ISIS - THE DEVIL'S ERRAND BOYS

ISIS, satan's minions, seem to have just as many ways of making like hell on earth for some, as satan has literal tricks up his sleeve (I really hate quoting the NYT, even for stuff like this):

Tell people to stay in the city, then lure in an airstrike:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/30/world/middleeast/mosul-iraq-isis-military.html?mabReward=A5&recp=0

Use of chemical weapons:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/world/middleeast/syria-gas-attack.html?action=click&contentCollection=Middle%20East&module=Trending&version=Full&region=Marginalia&pgtype=article

They're not stopping. They're getting bolder, more cruel, and they are spreading their hatred globally. Nowhere is safe. More of their tactics:

• Setting off bombs on a crowded train in Russia. 
• Blowing up people at a concert.
• Running over people at a festival.
• Running over people just enjoying a walk on the stree.
• Beheadings.
• Shooting up a newspaper office over cartoons.
• Shooting up a Texas gathering over cartoons.
• Thrown off roofs.
• Crucifixions.
• Burning solderis alive.
• Shooting up a packed gay nightclub.
• Shooting up a building for disabled people.
• Blowing up a police training facility.
• Killing close neighbors and "friends."
• Using machetes on people.
• Kidnapping innocent women and children for sex slaves.
• Suicide bomber at the Supreme Court of a Muslim country.
• Blowing up other mosques.
• Killing wives and children over minor infractions--real or imaginary.

If it can be imagined, ISIS and their ilk have done it, will do it, or are planning to do it, make no mistake.

POLITICAL SCIENCE - PART 3

That is, if everyone gets on board. Oops, too late.

Capitalism is an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production and the creation of goods and services for profit. Remember your Economics 101 - supply vs. demand?

Central characteristics of capitalism include private property, capital accumulation, wage labour and competitive markets. In a capitalist market economy, investments are determined by private decision and the parties to a transaction typically determine the prices at which they exchange assets, goods, and services.

Capitalism is the most successful wealth-creating economic system that the world has ever known; no other system, according to economist Joseph Schumpeter, has benefited "the common people" as much. Capitalism, he observed, creates wealth through advancing continuously to ever higher levels of productivity and technological sophistication; this process, known as creative destruction, requires that the "old" be destroyed before the "new" can take over.

The degree of competition in markets, the role of intervention and regulation, and the scope of state ownership vary across different models of capitalism. Economists, political economists, and historians have adopted different perspectives in their analyses of capitalism and have recognized various forms of it in practice. These include laissez-faire or free market capitalism, welfare capitalism and state capitalism. Each model has employed varying degrees of dependency on free markets, public ownership, obstacles to free competition, and inclusion of state-sanctioned social policies.

The extent to which different markets are free, as well as the rules defining private property, become matters of politics and of policy. Many states have a mixed economy, which combines elements of both free markets with state interventionism, and in some cases, with economic planning.

Capitalism has existed under many forms of government, in many different times, places, and cultures, but in modern times it has become dominant and much less restrained. Following the decline of mercantilism, mixed capitalist systems became dominant in the Western world and continue to spread.


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POLITICAL SCIENCE - PART 2

Time for a little Political/Social Sciences lesson, kids. Know your history or you're doomed to repeat it. Oops, too late.

Statism - In political science, statism is the belief that the state should control either economic or social policy, or both, to some degree. Statism is effectively the opposite of anarchism, an individual who supports the existence of the state is a statist. The term "statism" was introduced to American political discourse by the writer Ayn Rand in a series of articles in 1962. Since that time, it has been adopted for use by other political analysts. Statism can take many forms from minarchism to totalitarianism. Minarchists prefer a minimal or night-watchman state to protect people from aggression, theft, breach of contract, and fraud with military, police, and courts. Some may also include fire departments, prisons, and other functions. Welfare state adepts and other such options make up more statist territory of the scale of statism. Totalitarians prefer a maximum or all-encompassing state. (this pervasive thought pattern is becoming more and more pervasive in our modern society; many want the government to give them cradle-to-grave support for doing nothing, at the expense of those who work to keep Capitalism alive and well).

Anarchy is the condition of a society, entity, group of people or a single person which does not recognize authority. It originally meant leaderlessness, but in 1840, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon adopted the term in his treatise What Is Property? to refer to a new political philosophy, anarchism, which advocates stateless societies based on voluntary associations. German philosopher Immanuel Kant treated anarchy in his Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View as consisting of "Law and Freedom without Force". Thus, for Kant, anarchy falls short of being a true civil state because the law is only an "empty recommendation" if force is not included to make this law efficacious. For there to be such a state, force must be included while law and freedom are maintained, a state which Kant calls republic. Kant named four kinds of government:

    Law and freedom without force (anarchy)
    Law and force without freedom (despotism)
    Force without freedom and law (barbarism)
    Force with freedom and law (republic)

Anarchy holds the political philosophy that the state is immoral, or alternatively, as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations. The Anarchy model is not long-lived; sooner or later a  leader typically comes to the fore (usually by force), evolving into a dictatorship.

Socialism is a political ideology and movement which has proposed a set of social and economic measures, policies and systems characterised by social ownership and democratic control of the means of production (equal work, equal pay, equal status). The socialist political movement includes a diverse array of political philosophies that originated amid the revolutionary movements of the mid-to-late 1700s out of general concern for the social problems that were associated with capitalism (seen as the few wealthy vs. the many poor; see USSR).  In addition to the debate over the degree to which to rely on markets versus planning, the varieties of socialism differ in the type of social ownership they advocate, how management is to be organized within productive institutions, and the role of the state in constructing socialism.

Fascism is a form of radical authoritarian nationalism that came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe (Nazis, Mussolini). Influenced by national syndicalism, fascism originated in Italy during World War I, in opposition to liberalism, Marxism, and anarchism. Fascism is neither right nor left, but statist in nature. World War I was a revolution that brought massive changes in the nature of war, society, the state, and technology. The advent of total war and total mass mobilization of society had broken down the distinction between civilian and combatant. Such a state is led by a strong leader — such as a dictator and a martial government composed of the members of the governing fascist party — to forge national unity and maintain a stable and orderly society. Fascism rejects assertions that violence is automatically negative in nature, and views political violence, war, and imperialism as means that can achieve national rejuvenation. Fascists advocate a mixed economy, with the principal goal of achieving autarky through protectionist and interventionist economic policies.

Communism is the social, political, and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of the communist society, which is a socioeconomic order structured upon the common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money, and the state (see Cuba). Communism includes a variety of schools of thought, which broadly include Marxism, anarchism (anarchist communism), and the political ideologies grouped around both. All these share the analysis that the current order of society stems from its economic system, capitalism, that in this system, there are two major social classes: the working class—who must work to survive, and who make up a majority of society—and the capitalist class—a minority who derive profit from employing the working class, through private ownership of the means of production, and that conflict between these two classes will trigger a revolution. See also:

https://infogalactic.com/info/Marxism

https://infogalactic.com/info/Leninism

https://infogalactic.com/info/Stalinism

https://infogalactic.com/info/Trotskyism

More to come in Part 3...

Part 1 - I Hereby Coin a New Term

There have been a lot of new(ish) or made up words, terms, and abbreviations of late, such as Antifa (anti-Fascists, who are actually the real Fascists), BLM (Black Lives Matter), twerking, snowflake, alt-right, cuck, Kakistocracy, etc.

I propose another one: FACOSO.

FA - Fascism

CO - Communism

SO - Socialism

While slightly different from each other, the ultimate goal is the same: have the government provide cradle-to-grave coverage of any and every type of welfare program; subjugate those who disagree with their philosophies; and distribute all goods, services, and monies (somewhat) equally.

Of course, with this type of philosophy, Orwell may have put it most succinctly: "all animals are equal; but some are more equal than others."

Lots more to come in Part 2...

The "New Tolerance"

THE "NEW TOLERANCE"

Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly and proudly violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality. 

They will not have you condemning what they have done as being wrong; they have created a belief system in which it is not, in which they are no longer the criminal or the villain or the evil person...but you are.  

- D. James Kennedy

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It is important that we, like the groundhog, stick our heads out every once in awhile, look around, and find out what is going on. In case some of you missed it, we just passed into a totally new age. We passed through the Age of Modernity, and we are now in the Post-Modern Age. It is altogether different. If you think things are the same as they were, you have a surprise coming!

There is one thing being taught to our children today and that it is the dominant theme of the post-modern curriculum. Do you know what it is? Tolerance!

Tolerance is being willing to put up with, endure, and bear with those whose views or lifestyles are different from others' views, without agreeing with them. Every Christian should be tolerant in the correct and historical meaning of that word. It is what the Bible means in the love chapter of I Corinthians 13: "Love endureth all things." Every Christian should be tolerant.

However, if you think that is what is being taught in the curricula of this country, you are very mistaken, as Josh McDowell points out in his book, The New Tolerance, which is the principal source of research for this message.

The "new tolerance" means: Not only do you put up with and endure and bear with those who have different views, habits, and/or lifestyles than your own, but you agree with their views as well.
Furthermore, you hold that their lifestyle is equally true and equally valid as your own and, therefore, there is no possible way that you could be intolerant, because there is nothing to be intolerant of. You must even be willing to promote and endorse that other lifestyle, since it is every bit as good as yours.
We have even invented a new post-modern civil right—the civil right for my feelings not to be hurt. For example, a young lady in one of the high schools recently sued because they sang a patriotic song that had some religious words in it. She said that it hurt her "feelings."

Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When you have an immoral society that has blatantly, proudly, violated all of the commandments of God, there is one last virtue they insist upon: tolerance for their immorality. They will not have you condemning what they have done as being wrong, and they have created a belief system in which it is not, and in which they are no longer the criminal or the villain or the evil person, but you are!

Here's how it works. If you discuss atheism with an atheist, you are finding fault with that man and criticizing his views. You can't separate the two. If you find fault with a thief and criticize his stealing, you are finding fault with him, not merely what he does. The same thing is true of a homosexual. You cannot have a rational discussion of the rightness or wrongness of homosexuality.
We're rapidly sliding downhill. Does it matter? Yes, it matters because when you are criticizing what that person believes or what he does, you are hurting his "feelings." You are intolerant. You are demonstrating hatefulness to him, and that is a "hate crime." That can cause you to end up in court or jail.  For the first time in history, you can be judged and sent to jail for what is inside your head or inside your heart. Who knows what lies beyond that step?

It is time that we stand up for Jesus Christ and show some backbone—while we still have a place to stand.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/the-new-tolerance-27459/