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Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Is Jimmy Carter Channeling Saul Alinsky?

The community organizers are at it again...or still. Jimmy Carter is the latest liberal clone beating the drum that opposing Obama's policies proves you are a racist. (Hmm...does that include the black conservatives in the movement?)

Carter appears be channeling Saul Alinsky. Here's a little of what the famous rebel espoused. Quotes are taken from Rules for Radicals.

First of all, Alinsky was a true secular humanist who believed in nothing but the accumulation of power. Like most liberals he believed there is no such thing as truth. "An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth -- truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations." Carter, who left his Church recently, has always been a moral relativist, able to justify almost anything despite it opposing the Christian faith he professes.

Since the Alinsky organizer does not believe in truth and his only God is power, his ethics are Machiavellian: "The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means...." And also: "The seventh rule... is that generally success or failure is a mighty determinant of ethics...." In other words, "Might proves right." So if you lie, cheat, spread slanderous and false rumors about "the enemy," you are justified as long as it moves you toward the goal. Bingo! Does Carter really believe that all those opposing Obama are racists or is this simply a convenient tactic?

Positioning yourself on the moral high ground is one of the most insidious rules in the playbook. "Do what you can with what you have and clothe it with moral garments." On target again. Carter is attempting to take the moral high ground by labeling all those who oppose Obama's government takeover as racists. It fits with another Alinsky tactic, "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it." We know who the target is - conservative Americans who love the Constitution and want it upheld by government. Carter, the mainstream media, liberal politicians, etc. are all engaging in "freezing the target." They attempt to paint those who disagree with Obama's policies as extremist, racist, dangerous, anti-government, gun-toting, Southern, rednecks. Look at the rhetoric and recognize the tactic. If you repeat a lie long enough, as Joseph Goebbels knew, many people will chant the mantra. Carter has just become the highest profile cheerleader for the lie.

Do you think Obama/Carter are unhappy with the current hostile atmosphere being created in the country? Think again! Remember, Obama is a community organizer first. Alinsky says, "The first step in community organization is community disorganization....Present arrangements must be disorganized if they are to be displace by new patterns.... All change means disorganization of the old and organization of the new." Hostility and tension carry the plan forward.

Alinsky goes further. "The job then is getting the people to move, to act, to participate; in short, to develop and harness the necessary power to effectively conflict with the prevailing patterns and change them. When those prominent in the status quo turn and label you an 'agitator' they are completely correct, for that is, in one word, your function—to agitate to the point of conflict."

Playing the race card is a manipulation. "[The organizer] must create a mechanism that can drain off the underlying guilt [of bleeding-heart liberals] for having accepted the previous situation for so long a time." Who are they trying to manipulate? Not the conservative, tea party patriots, that's for sure, but their liberal base. The real racists are the organized agitators who keep their useful lackeys on the liberal plantation stirred up and ready to attack THOSE RACIST, REDNECK, SOUTHERN BIGOTS.

Why is this the most divisive president we've ever seen? Do you recall any president who so often attacked good-hearted, patriotic Americans as this man has? It's not an accident. Obama is an Alinsky organizer and he and his allies (or useful idiots) like Carter are following the rules.

Things are unlikely to calm down because another important Alinsky rule is, "Keep the pressure on, with different tactics and actions, and utilize all events of the period for your purpose." Obama has plans now to circulate among his media adorers with a string of appearances on TV talk shows. Hopefully, the dumbing down of the American people, which I believe is deliberate, will work against him here. The thirty-second attention span of many viewers may make them sick to death of seeing Obama's pretty face once again going "yadda, yadda, yadda."

Read Rules for Radicals. If you want to combat Madison Avenue's manipulative advertising tactics, you need to know what they are. If you want to combat the community organizer's plans you need to know when he's trying to "freeze, personalize, and polarize" you.

Maybe we need to develop our own book of rules for fighting the radicals. We have a good start already -- The Ten Commandments and the Eight Beatitudes. Our standard bearer is Christ the King. Our boot camp is in Church.

As for Jimmy Carter, his statements about racism, whether misguided or deliberately provocative, indicate he is willing to slander good Americans to advance the liberal agenda. It reflects badly on him and puts him squarely in the camp of Saul Alinsky and those willing to use any immoral means to a bad end. Shame on you, Jimmy, you should have stuck with peanut farming.

Carter 'Racism' Claim Draws Widespread Criticism

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Time to Go, Gramma; No Soup for You!

Praying to Satan? Ad for Adultery? Our Lady of Sorrows, Pray for Us!

No wonder the Blessed Mother weeps. The culture is in free-fall and there's no sign of it turning around. We are living the prophetic statement that there will come a day when good will be called evil (Those who stand up for life are labeled intolerant, etc.) and evil will be called good (perversion is a blessing). We need to make reparation for our own sins and the sins of the world. Our Lady of Sorrows, Intercede for our conversion.

Here are a few examples that show Satan is American Idol #1:

MSNBC

Remember the Calvin T-shirt, "Life is short, play hard." What do you think about the slogan, "Life is short, have an affair." MSNBC apparently approves and while I didn't think it was possible for them to sink any lower into the pit, they did. Last week, the network aired an ad promoting adultery. I am not kidding. The ad shows a man and woman in bed and the woman is snoring (could be me). The guy looks at her and then at the booze on the bedstand (Guess he needs it to make love with her). Anyway, he gets up and goes downstairs passing a very unflattering wedding photo at which he closes his eyes and sighs. We get the overvoice as he's walking down the stairs: "Most of us can recover from a one night stand with the wrong woman...but not when it's every night for the rest of our lives." Then it gives the pitch for the affair service. So much for wedding vows. If you want to watch this pathetic ad go here.

I checked out the ad site and was appalled to see that this is mainstream. The website shows a door hanger like the do-not-disturb signs at hotels. On it are the words "As seen on The View, Ellen, Dr. Phil, Larry King, Good Morning America." Affairs Guaranteed. But they assure you that they are discreet. Pathetic!

MTV AWARDS
Then there were the MTV Awards with Jack Black leading a prayer to Satan with the audience holding hands and repeating it.

How much longer will the Lord tolerate us? Maybe not long, but the Blessed Mother has always said that her children praying the rosary and doing penance as victim souls in reparation can withhold the wrath of God. Remember that Calvin T-Shirt? There's a Christian take-off that reads "Life is short, pray hard." We would do well to follow that advice.

The Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows

When Mary appeared to the two young shepherds at LaSalette in France in 1846, she wept over the sins of the people, particularly because they did not keep Sunday holy. When she appeared to Bernadette Soubirous in 1858 at Lourdes, the Blessed Lady urged people to pray the rosary and she left a miraculous spring where people in pain could come to be cured, sometimes physically, more often spiritually. In 1917, Mary appeared again, this time to three little shepherds at Fatima where she urged them with the words: "Penance, penance, penance" and showed them a terrifying vision of hell where souls fell into the flames "like snowflakes."

In 1932 with Europe immersed in sins of the flesh and moving toward another world war she appeared to four young people in Beauraing, Belgium and promised, "I will convert sinners." At Akita Japan in 1973 Our Lady brought a more urgent message:
With my Son I have intervened so many times to appease the wrath of the Father. I have prevented the coming of calamities by offering Him the sufferings of the Son on the Cross, His Precious Blood, and beloved souls who console Him forming a cohort of victim souls. Prayer, penance and courageous sacrifices can soften the Father's anger.
In 1980 Mary appeared in Cuapa, Nicaragua to the church sacristan Bernardo Martinez warning once again that if the people did not change they would experience serious suffering.
Ask for faith in order to have the strength so that each can carry his own cross. The sufferings of this world cannot be removed. Sufferings are the cross which you must carry. That is the way life is. There are problems with the husband, with the wife, with the children, with the brothers. Talk, converse so that problems will be resolved in peace. Do not turn to violence. Never turn to violence. Pray for faith in order that you will have patience.
Always Mary comes like a loving mother warning her children and urging us to repent and reform our lives. She brings us a message from her Son. "Reform your lives." Her message is consistent. "Pray the rosary." As we see our country immersed in the depravity of abortion, pornography, same-sex marriage, greed, class envy, violence and murder...Isn't it time to turn to Our Lady of Sorrows? Stand at the foot of the cross with her. Accept your sufferings and offer them in atonement for the sins of the world.

More on Civility and Tea Party Racism

Black conservatives may be scarcer than hen's teeth, but they sure are articulate and they are multiplying. Watch out, you lefties playing the race card. People are beginning to wake up to the fact that it's a cheat you're pulling out of your sleeve.


Manufactured March Madness

Garofalo on American Tea Parties: Racists Who Hate the Black President–Really

Those Racist Tea Parties!



And one more from Alfonzo for good measure. Buy his book!

Civility is Suddenly a Big Issue -- This is a Reality Check.

The Mainstream media is suddenly concerned about the ugliness of the debate in America. Those tea party folks are inserting an uncivil and even dangerous tone into the debate that we've never seen before, they say. Give me a break! Do you folks have short memories? Where were you during the Bush years? Where were you when Sarah Palin's CHILDREN were being attacked by the likes of David Letterman and Bill Maher? After watching the CNN video below which summarizes hundreds of thousands of patriotic Americans by ONE stupid protest sign, check out the "civilized" attacks on George Bush. Oh, I forgot, those weren't uncivil attacks; they were true.

Frankly, I'm not a Bush fan. I didn't vote for him in his second term. He is a big government neo-conservative and contributed to a lot of our problems. I vote candidates, not party. Having said that, let's hear the left justify the photos below. And I'm old enough to remember the ad during the Johnson/Goldwater election with the little girl picking daisies when the nuclear explosion takes place and you see the mushroom cloud in the background.

Scare tactics and demonizing your opponent aren't an invention of conservatives. Get real, CNN. I was there in D.C. and I saw very few signs that by any stretch of the imagination could be interpreted as racist. This is just one more example of the mainstream media carrying water for the left.







George Archibald's New Book and Fr. James Haley

Journalism is War and so is Fighting Homosexuality in the Church

Matt Abbott has a great column on George Archibald's new book, Journalism is War. Check it out.

Monday, September 14, 2009

Fair is Fair

One of my readers thought I was unfair to show the photos of the Mall after the Inauguration and the Tea Party and draw conclusions from them. Maybe she's right.

Do you think it's fair to compare trash photos from a liberal and conservative event and use them to draw conclusions about liberals and conservatives? I admit that I do know some liberals who would likely be out with trash bags picking up after everybody. That's a good sign. It means that they believe in good citizenship and stewardhip of the earth. Those are Christian principles. It's also the camper's and hiker's rule: leave a place cleaner than you found it and if you treck it in, treck it out.

There was actually a litter free inauguration group that was urging people not to trash the Mall and they appear to be liberal. Obviously their admonitions had no impact because Inauguration 2009 resulted in between 100 and 130 tons of trash, more than ever at any event in the past. So who was listening to the President's message of personal responsibility? Not many.

On the other hand maybe the problem is that people didn't believe he meant. If the government is going to take care of you like mommy did, then Nanny Sammy will pick up after you as well.

A few more photos from the Inauguration:

This one a few blocks west of the National Gallery of Art which is located at 4th and Constitution near the Capitol and visible in the background

This site has a video taken near the Natural History Museum at 9th St. Obama's Hordes Trash Inauguration Site

To be fair, the tea party folks left some trash behind as well.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

The difference between liberals and conservatives

The first picture was taken on the Mall after the tea party on Saturday. The second was taken after the Inauguration last January. Now which of these crowds cared about the environment? No surprise here: it's the nature of liberals to figure someone else will always clean up after their mess. Who would you rather have as a neighbor?



Buyer Beware: Mom's Trick will Cost You

Have you seen the ads all over the Internet about the mom's trick to whiter teeth? Well, after seeing them umpteen times, I decided to check it out. Turns out the "mom's trick," combining two whitening products, isn't quite as good as it sounds. Dazzle White (which changed its name to Dazzle Smile) and Smile Bright apparently are working together on this advertising project. I filled out the information at Dazzle Smile and went to the payment page where I had to read the fine print to see exactly what these companies were up to.
Offer Details:When you place your order today with DazzleSmile, you will automatically become a part of our elite customer club. Your active credit card will only be billed $4.95 for the shipping of your 14-day day trial. If you choose to keep your trial, your active credit card will be billed the low member price of only $87.62 for your trial, and each additional month you continue to use DazzleSmile. (Shipped as a fresh, 3 month supply every 90 days.) And remember, there’s no obligation – you can cancel your membership at any time by calling 888-948-5508. Orders outside of US pay an additional $9.95 for shipping. No obligation, CANCEL ANYTIME!


How can you use your "free" trial without keeping it? And if you don't return it, you've committed to paying for it. This doesn't say one word about returning the "unused portion." Consumers who don't read the fine print on this bogus free offer may not realize that it's "negative option" commitment. In other words, you must opt out because, if you don't, you've committed to a regular shipment of their product and will be charged for it. If you keep the product, you've signed up for their "club" which will keep charging and charging and charging. And how easy do you think it will be to get your money back and get cancelled?

And this is only the "Dazzle" company. I decided not to give any of my info to Smile Bright which also charges your credit card a hefty fee. By the time you're finished you may be in hock a lot more than whitening at your dentist would cost. There ain't no "free trial" about the approach sneaky and unethical so I wouldn't have anything to do with these companies no matter how effective their products are. As for the phony guy in the white coat - that's Madison Avenue all the way. Doesn't he look like a medical authority as he tries to convince you you're getting something for nothing?

Remember, there's no such thing as a free lunch, whether it's a faux medical authority promising you teeth whitening or a liberal in a three piece suit promising you free health care. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Don't be conned by snake oil salesmen taking you for a sucker.

Check out the complaint board on these products and don't become one of their posters. One person claimed credit card charges of over $1,000. Some savings! As for "the mom" trying to convince you to do this, exactly how much did she get paid for advertising "her discovery?"