I have just finished reading a very compelling essay from Norma Zager. Zager is associated with Ari Bussel with Post Cards From Israel. The Post Cards website publishes essays of Jewish insight of thoughts about Israel and Judaism. I get the impression (I could be wrong) that Bussel and Zager have a Liberal Jewish mindset which slants to the center. The implication being they are not Orthodox Jews but either Conservative or Reform Judaism. I don’t know I am just guessing from their writing.
They submit essay to SlantRight often. Some are awesome and some simply do not fit here at a Christian Right (somewhat Neoconservative) blog.
The Zager essay entitled, “In the Forest of Eden” embraces the topic of Israeli survival in the midst of Jewish hatred shot from Muslims, a humanistic Leftist West (including America) and ironically self-loathing Liberal American Jews.
There is one more thing in Zager’s essay one doesn’t read in Jewish political writings very often. She honors and welcomes the support of American Evangelical Christians (notably the Christian Right) for the cause of Israeli existence.
With the GWOT and the American economy being the focal point of the MSM, voters and politicians in America there has been too much ignoring of an emerging power in Asia – The People’s Republic of China (aka Communist China and Red China).
The Chinese economy is growing in leaps and bounds. The Chinese military is modernizing at a scary pace as far as geopolitics is concerned.
Check it out. Here is a perspective from Kim R. Holmes Ph.D. that the gloom and doom affect on American National Interests may be a bit inflated.
Here is the new acronym you should learn to go along with WMD and IED. CBRN weaponry apparently is the next threat level for Islamic terrorists will use in America and Western nations. CBRN stands for Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear.
After reading a STRATFOR report CBRN weaponry is the next level sought by Islamic terrorists to wreak havoc among civilians. STRATFOR believes Islamic terrorists have been hampered by American efforts so much that it is a difficult goal to achieve by al-Qaeda and its sympathizers. However, the goal is not unattainable and there is some belief that components of CBRN are possessed by Islamic terrorists but not enough to deploy with a significant amount of destruction to limb and life of the innocent.
Here is an essay of Ari Bussel that is one of most eloquent I have read from him.
Have wondered about evil? Is Islam evil? Is America evil? Which is the better way to live – Islam or the American Way? Should Americans take a stand for the values that have made the American Way great?
These questions and a few other questions you should think about that are thoughts to ponder.
As many of my email friends and family know I am not a big fan of chain e-mail. However this one has no curses or "show how much you appreciate your friends" and so on. This chain email is simply a thought provoking story.
A father wanted to read a magazine but was being bothered by his little girl, Shelby.. She wanted to know what the United States looked like. Finally, he tore a sheet out of his new magazine on which was printed the map of the country.
Tearing it into small pieces, he gave it to Shelby and said, 'Go into the other room and see if you can put this together. This will show you our whole country today..'
After a few minutes, Shelby returned and handed him the map, correctly fitted and taped together.. The father was surprised and asked how she had finished so quickly.
'Oh,' she said, 'on the other side of the paper is a picture of Jesus. When I got Jesus back where He belonged, then our country just came together..'
This one is worthy of forwarding. OVER AND OVER... AMEN!!!!
Dawn Johnsen is the typical pro-abortionist feminist that embodies theeugenics thoughts of Margaret Sanger to weed out inferior human beings at birth. Johnsen also typically believes the rights of a person’s (woman’s in particular) body outweighs a human’s right to life.
Yes I am pro-life. This means my thoughts put abortion into the realm of murder by usurping the right to live. Those that do not have a personal voice to express their desire to live need such a voice. For the most part that voice will come from Christian Protestants and Catholics who have an understanding that Biblical morality calls for the protection of children. This would include human souls that have not yet left the womb.
I don’t know if Dawn Johnsen would publicly admit, but her abortion stand is in contradistinction from Christian and Biblical morality that looks to save life rather than to terminate it. Numerous examples of her hatred of Christians are in her terminology for Pro-Life Christians. Johnsen has equated pro-life Christians with slavers and the Klu Klux Klan.
So you have to wonder the reason for my castigation of Dawn Johnsen. She is a Leftist that is part of President Barack Hussein Obama’s campaign promise to “Change” America. Change is equated with a Socialistic Secular Humanist society in which religion (well Christianity anyway) is a pathology of antiquated myths that has no direct line of effect toward modern culture because it is not relative to the will of multicultural diverse greater good. Thus Johnsen represents a long line of radical appointments (Constitutional and extra-Constitutional) that have an agenda that would weaken the influence of Christianity as the primary influence of what is right or wrong in America.
************ [Blog Editor: I originally linked the rest of the story to my initials to the older SlantRight.com archive site. Below is that update.] Obama's Dawn Johnsen Appointment
Dawn Johnsen is President Obama’s nominee to head the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). It’s arguably the most important office at DoJ. OLC sets policy for the entire federal government.
When not serving in government, Dawn Johnsen has spent her career promoting abortion-on-demand. She denies there is even such a thing as Partial-Birth Abortion. Even the term, she maintains, is “intentionally provocative.” She does not think that “progressives”—that’s PC-speak for liberal—should suggest that abortion is ever a tragedy.
Not for Dawn Johnsen Bill Clinton’s slippery formulation: “Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.” Dismiss for the moment that Bill and Hillary Clinton did everything they could in their eight years to promote abortion world-wide. The only places they made abortion rare were on the Moon and in Antarctica.
Even the Clintons’ basic premise was flawed. If abortion is “a fundamental constitutional right,” as they said in every official document, then why should it be rare? Is there any other fundamental constitutional right we want to be rare?
Hillary once said abortion is “wrong.” (Newsweek, 31 October 1994). Only once. But she pressed governments around the world to legalize it. That’s an odd way to deal with something you think is wrong.
Dawn Johnsen doesn’t think abortion is wrong at all. She is all for it. She drafted the five lethal Executive Orders that Bill Clinton signed within hours of taking the oath as President to promote easier access to abortion. Clinton struck down Ronald Reagan’s Mexico City Doctrine, allowing U.S. funds to go to Planned Parenthood and the UN Fund for Population. This order sluiced money to abortionists worldwide and even, as in China, to those who force women to have abortions.
Bill Clinton struck down Reagan’s order to Planned Parenthood to separate their so-called family planning activities from their abortion facilities. Under Bill Clinton—and up until the current day—teens can take devices and pills out one door and, when these fail, they are hustled back into the revolving door to the abortion center.
Johnsen goes much further in her pro-abortion militancy than even the Clintons, than even President Obama. She worked for years to strip the Catholic Church of its tax-exempt status. Why? Because the Catholic Church has never wavered in its outspoken defense of unborn children. Dawn Johnsen was part of the Abortion Rights Mobilization (ARM ) that fought a legal battle for eight years in the courts.
ARM’s assault on religious liberty and free speech was the brainchild of Lawrence Lader, the co-founder of NARAL, for whom Johnsen also worked. Lader said “abortion is central to everything in life and how we want to live it.” Johnsen’s record puts her very much in that camp. She has even likened pregnancy to slavery.
The Catholic Church would not be the only target if Johnsen is confirmed. Many Protestant churches and associations take pro-life stances. These include the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), and The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS). All of these church bodies could find themselves in the cross-hairs if Dawn Johnsen is confirmed.
We are very close to seeing a nationalized Health Care bill pass through Congress and sent to President Obama for signature. Sen. Bob Casey (D-Penn.) has signaled us that the final bill that is being “ping-ponged” back and forth between Speaker Pelosi’s office and Sen. Harry Reid’s will likely include federal funding for abortion-on-demand. That’s bad enough. But we can see that if churches object to funding for killing the unborn, they could be targeted by Dawn Johnsen at the Office of Legal Counsel.
Chief Justice John Marshall famously said in McCullough v. Maryland that “the power to tax is the power to destroy.” That’s what Dawn Johnsen tried to do for eight years to the Catholic Church in America. That’s what she could do to your church if she is confirmed by the Senate.
Fear of losing their tax-exempt status has for too long kept Christian pastors from speaking out on the grave moral issues of the day. It shouldn’t be, but it is so.
Rep. Jack Murtha (D. PA) has gone on to the afterlife after a probable botched intestine surgery. It is the Christian thing to mourn with those who mourn a death. However, I have to admit I am in a position that I must force myself to mourn for Jack Murtha.
Although he definitely was a champion for his Congressional district in Pennsylvania he allegedly padded his own coffers from kickbacks and bribes with lobbyists and crooks.
Murtha may go down in history as one of the most adept corrupt politicians in Congressional history. The man was never indicted yet seemed to be perpetually under investigation for some crooked deal or ethics violation. President Bill Clinton began to earn the nick name Teflon Bill (aka Slick Willie) because the dirt was never made to stick. Fellow Democrat Murtha could have been President Clinton’s mentor.
If Murtha was merely a committed Leftist ideologue I could more easily mourn with those that mourn. After all an ideologue is merely following his beliefs which is an American right. I question Murtha’s commitment to ideology because of all the crooked associations his very long Congressional career drew near to.
The one event that placed a long term bad taste in my mouth concerning Murtha was his public skewering of fellow Marines that Islamic propagandists claimed committed an atrocity that became flashed in the MSM as the Haditha Massacre. Evidently Murtha found reminiscence with the Vietnam War’s infamous Mai Lai Massacre. At any rate all the Marines connected to the incident at Haditha have been exonerated of wrong doing. Murtha media conviction did raise a stir to initially fry his fellow Marines. When Murtha was proved wrong he REFUSED to apologize for his error in judgment. The refusal to apologize was an indication of Murtha being hugely committed to the Party of defeat to abandon Iraq to Islamic terrorism. Murtha has been proven wrong there as well. The troop surge in Iraq has successfully alienated Islamic terrorists from the majority of the Iraqi populace. Hence Islamic terrorists are not receiving the support needed to sustain terrorist intimidation among the voting populace of Iraq.
Murtha has passed on. Let us hope his legacy passes on as well.
.JPG)
