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Creative Minority Needed

Posted by Mike on Friday, October 09, 2009 2:48:27 PM
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Benedict XVI, reflecting on dwindling church attendance among Christians in the post-Communist Czech Republic, told journalists en route to Prague "that normally those who determine the future are the creative minority."

In America, Jews have always filled this role of helping to set the agenda. Recent trends show that while most Americans still believe in a Supreme Being and profess to being Christian, fewer and fewer young people identify with any particular religion. This means that for the future, Christian believers who are regular church goers will have to become another creative minority lending new ideas and a unique moral perspective to the increasingly secularized society at large.

Europe is also heading in the same direction, with fewer and fewer Christians who practice their faith regularly. Also, the European Union continues to be reticent about expressing constitutionally the formative influence of Christianity in shaping European culture over the centuries. Both America and Europe are becoming dominated by secular, cultural elites, out of touch with the vast majority of citizens.
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Buchanan's Germany

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, September 02, 2009 10:33:57 AM
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Pat Buchanan's latest column is entitled "Did Hitler Want War?". Of course Hitler did not want to go to war. Only a fool would want to start a war that would cause great loss to one's own country. This would better describe the attitude of American neo-conservatives who wanted to start American wars that could not be won in Iraq.

What Buchanan overlooks is that the victorious powers of the first World War essentially boxed Germany into a corner by imposing unreasonable demands on the German people and creating an untenable democratic structure of the Weimar Republic. Hitler, who was somewhat of a war hero, gave Germany a way out of the dilemma.

In the former Austrian Crown lands including Bohemia, most of the people including those who were German speaking resisted unification with Germany and wanted to maintain the status quo. It was only after the Nazi Anschluss in which there was a de facto annexation of Austria to greater Germany in 1938 that the German speaking people in the Slavic countries, who considered themselves Austrians, went along with Hitler's takeover of the former Czechoslovakia, although there had always been support for unification among the more extreme factions.

Europe was always united culturally. As far as France had strayed from its Christian roots during the French Revolution, France had to stand for something against the neo-paganism of the Nazi Reich. Britain, France and America went to war not to save Poland, Russia and the Jews, but to save what was left of Christianity in Germany.
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Media Distorts Reality in Gates Incident

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, July 29, 2009 4:55:52 PM
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Lucia Whalen the emergency 911 caller has accused the media of racial distortion. There is obviously a concerted effort being made by some in the media to make the majority of citizens apologetic for being white. One cable TV commentator, obviously upset by the negative attention Whalen was getting for placing the call, made the observation that "she is not White, she is Portuguese...".

To my recollection, Portugal is in the far western part of the Iberian Peninsula in Europe. Although there were Arabs and Jews who settled there in the Middle Ages, the population is still overwhelmingly European. Both of Lucia's parents were from Portugal, although she was born in the US. Do these pundits now believe that some Europeans or Americans of European descent are no longer white? Is this to help minorities overthrow the racial power structure in America?

Officer James Crowley specifically identifies the person with whom he spoke at the residence who made the 911 call as a "white female" in the incident report. Obviously, the TV commentator has some serious issues with race that she cannot even report accurately what happened.

Then there is Chris Matthews and his black sidekick who were amazed and incredulous that the wiseguy black Harvard Professor "Skip" Gates could have possibly made the statement "ya I'll speak with yo mama outside" and thereby insinuating that Officer Crowley was indeed a racist as Gates accused him of being, and a liar to boot.   I hope they enjoy their beer at the White House.

Is it any wonder that someone who received a college education and job promotions based upon racial characteristics could act like such an idiot?

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Misplaced Generosity

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 11:54:25 PM
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The murder of a security guard inside a Washington DC memorial museum is indeed reprehensible. The question arises, should it be the business of our government to be involved in funding and maintaining a museum with taxpayer dollars which highlights the sufferings and depredations of a people?

If we are doing it for the Jews, then why not for the Armenians, Iraqis, Iroquois, or Palestinians, each of whom have suffered great losses at the hands of oppressive regimes? The list goes on and on. Why do we Americans always end up bearing the brunt of historical mishaps? Doesn't this kind of promotion actually encourage hatred and killing of innocent people?

There is something truly grotesque about a nation that feels obligated to showcase past abuses of torture and death, while allowing the indiscriminate killing of millions of its own young.

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GM R.I.P.

Posted by Mike on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 11:38:07 PM
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It's not just the unions that like high fuel-consumption vehicles, presumably because they generate more dollars per vehicle. Individuals and families also like them. Detroit would not have built them otherwise if they weren't going to sell. The problem is not what kind of vehicle is being built, but whether America has the guts to break the Israeli stranglehold and start harvesting our own energy reserves. Believe me, there ARE plenty of energy reserves here in America. We don't need to be dependent on foreign sources. Cost is only one factor to weigh. There is also the safety of America which we will insure a lot better once we stop tapping into foreign energy sources.

America has no business being in the Middle East. President Reagan learned this after the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. The Middle East had been under Arab rule for centuries. Jews began settling there and then were given the British Mandate circa 1922 to make a homeland there. Those who settled there did so of their own accord. Americans do not owe them anything. If they choose to stay there, then it is their own responsibility to provide for their own defense, and to resolve disputes with their geographical neighbors, and not the responsibility of the United States. Rick Wagoner did an outstanding job of managing General Motors in difficult times. We did not elect a king to dictate when a company must fire its top man, and appoint a bureaucratic corp to tell them what models they must produce as opposed to more popular models. Our government has gone berserk. Rahm is Svengali to Barack, and all he cares about is perpetually supporting the Israeli state. It's too bad that GM went down. Keep your Klunker. Don't buy GM socialist produced automobiles. They will not be any good, take my word for it.

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