Both are reprehensible!
When you don't condemn evil and wrong-doing, there is no room for reform and progress.
Good must win over evil and righteousness will reign over the Earth.
(Source Graphic: Andy Blumenthal)
Showing posts with label Violence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Violence. Show all posts
August 17, 2017
August 13, 2017
Derangement Of Conscience
They represent the worst of what human beings have to offer--hate, bigotry, and violence.
The event was culminated when a car driven by one of these hate-mongers apparently intentionally slammed into a crowd of anti-protester and killed a 32-year old woman and injured 19 others--what a sick, sick soul!
This miserable event just 2 days shy of 2-months from when Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA) and 4 others were shot at a baseball field in Alexandria, VA by another nut job from the alt-left.
Governor Terry McAuliffe (D) said it right when he stated on national TV last evening:
"The hate and division must stop, and it must stop right now."
But as we face large, looming enemies on the international scene -- like dangerous Axis of Evil, North Korea and Iran -- with weapons of mass destruction aimed at our shores and cities, all we can do is hate and fight internally.
What is wrong with this country now -- when so many seem to have abandoned personal integrity and national unity -- and shoot verbally and physically at each other instead of at the real enemies that seek to lay waste to our beloved homeland of the free and the brave?
Soon the missiles will reign down and the hate will smelter in the derangement of conscience.
(Source Photo: Twitter)
August 2, 2017
Watch A Terrorist In His Evil Action
This is an incredible disturbing video from today's terror attack in Israel.
A Palestinian terrorist is caught on surveillance camera committing his vile deed.
The terrorist in the brown t-shirt comes down the grocery store aisle.
But he is not there shopping for groceries.
Rather, the terrorist is stalking his prey--an innocent Jewish man working in the store stocking shelves for customers.
The terrorist at first takes a pass by the man checking things out.
Then he suddenly circles back pulling a deadly knife from his waist and starts viciously stabbing and beating the Jewish worker.
The mortally wounded victim desperately tries to fend off the terrorist attacker as he comes again and again at him.
Fortunately, others nearby chased the terrorist who was apprehended by police, while the victim remains in critical condition in the hospital fighting for his life.
Unfortunately, this is daily life in the Holy Land, where bombings, shootings, stabbings, vehicular rammings, Molotov cocktails and rocks are used to kill Jews in their one homeland, Israel.
From Paris and London to New York, Orlando, Jerusalem, and all over the world, terrorists continue to plot and murder innocents.
Yet, how often do we make excuses for them--it's not their fault, it's just a minority, they're brainwashed, if only we gave in to their demands, etc. etc. etc.
But does anything really seem to make a difference--more people, more land, more palaces and oil wealth, more respect, more morally corrupt votes at the UN, more, more, more...and still the global radical terrorism and human rights abuses continue.
What happens when one day the terrorist attack becomes one employing true weapons of mass destruction--will anyone really be surprised?
We pray to G-d for peace and security for your people and for evil to be utterly destroyed.
Oh L-rd, how long will you let these murderous, vile terrorists attack your children...how long before justice is done. ;-)
July 22, 2017
Hate Proliferates
Identity Evropa is yet another hate group--this one focuses on people of European ancestry and their website claims, "We are the future."
But whether you come from Europe or Asia, the Middle East or Africa, America or the moon, aren't we all just people at the end of the day.
Who cares whether your black or white or yellow or brown, or what religion you practice, or your gender, or sexual orientation, or whether you lean left or right.
At the end of the day, are we all not flesh, do we all not bleed, have we all not hopes and fears, do we all not answer to the one G-d Above.
Hate proliferates from our farm belts to our inner cities, from our universities to our board rooms, from the gazillionaire to the guy who has to shovel shit for a living, from our nasty national politics to the United Nations, there is plenty of hate and bias and bigotry to go around.
Look to the Heavens, cry a bitter tear, your hatred is your self-destruction.
You will pray with an evil and hate-filled heart and none will answer you.
The living G-d of Hosts who created us and loves all his children will not stand idly as hate and supremacy of one over another presides.
The chains of our affliction, the bullet to the back of the head, the noose and the death camps, the whip, the gas, and the ovens, the hunger, the sick experiments, and the slave labor.
Only G-d is supreme over all and those that seek an advantage on the backs of their brethren will find themselves a fiery hell to contend with.
From just a little gnat to a growing tumor--that is all that it takes to bring justice and re-level the supremacy playing field and teach who is the King of Kings and there is no other. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
July 15, 2017
Another Nothing Burger
This happens when they make vague accusations--incriminating people or groups--but without substantiating what they are saying.
It's a way of bullying, discriminating, and hating on others.
Creating doubt about your victim--keep saying those derogatory, demeaning, and hateful stories--it tarnishes the other person's image, reputation, and credibility.
Creating an endless aura of fallibility on the other person's part.
Here, we go...they screwed up again!
It's death by a thousand cuts of insults, pot shots, and sucker punches.
It's a definite form of verbal and emotional abuse and violence.
Sometimes, there may be something to it--in which case the party that screwed up should take responsibility, correct their mistakes, and commit to sincerely doing better in the future.
But often, there is nothing there!
And the false accusations are merely a way to cover up (management) incompetency or bias by the accusers themselves.
It's a great way to dominate the conversation, but really the people making the stink are simply acting out--and not too flattering as the whiners and complainers.
They point fingers at others, but there are three fingers pointing back at themselves!
Why?
Because it's another nothing burger meant to deceive, discredit, and retard and take the focus off their own meatless patties!
Where's the beef?
The liars and deceivers and propagandists are using you for their own means.
Another nothing burger in the oven and it ain't kosher! ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
July 9, 2017
Hitler Is Kaput
And he said that some people say that he won!
He wanted to destroy the Jews and he did manage to kill 6,000,000 of us!
He wanted to conquer Europe (and the world) and he sparked a world war that killed between 50 million and 80 million people, spread fascism, and Germany still today remains the economic powerhouse of Europe.
But killing people, spreading evil, and causing world war is not the sign of a winner by any means--quite the contrary!
And I replied to my friend:
Hitler and the Nazis are gone, dead, and destroyed, and we are here--what a miracle that from the ashes and depths of the Holocaust, the Israelites were redeemed after 2,000 years of exile--and just as the prophecy foretold, Israel was reborn, lives and thrives!
The sick hatred, evil, and fascist values of Hitler and his Third Reich Germany are gone into the dustbin of history and moreover, their very mention or memory evokes disdain and contempt as being the antiChrist and archetype of evil in the world.
Over the weekend, I watched the movie, The Zookeepers Wife and it was terrific.
While the Nazi's perpetrated every conceivable evil on mankind, the righteous among the nations still managed to stand up in the face of evil and save innocent lives, and even when it put their own lives and that of their loved ones in jeopardy--that is true goodness!
The movie showed not only the Zookeeper and his wife who saved over 300 Jews during the Holocaust, but their young son yelled out after the miserable Nazi and said, "Hitler is kaput" or Hitler is finished!
Yes, Hitler and his evil cohorts are destroyed, but in every generation, there are new threats of evil and hate that arise, and to those, we still must bravely and with steadfast determination and strength confront--and those must be made kaput as well. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
July 1, 2017
America The Polarized
But our problems are large and eating this nation up alive--from Iran and North Korea to Jobs, Healthcare, Immigration, and more
Our social safety net is fraying under a frightening and mounting national debt, and our national security needs are growing amid an endless array of real doomsday threats from WMD, EMPs, and Cyber Attacks.
(Source Photos: Andy Blumenthal)
June 21, 2017
Left and Right Unite
And over the image, it reads:
"The left wing and the right wing belong to the same bird."
That is pretty darn smart--and one of the best things I heard all week!
To many extremist people out there, they seem to have been forgetting this lately.
Also, the agitators don't seem to let up--does it matter if it's conspiracy theories or fake news--if it gets the bird in the net for clip-clip.
In an effort to "resist"--or perhaps utterly destroy the opposition--we have put politics above the National interest.
Yes, politics matter--issues matter--people matter.
But can the bird fly with only one wing?
Sure, we need to speak up when we see something wrong or that we don't agree with.
But we also need to discuss, negotiate, and compromise--for Pete's sake, work together to make the bird stronger and fly further and faster--rather than kill the bird itself.
Our competitors and enemies have arrows pointed at and are shooting them at our American Eagle.
Will we give them the advantage as we self-destruct with loathing for one another? ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
June 1, 2017
Is Our Democracy Failing Us?
Before that was Stephen Colbert uncool, profanity-laced barrage against the President.
Even Madonna lost her sh*t and threatened to blow up the White House at the mass women's march earlier this year.
But all this is still only the tip of the iceberg, as liberals "resist" him and extremists even riot and commit acts of violence; the investigators look to impeach him; the mass media lynches him daily; witches try to cast a mass spell on him; and even late night comedians make him into the butt of every joke and asses wisecrack.
No respect anymore.
No genuine dialogue.
No negotiation.
No compromise.
No problem-solving.
No putting the nation first.
The glove are off as tempers and politics are boiling over in Washington, D.C. and all across the nation.
As liberals and conservatives battle it out for the direction of our country.
Some may say that this is what democracy is supposed to do...
But at this extreme, this is how nations self-destruct, not govern!
Who is laughing?
Certainly those that would threaten our way of life: Russia. China. North Korea. Iran. ISIS and Al-Qaeda.
Only sane Americans are crying out for leadership to stop killing each other and instead coalesce--irrespective of right and left--and to move this nation forward stronger in the world--militarily, economically, and socially.
As we continue to beat each other senseless with new revelations of debauchery and corruption every 5 minutes on TV, our politicians are black and blue, their agendas are dead on arrival, their proposals are torn to shreds, their votes are filibustered, the parties are deadlocked, the government nearly shutdown again, and progress is nowhere to be found.
As some states talk of succession, some nutty people out there are advocating for violence to our elected leaders, and others are even calling for civil war, should it come to it.
As many have commented, civility is gone from political discourse, and instead angry and violent discord rules!
This is not a healthy democracy, but a political system being torn apart by extremists and haters.
How do we get the destructive abnormal new normal back to a fruitful normal is normal again?
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
May 23, 2017
The Nails Exploded!
A nail bomb goes off at a concert in one of the largest arenas in Europe killing at least 22 and wounding 59 mainly teenagers attending a rock concert, and the headline is:
“Suspected Terror Attack”
Uh, who would’ve suspected that?
Perhaps it could have just been a large pile of nails lying around exploding at the box office and killing people?
Stupid, stupid, stupid…
Shameful, shameful, shameful
We live amidst brazen lies to the people, grotesque political correctness, and unbelievable media spin.
And yes, that’s how we might end up losing a big one someday. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
April 11, 2017
DISGRACEFUL United Airlines
To all decent human being out there...
Think twice about United Airlines.
They overbooked a flight and then forcibly removed passengers that had paid for their seats.
What right does anyone have to sell something that they in essence don't have to sell?
And then treating their passengers like animals, smashing them and busting their lips, and dragging from from seats they paid for!
These passengers just wanted to go home.
On top of it, the joke of a CEO of United Airlines, Mr. Oscar Munoz, defended this abhorrent violence against his paying passengers stating:
"Our employees followed established procedures for dealing with situations like this. While I deeply regret this situation arose [not that he regrets that they oversold seats and then beat the sh*t of this passenger], I also emphatically stand behind all of you, and I want to commend you for continuing to do above and beyond to ensure we fly right [this is what he "commends" and consider going "above and beyond" and doing what's "right"--what a complete moral disgrace!]."
While Mr. Munoz had a heart transplant last year, apparently he truly has no heart at all--these are subhuman actions whose defense can only be considered to be the vacuum of any decency or morality in the leadership of United Airlines.
If no passengers took their offer of $400 or even $1,000 to get bumped, then let them offer $10,000 or more--whatever the market price is to get the seat--but they have NO MORAL RIGHT to force this passenger out of a seat he legitimately paid for and was already sitting in.
Either United Airlines should immediately apologize and extraordinarily compensate this harmed passenger, promise never to do this again, and fire their corrupt CEO or the public should boycott this disgraceful airline.
Where is the Federal Aviation Administration?
Where is the board of directors of United Airlines?
Where is justice for this passenger and protection for airline customers?
Please G-d, justice will be done. ;-)
March 14, 2017
Your Days Are Numbered
So far this year, there have been over 100 bomb threats to Jewish community centers, synagogues, and schools--threatening innocent men, women, and children.
In just three months, from the election through February 7, there have been over 1,300 hate incidents targeting a variety of religious and ethnic groups since the election--this is a 650% increase over "normal."
Thank G-d, nothing large-scale and serious has actually happened.
But hate is alive and well in the USA.
Already, there's been one arrest of a left-wing extremist.
You can be sure that more will follow!
Those evil people with bias, prejudice, and hate in their hearts and violence on their minds will see justice done.
It's a matter of time...
Unanimously 100 Senators have called for swift action.
We have some of the finest law enforcement in the entire world.
And with every hateful act, you are leaving a most wonderful forensic trail of evidence that will lead them right back to you.
It's one thing for people to disagree politically, religiously, socially or otherwise but it's another to be a racist and hater and seek to do bad.
You may be calling in bomb threats, but what's ticking is the clock on you...the countdown has begun until you're caught and then you'll be counting the years and decades locked securely behind bars, wasting away, and doing your hard time and penance for the crimes you have done and the evil you espouse.
With justice, may G-d hear it, see it, and let it be done. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
March 7, 2017
Is Man An Angel Or Beast?
On one hand, we see small and great acts of love, kindness and generosity.
People feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, donating clothes to the poverty-stricken, and standing up to defend those that are abused, discriminated against, and victimized.
Every day is an opportunity to be a gracious, heavenly angel!
At the same time, we are witness to horrible acts of hate, cruelty and inhumanity.
The strong preying off and committing gross acts of violence against the weak, the rich elitists taking from the poor lower-class, the powerful violating the human rights of the masses and ruling with a brutal iron fist.
Every day is the possibility to act the vicious, lowly beast!
It's a choice as we stand here teetering on the world we are injected into.
The angel and the beast fight within us.
Our souls yearn to emulate the spirit of our Holy Creator, while our bodies look for raw physical and material satisfaction.
It is truly a battle that rages within us, and can tear any or all of us apart.
Yet, our mission is for good to overcome evil--in everyday small and large ways.
To fight the urges that torment us and to rise, rise, with the wings of an angel to reach our potential and fulfill our destiny. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
February 7, 2017
Emperor Has No Clothes
That's when we get fake news and alternative facts.
These days we don't know what to believe anymore because institutions and media have lost so much credibility with bias, prejudice, and trying to influence based on overtly selfish motives.
The gloves have come off in the fight for supreme earthly might.
Apparently, a lot of other clothes have come off too.
Now the influencers stand naked before us and we must judge for ourselves the truth of the matter.
It funny-sad that in their utter nakedness, they bear no shame.
They scream, and hissy fit, protest, rage, demean, threaten and commit violence.
Ear lobes are dangling as are the other parts and still there is no listening, negotiating, or compromise.
Advancement is limited to obstruction, and progress is dead like a heap of dung.
The nation suffers the marks in the flesh of bitter fighting, while our competitive advantages are eroded.
United we used to stand, and divided for a decade we are falling.
We can dive into the pile of clothes and swim among them, but still we are sinking naked and stinking the lot like selfish bastards, indeed. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
February 3, 2017
The Divided States Of America
Gone is the respect, decency, compromise, and diplomacy among valid differences of opinion and points of view.
Talking it out and working it out...forget about it.
Aside from taking up arms, it's almost like this country is in a second civil war.
The United States has become the divided states.
Hitler, Nazis, Stalin, Commies!
California wants to secede (like Texas wanted to previously).
Lawsuits against the President.
Screams, posters and groups of "Not my President."
Celebrities threatening to pack up and leave the country.
Refusals to carry out the laws of the land.
People joining the resistance and underground.
Secret communications in agencies.
Plotting and threats for a military overthrow of the Presidency.
Calls for blowing up the White House.
Tweets calling for assassination and pics posted of what it would look like.
Yet there are no death camps, no razor sharp wire, no attack dogs ripping the flesh off people, no forced labor, no death marches, no brutal beatings, no starvation of prisoners, no poison gas showers, no crematoria, no firing squads, no mass graves, no gruesome experiments on twins, no vicious assaults, no sexual abuse and rapes, no Star of David patches to be worn, no threats to exterminate.
While of course, we need to ensure "Never Again" for all of us-- even the slightest inkling of it--is there really a bona-fide "again" or "inkling" here in the first place?
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
January 22, 2017
Not A Newspaper, But Rather A Hatepaper
Many are raising concerns about media bias and censorship in this most polarizing of times for our nation.
Media like the New York Times that many used to look up to is endlessly going after the President of the United States and has become a hateful disgrace for its bias, hyperbole, and rancor.
Media like the New York Times that many used to look up to is endlessly going after the President of the United States and has become a hateful disgrace for its bias, hyperbole, and rancor.
No longer a respectful investigative and informative newspaper, it's now become a bona fide one-sided, bigoted, hatepaper.
Sure, media is going to represent the views of its owners, but today's New York Times is what happens when hate and party politics become it's sole purpose for being.
When people and media are balanced, fair, and rational, they present good and bad--both sides of the argument.
When they are biased and hateful and simply a tool for power elite propaganda and mind control then this is what you get...the New York Times Sunday Review Section--here's a list of their articles today:
- The Commander in Chief Who Buried HumilityYes, our freedom and democracy is under attack by bias and bigotry, but perhaps you need to look closer at the supposedly mainstream newspapers that you are reading for the true hateful filled columns that they have come to represent.
- How to Listen to Donald Trump Every Day for Years
- Why Would We Need To March?
- Racial Progress, Then Racist Progress
- Under The Big Top (Apparently the circus [Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey] couldn't compete against a Trump presidency)
- Sheer Dispair
- The America We Lost When Trump Won
- Placing a Bet on the New President (I've Been hearing he's surrounding himself with swampy people)
- The Tempting of the Media (The traps for the press in the Trump era)
- Why I Cannot Fall in Line Behind Trump
May G-d save this republic from not only corrupt politicians, but also a media that is in some cases no better, and perhaps as in this case, maybe even worse.
Who are the deplorables when the windows of innocents are being smashed, the cars being burnt, threats of bombing the White House are broadcast, and the hate-mongering media keeps bashing and bashing and bashing. ;-)
(Source Photo: Rebecca Blumenthal)
December 7, 2016
The Most Important Word Is AND
So as divisiveness continues to plague us. the option for acceptance, love, and coexistence is falling out of the favor and by the wayside.
Division and conflict has been accentuated by the ugliness of the most recent election and representative political divide, economic and gender inequality, inner city violence, racial and religious tensions, worldwide terrorism, and global conflict from Syria to the South China Sea.
This has even infiltrated the functioning of our government, social institutions, and free media big time, where vetting, negotiation and compromise, critical thinking, and fair, balanced, and investigative journalism have been largely jettisoned.
There is no place anymore to go hide from bias, bigotry, and hate.
But as the wise proverb goes things truly are not just black and white, but there are loads of grey everywhere
Many people are not good or evil, left or right, blessed or cursed.
Instead, most people are a mixture of this AND that.
How much of the complex mix of different elements is what makes up the integrity and life of the individual, group, and organization we are dealing with.
But what's important is that you really can't just stereotype people, ideas, or actions as simply good or bad because in reality, they aren't.
Each person and position has elements of good and bad in them...nothing and nobody in life is perfect.
You take the good and the bad in everything from relationships to policy decisions.
So it is certainly possible and even probable to be conflicted and confused about what we see and hear--and not only because of the bias and prejudice in how it is presented or portrayed, but rather because things are not just simple, one or the other propositions, but rather a combination of things we approve of and disapprove of.
Our brains can have lots of trouble dealing with this complexity, because we are wired in terms of survival of the fittest, and that often means choosing a action based on split-second categorizing of people and things as friend or foe.
As the mere shadow of the person or idea is upon us, we are asked to respond--do we run or fight it or do we lovingly embrace it as it overtakes us.
Choose wrong and you can be badly hurt or even dead.
But we are forced to make these quick and bold choices without always having the luxury of time, the patience, or wherewithal to stop and recognize that things and people are a combination of things we like and agree with and others that we dislike and vehemently oppose.
If we could just keep in mind that most things are not just good or bad, right or wrong, but good AND bad, right AND wrong, then we can make more astute and fine-tuned designations of what we think something really is and isn't and how to handle it, live with it, and faithfully coexist with it.
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
November 10, 2016
After The Election Hypocrisy
- There were quiet spaces set up for people to "console" themselves and each other.
- There were signs like this to change the rules and the system, and abolish the electoral college.
- There were more nasty grams between family, friends, colleagues, and strangers on Facebook and Twitter.
- There were protests and riots.
- There was American flag burning.
- There was yelling, cursing, and crying.
Of course, I understand that the election was an upset to half the population (actually, maybe over half of the popular vote).
And I certainly agree with people who are against bigotry and racism--these are things that should ALWAYS be condemned in no uncertain terms!
However, while trying to take the moral high ground, there is plenty of bigotry and hate to go around--such as branding other people as racists (even if they are not so), calling tens of millions of people "deplorables," and stating that they are unequivocally "unredeemable."
Similarly, while attacking one candidate for his sexual banter and (possibly) conduct, the husband of the other candidate was himself impeached from the presidency for his infidelities.
And no matter how big a feminist our beliefs, rather than falsely blaming an unjust "glass ceiling," in her concession speech yesterday, the candidate should have done a mea culpa and acknowledged perhaps a very understandable "corruption ceiling" that put the brakes on her own trust, likability and electability.
Reminiscent to condemning the violence at the Trump rallies, the hypocrisy of it all, was when it become known that the operatives of the DCN themselves, in Project Veritas, were the ones actually sparking and doing the violence.
Further, one candidate was ruthlessly denigrated for even suggesting that there was election fraud going on, even while indeed town hall questions were being passed from the media by the DNC's own chairperson to the other candidate and the prior chairperson was fired from the DNC's actions in their rigging the primary against Bernie Sanders who would have had a decent chance at actually winning "the whole enchilada."
But what happened to everyone committing to accepting the results of a free and fair election in a democracy--is that only if YOUR candidate wins?
Whether it's with hate, name-calling, violence, and sore losing...maybe there is a lot of bad behavior along with "calling the tea kettle black" going on.
While we call for the "orderly transitions" of power in Egypt, for Britain with Brexit, and elsewhere in the world, perhaps our leaders should hold ourselves to similar standards of conduct here.
It's time to STOP the HATE, BIGOTRY, AND VIOLENCE on all sides, and come together to do something positive for this country.
The national security and welfare of the country is at stake, but even more so, the soul of it is still mired in corruption and lies of a very ugly election. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
October 30, 2016
What Do We Fear More?
It's a holiday to remember those that have passed.
In modern times, it has become a holiday of ghosts and ghouls, spooky and scary.
People dress up often in ghastly costumes, party hearty, and go door to door, trick or treat.
With fright night, I ask myself, are we more afraid of what we don't understand from the spirit world or perhaps of what do understand from people in this life?
Certainly, the supernatural and the spirits--elements of what's awaiting for us on the other side are things we don't really have tangible experience with or understand...we are afraid of the unknown.
But in this world, we are familiar and encounter bad people and deeds, and unfortunately have to deal with them, but it never becomes easier or less scary to confront these.
Sure, we understand that not everyone is good, and not everyone has the best impulse control--people do rotten, horrible things for selfishness and greed or simply because they can't stop themselves.
How scary is it to run into and have to deal with people that can and will do almost anything--maybe without a conscious thought or remorse for doing wrong...perhaps, they might even enjoy hurting others, taking what doesn't belong to them, forcing their will or themselves on others, and doing unthinkable acts of crazed violence and evil.
We are definitely afraid of people like this...they are out of control, and don't add up for those of us who think in terms of a soul, conscience, an everyday moral compass, and a seeing and hearing L-rd above
So life is scary, but death awaits us all as well.
And as my dad used to say, no one has ever come back to tell us what happens over there.
He had the most faith of anyone I know, and I understand we are supposed to have faith that we are going to a better place, but like coming out of the mother's womb into this world, when we die, we are coming out into a whole new place altogether.
New things are scary and going from the physical world to the spiritual one, I assume can also be a little earth shattering--where exactly are we going and how will we be judged when we get there?
Of course, I hope that I will be with my family and with G-d and bask in his eternal light.
Thus for me, I find myself less scared of ghosts and metaphysical things, but the evil that people can bring, behind ghoulish smiles and with hidden agendas, telling lies and fooling us of their evil intent, that is scarier than any ghost or goblin, any time of year on Earth or beyond. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
September 21, 2016
Heads Down, Pants Down
And that's exactly what's happening to the reputation of the U.S. here and abroad.
Domestically, another 3 terror attacks just over the weekend in New York , New Jersey, and Minnesota.
While overseas, a humanitarian aid convey is attacked in Syria destroying 18 trucks and killing 20 people, and this after being coordinated with Russia, in advance.
And despite our touting our own horn of achievements at the UN yesterday, in the Wall Street Journal today, the former prime minister of Denmark and secretary-general of NATO is crying out on behalf of the world and imploring the U.S. to once again lead in the world, stating:
"We desperately need a U.S. president who is able to lead the free world and counter autocrats...right now, the [global] village is burning...we need a policeman to restore order; we need a firefighter to put out the flames."
He goes on as to the consequences of the apparent reluctance to lead:
- "Middle East is torn by war"
- "Libya has collapsed and become a breeding ground for terrorists"
- "Resurgent Russia has brutally attacked and grabbed land by force from Ukraine"
- "China is flexing its muscles against its neighbors"
- "Rogue state of North Korea is threatening nuclear attack"
Oh, and I think he forget this one, but another WSJ piece captured it:
- "One year after Iran deal, Iran's right's violations and aggression continue [unabated]"
But aside from fighting terrorism and despots in the world, even when it comes to fighting for critical civil rights, there is weakness and disillusionment (today from Jason Riley in the Journal):
"By almost any traditional metric,--home-ownership, median incomes, labor participation, poverty--blacks are worse off today than they were at the start of Mr. Obama's first term."
This country cannot lead with it's head down and it's hands tied!
It's way past time to pick our heads up high and buckle our belts and get back in the ring to fight with belief and determination for what is right for us and the world. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
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