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Sunday, December 23, 2007

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR'S GREETINGS AND THE STATE OF THE NATION

~Snooper via SonLitKnight~

Today is the shortest day of the year and the beginning of winter. Among the godless barbarians, it
has long been a celebration of the Winter Solstice. It is that point of the year where, even as you are entering the coldest, most inhospitable portion of the year, the mechanism is already in place to extricate us from it. For, with each passing day of bitter cold, snow, sleet, hail, freezing rain, slush and biting wind, we can take comfort in knowing that each day is a little bit longer and a little bit closer to Spring.

Now, I don't wish to be misunderstood here but I am sure I will be. The purveyors of atheistic snobbery will sneer and hrrmph my words and protest that there is certainly nothing wrong with facing a furious blast of winter with the longing for a warmer day. Well, I agree, there isn't, so long as your hope and longing extends beyond that.

What makes atheism such an empty ideology is that one spends one's entire existence seeking to escape one unpleasant current reality, only to replace it with another. They never seek for anything larger.

The same atheist who curses January's bitter cold, curses the oppressive heat and humidity of June. The atheist cannot have joy because he has bet his life on a losing wager. That wager is the proposition that he deserves and can, through his own efforts achieve, a long and lasting happiness on this earth. He is, in the words of the prophet, ever embroiled in a chase after the wind. The wind, as it were, cannot be caught and it couldn't be grasped if it could. Time and tide and fate and destiny are merciless and relentless foes and they are undefeated.

Only he who understands and embraces this reality can know the path to joy.

Just as the same gentle wind that pushes the kite in May, slashes the gulf with a hurricane surge in September and buries the north in a blizzard whiteout in February, the same will it be with your life.

Some years ago, there was a song that went;

If we make it through December, everything is gonna be alright I know.
It's the coldest time of winter, and i shiver when I see the falling snow.
If we make it through December, I've got plans to be in warmer town come summertime.
maybe even California. If we make it through December, we'll be fine.


The problem with this is that we cannot know if we will make it through December or, if we do, whether January will be more brutal many fold. The worst mistake you can make is to imagine that things cannot get worse. Trust me on this, I know.

The problem with the atheist/secular humanist/ liberal crowd is that they are forever promising that January of relief from our current December of woe. That promised utopia has been called many things by the left. It has been called everything from a New Deal to an Age of Aquarius to a place called hope. Yet, it never arrives and it never will because the human control that it requires simply doesn't exist. There lies the frustration, disappointment and anger that must forever accompany liberalized/secular humanistic/atheistic ideology.

It is not that the LSHAs aren't looking for anything different than are we. We are looking for the same things. A life free from sorrow and anguish and suffering. A life of happiness and contentment and joy and fulfillment.

What separates the LSHA from the Christian is that the LSHA seeks for these things where he has no hope to ever find them. As the Scriptures say, you simply cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear. Those who seek lasting happiness in this life seek that which they cannot possibly find.
They have bought into a lie oft repeated with the full fervency of the false religion of self from where it rises. For all of their gold, for all of their many words, for all of their facial creams and exercise machines and expensive cars with a big shiny bow, they will grow old, they will fall from favor they will die.

These are the facts.

The LSHA spend their lives free-falling towards the ground while convincing themselves that they can fly. Every single LSHA will die penny-less, powerless and alone.

Every Single One.

The Christian will die as well, of course. Yet, for the LSHA, death is a bitter and painful separation for, with death, comes the death of hope and the realization that the best existence he will ever have experienced is rapidly fading to gray. For the LSHA, life ends with the revelation of how foolishly he wasted his life seeking only his own gain only be confronted by the paradox of what life is, as prescribed in scripture.

He who seeks to save his life shall lose it.
He who loses his life, for My sake, shall find it.



Don't be a fool. Wake up from your dream. Your money and your strength and your many words will provide you no consolation at your moment of death. You will find no hope in the changing of the seasons for the changing of the seasons cannot assure you even another breath.

The changing of the seasons are only markers within which hope can be seen. For, the markers of the season's change are only commemorations of He who stepped out of eternity and into time for you.

The 21st of December (or in rare occasions like this year, the 22nd) is a day that holds no hope for you. The 25th of December holds your hope, for it is on this day that we commemorate the birth of a child like no other.

Simply stated, it is only the birth of Christ that gives real hope to a fallen world. All other hope is a false hope.

If you have pinned your hope on the Prophet Mohammed or the Age of Aquarius or on yourself, you have bet on a losing horse. You will die in your sin and be damned to an unimaginable and fiery hell. Those are just the facts.

The Christian life is not a life without pain. The Christian life is not a life without suffering. The Christian life is not a life without sorrow and disappointment. Trust me that I can vouch for this personally.

The damnable lie from the bowels of hell is that the LSHA escapes these things. He does not.


LSHAs die in car accidents. LSHAs get sick. LSHAs have broken families. LSHAs have children who disappoint them, friends who betray them, objects of desire who reject them, and tragedies that rock them and traumatize them. LSHAs deal with all the pains and sorrows that Christians do.

The difference is that, unlike the LSHA, the Christian finds joy in the knowledge that life's stings are not the final answer. They live with the light of hope. The LSHA often turns to addiction to anesthetize himself from the pain of life. His entire life, the lure and false promise of drugs, alcohol, sex, money and power have the same effect of a person fanning himself from the heat. The second you stop fanning, the heat returns.

The Christian understands, as Pope Benedict so eloquently wrote, that suffering is something that we cannot always escape but it is something that we can overcome.

Pain, sorrow, suffering and death are as inevitable as rain and sun. Hope lies not in getting around all the sorrows of this world but in getting through them. It is no surprise that the LSHA is against the war in Iraq. They spend their entire lives running from the battle, only to find a worse battle facing them later.

Finding torture chambers in Iraq is just that much more proof that this was an enemy that had to be defeated. The enemy that targets the innocents in Iraq also targets you and your attempted avoidance of the fight only strengthens the enemy and emboldens him.

This is life in it's entirety. A vicious struggle between a patient mercy desiring your salvation and a violent malevolence in relentless perusal of your destruction. Your problem is that you think you can purchase a selfish freedom by siding with the enemy. You will learn too late that the scriptures were right when they foretold that the beast you ride in your spiritual harlotry, is destined to turn and devour you.

Nowhere has this truth been more manifestly obvious than in the war in Iraq. The coalition of the unhinged rose to power in the House and Senate on the back of a monstrous lie- that the war was too hard, too long, too hopeless, couldn't be won, shouldn't be fought, boo hoo friggin' hoo.

If we cut and run and hide like little baby sissies, all we be wild and wonderful and all the Al Queda terrorists that we created will slither back into the spider holes from whence the crawled. Those of us who live in the reality based community know different.

We took our worldview- that evil cannot be appeased, that it must be confronted- and used it as a backbone to a backlash against the dorks who carried signs and bitched and whined and moaned.

We defended the surge, we fought back, we won.
Life is not about fighting the enemy or not fighting the enemy. That decision has already been made for you and you had better sober up and realize this. The only decision is whether or not you are going to win that battle and that can only be decided by how willing you are to fight it.

I come to you, not as a Saint or a Prophet or a Martyr. Far from it. I write you this day as a fellow soldier in the war against evil. Make no mistake, the evil that seeks to destroy me seeks to destroy you just as surely.

If you succumb to the folly that you can save yourself by destroying me, you will find that you will do neither. In fact, you should already have learned this.

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My Favorite Speeches and Other Items of Interest

  • George Bush's March 28, 2007 Discusses Economy, War on Terror During Remarks to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association;http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/03/20070328-2.html
  • Mitch McConnell's March 15, 2007 Funding For Troops, Not Timelines for Retreat; http://mcconnell.senate.gov/record.cfm?id=270747&start=1
  • Ronald Reagan's June 12, 1987 Tear Down This Wall Speech; http://www.reaganfoundation.org/reagan/speeches/wall.asp
  • Vice President Cheney's March 12, 2007 Remarks at the AIPAC 2007 Policy Conference; http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/03/20070312.html

Winston Churchill Quotes

  • A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him.
  • Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
  • Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.
  • Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
  • Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.
  • Danger - if you meet it promptly and without flinching - you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
  • I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
  • I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.
  • I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
  • I like a man who grins when he fights.
  • I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
  • If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.
  • In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
  • It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
  • Moral of the Work. In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.
  • Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
  • Never, never, never give up.
  • No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.
  • One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
  • Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
  • Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
  • The first quality that is needed is audacity.
  • The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
  • The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.
  • There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
  • These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
  • They are decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
  • True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
  • Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
  • War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
  • War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
  • We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
  • We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
  • When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber.
  • When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
  • You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Ronald Reagan Quotes

  • "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant: It's just that they know so much that isn't so."
  • Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
  • All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.
  • Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources
  • Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
  • Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty.
  • Double, no triple, our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth. It is time that we recognized that ours was, in truth, a noble cause.
  • Facts are stupid things.
  • Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
  • Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.
  • Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
  • Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them.
  • History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
  • How can a president not be an actor?
  • How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
  • I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.
  • I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
  • In Israel, free men and women are every day demonstrating the power of courage and faith. Back in 1948 when Israel was founded, pundits claimed the new country could never survive. Today, no one questions that. Israel is a land of stability and democracy in a region of tryanny and unrest.
  • Let us ask ourselves; "What kind of people do we think we are?".
  • Man is not free unless government is limited.
  • My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose - somehow we win out.
  • No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology.
  • Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong.
  • Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.
  • Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.
  • Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.
  • The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas - a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.
  • The United Sates has much to offer the third world war.
  • There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
  • To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.
  • Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.
  • We are never defeated unless we give up on God.
  • We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.
  • We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
  • We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free.
  • Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
  • You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed.

Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes

  • No one can make you feel inferior without your consent

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