The Patriotic Camouflage of “HOPE”

Is he a black American or a socialist Saab from Sweden with tinted windows?

That image is so forcefully tinged with patriotism, how could you possibly object to what it’s masking, you racist, bigoted troglodyte!

Potential 2012 Campaign Poster?

OK, kidding! Only the exceptionally educated liberal calls anyone a “troglodyte” in the midst of one of their jingoist-laden diatribes.

Dude-In-Chief

How the political conversation sometimes feels.

The Obama “HOPE” poster did more than wrap the candidate in the country’s flag. It dyed his features in the hues of Old Glory in order to make dismissal of Barack feel unpatriotic.

Another Obama 2012 Campaign Poster?

But what’s this? Obama’s idols across the Atlantic are dismissing socialist theories of governance & economics (and by extension, tacitly dismissing our current president who ardently adores those theories). Yes, the old Socialist Guard of Europe is bailing while the Hawaiian Marxist President Urkel is embracing Keynesian economic theory — that big government spending big money can positively manipulate the economy. Make no mistake, after nearly a century of bitter experience with myriad forms of socialism, Europeans are tossing Keynes onto the ash-heap  of history, but Obama is ignoring the lesson just like the vain & intransigent former community organizer/law professor that he is.

These are his “defining moment(s)” that a growing majority of Americans will remember him for (and it’s only the “short list”):

1. First to ever chastise the SCOTUS at the State of Union address.
2. First to have 22+ months of +9% unemployment since Great Depression.
3. First to push a $800,000,000,000 porkulus bill through Congress.
4. First in number of golf games ever played while in Office.
5. First President in modern history to not call families of fallen soldiers.
6. First in number of vacations while in Office.
7. First in teleprompter usage.
8. First to ignore two different federal judges on two different issues.
9. First to use the term ‘Tax Expenditures’.
10. First to call increasing taxes ‘Cutting spending from the Tax Code’ (paging George Orwell)
11. First unisex President – everyone in MSM is in bed with him.
12. First President in history to bow to foreign Head of States.
13. First President to ever use ‘saved or created’ jobs with +9% unemployment.
14. First President to blame last administration for 2+ years.
15. The first Federal Reserve press conference in history (April 27, 2011).

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and so on.

Taken from a post over at http://www.freerepublic.com/

The consensus on "Hope & Change" three years later.

But don’t worry. The Mainstream Media will finally start vetting Obama as soon as they’re done with the ex-governor of Alaska.

Someone's been reading a lot more books & magazines than her critics!

Here’s the Paul Revere letter that proves Palin right.

That’s not all. I’ve been hearing a rallying cry of “YES, WE CAIN!” growing louder on the horizon.

Socialized Medicine and the American Idiot

Socialized medicine is just like any other form of socialism - it sounds compassionate yet proves most harmful.

The following numbers may appear unacceptable but they come from the Canadian style of medicine that is supposed to replace the  ’miserable’ fix that we Yankees are in:

• Corneal transplant – 90.9 weeks
• Knee replacement – 44.6 weeks
• Chronic diarrhea/constipation – 37.1 weeks
• Urinary incontinence – 35.3 weeks
• Chronic pain – 15.1 weeks

(The chart was physically published but hasn’t been uploaded online. Too embarrassing to make it immortal on the Internet, perhaps?)

http://articles.latimes.com/2009/sep/27/nation/na-healthcare-canada27

You CAN control costs – just deny timely care!

But of course, that doesnt mean those Canucks don’t waste money up there…

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/scandal-grows-at-ehealth-ontario/article1174148/

Evil Insurance has taken the lovely Health System hostage. Obama-Do-Right ties up Insurance but forgets to set System free!

A National Tax Strategy Proposal for the 112th Congress

Kennedy at a White House Press Conference. Unscripted and successfully flying without a teleprompter.

Bring back the tax rates that Americans had under JFK.
Commerce was flourishing, NASA achieved great leaps in space exploration, and the term “unemployment cheque” was viewed as an economic & social abomination!
Democrats sense of nostalgia just might blind them to the beneficial effects of the policy, and if Obama & Co. balk at the idea then they run the risk of giving the overwhelming impression of turning their backs on Kennedy’s legacy (for as we have seen time and again, optics/appearances are the chief concern of Obama’s administration).

Dali Lama Thrown Out with the Trash

"Please exit out the back, Mr. Lama. I don't wish to offend my creditors in China."

“Not another diplomatic gaffe extrodinaire committed by our Professor-in-Chief!”, you say. The more I watch, I’d swear before Almighty God and a grand jury that President Obama has been taking lessons from his VP Joe Biden!

Epic fail by Obama here, no matter how he planned it.

1) If he thought no one would ‘notice’ the Dali entering/leaving, he was wrong.

2) If he thought staging photos of the Dali having to leave from the servant’s exit and climb over trash bags would pacify the Chinese, he was wrong.

3) If he thought other people/nations would think he dealt wisely with the Dali OR the Chinese, he was wrong.

President Obama keeps making blunder after blunder after blunder.  And he’s supposed to be the ‘smart’ one?

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brad-wilmouth/2010/02/20/nbc-notes-obama-made-dalai-lama-sneak-out-white-house-past-trash-bags#ixzz0gDI8ehbF

The Idolatrous Heart

“People do not have needs.  We have masters, lords, gods, be they oneself, other people, valued objects, Satan.  The metaphor of an idolatrous heart and society capture the fact that human motivation bears an automatic relationship to God: Who, other than the true God, is my god?”

David Powlison, “Idols of the Heart and ‘Vanity Fair,’”The Journal of Biblical Counseling 13 (1995): 39.  Italics his.

Thursday, Bloody Thursday

This is on the horrific act of terror committed against the young men and women of Fort Hood in Texas. You could just as rightly call this event and thusly this blog posting “Ignoring the Obvious.”

"Et tu, Hasan?"

The shooter, U.S. Army Major Hasan, had been giving off warning signs for years leading up to his treacherous rampage. He had exhibited gender harassment and other anti-social behavior, yet he was a senior-ranking psychiatrist that the Army never disciplined or dismissed. He was merely transferred. There was fear that any other course of action would arouse outcry of religious or minority discrimination, Allah forbid!

Maj. Hasan is on record for defending the heroism of suicide bombers, describing himself as “a Muslim first, and an American second,” and advisedly warning Army superiors that “we [militant Muslims] love death more than you love life.” I suppose that Maj. Hasan would refrain from singing “America, the Beautiful”, which has the lyrics:

“O beautiful for heroes proved in liberating strife,

Who more than self their country loved, and mercy more than life!”

When such an individual as Maj. Hasan exhibits shaky allegiance to defend the U.S. Constitution and his fellow soldiers, he should not be excused from active duty but rather released from military service altogether! I don’t care if the so-called “sensitivity training” says otherwise. Questionable loyalty was once ample grounds for dismissal or denied eligibility to serve in uniform. It was standard procedure for thousands of years! Such an example is in the Bible where the king of the Philistines wants David, a currently defected warrior of Israel (a nation that the Philistines were at war with) to lead Philistine troops into battle against the Israelites! The general staff advised the king to change his mind and refuse David’s services, which turned out to be a good call. Eventually, David returned to Israel and took with him the Philistines’ technological advantage of metallurgy – wrought iron – back with him! [See 1 Samuel 27 & 29]

No one in the mainstream media as yet has marshaled the fortitude to call this an outright and unadulterated act of terrorism, the latest massacre in a struggle that we have been fighting within our own borders since 1993 when radical Islamists first bombed the World Trade Center. The liberal intelligentsia continually refuses to see the inherent bankruptcy of the diplomatic policy that making nice to violent Muslims will eventually make them nice to us. This same vanguard of leftist thinkers also refuse to admit the mounting evidence that a white-collar professional can simultaneously have an enlightened mind and a depraved soul.

"Man is not truly one, but truly two."

Heavenly Hell

I wrote this for a Humanities class almost six years ago. It was while I was attending Diablo Valley College, so it seemed appropriate to study a book that imaginatively examined the interplay between devils and humans since Diablo is the Spanish word for “devil.” Plagiarize at your own peril – you don’t know what my final grade was on this essay, and I have re-edited it before posting here at Christos Kurios.

Heavenly Hell

Observations on C.S. Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters

The general depiction of humanity by Screwtape in The Screwtape Letters is of creatures, amphibians, composed of two natures: animal and soul. Screwtape takes the stance that since Man is not a ‘pure’ being, neither a brute nor a spirit, so he should not be considered as a viable citizen of either the bestial or metaphysical realms. The business of the correspondence is that Screwtape tutors his ward, the junior devil Wormwood, in the practice of tempting humans down into Hell. The whole process is all about the tempter tantalizing their ‘patients’ — their victims, really — with sensuality and religion, to make the patient give up everything and reward him with nothing, to cheat him out of any true pleasures, both the joys of the flesh and of the spirit.

 

Their goal is to produce patients who neither believe nor disbelieve in the existence of spiritual principalities; who believe that science should be saturated with emotion and myth — the Agnostic Alchemist or “the Materialist Magician” is their ideal transformed patient. The tempter’s most useful tools to achieve this end result, the belief in a ‘Life Force’ yet not spirits, are “the worship of sex, and some aspects of Psychoanalysis.”

The analysis of the psyche, the soul (from the ancient Greek word psukhe), and sexual desire were all one and the same to Sigmund Freud. He believed that the psyche could be studied and observed through the assertions of the individual’s libido. This was a bone fide Life Force, albeit quite lascivious, and why not? Freud’s ‘science’ was highly mythologized, for in the ancient tales Psyche was the pure maiden dearly beloved by Eros, the Greek god of sexual love.

What is interesting to note is that Freud defined the psyche of the individual as a tripartite being: id, ego, and superego. His peers in the Romantic Era of Europe quickly became captivated by the hypothesis of Psychoanalysis whilst they ironically scoffed at the belief in the Judeo-Christian Almighty God who asserted Himself to be a triune Being.

from Phil Selby's site "pencilsatdawn"

European art was echoing the rising moral (soon to be mortal) peril of subjective-relativist perspective sweeping the mindset of Europe in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The photo-camera had been given dominion of realism and few artists had dared to discover and tap the increasing potential of the camera. Instead, many artists attempted to excel in what they believed that the camera could never achieve (though it soon would before the dawn of the 20th century). They went to great lengths to depict their surroundings, humanity in particular, in negative, disturbed, and/or distorted form. It was a perspective of the human race that was almost akin to Screwtape’s feral bias of humanity!

A failed artist with a feral bias against humanity.

Screwtape’s letters are all about advising Wormwood in the art of shrewdly interjecting any philosophy that will bring the patient into the territory of the Enemy, to restrain and inhibit any true enlightenment from entering the thoughts of the tempter’s victim, and to make the patient’s sense of logic all topsy-turvy. This tactic is paralleled in its entirety in Adolf Hitler’s book, Mein Kampf, which no doubt played a major role in the catalyst that prompted C.S. Lewis to write The Screwtape Letters. The future fuerer, Herr Hitler, wrote, “It is possible by means of shrewd and unremitting propaganda, to make people believe that heaven is hell — and hell, heaven.” As the correspondence of Screwtape first went into print in London, Hitler was fast demonstrating to the world how heavenly hell could be.