SLAVERY AND STUPIDITY

Boy, I'm getting tired of this politically correct stupidity. We can't fly any Confederate flags anywhere because it represents, to some, the evils of slavery. My question is, why just these flags? And now, some can't even wear the uniform of the Confederate army. Why?

Because the South had slavery. That's true. Lest we forget, which apparently we have, during the entire history of the Confederate States of America, the North had slaves, too. Yet, the groups that scream and squirm anytime the "Stars and Bars" is flown or a gray uniform is worn say nothing about the flag of the United States or the Union blue, even though slavery ended in the Union at exactly the same time it ended in the Confederacy.

Julia Dent Grant, the wife of General Grant owned slaves and retained them all through the war, even bringing one of them with her to visit Grant in the South after the surrender was signed at Appomattox Court House. One could make the argument that the only slave still in the South after the war belonged to General Grant.

Of course, why would we expect college students to know that?

A college fraternity inspired by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has banned members around the country from wearing Confederate uniforms to "Old South" parties and parades after years of complaints that the tradition was racially insensitive.

The Virginia-based Kappa Alpha Order issued new rules to chapters earlier this year saying members aren't allowed to wear Rebel uniforms to parties or during their parades, which are a staple on campuses across the South.

The decision, announced in an internal memo posted on the group's website, followed a flap last year at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where a black sorority complained after a KA parade stopped in front of its house on campus. KA members were dressed in the gray uniforms of Confederate officers, and young women wore hoop skirts.

More than 70 alumnae of the sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha, sent a petition to Alabama President Robert Witt complaining about the use of Confederate flags and uniforms on campus.
In the memo to chapters, Kappa Alpha's national executive director, Larry Wiese, said such displays had to end.
Yahoo

YOU HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO CHOOSE

"In a 19-17 vote on Monday night, the House Budget Committee shot down the inclusion of the Stupak-Pitts amendment in the health care reconciliation bill. The amendment, which was drafted by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.) last November, would prevent the use of federal funds for abortion and is likely to be addressed by the full House later this week."
Catholic News Agency

The lines are being drawn pretty clearly. It seems that the radicalization of America is serving the purpose of clarifying individual beliefs. I know that this statement is subjective but, to me anyway, some of the muddiness that usually surrounds politics is being hosed off. Even though they're trying to vote for this bill in the house without voting for it we all know what's going on. With most things political it's just the geeks that pay attention and get pissed off about the levels of corruption. This time, it's the whole country.

The same is true in the Church. The veneer of holiness is being stripped from those in the leadership that have decided to follow evil instead of Christ. Whether it's the Progressives in the USCCB or the priests molesting kids, everything is being brought into the open.

I think it likely that evil will once again gain the upper hand and much of what we are seeing will be obscured. But, for a short period of time, man is being given a great grace and a choice. You see, I believe that we are approaching the end of an era. I can feel it in the air and in my soul. Satan has been in control of the earth since the fall. If you believe in such things, which I do, he was given additional power by God to try and destroy the Church about a hundred years ago. This power was to last around a century (See The Vision of Pope Leo XIII).

The time allotted to Satan has passed and along with it a century filled with wars, plagues, famines, holocaust and the most Satanic of all political movements, Communism. We have also seen the "Smoke of Satan" enter God's Church. I read a lot of history so I'm not saying that all of this hasn't happened before. It has. Just not on such a concentrated level and with such a clear intent to destroy not only the Church but to completely disrupt salvation history and, through the attempted destruction of the Jews, man's way to redemption.

God is about to enter history again. Maybe not physically, as with the incarnation, but directly. We will all have to choose sides and because the truth has been exposed we will be held to account for our choice.

For anyone out there that hopes to sit this out and just side with the winner, your actions will serve as your decision. Inaction supports evil because it doesn't oppose it.

We are being called to arms. If we support God we have to speak out. If we support freedom we have to speak out. We can't bury our heads in the sand and hope this goes away. It won't. Everything that we know is about to collapse and our lives will never be the same.

We have the right to make a choice but along with the right comes the obligation to choose. If you don't fulfill the obligation you will lose the right. And if you lose the right to choose you lose the right to freedom along with it.

So make your choice or cower into slavery. It really has become as simple as that. The lines have been drawn clearly now. We have reached an absolutely pivotal point in history. Nothing will ever be the same again. Make your choice and act on it.

THE NOOSE SLOWLY TIGHTENS

I don't know about you but around here there just isn't a whole bunch of work. As fuel prices rise I'll be forced to cut back further on any unnecessary expenses. I know that I'm not alone. So as the cost of fuel goes up, along with the cost of everything it touches, just how do the Pollyanna's in the financial industry intend to spin the inevitable collapse of consumer demand? How will the government distort the numbers to make it appear that all is well? And why will anyone believe any of this crap when their day to day experience tells them it isn't true?

Because we're self deluded fools wishing and hoping that all the bad stuff will just magically disappear. We're children that believe someone will come to save us. And someone just might. But along with salvation will come slavery.

How much will we trade for safety?

"Oil prices jumped above $83 a barrel Monday in Asia amid signs of strong Chinese demand for crude and a weakening U.S. dollar.
Benchmark crude for February delivery was up 80 cents to $83.55 a barrel at late afternoon Singapore time in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Friday, the contract rose 9 cents to settle at $82.75."

AP