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Hezbollah A Model For Health Care According To Romney…No Really.

2012/01/24 –

You just cannot make this stuff up. Hezbollah is a model for health care and spreading the wealth of the United States around the world in similar socialized medicine nonsense is a good way to combat radical Islam. And Romney is the conservative according to Coulter. Well gosh, wish I could get some of what she is smoking.

Mitt Romney is praising Hezbollah’s healthcare system, and says at the end of the video that we should support Muslim countries with our legal and healthcare systems to fight jihadism. Mitt Romney Praises Hezbollah – Atlas Shrugs

Just in case you might think well maybe he has a point…let me remind you what sort of organization Hezbollah is and what they have promised to do.

Between the spring of 1983 to the summer of 1985 the Hizballah launched an unprecedented wave of suicide bombings which included an attack on the US embassy and at a US Marine base in Beirut. Known or suspected to have been involved in numerous anti-US terrorist attacks, including the suicide truck bombing of the US Embassy and US Marine barracks in Beirut in October 1983 and the US Embassy Annex in Beirut in September 1984. Elements of the group were responsible for the kidnapping and detention of US and other Western hostages in Lebanon. The group also attacked the Israeli Embassy in Argentina in 1992.

One of the leaders of the Hezbollah was refreshingly frank about what his organization wanted…

We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We are fighting to eliminate you.
—Hussein Massawi, former Hezbollah leader

And this is the organization that Romney thinks we should be take our cues from…? This is the guy that “conservatives” think will combat the scourge of socialism in the US? If we nominate this guy I don’t see any reason not to vote third party.

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Business Is Great! People Are Rich! And Obama Is Wonderful!

2012/01/23 –

Extend and pretend for as long as the American Public will buy it…just remember that when Germany and other countries decended into hyperinflation chaos there was no warning. It was all a big wonderful surprise to the middle-class.

Here are some clues to how we are doing right about now as a country. Ain’t looking so good, but hey what do I know?

All of this courtesy of Financial Armageddon: Yet Another Reality Check.

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C’MON BABY…WE AIN’T FINISHED REDISTRIBUTING JUS YET!

2012/01/16 –

Failure is a feature not a bug…

Western Rifle Shooters…

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Stuff To Do When You Start Feeling In Shape…

2012/01/15 –

Break ton Neck from Alex Yde on Vimeo.

Just when I started feeling like I was getting somewhere this guy comes around and shows me the goal…

Break ton Neck from Alex Yde on Vimeo.

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Suspected Islamic Extremist Arrested In Alleged Florida Bomb Plot…Quick Before They Realize They Said Islamic Extremist!

2012/01/09 –

Cause we all know there is no such thing as an Islamic Extremist…

URGENT: A 25-year-old man described as an Islamic extremist was arrested in an alleged plot to attack crowded areas in the Tampa, Fla., area with a car bomb, assault rifle and other explosives, authorities said Monday.

The U.S. Department of Justice said Sami Osmakac, a naturalized U.S. citizen who was born in the former Yugoslavia, was arrested Saturday night.

Osmakac, from Pinellas County, allegedly told an undercover agent that "We all have to die, so why not die the Islamic way?’" according to a federal complaint.

This photo, provided by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, shows 25-year-old Sami Osmakac.

FBI agents arrested Osmakac on Saturday after he allegedly bought explosive devices and firearms from an undercover agent. The firearms and explosives were rendered inoperable by law enforcement. The federal complaint says that shortly before his arrest, Osmakac made a video of himself explaining his motives for carrying out the planned violent attack. Suspected Islamic Extremist Arrested In Alleged Florida Bomb Plot | Fox News

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All The Animals Are Equal…But Some Are More Equal Than Others! Beyonce and Jay Z Part of the New Royalty.

2012/01/09 –

It is sort of funny to see Jay Z in this picture wearing that shirt…and I don’t think he is smart enough to be playing it ironic. Obviously it’s hard to follow all the rules of the Hoi polloi if you are extra special.

Bey Jay Split

They just used the hospital like it was their own and nobody else mattered,” raged new dad Neil Coulon, whose efforts to see his premature, newborn twins in the NICU were disrupted by the birth of little Blue Ivy Carter.

They locked us into the NICU and would say, ‘You can’t come out to the hallway for the next 20 minutes.’ When I finally was able to go back out, I went to the waiting room and they’d ushered my family downstairs!”

Beyonce, 30, and 42-year-old Jay-Z– whose real name is Shawn Carter — welcomed their new princess, Blue Ivy, born by C-section, at the Upper East Side hospital Saturday night.

Read more: Security Measures For Beyonce\’s Baby Prevent New Dad From Seeing Premature Twins At Hospital | Fox News.

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Video Explaining Vitamin D’s Role In Preventing Cancer

2012/01/07 –

Fantastic explanation of vitamin D’s role in fighting cancer.

Tom Monahan, the composer for Fat Head, sent me the YouTube link. I found it fascinating simply for the science, but also because my dad has had two surgeries for colon cancer, followed in each case by a round of chemotherapy. Afterwards, he was so weakened, he couldn’t get out of bed without help. I certainly don’t want to follow in his footsteps 25 years from now. I already take vitamin D for other reasons, but this video reminded me to be diligent about it.If the DINOMIT theory is correct – and I have no reason to doubt that it is – it’s interesting for a couple of reasons. For one, we’ve all been told to avoid the sun to prevent skin cancer. It’s looking more and more like that wasn’t such a good idea which would put that advice in the same category as avoiding fat in the diet. Human beings have been living and working and playing in the sun forever, but skin cancer only became a national concern in the past several decades.

via Fat Head » Vitamin D Is DINOMIT Against Cancer.

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New Pentagon Strategy…Abandon What Has Worked, Humans. Adopt What Has Spectacularly Failed, Cyber Drones! Awesome Job Fellas!

2012/01/06 –

Hey what a great idea…a few weeks after Iran successfully hacks and steals a flying example of your super plastic fantastic snooper plane while it is in flight, boldly announce that you will be shifting away from un-hack-able humans to hack-able computers…weee. Only the smartest and bravest get to go to DC and lead us.

Cyberwarfare and unmanned drones would continue to grow in priority, as would countering attempts by China and Iran to block U.S. power projection capabilities in areas like the South China Sea and the Strait of Hormuz.

via New Pentagon strategy stresses Asia, cyber, drones – Yahoo! News.

Conventional thinking is always so predictably boringly stupid it is hard to remember that some folks are running around patting themselves on their backs. Course we get back to the question of the day, maybe the current set of Chuckleheads in DC actually WANT to lose wars. Does everyone over the age of 50 always have to act like the mere fact that you put Cyber in front of some stupid ass trick makes the trick brilliant? Perhaps a quick way to tell if someone has their heads stuck up their asses is if they every use the word CYBER in any sentence that isn’t mocking some buffoon.

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Targa Florio 1973 Or What To Do In 1973 If You Were Bored With Nurburgring

2012/01/04 –

Notice in the Targa that he is driving around regular folks…love the shot of the narrow streets with cars parked on the “track”. Oh included a great record run by a Ferrari 599xx at the Old Ring.

via Targa Florio 1973 camera car porsche 908MKIII – YouTube.

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Ron Paul Has A Whole Lot Of Crazy But He Also Has A Whole Bunch Of Reality That No One Else Wants To Talk About!

2012/01/03 –

Bookie really doesn’t like Ron Paul because of his stance on Foreign Policy and I get that, he really is a crazy uncle but…

Ron Paul is indeed the crazy uncle Bookworm Room » Ron Paul is indeed the crazy uncle

Right now we are facing the real threat to our economy of financial collapse and every other candidate for President is unserious about repairing the damage. They talk about trimming waste and fraud when entire trillions of dollars are coming due. Ron Paul talks about cutting trillions, they talk about cutting waste and fraud and merely slowing the rate of growth…while he talks about getting rid of entire departments. Why aren’t the other “conservative republicans” calling for the same…what about Government is the problem?

Right now we are facing what amounts to an existential threat to our long cherished freedoms by a government out of control…and the leading nominee of the Republican party provided the model for the abortion called Obamacare which is one of the drivers of this loss of freedom. We actually expect him to lead us back to a society where personal responsibility is the guiding goal? This is smart politics?

Millions cross our borders at will…Ron Paul will take away the incentive to come here by eliminating all the programs that support them while they are here. That is effective border control…not building fences. We have never had fences and we didn’t need them when the only reason to come here was to work not collect welfare. No other candidate even mentions that if we take away the incentive to come here we might not have so many coming. Getting rid of the minimum wage would fix the rest of the problem because then folks could actually compete with the low wage folks crossing the border. Naturally you cannot be debasing the money while you pay low wages or you will starve people…no other candidates talk about the currency.

All the other candidates unfortunately seem to think that Government is the answer. When we begin to understand that it isn’t, perhaps then we can get a candidate who understands all the good things that Ron Paul understands without believing all the wacky things he believes.

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Never Surrender–A Resolution for 2012 And Beyond, by C.R.W. – SurvivalBlog.com

2012/01/01 –

Have you considered what you will do if faced with one of these scenarios?

Never Surrender–A Resolution for 2012 And Beyond, by C.R.W.
January 1, 2012 5:00 AM
“”Never give in, never give in, never; never; never; never – in nothing, great or small, large or petty – never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense”……..Winston Churchill, Oct 29, 1941

I do not know the author of the following article but he has a point. Surrender is not an option and this article make a good case for that position.

The Phases of Surrender
The first phase of surrender is failing to be armed, trained and committed to fight. We are prepared to surrender when we are unprepared to resist.

The second phase of surrender is failing to be alert. You must see trouble coming in order to have time to respond. The warning may be less than one second but it will be there and it must be recognized and acted upon immediately.

The Third phase of surrender is giving up your weapons.

The last phase of surrender is up to the monsters who have taken control of your life and perhaps the lives of your loved ones. The last phase of surrender is out of your hands.

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Interesting Take On The Coming Collapse…

2011/12/30 –

Where else can we be headed with a government completely out of control and a people who may or may not realize that the gravy train has ended. The people are fooled into thinking that their unreasonable demands for everything under the sun are sustainable because the gravy train keeps moving as if alive and still viable but mathematics will not be denied. The engine has stopped and now we are left wondering how far our own inertia will carry the train down the track? Will it be far enough to carry the problems to the next generation because one thing that the boomers have been brilliant at is passing their problems onto others. We shall see but until then here is one take of what the end might end up like.

The Coming “Soft Dark Ages” — by guest blogger Charles Martel

This is an exercise in pure speculation. I invite all here to bring their own notions to the table.

An old friend of mine visited me last Saturday to catch up on things. We walked my dog and began a long conversation that ended later in my backyard over coffee and tea.

Bob is fascinated by history, and has been a long-time contributor to print and online history publications. So our conversations often veer off into that realm. Because we have developed a years-long habit of riffing on whatever thoughts come to our heads, we never know where one of our history threads will go.

We were discussing the dark ages, which not only were characterized by the disintegration of the Roman political order, but also the loss of an immense store of practical technological knowledge: agricultural practices and implements; construction techniques—it would take until the 19th century for Europeans to match the Romans’ road-building prowess—war machines; distribution and warehousing; science; art (which in Roman times was the realm of artisans, not self-absorbed “transgressive” pricks). Bookworm Room » The Coming “Soft Dark Ages” — by guest blogger Charles Martel

Please click on over to Bookie’s blog to check this article out but I wanted to comment on two aspects of this “optimistic” outlook on our future.

I said that I think we are headed for a “soft dark ages.” That took him aback. “How are we headed there,” he asked, “and how would they be ‘soft’?”

I answered his last question first. They would be “soft” because unlike what happened in Roman times, we have the ability to store gigantic amounts of information in small spaces. One person can carry around encyclopedic knowledge on a flash drive. Multiply him by the millions, and you have a vast repository of recoverable knowledge that is private, widely dispersed, and replicated many times over. No matter how determined or persistent this era’s barbarians—Marxists, Muslims, Democrats, unionists, academicians—they simply would not be able to track down and destroy all modern technological knowledge.

Yes this makes sense and is actually something I have been doing. I have a pretty extensive store of knowledge on the computer regarding practical knowledge but I haven’t spent any time at all protecting that information. I believe that we must start preparing for asymmetrical warfare by states that will never have the sorts of nuclear weapons needed to threaten us the way the Soviets did but will have enough to send one or three up over the US to strike at our electronic and electrical infrastructure. Iran has practiced launching missiles off of freighters and oddly enough those missile launches were reported as apparent failures because the missiles were detonated in the upper atmosphere…exactly where they would need to be if they wanted to hit a country with an EMP strike.

An EMP strike wipes clean all those flash drives, hard drives, and the systems needed to read such things. Even if you have given thought to placing such information onto DVD you must have a workable computer to read it. Paranoid? Perhaps but we keep rattling our sabers towards Iran and that inevitably will lead to war. If we threaten the leadership of Iran with extermination what prevents their launching of such a strike. A strike that would set us back into the 19th century, a strike that if launched against both coasts at once could cost upwards of 200 million to 250 million American lives.

But beyond furtive individual efforts at hiding and protecting the knowledge we would need to create a New America or a New West, there would be vaster, more organized, more collective efforts to protect knowledge until better days. I suggested to Bob three institutions or concepts that would become the next dark ages’ hallmarks: The new castle fortress; the new monastic life; and the new Europe.

We will be attacked at once. We would be an existential threat to the powers that be and the only thing those folks are good at and they are VERY good at it, is protecting their phony baloney jobs.

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Kill An Innocent Man…Get A Round Of Applause From Fellow Officers!

2011/12/27 –

We are on a very treacherous road when fellow officers can applaud an officer in court for the murder of an innocent man. Why do they think they can get away with this? Is it a Union that protects them? Why aren’t all of them simply fired immediately?

Spokane city leaders call some officers’ courtroom behavior "insensitive" to Zehm family, friends

During Friday’s proceedings, the judge said that the defense has not presented a strong enough case to avoid Thompson’s detention and that the government had presented its case better. The judge mentioned the violent nature of the crime. view full article

Spokane city leaders call some officers’ courtroom behavior “insensitive” to Zehm family, friends NoisyRoom.net » Blog Archive » Spokane Officers Salute Officer Convicted of Beating Otto Zehm to Death

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Merry Christmast To All And To All A Good Night!

2011/12/25 –

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Why Eating Too Many Carbs Makes You Fat

2011/12/23 –

Very concise and to the point. One of the better explanations of what happens when you eat carbohydrates and why you should stop. Really you won’t miss them…

Why Eating Too Many Carbs Makes You Fat

Barry Groves, PhDApr 24, 2007

Putting on Weight: Blame CarbsCarbs and carbs alone, not fat, increase body weight. It doesn\’t matter whether the carbs are from sugar, bread, fruit, or vegetables: They’re all rapidly digested and quickly converted to blood glucose. A short time after a carb-rich meal, the glucose in your bloodstream rises rapidly, and your pancreas produces a large amount of insulin to take the excess glucose out.Just as eating fat doesn’t raise blood glucose, it doesn\’t raise insulin levels either. This is important because insulin is the hormone responsible for body fat storage. Because fats do not elicit an insulin response, they cannot be stored as body fat. Insulin takes glucose out of the bloodstream. It is converted first into a starch called glycogen, which is stored in the liver and in muscles. But the body can store only a limited amount of glycogen, so the excess glucose is stored as body fat. This is the process of putting on weight.When your blood glucose level returns to normal, after about 90 minutes, the insulin level in your bloodstream is still near maximum. As a result, the insulin continues to stack glucose away in the form of fat. Ultimately, the level of glucose in your blood falls below normal, and you feel hungry again. So you have a snack of more carbohydrates, and the whole process starts over again. You\’re getting fatter, but feeling hungry at the same time. Ultimately, insulin resistance caused by continually high insulin levels in your bloodstream impairs your ability to switch on a satiety center in the brain. You enter a vicious cycle of continuous weight gain combined with hunger. Under such circumstances, it is almost impossible not to overeat.

via Why Eating Too Many Carbs Makes You Fat – Diabetes Health.

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N.C.’s Ellmers to work on payroll tax talks – State – NewsObserver.com

2011/12/21 –

Representative Ellmers is working hard to try and solve the deadlock between the parties on taxes.

Tags: U.S. Representative | Renee Ellmers | payroll | tax | cut | House Speaker | John Boehner

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Renee Ellmers has been tapped by House Republicans to help lead a showdown with senators over the payroll tax cut.

House Speaker John Boehner selected the freshman Republican from Dunn to serve on a joint committee tasked with working out the differences between the two-month payroll tax extension passed by the Senate and a one-year proposal preferred by the House.

The effort comes after the GOP-led House voted 229 to 193 to reject the bipartisan Senate plan to extend the current tax rate for two months. Employees have paid a 4.2 percent Social Security tax this year; it’s scheduled to go up to 6.2 percent next year unless the current rate is extended. N.C.’s Ellmers to work on payroll tax talks – State – NewsObserver.com

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Iran hijacked US drone…Hey Let’s Build An Entire Fleet Of Remote Control Aircraft!

2011/12/15 –

Did you hear the one about how we were going to be both clever and save lot’s of money by building a fleet of remote control aircraft for spying, fighting and supplying? Hmm…maybe that isn’t such a good idea if your software is outsourced, your chips are outsourced and your intelligence agencies are stacked with double agents. And if on top of all of that a country stacked with as many ridiculous people as Iran is able to take over one of our super secret plastic fantastic latest technology spy planes, hijack it and land it behind enemy lines…maybe we ought not plan on equipping anything with remote control that has a bigger bang than a small firecracker. One thing is for sure…you cannot hack into a US Airforce pilot and you definitely cannot hijack a plane he is flying.

Iran guided the CIA‘s “lost” stealth drone to an intact landing inside hostile territory by exploiting a navigational weakness long-known to the US military, according to an Iranian engineer now working on the captured drone’s systems inside Iran. via Exclusive: Iran hijacked US drone, says Iranian engineer – CSMonitor.com.

Well gosh that is confidence inspiring…ok, so then, what about a EMP attack being launched by Iran. Let’s sit and talk about how impossible it will be for Iran to actually launch a missile off of a freighter, which they have practiced in their own waters, off of our East Coast detonating a nuke high enough to black out most of the country...please challenge that idea. I would love to stop worrying about it because if they do manage to accomplish this task we will immediately revert to the 19th century with estimates of upwards of 250 million dead of starvation, dehydration, crime and lack of medicines and hospitals. If your imagination is too feeble to understand how that works let this sink in…no freezers, no cars, trucks, railroads, planes flying would crash immediately, water purification would cease, water pumping same same, drug manufactoring kaput, insulin bye bye, farms kaput, telephone, radio, tv kaput, internet kaput…no food, no water, no medicines and no prospect of getting them anytime soon. And that is supposing we wouldn’t immediately be invaded.

And if you are feeling a bit sanguine because you know our Government is on the job consider this wonderful fact. The radical fringe of the environmental movement would love to see what they call a die off hitting our country.

“A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system into line with the realities of ecology and the world resource situation.”
Paul Ehrlich, Professor of Population Studies

And guess what sorts of individuals our lovely leader has put throughout the government? Well we have Paul Ehrlich’s partner in crime Science Czar Holdren who was a co-author of a book which said this:

A Comprehensive Planetary Regime”
Holdren believed a world government might play a moderate role in the future: setting and enforcing appopriate population levels, taxing and redistributing the world’s wealth, controlling the world’s resources, and operating a standing World Army. Such a comprehensive Plenetary Regime could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable…not only in the atmosphere and oceans, but in such freshwater bodies as rivers and lakes…The Regime might also be a logical central agency for regulating all international trade…The Planetary Regime might be given responsibility for determining the optimum population for the world and for each region and for arbitrating various countries’ shares within their regional limits…the Regime would have some power to enforce the agreed limits. (p. 943.)

I believe Obama’s appointment of Holdren is a marker and it is a marker that we should fear. We are the people they hate. We are expendable or worse we are the problem that is keeping Gaea from being healthy. There I knew I could make you feel better.

We are in dire straits right now…our country has never been in more peril and our people never less concerned. If our country does get eliminated it won’t be the fault of the Marxist in Chief and his cronies, it will be the fault of all of us who didn’t do enough to raise our fellow citizens from their slumber. We are sleep walking into oblivion.

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Thinking Housewife…I Feel Like Columbus Discovering America!

2011/12/14 –

My goodness there are so many great posts on this blog that right now I have 10 tabs open from her site. I chose this post to link to because it goes straight to the heart of a problem my wife and I discuss from time to time. Our inability to simply relax. We have so many balls in the air with homeschooling, building a new house, tending to 3 wonderful children and trying to keep up in two demanding careers that any time we sit we feel guilty. Blessedly we have friends whose conversations and visits refresh and energize us so much that we step back from the edge and get back to the slog. But is it really supposed to be a slog? Is that it? Well perhaps the beginnings of an answer can be found in this fantastic post by the Thinking Housewife.

When people become so distracted they accidentally leave their children alone in cars, the question arises. Is it possible we’ve reached some catastrophic overload? Are we distracting ourselves to death?

Technology, many people would say, is the sole cause of the hyperactivity that seems endemic to our world. We can never go back to slower paced times. But this is a strange argument because technology does not use us, we use it. Is it possible people are frantically busy not because of their cellphones, computers and cars, but because energy and activity are our idols? If so, why? Why do we seem to worship effort?

This short and elegant book by the German philosopher Josef Pieper examines this important question. He writes:

Is it possible, from now on, to maintain and defend, or even to reconquer, the right and claims of leisure, in face of the claims of “total labor” that are invading every sphere of life? Leisure, it must be remembered, is not a Sunday afternoon idyll, but the preserve of freedom, education, culture, and of that undiminished humanity which views the world as a whole.

Pieper wrote the two very readable essays in this book, “Leisure: the Basis of Culture” and “The Philosophical Act,” at the end of World War II. The book was first published in 1952. It seemed a bad time to talk about relaxation, and the same could be said of today. This is no time to consider the need for leisure. The problem now is not rest, but work, and there is not enough of it. But one might as well say this is no time to consider the need for food or love. Pieper uses the word “totalitarian” to describe the claims of the modern sphere of work. He thus gives to the subject the seriousness it deserves and will always deserve. The Thinking Housewife › The Distracted Society

By the way another fantastic way to spend quality time with your wife if you are afflicted with the disease of guilt through inactivity is to travel by car instead of by plane. All those hours with no reason to do anything else but discuss any topic that comes to mind! The wife and I have solved many a problem with a wonderful drive to Sandestine or better Disney World. Matter of fact once several years ago the wife noticed that I was becoming such a bear from the battles at work that I needed a vacation before I drove everyone crazy. Knowing me she suggested we drive to Disney World just the two of us…fantastic suggestion but I knew the kids would hate us for the rest of their lives if we left them behind. Did I mention that I absolutely love Epcot?

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Evolution, God and Evil

2011/12/13 –

I thought this was a profound comment and am reposting it here so that I can find it.

F.A. Hayek got it partly right when (in his “Constitution of Liberty” 1960) he said that people rejected evolution – not because of a basic reason against it, but because of the implications that were FALSELY taken from it.

After all why should God not create a universe with evolution in it?

That all the Bible was written by God has never been a majority Christian position (only certain small parts of the Bible, such as the Ten Commandments, are held to have been written by God).

The Bible (including the New Testament) is written by human beings (even the Gospels differ slightly) – and the further back one goes the more it is a matter of traditional stories (the Book of Genesis is such a story).

The stories are written by human beings inspired by God and the stories have a moral purpose – but they remain stories. Human beings are not all from Adam and Eve – taken litterally the story does not even make sense in his own terms (Cain went and lived among the ….. – hang on, if all people are from Adam and Eve…..).

Also the morality of the Bible is often NOT from God – it reflects that of the human beings.

If anyone denies that – remember Joshua.

Joshua attacks towns without cause (other than desire to take their land) and murders entire populations – down to the babies.

Any Christian or Jew who claims such deeds were really commanded by God is saying that God is a murderer.

The alternative is that Joshua was NOT doing God’s will.

Sorry – but there are no other alternatives.

People may think (with total sincerity) that they are serving God – but may not be at all.

However, let us get back to the implications of evolution.

Hayek does not help matters by (in the same 1960) work endorsing determinism – Hayek denies that determinism destroys moral responsibility, but Hayek is just flat wrong on that.

If “science” truly means that human beings do not make real choices (i.e. are not “beings” at all) then science is bunk (including evolution). However, (as Ayn Rand, Antony Flew and many others have pointed out) science does NOT have the determinist implications that turn of the 20th century Vienna (the Vienna of Hayek’s education) claimed it did.

And evolution?

Was it silly religious people who claimed that it had all sorts of evil implications?

Not at all.

The mainstream SUPPORTERS of evolution (falsely) claimed that evolution had all sorts of evil implications – for example that the “inferior” (races and individuals) should be exterminated or sterilized by government or private action.

Such works as “Hunter’s Civic Biology” (the actual book in dispute [NOT whether the book should be allowed to be sold - but whether it should be used as school textbook] in the 1920s “Monkey Trial”, although the play and film never mention this, assumes that this is the right implication of evolution – it was a depraved doctrine that RIGHTLY horrified even the racists of Tennessee).

The hostility to morality (as well as to religion) by the “scientific” mainstream was what led to the turning against evolution by so many Christians in the United States.

And it was hostility to morality – to basic right and wrong.

Read the account given in J. Goldberg’s “Liberal Fascism” or in Jack Cassell’s “Hoodwinked” – the people who took over the support of evolution in the United States were evil to the core.

I say “took over” as (as late at the early 1900s) many leading evolution supporting scientists were Christians (real ones) – for example several of the people who wrote “The Fundementals” (the essays from which the term “fundementalist” comes – in opposition to the socialist “Social Gospel” and its “redefining” of religion, which was being done at the same time the Progressives were trying to “redefine” law and the Constitution) were natural scientists who believed in evolution.

So it was not perversity.

The ordinary religous people in the United States encountered people who justified evil (gut twisting horror) by the doctrine of evolution.

So many of them came to see evolution as the enemy.

They were wrong – but their error was a perfectly reasonable one.

After all if your enemies are constantly quoting a doctrine (to justfy their wickedness) it is not unreasonable to assume it is a false doctrine.

Even today Progressives in the United States cite evolution to justfiy both their moral releativism and their collectivism.

So it is not unreasonable to make the ERROR of associating those doctrines with evolution (after all if the supporters of the doctrines say they are from evolution…..).

How many people make this error (at least what pro evolution people would consider an error)?

According to David Barton (the leading “fundementalist” educator) about half of American conservative Protestants do (and a rather lower percentage of conservative American Catholics).

So – yes one is going to encounter people (all over the place) who reject evolution.

Reject it NOT because they are committed to every word in the Bible being litterally true (including God telling Joshua to murder everyone in X, Y, Z, towns), or committed to the idea that God made Adam in 4004 BC and then made Eve from Adam rib and ……

But hostile to evolution because of the moral implications of the doctrine that SUPPORTERS of the doctrine have told them that it has.

Posted by Paul Marks at October 27, 2011 10:34 PM

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New Mexico Sheriffs Making A Stand Against The Federal Thugs

2011/12/13 –

What are you doing for freedom? Here is what others are doing.

New Mexico

Monday, 21 November 2011 18:31 Written by Larry Pratt

New Mexico Sheriffs Standing Tall

GOA member Dr. Ray Seidel alerted me to the stirring of freedom that is taking place in his village of Ruidoso, New Mexico. I have already reported on the first battle with Mayor Ray Alborn and how he tried to impose an unconstitutional gun ban in the village. To get the full story of what happened in Ruidoso, you can go here and listen to my first debriefing session with Seidel.

I recently interviewed Dr. Seidel a second time on my Gun Owners News Hour weekly radio program and asked him about several acts of local interposition in the surrounding counties — all of which underscores the importance of the office of the sheriff and the militia.

For example, over near Deming, New Mexico is the Gila National Forest. The U.S. Forest Service wanted to make almost all of it off limits for people — until the militia of Luna County intervened. They told the feds that they would resist any effort by the Forest Service to restrict access to visitors. The result? Visitors have continued to access all of the Gila National Forest!

In the Southeast corner of the state, many landowners have working oil wells on their property. The EPA told the oil operators they would have to stop operating their wells because there was too much risk of harming the environment. At a town hall meeting convened by the EPA, a woman in her 60s rose to address the feds. She pointed out that her land had been in her family for over 200 years, and she was not about to let some official from an unconstitutional bureaucracy tell her what she could or could not do with her land. New Mexico – Gun Owners Of America

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