Playboy has finally found a new way to shock and titillate America.
The magazine has announced that it will no longer feature full nudity. Instead, it will be moving toward a partially clad, cheesecake pin-up style.
When I heard the news, I immediately wondered what the great economist Joseph Schumpeter would have made of it. Schumpeter, who famously sought to become the world’s greatest economist, lover, and horseman — and admitted to failure only when it came to horses — would surely have followed the news from Playboy with interest.
But Schumpeter’s interest would have been as professional as it was prurient. As Michael Miller reports in theWashington Post,
By routinizing provocative images of naked women, Playboyinevitably created a market for its own rivals. In the 1970s, the magazine went head to head with newcomerPenthouse, whose more graphic female nudity pushed Playboy to become more extreme as well…. Playboy eventually toned down its photos in an attempt to re-establish its “girl next door” reputation, but the company would face even stiffer competition with the rise of the Internet. Suddenly, graphic porn wasn’t just available online. It was free. Playboy’s circulation, which had peaked at 5.6 million in 1975, plummeted to its present tally of 800,000.
The disappearance of full nudity from Playboy magazine is, in other words, a perfect example of Schumpeter’s concept of creative destruction. Schumpeter wrote that the “essential fact about capitalism” is creative destruction — the process “that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structurefrom within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one.”
Just as buggy-whip makers were driven out of business by the rise of the automobile and manufacturers of wall phones were driven out by the rise of the cell phone, traditional purveyors of pornography can be driven out by new technology. In fact, pornography may be a business that is particularly sensitive to technological progress. Though it’s a disputed claim, many technology magazines have claimed that the superior availability of naughty movies on VHS lead to the demise of BetaMax. The legal scholar Peter Johnson argued in 1996 that
Throughout the history of new media, from vernacular speech to movable type, to photography, to paperback books, to videotape, to cable and pay-TV, to “900” phone lines, to the French Minitel, to the Internet, to CD-ROMs and laser discs, pornography has shown technology the way.
The two decades since Johnson’s article have only proven him more correct. With an ever increasing amount of free nudity available online in ways that allow users to precisely calibrate the images they find in order to satisfy their individual desires, the images in Playboy began to seem increasingly quaint and out of date. The desire for pictures of fresh-faced girls next door — filled by Playboy in ersatz and airbrushed fashion — is, presumably, easily filled by the actual girls next door on Snapchat and Tinder. Playboy needed to get creative and change, or be destroyed by its competitors’ creativity.
But while pornography’s critics have long argued that the proliferation of electronic porn is producing a race to be the most hardcore and the most shocking, Playboy has chosen to innovate by going in the opposite direction. This strikes me as a brilliant marketing move.
While the move may well have been done with an eye to skirting China’s laws about pornography, with today’s hipster fascination on reviving the old ways of doing just about everything — from canning food, to home sewing, to vintage dances, fashions, hairstyles, and so on — Playboy’s nod to its status as the 1950s source for cheeky photos is a smart one. Rather than smelling faintly of mothballs, the magazine may manage to rebrand itself into something as desirable as a pair of vintage horn-rims or a fixed-wheel bicycle.
People who worry about innovation and excessive technology and the loss of the good old days should take heart, in other words. The relentless drive of the market, the need to satisfy new customers with different preferences and constraints, the constant push for new technology, and the desire for competitors to stand out in the marketplace, has produced — as its latest innovation — good old-fashioned cheesecake.
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For those of you who did not watch the Democratic Party presidential debate last night, Senator Bernie Sanders says he wants America to be more like Denmark.
But don’t take my word for it. Look at the United Nations and World Bank data brought to you courtesy of HumanProgress.org.
The one area where the United States might not want to copy Denmark is the size of government, which is a proxy measure of taxation and redistribution.
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When asked by the media about homosexuality Pope Francis responded, “If a person is gay — who am I to judge?” Here is the video of his comment:
Well it appears now that Pope Francis has a problem and perhaps his comment has contributed to it? Perhaps Pope Francis should reconsider his position and begin judging behaviors that are inconsistent with social and biblical norms?
Pope Francis asked for forgiveness on Wednesday for scandals at the Vatican and in Rome, an apparent reference to two cases of priests and gay sex revealed this month during a major meeting of bishops.
“Today … in the name of the Church, I ask you for forgiveness for the scandals that have occurred recently either in Rome or in the Vatican,” Francis said in unprepared remarks during his weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square.
“I ask you for forgiveness,” he said before tens of thousands of people, who broke into applause. The pope then read his prepared address and did not elaborate.
EDITORS NOTE: The featured image of Pope Francis speaking as he leads the weekly audience in Saint Peter’s square at the Vatican, October 14, 2015. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini.
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I am a proud Canadian of Iranian origin. I left Iran 30 years ago due to oppression and lack of human rights which has been brought by the terrorist Islamist khomeinist regime of Iran and therefore I have never been back to the country of my birth again.
Canada is a federal parliamentary democracy; a free country due to her great welcoming, friendly and hospitable nature which has attracted hundreds of thousands of immigrants to settle and integrate and millions of tourists visiting Canada every year. The Freedom and Democracy of a country lies in the hands of its very citizens.
All the vital decisions of the people in elections make a rigorous change in every country as they give the power over to their representatives to govern them through casting of valuable votes. Thought process determines their behavior to make the right decision in order to strengthen and reform the foundation of a nation.
Today’s mainstream media carries out manipulative political propaganda to alter pre-decisions of the citizens to vote in favor of some political parties; these deceitful slogans try to invade the minds of many through political correctness to accept wrong as right. We are to highlight their constituent partners’ wide range of networks they have with the infiltrated radical groups and proxies whose operation is to destroy the peace and stability and endanger the national security and lives of Canadians therein to establish some form of medieval system in Canada.
I am voting Conservative Party by the simple process of elimination – the other 2 parties are simply not ready to lead the second biggest country in the world. Mr. Harper has done a very good job, people trust him, he keeps his word. The Conservative party has proven that the well-being of this country is at its core concern. Mr. Harper has come out openly, promising to defend us against foreign cultural practices that would undermine our freedoms, freedoms we have built and enjoyed over the past decades.
Mr. Mulcair and Trudeau have turned their coats in order to gain votes of certain minorities, not realizing the dire consequences of such actions. Mr. Trudeau is not experienced nor educated enough to lead Canada, he is just too young and too naive to comprehend the consequences of his planned actions. His father, Pierre Trudeau brought this country to its knees by forcing bilingualism and multiculturalism on its people.
I am concerned about some leaders lending their ears and our wallets to the minorities, forgetting that it is the mature Canadians who have built this country and now feel that it is being ‘sold’ in order to get votes. I am very concerned about some groups having rights to express their ideologies openly while others have been curbed or simply outlawed. Canadians are simply afraid to express their opinions publicly for fear of being persecuted for it. Free speech is being slowly erased from our mosaic structure. I am very concerned about the trend of political correctness that has permeated our societies. We have been encouraged to keep our thoughts and opinions private for fear of being politically incorrect, for fear of offending the sensitivities of minorities. They, on the other side, have been given the green light to express themselves freely, make demands and force the legal system to accept their cultural and ideological practices.
Our youth has been ignored, not brought into the forefront of the political life. Students in high schools and universities should be encouraged to get engaged in the political life of Canada without being labeled as politically incorrect. Political correctness is killing Canada. It is not the country I have come to know. It caters to newcomers overwhelmingly, forgetting its own people, people who have built it.
In Canada, we see the trend against the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It’s time we claim our rights and freedoms by choosing a well defined party through a very analytical order otherwise we will become slaves in our own country.
The opposition parties whitewash themselves at every election time except the Conservative party, that’s why I will vote for the Conservative Party in the upcoming election.
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70% of supposed ‘refugees’ arriving in Germany are men!
This is news from last week that we didn’t get to, fromReuters (emphasis is mine):
Germany’s police union and women’s rights groups accused the authorities on Tuesday of playing down reports of harassment, sexual assault and even rape at refugee shelters because they feared a backlash against asylum seekers.
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…. police union chief Rainer Wendt said he believed that authorities in Germany’s federal states, which are responsible for housing asylum seekers, were playing down the problem of assaults on women in the shelters.
“It is understandable that there is the desire to calm things down politically,” Wendt told Reuters. But he, along with women’s groups, believed that ignoring the problem would be counterproductive. “There is a lot of glossing over going on. But this doesn’t represent reality,” he said.But police union chief Rainer Wendt said he believed that authorities in Germany’s federal states, which are responsible for housing asylum seekers, were playing down the problem of assaults on women in the shelters.
“It is understandable that there is the desire to calm things down politically,” Wendt told Reuters. But he, along with women’s groups, believed that ignoring the problem would be counterproductive. “There is a lot of glossing over going on. But this doesn’t represent reality,” he said.
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With men accounting for about 70 percent of asylum seekers, other groups across the country have demanded gender-segregated accommodation and safe zones for women.
At least 800,000 asylum seekers are expected in Germany this year, and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s popularity has fallen with polls showing many voters believe she is taking too soft a line on allowing them into the country.
An organization representing the rights of Muslims in the U.S. has criticized U.S. Rep. Steve King for comments the Iowa Republican made Monday about refugees fleeing Syria.
Speaking at a rally in Sioux City with U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, King chastised the idea that the U.S. would accept Syrian Muslims, saying they would be unable to assimilate into the country.
“I can’t find models of the folks that, let’s say do the hajj to Mecca, I can’t find models where they’ve assimilated into the broader culture and civilization wherever they’ve gone,” said King, a U.S. representative.
In a statement Tuesday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, called that statement a “bizarre claim.”
Every sensible person viewing the photos of the invasion of Europe thinks the same thing as King expresses below—why aren’t these fighting-age young men at home fighting for their country?
At the rally, King also said refugees should be trained to defend the countries they are fleeing.
“So, I say instead, the refugees that come out of Iraq and come out of Syria: first, I’d train them and say ‘go back and defend your country.’ Give them uniforms … but if you can’t get them to do that then send them to Saudi Arabia where they have the air-conditioned tents at Mecca. Those tents are not busy for 11 months out of the year and they would assimilate into that culture like a hand into a glove,” King said.
Of course, commonsense is not in vogue these days, and the Muslim ‘refugees’ are participating inthe Hijra(CAIR is smoothing the way)—the migration encouraged by Mohammed to bring Islam to the land of the infidels. 97% of the Syriansbeing admitted to the U.S. are Muslims.
As refugee resettlement continues unabated, you know that one day CAIR hopes to have enough voters in Iowa to get rid of King and others like him. Young patriots—have more babies!
Take a minute and contact Rep. Steve King and thank him for his forthrightness. Click here and call one or all of his offices.
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He is guessing on the numbers and basing it on the fact that Florida is one of the top states receiving mostly Muslim Syrians so far. We listed the Top Ten states here. And, we listed all the cities receiving Syrians (so far) here.
Dr. Doured Daghistani
This is from WLRN (Miami) (I sure hope there are a lot of mental health dollars available in Florida!):
According to the State Department, the six states that have housed the most Syrian refugees so far are Texas, California, Michigan, Illinois, Arizona and Florida.
Dr. Doured Daghistani, a pediatric oncologist and board member of the Syrian American Council of South Florida, says the culture shock endured by Syrian refugees arriving here is unlike any other immigrant experience.
“They’re coming with a big psycho-social burden on them,” said Daghistani.
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Last month, President Obama said his administration is preparing to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees in the coming budget year. Daghistani said he expects 10-20% of the refugees to relocate to Florida and at least 10% to South Florida.
Recent polls show a majority of Americans are opposed to Obama’s plan, with most believing it poses a threat to national security.
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“I think bringing the Syrian refugees here will help the humanitarian issues and will beef up the diversity of South Florida,” Daghistani said.
Syrian American Council of South Florida Facebook page is here.
What you can do!
I urge all of you in Florida to visit my post yesterdayand contact your state’s resettlement agencies. You will be asking for a schedule of upcoming “quarterly consultations” and the “FY 2016 Abstract” for your city. Report to me what you find out!
Meeting tomorrow in Orlando
Although not Southern Florida, a reader yesterday told me about a meeting TOMORROW in Orlando. If you are in the area please attend!
Orlando Area Refugee Task Force Meeting
Event Type:
Public Meeting
Date/Time:
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 – 10:00 to 12:00
Location:
Florida Department of Transportation 133 S. Semoran Blvd Orlando Florida 32807 United States
The purpose of this meeting is to increase awareness of the refugee populations, share best practices, spot trends in refugee populations, build collaborations between agencies, help create good communication among service providers, get informed about upcoming community events, and discuss refugee program service needs and possible solutions to meeting those needs.
I’ve been told that the Florida Dept of Children and Families has other PUBLIC meetings on refugees as well, so Floridians need to find out how to be notified of upcoming opportunities around the state.
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Over the last few weeks, there has been a firestorm of controversy about guns in the USA. Now let’s just forget about the Second Amendment for now. Let’s just forget about the Constitution as a whole, for a second.
I know what many of you are saying the whole reason we have guns is because of the Constitution, but I am here to tell you that is not true. In fact, the very notion that it is written in the Constitution that we can have guns is exactly what puts that protected right in danger.
Of course, I do not advocate changing or getting rid of that amendment because it needs to stay and it needs to stay as it is written. However, travel down the road of logic with me for a moment. You and I are children of God right? Oh, you do not believe in God? OK, then you are a child of Mother Earth. Frankly it does not matter what God you believe in because you are a child of that deity.
With that, you and I are born with certain inalienable rights. In other words, you and I are born with the right to live. Now in order to live, you must have the same inalienable right to protect and preserve your life. Of course, that right does not need to come at the expense of someone else’s identical rights unless that person is actively trying to extinguish your right to live.
When someone else is trying to violate your right to live, then you have a right to protect that deity given life by any means necessary. That means you have the deity given right to have a weapon of your choice in order to protect your deity given right to life. That weapon could be the human invention called a firearm.
We know for certain with data and facts that guns are not the major cause of death in this country or any other nation. If you want to talk about governments killing their own people with guns, well that is another topic. But when it comes to crime guns are not the biggest threat to that life right. Today more people are killed using knives or from medical malpractice/mistakes, drug over doses, abortion, and automobile accidents.
Yet I do not see or hear anyone calling for tighter control over knives. I don’t see or hear the left bringing stricter rules and laws governing abortions. I don’t hear or see anyone trying to ban automobiles and I don’t hear or see anyone on the left limiting medical treatment in order to prevent malpractice or mistakes. In fact, when it comes to that last one, the left want even more medical malpractice/mistakes because they are requiring everyone to have some kind of medical coverage or insurance.
You see, you have a deity given right to protect your own life. And you have a right to use any weapon available to you in order to achieve that right when someone tries to violate that right by ending your life prematurely.
This has nothing to do with the Constitution. However, the Founders knew this and figured if they did not put this inalienable right down on paper that the government would try to eliminate your inalienable right to life.
Make no mistake about it I am a full advocate of gun ownership by individuals not only in this country but in every country all over the world. And the very fact that you have Liberals and Leftists who want to take away your deity given right to protect your own life, should give us all pause.
Keep in mind that not a single new proposed law or existing law would have prevented the latest mass shootings anywhere in the country. So you have to ask if existing laws and newly proposed laws would not have prevented the horrific crimes, what exactly is the plan?
Make no mistake about it, when these new laws are enacted and don’t work to prevent these same crimes, the left will push to change, eliminate the second Amendment, and then move to ban all guns for individuals because that is their end game .
They want to control your right to life. Mostly because they, on the left, do not believe you have a right to live because they believe they have the right to choose who lives and who does not live. And this is why the ability to own a firearm is not just a Constitutional right, it is a deity given right. It is a God-given right.
Don’t doubt me.
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LOS ANGELES /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS) will air a new TV commercial tomorrow night in CNN’s first Democratic Presidential debate. The commercial is scheduled to air multiple times in the debate across major markets in Iowa, South Carolina and California. The ad is designed to help Americans understand what presidential candidates mean when they reference “anchor babies” and where candidates stand on granting automatic citizenship to anyone born on U.S. soil.
View the CAPS infomercial and see where the candidates stand on anchor babies:
More than 300,000 babies are born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants each year, about 8% of all U.S. births. Pew Hispanic Research estimates there are 4 million children residing in the U.S. today who were born in the U.S. to illegal immigrants.
Under current policy, when a citizen of another country gives birth to a child on U.S. soil, whether here as a tourist or illegally, the baby automatically gets U.S. citizenship along with taxpayer funded benefits. And once the baby gets citizenship, the parents eventually become eligible for U.S. citizenship and benefits too. Then the parents’ extended families can apply for citizenship. The U.S. and Canada are the only two developed nations that still allow birthright citizenship.
“Why should a citizen of another country who has broken our laws be rewarded with U.S. citizenship and taxpayer benefits for them, their children and their extended family?” asked Jo Wideman, Executive Director of Californians for Population Stabilization. “That’s not fair to those who are following the rules to immigrate here the right way. And it’s not fair to the American taxpayer either.”
Several Presidential candidates have called for ending birthright citizenship, citing constitutional scholars who say the current policy fundamentally misinterprets the citizenship clause in the 14th amendment. The Supreme Court has also acknowledged that Congress’s power over naturalization is absolute while judicial power is extremely limited.
“France, Germany, Japan, the U.K. and most developed countries around the world ended birthright citizenship decades ago. It’s time for the U.S. to end it too,” concluded Wideman.
ABOUT CALIFORNIAN FOR POPULATION STABILIZATION
To learn more about CAPS, visit CAPSweb.org. To view the TV commercial and sign a petition against illegal alien anchor babies, visit USAnchorBabies.org.
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Some may argue that the primary difference between President Obama and Donald Trump is leadership. Others might point out the lack of Obama’s business credentials versus the business success of Trump. Still others may point out that President Obama is the consummate politician while Trump is the consummate Renaissance man.
While all of these comparisons have been made none is more important than President Obama’s and Donald Trump’s view of America.
A recent Gallup poll found that 75% think there is wide-spread corruption in Washington, a figure that has been fairly constant since 2010. The American people sense that something is very wrong in Washington and President Obama has been the cause of much of that distrust.
It is often said that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. The turn to the Right in America started with a backlash against the disastrous ideas, both social and economic, that came out of the 1960s and reached fruition with the “stagflation” and anarchy of President Jimmy Carter. A new generation has suffered through the painfully slow half-recovery under President Barack Obama. Thus, both the libertarian and democratic-socialist models have failed. This leaves only a genuine conservative model to save the day, if it can find a champion.
That model is strongly nationalistic. It puts rebuilding the American economy first. People must be able to buy property and plan for the future, if they are going to stand on the Right in politics. They must have something to conserve. Capitalism is very productive, but it must be harnessed, if it is to pull society forward.
The major difference between these two men is: Obama is a socialist but not a nationalist, while Trump is a nationalist who is a capitalist.
The classic statement of nationalism comes from French historian Ernst Renan in 1882, “To have had glorious moments in common in the past, a common will in the present, to have done great things together and to wish to do more, those are the essential conditions for a people.”
Wikipedia gives us this definition of American nationalism:
American nationalism is a form of nationalism found in the United States, which asserts that Americans are a nation and that promotes the cultural unity of Americans.
The key words are common will and cultural unity. A united American is capable of anything, a divided one is incapable of doing everything. Since 2008 citizens have sensed a growing divide in America based upon class, income, race, religion and political affiliation. What Americans yearn for is a United States of America.
Only those who fit these definitions may be called conservatives and be trusted to work for the common good.
Rand, in her paper makes the case that, “The basic issue in the world today is between two principles: Individualism and Collectivism.” Rand defines these two principles as follows:
Individualism – Each man exists by his own right and for his own sake, not for the sake of the group.
Collectivism – Each man exists only by the permission of the group and for the sake of the group.
President Obama (Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders and the Democratic Party) are Collectivists. Donald Trump is an Individualist and is fighting against his own Republican Party, the media and the Democrats to become the first nationalist who embraces capitalism since President Ronald Reagan.
I know, comparisons to Ronald Reagan have become a cliche. But in the case of Trump, he speaks in plain terms to the thirst to make America great again. A great America means a peaceful and more prosperous world. History tells us so.
Perhaps what Donald Trump has brought to the forefront was captured by Francis Bellamy in 1892 in the Pledge of Allegiance:
I pledge allegiance 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.
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The Bible promises, “Let us not grow weary in well doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest.” Folks, I don’t know about you, but I do grow weary. More pundits are acknowledging that Obama is the worst, evil and radial leftist president in U.S. History. My frustration is no one is stopping him from behaving like a lawless banana republic ruler, transforming our once great nation and corrupting the thinking of our youths. God’s promise of reaping a harvest keeps me strong in the battle for the heart and soul of my country.
Borrowing a line from the Dickens novel, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” In the midst of witnessing my America becoming Sodom and Gomorrah, I just completed a wonderful project honoring and preserving the legacy of my 87 year old black dad.
At 87, Dad is as mentally sharp as ever. It occurred to me the importance of preserving Dad on video for future generations. Mom passed 20 years ago. Unfortunately, many of Mom’s grand-kids never experienced her other than in pictures.
Dad sang in gospel quartets as far back as I can remember, but never recorded. So, I wanted to capture Dad singing on a recording. I approached music producer Earl (Luther B) Baker to arrange an upbeat version of the classic, “What A Friend We Have In Jesus” for Dad to record along with his five kids (me and my four younger siblings).
Though, I never said it out loud, I was concerned. Was it too late in Dad’s life? At 87, could he still sing? Despite it being his first time recording and his age, Dad delivered a passionate soul-stirring performance in one take.
Dad named our singing group, “Daddy and the Marcus Five.” I proudly present this music video of us performing, “What A Friend We Have in Jesus.”
In the interview, Dad gave the humiliating details of being among a handful of blacks who broke the color barrier in the 1950s to become Baltimore City firefighters. He explains how he won Firefighter of the Year two times. Dad later became Baltimore’s first black paramedic and first black fire department Chaplin.
Keep in mind folks, this was the 1950s in which racism against blacks truly was an issue. And yet, whenever a door opened for blacks, Dad prepared himself, applied and walked through it. This is how he achieved so many firsts; among the first black firefighters, first black paramedic and first black fire department Chaplin. He never sought special concessions or lowered standards due to his race. All Dad asked for was an opportunity to compete.
Dad chuckled while telling me this story. In the late 1950s, an exclusive white country club offered free memberships to Baltimore City firefighters. Dad read about it and showed up with his fire department credentials and two of my younger brothers. Taken aback that dad was black, the club had to admit him. Dad said all the white people got out of the swimming pool when he and my brothers got in. Still, Dad took my brothers to the club regularly. Eventually, whites started swimming with them in the pool. Joining the country club was another example of Dad walking through an opened door.
When Dad first became a Baltimore City firefighter, our family (my parents, four younger siblings and I) was still living on the sixth floor of an 11 store high-rise in the projects (government housing). I was around 9 or 10 years old.
Firefighters were required to wear their uniform to work. Watching Dad prepare to go to work taught me excellence without him saying a word; highly shined shoes, polished brass and a crisp starched shirt with a tie. I remember the pride I felt watching Dad walking through the neighborhood on his way to the firehouse (Engine 6). The image still bring a tear to my eye.
Both the music video and interview with my dad have gotten rave reviews from most of the millennials in my family. I pray that they absorb the valuable lesson of Dad’s remarkable life which is America is the greatest land of opportunity on the planet for all who choose to go for it. Ignore Democrats and liberal’s lie that white America is out to destroy and murder blacks. Simply prepare yourself, make right decisions and go for your dreams.
Sadly, a handful of millennials in my family remain bewitched with idolatry for Obama. They perceive me as their traitorous Uncle Tom uncle.
Unquestionably, I know I was divinely inspired to produce the music video and interview honoring my dad and preserving his legacy. Thus, I place the impact of both in God’s hands.
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Here we have the New York Post reporting on 2016 presidential candidate Donald Trump (on the Sunday shows) reemphasizing his contention that the Syrian refugee stream to Europe and America could bring ISIS terrorists in with it.
Donald Trump: “What she [Merkel] has done to Germany is insane.”
Trump also said he carries a gun from time to time.
WASHINGTON — It’s “insane” that Chancellor Angela Merkel is allowing so many male Syrian refugees into Germany, Donald Trump said Sunday.
“I’ve been watching this migration. And I see the people. I mean, they’re men, they’re mostly men, and they’re strong men,” Trump said on “Face the Nation.” “What I won’t do is take in 200,000 Syrians who could be ISIS.”
“These are physically young, strong men. They look like prime-time soldiers. Now, it’s probably not true. But where are the women?” the GOP frontrunner wondered.
Merkel has welcomed the flood of mostly Syrian and Afghan refugees with compassion saying it’s her “damned duty” to help those running for their lives. An estimated 800,000 newcomers will arrive in Germany by the year’s end.
“What she’s done in Germany is insane. It’s insane. They’re having all sorts of attacks.”
The Gulf States “who have nothing but money” and others should find a big swath of land in Syria and create a safe zone to harbor families, Trump suggested. The US could help economically, but should limit taking in Syrian refugees because they could be terrorists.
See all of our posts on the ‘Invasion of Europe’ by clicking here. And, see what Merkel is doing to Germany, here (“unparalleled historical mistake”).
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It is often said that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. The turn to the Right in America started with a backlash against the disastrous ideas, both social and economic, that came out of the 1960s and reached fruition with the “stagflation” and anarchy of President Jimmy Carter. A new generation has suffered through the painfully slow half-recovery under President Barack Obama. Thus, both the libertarian and democratic-socialist models have failed. This leaves only a genuine conservative model to save the day, if it can find a champion. – William R. Hawkins, former economics professor and Congressional staffer.
Whatever one thinks of Donald Trump’s campaign style, he has provoked critics to reveal more about themselves than they had intended – or wanted people to realize.
Consider a U.S. News & World Reportarticle written by Dalibor Rohac of the American Enterprise Institute and Jan Zinsky of the Peterson Institute for International Economics (September 24). Entitled “Beware Populist Snake Oil,” it attacks Trump for being part of “a revolt against the modern, globalized world.” The authors deplore a rise in “nationalist sentiments” and oppose those who promise a “return to greatness” for their countries. These are inherently conservative feelings, of course, so Rohac and Zinsky try to link Trump to far-left socialists like Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn to counter his appeal to the Right.
Yet, it is clear that Trump is not a socialist, and Tsipras is only a nationalist because he wants relief from EU pressure to pay back the debts socialism ran up. Corbyn favors government ownership of major industries, confiscatory tax rates and unilateral disarmament. His focus is class conflict, not national unity.
Rohac and Zinsky cite a study by sociologist Alina Polyakova which “found that the countries that were hit worst by the financial crisis of 2008 experienced a surge in nationalist sentiments. She argues that economically insecure citizens looked to their national governments for protection. Curiously, however, this instinct has not translated into stronger support for mainstream left-wing parties.”
Trump has tapped into the neo-nationalism lost since the 1960s. The American people want America to be great again because that is the true American spirit. It is what gave rise to the neo-conservative grassroots movement known as the TEA Party.
Trump did not create this grassroots movement but his campaign slogan, and policies, reflect a national desire to return to greatness. Winning is better than losing. America has been losing (economically, socially, militarily) for far to long.
Grassroots America is nationalists but not socialist.
The mantra of ‘Take America Back’ has been replaced with ‘Make America Great Again.’ Trump is on to something and that something may put him in the White House.
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Flying from the United States to any destination in Germany is not much different from what it was in years past. My wife, Joyce, and I arrived in Munich on the morning of September 24 following an overnight flight from Houston.
During the long tedious flight from Houston I could have watched at least six full-length movies, but I watched just two. I saw my old friend and former Malibu neighbor, Tatum O’Neal, in her Oscar-winning performance in “Paper Moon,” a movie she made when she was just ten years old, and I saw Orson Welles in “Citizen Kane,” one of Hollywood’s greatest movies of all time.
As I watched Welles’ performance as a crass, overbearing, egomaniacal newspaper publisher, I couldn’t help but feel as if Donald Trump is a perfect reincarnation of Welles’ character, Charles Foster Kane. Trump and Kane are mirror images of each other. Anyone wishing to understand the political appeal of “Citizen Trump” should simply rent a video copy of “Citizen Kane.”
After standing in a short line in Munich to show our passports, we were directed to the baggage claim area where our checked bags arrived in a matter of minutes. We then proceeded to two pairs of swinging doors, one marked “passengers with nothing to declare.” We passed through the doors with a welcoming smile from a lone customs official and minutes later we were aboard a bus bound for a ski resort in Soell, Austria, just 54 miles south of Munich.
On Friday, we spent a full day in old-town Innsbruck, enjoying a sandwich and a glass of wine in a sunny sidewalk café across the street from the Hofburg Palace where Marie Antoinette grew up. Although there is no real evidence that she ever uttered the words, “Qu’ils mangent de la brioche” (“Let them eat cake”), Marie Antoinette eventually became a very unpopular figure in France and was sent to the guillotine on October 16, 1793, during the French Revolution.
The following day, Saturday, September 26, I experienced the joy of driving a 5-speed Ford stick-shift rental car over some 120 miles of high-speed autobahns and just over 100 miles of winding two-lane alpine roads to visit the famed Neuschwanstein castle of Bavaria’s King Ludwig II. With heavy traffic in both directions, the local farmers pulling their wagonloads of silage made passing a frightening experience… more so for my three passengers than for me.
After riding horse-drawn carts up the mountain to the castle… I can still recall the days when I walked up the long road to Neuschwanstein faster than the horse-drawn carts… we shared lunch with friends before descending the mountain and returning to our ski resort. On the way back we came across several thousand very frustrated drivers who were stuck in a 10-mile long traffic jam on a two-lane mountain road. A big Mercedes sedan, pulling a camper trailer, was stalled at the base of an incline with no possibility of getting off the road, turning around, or backing down. And since traffic was heavy in both directions there was no opportunity for those stuck in the traffic jam to turn around and find another route. They may still be there a week later.
In our remaining days we drove to Salzburg, Mozart’s birthplace, where we strolled through the same palace gardens where Julie Andrews sang and danced with the Von Trapp children in “The Sound of Music.” And we traveled to Berchtesgaden uber Salzburg, where we enjoyed a cold beer in what was once Adolph Hitler’s mountain retreat, the Eagle’s Nest. We also spent a day driving over the Brenner Pass into northern Italy where we were treated to the most “generous” wine-tasting party I’ve ever experienced in the vineyards of the Merano-Bolzano region.
Although a principal reason for our trip to Austria and Germany at this time of year was to attend Munich’s Oktoberfest, we decided that, with hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees flooding into Germany from Austria and Hungary, it might be a good idea to avoid Munich and other major German cities. With widespread reports of women dragged from buses and automobiles and gang-raped in broad daylight, it simply wasn’t worth the gamble.
What was most surprising was that, in a week of watching news broadcasts on the BBC, CNN International, and an English-language French network, we saw almost no news coverage of the millions of Muslim refugees fleeing war and brutality in their home countries. To judge by the amount of coverage of the crisis on European TV, there was no reason to believe that refugees were flooding across European frontiers, that boatloads of refugees were dying at sea, or that hordes of refugees were trudging overland from Greece and Turkey to Western Europe.
For the first time it was possible to believe that perhaps the Germans who lived in close proximity to Dachau, Buchenwald, and other concentration camps during the Nazi holocaust really didn’t know what was going on behind the barbed-wire fences and the iron gates that proclaimed, “Arbeit Macht Frei.” If leftist regimes during the 1930s and ‘40s could keep their people ignorant of the horrors of the concentration camps by merely managing the news, why couldn’t they keep them ignorant of the invasion of African and Middle Eastern refugees in 2015 when leftist control of the media is just as pervasive and even more sophisticated?
But what was most important for me was to see the joy in Joyce’s eyes as she experienced Austria and Germany, my favorite places on Earth, for the first time. On first sight, a newcomer to the German and Austrian Alps might feel as if they are looking at a few miles of Potemkin Villages, where every home, every window box, every lawn, every meadow, every mountain stream, and every highland pasture are manicured to absolute perfection. But it doesn’t take long for the first-time visitor to realize that the perfection in the Alpine region of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland goes on for hundreds of miles, in all directions, apparently without flaw.
In eight days of travel throughout Bavaria, Austria, and the Italian Tyrol, there was not a piece of litter to be seen… no discarded beer cans, plastic bottles, or hamburger wrappers. There were no automobile junk yards, no garish fast-food restaurants, no highway billboards, no graffiti-sprayed walls, and no dilapidated automobiles. In a word, that entire region of Planet Earth is “pristine.” The roads and highways are completely devoid of potholes and the trains and buses run on time.
But, as in everything else, all good things must come to an end. On Thursday morning, October 1st, we packed our bags and returned by bus to the Munich International Airport. Arriving at the airport with time to spare, we had plenty of time to stand in a long baggage-check line and a much shorter and faster-moving security check line where all we had to do was place our carry-on bags, our wallets, and our pocket-change into baskets for x-ray examination. However, while the return flight from Munich to Washington (Dulles) was some three hours shorter than our long flight from Houston to Munich, what awaited us at Dulles was a most unpleasant end to a spectacular European vacation.
Upon entering the Dulles terminal, we found ourselves inching forward in a seemingly endless maze of retractable crowd-control barriers, at the end of which were three or four surly customs agents checking passports. Passing that obstacle, we were directed to a baggage claim area to retrieve our checked luggage.
After waiting for nearly a half hour to reclaim our bags, we were directed to a second crowd-control maze which appeared to be nothing more than a people-storage facility because there was no discernible movement in the line. After an hour or more, moving just inches at a time, we learned why the line moved so slowly. The line we’d been standing in emptied into a room with some 20 or 30 unattended electronic kiosks which required thousands of kiosk-illiterate travelers to study glowing touch-screens, trying to figure out what was required of them.
Once passengers figured out that they were first required to scan their passports, they were then required to position themselves so that the kiosk could produce a photograph of the passenger, along with a form to be completed affirming that the passenger carried no fruits, vegetables, plants, or seeds; no meats, animals, or animal products; no disease agents or cell cultures; no soil from a foreign farm or ranch; that the passenger had not been in close proximity to livestock; that the passenger was not carrying in excess of $10,000 in U.S. currency; etc… the very same questions we’d responded to on the customs declaration form completed prior to landing.
Once we’d completed the kiosk interrogation and had our kiosk-generated customs declaration forms in hand, we were directed to yet another waiting area filled with crowd-control barriers. After moving through that maze at a snail’s pace we found three or four bored customs officers sitting behind desks, doing nothing but collecting the kiosk-generated customs declarations. Then, after unburdening ourselves of our customs declarations we were directed to a baggage collection area where we were able to return our checked baggage to United Airlines for the final leg of our journey to Tulsa.
From there, we found ourselves in a fourth passenger collection room with a seemingly endless maze of retractable crowd-control barriers, at the end of which we were required to empty our pockets into trays, along with our carry-on-bags, remove our shoes and belts, and submit to a full-body scan and a full-body pat-down.
To say that the process of reentering the United States was a maddening ordeal would be an understatement, but it’s the sort of thing that happens when the inmates are allowed to run the asylum. As I stood in those endless lines, the most painful and humiliating punishment devised by the fiendish bureaucrats of the Transportation Security Administration, I couldn’t help but think of the millions of illegal aliens streaming unimpeded across our southern border.
George Orwell warned us about this. Nineteen eight-four has finally arrived!
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We apologize for this information, but as we allow our children to be assaulted this way in school we cannot expect to be too sensitive ourselves. We have “sanitized” the article. – Judith Gelernter Reisman and Thomas R. Hampson
“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves,” Matthew 10:16
The Kinsey Cult
Ira Reiss, a Sociologist and Professor Emeritus at Minnesota University was a charter member of Kinsey’s Sex Cult. His papers, articles, and audio and video recordings already are housed at the Kinsey Institute, 57 years of his work so far. Reiss, like other Kinsey disciples, advocated the production of pornography and its display for “training” purposes to prepare students entering the new sexuality fields spawned by Kinsey’s supposed revelations on sex. Kinsey gleefully directed the development of these training materials, which during the late 60’s, started to be called Sexuality Attitude Restructuring (later re-named Reassessment) (SAR) sessions.
These training sessions are promoted as sexual desensitization seminars, pornographic extravaganzas of all manner of enthusiastic sexual activities presented to groups of men and women as training to become certified therapists, counselors, educators or researchers, etc, in matters of sex and sexuality. Viewing these images triggers sexual arousal, (blush) actually changing their brains, minds and memories. Even the New York Times, quoting the science on brain change and plasticity noted, “the vicarious thrill of watching sex, it turns out, is not so vicarious after all.”[1] In addition to desensitizing sexologists to the images of heterosexual activities, sado-masochism, group sex, sodomy, the use of sex “toys” (apparatus) and other unmentionables, the sex leaders also hold small group discussions to explore the participants’ attitudes and biases in order to neutralize any ‘negative’ views.
But the stated purpose of these sessions is not the whole story, or even the real story.
Early on, these sessions were not used to merely desensitize, and encourage acceptance of all sex acts but as indoctrination into a “sex positive” mindset. Such training has been a requirement for certification by the American Association of Sex Educators and Counselors (AASEC) which later became the American Association of Sex Educators Counselors and Therapists (AASECT). Indeed, leaders often pressured participants into sexual experimentation with each other.
Reiss revealed this in his book, An Insider’s View of Sexual Science since Kinsey, recounting his experience at an 8 day SAR session in San Francisco in 1972. At the time, Reiss already was a professor at the University of Minnesota where its medical school was one the first in the country to offer SAR training to medical students. But it was a new, untested program.
The director of U of M’s SAR program had secured a grant from the Playboy Foundation to send 25 couples from the University, all expenses paid, to San Francisco to receive training from the group that had followed on Kinsey’s practices, the National Sex Forum (NSF) (aka: the National Sex and Drug Forum). The purpose was to improve the programming at Minnesota. Reiss and wife were among the volunteers for the Playboy sponsored training of future national sex education. Reiss reports:
“The view presented by many of the staff was supportive of people trying out the full variety of sexual acts that exist (S and M, gay, extramarital, group sex, etc.). The supposed purpose was to allow people to break through their old restrictive sexual attitudes. I had no objection to offering such options. However, as they elaborated, it became clear that this support of broad experimentation was more than just permission giving—it was presented as a demand to experiment.”[2]
When Reiss resisted, the SAR leaders ridiculed him, one of them saying, “Are you hostile to group sex or gay sex, and is that why [you are] so cautious about trying something new? Are you biased?”[3]
Reiss explained that he did not object to the idea of such activity, or even to promoting such experimentation. Rather, he objected to making it a demand instead of merely encouraging it.
And promoting and demanding and forcing freewheeling sexual libertinism, SAR trainers have been doing for over 40 years now.
While AASECT requires SAR training as an element in their certification standards, the Kinsey Institute is still involved and Planned Parenthood has joined in. In 2007 Planned Parenthood of Indiana, the Kinsey Institute and AASECT cooperated in staging a SAR training at an Episcopal Retreat Center (of all places). SAR trainings take place continually all over the country every year. Those attending become the “experts” who write the sex education materials, who teach the teachers who put on the programs that “inform” our children about healthy sexuality.
Mentally and emotionally corrupted graduates of the SAR training become the “experts” who design sex-ed courses and teach our children. Thus, they have “determined” that the body’s solid waste exit is a “genital” as it is described in the currently used sex education program in Hawaii; that sexual excitement from urine is just normal sex play, endorsed by a Massachusetts Department of Public Health book distributed to Massachusetts children; that orgies are natural entertainment, that pornographic sex addiction is a myth; that it’s normal for children to have sex and that they have the right to choose whatever sexual activity they may think to try; and that sodomy (legalized 6-3 in 2003) is healthy sexual practice for all sexual orientations.
The whole purpose of these “sex positive” programs is not to liberate adults from their Victorian moral prisons but to indoctrinate children into an unrestrained, sexually available lifestyle. Even if such “programs” are not being taught in all schools yet, this material is available on multiple websites and widely promoted to all comers, regardless of age. The Kinsey Institute, SIECUS, Planned Parenthood, AASECT, and others all provide sites that extoll the virtues of unrestrained sexual experimentation.
Is it any wonder that youthful STD’s, pregnancies, abortions and abuse are pandemic?
Which brings us to one of the big lies spread by these organizations: safe/safer sex.
Now: The Dental Dam Lie
After telling children that they must use the condom properly; unroll it, check carefully for any holes, full directions for putting on, etc., Minnesota AIDS Project experts (SAR graduates) tell youngsters they can cut and use plastic wrap as a “barrier” when a child has oral contact with “the opening at the end of the alimentary canal through which solid waste matter leaves the body,”[4] known by other cruder jargons.
What?
After all the care telling children to assure the condom is in perfect condition, sex experts endorse plastic wrap!? A child asked me once “if we don’t have plastic wrap, can we use tin foil?”
This Minnesota AIDS Project advertisement teaches children how to make their own dental dam.
Proper Use for Dental Dams
“A rubber dam and accessories is a device composed of a thin sheet of latex with a hole in the center intended to isolate a tooth from fluids in the mouth during dental procedures … The device includes the rubber dam, rubber dam clamp, rubber dam frame, and forceps for a rubber dam clamp. This classification does not include devices intended for use in preventing transmission of sexually transmitted diseases through oral sex…”[5] (Italics added)
“We know of no other latex dam cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for protection against STDs[6] for” oral sodomy, or oral contact with that opening at the end of the alimentary canal through which solid waste matter leaves the body.” “*NOTE: Unlike Sheer Glyde Dams, dental dams were never intended for, tested or proven to be an effective barrier for the prevention of the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). (Italics added)[7] And there is the warning:
“Warning: Do not use during penetrating penile/vaginal or penile/anal intercourse.”[8]
Requests for documentation from sales@glydehealth.com for all three approvals await. So far, weeks have passed and we’ve heard nothing. And we probably won’t either. Documentation we obtained from the FDA specifically states that the dams are NOT to be used for oral/anal sex.
Which brings us back to Reiss, Planned Parenthood, the Kinsey Institute, and AASECT at their Retreat on Sexuality at the Episcopal Retreat Center. For Planned Parenthood has brainwashed thousands of teachers, counselors, educators, lawyers, judges, doctors for five or six decades.
“If you choose to have vaginal or anal intercourse, use condoms every time. They can reduce the risk of HPV. They are not as effective against HPV as they are against other infections such as chlamydia and HIV. But they greatly reduce the risk of HPV infection. You can use condoms, Sheer Glyde dams, dental dams, or plastic wrap during oral sex to further reduce the risk.”[9]
Now, it is time to bring this into the courtroom. Do “condoms” and homemade, mislabeled “dental dams” give the protection Planned Parenthood claims, or are they just an excuse to hypersexualize younger and younger children, groom them, and leave them increasingly vulnerable to disease, even death, and sexual abuse by peers and adults? Let us hear from you if you have been victimized by believing the lies that were told in school about condoms, never approved by the FDA for sodomy, and so-called “dental dam” safety.
[7] http://www.gamelink.com/display_product.jhtml?id=294017. Sites for general “health” aids as well as school health claiming safety: www.nakedtruth.idaho.gov/dental-dams.aspx brown.edu/…/sexual…sex_and…/dental_dams.php www.gc.cuny.edu/…/What-are-Dental-Dams… studenthealth.oregonstate.edu/…/dental_dam. https://www.rochester.edu/…/SexualHealth/ https://www.optionsforsexualhealth.org/sexual…/sexually…/oral-dams, etc., etc.
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Now: The Dental Dam Lie
“We know of no other latex dam cleared by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for protection against STDs[6] for” oral sodomy, or oral contact with that opening at the end of the alimentary canal through which solid waste matter leaves the body.” “*NOTE: Unlike Sheer Glyde Dams, dental dams were never intended for, tested or proven to be an effective barrier for the prevention of the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). (Italics added)[7] And there is the warning: