tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45500912416955224512024-02-21T18:51:17.603-05:00Political BramblesRay Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.comBlogger8634125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-44381595772595786612020-08-30T18:25:00.000-04:002020-08-30T18:25:11.497-04:00Liberal Yard Signs<p> Before you have a heart attack that a dead man is blogging, my name is Steve Schneider. I don't fancy myself a great writer or thinker, but I've hijacked my Dad's blog. He doesn't need it anymore.</p><p>The current insanity, as my father would put it, relates to all things Liberal. Anything goes, so they say. Let's have a look at this yard sign. Its trendy now to announce your delusion to the world these days. There are a few of these posted around my neighborhood and I have some thoughts on each line.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6b_4jelNqrqI5urqD0WkQjIKQFFK-ef2Vmq0UXN7vbIgJjPLfzR7a7ukmQBIKBOoMm-CtdhOReklhYdVj-A6BrSz5fPInepyV7j4_tT38sHw-Dt4ZF2FRjYLy-5HN5gYWHYAbX7MvCJ4/s636/Yard+Sign.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="581" data-original-width="636" height="293" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6b_4jelNqrqI5urqD0WkQjIKQFFK-ef2Vmq0UXN7vbIgJjPLfzR7a7ukmQBIKBOoMm-CtdhOReklhYdVj-A6BrSz5fPInepyV7j4_tT38sHw-Dt4ZF2FRjYLy-5HN5gYWHYAbX7MvCJ4/w320-h293/Yard+Sign.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Love is Love</li><ul><li>Of course love is love. Oh how witty. Dogs are dogs and cats are cats. What this is really saying is that Lust is Love; which it is NOT. It is a euphemism that says homosexuality is OK and we should all embrace it; which we shouldn't. This boils down to disordered inclinations. The inclinations themselves are not sinful, but acting on them is. What we shouldn't do is encourage them and accept them as normal. How far should it be allowed. Pedophilia, is that a "sexual orientation" now? After all, love is love.</li></ul><li>Science is Real</li><ul><li>Another witticism. Whoever made these signs must be very proud of themselves thinking we are all awed by their wit. Science is real. Why yes it is, but so is God and the two are not at odds, but that is what this sign so subtly suggests. We should reject God because science says so. I don't think so. We accept baseless assertions because some scientist says so. I don't think so. Covid masks anyone? Assume everyone has it? It's madness. There isn't much science going around these days. What ever happened to empirical data and testing. We're inundated with "studies" that don't amount to much more than opinion surveys.</li></ul><li>Black Lives Matter</li><ul><li>All lives matter. Take off your race colored glasses.</li></ul><li>We Are All Immigrants</li><ul><li>No doubt this line should instill shame in anyone who supports enforcing the borders of our country. Just what do you think you get once your countries borders are blurred or removed? For one thing, you no longer have a country. Are we to believe that by having a country we are perpetrating injustice? Nonsense. If you want to come to America, do it because you want to be American. Assimilate, learn the language, and thrive.</li></ul><li>Feminism is for Everyone</li><ul><li>Why is feminism for everyone? Because someone convinced some women that men were oppressing them? Now that so many the women are working, paying taxes, engaging is "love is love", getting divorces, getting remarried, proud single mother's persevering without the need for a man... What's next? Chesterton called it Free Love in The Superstition of Divorce. A mockery has been made of the marriage vow. Indifference abounds.</li></ul><li>Kindness is Everything</li><ul><li>Finally, my favorite. "Be Kind"</li><li>I don't believe that most people are unkind. What the sign is suggesting is that you should keep your mouth shut. My father said being kind is bad council when things are important. He wasn't saying that we shouldn't be kind, but he was saying it is more important to be Good and that means turning to God. It's important to tell people the truth and correct them when they are wrong. Chesterton once said “Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” Accepting all this insanity in the name of tolerance is not a virtue and just makes you look like you have no principles. Of course, being offended is the result of someone's "unkindness" (the audacity of telling the truth) and looking for ways to be offended, as my father said, just diminishes you as a person.</li></ul></ul><div>Thanks for humoring me. --Steve</div><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-13142258110073895572017-09-23T13:29:00.000-04:002017-09-23T13:29:01.250-04:00Insanity Growing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have not posted to political brambles in a long time, over a year. That's mostly because I've developed a Facebook addiction to what I call Whack-a-Lib. It's a mindless game and way too easy. The gist of it is: 1) a liberal says something stupid (that's easy since most of what they say is stupid) 2) disagree offering some cogent reason. 3) liberal repeats what he says and without addressing anything you said suggests you didn't understand him the first time. 4) you add additional material demonstrating your point of view. 5) liberal goes nuts and starts calling you names. 6) you point out that he's never so much as considered any of your points which demonstrated he was wrong. 7) name called accelerates. 8) point out that people who refuse to accept reality as it is are delusional.<br />
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The insanity is simply overwhelming these days. It doesn't seem that long ago when none of the current insanity was even on the radar screen. LGBT whatever that is has been raised to the status of some sort of immoral religion. Transgender bathrooms. Brainwashing children in school with the proper pronoun to call them while they're encouraged to do delusional things like imagine they are of the other sex. Parents physically abusing their underage children by encouraging them to be transgender. Pulling down statues of revered figures from American history. Pretending that disagreement justifies extreme violence. Disrespecting a duly elected president for no reason but that he wasn't your candidate.<br />
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Of course this list could go on and on and on because the insanity seems to be accelerating. It doesn't seem to show any signs of slowing down. Crazier and crazier and encouraged by people that should know better. Meanwhile Rocket-Man is demonstrating hydrogen bombs in North Korea.Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-12769514289337314542016-03-03T10:13:00.001-05:002016-03-03T10:15:09.862-05:00TRUTH: The Ultimate Macro-Aggression! <iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VggFao85vTs" width="425"></iframe> "Know your enemy!" is a fundamental principle. Western Civilization was built over three millennia to become the soundest and most fruitful culture in the world. The West is crumbling today because it has lost faith with its own foundation. Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-43869130869190531892015-12-31T09:54:00.001-05:002015-12-31T09:56:53.182-05:00A Primary Lesson Of History: DEMOCRATS ARE LIARSAn Example: (Sent to me by a good friend)<br />
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<b>HISTORY LESSON ON YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY CARD</b><br />
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Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts.<br />
Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.<br />
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Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION message was removed.<br />
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Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in red.<br />
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1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary <b><span style="color: red;">[No longer voluntary],</span></b><br />
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2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program <b><span style="color: red;">[Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you’re self-employed],</span></b><br />
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3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year <b><span style="color: red;">[No longer tax deductible],</span></b><br />
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4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program <b><span style="color: red;">[Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and Spent],</span></b> and<br />
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5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income<b><span style="color: red;"> [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed].</span></b><br />
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Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following:<br />
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Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?<br />
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A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.<br />
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Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?<br />
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A: The Democratic Party.<br />
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Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?<br />
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A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US<br />
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AND MY FAVORITE:<br />
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Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?<br />
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A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!<br />
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Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!<br />
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And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will evolve. Maybe not, though. Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so — but it’s worth a try. How many people can YOU send this to?<br />
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Actions speak louder than bumper stickers.<br />
<br />Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-16171015253252977102015-12-30T12:33:00.000-05:002015-12-30T12:37:25.630-05:00The Ten Things That Show Global Warming Is NonsenseCheck it out <a href="http://beartotheright.com/2015/12/27/why-human-caused-global-warming-isnt-so/">HERE</a><br />
1. Temperature records from around the world do not support the assumption that today’s temperatures are unusual.<br />
2. Satellite temperature data does not support the assumption that temperatures are rising rapidly:<br />
3. Current temperatures are always compared to the temperatures of the 1980’s, but for many parts of the world the 1980’s was the coldest decade of the last 100+ years:<br />
4. The world experienced a significant cooling trend between 1940 and 1980:<br />
5. Urban heat island effect skews the temperature data of a significant number of weather stations:<br />
6. There is a natural inverse relationship between global temperatures and atmospheric CO2 levels:<br />
7. The CO2 cannot, from a scientific perspective, be the cause of significant global temperature changes:<br />
8. There have been many periods during our recent history that a warmer climate was prevalent long before the industrial revolution:<br />
9. Glaciers have been melting for more than 150 years<br />
10. “Data adjustment” is used to continue the perception of global warming:<br />
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The short form: You're being scammed!
TRUTH: The Ultimate Macro-Aggression! Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-9117254782461092842015-12-24T14:27:00.001-05:002015-12-24T14:31:18.750-05:00Science Fiction: The Good Stuff!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been fooling around with NaNoWriMo for a number of years. For those who don't know what that is, it stands for National Novel Writing Month and extends from November first to November thirtieth each year. You win if you write 50,000 words in the thirty day period.<br />
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I finished NaNoWriMo in 2009, 2012, 2014, and this year, 2015 finishing finally my first science fiction novel in the tradition of middling hard science fiction.<br />
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Hard science fiction is stuff that doesn't depend on violating known science (at least not very much) and sticking close to things that are fundamental and true. <br />
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My book is about what has to happen to make man-in-space a going concern. We actually have most of the technology in hand right now to accomplish that for the earth-moon system but not for interplanetary travel which seriously stresses existing technology.<br />
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I had a lot of fun writing the book and it's the first volume of what is envisioned to be a three book treatment of man's expansion into space. Since I'm not really trying to be a traditional author I didn't go to the trouble of finding an agent or publisher. I'm 73 years old and don't have the time or patience to fool around with those folks so I just put it up as a Kindle book. I priced it very reasonably I think, at $3.99 to download to your Kindle or read on a Kindle on line.<br />
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You can take a look at it and read the first few pages by going <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Torch-Rising-Chronicles-Book-ebook/dp/B019M86SW4/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1450984779&sr=1-1&keywords=Torch+Rising">HERE</a> If you like science fiction I hope you'll try the book and give me some feedback on it. I'm currently starting work on the next volume whose working title is "Outward Bound" to reflect the capability that the first novel ends with.<br />
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I grew up reading the science fiction juveniles of Robert Heinlein and the books of Murray Leinster and many other science fiction authors. That reading had a great deal to do with my decision to become a scientist. Reality is a great mystery and scientists are those who explore this mystery in the most direct way. There is a great story about Robert Heinlein going to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to see one of the big events, the moon landing, not sure which. He was turned away by the managers and bureaucrats and the engineers protested telling management that if it had not been for Heinlein many of them, perhaps most of them, would never have gone into science. They got Heinlein in. After my family, Robert Heinlein is one of only two or three people that had such a large formative impact on my life.Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-38644318720831574522015-12-24T10:50:00.002-05:002015-12-24T10:50:14.410-05:00Merry Christmas! Remember You Are Not Of This World <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and the grinch doesn't find you. I am so fed up with the war against Christmas and Christianity in general that I could just get a few lengths of rope and go looking for money changers to whip. OK, maybe that is over the top. We constantly being told what bigots we are by the bigots. Christ came into a world no less fallen and no more fallen than our own and brought a promise, the final fulfillment of which is yet to come. We should pause and reflect on the reason there is a Christmas season at all. It's all because of God's love and promise of forgiveness. But forgiveness didn't come cheap. There's a cross at the end of the tunnel and there are lots of folks that don't seem to be looking for forgiveness because they're caught up in their own delusions. "No, you're not all right. You're deeply sick." God comes into our world, the <i>Word</i> who was the author of everything comes into our world to help us. Be thankful and celebrate. God has remembered you in your infirmity. We are all blessed in Him who comes to save us!</div>
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twenty-fifth day of December.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In
the five thousand one hundred and ninety-ninth year of the creation of the
world from the time when God in the beginning created the heavens and the
earth;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the
two thousand nine hundred and fifty-seventh year after the flood;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the
two thousand and fifteenth year from the birth of Abraham;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the
one thousand five hundred and tenth year from Moses and the going forth of the
people of Israel from Egypt;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the
one thousand and thirty-second year from David's being anointed king'<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the sixty-fifth week according to the prophecy of Daniel;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">in
the one hundred and ninety-fourth Olympiad;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the
seven hundred and fifty-second year from the foundation of the city of Rome;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the
forty second year of the reign of Octavian Augustus;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">the
whole world being at peace;<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">in
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nine months having passed since his conception,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-37771307777356124492015-12-02T07:58:00.001-05:002015-12-02T07:58:27.092-05:00Indictments: President Obama The Most Lawless President In History<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/TeDDrD3ii5I" width="420"></iframe> As good a list as any of all the fraud and abuse that Obama has personally and collectively engaged in. The mystery is why he is still in office and suggests that the lawlessness is far wider and deeper than we realized. The political class has betrayed the nation and continues to do so.Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-42878443698411919042015-11-29T16:07:00.002-05:002015-11-29T16:07:44.258-05:00Understand Your Enemy: The Alinsky Leftists Take Down<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DmEE61iVhCA" width="425"></iframe> Bill Whittle tells it like it is back in 2009 and you should watch this as an insightful retrospective. We are dealing not with politics but with evil and we better get used to calling it what it is. These are people without morals or integrity who want to hold us to our morals and integrity while not practicing the same. It's time that they are removed from the public sphere. Their objectives are evil and as long as we let them get away with this we not only lose, but we see the country progressively destroyed.Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-73559079718250773522015-11-28T11:19:00.001-05:002015-11-28T11:59:08.462-05:00The Emerging Threat <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This is just cool and a great meme illustration for a threat that is emerging from what at first appears to be an innocuous scene. I thought it was so interesting I had to share it. It's actually an octopus but I only infer that from the title of the original animated gif. Neat huh?Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-92144515060069179912015-11-27T11:33:00.001-05:002015-11-27T11:33:16.795-05:00Understand That You Are Governed By Evil People<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/C_Sp5Cf9jTw" width="560"></iframe>Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-59480364371058970502015-11-22T15:08:00.002-05:002015-11-22T17:04:34.095-05:00TRUTH: The Ultimate Macro-Aggression<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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That's a new meme I want to get moving. Ever since this silly micro-aggression nonsense got started I've been made more and more aware of the "sensitivity" of all the poor two year olds in adult bodies we have on the streets and in the universities.<br />
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You can't simultaneously have free speech and trigger warnings and hate speech and "I'm offended" and all the rest of the craziness that is just the latest round of delusional activity brought you by the increasingly insane left.<br />
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Just following the rhetoric is sickening. "Black Lives Matter" and of course they do. But wait a second. Black lives don't matter more than white lives or police lives or anyone else's life. But they want to get offended if you point that out. What's wrong with these people? "White privilege?" What the hell is "White Privilege" but an invented concept to fuel resentment?<br />
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I have Irish Privilege and German Privilege and Army Privilege and Ph.D. Privilege and all the other adjectives that define me followed by the word "Privilege." I am privileged to be a human being made in the image and likeness of God and that's where all my "privileges" and every other characteristic of my being comes from.<br />
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Oh, by the way, if you're offended then suck it up! I couldn't be more offended by this whole stupidity that is being fostered by the left. When are people going to wake up to these fiendish word mongers and their lies? There is only one master that the left serves and it is the Father of Lies.Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-77821646684564226432015-11-22T14:27:00.000-05:002015-11-22T14:27:12.587-05:00And Here's The Same Guy As Previous Post On Gun Control<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sFMUeUErYVg" width="560"></iframe> I particularly like the emphasis on data that this guy presents. I'm always saying things like "follow the data" and this guy does it. If you want to discover the truth about something and not just the usual propaganda about what people think sounds good you have to follow the data. TRUTH: The Ultimate Macro-Aggression.Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-13067068501911691582015-11-22T14:00:00.002-05:002015-11-22T14:00:13.995-05:00In Case You Wanted A Good Summary Of The Reality Of Global Warming Science (What There Is Of It)<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0gDErDwXqhc" width="560"></iframe>Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-76958527496563268852015-11-20T10:50:00.000-05:002015-11-20T11:13:03.089-05:00The Culture of Death Exposed To The Spotlight Of Truth<div style="background-color: white; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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Reality 101: The Business of Death Masquerading As Healthcare<br />
Full Program:<br />
Part 1 -<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uuZLUgyVpM"> Framing the Issues </a><br />
Part 2 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuu5SvPYY8w">Proportionalism as a "Virus"</a><br />
Part 3 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMLxNJqkdxg">Repackaging Death as Life</a><br />
Part 4 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e02c92k505k">Using False Death and Palliative Care to End Life and Take Organs </a><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95C1FkUnxJI">Part 4 cont.</a><br />
Part 5 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEaNfonCFPM">The Role of Community Organizing in Spreading the Culture of Death </a><br />
Part 6 - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU_-YVKolLc">Trojan Horse Legislation and the Bureaucratic Takeover of Palliative Care</a><br />
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I attended this conference this past weekend and it was an eye opening revelation. The language meisters are always spinning the language to make good appear evil and evil appear good so that it's really no surprise when you discover that you've been lied to over and over and over again. Still a big dose of revelation all in one weekend is sobering. These are the presentations and they are compelling and revealing. We live in "interesting" times, or perhaps more accurately decadent and scary times. I've recently adopted the slogan: TRUTH: The Ultimate Macro-Aggression. The liars hate the truth because it exposes their lies.Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-14799392802155039512015-10-03T20:21:00.000-04:002015-10-03T20:21:07.956-04:00Inspirational ... Gotta Listen To Lou Holtz<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M3LOo_Ccyws" width="425"></iframe> I loved this address because it teaches really important life lessons that way too many people today have not learned these days. Three great principles of life that can make you a success regardless of what you've learned or how much you learned.Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-64964170034350599892015-10-01T21:19:00.001-04:002015-10-01T21:19:06.861-04:00The Last Two Survivors Of The Doolittle Raid Celebrated And Bill Whittle Was There<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rx9QXC3iJss" width="425"></iframe> This gutsy historic raid that raised the morale of the nation and gave Japan the realization that they were not invulnerable despite the Pacific ocean is a little piece of history that too few young people today remember. We should start teaching real history again instead of socialistic brainwashing. It wouldn't hurt to add a dose of principles and critical thinking. We might end up with young people that will make America once more the exceptional nation that they inherited.Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-63451643937941616122015-10-01T17:27:00.002-04:002015-10-01T17:27:19.553-04:00The Nature Of Liberalism Explained Clearly<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Uj9qvBwOeMA" width="425"></iframe> Awesome presentation that everyone should view and understand. Liberalism is delusional because it fails the test of truth.Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-58008671515672556142015-09-29T18:15:00.001-04:002015-09-29T18:15:49.267-04:00What's Happening? This Is The Disgrace Of Our Current Government<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/aimgwzV-77U" width="425"></iframe> Ted Cruz explains what is happening and why. Frankly it isn't too far from what Joseph Sobran used to point out which is that the Democrats are evil and the Republicans are stupid. That sums it up but Ted gives you more detail. Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-33384052734024405732015-09-23T15:59:00.001-04:002015-09-23T15:59:25.115-04:00Klavan and Whittle Engage On A Transcendental Topic<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_guxX3_PMxo" width="425"></iframe>Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-90825873400185793182015-09-23T15:25:00.002-04:002015-09-23T15:25:22.807-04:00The Primacy of Truth<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We live in a society that no longer recognizes the underlying principles that human beings ought to honor and base their lives on. That sounds pretty extreme in a society that doesn't seem to honor anything, but that's just the point. We're created a world were virtue has no meaning, where achievement is showing up, where criticism is demonized as bigotry and were lies are commonly advanced as wisdom. <br />
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How did this happen? I've lived through it. I was a boy in the 1950s. People weren't afraid of their shadows in those days. We carried pocket knives, shot guns, played with liquid mercury, raked leaves and burned them on the side of the road, routinely set off fireworks and firecrackers and cherry bombs on fourth of July, played pick up baseball far from home having driven our own bikes to the location without any parental guidance. Now pretty much all of those things are either forbidden or supervised. That's crazy.<br />
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But what is worse is what we allow. Now killing babies is seen as a right. Doing drugs is increasingly accepted. Perversion (well that's what we called it and I don't think it has changed) is now supposed to be accepted and even celebrated. Lunacy like transgenderism was mostly not even conceived of when I was a kid. Now it seems as if people think it is a right to decide for yourself what your sex is. These things are signs not of progress or enlightenment but of sheer lunacy.<br />
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The problem is that we'd lost touch with truth. Truth is simply what we say of a statement when it conforms to reality. What is true is also what is real. It's quite popular today to see truth as relative, which is a rather odd idea since the notion that truth is relative really means that truth is merely a matter of opinion so on that supposition nothing is real. I guess a pop-tart real is a gun or a disassembled clock really is a bomb, oh wait, back that one up ... but you get the idea nothing is what it is but only what someone says it is. The problem is that that is not true. <br />
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I'm reading a book by a guy named Tom Holland titled <i>In The Shadow of the Sword</i>. I only mention this because is talking about the early history of Persia he talks about Zoroastrianism which is a dualistic religious view that, to quote a passage on page 91:<br />
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"The rise and fall of earthly empires were the mere shadow play of something infinitely more cosmic: the clash between Truth and the Lie."<br />
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That passage made me think of other cosmic dichotomies: Light and Darkness, Good and Evil, the Beginning and the End, Life and Death, Right and Wrong, the Microcosm and the Macrocosm, God and Satan.<br />
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I tend to think I am watching the death of the West. Another name for the West until a few hundred years ago was Christendom. At the time of the Reformation and the Enlightenment the West was shattered although it didn't look that way and many of its great achievements were yet to come. But now as moral decadence obscures the truth we see the West sinking. The Demographics says that Europe will be Islamic in a few decades if the birthrates continue as they are now. Should the West not be restored to its ancient and historic commitment to truth it looks very much as if it will be gone and a great Lie which emerged from the desert long ago will stand victorious in its place.Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-89074358450862021502015-09-02T17:59:00.001-04:002015-09-02T17:59:25.558-04:00IPCC Climate Fairy Tale Doesn't Hold Up When Real Science Arrives<iframe width="425" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/k385CraNIyY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-77222264651502068912015-08-19T11:08:00.001-04:002015-08-19T11:08:21.165-04:00Practice Discernment Of Spirits<iframe width="425" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7y1xJAVZxXg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> The prosperity gospel seems pretty inauthentic, especially after the last couple of days listening to the gospels that show Jesus criticizing those whose attachment to things is greater than their attachment to God. Something to think about when we get too attached to our stuff as George Carlin called it.Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-72681830576468398622015-08-13T23:43:00.000-04:002015-08-13T23:43:17.412-04:00The Death Of Knowledge: The Great Unlearning<iframe width="425" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9yoQgAQOALc" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> If we don't turn this around we are done.Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4550091241695522451.post-81648905796697271932015-08-12T16:12:00.000-04:002015-08-12T16:12:08.781-04:00Ben Carson In His Own Speak On Second Amendment Rights<iframe width="425" height="240" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4IIHqee8NBY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> I think this video pretty much speaks for itself and it certainly made me more comfortable with Ben Carson's candidacy. Ray Schneiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00736292194954847543noreply@blogger.com0