tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35551993902279122072024-03-17T23:03:37.088-04:00EgnoranceOpinions and musings on religion, philosophy, science, politics, and life from a conservative Catholic neurosurgeon.mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.comBlogger1800125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-10359274127771016562016-07-17T20:12:00.003-04:002016-07-17T20:12:38.566-04:00Breaking news: Democrat GOTV is again a proven success<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/17/us/baton-route-police-shooting/">Again</a><br />
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Democrats deliberately stir up racial hate and fear before every election, because they need more than 90% of the black vote and a huge black turnout in order to win at the national level.<br />
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Democrats lie about racial violence, and inflame it for political gain. Scum.<br />
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It's hard to imagine anything lower. Democrats have blood on their hands. </div>
mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-45611423978400584422015-10-02T19:32:00.003-04:002015-10-02T19:32:48.707-04:00Oregon killer singled out Christians<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/02/oregon-shooter-said-to-have-singled-out-christians-for-killing-in-horrific-act-of-cowardice/?tid=pm_national_pop_b">Washington Post.</a><br />
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Witnesses... said he seemed to seek specific revenge against Christians, and police examined Web posts that hinted of wider antipathy toward organized faith... </blockquote>
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In one classroom, he appeared to single out Christian students for killing, according to witness Anastasia Boylan. </blockquote>
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“He said, ‘Good, because you’re a Christian, you’re going to see God in just about one second,'” Boylan’s father, Stacy, <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/02/us/oregon-umpqua-community-college-shooting/index.html">told CNN</a>, relaying his daughter’s account while she underwent surgery to treat a gunshot to her spine.<br />“And then he shot and killed them.” </blockquote>
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Another account came from Autumn Vicari, who described to<a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/oregon-college-shooting/oregon-shooting-umpqua-community-college-gunman-talked-religion-n437051"> NBC News </a>what her brother J.J. witnessed in the room where the shootings occurred. According to NBC: “Vicari said at one point the shooter told people to stand up before asking whether they were Christian or not. Vicari’s brother told her that anyone who responded ‘yes’ was shot in the head. If they said ‘other’ or didn’t answer, they were shot elsewhere in the body, usually the leg.”</blockquote>
Cardinal George of Chicago famously said 'I expect to die in bed, my successor will die in prison, and his successor will die a martyr in the streets.' We already have a Christian sent to jail for her beliefs--more will follow. And we now have Christian martyrs in America. There will be many more. <div>
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Do you think I exaggerate? The 20th century gave us more Christian martyrs than all of the martyrs of the past 2000 years combined. The Soviets, the Nazis, the Spanish communists, the Mexican government in the Christeros War deliberately slaughtered Christians by the millions. </div>
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Christians are undergoing a holocaust today in the Middle East, while the world, including our own government, is silent. </div>
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May God bless our brothers and sisters who are perishing for their faith in Christ our Lord. They are with Him now, in paradise. May we live with even a tiny fraction of their courage and faith. </div>
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mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com39tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-83317864701105186712015-10-02T01:25:00.003-04:002015-10-02T01:37:47.586-04:00Global warming fascists may get a taste of RICO<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Heh.<br />
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Last week I <a href="http://egnorance.blogspot.com/2015/09/global-warming-fascist-provides.html">posted</a> about 20 global warming fascists who wrote a letter to Obama demanding RICO investigations of global warming skeptics.<br />
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Things haven't been going so well for them since:<br />
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It seems that the little Himmlers have some legal problems of their own, including using $63,000,000 of taxpayers' money to fund their little political action committee. That's a violation of federal law.<br />
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The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology sent Dr. Jagadish Shukla, the organizer of the warmist mob, this letter:<br />
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Chairman Smith: “IGES [Shukla's taxpayer-funded organization] appears to be almost fully funded by taxpayer money while simultaneously participating in partisan political activity by requesting a RICO investigation of companies and organizations that disagree with the Obama administration on climate change. In fact, IGES has reportedly received $63 million from taxpayers since 2001, comprising over 98 percent of its total revenue during that time.” </blockquote>
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In light of the non-profit’s decision to remove the controversial letter from its website, Smith directs IGES to preserve “all e-mail, electronic documents, and data created since January 1, 2009, that can be reasonably anticipated to be subject to a request for production by the Committee.”</blockquote>
As Anthony Watts said at <a href="http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/09/29/the-rico-20-letter-to-obama-asking-for-prosecution-of-climate-skeptics-disappears-from-shuklas-iges-website-amid-financial-concerns/">WUWT</a>: "The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect">Streisand effect</a> has been unleashed Mr. Shukla, enjoy the ride."<div>
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RICO for the goose, RICO for the gander. Nail these scum to the wall. All of them. </div>
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mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-88242054116653970792015-10-02T00:59:00.000-04:002015-10-02T00:59:51.114-04:00How to stop spree shootings<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Another spree shooting, at a college campus in Oregon. At least ten people dead, and many wounded. Please pray for the victims and their families.<br />
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There is a simple way to stop this. To stop it completely. Two things:<br />
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1) <b>Stop reporting spree shootings in the media</b>. These bastards are imitators, and they vent their hate and anger in a way that will give them total power (for 15 minutes) and will make them famous. <b>Stop making them famous.</b> The press should agree: The scumbag's name should <i>never</i> be mentioned. No name, and no pictures. Make the killer an non-person. Tear up his manifesto--never let it see the light of day. Never mention his name. Report about the shootings <i>once</i>, briefly, and then never again. The media is driving this. The media is a hateful psycho's ticket to immortal fame. Take that away and the shootings will stop.<br />
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2) <b>Eliminate gun-free zones</b>. <i>Gun-free zones are spree-killing magnets</i>--nearly all spree killings are committed in gun-free zones, for the obvious reason. A spree killer wants two things: immortal fame, and 15 minutes to vent his hate with complete power over his victims. <b>Deny him the power</b>. Make sure there will be people around him who will shoot back--immediately. And he won't know who. Bad guys with guns are <i>only</i> stopped by good guys with guns (they don't quit voluntarily), and gun-free zones simply ensure that the good guys with guns will arrive at least 15 minutes late--time to kill, time to have complete power. Take that power away. Allow responsible citizens to be armed in schools and other places where spree shooters choose to kill.<br />
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Of course the media will never stop reporting on this stuff, and as long as there are dumb-fuck Democrats there will be gun-free zones.<br />
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But don't believe for a minute that spree shootings can't be stopped. They can be stopped, quite easily. We just choose not to. </div>
mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com23tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-77815216996868744662015-09-30T12:51:00.002-04:002015-09-30T12:51:13.729-04:00Conrad Black: Pope nailed it<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Pope Francis’s visit to Cuba and the United States last week was another tour de force, and he remains the supremely agile and likeable incumbent on a high-wire where he is admired by a full range of Catholic opinion, enjoys great popularity generally, and continues to leave the anti-Catholic Western media and conventional adherents to the multi-state established religion of atheism mute and gape-mouthed in their inability to torment him and his institution, as they did his predecessors, as an anachronism. It became much more difficult, once he said, in reference to those of homosexual orientation in the clergy who maintained their vows of sexual abstinence, “Who am I to judge?” and after he made the point in his famous interview with Civiltà Cattolica that it was not the role of the Roman Catholic Church to scold people about their sex lives but to be the ark of the Christian message and that all souls were of equal importance. The numerous media choristers and other purveyors of conventional wisdom, who had been catechismally incanting for years that the Roman Church was just a hypocrisy-and-superstition factory run by a creaking gerontocracy of celibates and closet queens trying to put a hex on any non-marital sex, have become steadily more impatient to find a new line of attack. This visit did not provide it...<br /><br />No occupant of his position will please everyone, but there is a good deal of evidence that the Roman Catholic Church is strengthening appreciably in many places, and that the deafening proclamations and smug assumptions of its imminent demise have again been proved false. Francis enjoys far greater prestige and popularity than any secular leader, and he represents something a good deal more compelling than any current statesman; his first visit to the world’s most important country was a distinct success.</blockquote>
Again, I believe that Francis' conservative critics misunderstand what he is doing. He is not a leftist--the left in Argentina, who knew him well, hated his guts. He is an Argentinian with a profound hatred of crony capitalism, which in the U.S. is called socialism. His beliefs and instincts are Catholic to the core, and everything on faith and morals he teaches is straight out of the Catechism. We have to listen to what he says, not to what the media say about what he says.<br />
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What Pope Francis is accomplishing is quite remarkable: he is stealing (back) the memes of the Left, and showing the world that love for the poor and humility and forgiveness and stewardship of nature and simple human decency are deeply <i>Catholic</i> traditions that have been co-opted by the Left is a sort of demonic counterfeit.<br />
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My wife loves this pope. She is not Catholic, and not even really Christian, but she loves the guy. She told me a couple of days ago "I love him more than you do". That's not true, but it's clear that Francis is doing great things for the Church of God. </div>
mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-64932969110062027102015-09-30T10:12:00.002-04:002015-09-30T10:39:03.122-04:00Why are folks only "Gay" when they do good things?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
You see it in the news incessantly--<br />
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"<b>Gay</b> couple gets married after waiting 40 years!"<br />
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"<b>Gay</b> actor speaks out on gender bias"<br />
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"<b>Gay</b> congressman sponsors bill on LGBT rights"<br />
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"<b>Gay</b> football player reports to training camp"<br />
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"<b>Gay </b>basketball star scores to win game"<br />
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"<b>Gay</b> CEO named to run Apple"<br />
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"<b>Gay</b> author wins Pulitzer Prize"<br />
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"<b>Gay</b> screenwriter wins Oscar"<br />
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"<b>Gay</b> filmmaker wins at Cannes"<br />
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"<b>Gay</b> musician wins Grammy Award"<br />
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"<b>Gay</b> man appointed Secretary of the Army"<br />
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But when a Gay man (who happens to be a Catholic priest) molests a teen boy:<br />
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"<b>Priest </b>arrested for molesting boy<b>"</b><br />
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Odd, that. It's almost like a marketing campaign conducted by people who love homosexuality and hate Christianity. </div>
mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-51408755466616408072015-09-30T10:06:00.003-04:002015-09-30T10:06:51.408-04:00Looks like the Pope met with Kim Davis<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/30/us/kim-davis-pope/">Very nice.</a><br />
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Some of my conservative friends will say that the meeting should have been public, but I think the Pope's mission here was pastoral, and the press frenzy about such a meeting would have sucked all of the oxygen out of the room from the Pope's message of Christian charity.<br />
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It is wonderful that the Holy Father met with two very prominent victims of anti-Christian persecution in the U.S.--Davis and the Little Sisters of Mercy. </div>
mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-2453971827336551182015-09-28T17:11:00.001-04:002015-09-28T17:11:21.304-04:00Looks like the U.S. military is finally sticking up for gay rights<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The gay rights movement has deep roots in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Hay">pederasty</a>. </div>
mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-19323614289320725842015-09-24T20:26:00.002-04:002015-09-24T20:54:16.695-04:00The mistake conservatives make about the Pope<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I'll try to blog in detail on the Pope's visit and speech shortly. Short version: I <i>love</i> his address to Congress. One of the most beautiful speeches I've heard. He is right about <i>everything </i>in the speech. I ask my conservative friends to wait before they blow a gasket.<br />
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Just a brief note on a comment by my friend Ilion:<br />
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I'm sorry, Michael, but this pope is a fool, top to bottom, and he is a socialist (and he seems to be a Marxist, at least a "soft" one) ... just as almost all "intellectual" Catholics are. And while I do understand your very human impulse to put his deeds and words in the best light, you risk making yourself a fool if you go too far in doing this.<br />
The sad fact is that there is in Catholicism a profound hatred, or at least fear, of general human freedom. This is why, for example, Catholics are always at the forefront of laying false charges against capitalism; for capitalism is just the natural result of human freedom with respect to one's labor and the fruit of one's labor.</blockquote>
I respectfully disagree. Pope Francis is certainly a fool--a fool for Christ, in the Pauline sense. The battle the Holy Father is engaging is a <i>spiritual</i> battle, not a political battle. Working for the common good, love and respect for the vulnerable, the weak, the poor, and sinners is basic Christian life. Living one's life in accordance with Matthew 25 <i>is not socialism</i>. Care for the poor <i>is not Marxism, </i>soft or otherwise.<br />
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Conservatives make a horrible mistake to create an idol of political ideology. That's what liberals do, and it is ultimately <i>satanic</i>, literally. Satan, as Rene Girard has pointed out, is an imitator. He imitates Christian charity to wage spiritual war on mankind--that is a particularly succinct definition of liberalism and its socialist and Marxist congeners.<br />
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Socialism is the (satanically inspired) imitation of Christian charity.<br />
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This is the conservative mistake: by denigrating Christian charity as so beautifully expressed by the Pope, we abandon all the best motives and works of man to the Left. I can't imagine a more unwise thing a conservative can say than: "all the stuff the Pope is saying about love and respect and human decency is socialist".<br />
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Is human dignity socialist? Is care for the foreigner socialist? Is love for the poor socialist? Is respect for our neighbor socialist? Is mercy for sinners socialist? Is forgiveness socialist? Is sacrifice to help the less fortunate socialist?<br />
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Why not just hand the socialists the victory trophy right now and get it over with?<br />
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Goodness gracious, Satan pops a champagne bottle every time a conservative says such things. Hell's agenda is this: to portray evil as good, and good as evil. To equate the Pope's entirely Christian exhortations--exhortations that come right out of the Lord's words in the New Testament and right out of 2000 years of Catholic magisterium-- with evil is to do the devil's work for him.<br />
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Sometimes, I suspect, the devil <i>loves</i> conservatives.<br />
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Conservatives are the natural defenders of Christian culture. Conservatives should enthusiastically embrace the Pope's beautiful exposition of Christian morality. I believe that the Pope is (very shrewdly) proving to be the Left's worst enemy, because he's taking back Christian charity from Marxists and socialists and liberals who have expropriated it for ends that are plainly evil.<br />
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The task before conservatives is to show that socialism is <i>fake</i> Christian morality. Socialism is an impostor. Socialism is a lie--a clever stratagem from the father of lies. Conservatives lend powerful credibility to Satan's lie when they insist that Christian charity is socialism.<br />
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Conservative values--freedom (the freedom to work towards God's purposes for our lives), hard work, respect for the natural world, rule of law, centrality of the family, traditional marriage, chastity--are the means to achieve the ends of Christian charity, an end so eloquently evoked by the Holy Father in his breathtakingly beautiful speech. </div>
mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-36198264758571114162015-09-22T17:22:00.004-04:002015-09-22T17:24:50.816-04:00Planned Parenthood: the video<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Abortion-lovers have claimed that Carly Fiorina wasn't telling the truth about that Planned Parenthood video showing the intact <strike>fetus</strike> baby <i>alive</i> on a platter about to have his organs removed for sale.<br />
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A PAC has released this. You can see the baby's heart beating, and he's moving his legs.<br />
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mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-20843142704511453402015-09-21T18:16:00.003-04:002015-09-21T18:16:58.516-04:00"[Planned Parenthood] helps prevent more than 500,000 abortions a year"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Ed Brayton has a <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/21/new-england-journal-of-medicine-defends-planned-parenthood/">real howler</a>:<br />
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Getting rid of Planned Parenthood would significantly increase the number of unwanted pregnancies (studies have found that PP helps prevent more than 500,000 abortions a year)...</blockquote>
Wow. Planned Parenthood dispenses contraceptives (especially to poor minority women), so it's really <i>saving</i> lives! There's fewer little (black) babies to abort!<br />
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Too bad the Nazi doctors didn't think of this defense at the Nuremberg trials: "Hey we gave the Jews contraceptives and we sterilized a lot of them, so think of how many lives we saved!"<br />
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Nice way to tip-toe around a holocaust. </div>
mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-12254438395565690922015-09-21T13:47:00.000-04:002015-09-21T14:17:14.412-04:00About the Pope...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Pope Francis is currently in Cuba, bring Christ and the Catholic idea to that beleaguered isle. He has come under substantial attack from conservatives who believe that he should not visit Cuba, or that he should do more to denounce the Castro regime. Many of these conservatives also believe that the Pope is a leftist and that he has Communist sympathies.<br />
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I don't agree. First, I must note that I take second place to no one in my <i>hatred</i> of communism. Socialism in general, and communism in particular, are raw evil, and they are the scourge of modern man. Castro(s) is a totalitarian thug, and he should be tried for crimes against humanity. I'd love to give the Cuban community in Miami a few minutes alone with the guy. He's get the justice he deserves.<br />
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That said, I think that conservatives seriously misread this Pope. Francis is not a leftist. He is an orthodox Catholic, and his teaching on economics and government and the environment are mainstream Catholic teaching, straight out of the Catechism. The content of his teaching is little different from that of St. John Paul II or Pope Benedict, or from the teachings of any of the modern popes.<br />
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Francis does provide a different emphasis, which is his privilege. Each Pope stresses the things he believes need to be stressed. And what Pope Francis is stressing-- mercy, care for the poor, care for sinners, the very real problem of gluttony (in the sense of compulsive consumption), lust for wealth and possessions, and all of the enormous dangers and evils of capitalism-- are things that really need to be stressed. Goodness, look at the filth and greed and lust for possessions that is poured on us each day by advertisers and media. It makes Sodom and Gomorrah look like a convent. We are so embedded in our culture that we often fail to see our own depravity.<br />
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Francis is right about most things--Laudato Si is a beautiful encyclical. His emphasis is nearly perfect, and he really nails the evils of opulent Western society. It is the responsibility of Catholics and all people of good will to listen to him carefully. He has much to teach humanity, and nearly all of it is good.<br />
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A couple of provisos are in order. I believe that Pope is wrong about global warming-- AGW is an obvious scientific hoax, and I'm disappointed that he doesn't see it. And I believe that Francis has not sufficiently condemned socialism, which is pure evil, as opposed to capitalism, which is concupiscence, but not evil in itself. And there is no question that capitalism has been a tremendous engine of prosperity for billions of people--it is the most successful anti-poverty program mankind has ever known, without parallel.<br />
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But capitalism has dangers just like sex and food have dangers. All are inherently good, but all can be misused in very sinful ways.I think the Pope's political heritage, which seems to be not communist nor capitalist but Peronist, influences his thinking on economics and leads him to wrongly deemphasize some of the evil of socialism.<br />
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And I do caution readers to pay attention <i>only</i> to what Pope Francis says and does--his actual words and actions, not to what the media says about him. The media coverage is utterly mendacious, and should be ignored.<br />
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The Pope's visit to Cuba and America is a pastoral visit, not a political visit. He is coming to care for his sheep, and the Catholics in the prison that is Cuba desperately need his guidance and inspiration, which presupposes diplomacy and tact. I hope his pastoral visit to America is similarly one of inspiration and love of Christ and our neighbor, and that the politics--particularly the distortions of the politics by the liberal media and to a lesser extent by conservatives--doesn't get in the way. </div>
mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com63tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-12330062795981842992015-09-21T12:48:00.003-04:002015-09-21T12:49:32.101-04:00A plug for a great book: "SJW's Always Lie; taking down the thought police"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I just read Vox Day's new book <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/SJWs-Always-Lie-Taking-Thought-ebook/dp/B014GMBUR4">SJW's Always Lie</a></i>. It's an ebook on Kindle. I can't recommend it highly enough.<br />
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Day (aka Theodore Beale) has had his share of run-ins with the libtard thought police (Beale has been a major player in GamerGate), and he's a very smart and ballsy guy who really understands SJW's (Social Justice Warriors).<br />
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I'll try to post more on the book, but I should briefly mention his three Laws of SJW's:<br />
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1) <b>SJW's always lie</b>. They lie because their entire plan is to advance the Narrative, and the Narrative is their religion. The Narrative has no necessary connection to the truth; it is only a means of advancing their power and satisfying their egos. If there is a transient conjunction with an aspect of the Narrative and the truth (which is rare), it is accidental and still basically a lie.<br />
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SJW's <i>always</i> lie.<br />
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2) <b>SJW's always double-down</b>. Because SJW's always lie, and because the Narrative is never about any aspect of the truth, when SJW's are caught lying, they merely intensify the lies. They always double-down, even when caught red-handed lying. The Narrative must be protected at all times, and the SJW response to refutation of the Narrative is always more intense Narrative--more intense lying.<br />
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3) <b>SJW's always project</b>. This is a very important observation, and one that I have noticed for a while. It's quite remarkable: when an SJW is accusing an opponent of something--racism or lying or incompetence or whatever-- it is almost invariable that the accusation is precisely what the SJW himself is doing. There are no more flagrant racists in America than progressive Democrats, yet to be a progressive Democrat necessarily entails calling everyone else a racist. There is no one more responsible for gun crime in the U.S. than progressive Democrats--they govern and populate every crime-infested city and they create gun-free zones in which spree shooters can kill so easily and successfully--yet progressive Democrats accuse everyone but themselves of being responsible for gun violence. The list of SJW projections is endless. I have my own rule: if you want to know what a SJW is up to, just note what he's accusing you of. It's a remarkably reliable indicator of his motives.<br />
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Please buy Beale's book. It's a superb insight into SJW tactics and worldview, and it contains excellent strategies for dealing with SJW attacks. I'll try to post more on it.<br />
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mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com22tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-15711989359724620842015-09-21T12:28:00.002-04:002015-09-21T12:28:38.996-04:00Global Warming fascist provides a succinct description of climate science<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
As you're probably aware, a coterie of 20 global warming fascists wrote a letter to the Attorney General demanding criminal prosecution under RICO statutes of organizations who are skeptical of global warming "science". Here's a <a href="http://www.redstate.com/2015/09/19/global-warming-fascists-ask-criminal-investigation-opponents/">great link</a> at Red State with the email addresses of the Stazi scientists. Give'em a piece of your mind.<br />
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One of the bastards--Barry A. Klinger-- <a href="http://mason.gmu.edu/~bklinger/rico.html">provided</a> an explanation for his effort to criminalize scientific dissent.<br />
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He quoted a RICO judgement against tobacco companies to define the five elements of fraud:<br />
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Generally, a plaintiff must prove five elements by "clear and convincing evidence" to prevail on a fraud claim. See e.g., Armstrong v Accrediting Council Continuing Educ. & Training, Inc., 961 F. Supp. 305, 309 (D.D.C. 1997). They are: (1) a false representation, (2) in reference to a material fact, (3) made with the knowledge of its falsity, (4) with the intent to deceive, and (5) on which action is taken in reliance upon the representation. ( p. 1564)</blockquote>
Hmmm... 'deliberate deception by false representation of facts on which action is taken' is a stunningly precise description of climate science.<br />
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R.I.C.O. prosecution is a great idea. The entire climate science community should be investigated. Let's start with their <a href="http://scienceandpublicpolicy.org/images/stories/papers/originals/Monckton-Caught%20Green-Handed%20Climategate%20Scandal.pdf">emails</a>. </div>
mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-3243950468632542112015-09-21T12:08:00.002-04:002015-09-21T12:10:14.413-04:00P.Z. Myers says something really dumb about Carson and Muslims<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/09/20/if-trump-is-going-down-why-not-ben-carson/">Myers is on a roll</a>.<br />
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Ben Carson recently said that he "would not advocate that we put a Muslim in charge of this nation. I absolutely would not agree with that."<br />
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A perfectly sane viewpoint, and one I share.<br />
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Myers is shocked--shocked-- that Carson would... wait for it... violate the Constitution(?).<br />
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Myers cites the First Amendment, which prohibits Congress from making a law respecting an establishment of religion, and Article IV, which prohibits a religious test for holding public office.<br />
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*Pounds head on desk*<br />
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The Constitution constrains <i>government</i> from establishing a religion and from imposing a religious test to hold office, but it does not restrain American citizens from voting in accordance with their best judgement and conscience. And a candidate's most deeply held religious views are fair game-- we wouldn't elect a pagan who believed in human sacrifice.<br />
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Myers' post is one of the dumbest I've read on his blog, and that says a lot. Now it's perfectly fine to hold the opinion that a Muslim would make a fine president, and it's perfectly fine to hold the opinion that a Muslim wouldn't make a fine president. That issue can be debated, but it has nothing--<i>nothing</i>-- to do with the Constitution.<br />
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The Constitution constrains the government, not American voters.<br />
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And of course I agree with Carson that electing a Muslim president would be a bad idea. I mean, look how the first one worked out.<br />
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mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-38798329252653149342015-09-21T11:53:00.003-04:002015-09-21T11:58:11.906-04:00P.Z. Myers says something really dumb about Ahmed the little clock-maker<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Big surprise.<br />
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Myers has been at his libtard best recently.<br />
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He <a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/09/21/my-brain-just-exploded/#more-25447">bought into</a> the Texas clock kid hoax. Little Ahmed Mohammed brought a "clock" into school--it turns out it was the guts of a 1970's electric clock (the kid didn't "make it") in a little suitcase, and the kid's dad is an <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/18/if-it-walks-like-an-influence-operation/">Islamic nut case</a> with an ax to grind. The whole point here was obviously to invoke a bomb scare and then blame the folks who (correctly) were alarmed about the "clock" of being Islamohpbic. Obama invites the little <strike>I.E.D</strike>. clock maker to the White House, and the loony Left internet lights up with outrage at this brazen act of Islamophobia against the enterprising little scientist who just likes to take the parts out of old electronic devices, package them like bombs, and bring 'em to school.<br />
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Looks like the kid's Islamic nut case Dad set him up to get arrested and take one for Allah.<br />
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At least he gets a White House visit out of it. Of course, if the kid shows up at the White House with an electronic device in a little suitcase with wires and circuit boards hanging out, he'll be tackled by a hundred Secret Service agents and carted off to jail in manacles and leg irons until the whole thing gets sorted out--kind of like what happened in school. If you don't believe me, try entering a government building with something like this and see what happens.<br />
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Question: if someone sent Professor Myers this "clock in a box" thing in the mail, would he duck under the desk, pee his pants, and call the police.<br />
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Damn right he would. </div>
mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-80068635797055577742015-09-20T16:47:00.001-04:002015-09-20T19:42:57.044-04:00Can fetuses feel pain?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Several commentors have challenged my observation that fetuses can feel pain, probably before 10 weeks of gestation. There is actually no real debate about this: there are simply people who acknowledge the truth, and people who deny it.<br />
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Much ink has been spilled in the medical literature by scientists claiming that mature cortical development and connections are necessary for pain perception. According to the fetal pain deniers, children in the womb cannot experience pain until at least 26 (or so) weeks.<br />
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How can such an issue be resolved?<br />
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The obvious resolution is this: identify human beings who lack a cortex or who lack normal thalamocortical projections, and ascertain whether they can experience pain. "Knock out mice" are an example of the use of this strategy in determining gene function. We study the effects of the absence of a gene in deficient mice to understand the normal function of the gene.<br />
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To understand the normal experience of pain as a function of neuroanatomy and neurophysiology, we should similarly study pain reaction in human beings who lack a cortex or who lack normal thalamocortical projections.<br />
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Fetuses are one such subset of human beings--the fact is that they react violently to pain at very early stages of gestation, and efforts of 12-week gestation fetuses to withdraw from noxious stimuli are very well documented (Silent Scream). Ultrasounds of fetuses undergoing various stressful procedures show obvious reactions to pain--the fetuses open their mouths as if to scream, they withdraw violently from the stimulus, and sampling of fetal blood shows massive release of stress-related hormones.<br />
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But the evidence for pain experience in the absence of normal cortex or normal thalamocortical projections goes far beyond evidence from fetuses.<br />
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There are two kinds of birth defects that leave a person without any cortex at all: hydranencephaly and anencephaly. Patients with hydranencephaly completely lack a cerebral cortex and white matter. The usual cause is a massive stroke during prenatal life. They are left only with a diencephalon (thalamus) and a brainstem and cerebellum. Patients with anencephaly also completely lack a cerebral cortex and white matter. The usual cause is a genetic abnormality that precludes normal brain formation. They too are left only with a diencephalon (thalamus) and a brainstem and cerebellum. I've taken care of scores of patients with these handicaps over 30 years. Their survival after birth is limited. Many die after several months, some live into later childhood (my longest survivor is 10 years).<br />
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<i>They all feel pain, </i>despite having no cortex at all. When stuck with a needle or in any way given a painful stimulus, they scream, cry, withdraw, and exhibit intense discomfort. Their autonomic response is identical to that of people without handicaps--their heartbeat increases markedly, their breathing becomes fast and shallow, etc.<br />
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<b><i>They feel pain as surely as you and I feel pain.</i></b> In fact, my impression is that they feel pain more intensely than people without handicaps.<br />
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Furthermore, there are tens of millions of people with neurological disabilities that severely impair cortical function or impair thalamocortical connections. These disorders include lissencephaly, microencephaly, polymicrogyria, among others. These patients often have limited life expectancies, but they all experience pain and are all treated medically with full analgesic therapy--pain killers, local and general anesthesia for surgery, etc.<br />
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Probably the largest group of people with markedly deficient corticothalamic projections are people with perventricular leukomalacia (PVL), which is one of the most common causes of cerebral palsy. Many people with PVL have massive global loss of cerebral white matter, which is the brain tissue that comprises connections between the thalamus and the cortex.<br />
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Yet people with cerebral palsy <i>obviously experience pain</i>. No one but a sadist would subject a child with cerebral palsy to surgery or other painful procedures without anesthesia. To do so would be worse than malpractice. It would be an actual prosecutable crime.<br />
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The claim by some pro-abortion doctors and scientists that lack of a mature cortex or thalamocortical projections precludes the experience of pain is a damnable lie.<br />
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<b>Pain is experienced at a subcortical (probably thalamic) level. The cortex is necessary for the <i>interpretation</i> of pain, but is not necessary for the <i>experience</i> of pain. The traditional neuroscientific teaching holds true: pain enters awareness at the <i>thalamus</i>, not the cortex. There is massive evidence to support this: the daily experience of tens of millions of neurologically handicapped people, who experience pain in a very real way. </b><br />
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The only reason this long-understood and uncontroversial fact about the neuroscience of pain perception has been tossed down the memory hole is that this scientific fact casts a bad light on our abortion industry. Ideology trumps science, and when science conflicts with pro-abortion ideology, science gets tossed aside.<br />
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Fetuses (once they have a thalamus, which is about 7 weeks) feel pain, just as surely as children with hydranencephaly and cerebral palsy feel pain. To kill a fetus by dismemberment in the womb is the moral equivalent of killing a child with cerebral palsy by dismemberment.<br />
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Fetuses feel pain, just as people with severe neurological handicaps feel pain. That the scientific and medical profession does not universally acknowledge this simple fact is disgusting and profoundly evil.<br />
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mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-18825848960062604512015-09-11T11:34:00.001-04:002015-09-11T12:15:19.642-04:00Democrat justice<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/">This</a> is what they do when they're not jailing Christians:<br />
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At a congressional hearing on campus sexual assault, Colorado Rep. Jared Polis suggested that expelling students based solely on the idea that they might have committed a crime is an acceptable standard. And the hearing audience applauded him. </blockquote>
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Polis, a Democrat, was discussing due process and standards of evidence as they apply to colleges and universities adjudicating sexual assault. Currently, colleges must be only 50.01 percent sure that an accusation is valid before punishing an accused student (more on that later). Polis began advocating for allowing colleges to use a lower standard than that. </blockquote>
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"I mean, if there's 10 people that have been accused and under a reasonable likelihood standard maybe one or two did it, seems better to get rid of all 10 people," Polis said. "We're not talking about depriving them of life or liberty, we're talking about their transfer to another university." </blockquote>
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Democrat congressman says it's ok to expel a student for rape, even if there's only a 10% chance he did it.<br />
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And the (Democrat) audience applauds.<br />
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But think about it: if, consequent to a rape allegation, there's a 10% chance the guy committed rape, then there's a 90% chance the girl is lying.<br />
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If you expel him, you have nine times more reason to expel her.<br />
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Lord help us. </div>
mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-58029134782668568322015-09-11T09:43:00.001-04:002015-09-11T09:47:08.561-04:00Atheists even attack Christians in prison<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Group: Prison system ‘appears to be showing impermissible favoritism to one religion’<br />
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An atheist group claimed that a hand-carved gift made by Philadelphia prisoners for Pope Francis violated the First Amendment in a recent <a href="http://ffrf.org/images/PhiladelphiaPrisonSystemPA.pdf">letter</a>. </blockquote>
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The Freedom from Religion Foundation sent a letter to Louis Giorla,Philadelphia’s commissioner of prisons, outlining concerns over prisoners being used to carve, refinish, and upholster the chair for Pope Francis ahead of his <a href="http://articles.philly.com/2015-08-26/news/65852020_1_pope-francis-five-inmates-holmesburg-prison">visit</a> on Sept. 27. The pope is scheduled to meet with approximately 100 inmates at the Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility. </blockquote>
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“[The prison system] appears to be showing impermissible favoritism to one religion over all others, and religion over non-religion, by inviting Catholic religious leaders to its facilities and then bestowing gifts on them,” Annie Laurie Gaylor, the foundation’s co-president, wrote in the letter. Gaylor noted that prisoners also made a special chair earlier this year for Charles Chaput, the Archbishop of Philadelphia. </blockquote>
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The foundation cited the First Amendment, which, it said, “mandates governmental neutrality between religion and religion, and between religion and non-religion.”</blockquote>
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The atheist totalitarians are busy at work attacking Christians in every crevice of American life.<br />
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The First Amendment of course does <i>not</i> mandate government neutrality between religion and non-religion--it nowhere proclaims neutrality, and the only constraint in religion is the Establishment clause that prohibits Congressional enactment of a federal church. A few Christian prisoners building a chair as a gift for Pope Francis does not establish a national church. And atheists can't put them in prison for it--they're already there.<br />
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In fact, the First Amendment explicitly favors religion over non-religion by <i>guaranteeing</i> Free Exercise of Religion (it says nothing about non-religion).<br />
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Atheism is a disease on the American body politic. </div>
mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-18798639098325992332015-09-11T09:19:00.001-04:002015-09-11T09:19:16.247-04:00New York TImes publishes its 'Jew-Tracker'<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Anti-Semitism is a powerful force on the Left and is taking hold in much of the Democrat party:<br />
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If they had to wear yellow stars, it'd be even easier to keep track of them. </div>
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mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-81416861409002965342015-09-11T09:02:00.002-04:002015-09-11T09:11:09.705-04:00A voice in the gay wilderness<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://theweek.com/articles/576421/lets-treat-kim-davis-better-than-treats-gay-couples">Marc Ambinder</a>:</div>
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...[W]hat really made me angry was the assumption by Bunning that the government best enforces marriage laws at the point of its gun... </div>
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I find the government's conduct more offensive to my sense of justice than I do Davis' refusal to comply with the law. And I say this as a dude who had to wait years to marry another dude. </div>
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A lust for vengeance deprived Kim Davis of her freedom rapidly and comprehensively. And no, her refusal to recognize gay marriage rights is not nearly as offensive as what was done to her. Her clerk issued the marriage licenses she refused to issue. The context matters, as does the actual harm done by her to gay people, which, really, isn't that much.</div>
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What made me steaming mad was the delight expressed by many of my own fellow travelers at her imprisonment. We bathed in the glory of her personal life, too. That's offensive. Her personal life has no relevance at all to the issue at hand. And no, she did not invite such scrutiny by taking a public stand against gay marriage. All that matters is her conduct in office. </div>
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Those on the side of what's right should never revel in the pain of others. Gays and our allies are in the right. Now, let us set an example for how to treat those who are not.</div>
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Ambinder certainly understands that what was done to Davis was a crime. He regrets it because it was an affront to law and justice, not (he says) because it was a strategic catastrophe for the gaystapo.</div>
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He is in the minority in the gay-marriage supporting community: most of the gaystapo reveled in Davis' imprisonment. What Ambinder (and the other few gays and allies who don't support imprisoning Christians for living in accordance with their faith) don't yet understand is that destroying the livelihood and jailing Christians is the <i>purpose</i> of gay marriage. Gay marriage is a tool for excising Christianity from the public square. What is happening to Davis and to many Christian businessmen and women across the country is central to the strategy of gay marriage activists.</div>
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Only a tiny fraction of gays will ever 'marry', and all of the legal and social benefits are offered with civil unions. But Christians are being persecuted, so the gaystapo can rightfully celebrate the growing success of their cause.<br />
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The strategic outcome of Davis' jailing is that the true nature of the gay marriage movement is being revealed with stunning clarity. </div>
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mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-25406053281371466292015-09-10T07:13:00.003-04:002015-09-10T07:15:13.334-04:00David French on the Obergefell Coup<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/423376/kentucky-clerk-marriage-licenses-supreme-court">This</a> is a must read.<br />
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It’s not the first time the Supreme Court has stepped into the most consequential of legal questions, removed them from the Democratic process, and did so by essentially making it all up. The Court’s horrific Dred Scott opinion helped spark the Civil War. Roe v. Wade legalized mass murder. And the instant after each judicial coup, its defenders solemnly invoke the “rule of law” to force the masses to comply. Yet the rule of law requires both lawful enactment and lawful enforcement.</blockquote>
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In fact, the rule of law has increasingly become a mere talking point, a weapon wielded by the Courts and the Obama administration when it likes a given legal outcome, but disregarded when pesky things like “democracy” and “procedure” interfere with the demands of social justice. For the Obama administration, even proper regulatory rulemaking can be too burdensome. Rule by executive order or even departmental letter replaces constitutional process, with the social-justice Left cheering every step of the way...</blockquote>
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I have deep respect for the rule of law, for our Constitution, and for our federalist democratic traditions. And that’s exactly why I have no respect for Roe, for Obergefell, or for any assertion that enforcing those revolutionary acts represents American constitutional government in action. Kim Davis committed a lawless act. But so did Justice Kennedy. His superior power and influence does not change that salient fact. The American people are indeed “ruled,” but increasingly it is by men, not law.</blockquote>
<span style="line-height: 16px;">I disagree by the way that Davis committed a "lawless act"-- she was fully within her Free Exercise rights, and both federal and state law required that her constitutional right to Free Exercise of Religion be accommodated in the least coercive manner (i.e. that the couples be referred to another clerk in another county), which the judge (criminally) failed to do. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 16px;">Kennedy, Ginsburg, Breyer, Sotomayor, and Kagan are the people who broke the law. In a just nation they would already be impeached, removed and on trial for violating the constitutional rights of 300 million people. </span><br />
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<span style="line-height: 16px;">Read the whole thing. It is the best analysis I've read of our nation's crisis of democracy and judicial lawlessness. </span></div>
mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-78371633106005490572015-09-09T10:54:00.001-04:002015-09-09T19:44:04.165-04:00Good news: epidemic of violence against blacks isn't a threat to Ed Brayton<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/09/so-much-for-the-war-on-cops-part-2/">Ed Brayton</a> reassures us that everything is ok.<br />
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It seems to Ed that the Republican outcry against incitement to murder cops and the resulting crime wave in black communities is just a Republican political ploy:<br />
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All that is going on here is that the Republicans are pandering to their base. Psych studies show that those who identify as conservative tend to be highly focused on stability, authority and in-group vs out-group morality. That’s why conservative politics is so universally concerned with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant. It’s also why the focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. In short, fear is the primary motivator for the Republican base and so that is what they sell.</blockquote>
Liberals cheer the jailing of a Christian clerk who asserts her First Amendment rights vis-a-vi gay marriage, and then they accuse conservatives of "obsession with authority and in-group vs out-group morality".<br />
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Try expressing a conservative opinion on a college campus today, and you'll learn a thing or two about liberal obsession with "authority and in-group vs out-group morality".<br />
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The culture of political correctness, which is totalitarianism with a velvet glove, is nothing more than an obsession with authority and in-group vs out-group morality.<br />
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And conservative politics is not "so universally concerned with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant". Segregation was a Progressive Democrat social program--social engineering writ large. The first Progressive Democrat president--Wilson-- re-segregated the federal government, after conservative Republicans had desegregated it for the half-century after the Civil War.<br />
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Segregationists were part-and-parcel of FDR's New Deal coalition, and even the (few) Democrats who weren't racists themselves prostituted themselves to segregationists to keep hold of power. FDR put Hugo Black on the Supreme Court--Black was a senior-level Klansman from the Alabama Klan who championed FDR's New Deal through the Senate. Black later applied the phrase from the Klan's initiation oath--"separation of church and state" (designed to defund Catholic schools) to the Establishment Clause in Everson.<br />
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Most of the major segregationists of the mid-20th century--George Wallace, William Fullbright, Al Gore senior, Orval Faubus--were Progressive Democrats, not conservatives and not Republicans.<br />
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Conservatives and Republicans were the most prominent opponents of segregation, and they remain the most prominent defenders of real civil rights--color-blind application of the law in accordance with the 14th Amendment.<br />
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Perhaps the most disturbing line in Ed's witless post is this:<br />
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It’s also why the [conservative Republican] focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being.</blockquote>
The reality is that neither conservative Republicans nor pasty-white liberal Democrats like Ed Brayton face a significant threat to their well-being from violence.<br />
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The people who are threatened by the massive Democrat-caused crime wave of 2015 are blacks living in inner cities, who daily have to face the catastrophe of liberal Democrat policies that have decimated their neighborhoods and policies that have now made the police reluctant to pursue effective policies against crime.<br />
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Crime has sky-rocketed since the Black Lives Matter "movement", and it is <i>black people</i> who have been paying the price for liberal moral preening and the Democrat party get-out-the-vote drive.<br />
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Conservatives and Republicans--the same folks who fought Progressive Democrat segregation a couple of generations ago--are still fighting for black lives and for safety and prosperity in black neighborhoods.<br />
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Rudy Guiliani <a href="http://nypost.com/2014/11/24/rudy-got-it-right-cops-save-minority-lives/">saved thousands of black lives</a> with his remarkably successful policies on crime reduction. What has Al Sharpton saved, besides <a href="http://www.therichest.com/celebnetworth/celeb/televangelists/al-sharpton-net-worth/">money</a>?<br />
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Ben Carson and Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke are two black Americans who understand the importance of conservative principles and good police work in protecting black lives.<br />
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Ed Brayton has dismissed Sheriff Clark with the racial epithet <a href="http://egnorance.blogspot.com/2015/09/ed-brayton-calls-milwaukee-sheriff.html">"Uncle Tom"</a>. <br />
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Ed Brayton is content as long as he is not personally threatened by the massive wave of violence Democrats have caused in black neighborhoods across America. After all, from Ed's perspective, it's not white liberals who are being killed in the streets of Baltimore, and vilifying cops certainly serves Democrats' political ends.<br />
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I've worked in inner city hospitals, and I've spent many nights digging bullets out of the brains of young black men raised in a culture that is largely the product of liberal Democrat politics. I've had nights where we had to stack the bodies in a corner of the trauma room because we couldn't get the dead people to the morgue fast enough to make room for the new people who just got shot.<br />
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I've worked in abattoirs fed by Progressive Democrat politics--broken families, multi-generation welfare dependency, liberal approaches to crime control and moronic police policies. I've seen what Democrats do to communities.<br />
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But as long as Ed Brayton is safe and able to morally preen, that's what counts.<br />
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Ed Brayton doesn't give a shit about black lives.<br />
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All
that is going on here is that the Republicans are pandering to their
base. Psych studies show that those who identify as conservative tend to
be highly focused on stability, authority and in-group vs out-group
morality. That’s why conservative politics is so universally concerned
with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant. It’s also why the focus is
always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. In
short, fear is the primary motivator for the Republican base and so that
is what they sell. - See more at:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/09/so-much-for-the-war-on-cops-part-2/#sthash.oHkbEfBW.dpuf</div>
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All
that is going on here is that the Republicans are pandering to their
base. Psych studies show that those who identify as conservative tend to
be highly focused on stability, authority and in-group vs out-group
morality. That’s why conservative politics is so universally concerned
with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant. It’s also why the focus is
always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. In
short, fear is the primary motivator for the Republican base and so that
is what they sell. - See more at:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/09/so-much-for-the-war-on-cops-part-2/#sthash.oHkbEfBW.dpuf</div>
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All
that is going on here is that the Republicans are pandering to their
base. Psych studies show that those who identify as conservative tend to
be highly focused on stability, authority and in-group vs out-group
morality. That’s why conservative politics is so universally concerned
with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant. It’s also why the focus is
always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. In
short, fear is the primary motivator for the Republican base and so that
is what they sell. - See more at:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/09/so-much-for-the-war-on-cops-part-2/#sthash.oHkbEfBW.dpufAll
that is going on here is that the Republicans are pandering to their
base. Psych studies show that those who identify as conservative tend to
be highly focused on stability, authority and in-group vs out-group
morality. That’s why conservative politics is so universally concerned
with being anti-minority and anti-immigrant. It’s also why the focus is
always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats to our well-being. In
short, fear is the primary motivator for the Republican base and so that
is what they sell. - See more at:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/09/so-much-for-the-war-on-cops-part-2/#sthash.oHkbEfBW.dpuf</div>
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It’s
also why the focus is always on looming and vastly exaggerated threats
to our well-being. - See more at:
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/09/so-much-for-the-war-on-cops-part-2/#sthash.oHkbEfBW.dpufv</div>
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mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-86621626830480326452015-09-09T08:03:00.000-04:002015-09-09T08:06:52.162-04:00Feminazis vrs Frat Boys: Act 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/09/08/college-promises-to-punish-students-who-heckled-mandatory-play/#ixzz3lDQRxYso">This</a> is funny (with my comments):</div>
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A liberal arts college in North Carolina is pledging to identify and potentially punish students who heckled a play about sexual assault the college forced them to attend.“It Stops Here,” an original play produced by students at Greensboro College, was first performed last Wednesday before a crowd of students, but the performance didn’t go as planned. According to people at the play, members of the audience frequently heckled the cast and shouted sexually explicit remarks.</blockquote>
They no doubt learned the sexually explicit remarks in their Queer and Gender Studies classes . <br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">“Many of the boys started calling out ‘She wanted it, it’s not rape,’ and making masturbation noises,” stage manager Claire Sellers <a href="http://myfox8.com/2015/09/04/audience-members-yell-sexually-explicit-comments-at-cast-of-greensboro-college-play/">told a local news station</a>. Sellers said the remarks were so excessive that cast members “became physically ill and vomited after the show because they were so vulgar.”</span><span class="nmx_ad_slot" id="azk33551" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><img border="0" src="http://engine.newsmaxfeednetwork.com/i.gif?e=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&s=OYe-9ZMbub9F1-0etbepx66_ex0" height="0px" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block; height: auto; max-width: 100%; position: absolute; vertical-align: middle;" width="0px" /> </span></blockquote>
They should have people heckle the rehearsals, to get the cast used to it. <br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sellers also criticized school faculty members, saying some were near the hecklers but did nothing to stop them.</span></blockquote>
The students were seated in Sanctuary Rows, so they were legally immune from the rules. <br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Notably, though, the hecklers do not appear to have been invading the performance to disrupt it. Rather, attendance at the play was mandatory for all incoming freshmen at Greensboro, as well as for some older student-athletes who were required to attend by coaches.</span> </blockquote>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">One of the play’s performers, Emily Parker, told <a href="http://www.hesherman.com/2015/09/04/harassment-at-a-campus-play-about-sexual-violence/">theater blogger and professor Howard Sherman</a> that the attendees were apparently unhappy about being forced to see the play.</span> </blockquote>
It actually sounds rather entertaining. <br />
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“A particular group of boys was talking rudely,” said Parker. “They were talking loudly about how they didn’t want to be there and how they thought he [the male actor] was gay. Typical teenage boy stuff. ‘He’s so gay’.</span></blockquote>
What's wrong with being gay? It was a compliment. <br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;">”Greensboro has responded firmly, not only condemning the playgoers’ heckling but promising to punish it. Severely, if necessary...</span> </blockquote>
The worst punishment they could impose would to make the audience see it again. <br />
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The college <a href="https://www.greensboro.edu/news-events.php?p=620">says it has launched</a> an investigation under Title IX, the federal law banning sex discrimination in education.“Under our new Sexual Misconduct policy, the comments that have been reported qualify as sexual harassment,” said college president Lawrence Czarda in a campuswide email. “The college is pursuing a formal complaint of sexual misconduct against the students and is working to identify them. Upon results of the investigation, those found responsible will face disciplinary consequences.” What sort of consequences the students could face is unclear, but the school’s penalties for sexual harassment go all the way up to expulsion."</span></blockquote>
The students could defend themselves in a disciplinary hearing by saying that they thought the actors were conservative speakers invited to speak on campus. No one ever gets punished for disrupting them.<br />
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mregnorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11431770851694587832noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3555199390227912207.post-22163786783402280932015-09-08T19:07:00.001-04:002015-09-08T20:06:41.744-04:00It seems that Ed Brayton doesn't give a damn about the slaughter of cops or of black Americans<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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My my. Ed Brayton really steps in it.<span id="goog_1353367562"></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/09/08/so-much-for-that-war-on-cops-the-right-is-imagining/">Ed</a>:<br />
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<b>So Much for that ‘War on Cops’ the Right is Imagining</b><br />
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A police officer is killed in the line of duty. Right wing pundits and talk show hosts immediately seize on the opportunity to blame it on their political enemies, claiming that President Obama and Black Lives Matter is fomenting a “war on cops” and that this is the deadly result of their attempts to make the police stop engaging in widespread abuse, particularly against dark-skinned people. The problem: The evidence <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/04/police-deaths-2015-law-enforcement-safety">clearly disproves their argument</a>.<br />
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[quoting link]<i> Despite urgent warnings from police and others about a “war on cops” allegedly linked to the Black Lives Matter protest movement, statistics show 2015 is in fact shaping up to be one of the safest years for law enforcement in a generation.<br />According to the Officer Down Memorial Page (ODMP), which keeps data on officer deaths going back over 100 years, 24 officers have been shot and killed by suspects this year. This puts the US on pace for 36 non-accidental, firearm-related police fatalities in 2015. Each one of such deaths is a tragedy for the officers killed, their families and the communities they serve, but this would be the lowest total in 25 years, aside from 2013 which saw 31 such deaths.</i></blockquote>
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There certainly have been assaults on and killings of cops that can be linked to the anti-cop hate peddled by Black Lives Matter--the execution in December of the two NYC cops by Ismaaiyl Brinsley who put up a message on Instagram:“I’m Putting Wings on Pigs Today,” he wrote with hashtags #RIPErivGarner and #RIPMikeBrown. “They Take 1 Of Ours … Let’s Take 2 of Theirs.” And of course there was the very recent murder of police officer <a href="http://egnorance.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2015-09-05T12:11:00-04:00&max-results=7&start=7&by-date=false">Don Allen</a>, in which the killers wrote anti-police slogans in his blood. There have been <a href="http://gawker.com/gunman-attacks-las-vegas-police-officers-in-ambush-sty-1729080803">several </a>ambush <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/29/texas-sheriffs-deputy-ambushed-in-execution-style-killing-at-gas-station/">attacks</a> on police officers in the past couple of weeks. All of this is taking place in an environment of hatred vented against police officers, including public protests chanting <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2014/12/13/al-sharpton-leads-thousands-in-saturday-march-on-washington-dc/">"What do we want?-- Dead Cops!--When do we want them? Now!"</a>and <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/30/black-lives-matter-activists-chant-pigs-in-a-blanket-after-cop-murder/">"Pigs in a blanket--fry 'em like bacon!"</a></div>
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There is obvious organized incitement to kill cops, and several cops have been murdered execution-style.<br />
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But Ed cites statistics that show that murder of police officers is down considerably over the past year--one of the lowest totals in many years.<br />
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How so?<br />
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The answer is obvious. Since police officers were vilified and attacked following the completely justified shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson in 2014, police officers across the nation have been reluctant to proactively engage criminals--not only for fear of being killed, but for fear of having to use deadly force and face the liberal lynch mob.<br />
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The consequence of this police withdrawal from confrontation is evident. The murder rate in American cities has risen sharply over the past year, and this is clearly the result of a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/protests-likely-to-accelerate-retreat-from-tough-police-tactics-of-the-1990s/2015/05/02/63f01dc4-f02a-11e4-a55f-38924fca94f9_story.html">change in police tactics</a>--a movement away from stop and frisk and away from proactive policing.<br />
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The result has been the <a href="http://egnorance.blogspot.com/2015/09/democrats-have-been-busy-solving.html">worst slaughter</a> of young black men in 20 years:<br />
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As the The New York Times reported, murder is up 76 percent in Milwaukee, 60 percent in St. Louis, 56 percent in Baltimore, and 44 percent in D.C. Blue America is awash in red.</blockquote>
So in reply to Ed's moronic argument that diminished murders of police means that BLM is not killing cops: the reason cop murders are down is that cops are not doing their jobs as aggressively and as well as they have since the early 1990's. Cops are laying low, and avoiding confrontations, <i>and the result is a massive wave of violence that is killing hundreds of young black men. </i><br />
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Black Live Matter has not only killed several police officers in execution-style ambushes, but it has killed hundreds of people--mostly blacks--because it has seriously hampered police from doing their job effectively.<br />
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The evidence Brayton cites to downplay the violence incited by BLM in fact points to massive violence caused by BLM <i>against black people</i>.<br />
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In fact, one can even do a calculus of police sacrifice to save black lives: when police were aggressively doing their jobs, more cops were dying <i>but more black lives were being saved</i>. The numbers show that <i>police officers have been sacrificing their own lives</i> to save the lives of the people in the communities they protect--mostly black communities. <br />
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The drop in murdered cops and the corresponding rise in inner city murders poignantly demonstrates the sacrifices police officers have made to protect their communities. <br />
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A lazy libtard blogger like Brayton pops his Cheetos and types away, uncaring that his idiot screeds are inciting the killing of cops execution-style and the slaughter of blacks in horrendous numbers.<br />
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All Brayton cares about is moral preening, which is all any liberal really gives a shit about.<br />
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Meanwhile, police officers--a million hard-working courageous men and women of all races--will go tonight into neighborhoods Brayton would never enter and risk their lives to save the lives of people who have been incited to hate them.<br />
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The 2015 Democrat murder wave--the slaughter of hundreds of people in inner cities, mostly young black men-- was caused by liberal scum like Brayton and Black Lives Matter. </div>
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