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31 Dec 2012

Open Letter to BulldogReporter.com Publishers and Editors


To BulldogReporter.com editors:

I’ve unsubscribed from Bulldog Reporter after 3 years of being a loyal fan of your publication.

I work in the PR profession, but I am also a patriot and cannot abide further erosion of 2nd Amendment protections. Your skewed article maligning the NRA and blaming it for violence in our society was what ended my relationship with your site. Blaming the NRA for Sandy Hook is like blaming AAA for drunk drivers. Furthermore, the video you cited was showing military firearms not available to the general public, once again showing your ignorance about the distinction between fully automatic and semi-automatic weaponry.

Your other skewed article helping to dictate to the free market what toys are and aren’t acceptable to make and sell was just as disingenuous. The hypocrisy lies in the Hollywood elite, who direct and act in films that glorify violence and drive the sales of video games, and who then decry the NRA as being the cause (not a contributor, but the cause) of the Sandy Hook and Aurora incidents.

For example, James Holmes cited his love of the Joker character who was characterized as just wanting to see the world burn. Adam Lanza was into movies and video games that filled his disturbed mind with scenes of bloodshed and killing. The ideas pouring into the minds of children and young adults originates in Hollywood, and everything else flows from that. Put pressure on Hollywood to purify the source of the river and you’ll clean up its banks.

You and others in the mass media are counter-productively trying to destroy the one right that protects your right to say these things. A government which does not fear the people because of the 2nd Amendment will quickly run roughshod over the 1st Amendment.

But it looks like you’re okay with helping the Obama administration dismantle the Constitution. I’ll leave you to that. See how that works out for you. Meanwhile, I will do my best to dismantle your readership by calling for a boycott of Bulldog Reporter.

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19 Jul 2012

Secrecy in the Boy Scouts? Meh.


Here it comes. Yet another email from Change.org pleading the case of gays who want to completely rework the Boy Scouts of America, a private organization with private membership and private donors, operating completely under the protections of the First Amendment and a year 2000 court ruling upholding the same.

Oh, but the folks at Change.org don’t let a little thing like court rulings on Constitutionality bother them (unless it’s not working for their side).

Ok, Change.org-ies, let’s spell it out nice and clear. Starting with a layman’s common understanding as is found on Wikipedia.

Although it is not explicitly protected in the First Amendment, the Supreme Court ruled, in NAACP v. Alabama, 357 U.S. 449 (1958), freedom of association to be a fundamental right protected by it. In Roberts v. United States Jaycees, 468 U.S. 609 (1984), the Supreme Court held that associations may not exclude people for reasons unrelated to the group’s expression. However, in Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston, 515 U.S. 557 (1995), the Court ruled that a group may exclude people from membership if their presence would affect the group’s ability to advocate a particular point of view. Likewise, in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale, 530 U.S. 640 (2000), the Supreme Court ruled that a New Jersey law, which forced the Boy Scouts of America to admit an openly gay member, to be an unconstitutional abridgment of the Boy Scouts’ right to free association.

Still not clear?

The point of view we advocate is, in part, moral straightness. The foundation of the Boy Scout movement is firmly established on a 1910 understanding of morality, which arguably eschewed homosexuality as a qualified behavior under the banner of moral straightness.

“Well,” you say, “these are modern times. It’s not 1910 anymore. Things have changed, and we must change with them. Let us be more Progressive in our ideals of what makes up morality!”

That is your opinion. The First Amendment protects your view just as much as it does ours. The courts, as noted above, have already made this plain.

Here’s the problem. Implied in that statement is the premise that everyone who doesn’t agree with you should be forced to change. That is antithetical to the First Amendment. Such change by force does great violence to my freedom to speak, think, or write as I choose. It imposes a Thought Police mentality on every action and behavior and philosophy produced by the organization, from then on.

Scouts reaffirm the scout oath at the 2007 Wor...

Scouts reaffirm the scout oath at the 2007 World Scout Jamborree (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

On the contrary, there is no implication in the Scout Oath that anyone outside of the organization is under any obligation to live the BSA’s definition of morally straight.  There is also not even a hint that anyone not subscribing to the BSA’s Scout Oath would be forced to join the organization.

There is no evil conspiracy in this. The fact that the committee is a secret one has no bearing whatsoever on the legitimacy of its decisions, nor on the organization. The BSA has chosen a military/democratic hybrid command structure and not a purely democratic structure for its hierarchy and governance. They can do that! It’s America!

Yet, scouting under the BSA’s bylaws is a completely voluntary oath and association! Those who no longer wish to associate in that way are free to leave the BSA and join or start another organization!

In fact, if you check the history of the Scout Oath (Promise) you will find that, under the non-binding bylaws of the World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM), the Boy Scouts counterpart to the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), the Oath has changed according to various combinations of age, nationality, culture, and belief. That’s not rigid at all! It’s quite accommodating, in fact. Therefore, isn’t it obvious that the door is wide open for anyone who wishes to may indeed create their own organization governed by their own points of view and ideals?

A “Gay Boy Scouts of America”? Sure! Why not? A “World Organization of the Gay Scout Movement”? Do it! Put your efforts into building your own sandbox and castle instead of telling people in another sandbox how to build their castle.

What about that is so hard to understand? I just don’t get it. Enlighten me, please.

Feel the hate…
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18 Jul 2012
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Boy Scouts Reaffirm Right to Assemble Upheld by Supreme Court


History of the Boy Scouts of America

In 2000, gays tried to bully their way into the Boy Scouts of America, an organization with a primary oath that includes being morally straight. The oath of the BSA is no secret. Everyone who joins the BSA necessarily takes that oath. I guess the gay lobby doesn’t mind ignoring that part.

Here we are in 2012 and gays are still trying their best to infiltrate through “test case law” and sabotage one of the last organizations in the world to stand its ground against homosexuality in its ranks.

As I have said repeatedly, and will continue to assert in light of the Supreme Court ruling upholding the right of the people to assemble freely and privately, it is well within the rights of gay agitators to start their own organization to cater to their every whim and lust. If they want to start a Gay Boy Scouts of America or Rainbow Scouts of America, they are perfectly within their right to do so. I will say not one word against them so long as they don’t try to pass it off as the same organization as or on par with or sanctioned by the Boy Scouts of America.

However, it looks as if they aren’t really all that interested in a scouting organization per se. No, this is all about payback and infiltration and cultural imperialism. This time around, they’re no longer shy about their motives and way of operating from within to destroy an organization’s founding principles.

The announcement suggests that hurdles may be high for a couple of members of the national executive board — Ernst & Young CEO James Turley andAT&T CEO Randall Stephenson — who have recently indicated they would try to work from within to change the policy. Both of their companies have been commended by gay-rights groups for gay-friendly employment policies.

Stephenson is on track to become president of the Scouts’ national board in 2014, and will likely face [ED: and give in to] continued pressure from gay-rights groups to try to end the exclusion policy. Asked for comment on Tuesday about the Scouts’ decision to keep the policy, AT&T did not refer to Stephenson’s situation specifically: “We don’t agree with every policy of every organization we support, nor would we expect them to agree with us on everything,” the company said. “Our belief is that change at any organization must come from within to be successful and sustainable.”

There you have it, from the mouth of a plant from the gay “rights” lobby. If we can’t destroy from the outside, we’ll destroy from the inside.

I hereby call on the BSA to remove Turley and Stephenson from the national executive board. Stephenson, especially, is a Trojan Horse.

That is all.

Related articles: Note how they all use the word “ban on gays” instead of the truth, which is that the BSA reaffirms its right to assemble and define its own membership criteria as ALL are free to do!!!!
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22 Apr 2012
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I miss Paul Harvey


He said it like he was…

Paul Harvey, 2005
Paul Harvey, 2005 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

via If I Were the Devil – BEST VERSION by PAUL HARVEY audio restored – YouTube.

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Posted in American Exceptionalism, Christianity, Corruption and Patronage, Culture, Entertainment & Hollywood, Family, Journalism, Judaism, Patriotism, Philosophies, Religions, Socialism, The Constitution and tagged ,
17 Apr 2012
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Secret Service scandal reveals more about Obama’s character than it does about the Secret Service


United States Secret Service EOC COOP Desk
United States Secret Service EOC COOP Desk (Photo credit: martymadrid)

You can learn a lot about the king by watching the king’s guards.

via Secret Service scandal broadens; more military personnel might have been involved in misconduct.

Three comments and then I believe nothing more needs be said by me that would add any substance:

1. Haven’t these Secret Service officers ever seen a James Bond film? The girl is always going to bring you more trouble than you bargained for.

2. Would any of this have happened under GWB’s presidency? I know it didn’t only because the left-stream media would have been all over that.

3. Obama has only himself to blame. The most narcissistic president in United States history has ridden into the White House with the support of acolytes, enablers, and puppetmasters whose political culture requires them to navel-gazingly reject decency and traditional moral values at every turn. I suppose it shouldn’t be too much of a surprise to find that this toxic culture has seeped even into the ranks of the President’s closest protectors.

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17 Apr 2012

The History of Political Correctness


I love that the narrator is smoking a pipe, a la Masterpiece Theater.

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17 Apr 2012
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War of words: How the left propagates tyranny by redefining common vocabulary #tlot #tcot


Mediagopoly: The Megacorps that Control Mainst...Two articles caught my attention this morning as I was browsing the “news”, as it is still called today.

Why don’t Americans walk more? The crisis of pedestrianism. – Slate Magazine

and

The Science of Fox News: Why Its Viewers are the Most Misinformed

These are only two of many articles spewing from the sewage tubes of modern leftist media that I can point to that illustrate a disturbing trend in the force. No, not that Force (though its Dark Side is hauntingly similar). The kind of intellectual force that compels everyone to eventually think only one way, or risk political and social exile. By not emptying your brain and filling it with leftist “thinking”, you risk being alienated, or at least feeling generally awkward among one’s office-mates who list to port.

So pedestrians are no longer “pedestrian”. Drivers of vehicles are the new pedestrians (see definition #1, adjective). Now it’s totally hip to use the Number 11 Bus over those gauche, four wheeled monstrosities called the American Automobile. After all, only rednecks and WASPs drive cars these days (unless, of course, you’re a cultured, presumably Democrat-voting urbanite guy in a luxury car commercial). The rest of us, who ostensibly all live in great big urban centers with abundant and “free” public transportation, have evolved to a higher level of existence.

In truth, a lot of us in the ‘burbs and out here in flyover country would like to be able to walk more. But, because the statist central planners of yore patronized, subsidized and centralized employment in major urban centers rather than allowing small towns to thrive on free market principles without governmental interference, we are now subjected to a labyrinth of transportation issues. All of those issues come down to one focus…the distance the urbanites purposely put between themselves and the suburbanites. (Note that even the word “sub”urban reeks of the same condescension that is the hallmark of the Slate article linked above.)

Turning attention now to the “science” of the misinformation of Fox News audiences: I am not a Fox News acolyte. While I’m under no illusions whatsoever that Rupert Murdoch’s media empire is “fair and balanced” in comparison to the left-leaning media institutions, I am grateful that Fox News exists, if only to provide an alternative viewpoint that would otherwise not exist at all.

Having said that, I can definitely stomach Fox News much better than the other alphabet networks, just in the same way that devoted followers of MSNBC, CNN, CBS, ABC, and the like can stomach their fare better than Fox News. To each his own.

Well, that is, except when it comes to facts.  Having compared what I see on the alphas with what I’ve observed on Fox, and recognizing that Fox is far from perfect, it is true that Fox is much more careful about crossing its “t”s and dotting its “i”s. They simply have to because of the level of scrutiny given to their programming by the marxists running the other networks, ready to pounce on every mispronounced word.

But all of that is beside the greater point I want to make.

Leftists want total control over you. They want to control how you get to work in the morning (by banning automobiles, except, of course, for the overpolluting Prius beloved by conspicuously conserving (and self-serving) knitting hipsters). They want to control what you eat (banning transfats and salt). They want to control how you spend your money on health care. They want to control what women feel is fulfilling to them individually so that all women will conform to the statist desire for them to hand over their children to federally licensed day care centers. They want to control your religious beliefs and who teaches them to you, especially about the true nature of marriage and where you’re allowed to express your beliefs. They even want to control what you hear on the news and what you think about it.

The sinister subtext of these two articles, and the many other like them, is that the governing philosophy hearkens back to the days when those who don’t toe the party line are punished, ostracized, and even institutionalized for being “imbecils” and “enemies of the state”.

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Posted in Culture
17 Apr 2012

And now, America, the REAL #HungerGames. It’s on your doorstep. What will you do?


Official photographic portrait of US President...
Official photographic portrait of US President Barack Obama (born 4 August 1961; assumed office 20 January 2009) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Meet the real “President Snow” of our time.

Obama Can Now Control Food, Energy, Health Resources… At Any Time – Independent Journal Review.

Hope and change, after all, must be contained.

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07 Apr 2012
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Scenes from a Beautiful Life: Heaven is Here


20120407-165034.jpgAs I sat waiting to get a haircut today, I picked up a copy of the April 2nd issue of People Magazine. Normally I can’t read this rag. The stories it carries are about as substantive, uplifting, and palatable as watching back-to-back reruns of “The View” or “Judge Judy”. It’s the literary equivalent of daytime TV, full of tawdry, shallow, narcissistic navel gazing by celebrities, and photos of other also-ran celebs doing nothing of significance in the larger scheme of life, the Universe, and everything.

Then I turned to page 82 (it was a long wait) where a story entitled “Scenes from a Beautiful Life” caught my attention immediately. The couple featured in the piece, Christian and Stephanie Nielson, had been the subject of a video posted on Mormon.org by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The video had gone viral but had staying power judging by the number of times I kept seeing it pop up on mainstream social media sites I frequent.

And, for good reason. The story they tell of their freak plane crash (Christian is, or was, a private aviation enthusiast) and their being horribly burned and disfigured is a touching and heartbreaking example of the incredible adversity the most ordinary of people can find themselves enduring. The expectation of today’s popular culture environment would be that the formerly comely couple would lose interest in one another after losing their physical attractiveness. They smashed such low expectations by rekindling their marriage through a whole new courtship. They reconnected with their children, even though it wasn’t easy for the children or their parents, and became an even stronger family today than before.

As a fellow Mormon, everything about their story I could relate to. I could put myself in their shoes and wonder of I would react as valiantly as they did to their trials.

I hadn’t known that Stephanie was writing a book on her comeback. The book’s title is Heaven is Here. You can order it on Amazon.com.

Posted in Christianity, Culture, Family, Miracles, People, Sanctity of Life, Uncategorized and tagged , , , , , , ,
22 Jan 2012
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South Carolina Republicans have lost their minds and are losing their souls


Newt Gingrich winning South Carolina is a sad commentary on South Carolinian “conservatism”. I sincerely hope it’s only a one-state aberration, non-representative of the American conservative voters. But…

They were given three candidates (I’m not counting the Republi-tarian here). Two of those candidates have clean records when it comes to basic ethics and morality (don’t steal–and no, venture capitalism is NOT stealing–don’t commit adultery). One of them did not.

So, to avoid the horrors of voting for a candidate whose religion had a brief practice of Biblically-based plural marriage 117 years ago, and inexplicably rejecting the one remaining candidate who really is the ideal evangelical/protestant Christian by just about every measure, the record now irrevocably shows that South Carolina EVANGELICAL Republicans chose the adulterous, ethics-violating candidate as “their guy”.

From now on, I don’t want to hear one word from evangelicals about erstwhile Mormon polygamy being a reason Mitt Romney can’t ever win a national election. Not one blasted word.

What a sad waste of political capital in a moment where Republicans, who’ve been struggling to get back to their core purposes (protecting freedom and family), could have instead been seen as standing steadfast in the traditional values that have proven to make good men and women greater.

English: Al Gore and Newt Gingrich applaud to ...

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There isn’t much else to say about that because it stands on its own. But by way of further illustration, Salon.com very “coincidentally” published an article entitled “Our successful open marriage” as if fertilizing the field (with the usual moral relativism B.S.) for sowing the seeds of “moral compromise”. The end result will be that we’ll get a candidate who is no more ethically above the fray than was Clinton (and who was especially hypocritical during the Lewinsky affair) Pelosi and Reid. We’ll get a candidate who cheats on his multiple wives and lusts in his heart for many women in an open marriage arrangement while running against a candidate who (that we know of) has never cheated on his one-and-only wife (the only thing I admire about Obama).  Even though Obama is obviously not squeaky clean in his own ethics, all we’ll have to show is a candidate who personifies the greedy, unethical stereotype the left lives to paint for us every waking minute of every day. “Better the devil you know” and “I take heart that someone older and fatter than me can still have an affair” will become the watchwords of the 2012 election among swing voters and hardcore conservatives, splitting the vote.

Congratulations, South Carolina Republicans. You just made it that much more likely that Obama will be the front-runner, with his terrifically dismal record on just about every measure of American prosperity. You gave us a leading party candidate who, when held up to the scrutiny and mudslinging of the dominant left-wing mouthpiece media, will all but ensure an Obama victory.

I hope you’re happy with yourselves.

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