New Year's Gratitude To Al Sharpton

In between Eric "White People Are Cowards" Holder and Al "The FBI Loves Me" Sharpton is Harvard University School of Law's former Dean and now Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Elena Kagan


[From article]
Thursday
Call it “Obama’s Paradox.” A young hopped-up black man in Ferguson robs a store and then tries to kill a policeman. The policeman defends himself and the young man dies. The media go crazy. Black agitators like the most loathsome being on the planet (just IMHO), Al Sharpton, appear on TV insulting the police and the entire white population of America (just IMHO). Black criminals riot. The President seemingly takes their side against the police.
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the Democrats start looking like the fools who touched the third rail of American politics. That third rail is not Social Security any longer: It is race baiting and an unmerited, unwarranted attack on the most racially generous people in the world: white Americans. When the President and that creature de Blasio call them racist pigs and then mutter stupid platitudes when two of the police get killed as explicit race terrorism, the third rail has been not just touched but embraced.
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Meanwhile, Happy New Year to Al Sharpton, best friend the Republican Party has had since Reagan.
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Thank you, Mr. de Blasio and Mr. Sharpton, for clearing up the picture and letting us know which side we are on. In your own way, Mr. Sharpton, you are doing a great service.

http://spectator.org/articles/61359/happy-new-year-al-sharpton

BEN STEIN'S DIARY
HAPPY NEW YEAR, AL SHARPTON
He’s performed a great service for the rest of us.
By Ben Stein
1.1.15

Quote of The Day From Ben Stein:

Quote of The Day From Ben Stein:

“Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured....
but not everyone must prove they are a citizen.”

Expelled, Film About Academic Censorship: Review

This 2008 film by Ben Stein and Kevin Miller focuses on censorship of the subject of "intelligent design" among academics. It is one of several areas where academic freedom is under attack.
There is no discussion of what the term God means. Similarly scientific terms are seldom defined. Some of the scholars interviewed recognized that terms need definition, e.g. what is a species? Even the most intense atheists interviewed recognized that scientists do not know where life and came from. They know it came from a cell, a molecule. But today there is so much known about these units that there are more questions than before.

Dr. Marcij Giertych says that there is more freedom in Poland regarding this question than in the United States. Dr. Alister E. McGrath of Oxford University, said, "Some people are so deeply entrenched in their own world view, that they will simply not countenance alternatives." That problem extends far beyond this question. The difficulty of rational debate applies to Global Warming too.

Stein shows a connection between the eugenics movement which was adopted by the Nazis and rejection of religion by scientists. There's a phrase in German which means "It always began that way. How to get rid of useless people."

Dr. Richard Weikart said, "Evil can be rationalized as science. Hitler thought he was doing good." Today in America research scientists who conduct involuntary experiments using humans without consent defend their work the same way the Nazi doctors did. They say the benefit to society outweighs the harm to individuals.


Dr. David Berlinsky said, "There is academic freedom as long as you're on the correct side of the wall. But if you're on the wrong side of the wall you lose tenure." In December 2001 the faculty at Harvard University voted to remove the course listings of a young professor. The faculty said he uttered hate speech but provided no evidence. This is a thought provoking film whether you believe in religion or not. It shows a pattern affecting free speech but also freedom in the United States. There is a book by the same name on which this film was based.

expelledthemovie.com

Paradoxical Thought for Today

Paradoxical Thought for Today



"Fathom the odd hypocrisy that Obama wants every citizen to prove they are insured, but people don't have to prove they are citizens".

~ Ben Stein

I believe it is time to really make a stand for our beliefs and values.

I Only hope we find GOD again before it is too late

The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.

My confession:

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees, Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are, Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, 'Merry Christmas' to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a crèche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from, that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship celebrities and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where these celebrities came from and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different. This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham 's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her 'How could God let something like this happen?' (regarding Hurricane Katrina). Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, 'I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?'

In light of recent events ... terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill; thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave, because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said okay.

Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with 'WE REAP WHAT WE SOW.'

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire, but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing yet?

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

My Best Regards, Honestly and respectfully,

Ben Stein