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October 2011

The 'Hunger' Hoax [by Thomas Sowell]: "Twenty years ago, hysteria swept through the media over 'hunger in America.'...When the Centers for Disease Control and the Department of Agriculture examined people from a variety of income levels, however, they found no evidence of malnutrition among those in the lowest income brackets. Nor was there any significant difference in the intake of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients from one income level to another....

     "The political left has turned obesity among low-income individuals into an argument that low-income people cannot afford nutritious food, and so have to resort to burgers and fries, pizzas and the like....[But] Burgers, pizzas and the like cost more than food that you can buy at a store and cook yourself. ...the problem is 'to get people to see cooking as a joy.'... In other words, the nanny state to the rescue!"

September 2011

Eternal adolescence lacking in romance: "...as Miss Ingraham says, 'Even if our economic and national security challenges disappeared overnight, we’d still have to climb out of the cultural abyss into which we’ve tumbled.'...She opens with a lurid account of a recent visit to a north Virginia mall – zombie teens texting, a thirty-something metrosexual having his eyebrows threaded... grade-schoolers in the latest 'prostitot' fashions – and then embarks on a lively tour of American cultural levers, from schools to social media to churches to Hollywood. If there is a common theme in the various rubble of cultural ruin, it’s the urge to enter adolescence ever earlier and leave it later and later, if at all....

      "...the prolongation of adolescence...appears to be the default setting of huge swathes of humanity....If Big Government is a 'family,' with the bureaucracy as its parents, why be surprised that the citizens are content to live as eternal adolescents?...Yet one of the curious features of a hypersexualized society is that it becomes paradoxically sexless and joyless." See Hope, Hate & Human Nature

August 2011

 Race War At Wisconsin State Fair: "According to witnesses, a group of anywhere from 30 to 100 young black men descended on the Wisconsin State Fair last night, beating fairgoers and looting carnival games.... Eric, the war veteran, recounted this brutal attack on one white teenager: 'I saw them grab this white kid who was probably 14 or 15 years old. They just flung him into the road. They just jumped on him and started beating him. They were kicking him....'"

Security Video Shows White Teens Killing Black Man During Hate Spree: "...two carloads of white teenagers drove to Jackson, Mississippi, on what the county district attorney says was a mission of hate: to find and hurt a black person. In a parking lot on the western side of town they found their victim."

Women Falling Away From Religion [Christianity]: "Women today are attending church and Sunday school less, reading the Bible less, and consider their faith less important in their lives. ...women have become less likely to hold traditional views of God as the all-knowing creator and ruler of the universe. Women today are less likely to see the devil as a real person, considering him more a 'symbol of evil.'  Women used to put men to shame in terms of their orthodoxy of belief and the breadth and consistency of their religious behavior. No more; the religious gender gap has substantially closed."

"Professing to be wise, they became fools....And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting..." Romans 1:22,28

June 2011

America's New Racists [Walter Williams]: "Born in 1936, I've lived through some of our openly racist history, which has included racist insults, beatings and lynchings....Today all that has changed. Most racist assaults are committed by blacks.... Last year, four black Skidmore College students yelled racial slurs while they beat up a white man because he was dining with a black man.....Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel ordered an emergency shutdown of the beaches in Chicago because mobs of blacks were terrorizing families." See Moral Corruption

July 2010

Whitewashing Black Racism: "Radical black racism doesn't fit the Hope and Change narrative....This week, Justice Department whistleblower J. Christian Adams came forward with damning public testimony about how Obama officials believe 'civil rights law should not be enforced in a race-neutral manner, and should never be enforced against blacks or other national minorities....
     "In the wake of Adams' expose on how the Obama DOJ [Dept. of Justice] abandoned default judgments against the NBPP [New Black Panthers] bullies for the sake of politically correct racial politics, a shocking video clip of one of the lead defendants in the Philadelphia voter intimidation case resurfaced on the Internet. It shows bloodthirsty King Samir Shabazz during a 2009 National Geographic documentary interview spewing: 'You want freedom? You're gonna have to kill some crackers! You're gonna have to kill some of their babies!...
In the fall of 2008, just days before he showed up to hector white poll workers, Shabazz told the Philadelphia Inquirer:
     "I'm about the total destruction of white people. I'm about the total liberation of black people. I hate white people. I hate my enemy... The only thing the cracker understands is violence... The only thing the cracker understands is gunpowder. You got to take violence to violence." See a longer clip of Shabazz here

February 2010

America's deadly blind spot: "We know how to create vaccines and custom genes, replace body parts and build space robots. Our knowledge of life and the universe continues to grow dramatically in every field imaginable. Except one. We don't understand evil – what it is, how it works, and why it so routinely and effortlessly ruins our lives....

     "...big lies possess an inherent power to upset us – triggering a key control mechanism. Why are boys doing worse in school today than girls? (As America becomes increasingly "feminized," boys, men and masculinity are being subtly but seriously maligned.) Why do we treat mental-emotional-spiritual problems like rage and depression with drugs? (We've been seduced by secular medical 'experts' who tell us what all egos love to hear: 'It's not your fault.')."

 

British sex and the modern-day 'slave trade': "When morality goes, government grows. The London Telegraph just reported that British "massage parlors and escort agencies will be banned from advertising their services in newspapers under Government plans to stifle the sex industry." Well, not exactly to "stifle." The U.K. worries that "many of the advertisements are offering women who have been forced into prostitution by criminal gangs." ...In 2008 a U.K. study estimated there were 921 locally advertised brothels bringing in "at least £86 million" to newspapers marketing sex. Many offered "very, very young girls." See God's Warnings for our Times

Taking a stand. Narcissism and Your Family: "Deeply embedded in today's culture, narcissism has crept into our children's mentality like a thief in the night, actually robbing them (and everyone around them) of much dignity and happiness. Young people spend hours every day updating their Facebook pages, post and e-mail countless pictures of themselves, and plug their ears with music to create a self-indulgent existence shut-off from everyone around them. I recently went online and viewed the page of a friend-of a-friend-of a-friend-of my daughter's on Facebook and discovered literally hundreds of pictures of the girl posing like a super model. Where are our children learning to be so obsessed with self?" See God's Wisdom versus Human Pride and The Triumph the Cross

July 2009

Whales Are Not 'Us': "Something very strange is going on these days; a desperate desire to personalize and humanize nature, while we are depersonalizing and dehumanizing some humans....

     "...that whale who gave him the eye was unquestionably a magnificent animal who may have been curious. But the writer's deeply romantic yearning to transform whales into huge versions of us notwithstanding, was quite indifferent to his existence. What are whales trying to tell us? Not a blessed thing." See New Beliefs for a Global Village

June 2009

U.S. Teens Think They're Going to Die Young: "A surprising number of teenagers - nearly 15 percent - think they're going to die young, leading many to drug use, suicide attempts and other unsafe behavior, new research suggests. The study, based on a survey of more than 20,000 kids, challenges conventional wisdom that says teens engage in risky behavior because they think they're invulnerable to harm. Instead, a sizable number of teens may take chances 'because they feel hopeless and figure that not much is at stake.'" See Hope, Hate & Human Nature

December 2008

Human Nature (apart from Christ). Fourth grade students try to poison teacher's pet: "Her fourth grade classmates apparently disliked the smart girl because she got the best marks and had already skipped two classes. Two boys and two girls were so jealous they plotted to poison her. One of the boys mixed what the students thought would be a deadly cocktail of shoe polish, perfume, window and bath cleaner at home. Another boy poured the mix into the girl’s drink bottle during recess the next day at school.... 'Why do kids do things like that,' the mother of the eight-year old girl asked. 'One of the girls was even her friend.'” See Hope, Hate & Human Nature

      But our God reigns in the midst of all the changes! Those who trust Him will see heavenly victories no matter how fierce the battles.

March 2008

"Non-Judgmental" Nonsense  (By Thomas Sowell): "What Eliot Spitzer did was not out of character.... When you start thinking of yourself as a little tin god, able to throw your weight around to bully people into silence, it is a sign of a sense of being exempt from the laws and social rules that apply to other people.... For someone with this kind of hubris to risk his whole political career for a fling with a prostitute is no more surprising than for Michael Vick to throw away millions to indulge his taste for dog fighting or for Leona Helmsley to avoid paying taxes -- not because she couldn't easily afford to pay taxes and still have more money left than she could ever spend -- but because she felt above the rules that apply to 'the little people.'" See Human Nature