Sunday, March 30, 2014

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A married Irishman went into the confessional and said to his priest,
'I almost had an affair with another woman.' 
 
The priest said, 'What do you mean,
almost?'
 
 
The Irishman said, 'Well, we got undressed and rubbed together, but then I stopped.' 
 
The
priest said, 'Rubbing together is the same as putting it in. You're not
to see that woman again. For your penance, say five Hail Mary's and put
$50 in the poor box.'
 
 
The Irishman left the confessional, said his prayers, and then walked over to the poor box.
  
He paused for a moment and then started to leave. 
 
The priest, who was watching, quickly ran over to him saying, 'I saw that. You didn't put any money in the poor box!' 
 
The Irishman replied, 'Yeah, but I rubbed the $50 on the box, and according to you, that's the same as putting it in!'
 
 
Lemon Squeeze 
 
 
There
once was a religious young woman who went to Confession. Upon entering
the confessional, she said, 'Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned.'
 
 
The priest said, 'Confess your sins and be forgiven.' 
 
The young woman said, 'Last night my boyfriend made mad passionate love to me seven times.' 
 
The priest thought long and hard and then said, 'Squeeze seven lemons into a glass and then drink the juice.' 
 
The young woman asked, 'Will this cleanse me of my
sins?'
 
 
The priest said, 'No, but it will wipe that smile off of your face.'
 
 
 
Catholic Dog 
 
 
Muldoon
lived alone
in the Irish countryside with only a pet dog for company. One day the
dog died, and Muldoon went to the parish priest and asked, 'Father, my
dog is dead. Could ya' be saying' a mass for the poor creature?'
  
  
Father
Patrick replied, 'I'm afraid not; we cannot have services
for an animal in the church. But there are some Baptists down the lane,
and there's no tellin' what they believe. Maybe they'll do something for
the creature.'
  
  
Muldoon said, 'I'll go right away Father. Do ya' think $5,000 is enough to donate to them for the service?'
  
  
Father Patrick exclaimed, 'Sweet Mary, Mother of Jesus! Why didn't ya tell me the dog was Catholic?
 
 
Donation 
 
 
Father O'Malley answers the phone. 'Hello, is this Father O'Malley?'
  
'It
is!'
 
 
'This is the IRS. Can you help us?'
  
'I can!' 
 
'Do you know a Ted Houlihan?'
  
'I do!' 
 
'Is he a member of your congregation?'
  
'He is!' 
 
'Did he donate $10,000 to the church?'
  
'He will.' 
 
 
 
Confession 
 
 
An elderly man walks into a confessional. The following conversation ensues:
  
  
Man:
'I am 92 years old, have a wonderful wife of 70 years, many children,
grandchildren, and great grandchildren. Yesterday, I picked up two
college girls, hitch-hiking. We went to a motel, where I had sex with
each of them three times.'
  
  
Priest: 'Are you sorry for your sins?'
  
  
Man: 'What sins?'
  
  
Priest: 'What kind of a Catholic are you?'
 
 
Man: 'I'm Jewish.'
  
  
Priest: 'Why are you telling me all this?'
  
  
Man: 'I'm 92 years old . . . . I'm telling everybody!'  
 
 
Brothel Trip 
 
 
An elderly man goes
into a brothel and tells the madam he would like a young girl for the night.
 
 
 
Surprised, she looks at the ancient man and asks how old he is.
  
'I'm 90 years old,' he says. 
 
'90?' replies the woman. 'Don't you realize you've had
it?'
 
 
'Oh, sorry,' says the old man. 'How much do I owe you?'
 
 
Pest Control 
 
 
A woman was having a passionate affair with an Irish inspector from a pest-control
company. One afternoon they were carrying on in the bedroom together when her husband arrived home unexpectedly.
  
 
'Quick,' said the woman to the lover, 'into the closet!' and she pushed him in the closet, stark naked.
  
The husband, however, became suspicious and after a search of the bedroom discovered the man in the closet. 'Who are you?' he asked him.
  
'I'm an inspector from Bugs-B-Gone,' said the exterminator.  
 
'What are you doing in there?' the husband asked.
  
'I'm investigating a complaint about an infestation of moths,' the man replied.
  
'And where are your clothes?' asked the husband.
  
The man looked down at himself and said, 'Those little bastards! '
 
 
 
Marriage Humor
 
 
Wife: 'What are you doing?'
 
Husband: Nothing.
  
  
Wife: 'Nothing . . . ? You've been reading our marriage certificate for an hour.'
  
  
Husband: 'I was looking for the expiration date.'
 
 
-------------------------------
 
 
Wife : 'Do you want dinner?'
  
  
Husband: 'Sure! What are my choices?'
 
 
Wife: 'Yes or no.'
 
 
--------------------------------------------------------
  
Stress Reliever  
 
 
Girl: 'When we get married, I want to share all your worries, troubles and lighten your burden.'
  
Boy:
'It's very kind of you, darling, but I don't have any worries or troubles.'
  
Girl: 'Well that's because we aren't married yet.'
 
 
------------------------------
 
Son: 'Mum, when I was on the bus with Dad this morning, he told me to give up my seat to a lady.'
  
Mom: 'Well, you have done the right thing.'
  
Son: 'But mum, I was sitting on daddy's lap.'
 
 
________________________________
 
 
A
newly married man asked his wife, 'Would you have married me if my father hadn't left me a fortune?'
  
  
'Honey,' the woman replied sweetly, 'I'd have
married you, NO MATTER WHO LEFT YOU A FORTUNE!'
 
 
------------------------------------------------------------
 
 
A wife asked her husband: 'What do you like most in me, my pretty face or my sexy body?' 
 
 
He looked at her from head to toe and replied: 'I like your sense of humor!'
 
 
 
Husbands are husbands
 
 
A man was sitting reading his papers when his wife hit him round the head with a frying pan.  
 
'What was that for?' the man asked.  
 
The wife replied , 'That was for the piece of paper with the name Jenny on it that I found in your pants pocket.  
 
The man then said 'When I was at the races last
week
 , Jenny was the name of the horse I bet on.'  
 
The
wife apologized and went on with the housework. Three days later the
man is watching TV when his wife bashes him on the head with an even
bigger frying pan, knocking him unconscious.
  
 
Upon re-gaining consciousness the
man asked why she had hit again.
  
 
Wife replied. 'Your horse phoned'

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello



 Paul 
Harvey



  Conveniently Forgotten Facts.



  Back in 1969 a group  of Black Panthers decided that
a  fellow black
panther named   Alex Rackley  needed to die.  Rackley
was suspected of
disloyalty.  Rackley was first tied to a   chair.  Once
safely
immobilized, his friends tortured  him for hours by, among other
 
things, pouring boiling water on him.



  When they got tired  of torturing Rackley, Black Panther
member,
Warren Kimbro took   Rackley outside  and put a bullet in his
head. 
Rackley's body was later found floating in a river about 25 miles north
of New Haven, Connecticut .



  Perhaps at  this point you're curious as to what happened
to these Black Panthers?



  In 1977, that's only  eight years  later, only one of
the killers was still in jail.



  The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a scholarship to
Harvard
and became  good  friends with none other than Al Gore. 
He later became

  an  assistant  dean at an Eastern Connecticut State
College.



  Isn't that  something!!!



  As a '60s radical  you can pump a bullet into someone's
head and, a
few years later,   in the same  state, you can become an
assistant
college dean!



  Only in America !!!



  Erica Huggins was  the woman who served the Panthers by
boiling the
water for Mr.   Rackley's torture  .. Some years  later
Ms. Huggins was
elected to a California School Board.



  How in the world do you think these killers got off so easily?



  Maybe it was in some  part due to the efforts of two people
who came to the defense of  the Panthers.



  These two people  actually went so far as to shut down Yale
University with   demonstrations in  defense of the accused
Black
Panthers during their trial.



  One of  these people was none other than Bill Lan
Lee.   Mr. Lee, or
Mr. Lan  Lee, as the case may be, isn't a college dean.  He
isn't a
member of  a California School Board. He is now head of the
United 
States  Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, appointed by
none
other than Bill Clinton.



  O.K., so  who was the other Panther defender?  Is
this  other notable
Panther  defender now a school board member?  Is this other
Panther
apologist  now an assistant college dean?



  No, neither!



  The other Panther  defender was, like Lee, a radical law
student at
Yale University at the time.  She is now known as The "smartest
woman
in the world."  She is  none other than the former Secretary
of State
and former Democratic senator from  the State of New York ---- the
former First Lady, the incredible Hillary Rodham Clinton .





  And now, as Paul  Harvey said; "You know the rest of the
story".



  Pass this  on!



  This deserves the  widest possible press.



  Also remember it when she runs for President!



Mark S. Gilstrap



Member of the Kansas Senate



1997-2008 

Monday, March 10, 2014

gottagetdrunkfirst

gottagetdrunkfirst



A Hero


A
quote from a man I TRY to emulate. Samuel Adams. He was a poor man, and
terrible with his own finances, but he was one of the most respected
men amongst his peers. So much that the residents of his colony pooled
their money to buy him a suit (his first ever) after he was elected to
Congress. He went there and was one of the best stewards of OTHER
people's money ever. If only we had him now! And NO he did not brew
beer!


In a state of tranquillity, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would
forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their
ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to
loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When
the spirit of liberty, which now animates our hearts and gives success
to our arms, is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render
us easier victims to tyranny. If ye love wealth better than liberty,
the tranquillity of servitude than the animating contest of freedom—go
from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick
the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may
posterity forget that ye were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams

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Sunday, March 09, 2014

▶ FORBIDDEN ARCHEOLOGY: Secret Discoveries of Early Man - FEATURE FILM - YouTube

▶ FORBIDDEN ARCHEOLOGY: Secret Discoveries of Early Man - FEATURE FILM - YouTube

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: Sultan Knish: A Maddow in MSNBC land MSNBC has lost the ability to talk to ordinary people. Even other liberals are beginning to evince a distaste for it.

This magnetic force draws MSNBC’s audience of transgender activists, white privilege professors, terrorist supporters, Israel boycotters, women-of-color microaggression Tumblr bloggers, Whole Foods shoppers going from their egalitarian yoga class to their amnesty protest while sipping a Fair Trade wheatgrass drink and listening to a Decembrists’ song.

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These three statements tell you a lot about our government and our
culture:
1.    We are advised to NOT judge ALL Muslims by the actions of a few
lunatics, but we are encouraged to judge ALL gun owners by the actions of a
few lunatics.   Funny how that works.
And another statement for consideration--
2.    We constantly hear about how Social Security is going to run out of
money.  How come we never hear about welfare running out of money?
What's interesting is the first group "worked for" their money, but the 
second didn't.
Finally ..
3.    The Food Stamp Program, administered by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture, is proud to be distributing this year the greatest amount of 
free Meals and Food Stamps ever ---
to 47 million people,
as of the most recent figures available in 2013.
Meanwhile, the National Park Service, administered by the U.S.
Department of the Interior, asks us "Please Do Not Feed the Animals." The 
stated reason for this policy
is because

"The animals will grow dependent on handouts and
will not learn to take care of themselves."

Saturday, March 08, 2014

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: Be True to Your School

I’ll say it again: These Tea Party groups made the mistake of wanting to participate in the process of legitimization in the first place.

Had they NOT applied for tax-exempt/charity status, this wouldn’t have happened to them. And had they been true to their principles, they would not have applied to join the same club they insist they want to burn down. - - Five Feet of Fury


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AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: Conservatives expend tremendous effort changing elected officials every other November — and then are surprised that it doesn't make much difference.

Culture trumps politics — which is why, once the question's been settled culturally, conservatives are reduced to playing catch-up, twisting themselves into pretzels to explain (including in the pages of this magazine) why gay marriage is really conservative after all, or why 30 million unskilled immigrants with a majority of births out of wedlock are "natural allies" of the Republican party. - - Mark SteynOnline

Monday, March 03, 2014

WATCH: Which Oscar-winning actor honored God, family, and gratitude in his acceptance speech? – Glenn Beck

WATCH: Which Oscar-winning actor honored God, family, and gratitude in his acceptance speech? – Glenn Beck


There was a man that lived by the river. He heard a radio
report that the river was going to rush up and flood the town, and that
the all the residents should evacuate their homes. But the man said,
"I'm religious. I pray. God loves me. God will save me." The waters rose
up. A guy in a rowboat came along and he shouted, "Hey, hey you, you in
there. The town is flooding. Let me take you to safety." But the man
shouted back, "I'm religious. I pray. God loves me. God will save me." A
helicopter was hovering overhead and a guy with a megaphone shouted,
"Hey you, you down there. The town is flooding. Let me drop this ladder
and I'll take you to safety." But the man shouted back that he was
religious, that he prayed, that God loved him and that God will take him
to safety. Well... the man drowned. And standing at the gates of St.
Peter he demanded an audience with God. "Lord," he said, "I'm a
religious man, I pray, I thought you loved me. Why did this happen?" God
said, "I sent you a radio report, a helicopter, and a guy in a rowboat.
What the hell are you doing here?"



Indeed, God gives you the opportunities. It's up to you as to how you
take advantage of them. You have free will so choose wisely!



Sunday, March 02, 2014

8-Year-Old Boy Finds $20 Bill And Turns It Into A Priceless Gift - YouTube

8-Year-Old Boy Finds $20 Bill And Turns It Into A Priceless Gift - YouTube

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep -
He hath awakened from the dream of life -
'Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep
With phantoms an unprofitable strife,
And in mad trance, strike with our spirit's knife
Invulnerable nothings. -We decay
Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief
Convulse us and consume us day by day,
And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

Adonais by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Spirulina: The Amazing Super Food You've Never Heard of

Spirulina: The Amazing Super Food You've Never Heard of

Friday, February 28, 2014

The Top 40: Comment on Hillary-- Because Vagina! "What Difference At This Point Does It Make? "

The Top 40: Comment on Hillary-- Because Vagina! "What Difference At This Point Does It Make? ": But Hillary has, in fact, told us over and over again that she has severe memory problems. The records show that she has repeatedly said, "I don't remember, I can't remember, I have no recollection of that event, I don't know, and I have no idea." She even made thousands of dollars in the cattle futures market but doesn't remember how she did it. (Myself, I would have taken notes.) Would she be able to remember her Secret Service Code name? Nuclear codes? Bill's email account password?

Sunday, February 23, 2014

gottagetdrunkfirst

gottagetdrunkfirst: In a state of tranquility, wealth, and luxury, our descendants would forget the arts of war and the noble activity and zeal which made their ancestors invincible. Every art of corruption would be employed to loosen the bond of union which renders our resistance formidable. When the spirit of liberty, which now animates our hearts and gives success to our arms, is extinct, our numbers will accelerate our ruin and render us easier victims to tyranny. If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom—go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: Guy goes in an adult store and asks for an inflatable doll.

Guy behind the counter says, 'Male or female?'
Customer says, 'Female.'
Counter guy asks, 'Black or white?
Customer says, 'White.'
Counter guy asks, 'Christian or Muslim?'
Customer says, 'What the hell does religion have to do with it?'

Counter guy says, 'The Muslim one blows itself up.'

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: Guy goes in an adult store and asks for an inflatable doll.

Guy behind the counter says, 'Male or female?'
Customer says, 'Female.'
Counter guy asks, 'Black or white?
Customer says, 'White.'
Counter guy asks, 'Christian or Muslim?'
Customer says, 'What the hell does religion have to do with it?'

Counter guy says, 'The Muslim one blows itself up.'

Monday, February 17, 2014

John Sedgwick - Wikiquote

General John Sedgwick - Wikiquote: What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: As P.J. O'Rourke wrote over 20 years ago,
"Cuban cigars are rationed in Havana, you can't get good Chinese takeout in Beijing, and that tells you all you need to know about socialism". The premise still holds. - - Posted by: waltj

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: There is a price we will not pay." "There is a point beyond which they must not advance."
Winston Churchill said, "The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we're spirits—not animals." And he said, "There's something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty." You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. A TIME FOR CHOOSING (The Speech – October 27, 1964)

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: There is a price we will not pay." "There is a point beyond which they must not advance."
Winston Churchill said, "The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we're spirits—not animals." And he said, "There's something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty." You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We'll preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we'll sentence them to take the last step into a thousand years of darkness. A TIME FOR CHOOSING (The Speech – October 27, 1964)

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes

AMERICAN DIGEST Essays, News, Notes, and Quotes: By 1794, as he contemplated retirement, Washington began organizing his affairs so that in his will he could free all the slaves whom he owned outright.

.... At the time of Washington's death in 1799, 317 slaves lived at Mount Vernon: 123 were owned by Washington himself, 154 were held by his wife as "dower slaves", and 40 others were rented from a neighbor. Washington's will provided for all of his slaves to be freed upon the death of his widow, but she chose to free them about 12 months after his death. The will also provided for the training of the younger former-slaves in useful skills and for the creation of an old-age pension fund for the older ones. - - George Washington

Friday, February 14, 2014

Notes on Love and Death @ AMERICAN DIGEST

Notes on Love and Death @ AMERICAN DIGEST



Wonderful!!

Notes on Love and Death @ AMERICAN DIGEST

Notes on Love and Death @ AMERICAN DIGEST



Wonderful!!

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on Notes on Love and Death

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on Notes on Love and Death: I've never dared to comment on your blog before, but I've been reading you for years. Thanks for the beautiful writing and sharing of your life's journey, in part. Have you ever read The Four Loves, by C.S. Lewis? Seems you'd find some common ground there. May you be blessed with years more of good health and worthwhile journeying.

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on Notes on Love and Death

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on Notes on Love and Death: And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

And, so ...

At the end of life, three things remain: faith, hope and love. The reason love is the greatest is because it is the only thing that will extend beyond the grave. (Who needs faith after he sees God and who needs hope after he's obtained the prize?) God Himself is love and spiritual love is eternal.

If all our love is given to things carnal, we will certainly fear death and the end of all we love. God intends that we develop a love for things eternal in this life. If we accomplish that we have much to look forward at the end.

This is what my mind understands, but my spirit struggles mightily to fulfil.

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on Notes on Love and Death

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on Notes on Love and Death: And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

And, so ...

At the end of life, three things remain: faith, hope and love. The reason love is the greatest is because it is the only thing that will extend beyond the grave. (Who needs faith after he sees God and who needs hope after he's obtained the prize?) God Himself is love and spiritual love is eternal.

If all our love is given to things carnal, we will certainly fear death and the end of all we love. God intends that we develop a love for things eternal in this life. If we accomplish that we have much to look forward at the end.

This is what my mind understands, but my spirit struggles mightily to fulfil.

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on Notes on Love and Death

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on Notes on Love and Death: In every government, though terrors reign,
Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain,
How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!

From Oliver Goldsmith's Traveller (1764)

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on Notes on Love and Death

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on Notes on Love and Death: In every government, though terrors reign,
Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain,
How small, of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!

From Oliver Goldsmith's Traveller (1764)

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Thought Police: Firms must swear ObamaCare not a factor in firings | Fox News

Thought Police: Firms must swear ObamaCare not a factor in firings | Fox News: Putin is a reminder not just of our dark past, where raw force, not morality, adjudicated behavior, but, more worrisome, perhaps of a dark future as well… He ends up existing to warn us in the West of what we are not, and to demonstrate that in a strange sort of way our loud principles without toughness are not much better than his toughness without principles. In that regard, he gives us a valuable look into ourselves – we the hollow men, the stuffed men of dry voices and whispers.”

Saturday, February 08, 2014

I wasn’t ready for marriage | The Matt Walsh Blog

I wasn’t ready for marriage | The Matt Walsh Blog

America was built on a belief in God, and there’s just no way to deny that fact | The Matt Walsh Blog

America was built on a belief in God, and there’s just no way to deny that fact | The Matt Walsh Blog



The country was founded on a belief in a creator God and has OFFICIALLY endorsed
the concept from the very beginning. That is the reality. It is not
really up for debate. You may wish to turn America into something else,
but do not pretend that you are turning it into what it was always
designed to be. Have the courage of your convictions. Make your case for
an Atheist America, but do not stand there and tell me that America has
always been atheist.


The evidence against you is staggering:


-Five mentions of God in The Declaration of Independence.


-In God we trust – the motto found in the National Anthem and on coins dating as far back as 1860.


-The Continental Congress issuing the first national proclamation of thanksgiving to God.


-The Continental Congress calling for national repentance of sins.


-Church services being held inside the Capitol Building during the time of the Founders.


-The President swearing in on a Bible. (This is not required, but
it’s a custom many have followed. George Washington kissed a Bible
after swearing his oath.)



-Swearing on a Bible in court, “so help you God.”


-Federal Oaths that require federal officials to say “so help me God.”


-The Chaplain of the United States Senate.


-Every Senate session beginning with a prayer.


-“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.” – George Washington.



-“You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and
above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater
and happier people than you are. Congress will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise intention…” – George Washington’s speech to the Delaware Indian Chiefs.



-“The Declaration of Independence laid the cornerstone of human
government upon the first precepts of Christianity.” – John Adams



The list goes on and on.


Two can play at the “Founding Fathers religion quotes” game, I
realize. I’m sure hundreds of secularists are busily Googling “Thomas
Jefferson anti-religion quotes” as we speak. It’s true that some of the
Founders were skeptical of “organized religion” (as opposed to
disorganized religion, I guess?) but none of them were atheists.


Jefferson was a Deist; a fact that only enhances the case for him
being very accepting of God in the public square. Deists believe that
the truth of a Divine Creator can be ascertained through observation and
reason. In other words, they viewed God as an Absolute Reality (same as
any other theist) but disagreed on the application of the reality.


Would Jefferson the Deist think that the governors of men should be required to ignore the Absolute Reality of God?


I doubt it. And the Declaration of Independence seems to indicate otherwise.


After all, we don’t need to cherry pick random statements from dead
men, or even analyze the religiosity that is undeniably ingrained in our
official laws and customs. We need only think about the philosophy that
serves as the foundation of our country. It is a philosophy of Natural
Rights. Our Natural Rights come from Natural Law. Natural Law
— particularly since Augustine and, later, St. Aquinas’ Summa
Theologica — has been understood as a set of foundational moral laws
that are inherent in human beings.


Natural Law, and
thus Natural Rights, either come from nature itself, or they come from
the Creator of Nature. If they come from nature itself, then all
democratic notions are in stark defiance of Natural Law. In nature, the strong survive and the weak are preyed upon. That is the law of the jungle; the law
of beasts. We, however, subscribe to the transcendent notion that all
humans possess a certain dignity which entitles them to certain
liberties. This immaterial dignity did not come through an evolutionary
process. It was endowed somehow. If it means anything, then it must be
more than a “social contract” or a policy of government.


The dignity exists. It is real. It means something. It comes from somewhere.


That “somewhere” must be God.


Without God, your rights are an abhorrent perversion of the only True Natural Law — the Law
of Mother Nature – and they are conditionally granted to you by
bureaucrats and politicians, who can revoke them at any time and for any
reason.


The Declaration of Independence might not be a legal document, but it
is a philosophical document. It is America’s Manifesto. It explains
that we have rights which are endowed on us by a Creator God. Every good
thing about America has grown from this basic starting point.


But… the Separation of Church and State, you shout.


Should I insult your intelligence by reminding you that no such
phrase exists in the Constitution? In fact, the First Amendment makes no
mention of “separation,” “church,” or “state,”
in any order or combination. The First Amendment puts no limit on
religion at all. Instead, it limits the governments ability to interfere
in religion, and permanently codifies our right to the “free exercise
thereof.”


When Thomas Jefferson used the notorious phrase “Separation of Church and State”
in his letter to the Danbury Baptists, he was describing a one-sided
wall where the corruption of the Government could not infiltrate and
infect the operations of the Church. He only chose those particular
words because he was speaking to Baptists. He thought it might resonate
with that crowd, considering the founder of the Baptist Church in
America, Roger Williams, had written 150 years earlier about the need
for a “wall of separation between the garden of the Church and the wilderness of the World.”


So when the Supreme Court later used this letter to justify its legal
opinion in Everson vs. Board of Education, it was really deciding case law based on part of a sentence written by a 17th century Baptist preacher.


Stellar work there, Your Honors.


Remember, the settlers were escaping a country that persecuted
Catholics after King Henry VIII threw a hissy fit when the Pope wouldn’t
change Canon Law to suit the
king’s habit of divorcing and/or murdering his wives. The Crown was
declared the “only supreme head of the Church in England,” and guys like
Thomas More were summarily beheaded and chopped into pieces for
refusing to recognize the king’s spiritual authority.


In other words, they were leaving a country where government had intruded on religion — not the other way around.


(**NOTE: I’m not saying that most of the North American settlers were
Catholics fleeing Henry VIII. I’m only using this as an example of the
sort of persecution religious people suffered under British rule.)


But, my atheist friends, I think you know all of this. Or at least some of it.


This country was built by God fearing men and women who intended
to enshrine and protect the very rights that could only come from God
Himself. God has always been central to America, both officially and
unofficially, publicly and personally. This is
the incontrovertible truth. It is a historical reality, and not one that
can be reasonably debated.


If you would like to change America into something else, you are free to try. But have the guts to admit what you are doing. Be honest.

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Humor

(1) Facebook: Boudreaux was driving down the road the other day, with his wife, Marie, and his mother-in-law in the car. Every couple hundred yards, the two women would take turns telling him something about his driving.

"Slow down ! Watch the other car ! Don't drive so close to the center line ! Look out for that curve ! Etc. Etc." After awhile this started to wear on Boudreaux. He slams on the brakes and pulls onto the shoulder of the road.

Turning to Marie he says, "Look, who's driving dis car? You or your Momma ?"

Monday, February 03, 2014

Futility Closet

Futility Closet: Unquote

 “I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.” — Montesquieu

 “It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.” — Aeschylus

 “All wisdom is folly that does not accommodate itself to the common ignorance.” — Montaigne

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Saturday, February 01, 2014

MyRightWingDad.net: FW: Mass Exodus US Oil Refinerys

MyRightWingDad.net: FW: Mass Exodus US Oil Refinerys



The Closure Of The U.S. Oil Refinery Industry In The Past 2 Years


In 2010, there were 149 operable U.S. refineries
with a combined capacity of 17.6 million barrels (2,800,000 m3) per
day. Something odd started happening in late 2010-early 2011. The US oil refinery industry quielty announced the closure of numerous US oil refineries. Many are completely unaware the US ships
oil overseas to be processed. We do so as we do not have enough
refineries to process the vast amounts here, and we are barred from
building anymore refineries. All refineries perform three basic steps: separation, conversion, and treatment. Pretty simple.
Several reasons include technical and economic factors as to why we ship it overseas to be processed.
1. The crude petroleum is sold to the highest bidder, NOT the nearest bidder


2. There are different kinds of crude oil, such as sweet/light and dark/heavy. They have different applications and uses.


3.
Different kinds of refining processes are needed to make different
products from the crude oil. Petroleum is processed to make lots of
products other than gasoline, like plastics and asphalt.


4. Politics, unions and the "enviornmentalists"


How many of you are aware Sunoco, ConocoPhillips and The HESS Corp are all closing US oil
refineries? Not many, as the media refuses to give this HUGE story
coverage. My guess is that if Americans understood the complete truth to
how we are being sold out, and enslaved there just might be the much
needed revolution to turn this country around.


Last
September, both Sunoco & CP announced plant closing, effecting
thousands of workers. Sunoco announced they are completely getting out
of the oil industry. Closing up shop. They are done with the US oil industry.


Sunoco is closing it's 2 oil refineries in July 2012 in Philadelphia and Marcus Hook, Pa. Those 2 facilities alone process over 500,000 barrels a day.




Also
announced last year, ConocoPhillips announcd 2 plant closing for sure
in Trainer, PA and Bayway, NJ., the other 3 plnts are undecided as of
today.




Conoco also announced they were closing their Alaskan refining facility:




Valero also announced in late 2011 the closure of US oil refining facilites, costing numerous jobs, and the loss of 210,000 barrels of oil per day:




Just a week ago, the US 3rd
largest oil refinery owned and operated by The HESS Corp just announced
it's permanent closure. Costing over 2,000 jobs, and effecting 950
contractors:




Refineries on the East Coast of the US supply 40% of the gasoline sales and 60% of the diesel and other fuel oils.


Of that, HALF that comes from the Sunoco & ConocoPhillps plant closures.
When
ConocoPhillips announced that it was closing the Trainer refinery,
Willie Chiang, then ConocoPhillips' Senior Vice President of Refining,
Marketing, Transportation and Commercial, noted that their decision to
sell, like Sunoco's, was based on unfavorable economics caused by a
competitive and difficult market environment characterized by
"...product imports, weakness in motor fuel demand, and costly
regulatory requirements."


They
are ALL closing up shop due to gov regulations, union demands and
excessive operating costs brought on by the Gov regulations.
Then you have the unions, led by Barry's buddy Leo Gerard saying they will clsoe ALL US oil refineries starting from the east coast to west coast today.




The
unions are shutting down ports, rail and air across the pond right
now......the SAME EXACT thing they plan on doing here. When the ships
stop importing, the rails & air stop delivering....how much is
everything you consume gonna cost? Remember...we are a CONSUMING
country, no longer a producing one.




The excessive and costly gov regulations on the US oil refinery market has forced companies to re-evaluate the cost of doing business in the US.
Why have operations in the US where you bleed money via regulations & demands, when you can have refineries built in Columbia, Mexico or Brazil for pennies on the dollar, and less regulations?
It's all business America...nothing personal.
Besides.....your gov is giving BILLIONS to Columbia and Brazil to build refineries to process all that oil the US is losing.
We are building up every country on earth, while destroying our own....all in the name of redistribution of wealth.
I covered some of these "deals" Barry inked in my previous note:




You do the math. When the US oil
refineries finally close up shop, who will process all that oil....and
how much do YOU think that oil will cost when it's ALL processed over
seas?
Think gas and energy costs are high right now.......wait 6 months. You haven't seen anything yet.
How
can anyone expect any company to do business with an anti-American,
hostile gov out of control?  You can't. That is why we are seeing a mass
exodus, across the board in every industry in the US LEAVING.

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Thursday, January 23, 2014

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on "Miniature body parts": No Fire Escapes In Hell

AMERICAN DIGEST: Comment on "Miniature body parts": No Fire Escapes In Hell: Little arms and legs amidst what looked like bloody ground beef and assorted internal parts. I was old enough to judge by myself that abortion was horribly wrong. It wasn't propaganda that swayed me; it was reality.
It is reality.
The left likes to hide from it (reality in many forms, in fact), tries to justify it by saying that a fetus is not viable until it's outside the womb and breathing on it's own. (But there are many Kermit Gosnells who don't even care at that point either.)
The left can lie to themselves.
That's why it's so easy for the left to lie to the rest of us, all of the time about everything.

"Peter Freuchen, six foot seven, lived inside the cave of his breath. " @ AMERICAN DIGEST

"Peter Freuchen, six foot seven, lived inside the cave of his breath. " @ AMERICAN DIGEST

Abortion in America: A Personal Journey @ AMERICAN DIGEST

Abortion in America: A Personal Journey @ AMERICAN DIGEST:



it is so very easy to accept the counsel of our fears, taking matters into our own hands, rather than restin in faith that the situation is not so dark as it appears.

As Twain said, most of the problems I've know in my life never really happened.

Isaiah 42:3 "A bruised reed shall he not break , ..." KJV - Online Bible Study

Isaiah 42:3 "A bruised reed shall he not break , ..." KJV - Online Bible Study: 3 A bruised reed shall he not break , and the smoking wick shall he not quench : he shall bring forth judgment unto truth.

Abortion in America: A Personal Journey @ AMERICAN DIGEST

Abortion in America: A Personal Journey @ AMERICAN DIGEST



If life truly begins at conception, or after cell division commences and
unique DNA is formed, then by logical progression life must end at the
time that the physical body ceases to live. If however, one accepts
that life continues in some form and some place after the physical body
is no longer alive, then the beginning of life must be before that point
of conception, again in some form and some place. God says it thusly,
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you". Indeed, the pro-abortion
side has set the choices as "at birth" or "at conception" and the
argument has been refined by scientific insights as to when between
those two points life can be viable. God's point of view is that He
creates life before the physical body is created and that He sustains it
while the body is alive and that there is a destination beyond the
physical body at which time life is culminated...but as in most earthly
points of view that are in opposition, God's view is left out of the
argument (too much is required in the way of faith to consider it
acceptable to all sides). 





Abortion in America: A Personal Journey @ AMERICAN DIGEST

Abortion in America: A Personal Journey @ AMERICAN DIGEST



Comment #78 on Abortion in America: A Personal Journey --



"I am a converted Catholic; meaning I converted from Protestant to
Catholic as an adult. I believe abortion is wrong, but I also believe it
is and will be forever impossible to determine "viability",
"otherness". An infant is not viable outside the womb until the age of
26, if O-liar-care is correct, and some people never develop a sense of
otherness, even after the ripe age of 26. Picture Julia and Pajama-boy
coming together in Hippa-space.



"The "my own body" argument is also specious; what part of the DNA is
yours and what part is owned by the father and what part is owned by
the baby?



"The "brain activity" argument also breaks down in the face of the
elderly and a child who cannot bear to part with the now senile parent
who once cared for them.



"All the arguments for and against abortion at some point break down,
except for the argument, when is this child a child? When and where do
we protect the innocent?



"I was a CPS Social Worker before I retired. How many mothers avoid
the legal consequences of taking meth up to the fourth day before
delivery of their child, because they know the drug is gone from their
system by the fourth day? Fetal alcohol effects also come to mind, but
those effects don't go away. I once interviewed a young mother who
aborted her child even after his/her left arm had reached out from her
womb, which by the way was the third time she decided to abort. No, she
did not want and did not hold a funeral. I have also heard the primal
screams of infants born addicted to heroin, then mitigated by IV
morphine drips.



"Life is precious and the soul is God-breathed, I have come to
believe. Who am I to decide when and where life or soul or humanity
begins? Grace and Forgiveness is Divine. Pray, meditate, chant, or do
whatever floats your boat, but let "Abba" hear from you, then try to be
quiet and listen, turn off the text messages too.



"Our wonderful post-modern government will now protect a turtle egg
with a potential prison sentence. Goodness gracious great balls of fire,
what hath Gaia wrought?"







Monday, January 20, 2014

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During the Revolutionary War, there were British sympathizers known
as Tories among the colonists. Some of them would work hand-in-hand with
the Redcoats to try to foil the battle plans of the Continental Army.


After a certain skirmish, a group of General Washington’s men tracked
one of these sympathizers to a farm, which they searched for hours
without success. A militiaman then came up with the idea to release a
hen into a barn where they suspected the fugitive might be hiding.


Sure enough, loud cackling and commotion quickly ensued, and the
soldiers were finally able to take their prisoner into custody. This was
the first known instance where someone (more…) had a chicken catch a Tory!!

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