Why Robin Has To Die

Perhaps this is why the new Robin is being killed off by DC Comics?  He sold out as any grandson of Ras al Ghul would?  So Batman had to fix the problem?

False Prophets

Was watching a bit of Fox News last night and was well gobsmacked by an commercial with this woman who called herself a 'Cultural Catholic.'  What?

Then she proceeded to try the classic Democrat strategy of scare the voter.  Claiming it was the Catholic Bishops who sought to take away their religions freedom.  Really?

First off what is a 'Cultural Catholic?'  Is that someone like Nancy Pelosi who fully supports killing the unborn in direct opposition to the tenants of the faith she claims to follow?  You know what, I have far more respect for the people who walk away from the Catholic Church.  They are standing up and saying aloud I can no longer abide what is going on.  They have guts, the strength of their convictions unlike 'Cultural Catholics' who try to dress up in the robes of faith while committing evil.

Second, who is trying to destroy religious freedom?  Obamacare is.  The limitations being imposed upon Catholic institutions are so strict that to comply, it would force the charity to ask the person in need if they are Catholic.  If the person says no, the charity must turn that person away least they lose their tax-exempt status.  This is why the Catholic charities are suing over Kathleen Sebilus' insurance mandate for contraception.

So once again I come to a painful conclusion.  Democrats can only advance their malignant causes if they lie and twist words.  When examined with logic and rationality, their farrago of lies falls apart.

News for Friday

Egypt is progressing to a regressive state with all alacrity - American tourists taken hostage and then released.

Google's seven year battle with authors who want their royalties has taken another step to somewhere.  While having a corporate motto of 'Don't Be Evil' it seems Google is using the old lobbyist ways to influence the federal government to see things it's way.  

Meanwhile Amazon keeps going digital and redefining the concepts of bookstores and business models.

The Obama administration and its water-carriers better gird their ideological loins as Catholics and their organizations take their objections to the next level.  Get ready for June 14th.  It might be the thing to toss OWS onto the rubbish heap of failed socialist plans.

Special bath salts have entered the common lexicon after a man had to be killed by police in Miami as he tried to chew another man's face off.  It seems to be a serious problem where sedation does not work and no one is sure if people will be normal after taking a dose.

On the space front, there was a bit of good news.  The SpaceX Dragon capsule performed a flawless mission to the ISS and splashdown.  Bravo Zulu people, may you keep doing it.

Free Speech Friday

The phrase, "Evil flourishes when good men do nothing" by Edmund Burke is a good place to start this post.

I am not going to comment, just let Aaron, Stacy, and Liberty Chick recount their very nasty encounters with a convicted felon.  Then scoot over to Michele Malkin's post on this matter.

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin

Incense and Georgetown

This Friday Georgetown University signaled how far they have strayed from the Jesuit path to knowledge and wisdom.  They allowed HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to give a speech.  She tried to wrap the whole outrage about Obamacare mandates into the context of John Kennedy and his Catholic faith while running for President.  We will not detour into discussing how Kennedy was a socialist's idea of a Catholic at this writing as it has been covered too well already.

Ms. Sebelius seems to want to follow in her boss' footsteps.  Tell half-truths and hope no one bothers to read the original speech.  So her lies could then stand.  Alas for her, too many of us can still think.  John Kennedy in his speech was warning about the things Obama and Sebelius want to do, "It was Virginia’s harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson’s statute of religious freedom.  Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril."

 Now the author of The Exorcist, William Peter Blatty, and others are taking Georgetown University to Washington DC Diocese Court of Canon Law to argue that this institution should be stripped from calling itself Catholic.  That the university has failed to hire Catholic teachers and has failed to teach morality while failing to follow Church doctrine. 

The comments are priceless in the above article.  One such commentator obviously slept through their classes on religion.  Followed by sleeping in the pews every Sunday and Holy Day assuming they ever went to Church once they left their parents house.

Prinhart1 - Better call Father Merrin, Mr. Blatty is possessed. Anytway, who is anyone to define what exactly a catholic should be? You've got people of faith who are homosexuals, who are pro choice, and hell, when I was in Catholic school, we only learned about evolution and we had sex ed.

Luckily there are others who are having none of the above inclusive prattle from the uninformed.

Autotec127 - The comments so far show just what Mr Blatty is talking about. You want to call yourself Catholic here is what Catholic's believe. Here is what you have to accept and believe to be a Catholic. Being a Catholic is a free choice each person can accept or reject. What you can not do is declare yourself a Catholic and then demand that the tenets of the church must change to fit your "enlightened" new age thinking. If you do not believe what Catholics believe you are free to leave. But what we get is whining and thumb sucking from liberal babies who have discovered that they are the smartest people who have ever walked the face of the earth. I myself an not a Catholic, so I am free to tell you what a good Catholic would not say to you liberal brats. Shut that F**K up and go to hell.

As for Prinhart1 and others like them, since they are unsure of what the Catholic Church stands for and they don't want to stir themselves on a Saturday or a Sunday to attend Mass, I suggest they buy a recent copy of a book called Catechism of the Catholic Church.  It might do them a world of good.  And when they questions they could talk to the parish priest.  It could be an eye opening experience.  Or you can decide not to read the book, its called Free Will.  But willful ignorance of a faith is inexcusable and gives lie to any claims to being educated.


As for the Jesuit school of Georgetown.  Perhaps they do need to get out the incense, Holy Water, crack open a Bible, and then examine themselves.  Then they just might discover the log in their eye and remove it.  Might find again the path St. Ignatius of Loyola set out for all Jesuits.  And as a result - Go forth and set the world on fire.

What Do You Stand For?

The above video is powerful and its message is not just about Catholics and President Obama's health care package; a package that has granted waivers to two whole states and exempted the Amish and Muslims from even complying because neither faith has a fundamental objection to the concept of insurance.  So right there this is an un-Constitutional law since it is implicitly denying equal protection.

Then it gets far worse.  This whole package of rules and regulations endangers all vestiges of the separation of church and state.  In fact this back door in the dark of the night party line passed legislation is going to erases that boundary.  It grants to the federal State the totalitarian power of being the final arbiter of what should be or should not be taught by any faith or creed.  This is why Catholics, Christians, and Jews are all standing up and saying no, it makes them subservient to the secular State.

A Righteous Response

It did not take long for the Roman Catholic Church to respond to President Obama’s magnanimous, in his mind, compromise on his health care diktat.  In fact the rebuke was read from many pulpits this past weekend across the land.  And the rebukes keep coming out.  Today Rep. Issa in the US House is asking about it.

There is one grave problem with this compromise.  Yes it sounds like Obama has deftly threaded a needle to satisfy various constituencies.  The brutal truth is he has tried to deflect the gravity of the sin he is trying to force on people of faith. 

In the original version of his diktat, Catholic hospitals would be forced to provide birth control pills, condoms, vasectomies, hysterectomies, and pills like RU-486.  All of these items are anathema to Catholics of faith because they transform the act of bringing life and hope into this world into something purely made of lust and creating sterility in its wake.  Hence for any Catholic institution to comply, they would be committing a sin of commission.

The new version transforms this sin into one of omission.  According to Obama the Catholic hospitals no longer have to knowingly pay for all the above ‘vital’ medical requirements, instead the underwriters of the insurance policies would pay for them at zero cost.  The sin is still happening but now someone else is doing the sinful deed as Catholic institution are supposed to look the other way.

As for Obama’s tissue thin lie that the insurance companies will pay for all these items without charging Catholic institutions.  Does he think we are all morons?  It seems he does and those who have gone back into the Obama fold prove he can sucker some people all the time.  The fact of the matter is the people or institutions will pay premiums on their insurance policies.  It will be from these premiums that all those counter-life items will be paid for since insurance companies are not charities.  So we find ourselves back again committing a sin of omission, we are supposed to just look the other way while evil occurs.

So what Caeser Obama offers is just a difference of poisons.  One is overt and the other more subtle, both are still deadly to the soul.  We need to keep standing up and saying no to this administration.  When Obama is forced to blink and back away from all this, we must not rest.  We must keep up the pressure and roll back in its entirety the abomination Obama and others call ‘affordable’ health care.  This health care program allows four states and many friends of Obama to be exempt from.  While Democrats have been abusing the Commerce Clause, they have also abused the Equal Protection Clause.  These abuses and usurpations of power must be stopped least the tree of Liberty is renewed with the blood of patriots.  Most importantly we must do this before our collective soul is irredeemably blotted by these evil actions.

Post script – Obama pretends he knows Scripture.  So do the ‘religious’ who support him.  But I find it hard to credit their knowledge and faith when they so willingly serve a worldly master called socialism.  They will engage in many amazing feats of verbal gymnastics to dress up their aberrations as most holy writ.  As Obama proved when he replaced individuals performing acts of charity with a secular government acting as the arbitrator of who will get charity.  These are false prophets who shall wear millstones about their necks.

Jealous Tyrants

There has been a lot of religious talk of late and how the secular sphere intersects such.  Of faith held beliefs colliding with secular beliefs.  Of confronting Moloch.

In the Peoples Republic of China; what a contradiction as the people have no say in how they are oppressed, just ask the employees at Foxconn who were awakened at midnight in their barracks, fed a biscuit and a cup of tea, and then churned out iPad2s with a new screen, religious oppression proceeds.  That government has imprisoned nine Roman Catholic priests.  Eight are of the 'underground' church that has the support of the Holy See in Rome but this church is oppressed by Beijing who pushes a state approved catholic church.  The Vatican and Beijing have been at an impasse over this matter for years with Beijing appointing catholic cardinals without Papal approval.  Here is a case of a 'modern' state oppressing and imposing beliefs on the people they are supposed to serve.

The Soviet Union went a step further when the likes of Lenin seized the reigns of power.  All places of worship were forcibly closed.  All monasteries were closed.  The Russian Orthodox faith was suppressed.  And yet it was the Soviet Union who collapsed while the faithful persevered.

In Germany in the 1930s similar things were tried.  The National Socialists ordered the crosses atop churches be replaced by their party symbol.  Youth groups like the 700,000 strong Protestant youth group were shut down.  There could only be one deity in Germany and all were supposed to swear fealty to the Fuhrer.  Thus there was no room for the likes of the Jews or the Catholics or Protestants.  Even pagans were oppressed.  It took six brutal years of war that ravaged a whole continent before this evil was ended.

So what has all this history to do with confronting Moloch?  Its very simple, in all three cases presented above an oppressive secular government has attempted or is attempting to wipe out any other locus of power.  These other sources of normative mores, I think that is the term, rebuke what the secular mandarins want to impose.  They deny the validity of this secular dogma.

Now we are seeing this secular dogma being attempted here in the United States.  Health and Human Services has issued a draconian ruling that will have drastic impact upon religious non-profits of all beliefs.  These non-profits have one year to comply with the demands of Moloch ... errr...  the Obama administration's diktats.  What are these demands?  These religious non-profits MUST offer as part of health insurance things they find morally offensive and evil.  A good example is RU-486 which is also called the Morning After Pill.  A woman will be prescribed these pills in order to kill off a possible fertilized zygote.

After the trials of Nuremberg and what happened at My Lai, soldiers are now expected to refuse unlawful orders.  What the Obama administration is demanding of religious non-profits is an unlawful order.  It is an attempt to impose secular state beliefs upon individuals.  What next, will Cesar Obama demand all offer burnt sacrifices at the altar of Obama as divine being?  That did not work well for Imperial Rome nor France after their revolution.

That the Obama administration is going ahead with this is the height of hubris and folly since the US Supreme Court just struck down 9-0 another attempt to subjugate the religious.  In that case, the Obama administration tried to tell religious ministries they could not discriminate in any form on whom is hired.  The Supreme Court firmly rejected this concept.  If this ruling had been allowed to stand then we could have seen a Buddhist temple compelled to hire a follower of Santaria.

So where do we go from here to stop this latest ploy?  Sen. Rubio(R-FL) has already introduced legislation that attempts to neuter this nefarious ploy.  Much must still be done.  A strong message has to be sent to Washington DC on how wrong this ruling from HHS is.  If we do not stand together for religious freedom as outlined in the US Constitution now, then we risk far more than all these non-profit hospitals shutting down.  We risk the total loss of liberty.  Either we hang together or we hang separately as Benjamin Franklin once said.

No Thank You Google

I just logged into Blogger and Google asked me to enter my phone number. I declined. Google has been stealing peoples information via wireless. Google is in a legal fight with authors and publishing companies over Google's digitizing 'orphan' books and making money off it. So I see no real reason to give Google anymore information than I absolutely need to. For a company that purports to do no evil, some of their actions are awfully smelly.

Info War Pt MMCVII

J.R. Dunn postulated about using Julian Assange as a patsy to peddle mis-information in American Thinker.

Any number of methods exist for manipulating Assange and his organization -- send WikiLeaks fake files, locate their archives and insert new files, manipulate e-mails and other messages, and others that even my nasty imagination would miss without specialized training. As for the purpose -- that's not difficult to envision. A message implying that certain jihadi leaders are on the payroll. That a critical North Korean officer is a Western agent. That certain things that Osama, the mullahs, or Dear Leader wanted done were not done, or were botched in the doing.

Well it seems Pakistan is doing it if we are to believe this article. Naturally the phony cables paint their arch-rival India in a negative light. While it seems these cables will be disproved, who is to say some of the 250,000 cables Assange says he has have not already been compromised? After all he is screaming about his internal leaks so he is not very smart when it comes to security or intrigue.

Welcome to the very murky world of online information. Trust but verify has been the by-word of many for years due to previous manipulations of data. On the one hand we see nation-state actors akin to Public Security Section 9 waging cyber-war[Stuxnet] while those fighting for Julian Assange are an odd collection of free-lance hackers that bring to mind comparisons to the Individual Eleven[Anonymous]. The battlelines in this war go far beyond the physical but will have an impact on many battlefields including the physical.

I now have a nostalgic urge to go read The Adolescence of P-1, Snowcrash, The Cuckoo's Egg, and Takedown. The simpler days of computer security and hacking. Assange reminds me of Mitnick is some ways, both loners with no real understanding of the tools they used for their larceny and that lack of understanding ultimately brought them down.

Juan Williams' Excommunication

For daring to utter in a public forum his personal beliefs, Juan Williams has been excommunicated from the Church of Progressiveism. In this case he has been deprived of his employment at National Public Radio for not hewing to their orthodoxy while other employees who voice their objectionable opinions have retained employment.

Where as the Roman Catholic Church, over its two thousand years of existence, has struggled with how and when to excommunicate those in open rebellion with their teachings, it seems the progressives have but one punishment. That of public excommunication vitandi, the shunning of the offender in all ways. To bar the malefactor from any congress with other progressives. To raise the flaming sword and bar the way back unless the malefactor makes an abject public apology admitting their fallacy of belief.

Pretty intolerant of the progressives isn't it? Now Mr. Williams has gotten a taste of what Martin Luther felt. Or perhaps how Copernicus and Galileo felt whilst under the gimlet gaze of a very orthodox Catholic Church being confronted by revolutionary ideas. This whole event is a revealing and ugly look under the hood of progressiveism, a belief system that is so unsure of its own beliefs that the smallest variance is considered anathema.

They Miss Him

I find this totally hilarious. It seems President Obama coming out in support of Cordoba House has failed to impress the average American citizen who still seems to oppose the whole project by a whopping 70%. So what do trans-national progressives do when a pet project that makes their ego feels good is tanking badly? Why abandon all pretense to logic and grasp at that last straw in a forlorn hope to be rescued by one they have scorned in the past. The man whom they simultaneously accused of being able to fool people while being so stupid he could never talk coherently has now become the man they turn to to provide them cover and support the building of Cordoba House. They expect George W. Bush to get with them and support the building.

For the past year and a half, more and more people have started to miss George W. Bush being President. I never thought it would be Democrats who would also miss him. Looks like I was wrong. Hopefully George W. Bush declines and stays home while privately laughing.

Oratorical Fail - Again

President Barack Obama gave a speech before an Iftar dinner in the White House. This speech has caused much reaction. In this speech he came out in support of the mosque/outreach center a bare two blocks from Ground Zero, which has caused the most reaction. I have stayed out of this mess with only a few posts on other blogs. With a name like Cordoba attached to this project, its a linkage to a golden time in Andalusia for Islam. But if they follow all the rules and laws to get this built, then as a matter of law it is settled. But as matter of is this right? This is where that concept diverges from what is legal. It seems Cordoba seeks to invade hallowed space, Ground Zero, for its own purpose which is insensitive and hurtful to many victims of 9/11.

Now that I have addressed my feelings on the whole Mosque Mess, lets look at the President's speech shall we?

First he links Seders, Christmas parties, and Iftar dinners with the Hindu festival of Diwali.

Here at the White House, we have a tradition of hosting iftars that goes back several years, just as we host Christmas parties and seders and Diwali celebrations. And these events celebrate the role of faith in the lives of the American people. They remind us of the basic truth that we are all children of God, and we all draw strength and a sense of purpose from our beliefs.

Seders, Christmas, and Iftar are ceremonies to a singular deity - Jehovah, God, or Allah. Diwali, depending up where you are, can celebrate Rama's homecoming or Laksmhi or Kali. One can see how it does not fit with the others Its an artificial attempt to make all these events and deities the same, thus destroying the uniqueness of each ceremony in the name of political expediency.

But let me be clear. As a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as everyone else in this country. And that includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in Lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America. And our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country and that they will not be treated differently by their government is essential to who we are. The writ of the Founders must endure.

Here the President tries to navigate the tricky waters of the mosque controversy by dressing it up as a civil rights issue. And again he uttered one of his boilerplate statements of 'let me be clear.' On the bright side President Obama seems to be a strict constructionist in regards to the First Amendment of the U.S. Consitution.

The laws that we apply without regard to race, or religion, or wealth, or status. Our capacity to show not merely tolerance, but respect towards those who are different from us.

Here President Obama is not advocating religious or cultural neutrality which true justice under US law is supposed to demand. Instead he is saying with the word 'respect' that special treatment must be accorded to those who are different. In this case, the followers of Islam.

The first Muslim ambassador to the United States, from Tunisia, was hosted by President Jefferson, who arranged a sunset dinner for his guest because it was Ramadan —- making it the first known iftar at the White House, more than 200 years ago.

June 1805, the United States Navy forced the bashaw of Tripoli to sue for peace, to stop demanding tribute, and to stop preying on American merchant vessels. Here are links to treaties and truces between the United States and Tunisia. So that is the historical context of President Jefferson meeting with the Tunisian ambassador that Obama omits.

"I hope I shall never again be sent to Algiers with a tribute except it be from the mouth of a cannon." - Captain William Bainbridge, commander of USS Essex and USS Philadelphia during the Barbary Wars. As captain of the USS George Washington, he brought tribute to Algiers, hence this quote.

For in the end, we remain “one nation, under God, indivisible.” And we can only achieve “liberty and justice for all” if we live by that one rule at the heart of every great religion, including Islam —- that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us.

Again Obama attempts to force an artificial narrative upon people when it comes to comparing religions. As long as taqiyaa [Religiously sanctioned dissimulation - pg 268, God Has Ninety-Nine Names by Judith Miller] is allowed then it is impossible to say with honest conviction the Golden Rule applies in Islam.

One would think after catching so much grief over his Cairo speech and all those historical goofs contained therein, this President would be better at this speech thing. But it's obvious he is incapable of learning anything new. Which bodes ill for all in this country and those who struggle for freedom in the world.

Addendum 11:30pm Aug 14, 2010.

While the Port Authority of New York/New Jersey has given Cordoba House a green light for their mosque/outreach center/multiplex the efforts to rebuild the only house of worship destroyed on the 9/11 attacks has been stalled by the same Port Authority for over a year. Unless satisfactory answers are offered to solve this mystery about St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, then people will assume Cordoba got some of that respectful special treatment President Obama talked about Friday night.

And speaking of that speech from Friday night. While the President, First Lady, and one daughter cavort on Gulf beaches to promote tourism, the President has been forced to make clear what he meant Friday night.

"I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there," he told reporters in Panama City, Fla. He, his wife, daughter Sasha and family dog Bo are spending an abbreviated weekend there as part of an effort to help Gulf Coast tourism that has suffered because of the BP oil spill."

Tell us another story Mr. President, we still have one more leg to pull.

Heh

Freedom of Speech

From Rides a Pale Horse, in response to Linda 'Tokyo Rose' Douglas calling upon American citizens to snitch on each other.

Don't think I need to add anything to this classic poster from FDR's terms as President of the United States. Why we fight.

Sotomayor's First SCOTUS case

The following case Citizens United vs the FEC will be the first case as a Supreme Court Justice she will sit on. Arguments have already been heard, but new arguments are scheduled for September which means Sotomayor will be part of the process.

The likes of Alito and Roberts are already negatively disposed it seems after the government lawyer argued before the court that under Section 203 the FEC could require Section 203 compliance for such things as books. You heard me right, books on politics or politicians could fall under FEC review. Wonder if books like Dreams of My Father, American Evita, Year of the Rat, or Unfit for Command would get printed in the future if this interpretation is upheld. Talk about controlling free speech.

And how Sotomayor rules on this case will be the first indicator of how liberal she is. Or if she is a moderate as she told the Senators. I think we will see her true colors here. Heaven help us if she goes far left and supports the government's argument.

Ministry of Truth

It's amazing how in seven months, vociferous objections turn to clamoring demand. Under the Bush administration, the media was constantly living in fear that DHS would kick in their doors to shut them down for exposing such vital programs as tracking bin-Laden's mobile phone. At least that is what alot of their articles wailed about, but it never happened.

Now. Well lets look at the current situation. Just this past week, the Washington Post was busted for trying to sell their access to President Obama for $25,000 a pop in a desperate attempt to stave off financial ruin. For the Washington Post, they backpedaled and cancelled the whole sorry scheme when it was exposed.

Sensible employees of the Washington Post would pull their knickers up after such an embarrassment. Alas one seems determined to dig the grave deeper. I am talking of Ezra Klein who has decided the adopt the mantra of the news is too important to allow market forces to shut the papers down. So the federal government should provide money to the newspapers.

Yes, you heard me right. A minion of the Fourth Estate is now clamoring to be protected by the government they claim to be protecting the people from. The contra-logical pretzel Ezra Klein now embraces is further proof they need to either die or adapt. Its called economic Darwinism after all and there should be no TARP to save them.