Items of Interest

What used to be sacred is no longer.  The progressive/political left has killed most things once sacred and replaced them with cultural Marxist icons.  A loss for the country and the great reason why ours is such a troubled nation.  Quote: "The secular usage of "sacred" is derived from its religious meaning.  In Scripture, something sacred was something "set apart" or "holy" – something like God and apart from the world (or the "profane").  "Sacred" in the secular sense – the usage employed by General Kelly – simply means highly valued, or important, or held in high esteem.  As General Kelly implies, you can tell much about a person by what he rejects as sacred. Women, life, religion, marriage, family, hard work, the military, et al. are no longer widely held sacred in American culture because the values that demand such have largely been abandoned and attacked by the modern left.  Rejecting the laws of the Lawgiver, the left long ago decided that it was time for human beings to write their own rules and decide for themselves what is and is not "sacred.  Especially targeted are any values deemed "Christian."  Never mind the actual words and deeds of the Founding Fathers, and the words and deeds of the early Americans who actually lived in that era – references to God and His Word in the public square have been under assault in the U.S. for generations.  Hollywood, the mainstream news media, and the kindergarten-through-university government school system in the U.S. at least ignores, and more often mocks, what is truly sacred. Entertained by the vulgar, informed by the ignorant, and educated from a godless Darwinian worldview, it should come as little surprise that tens of millions of Americans have little to no idea what is supposed to be sacred.  How can a culture that's been taught to slaughter – or at least support the slaughter of – the most helpless and innocent among us expect to honor those who've made the ultimate sacrifice on the battlefield?  What can a foolish clown of a woman who has long reliably supported "sacrificing" an unborn child in the selfish name of "choice" know about real sacrifice?"      http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/10/what_is_sacred_to_the_modern_left.html

A sobering piece. Quote: "The American empire is coming to an end. The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast military expansion around the globe. It is burdened by growing deficits, along with the devastating effects of deindustrialization and global trade agreements. Our democracy has been captured and destroyed by corporations that steadily demand more tax cuts, more deregulation and impunity from prosecution for massive acts of financial fraud, all the while looting trillions from the U.S. treasury in the form of bailouts."     https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/10/30/the-end-of-empire-2/   

If anyone still thinks that many on the political left/progressives/Democrats are not stark raving mad maybe this item will help.  Quote: "A white male professor of philosophy has discovered that in order to have an academic career in these days he must find “white privilege” everywhere. Professor John Caputo, according to this report, https://downtrend.com/robertgehl/professor-calls-reason-itself-a-white-male-construct, has found white male privilege in reason itself. Reason, says Professor Caputo, “is a white male Euro-Christian construction.” Since reason is white, reason is not neutral. It implies that what is not white is not rational. “So white is philosophically relevant and needs to be philosophically critiqued.”  And, "“Universities have become a place of UN-learning, where you unlearn culture, unlearn values like free speech, unlearn science and math, unlearn truth and thinking, unlearn objective truths like differences between males and females, etc. It seems the only thing taught now is hate, and you pay exorbitant sums of money to learn to hate.”    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/10/28/civilization-declared-a-white-male-construct/

This is not a good thing.  Congress and Trump need to stop the borrowing and get the budget on stable footing and in balance. Quote: "It’s been lost beneath all the other headline-dominating news, from the Las Vegas shooting to Harvey Weinstein to the Mueller investigation. But very quietly behind the scenes there’s been an extremely rapid uptick in the US national debt. In the month of October alone, the US national debt has soared by nearly a quarter of a trillion dollars."    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2017/10/30/the-us-government-quietly-added-200-billion-to-the-national-debt-this-month-alone/

Maybe this will dampen North Korea's enthusiasm for nuclear destruction.   https://www.westernjournalism.com/kims-disaster-north-korean-nuclear-base-collapses-killing-least-200-people/?    Let's hope so.

Interesting things to ponder.   https://jonrappoport.wordpress.com/2017/10/29/the-brain-vs-consciousness-the-real-debate-and-the-phony-debate/