The MSM has been abuzz with how Cindy Sheehan, the moonbats’ “Peace Mama” is apparently stepping down from her self-appointed role as Supreme Badgerer of the President and even going as far as to say that she has “given up on America”.

For your convenience, I’ve linked to her “diary” over at the DailyKo(mmunist)s - as it seems that trying to find it from within that great hive-mind of moonbattery took a bit of effort.

One would think that such a story would be on the front page, but perhaps the KosKidz want to keep their celebrity’s pratfalls under wraps, or there was a certain possibility of the “Slashdot Effect” pounding Kos’s servers into submission - although not many of the MSM sites reporting this story cared to dig out any links to Kos, much less Sheehan’s “Kos-diary”

Here are a few interesting tidbits she does offer:

I have also reached the conclusion that if I am doing what I am doing because I am an “attention whore” then I really need to be committed.

Heh. I could have told you that you should already have been committed to a fine psychiatric institution a few years ago, or at least have been given some meds to help calm down your hysteria, lady.

I have invested everything I have into trying to bring peace with justice to a country that wants neither. If an individual wants both, then normally he/she is not willing to do more than walk in a protest march or sit behind his/her computer criticizing others.

Really? Have you indeed invested everything to bringing peace to the land? You are well within your rights to grieve the loss of your son Casey, and well within your rights to disagree with the prosecution of our military actions in the Middle East. But YOU are the one who played the role of media harlot for the sake of your own egomania. Please! Spare us the sob story.

Do you mean to tell us that you are better than every other grieving mother and father and child and spouse who has seen their loved one make the ultimate sacrifice life for their country? Was not Casey of legal age to make a commitment to serve his country? In my opinion, you do his memory much harm through your showboating his good name to get your fifteen minutes of fame.

Were you so strongly opposed to his entry in the Armed Services, or was this a revelation you received from the Great Leftist Hive Mind when that soldier showed up on your doorstep with a telegram and/or a folded American flag?

As for most people not wanting peace or justice… well lady, where do you see it? You are partially right - when you deal with the radical left, and a left which hardly does its forebears any credit, for these modern leftists are the product of a parentage and an “education” (an indoctrination, really) bereft of a moral compass, and have been raised at the twin teats of selfish materialism (hah!) and crass consumerism without regard for authority or a desire to give up a little to gain a lot.

But for the rest of us on the center and on the right… we do desire peace with justice. But unlike your thinking, it does not entail giving up when the going is the worst, it is pressing on, making mistakes - yes, mistakes, for we shall make them for as long as we are trapped in the mortal coil of sinful flesh - and endeavoring to correct our course to bring stability to Iraq in some form.

Is it perfect? By no means. It will take sacrifice, and the blood of perhaps many more Americans, to stand in the gap so as to prevent an even far greater bloodshed were our nation to fall prey to Islamists.

Yet you speak of sacrifices:

“I have spent every available cent I got from the money a “grateful” country gave me when they killed my son and every penny that I have received in speaking or book fees since then. “

No, neither we, nor the “government” killed your Casey. An Islamist insurgent took the life of your Casey, who fully well knew that that was a possible outcome for himself when he took the oath of service. And guess what? I am grateful for your son’s sacrifice. He truly is a hero.

I have sacrificed a 29 year marriage and have traveled for extended periods of time away from Casey’s brother and sisters and my health has suffered and my hospital bills from last summer (when I almost died) are in collection because I have used all my energy trying to stop this country from slaughtering innocent human beings. I have been called every despicable name that small minds can think of and have had my life threatened many times.

You’ve ruined your marriage, jeopardized your health, and put yourself into intractable debt for your media harlotry. Where was your duty to Mr. Sheehan, to be an obedient and supportive wife to him, and a mother to your remaining children still here on earth? You were carried away by your grief, and found yourself used by the radical left. Who gave you the right to ignore your responsibilities as a mother and a wife to selfishly pursue that carrot dangled in front of you by “opportunity” so-called?

“I am going to take whatever I have left and go home. I am going to go home and be a mother to my surviving children and try to regain some of what I have lost. I will try to maintain and nurture some very positive relationships that I have found in the journey that I was forced into when Casey died and try to repair some of the ones that have fallen apart since I began this single-minded crusade to try and change a paradigm that is now, I am afraid, carved in immovable, unbendable and rigidly mendacious marble.”

Whoa, hold on a sec… you were “forced into” this journey? By whom? Did some terrorists sneak up behind you and jab a weapon into your back, and demand that you become the “Peace Mama”? Or was it that big bad MSM? I could by that… those MSM moguls are some rather unpleasant chaps, even if they are on the same team as you are, for the most part.

And that “mendacious unbending marble” paradigm? You just might be right about that. The radical left that you whored yourself out to for the blood-price of your son’s life is about the most thick-headed bunch of mostly useless idiots. This is about the only place where I could see myself agreeing with you: the Left is too busy trying to play chameleon (Hillary) or obfuscate thier closeted skeletons (Obama) or outright practice chicanery and deception (Silky Pony Edwards)… or otherwise be so wrapped up in their personal agendas that they cannot work with one another.

I’ll also agree with you that the present two party system we have is nothing but useless; the diversity of opinion on public policy is much too large to be included in a big tent of either monied Democrats or monied Republicans. Those of use wee folk are indeed, largely ill-represented.

Finally, I could say that your commitment (to the cause of ending the war) might be commendable, and your afflictions worthy of some consolation, if you did not hold it out expecting some kind of sympathy for your… frankly, insulting and childish behaviour (such as your last post at Kos’s site) :

“Good-bye America … you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.

It’s up to you now.”

Indeed? Well, you just as well might do well to emigrate to a country that you do love. Try Venezuela, I hear that Chavez guy is a real riot to hang out with…. y’know, shutting down the media, suppressing invidiual freedoms, confiscating private property… he sure seems like a real swell guy, no?

Yeah, that’s your new boyfriend there, he likes to do the sort of stuff like your son Casey gave his life in order to prevent the same from happening here in the good ol’ USA.

I’m not terribly sure what this video is about, but it is pretty funny. My wife says that “Gattsu Daze” is something like “someone who has guts”, or an internal calm determination to get something done.

This song is by (an obviously) Japanese group called “ULFULS”, which could be a homologue to “wolfs”, although I seem to remember reading somewhere that they had originally intended to name the group “SOULFULS”, and that the current name was a result of a few letters being left off by the copy writer or some other faceless drone of the recording industry.

Speaking of which, here is a funny video of the group performing “Gattsu Daze!!”, complete with matching Edo-era outfits (before the Japanese counterpart to the RIAA gets around to having this yanked off of YouTube).

Although I don’t listen to non-Christian music much anymore, my wife has this tune on her iPod, and I’ll tolerate it if only for the humour value of video that goes along with it.

(h/t to “Conservative Culture”, article here)

Apparently, some folks seem to think that the Bible is nothing but a bunch of stories of horrific violence, lust, and other generally bad things. Which is not surprising for those whose eyes have been blinded by the “prince of the power of the air (media)”, that is, the Devil.

Less surprising still, is that this is taking place in Hong Kong, as Conservative Culture notes:

Yes. It happened in Hong Kong. Oh… did we forget that Hong Kong is now Communist land. So is this ’spontaneous’ uprising real or communist inspired. I’ll let intelligent minds make up their own mind.

Hundreds of residents have flooded Hong Kong’s media decency watchdog group with complaints against the Bible for its sexual and violent contents.

Protestors call on authorities to reclassify the Bible as “indecent,” which would make it illegal for minors under 18 years of age to purchase and would cause the Bible to be wrapped with a statutory warning notice.

As of noon on Wednesday, Hong Kong’s Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority (TELA) said it had received 838 complaints about the Bible, according to Reuters.

“I can confirm that the complaints were received,” said a TELA spokeswoman to Agence France-Presse. “The thrust of the complaints was that the Bible was obscene, that different parts of the Bible were offensive to readers.”

TELA refused to give details of the complaints but local media say they refer to acts of violence, rape, incest and cannibalism.

Could the Bible require a mature rating or a label warning it’s potential readers? Or is it a ploy to keep young people in China from reading it. Sure… give your child a Bible and receive a sentence for corrupting the children. Yeah… I think that’s it. Criminalize the Bible one page at a time. Wonder when the left will think of that for America.

Scary business this is. When (not if) our resident jihadist-coddling liberal Congresscretins latch on to this idea, it may well all but spell the end of Christian expression in this nation. Combine that with the innocuously titled “The Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2007″ introduced by Rep. John Conyers, MI (D).

With HR 1592 expected to fly through the Senate on greased skids, it will soon be pending the President’s signature or veto (pocket veto or actual)… After all, what more would the Devil enjoy than to see our ability to freely share the Gospel, and share the Word of God with lost souls?

Christians, pray… PRAY, that the Lord Jesus move in President Bush’s heart to veto that abominable so-called “hate speech” bill, HR 1592. For us in NY, it’s pretty much a decided matter for our Senators (former president) Hillary Clinton and Chuck “There will be no more right-wing judges, period…” (as long as he is the Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman) Schumer will most likely align themselves with the forces of Satan and cast thier vote for this anti-christian legislation. But for those of you readers who may be blessed enough to have a Senator who may yet believe in his/her Creator, contact them at (202) 224-3121 or by web mail via the US Senator Contact page.

Pray, and fast that we may delivered of this satanic snare.

Status of HR 1592 (in Senate as of this posting)

More details at WorldNetDaily

Little old grannies get 47 years for sharing Jesus with others?

Too good for words, so here it is:

I think Fred hits it right on the nail-head when he suggests to Mr. Moore that a mental institution may indeed be just the thing he should look into.

Every now and then, my descending colon (and more rarely, the whole stinkin’ large intestine) decides that something ain’t quite right.

It could be a lack of the “good” bacteria, or too much of the “bad” bacteria. It could have been that raw liver I ate in any of the many yakiniku joints in the greater Kansai area of Japan (although my wife and her family also ate the same liver when I tried it, and they aren’t sick… so…) or it could be an overreaction of my immune system.

Or it could be the good Lord trying to get my attention about not walking in the flesh — ya know, that natural state that most people tend to be in at any given moment, Christians included. Even though we are made into a new creation, and have been risen up spiritually with Christ. (Colossians 3:3-4)

Regardless of the cause, I suffer periodic bouts with Ulcerative Colitis (UC), a condition I’ve had since my teen years, with major flare ups every five or six years. As I slug down an extra tall semi-sour yogurt laden with “good” bacteria, I the distinctive twinges of pain and cramps in my lower left gut that tell me “it’s that time again!”

Hopefully, I’ll be smart about this, and catch it early and get the necessary medicines (UC is not curable, but the symptoms can be treated to bring it into some kind of remission) before I get to the “doubled over in pain and explosive, bloody diarrhea (cha-cha-cha) and otherwise spending more time on the pot than off” stage.

So I decided to take a look around the net for info on what is good to eat and what is good to avoid, and found this: (you may need to click it to make it legible)…

Yikes! Who knew diseases were a commodity now?

Meanwhile, I’ll probably have to rein in my diet, refraining from the usual foods and drinks that cut right through the protective mucosa (the quadruple shots of Espresso, any alcoholic beverages except for red wine, and small indigestible seedy things like sesame seeds as well as excessive amounts of roughage).

A filler post, as it were.

But these guys are one of my favorites, and probably have stand to have as much appeal here in the USA as they do in Japan.

Quite a quandary this war is. Although I’ve long said that we might have been better off to have found another way to manipulate Saddam Hussein while keeping him in power (since he seems to have managed to do a better - read: murderously efficient - job of keeping Iraq’s many factions under control)… for better or for worse, we deposed him, and through our intervention, have inextricably linked ourselves to the well-being of Iraq, and in the long term, the entire region.

That said, while the press continually plays up the casualties of this war (both those of our own soldiers, and the larger tally of the Iraqis on the street who are busily bombing each other or slashing one anothers’ throats, or other violence) as something approaching the scale of Nazi or Maoist democide, I still believe our presence is preventing a bloodbath that would be worse by far.

Many (some rather faulty) comparisons of our Iraq intervention to the Viet Nam war of more than 30 years ago abound; many leftists seem to think that they have the same sort of groundswell of public disaffection for Bush (hoping to transfer their BDS or “Bush Derangement Syndrome” to the wider public), when in fact, we aren’t anywhere close.

Certainly, there are many who favour a complete and immediate withdrawal, and many more who would see a tempered withdrawal according to some established timeline. But I do not see massive riots or millions of people marching on the Capital Mall demanding withdrawal as we did more than a generation ago.

Let us do a comparison then, to discover the fallacy of the Left’s thinking:

As we can see… the numbers tell a better story, and may hold a frightful promise for the people of Iraq, should we cut and run as the Democrats are straining to pull off.

One has only to reconsider what really happened after we fled from Viet Nam, accordging to this author:

A most noteworthy and still sensitive example of this double standard is the Vietnam War. The international community was outraged at the American attempt to militarily prevent North Vietnam from taking over South Vietnam and ultimately Laos and Cambodia. “Stop the killing” was the cry, and eventually, the pressure of foreign and domestic opposition forced an American withdrawal. The overall number killed in the Vietnam War on all sides was about 1,216,000 people.

With the United States subsequently refusing them even modest military aid, South Vietnam was militarily defeated by the North and completely swallowed; and Cambodia was taken over by the communist Khmer Rouge, who in trying to recreate a primitive communist agricultural society slaughtered from one to three million Cambodians. If we take a middle two-million as the best estimate, then in four years the government of this small nation of seven million alone killed 64 percent more people than died in the ten-year Vietnam War.

Overall, the best estimate of those killed after the Vietnam War by the victorious communists in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia is 2,270,000. Now totaling almost twice as many as died in the Vietnam War, this communist killing still continues.

We can expect something quite similar to this, if we withdraw from Iraq and so confirm the consensus held by the Arab world in particular, and most of the world in general, that given enough restistance and bloodshed, that America will retire from the field.

We can expect the Iraqis to bleed themselves white, until finally one man stronger than his competitors emerges above the rest, and puts them all under the banner of the Caliphate and Jihad.

Only problem is … it would then be only a matter of time before AQ and other terrorists regroup and use Iraq as yet another launching pad for their evils, as they strive to bring Jihad to our shores.

Sources:

War Isn’t This Century’s Biggets Killer, R.J. Rummel, published originally in the Wall Street Journal, 7 July 1986

Casualties of the conflict in Iraq since 2003, Wikipedia

Casualties of War - Putting American Casualties in Perspective, R.G. Price, 2003

Looks like there might be some quiet time for Paris (Hilton, that is)… some solace away from the busy life of jet-setting and partying and generally wastefully occupying the fringes of our conscious with her otherwise frivolous and attention-getting antics… in jail.

According to the Daily Mail, it seems our Princess was pinched for violating her probation, when she pressed the gas pedal after drinking a wee bit too much of the Punch.

Too bad, I say. Even an insanely wealthy hotel heiress should learn some that there is a penalty for doing wrong.

Yet, the attention-getting heiress is pleading with the Governator (Arnold Schwartzenegger) for a pardon, with… a MySpace petition.

(Link: The Christian Post - Evangelist Challenges Atheists to Bible-Less Debate on ABC)

It seems to be a popular thing these days to see people attempting to “intellectually” debate the existence of God and/or “scientifically” disprove scientific theories such as Darwinist evolution.

In the above linked article, Ray Comfort and Kirk Cameron (of Growing Pains fame) from “Way of the Master” have decided to debate two atheists who put that “Blasphemy Challenge” on YouTube.

Personally, I think that they are making a HUGE mistake, and are setting themselves up for a huge fall: how can they possibly go into battle unarmed(without using the Word of God) ?

God does not need us to intellectually defend Him; nor is it effective (and I will go so far as to say it is impossible) to reach lost souls without God’s word. And to claim that they can argue the existence of God without relying upon faith, or needing Scripture to back them up? This is COMPLETELY unscriptural:

8 But what saith (the Word of God) it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;

9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

11 For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

12 For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

13 For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

14 How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

15 And how shall they preach, except they be sent? as it is written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!

16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith, Lord, who hath believed our report?

17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

(Romans 10:8-17)

The Bible itself contains God’s wisdom which alone will make men wise unto the salvation of souls:

“The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.” (Proverbs 11:30)

When the rubber meets the road, it isn’t the mind or one’s intellect God is concerned with… in fact, He commands us to come to Him as simple children, trusting and believing in Him:

2 And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,

3 And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

4 Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

5 And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me.

(Matthew 18:2-5)

“But Jesus said, Allow the little children to come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” (Mathew 19:14, EMTV)

“But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.” (Hebrews 11:6, KJV)

Indeed, Ray and Kirk have seemingly missed the boat… and like so many of those so-called “Creation Scientists” and “Intelligent Design” advocates who try to argue with inveterate, unrepentant atheist scientists who have dug in their heels and oppose the Gospel at every turn… they will be wasting their time.

Debating science and intellectualizing with atheists does not convert lost souls to Christ… preaching the Gospel and giving sinners a good testimony of the redeemed soul that trusts in Jesus is guaranteed by God’s Word to have the most impact:

“So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.” (Isaiah 55:11)

Now if Ray and Kirk would have chosen to go in “loaded for bear” with plenty of God’s Word, and not their own faulty, human thinking (Jeremiah 51:17)… I’d bet that at least one person in that audience would come that much closer to calling upon Jesus to save him and make the confession that will save his soul from the eternal fires of Hell.

Slightly related:

Ray Comfort asks - “here is something more sinister here than a few people not believing in God,” … “Why would so many be so bitter against Christianity in particular? Why aren’t they making videos that blaspheme Buddha or Mohammed or Ghandi?

My answer to that is that Jesus challenges people to give up trying to come to God on their own terms. There is something about realizing that one can’t make his own way to God, that simply infuriates people to no end. Interestingly enough, I’ve heard a devout Hindu man (a co-worker of mine) often swearing and using the Lord Jesus’s Name “in vain”, but to what end?

It is odd, when he could have easily sworn by Krishna or Brahma or any of the other 33 million gods he might deal with. Yet, is this not a testimony in itself, however subconscious - that Jesus Christ truly is the King of Kings, and the wicked hearts of men would refuse to have Him as their King?

Indeed! I know that before I was saved, one of the first choice words I would say when angered was the Lord’s Name - the same Name at which demons tremble, and before whom angels bow the knee and cover their eyes with their wings. What a brash, ignorant and irreverent thing for me, a being of mere dust, to do!

And yet, God is merciful, ever ready to forgive those who repent, and come to Him as children, through the Lord Jesus Christ, His only-begotten Son.

Jesus is Lord, and He wants to be your Lord, even at the price of His life given up on the cross.

Take care with that, that you do not tarry longer without Him or His blood to cleanse away sins, for the penalty for rejecting Him (unbelief) is certainly dire. (Luke 19:12,14,17)

(All scripture quotes are taken from the King James Version, except where indicated otherwise).