New Axis of Evil

Russia Announced War Games with China and Iran that Will ‘Encircle’ Europe. Moscow’s Ministry of Defense announced that Russian leader Vladimir Putin plans to hold naval drills in the Atlantic, Arctic, Mediterranean and the Pacific oceans this month and next, alongside China and Iran. These exercises, including those on land in Belarus, will essentially encircle Europe at the time when Russia is also amassing 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders for a potential invasion. The war games will involve “more than 140 warships and support vessels, more than 60 aircraft, 1,000 pieces of military equipment, and about 10,000 servicemen,” the defense ministry said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies. Now I ask the reader, is Russia, China, and Iran the New Axis of Evil? If so, what should our congressional representatives and our 46th POTUS and those within his circle of advisors, to include his Secretary of Defense, military branch secretaries and Joint Chiefs of Staff do in preparation for the inevitable coming conflict that is on the horizon. If not today, then tomorrow? Following an Amry Airborne career spanning 30 years (65-95), I now believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

Empty Words Go So Far

Russia’s purported plan to install pro-Kremlin leadership in Ukraine is ’deeply concerning,’ says the White House. If the Biden Administration is really concerned, they would have already sent the type weapons, armor vehicles, communication and intel equipment needed to detect and/or deter a Russian invasion/incursion. Joe, your empty words and “promises to retaliate” are a day late and a dollar short. Lest we forget, empty words only go so far... Actions speak louder than words. If the past is an indication of what we can expect from any Biden administration pronouncements, they will speak great swelling words of emptiness.

The Man, The Dream, The Appeal

MLK’s “I Have a Dream" speech is divided into three parts. Part one is an appeal to the nation to live up to its great founding principles. Part two is an appeal to black Americans to rise and act accordingly in the noble cause of the pursuit of liberty and justice. Let’s not drink “from the cup of bitterness.” Part three is an appeal to the ideals of the Christian soul of the nation. Dr. King quoted the prophet Isaiah that “the crooked places will be made straight … and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together.” Biblical truths and ideals have been regrettably lost to “wokeism”, which has for all practical purposes become an irreligious religion. The indictment of the “woke” movement is that America is the problem. King offered up America as the solution. He talked about the “magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.”

“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'” The problem is not America or the eternal truths that were brought to bear in its founding. The problem was the failure of the nation to live up to the challenges of its great founding principles. That was the heart of Dr. King’s message. He appealed to the nation to realize the dream of its Founding Fathers, not to crush it and bury it, as we hear today.

The problem is not white people. “The marvelous new militancy … must not lead us to a distrust of all white people,” he said. And, of course, the most memorable and oft-quoted line of the speech, “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

Let’s honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by revisiting and taking to heart the great truths he spoke in his “I Have a Dream” speech. They are great truths that have very sadly been cast to the side and replaced with the religion of politics and power. Let us honor King by seeing America as he presented it then, as embodying the ideals of a free nation under God.

The Right, Wrong, and Worst Thing, When Countering the New Normal

The beginning of the New Year should be a time of rumination and resoluteness. It is a turning point to consider where we have gotten the wrong end of the stick, better stated; erred during 2021 and what steps to take as we begin 2022. The New Year brings a freshness that says change is achievable. Indeed, sometimes the impetus from resoluteness creates a useful routine or penchant that remains for life. Every New Year brings challenges that depend on the state of the nation and the current phase of our lives. While years tend to be similar, 2022 will be very different. The civil disturbance, economic woes, supply chain disruptions, Coronavirus pandemic, political chaos, misinformation, government mandates... of the last two years have changed so much that we dare not use the word normal to describe our current America, and for that matter our world. There is not even a “new normal,” such is the perpetually evolving nature of things. Thus, we must settle on preparing for “not normal” times. Surviving in 2022 will depend on agility, strength, certainty, faith... Doing nothing is not an option, since we risk being overwhelmed by the turn of events. In the words of Theodore Roosevelt: “In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”

Christmas Calibrates a Very Particular Event

In its essence, Christmas celebrates a very particular event, situated strictly in time and place. The Christmas baby was born in an identifiable year to flesh-and-blood parents in an actual village ruled by a named official of the Roman empire. It was the particularities that frightened the Jacobins, the most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror of 1793-1794.  The Jacobians much preferred in their austerity to celebrate abstractions when they chose to celebrate at all. To replace Christmas, the Jacobins instituted holidays in honor of Virtue, Talent, Labor, and so on. A lotta fun, those French revolutionaries.

The enemies of Christmas, historically, have always been utterly humorless in this way; completely lacking in levity, mistrustful of human spontaneity and vivacity. They are therefore antithetical to the spirit of true religion, which is to see beyond the occasional gloom of the world to the luminous truth shining beneath. Angels can fly, goes the old saying, because they take themselves so lightly. What the Grinches of history have most hated about Christmas is that it was meant to give pleasure, in food and drink, in family and friendship, in faith and song.

And if one of those songs is "I Want a Boob Job for Christmas"? As G.K. Chesterton, a Christian apologist, pointed out, “wherever there is joy, there is apt to be vulgarity, as we tend to run away with ourselves when we are most celebratory. The Christmas of Christians survives all the vulgarity of secular excess. Or so Chesterton believed, and I'm not going to disagree. In our supposedly post-Christian age, Chesterton wrote that even secular people "will go on observing forms that cannot be explained; they will keep Christmas with Christmas gifts and Christmas benedictions; they will continue to do it; and suddenly one day they will wake up and discover why."

The joke is that Christmas, even in this attenuated form, remains the greatest evangelical tool Christians have at their disposal. One thing that is unquestionably theirs to which everyone else pays tribute, sometimes grudgingly but much more often with great, exhilarating abandon. There are some bells that can't be un-rung, some declarations, once made, that can't be unsaid. There is one star in the heavens that can never go dark.

We have a rich heritage in God, and now is not the time to forget it. Now is not the time to do the bidding of the enemy and follow Satan and his fallen angels, demons, succubus’s, rakshasas as personified by past and present secular left leaning politicos who are anti-American, are against the ideals that America promotes and for many people that can mean different things. Some people might see the political climate, and some might see a Nike or wine commercial and take a negative stance on the matter. Similarly, with the concept of pro-Americanism, people can see these different parts of America and be proud and feel inspired by what we promote.

Now, are recent and current anti-America and anti-theists U.S. Presidents, coconspirators of a great coup? Not enough evidence yet. One thing for certain we are to place our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ, in Him there is our hope. The hinge of history is not on the door of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC, but on the door of a Bethlehem stable.

Oh, by Gosh, by Golly

Was it not Marxist netroots and criminal activists within Antifa and BLM who popularized wearing of face masks when plundering and burning hundreds of America’s neighborhoods? Was it not this same type of social deviants who made mask wearing vogue while partaking in carjackings and smash-and-grab robberies? Could it be that these champions of criminal coteries could then wreak destruction on private property under the cover of anonymity and that way never be nailed for their criminal acts?

Was it not Dr. Anthony Fauci, the featured star on the televised White House Task Force on Covid-19, and others of his ilk who adapted the Antifa and BLM face-hiding masks for the masses when the pandemic initially kicked in? Then along comes Dr. William Schaffner, not to be confused with Captain Kirk of the Starship Enterprise. Dr. Schaffner, a physician who regularly appears on CNN is apparently urging everyone to wear masks at home on Christmas, regardless of vaccination status. Furthermore, the CNN Covid talking head also recommended “people get tested on Christmas Eve morning or Christmas morning before gathering with family.” 

Oh, by gosh, by golly, it’s no longer time for mistletoe and holly’, but time to wear face masks at Christmas, regardless of vaccination status. Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of government mandated masking, slaves to decreed vaccine passports or pillaging, looting and heists by Antifa, BLM, Carjacker, and Smash-and-Grab reprobates?

 

Finger Pointing BBB Joe Biden is Confused and Out of Touch

In his most gnarled and bizarre public address to date, on passage of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, “Build Back Better” Joe Biden rambled on that Americans are COVID “confused” and “worried.”  Imagine! It’s not befuddled Joe B. who’s confused. It’s we the American people who are confused.

Fresh back from the UN’s latest Climate Change Conference snake pit where everything was about ‘Build Back Better” (BBB), while without much thought, concern, or care went ahead blithely ignoring that the Republicans, with the help of Independents, and Moderate Democrats took back the entire State of Virginia while he was playing “BBB” in Glasgow, but it’s the American grassroots that are “confused”! It is apparent, a confused BBB Joe Biden insists on building the taxpaying middle-working class American people back Better.

It is time that we, the American people reminded President Biden and others who share his vision for the ruination of our Republic, that we pledge our allegiance, not to him, not to those of his ilk and their misguided unconstitutional mandates or edicts, but to the “Flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” Let me emphasize that being an active, engaged citizen means being a patriotic American every day. My personal message to President Biden follows: No law, no mandate, no finger pointing by you will make a citizen a patriot or a subservient minion as you have become for the anti-American left. Lest we forget, Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. In the words of John Adams, “A Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.” Liberty, once lost, is lost forever. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. Without America there is no free world, nor will America remain so.