I have often referred to Martin Luther in these spaces, with particular emphasis on his belief that it is the individual who must have a relationship one on one with God. He stressed the value of the individual.
Recently we have seen Muslims complaining about that reliance on the individual, the importance of the individual. Interesting week, the American Left has been doing the same thing.
Over the last many years I have taken it upon myself to study in a somewhat cursory fashion the various Eastern religious philosophies. In the process of that I must say I found them wanting.
But I must also say, that I am struck once again by the idea that in my studies of all the various pantheistic worldviews the one singular point in all of that, that stands out, is that Christianity alone, particularly Protestantism, focuses on the *individual*.
We have heard for generations now, screams from the left, particularly the social left, that these United States are not a Christian nation. It’s got to the point where the Democrat at their most recent convention, booed God. Remember that one?
But how else other than the connection to Christianity can we explain the focus of all of our founding documents, and all of those writings of our founding fathers and our philosophies in law and in literature on the individual?
Dr. Ben Carson is still not by preferred candidate for president. That said, I do love the way Doctor Ben disarms the lame stream media with his charm. wit and an understanding of his subject matter. Watch and enjoy as Doctor Ben turns circles around an out matched libtard Wolf Blitzer, video:
Hat tip, Kate, Small Dead Animals:
Carson 1, Blitzer 0.
Doctor Ben would make a great press secretary.
Mrs. Clinton’s infamous reset button has achieved results, from Washington Post:
Russia’s military offensive in Syria is only a week old, but the casualties for American foreign policy are already mounting.
Gone is any slim hope President Obama might once have had about gradually improving relations with Iran, whose military envoys are helping buttress Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad while Russia provides air cover.
Gone is any hope that Russian President Vladimir Putin, pressured by international economic sanctions imposed after the annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea,
[….]
Gone is the hope that diplomacy in recent weeks between the United States, Russia and Saudi Arabia might produce a negotiated settlement in Syria and stop the exodus of Syrians fleeing the violence.
As a result of the Obama and Clinton foreign policy, the world is now of Clinton Standard Time, a permanent Three AM.
In May the Sierra Club opted to install a community organizer as her president, from Politico:
The Sierra Club, the nation’s biggest environmental group, is out to prove that the green movement isn’t just for well-to-do white people.
The 123-year-old organization just elected its first black president. Its board condemned racial profiling in Ferguson, Missouri. Environmental justice has become one of its core campaigns.
That’s a major shift for a political and social movement long viewed as the domain of affluent white activists, and it’s been decades in the making.
Aaron Mair, who became the first black president of the Sierra Club’s board of directors earlier this month, said the group is dedicated to becoming more inclusive.
Sierra Club may have thought they were solving their perceived diversity problem. Maybe they did, but in the process they created a competency problem by installing a nitwit as their president. When matched up against trial lawyers, community organizers don’t tend to do well, video:
Summary of the exchange, Breitbart
I find it amusing that Mr. Mair declares that the preponderance of evidence supports the theory of anthropogenic global warming(AGW). Therefore the question of AGW is closed. It appears that Mr. Mair failed to study any real science. Preponderance of the evidence means more evidence for than against, but not conclusive. So the Sierra Club’s is that whilet the evidence for AGW is not conclusive, yet the theory of AGW must be accepted. Wow.
When can we expect Mr. Mair’s resignation from the Sierra Club?
The Snark of the Day, from Darleen Click, Protein Wisdom:
Ok, Governor [John Kasich}, buy me a Bible and highlight the passage where Jesus says “Go forth and petition Caesar to seize your neighbor’s crops and redistribute them to the poor.”
I don’t abide by Biblical non-sense from Mrs. Pelosi. I can’t see why I should tolerate if from Kasich either.
Mrs. Clinton has heard the rumors of Slow Joe, b/k/a Vice President Joe Biden, running for her seat in her supposed Clinton Oval Office, from New York:
If Joe Biden jumps into the Democratic primary, [Mrs.] Clinton will be ready to go on the offensive. According to a source close to the Clinton campaign, a team of opposition researchers working on behalf of Clinton is currently digging through Biden’s long record in office to develop attack lines in case the vice-president runs. The research effort started about a month ago and is being conducted by operatives at Correct the Record, the pro-Hillary superpac founded by David Brock
I sure Slow Joe is losing sleep over this one. Just look at what David Brock’s lads did to Bernie Sanders. Biden been in Washington since the last ice age, and has nary an achievement to show for it.
Joe Biden wants to run for president. How do we know? Biden, himself, feed the rumor of this candidacy to Maureen Dowd, from Politico:
Joe Biden has been making his 2016 deliberations all about his late son since August.
Aug. 1, to be exact — the day renowned Hillary Clinton-critic Maureen Dowd published a column that marked a turning point in the presidential speculation.
According to multiple sources, it was Biden himself who talked to her, painting a tragic portrait of a dying son, Beau’s face partially paralyzed, sitting his father down and trying to make him promise to run for president because “the White House should not revert to the Clintons and that the country would be better off with Biden values.”
Yours truly, 1 August:
Joe Biden wants to run for President and he thinks you are stupid. Maureen Dowd, New York Times, asks “What would Beau (Biden) do?” Nobody knows. Beau Biden is dead. However Beau’s father, the village idiot, who masquerades as the Vice President of the United States, wants the gullible to believe that his dead son endorsed his father for President of the United States. What is Joe to do. Obama has passed the presidential torch to Mrs. Clinton, who in turn is busy playing her sex card. Obama ran for President on the race card. What card can Joe play?
Sadly for Joe the village idiot, he neither black, female, nor particularly smart. However Joe has one thing going for him. He never been encumbered by the truth. So Joe feds this whopper to Modo, Maureen Dowd, New York Times:
It is unclear what the Village Idiot, Biden the Elder, meant by “Biden values.” However if they even exist, coming from Biden the Elder, you know they don’t include honesty.
Addendum: This is brutal. from Elizabeth Price Foley, Instapundit:
Biden’s “Uncle Joe” schtick is designed to camouflage the career politician inside who has no qualms about lying to further his own ambitions. You know, the man who plagiarized his law review comment and falsely claims that he played college football, graduated in the top half of his law school class (he was 76 out of 85), had a blue collar upbringing, that his first wife and daughter were killed by a drunk driver (there is no evidence the driver was drunk), and that he was a skeptic of the Iran nuclear deal.
Brutal, but true.
The lame stream media is waging a war on the Second Amendment and is abusing the First to achieve its end, from Infowars:
According to The Gateway Pundit and Conservative Treehouse, CNN altered a photo of [Ass Hat], the Oregon shooter, to make him look white.
“On the left is the selfie Christopher Mercer uploaded to his social media,” the Conservative Treehouse reports. “On the right is how CNN presented the same selfie in broadcast stories about him. Why did CNN need to change the complexion (color) of their broadcast?”
CNN also did not show photos of [Ass Hat’s] mother, who is black.
The reason CNN altered the photo is obvious: the race of Mercer does not fit the narrative that only white males — and thus white supremacist — can be mass shooters.
Hat tip and reax, from my favorite insomniac, Sarah Hoyt, Instapundit:
Oh, why not? After all entertainment weekly turned a Latin man, a Latina and a man in an interracial marriage into racist, sexist and homophobic bigots who want to keep women and minorities out of science-fiction. Dizinformazia. It’s what they do.
Give Sarah credit. She is the the fiction business and knows how to recognize fiction when the media tries to pawn it off as news.
By old convention (the one drop rule), a person with any black blood is considered to be black. Those a person with one white parent and one black parent, such as say Barack Obama, is considered to black. By social justice warrior logic, such as it is, race is considered to not a biological fact but mere a social construct. Now the lame streams has taken to constructing a particular person’s race to fit the desired media narrative.
It strikes me as more than a little strange that the Democrats who booed God at their convention just a short while ago, now make all kinds of noise about embracing and welcoming the Pope.
Then again, his speech before Congress contained no mention whatsoever of Jesus Christ. So, maybe it’s not so strange after all.
And should I mention that speech occurred as a result of a personal invitation from John Boehner? Interesting, that the Pope who has been embracing world socialism in all of its ugliness would be invited to speak before Congress by a Republican.
Then again, given the overt accommodations to the left John Boehner’s been providing the last number of years, that’s not so strange, either.
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When four of her department’s employees died in the line of duty in Benghazi. Libya Mrs. Clinton did what she so frequently does, she lied and blamed the deaths of a stupid video. Now rather than lying about the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens, Mrs. Clinton is lying about the investigation into his death, from Hill:
Democrats claimed this week that the House’s special committee investigating the 2012 violence in Benghazi, Libya, was the longest inquiry of its kind, but fact-checkers on Friday proved them wrong.
In fact, there have been at least four special congressional committees charged with investigating various incidents that have run longer than the Benghazi panel, Politifact discovered.
The claim that the Benghazi committee had been in existence longer than any other special investigation committee was incorrectly reported by The Hill as well as The New York Times, ABC News and other media outlets.
Math is hard. Standard Clinton playbook, first stonewall an investigation, and then complain that the investigation if old news. Mean while, Stevens is still dead, and the Nakoula Basseley Nakoula horrid video still had nothing to do with planned assaults.
An asshat from Oregon wanted to get noticed and become famous. So he studied mass killings and went to a designated free-fire zone, a/k/a gun-free safety zone, to make people dead and to make himself famous.. John Hinderaker, Power Line takes note of the problem:
It’s Time to Stop Feeding the Delusions of Mass Murderers
Last night I wrote that the most effective measure to reduce the number of mass shootings would be to stop publicizing the names and purported grievances of perpetrators. The principal motivation of these deranged criminals is to become famous-as they see it, to go down in history. The Umpqua Community College murderer confirmed this once again when he wrote, prior to his rampage, “The more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight.”
Whereas the Associated Press becomes part of the problem:
Oregon gunman was Army dropout who studied mass shooters
ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) – The 26-year-old gunman who opened fire in a community college English class, killing nine, was an Army boot camp dropout who studied mass shooters before becoming one himself. A day after the rampage in an Oregon timber town, authorities said [asshat] wore a flak jacket and brought at least six guns and five ammunition magazines to the school. Investigators found another seven guns at the apartment he shared with his mother. Also Friday, officials released the names, ages and brief biographical information about the nine dead, who ranged in age from 18 to 67 and included several freshmen and a teacher.
Want to be famous.albeit dead, go to a nearby designed free-fire zone, kill a handful or more of disarmed victims. You work is done. The Associated Press will do the rest of the heavy lifting for you.
Want to do some thing about school shootings. Tell the idiots at AP, and the rest of tle lame stream, to quit glorifying mass murders.
Another mass murder in a gun-free safety zone, From Red State:
Thirteen people are dead and over twenty injured (this number is in flux as I write) in a spree shooting at Umpqua Community College and the first thing out of Rabble-Rouser-in-Chief Barack Obama’s mouth are about gun control.
Unless and until Barack Obama is willing to disarm the Secret Service and declare the White House to be a gun-free safety zone, he should shut the fark up.
The Snark of the Day, from Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters:
“In almost 7 years this president hasn’t learned that words don’t stop bullets. He is fundamentally out of touch with human reality, with the reality of history, with the reality of warfare, and Vladimir Putin”
Hat tip: Nice Deb.
Video:
And who said that Dim Won, a/k/a Barack Obama, had an above room temperature intelligence?
The regime is claiming evidence for liquid water on Mars. I am skeptical of any so-called scientific claim made on behalf of the regime. Never the less the unconfirmed and maybe non-existent has already been used to make Kool-Aid, Jonestown style, from Independent Journal Review:
NASA scientists said today that they have confirmed that water flows on the surface of Mars, a discovery that opens up new questions regarding life on the Red Planet—past, present, and future.
[…]
Besides the implications the discovery has for life on the planet, some also regard it as exciting for prospect of Mars as a future source of fresh water for our planet.
With a trip to Mars running into billions of dollars, the last thing we need to is to throw away our precious resources to fly to Mars for drinking water.
