall. Their base has its roots in the violent Weather Underground of Barack Obama's good friend, Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadette Dohrn. Ayers, as you may recall, helped to launch Barack Obama's political career after he was released from prison for his bombing of the Capitol Building (he was released on a technicality). Ayers still brags about the bombing and has expressed his regret that it wasn't more successful. Bernadette Dorn is known as a Red diaper baby because she is the daughter of Communist Party members Bernard and Dorothy Dohrn. It is not unfair to characterize people like Ayers and Dohrn as the core of today's Democratic Party. Sadly, today's Democratic Party is a far left fringe political party that is dedicated to undermining and replacing the principles of America's founders—a limited government of laws designed to minimize governmental intervention into the lives of American citizens and to maximize the individual freedom of its citizens.
The words "High Tech Lynching" can also be aptly used to describe the current frenzied attack on Republican front runner, Herman Cain. The success of Herman Cain and his possible election as President of the United States threatens to drive a terminal stake into the heart of the Democratic Party Plantation. Democrat operatives know that the only way to maintain political control over millions of black Americans living in poverty is to keep them in poverty. It is one of the most cynical, heartless political strategies ever undertaken by a major political party. These operatives of the Democratic machine understand that they must have nearly monolithic control of the black vote in order to maintain political power. In fact, without it, there is no future to the Democratic Party. As long as they can control those African Americans living in poverty through hand outs and outrageous lies, they can keep winning elections.
They and their black Congressional overseers are willing to sacrifice the welfare and future of their loyal followers in order to continue their manipulation of them on Election Day. No act is too low to be undertaken to keep them on the Democratic Plantation—lies, threats, payoffs—the betrayal is complete and devastating. The results are in plain sight for all to see—70% drop out rates in high schools, 16% unemployment rate, and a future filled with misery and without hope. This is the manifestation of more than a half century of cynical manipulation and abuse by the Democratic Party political bosses.
This fear, this panic by the Democratic Party bosses is the sole and only reason for the attempted "High Tech Lynching" of Herman Cain. The Democratic Party fears Herman Cain more than any other candidate for President of the United States. Just as they made up unfounded and unconfirmed lies to destroy Justice Clarence Thomas, they have begun a vicious smear campaign against Herman Cain. They know a Cain election would spell the end of today's Democratic Party. They know and fear that it would also be the beginning of a true post racial society in America, one that would feature racial harmony, instead of the racial division that is currently encouraged by Democratic leaders. While Obama and the Democratic Party seek to divide the races, Herman Cain would not only open the doors to black prosperity, but also promote racial harmony. It's a political formula that doesn't work to the advantage of the Democratic Party.
I predict the attempted "High Tech Lynching" of Herman Cain will not only fail, but will result in an unprecedented backlash that will add momentum to his drive to the White House. Moreover, Cain will not only win the Republican nomination for President and defeat President Barack Obama, he will shatter the monolithic control the Democratic Party has exercised over the black community once and for all time. Mass political desertion from the Democratic Plantation will spell the political end of today's Democratic Party. The liberal establishment has already witnessed the mass exodus of the black intelligentsia from their ranks. Walter Williams, Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, Carol Swain, along with scores of other college professors and PhDs left the Democratic Plantation long ago. That horse already left the barn. It was only a matter of time until black political leaders rose to the forefront of the Republican Party and sped away from the Democratic Plantation.
The late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. often quoted the words of the famous Negro Spiritual, Free at Last, by J.W. Work. The words of that spiritual remind all of us the true source of our freedom, no matter our race or ethnic origin…
Free at last, free at last
I thank God I'm free at last
Way down yonder in the graveyard walk
Me and my Jesus going to meet and talk
On my knees when the light pass'd by
Tho't my soul would rise and fly
Some of these mornings, bright and fair
Goin' meet King Jesus in the air
Bruce W. Eberle
Bruce Eberle is the President and Founder of Eberle Communications Group, Inc. an organization that helps nonprofit leaders realize their dreams. He is a Trustee of Youth for Tomorrow New Life Foundation, a Director of Time of Grace Ministry, and a past member of the Board of Regents of Wisconsin Lutheran College. He is a recipient of the Nehemiah Award for leadership from Youth for Tomorrow, and the Pro Gloria Dei award from Wisconsin Lutheran College.
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The story of a refugee Jesus who judges Christians | Culture
News George Holan	· December 24, 2021 · 0 Comment
It is possible that everything we have been taught about the childhood of Jesus and Christmas is more myth than history, and that the Jewish prophet was not born in Bethlehem and surely not on the night of December 24 to 25, since half of the Gospels ignore all aspects of his birth and focus above all on his public life and his death on the cross. Assuming, however, that it was history, there is one aspect that Christians tend to silence: Jesus and his parents became refugees who had to flee to Egypt because King Herod wanted to kill the newborn child. Also today many of those who have to leave their land do so fleeing wars or tyrants.
Christmas, about which we know very little, but which ended up being a special date for the Christian world, thus also becomes a knock for today's conscience in the face of the drama of emigration that judges us all. If much of what has been written about Jesus and, above all, about his birth surely belongs to the world of legend, which has been transmitted by Christians throughout history, today's emigrants are not another myth. They are a painful and cruel reality that that rebellious Jew, defender of all those persecuted and humiliated, would place before the conscience of Christians.
Christianity, which was born as an attempt to broaden, through the life of Jesus, the idea of a God for the chosen people of Israel and give it a universal dimension in which there are no longer faithful and unfaithful, but only children of God It will only have value if the Church remains faithful to universal love and compassion, especially towards the most humiliated and persecuted, such as migrants.
Although what is related to the birth and childhood of Jesus only exists in the apocryphal Gospels, not in the four official ones, the truth is that this legend has become one of the dates that Christians celebrate with the greatest joy. It is very possible that the entire history of the birth in Bethlehem was created throughout the early years of Christianity because the faithful of the new sect felt the need to know one of the most unknown aspects of the life of Jesus, such as the date of the birth of which no Gospel speaks. The early Christians felt that there was a day to go before celebrating it. And so the Church chose the Roman holiday of the pagan god Mithras.
None of the four evangelists actually speak of Jesus of Bethlehem, but of Jesus of Nazareth. The Jews were surnamed with the place of birth or with the name of the father, in such a way that Jesus should have been called Jesus of Bethlehem or Jesus of Joseph, never Jesus of Nazareth.
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The most certain thing is that the legend of the birth in Bethlehem was due to the fact that the Bible spoke of the future messiah with royal blood, of the line of David, who would have been born in Bethlehem, a city about which the prophet Micah said: "Of You will be the one who will reign in Israel ". In this context, giving birth to Jesus in a village like Nazareth – so insignificant that it does not even appear on the maps of his time – would diminish his dignity. He needed to come into the world in a city with history like Bethlehem.
'The Flight into Egypt' (1280) by Guido of Siena. Heritage Images (Heritage Images/Getty Images)
From there the bizarre birth of Jesus in a manger, with the Magi, whose names, Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar, appear again only in the apocryphal Gospels was enriched with the smallest details. And, above all, his flight to Egypt fleeing from the tyrant King Herod, who feared that the king of Israel had been born who would endanger his kingdom and gave the order to kill all the newborn children.
Pope Benedict XVI —the German Joseph Ratzinger, a great ultra-conservative theologian—, before resigning from the pontificate that Pope Francis inherited, had a moment of progressive temptation and wrote that probably in the manger where Jesus was born "there was neither mule nor ox". I wrote then that the most certain thing is that there would not have been a manger and that Jesus would not have been born in Bethlehem.
The funny thing is that modern archeology is trying to trace the possible itinerary of the holy family in their flight to Egypt to turn it into a place of tourism and pilgrimage for Christians. Taking advantage of some of these archaeological discoveries, there are already places through which the newborn Jesus would have passed, such as the footprints of his feet on the rock of Sakca or the drops of milk from Mary that fell when breastfeeding her child where women still today Sterile people come to ask for the miracle of being able to conceive.
Currently, there is a tendency to highlight the aspect of the flight to Egypt, where the holy family would have remained as some more emigrants until Herod's death. And it is that at that time Egypt was an obligatory step for all the wise men of the ancient world such as Pythagoras or Thales of Miletus. Even the Greek gods took refuge in Egypt, the country where the legend of Moses was also born, fleeing with his people from the slavery to which they were subjected to lead them to the promised land.
Christianity easily penetrated this country because Osiris was the god who dies and rises again, where the reward for a life faithful to religion was paradise. And today it is thought that the Christian dogma of the Triune God, monotheism, was forged in Egypt and from there it passed to the Christians.
Medieval fresco showing the flight into Egypt.Fred de Noyelle / GODONG (Universal Images Group via Getty)
Theologians specializing in the study of the Bible try to understand how it is possible that Jesus, born without a doubt in the village of Nazareth, the son of a bricklayer and an illiterate woman as were most of the women of his time who were He prohibited studying, he could appear in public at the age of 30 demonstrating wisdom and argue with the doctors of the law or speak Greek without having studied. Hence the attempt to explain that surely during those 30 years of silence he traveled through the places where Gnostic philosophy and theories flourished, of which many traces remain in the prophet's speeches.
And this explains that precisely today one of the most interesting aspects in the reconstruction of the life of the Jewish prophet who gave life to one of the three great monotheistic religions is that of his possible flight to Egypt, where he would have spent all his childhood and studied other languages and philosophies that remain traces in his speeches and parables.
The truth is that in the real or mythical story of the birth of Jesus, the most current and that corresponds to the essence of the primitive doctrine of Christianity is the flight of Jesus to Egypt, which makes him the first refugee of Christianity, whose Parents had to live the anxiety that each family suffers that has to leave in a hurry and run their home and their country to flee from the horror of dictators and death.
Therefore, if the purest Christianity proclaims that each person has the dignity of being a child of God and of embodying the essence of his message, which is the reception of what the world despises or tries to eliminate, there is no doubt that closing The eyes before the drama of the migrants, which sometimes leads to the persecution of the refugees, constitutes one of the greatest betrayals of the essence of primitive Christianity.


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