Month: December 2005

“Mailmen hurry, shoppers scurry,
Time is fleeing—oh! so fast!”

Time is tight right now, so although I plan on writing my own perspective on some recent ACLU shenanigans, I’m just going to crosspost John Stephenson’s Stop the ACLU post from today… for now. Lots of good stuff there (and I’m grabbing some of the “Christmas decoration” resources when I can make the time later today). DO NOTE: Host the images at your own media repository. The guys at Stop the ACLU can afford just so much bandwidth! 🙂

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Every year we watch as the secularization of the birth of Christ happens around us. This year people are being preemptive, and its been quite successful. Kevin McCullough has started a campaign to send the ACLU Merry Christmas cards. Another effort is out there as well called Operation Nativity.

Dr. Charles Nestor, director of The Truth Matters, is announcing a project called “Operation Nativity” with the goal of having Christians across the country set up nativity scenes on their own property.

Nestor states, “It’s that time of year again. We’re not even out of October and already the forces are aligning to prohibit the public celebration of the birth of Jesus.

“December 25 is the day in our culture that is set aside to acknowledge and to celebrate that Jesus of Nazareth was born. For Christians it is more than a day of feasting and the exchange of gifts, it is a holy and solemn time to join our voices in unison as the angels proclaimed on the hillside to the shepherds, ‘Glory to God in the highest.’

“I am calling for Christians everywhere to join me in Operation Nativity. While we continue to support the public displays, let’s flood the country with nativity scenes on our own properties!

“Think with me what could happen if on lawns in every community, on business property, on church lawns, at Christian schools, on empty land, and literally everywhere you looked, there was the depiction of the scene that recognizes the birth of Jesus.

“Simple cutouts are available. Many already own lighted sets. It could be a family project, filled with opportunities to teach children about the events surrounding the birth of the Savior.Source

We are all for this, and encourage everyone to join in this expression of Christmas. And we want to take this idea and run with it! Decorate your blog for Christmas with a nativity scene, in support of religious expression, and as a sign of your support for stopping the ACLU. The ACLU will be busy this Christmas season, lets be prepared.

Please download the pics, and host them yourself…I can not afford the bandwidth of hotlinking. If you want to put the nativity scene pic in support of Stop The ACLU, and to decorate your blog for the Christmas season, copy the code below, and replace the URL of the pics with the downloaded pic that you host.

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If you decide to add these to your sidebar, spread the word with a post, and then let us know with a trackback! Here’s to the Christmas holiday!

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More later…

Shamelessly flogged at CustomerServant.com, and others later, perhaps.

Anything new?

When things get hot, the Global Warming Cultists scream, “Global Warming!”-naturally. And when things are cold? Same old same old… naturally

Heh. I had gotten tons of mail in a church music e-list about this, blogged a short piece, then I saw Freedom Folks had blogged it, too: Churches This Christmas, no prayers will be said in several megachurches around the country. Even though the holiday falls this year on a Sunday

[Santa’s gonna put some coal in some pastors’ stockings fer sure… ]

Oh, for some reason that reminds me: watch out for Christmas Music Gone Bad. Happens every year, but some examples can cause excruciating pain for folks who have good ears. Try this one, if you dare. (mp3 file) I warned you. If you have a stomach of cast iron, plated with stainless steel, click to listen to the mp3 below. But remember: I warned you!

I’ve heard worse, but not by much… well, unless you count popcrap posing as “music”.

Brainless Wonder Commits Suicide by Proxy! *yawn* An example of micro-evolution? A candidate for the Darwin Awards? Rigoberto Alpizar claims to have a bomb in his backpack and tries to run from armed sky marshalls. What did he expect? That they’d throw Nerf ballls at him? A little chlorine in the shallow end of the gene pool, please! Move along, folks. Nothing to see here but a thimbleful of brains, slowly cooling…

TMH’s Bacon Bits: Mainstream Media’s Green-shaded Glasses Who enables the eco-moonbats? Who gives them voice, respect, affirmation? The moonbat-loving, science-ignorant, agenda-driven press, of course.

[“Mainstreeam Media” my bippie. Get it right, dude: Mass Media Podpeople. 😉 ]

The Real Ugly American finds a “Real Ugly Post” on another blog: More Lies From The Left! I do not know if he is an misinformed nitwit or a liar but it has to be one of the two. This morning I visited Blogenlust for the first time. Through a link on Memeorandum to his post Cognitive Dissonance Is Dead….

[Can’t trust someone who’d write for a e-rag called “Blogenlust” anyway. Probably channeling Jimmie Carter’s dead brain. You know, the one he keeps in his peanut. Right next to his nutria hunting trophy.]

Riffing off my Kerry 180 Bonus Post and adding a LOT of good info, Radioactive Liberty notes how Democrats Relive Vietnam The Democrats can’t seem to get past the Vietnam template. Every lesson they learned from those formative years was wrong. They continue to align themselves with the enemies of America, and do so intentionally with the demise of the American way...

[Yep. Today’s Dems are never happier than when they can invoke their victory over the South Vietnamese people.]

(… wanna put one-a these in my stocking?)

Saw this over at The English Guy’s What’s Hot blog and I started drooling over just how cool it is… yeh, a physiological reaction to a too-cool technotoy:

Ion iTTUSB Turntable with USB Record

“…the world’s first USB turntable allowing you to convert your old vinyl collection directly to CD or MP3 with the included recording software. (NO SPECIAL DRIVERS NEEDED) The ION USB turntable includes Audacity software for Mac/PC for recording as well as a trial of Bias Soundsoap 2 for cleaning and restoring vinyl. This turntable also has line level output for connecting to any home stereo with CD or auxiliary (AUX) inputs. This product is compatible with any software that supports USB audio input sound cards.”

I’ve been good. No! Really I have! Santa! Hey, you: fat guy! Where you going?

*sigh*

Why is the move to secularize Christmas entirely out of the public arena going so well for the allies of Islamic jihad (ACLU, the usual suspects among the Loony Left Moonbat Brigade, the Mass Media Podpeople’s Army, et al)?

Because all too many Christians have no faith at all, just a “country club” association with the fashoinable church du jour or a tepid connection to a weak-kneed “traditional values” concept. Witness:

Megachurches cancel services on Christmas

Huh?!? Yep “Churches” (big, successful, ever more secular and image/marketing-conscious Willow Creek prominently featured) are backpedaling on… Christmas.

“This is a consumer mentality at work: ‘Let’s not impose the church on people. Let’s not make church in any way inconvenient,’ ” said David Wells, professor of history and systematic theology at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in Hamilton, Mass. “I think what this does is feed into the individualism that is found throughout American culture, where everyone does their own thing.”

I think perhaps some of these churches have lost sight of some central principles.

“I beg you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service. And do not conform to this world: but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what [is] that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” Romans 12: 1-2

Or, if reading from their Bibles is too taxing, pperhaps counsel in a book written in the popular vein might help…

Brothers, We Are Not Professionals: A Plea to Pastors for Radical Ministry

Contra to the “conform to the secular world” ideas of “marketing the Gospel” and “targeting and audience” that leads to… canceling a Sunday service because… becuase it’s on Christmas day???-Piper offers this model:

“We pastors are being killed by the professionalizing of the pastoral ministry. . . professionalism has nothing to do with the essence and heart of the Christian ministry. The more professional we long to be, the more spiritual death we will leave in our wake. For there is no professional childlikeness, there is no professional tenderheartedness. There is no professional panting after God.”

Nah. They’d need the video. “Books are too haaaaard.”

Yep. The more Christians-churches-try to emulate pagans, the more the pagans win. “Here, let me put just a drop of poison in that glass of milk. How about another drop? More?”

Crossposted at Cathouse Chat

Shamelessly flogged at Cao’s Blog Mid Week OTB. 🙂

…to Keep the Coffee Coming. Kat has an unusually ecclectic mix of Christmas music (well, unusually ecclectic for anywhere but her place, perhaps 🙂 that will brighten your day.

How about Christmas is a Joyful Day: Lord Executor or Cherry Tree Carol: Judy Collins? Good stuff, Maynard.

Oh, and after you visit Kat’s place for a while, plug this link into your fav media player. My fav classical station is slowly working its way toward the Christmas season, a lil bit at a time.

Lastly (for now, at least :-), while there was only one “Christmas” song—oops! Forgot “In Dulci Jubilo” and I think one other?—in last Saturday’s Celtic Heartbeat, you might as well have the link and listen to some cool music, anyway. 😉

My daily referral to Cathouse Chat’s Daily Advent Meditation. Today, Romeocat meditates on the beautiful Christmas/Advent song, “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming”. Listen to it here as you read her meditation.

Kathleen Battle singing “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming”. Press the play button to listen.

Or an instrumental version by Joel Mabus:

(Yes, I am playing around with three or so different media players. Eventually I’ll settle on one of them or find a different one I like well enough to standardize on. Eventually.)

Shamelessly flogged at Bloggin’ Outloud.

President Roosevelt’s address December 8, 1941

Text of the address:

President Franklin D. Roosevelt: Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy—the United States of American was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

The United States was at peace with that nation, and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific. Indeed, one hour after Japanese air squadrons had commenced bombing in Oahu, the Japanese ambassador to the United States and his colleague delivered to the secretary of state a formal reply to a recent American message. While this reply stated that it seemed useless to continue the existing diplomatic negotiations, it contained no threat or hint of war or armed attack.

It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.

The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. Very many American lives have been lost. In addition, American ships have been reported torpedoed on the high seas between San Francisco and Honolulu.

Yesterday the Japanese government also launched as attack against Malaya.

Last night Japanese forces attacked Hong Kong.

Last night Japanese forces attacked Guam.

Last night Japanese forces attacked the Philippine Islands.

Last night Japanese forces attacked Wake Island.

This morning the Japanese attacked Midway Island.

Japan has, therefore, undertaken a surprise offensive extending throughout the Pacific area. The facts of yesterday speak for themselves. The people of the United States have already formed their opinions and well understand the implication to the very life and safety of our nation.

As commander in chief of the Army and Navy I have directed that all measures be taken for our defense. Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. . .

[From History Matters, a U.S. history survey course on the web offered by George Mason University. The audio and text are from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, Hyde Park, New York and are public record.]

See The MaryHunter’s post at TMH’s Bacon Bits for more references—and more bloglinks— to “A Day That Will Live in Infamy…”

(And yes, I know the correct quote is “A Date Which Will Live in Infamy…” I just bend, in this case, to the common misquote, because it is more euphonious. So sue me.)

“What’s OTA?” you may ask. OK, I said you may ask. Asking, now? ‘K.

OTA is essentially a group of folks who are too lazy (or too busy, have let their blogrolls get too large to read through in a day, etc.) to go out and hunt up all the interesting posts they wanna read and simply “let” suckers do their work for them other folks bring interesting posts to their doorstep. So, go ahead and link to this post, then trackback here. It’ll show up below, I’ll have an easy time finding good stuff to read and then I’ll round ’em up and comment on ’em later.

Meanwhile, let me leave you with this lil politically incorrect thought: evil white man shoved “the first Americans” off “their” land? Poppycock. The “first Americans” weren’t the first. Not even the second. Check this out: for some strange reason, people-NOT of current “native American” stock-were living in California (of all places) at least 135,000 years ago.

Void all those deeds, folks! We need to go out and hunt up these people’s progeny and pay reparations! (Right after we hunt up the folks who supplanted them and have them pay and then the current stock of “native Americans” and have them pay… get in line. It’ll be our turn toward the end. heh)

Shamelessly flogged at Diane’s Stuff, NIF and TMH’s Bacon Bits.

Just yesterday, I saw an article over at Michelle Malkin’s place which sent me into a complete rage:

According to Kilmeade, who visited Walter Reed on Friday, a US Army soldier named Joshua Sparling received the death wish while recovering from a gunshot wound he received in Ramadi, Iraq. It’s the only Christmas card he received.

I don’t think that David would mind me saying that this is an absolute, obscene atrocity!The story was originally reported by Two Babes and a Brain –

During our visit to Walter Reed, we all piled into a room of a young soldier who had just come out of surgery. His parents were there to take care of him. His room was decorated with autographed photos…one from Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac who had visited the previous day…others of professional football players. There was also a card from a child…a get well card…

..or so one would think.

FoxNews has carried the story, and has put out a call for people to send cards, notes, encouragement, and support to Joshua Sparling, who recieved that hateful letter, as well as his comrades-in-arms who are recuperating at Walter Reed Army Medical Center:

Capt. James Ollinger
Sgt. Zavian Simspon
Specialist Brian Radke
Specialist Jason Braase
Sgt. David Nevins
Sgt. Jose Ramos
Cpl. Todd Bishop
Sgt. Ryan Donnelly
Sgt. Eva Diane Cochran

Please address your cards to the servicemember at this address:

C/O Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20307-5001

Thank you so much for your support of our brave and honorable troops; let us all make sure that they know we are greatful for their service, and greatly honor their courage and sacrifice!

In a weird flashback to 1971 (when he testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and uttered his now infamous slander of soldiers serving in Vietnam), Jean Fraud sKerry utteres these words on national television (Face the Nation), Sunday, December 5, 2005:

JOHN KERRY: I don’t agree with that. But I think what we need to do is recognize what we all agree on, which is, you’ve got to begin to set benchmarks for accomplishment; you’ve got to begin to transfer authority to the Iraqis, and there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children, uh-uh-uh, you know, women, breaking sort of the customs of the — of — of — of — historical customs, religious customs, whether you like it or not. Iraqis should be doing that. And after all of these two and a half years, with all of the talk of 210,000 people trained, there just is no excuse for not transferring more of that authority.

That’s right, Jean Fraud sKerry said American soldiers are terrorists. What other construction can one put on it? “…there is no reason, Bob, that young American soldiers need to be going into the homes of Iraqis in the dead of night, terrorizing kids and children…”

What is even more bizarre is that he then goes on to say that Iraqi soldiers should be the ones “terrorizing” Iraqi citizens. Parse the sentence. it’s what he actually said.

And this idiotic, traitorous, slanderous son of a bitch wanted to be President? Why is he still a Senator and not impoverished for his slander and executed for his treason?

There’s a very special place in hell for you Jean Fraud. May nature and nature’s God escort you there with all due haste.

This has been a bonus “Jean Fraud sKerry where’s your damned 180?” post. toodle on over to Cao’s for less virulent fare.

[This post has been redacted to remove my true feelings as unfit for public view.]

BTW, I’d give a hat tip to someone on this but I had a RCOB descend when I saw this during a rare visit to Rush Limbaugh’s site. I guess it goes to Rush. Don’t know exactly what led me there. Whatever.