Say, those wouldn't be brown shirts, would they?
Saturday, September 15, 2012
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I cannot talk about anything without talking about everything. --Chesterton
Fundamentally there are only three miracles: existence, life, intelligence; with intelligence, the curve springing from God closes on itself like a ring that in reality has never been parted from the Infinite. --Schuon
The quest, thus, has no external 'object,' but is reality itself becoming luminous for its movement from the ineffable, through the Cosmos, to the ineffable. --Voegelin
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. --Wittgenstein
The fact that this happened at all makes me wonder if it isn't already too late. The potus isn't the only one sworn to uphold the Constitution, but I'd bet that not one person in the chain of command, from the Feds to the arresting deputies, did the right thing. Or is "just following orders" now an acceptable reason for breaking the law?
ReplyDeleteObama is doing precisely what the left hallucinated Bush was doing all those years.
ReplyDeleteAnd this week the MSM crossed a kind of rubicon, going from mere leftist cheerleaders to a Pravda-like imposition of non-reality.
And damn if the Mayan calendar isn't right on schedule!
Fear this.
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And damn if the Mayan calendar isn't right on schedule!
ReplyDeleteI don't know why, but that's kind of funny. Laugh or cry, perhaps...
Make your own caption.
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ReplyDeleteIt's times like this I feel powerless. Fear and anger wrestle inside me, and both emotions are pointless. I want to do something and yet I'm slow to do the only thing I can do that matters. Pray.
Dear Heavenly Father, may Your will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven, in Jesus' name and by the power of Your Holy Spirit. Amen.
I am the smilingest, most easy going person, who is now filled with rage! I always wondered when the reality of the world would catch up with me...I think you are right, Julie, it is too late.
ReplyDeleteahhhhh... Democracy in action.
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a mirthful ditty i done did with berieve it or dont a
ReplyDeleteTombergian twist!
I think it is clear now that an entirely different strategy is in order. One not so beholden to the latest election-cycle etc.
ReplyDeleteIt is time to start thinking long-term. By that I mean in the hundreds of years, if not in the thousands.
Civilization must survive. Even if it takes a while for it to overcome the new dark age that very well seems to be arriving in front of our eyes.
Of course, it is also clear to me that I must do what I can *now* as am able.
Jack:
ReplyDeleteThe last two popes --Ratzinger and Wojtyla -- were quite close, but interestingly, had very different visions of the future. Ratzinger is quite pessimistic, and in one of his books predicts that Christians will eventually be reduced to a kind of remnant, keeping alive the light of civilization during the coming dark age.
Let me see if I can find it. Here it is, from the appropriately titled Salt of the Earth:
"Perhaps the time has come to say farewell to the idea of traditionally Catholic cultures. Maybe we are facing a new and different kind of epoch in the Church’s history, where Christianity will again be characterized more by the mustard seed, where it will exist in small, insignificant groups that nonetheless live an intensive struggle against evil and bring the good into the world -- that let God in...
"There are certainly no mass conversions to Christianity, no reversal of the historical paradigm, no about-face. But there are powerful ways in which faith is present, inspiring people again and giving them dynamism and joy. In other words, there is a presence of faith that means something for the world.”
Jack said "Civilization must survive"
ReplyDeleteIsaiah 40:8 "The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the Word of God stands forever."
Love will not perish. A new vanguard will arise.
"...where it will exist in small, insignificant groups that nonetheless live an intensive struggle against evil and bring the good into the world -- that let God in...
ReplyDeleteI recently read, A Canticle for Leibowitz which has something of a similar, and I think very relevant, take on the matter of long term cultural survival.
It got me to thinking that small-scale groups of individuals could commit themselves to absorbing, even memorizing, and at least archiving the necessary classics of Western Civilization.
Hopefully then, these works will be awaiting us on the other side of the darkness.
"Love will not perish. A new vanguard will arise."
ReplyDeleteER- I, too, share this hope. Thank you for expressing it so well.
All this being said, I also hope that things aren't actually as dire as they often appear. My wish is that in 30 years I am laughing at myself for this. Right now, though, I have a hard time believing that.
I hear ya Jack. As King Crimson sang:
ReplyDeleteIf we make it we can all sit back and laugh,
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying.
I've been blessed to know freedom. I fear my 8 year old grandson and 1 year old granddaughter will not.
What's interesting is that the story appears no where in the Google News pages.
ReplyDeleteNot considered of note I guess. Sorta like Easter.
On the bright side, though free speech may be on the run, it isn't outlawed yet, Breitbart and others are still going strong.
As long as that's possible, I don't throw in the towel.
But I may chew it a bit.
I foolisly had hoped the cops would keep their oath to support and defend the constitution, alas I fear they will not.
ReplyDeleteAs with public school teachers, the union comes first.
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hmmmm...could the Nakoula arrest be as simple as this?
ReplyDeleteIf so, I must admit that I have something of a hair-trigger these days. Confession: I am a more than a little bit wound-up re: the upcoming election.
That much was known. But why in the middle of the night, at this particular time, with all those cops, for a possible parole violation that can almost be handled by mail?
ReplyDeleteClearly *if* it was a simple parole violation, they surely handled ineptly i.e. if it was routine inquiry they sure didn't make it look that way.
ReplyDeleteSo at the very *minimum* it was handled not only incompetently, but in a way--midnight arrest, surrounded by cops, etc-- that could only lead to grave doubts about any story they would tell about it.
Especially following reports that the White House was putting pressure on YouTube/Google to remove the video. Not to mention all the craven apologies to those who attacked our embassies and killed our fellow citizens.
I guess it will be telling to see how this all plays out over the next few days.
May we live in interesting times.
Not only that, but it's my understanding that the video has been out for months. If the parole issue was so pressing and egregious, why didn't he get picked up on it months ago?
ReplyDeleteMake no mistake, everything about this situation is flat-out wrong. The only reason we know who this guy is is that the Feds sold him to the Muslim beastlings when they demanded another human sacrifice in the pretense that said sacrifice would somehow calm their insatiable rage. The man may have violated his parole, but that's beside the point. The US government should have told Egypt's president to go fuck himself when he demanded the arrest of the video's producer; that is the only acceptable response.
At present, pretty much every American is a felon. Not because we're all terrible criminals, but because there are so many laws that it is virtually impossible to live an ordinary life without violating some regulation or other. Is it so implausible that, had it not been the parole issue, some other "valid" legal concern would have suddenly been revealed as an excuse to arrest this guy?
First they came for the creator of a cheesy Islam-insulting internet video...
As the blogger, The Last Psychiatrist often says:
ReplyDeleteIf you're watching, it's for you.
One thing is for certain, the current administration's handling of the attack on our embassies and its aftermath has been reprehensible--even regardless of the Nakoula arrest.
ReplyDeleteObama, Hillary et al, have simply fed the crocodile hoping it would eat them last.
The Coptic Christians are in even more danger now thanks to the Obama goons.
ReplyDeleteWe are all on probation.
ReplyDelete"But any adult inhabitant of this country, from a collective farmer up to a member of the Politburo, always knew that it would take only one careless word or gesture and he would fly off irrevocably into the abyss."
ReplyDelete~ The Gulag Archipelago
The horrific part is that they appear to be feeding *us* to the crocodile...
ReplyDeleteNo, the allahgator.
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