With everybody inside the Beltway under criticism over the Obamacare vote, the denizens of the Deep State decided it was time to distract public attention once again with a favorite bogeyman: North Korea. The Moonies and Gay-Rights' activists in both the Corporate Media and State Department are outraged at some more of President Kim's actions.
Well, not officially these actions. While being a strong heterosexual male is considered quite scandalous among effete Western elites, this 'enlightened' attitude hasn't been widely accepted by the masses. Thus it's deemed expedient to make the country out to be some military threat to the United States.
North Korea test-fired a missile this weekend, which they claim has the capability of reaching our largely-undefended mainland. The Media naturally took them at their word; although they routinely dismiss everything else North Korea says. The RINOs Tillerson and Haley rushed to call an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council, though no one has the slightest idea what actually happened over there.
President Trump also flew off the handle and fired some angry Tweets at China, as though they had any responsibility for this. This was a serious blunder on Trump's part: less than two weeks after the Chinese Politburo took the unprecedented steps of lifting two long-standing agricultural embargoes, claiming that "China is doing nothing but taking advantage of us" is hardly a smart move. Especially with another Sino-US Economic Summit approaching.
China has in fact, offered to mediate a peace settlement on the Peninsula. Xi Jinping called for a 'Dual-Track Solution' under which both North and South Korea begin mutual demilitarization. But Trump is caught between both the Deep-State Left and the Neocons: neither of which want peace in Korea unless at the expense of North Korea's sovereignty. For all his other faults, Kim Jong-Un is a patriot---and he's going to do what he has to do to secure his country.
The Chinese are not about to serve as proxies of US financial and political interests. An editorial in the Chinese press today stated that Trump's remarks were those of "a green-horn president wholly ignorant of the situation on the Korean Peninsula." Unfortunately they have a valid point: Trump is basically echoing the sentiments of pop-culture pundits who know nothing about Korea themselves. These people imagine that it is still 1952 and the quality of our military then:
Is what it is now:
What Trump needs to do is do what he does best: go against the PC tide and do what is in the US interest. China has a sensible proposal for peace. Recent history has shown that every time we've worked with China, we've gotten mutually beneficial results. Trying to go against ends up like Obama's 'Asian Pivot'. We can't afford many more of those kinds of disasters.
Last week we saw some progress in the Pro-Life movements after the State Legislatures in Missouri and Texas passed legislation restricting the Abortionists' activities in their respective states.
Missouri's new law strengthened state jurisdiction over municipalities discriminating against pro-life options at public clinics. St. Louis---a city with a number of homosexuals in local government---declared itself an abortion sanctuary city earlier this year. The perverts in the city government unilaterally declared abortion mills protected under Anti-Discrimination Laws. They also were forcing parochial schools to provide abortion referral services and forced landlords to rent to abortionists. The new law overturns these policies.
The State Attorney-General also has new powers to prosecute abortion laws. The Senate granted this new authority after Left-Wing local prosecutors vowed not to enforce them. The State now can intervene in cases of such negligence.
Missouri will also place stricter requirements on the disposal of fetal tissue and restrict abortion referrals to certain medical professionals. Alternatives to abortion will now be mandatory in cases of pregnancy counseling and abortion as a medical necessity will need approval from the Department of Health.
In Texas, the Senate passed a Bill banning elective abortions from insurance coverage. This covers all insurance: private, government, and Obamacare programs. The Bill does not prohibit supplemental plans for abortion, which must be purchased separately.
Sponsors of the Bill noted that forcing insurance subscribers to subsidize such procedures was itself an immoral act. The new measure has reportedly widespread support in the state.
Both of these measures are movements in the right direction. The moves brought predictable howls of outrage from the Whacko Left. It is always interesting to note how death-centered Western Liberalism really is. Abortion, euthanasia, population-control, feminism, homosexuality, etc.: everything in their world-view is anti-life. This extends even to foreign policy, where Liberals either engage in or tacitly support ethnic cleansing of populations and cultures. Organized religions, with their doctrines of Eternal Life, are especially repugnant to them.
If we still had a sane and moral society, laws like these wouldn't even be controversial. This proves that we've still a long way to go in draining the cultural swamp.
The news was reported today that Reince Priebus is out as White House Chief-of-Staff. The recent personnel changes have the Corporate Media carrying on like a bunch of cannibals dancing around a stewpot. They are wringing their hands, cheerfully predicting the imminent downfall of the Trump Administration.
Conservatives, though, should not become discouraged over this media hysteria. This is the same Corporate Media which was seeking impeachment grounds against Trump before he was even inaugurated; and has since even encouraged overthrowing the Government. That must be kept in perspective: we are not dealing with honest and objective reporting.
The second thing to bear in mind is that these kinds of shake-ups were actually fairly predictable. Trump ran as an outsider---without backing from the Deep State. When Obama was elected, Hilary Clinton simply got him a list of appointees already prepared by the DNC. Bush did much the same from the RNC; but Trump has had to choose people from outside the Political-Insider System. In other words, Trump lacks a Deep State from which to draw help.
That's why---despite the Media innuendoes---it's hardly scandalous that Trump's family and close friends are in advisory positions. That there would be many personnel replacements during Trump's first year is inevitable, given the circumstances. Trump is establishing a new model of government operation where leadership is based on merit and the kind of political intriguing that we're accustomed to seeing is eliminated in favor of efficiency. In other words, he's using the CEO model of administration instead of the more recent Boss-of-the-Political-Machine model.
There's nothing wrong with Trump's approach: in fact other US Presidents did much the same thing. In a free-market, Representative Republic, there isn't that much essentially different from running a government than there is in running a corporation.
Flynn, Spicer, Priebus, and the different appointees who've withdrawn their nominations: absolutely none of this is worth losing any sleep over. Let's focus instead on the positive achievements of this Administration---of which there have been plenty.
Manosphere cultist and general Internet bully, Dalrock, is having an online meltdown of sorts after he and his trolls were completely owned and humiliated by the Rev. Doug Wilson. Dalrock is up to his third anti-Wilson post in the last four days---this time accusing Wilson of latent homosexuality. He even goes so far as to attack C.S. Lewis, claiming that Lewis' writings have led Wilson into heresy.
Claiming that Lewis corrupted theology is almost as bad as Dalrock's confederate Vox Day, who claims that Conservatism was corrupted by William F. Buckley.
The problem for Dalrock and the Manosphere 'Alt-Christians' is that Wilson's argument struck them at their weakest point. Their theology is not based in Christian love; it is based on the false philosophy of Game; and it is inevitable that domestic abuse will result. Not necessarily physical abuse (though some Manosphereans advocate it), but psychological and spiritual abuse as well.
Game, and its concomitants in Pick-Up Artistry and the Dark Triad, is premised on manipulating women into submission. Now, in Christianity, a woman's submission is freely and lovingly given in return for loving and responsible male headship. But Dalrock's main contention with Wilson hinges against that very thing. Dalrock argues that a husband can and should compel submission from his wife. He recommends the ruthless and manipulative Game tactics to achieve this end. If a man is free to compel a relationship with a woman, there is no logical outcome except domestic abuse.
Dalrock and the other Game-Cultists believe that women are incapable of anything but rebellion and never act out of love or faith. If that premise is true, then force and fear is a man's only recourse in dealing with women. Worse still, the cultists also believe that men who respect their wives as spiritual equals are actually living in sin:
"The much more pervasive sin of men is the same sin as Adam in the Garden, listening to their wives when they should be listening to God."
Because in their cultish interpretation of the Genesis story, Adam and Eve sinned in two different ways---resulting in two different types of Original Sin. Eve, they argue, rebelled against the Divine Command and chose Satan over God, then she seduced the innocent Adam into disobedience. And so, they argue, women will ever be like Eve---hence the man's divine duty is to keep the 'female nature' under control. How else can this lead to anything but abuse?
So contrary to Dalrock's tantrums, Wilson was not engaging in hyperbole by referring to this ilk as 'wife-beaters'. And Dalrock's critique of C.S. Lewis is too ridiculous in and of itself for serious rebuttal. No doubt the hysterics will get worse; as fanatics can't stand the light of truth.
The CPC official news outlet The Global Times reported this morning that, upon recommendation of the Chinese Ministry of Culture, Hollywood trash-culture pop-star Justin Bieber has been banned from China as an undesirable alien. Bieber shares this dubious distinction with George Soros and the Dalai Lama.
"While Justin Bieber is a talented singer, he is also a controversial foreign singer. To maintain order in the Chinese market and purity in the Chinese performance environment, it is not suitable to allow in badly-behaved entertainers from abroad." a statement from the Culture Ministry read.
China's decision has brought predictable howls of outrage from the perverts in the US Corporate Media. They are quite indignant that China recently lifted embargoes on genuinely useful things like rice and beef; but won't permit them to export cultural rot. To be fair to China, though, this is largely Bieber's own fault. When he performed in China in 2013, his drunken off-stage antics---including scuffles with security guards and nearly falling off the Great Wall caused a scandal there. Bieber has also had encounters with US authorities; as well as an embarrassing incident in Mexico where he was thrown out of an archaeological site for urinating on Mayan artifacts. His pants reportedly fell down during the ensuing scuffle with Mexican police.
Wang Wenwen, editor of The Global Times, stated that: "In today's China, youth are obsessed with celebrities like everywhere else in the world. Continual exposure to celebrity culture harms some young people's behaviors and values. Young people may not be capable of making intelligent choices about which celebrities they follow or imitate."
In a free society like ours, parents and teachers should be the ones doing what Wang suggests. We don't need a Ministry of Culture in America. Here it always was the responsibility of parents and other community leaders to exert pressure on the Mass Media and them accountable for the material they put out. One lesson that the American people need to re-learn during the Trump Era is that the Media works for us---not the other way around.
Of course, the Cultural Marxists in the Media Cartels immediately scream about 'censorship' and 'artistic freedom'. But while we have a Constitutional Right to free speech and expression, that by no means entitles moneyed media monopolies to behave as a de facto Culture Ministry and impose upon society whatever they wish. Americans have to exercise control over these things, as they used to do. Hollywood responds to consumer pressure; and it's parents and communities who ultimately hold the purse-strings over celebrities' and media-moguls' bloated salaries.
Thus, it's completely understandable that China would endeavor to protect its culture. And Americans should really take to heart Wang's further statement that "If these celebrities really 'love their fans and hate to disappoint them' as Bieber says, they had better watch their words and deeds in their own countries as well as China."
Truer words were never spoken, and it's a sad symbol of the times when Chinese Communists have to lecture Americans on using their freedoms responsibly.
The so-called Manosphere has given rise to a cultish, anti-Christian movement steeped in the Game, PUA, and Dark Triad philosophies. The writers among the sectaries have taken to calling themselves 'Alt-Christian' lately. Now logically anything that would be an alternative to Christ is---on the authority of no less than St. John the Apostle---the spirit of antichrist.
The leaders of this movement---who fake being men's rights advocates and fake being Conservatives---circumvent this intellectual difficulty by faking Christianity. They claim to be the vanguard of a movement to restore and reform Christianity, which they claim has been 'cucked'; 'converged'; or otherwise co-opted by SJWs and Feminists. Part of this is effected by taking the most extreme definitions of Liberalism and Feminism possible and juxtaposing their own radicalism against it. By their definitions women like Sarah Palin and Mary Kassian are 'feminists' and the Vatican and Southern Baptist Convention full of SJWs.
Dalrock---a blogger who's one of the main ringleaders of this cult---routinely attacks other prominent Christian leaders as converged so as to lure unsuspecting souls away from faith into his heretical movement. His latest target is Pastor Doug Wilson---a Protestant minister with a large following, especially among Christian Conservatives. Wilson recently wrote an article titled 'The 21 Theses of Submission in Marriage'. While it might be a bit of a stretch to use the term theses, it's overall sound marriage advice and doctrinally in line with Christian positions on the subject.
But Dalrock takes issue with Wilson on two points: one is Wilson's suggestion that "when male leaders are tyrants, fools, and scoundrels, godly women will have as much objection to it as godly men do" and that such women have a perfect right to do something about it. Dalrock's second objection is that Wilson dares suggest that male feminists and sexually libertine men had any part in imposing Feminism on Western Culture. Dalrock claims that this opinion "doesn't even pass the laugh test" and snorts that things like Feminist policy in the Military couldn't be the work of men. As if Barack Obama, Ash Carter, John Kerry, and General McMaster had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Dalrock's religion is essentially a Male Supremacy cult. In the comments section to his article against Wilson, he makes this astonishing statement: "{A wife's} Submission is, as we are told, something special. It is a matter of the heart and faith...the husband's obligation to love, however, is different, as the heart and faith aren't involved."
No, readers, this is not a typographical error. Dalrock actually said that.
Roughly this is the same type of 'biblical' interpretation that was preached in the Antebellum South about the relationship between slave and master. And women are not much above chattel slaves in the Game Cult's scheme of things. The shame and disgrace here is that our slaveholding forefathers at least have the mitigating factor of living in an unenlightened era. Our generation, though, should know better.
After Dalrock's minions launched a troll storm on Wilson's blog, Wilson responded with a good rebuttal to the outraged cultists. "It is a mistake of the highest order to think that the opposite of cowardly male coyness is to stand on the recliner in one's man-cave beating one's chest. That is not how Christ loved the Church either."
Stung by this rebuke, Dalrock flew into a rage and wrote an ill-thought-out piece accusing Pastor Wilson of intellectual dishonesty: among many other projections.
Some of the older generations of theologians believed that the 1st Epistle of St. John was the first Catechism of the Church. It wouldn't hurt people listening to the Dalrock-types to re-read that book in its entirety. St. John has a lot to say about distinguishing false teachers from the true ones; and by the Apostle's standards, it's Dalrock---not Wilson---who comes up short.
Despite the efforts of President Trump and Pope Francis, the battle to save the life of British infant Charlie Gard has failed and the boy's parents given up the legal battle. President Trump made an attempt to bring the child and his family to the US for an experimental medical treatment. Amoral British judges were blocking the treatment to push their pro-euthanasia agendas.
Hope was lost for the Gards when Dr. Michio Hirano, the American neurosurgeon involved, announced that tests had revealed that the child's condition had radically deteriorated during the legal battle. Had he been able to come to the US earlier, Dr. Hirano may have saved him, but the intervening time has rendered Charlie Gard's condition irreversible.
No doubt to the delight of Left-Wing whackos on both sides of the Atlantic, Charlie Gard will be taken off life-support within the next few days.
President Trump hasn't yet issued a statement, but Pope Francis urged prayer for the Gard family and that the Church reach out to them with aid and consolation. Like Trump, Francis was personally involved in the case and made an appeal to the EU. British Catholics had organized a petition directly to Queen Elizabeth, which presented to her Court at Buckingham Palace. President Trump also confronted British Prime Minister May at the G-20 Summit and offered US assistance.
Charlie Gard was suffering from a rare condition called Mitochondrial Depletion Syndrome, which effects infants. Globally, there are only about two dozen cases annually. Dr. Hirano is one of the world's few experts on MDS. There are no doctors capable of treating it in Britain.
Father Francesco Giordano, of Human Rights International told CNA News that we need to begin a new dialogue on medical ethics and called socialized medicine into question. With the Obamacare Repeal Debate in full swing, it's a sure bet that the Corporate Media and their chums in Big Pharma will never let the Gard Case be discussed publically.
The problem with Socialized Medicine isn't simply the horrendous amount of fraud, such as HHS and the Justice Department have been uncovering. Even in efficiently managed systems like Europe has, Socialized Medicine eventually degenerates into a cost-benefit paradigm rather than a care-based model. Ultimately, in such systems medical bureaucrats make the final decisions---not about the level of care---but about the cost-effectiveness of treatments and allocations of taxpayer resources. In theory, Socialized Medicine might actually work in a theocratic country like Iran where doctors are subject to ecclesiastical oversight. But in a secularist system, cases like the Gards' are inevitable.
Part of the tragedy too is that the Gards raised charitable funds to pay for private care in the US. This shows the falsity of the Left-Wing argument that private healthcare is unavailable to the poor. But even in the Free Market, doctors must be bound by ethics and their ultimate duty. It used to be the case that doctors donated services occasionally until greedy trial lawyers, predatory insurance cartels, and power-mad bureaucrats ended that along with the era of House Calls.
Father Giordano also pointed out the deeper problem of a 'Euthanasia Mentality' where human beings are treated as expendable. The idea has long been promoted by the same people who promote Abortion and Population Control. It is rooted in selfish desire of many to enjoy limited resources by prohibiting others from using them. The rational course, though, is to use technology to accommodate larger populations. In spite of being officially an Atheist country, China has come to realize this. They've abandoned their population controls and euthanasia and have begun investing in new technologies to deal with their high population. And the new policy has worked much better for China already.
So, barring Divine Intervention, this sad episode in human history will come to a tragic end. But maybe Charlie Gard will not have died in vain. His parents plan to use the monies raised to found a research fund to cure MDS. Maybe it will cause a new discussion over the future of medicine in post-BREXIT Britain, as well as within the EU and the US as well.
