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We now have comforts and technology that ancient people couldn’t even dream of, yet that doesn’t keep people from finding lots of ways to be angry and miserable (something the internet has helped expose and enhance rather than alleviate). And this will continue despite the new things we’ll invent and discover in the future, as logic is just incapable of answering the fundamental questions we truly desire answers for.

This is the problem the protagonist in Superego runs into when his simple world of being an intergalactic hitman is thrown out of whack. Despite being a psychopath, he wants purpose in life, but all logic will ever tell him is that no such thing exists. But that’s not an answer anyone can ever truly accept.

So, no matter how far in the future it is, still expect people to make the usual plans for Sunday morning. Yes, as times change, we can expect some changes to organized religion — or at least for them to add words like “space” and “laser” to old things to make them sound more futuristic, as is the custom (actually, “Space Laser Church” sounds awesome).

And if one day we encounter other intelligent life — all with their own religions — that will certainly lead to… a lot of think pieces, in the least (in Superego, one group that’s successfully united numerous religions is a terrorist organization).

But if a religion has been around a thousand years already, there are probably good odds it will last a thousand more. For religion will always fill a round hole that the square peg of logic and science will never fit in, and give us a continuity as a people that, no matter how things change or weird things get, our important values stay constant.
By Frank J. Fleming

Just wondering if you noticed the results you got by voting for the best electable Republicans.

You might just as well stayed home on election day. Right?

If you don’t vote for the best, period, you’re stuck with the rest, period. You don’t vote for the best, so they don’t run.

The best are electable if you vote for them!!!

In George Orwell’s 1984, the hero, a man named Winston, rebels against Big Brother. He is eventually caught and placed in prison for interrogation and re-education. His interrogator is named O’Brien. O’Brien explains the importance of Newspeak, in which the vocabulary of the citizens is slowly and irrevocably contracted. The point of the contraction is to eliminate “thought-crime”, or ideas that are not approved by Big Brother. Words such as independence need to be erased from the vocabulary pool because if the word does not exist, the thought that such a word expresses will disappear as well.

The writers of the new Advanced Placement United States History course framework do an excellent job of implementing this philosophy. The Framework was developed by Common Core architect David Coleman’s College Board, and is being implemented in American classrooms right now.

The framework is a document of omissions. And the omission matter.

It is not just the omission of Roger Williams and William Penn. It is that their omission removes the ideas of religious toleration and religious liberty taught by these men and practiced in colonial America. Yet the idea that people have a legitimate right to practice their faith without persecution, and without penalty, is fundamental to an understanding of what is exceptional about America, both in colonial times and in the 21st century.

It is not just the omission of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. It is that their omission removes the idea…

that there is an authority higher than the government, a Creator Who is the source of individual rights that no government can rightfully abridge. Yet that idea echoed around the globe, causing people from every land to leave everything and everyone they knew to come to this exceptional nation where your past did not have to determine your future. And that idea is as critical today as it was in 1776.

It is not just the omission of Valley Forge and Iwo Jima and the beaches of Normandy. It is that their omission removes the idea that our freedom has been won and preserved through the sacrifice of Americans who came before us. Yet the idea that America has produced generations of men and women who were willing to die, not just to preserve their own freedom, but to preserve that of others, is part of what has made this nation truly exceptional for over 200 years.

And it is not just the omission of Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust and the Death March of Bataan. It is that their omission removes the fact that other nations do not share our idea that each of us is endowed with unalienable rights, and hides the atrocities that have resulted from that lack of understanding.

We are not a perfect nation, and our children need to know where and how we failed so they can correct the errors we have made. But the framework presents America as a nation that has only failed.

That is simply not true.

We do not need our children to learn a Newspeak version of American history. We need them to learn the real account – because even with all of our warts, America has been a beacon of hope for over two centuries. And to preserve that beacon, our children need to understand how exceptional this nation of ours truly is.
FoundedOnTruth.com

The same old people are talking the same old talk. New news, but same old talk. If only the GOP would win they would do something this time. Like hell they will. Never have, never will. Don’t vote for the good guys, they always finish last. That’s because the same old people are talking and you’re still listening.

And all the same old famous pundits are still saying the same old things that will keep them famous. They never help people who are trying to do something. They all talk about common core but nobody helped EUSE when they tried to raise national awareness. We have thousands of subscribers but nobody helps me here.

There are lots of “conservative” groups, but they are spinning their wheels if they think they can achieve their goals with the schools turning out properly uneducated and indoctrinated voters. But when we get a Republican government to admit more criminal aliens, things will get better. Not.

Our great thinkers are bad mouthing jihad and in the same breath supporting them in the Ukraine, Chechnya, and Bosnia. And you wonder why you are getting the finger from Putin? Down with ISIS! Bury them in money. Vote for any commie with an R after his name! Impeach Obama? Are you brain dead? We still have gun laws and Obamacare among other unconstitutional horrors. What makes you think you have the votes to get rid of any other menace?

I worked hard for McCain/Palin because I saw the danger of Obama. I also see the danger in letting liberals think they can depend on your vote if they put an R after their name. Which reminds me. Why does everyone hate Palin? It was McCain who lost the election. She was the only chance he had. There was not another candidate who could have kept his head out of the toilet.

They talk of scandals. They talk of common core. They talk of jihad. They talk of illegals. Etc. Ad infinitum. And they talk of keeping the same bums in office who are causing them. Some of you idjits think the people elect the candidates in the primaries. In some cases that’s true, but the good guys don’t get the same support as the establishment scum.

That’s why I don’t publish the same ol’, same ol’ anymore. I’m as busy as any of you. If you see something new and important, why not help out. I don’t have time to visit everybody’s pages and read everything. Some people don’t say much in their ledes. If you find something new and worth while and don’t want to participate in the site, at least e-mail me. We have a contact link. Thanks.

Nicosia is certainly more divided than is Jerusalem. Thousands of Greek refugees lost their homes more recently, in 1974, than did the Palestinians in 1947.

Turkey has far more troops in Northern Cyprus than Israel has in the West Bank. Greek Cypriots, unlike Palestinians, vastly outnumbered their adversaries. Indeed, a minority comprising about a quarter of the island’s population controls close to 40 percent of the landmass. Whereas Israel is a member of the U.N., Turkish Cyprus is an unrecognized outlaw nation.
Victor Davis Hanson

Did you ever wonder why the only things the government is supposed to do are the only things they won’t do?

They won’t secure the border. They won’t defend the Constitution. They won’t deliver the mail.

We caught some burglars who were guilty of federal crimes as well. We had fingerprints, footprints, stolen goods, and a stolen car. They turned them loose for lack of evidence. If you or I had offended them in some way they wouldn’t even need clues!

Our mail is delivered two roads away because the Post Office won’t deliver to our address. Now these hoodlums smash our mailbox, vandalize our mail, or steal it altogether. The postmaster won’t even give us the complaint forms he’s required to give us.

Don’t bother to report it to your congressman or senator. No one reads your messages. Think so? Try to e-mail one. They want a subject AND topic so they can cross reference them and send a form reply that likely has nothing to do with your message. When they bother, that is.

The government IS allowed to repay just debts, even though they probably aren’t allowed to make them. They just don’t want to repay the workers hard earned social security payments. They want to blame their squandering on the people who are supporting this country. They have plenty of money for our enemies. Plenty for illegals. Plenty for criminals in prison. In short, plenty for all those who have not contributed a lick to this country. It’s the taxpayers fault we’re in debt!

And they won’t even deliver my mail!!!

Miller added: “As VA’s despicable delays in care crisis made painfully clear, the department’s extreme secrecy has resulted in deadly consequences. And it’s well past time for department leaders at all levels to understand that taxpayer-funded organizations such as VA have a responsibility to provide information to Congress and the public rather than stonewalling them.”

Whether ordinary taxpayer or congressional investigator, truth-seekers are apparently treated the same by the VA spin patrol: as nuisances and threats to their power and comfort.
By Michelle Malkin

I forget who said that impeachment of Supremes was a fantasy, but it seems that impeachment of any scum would be a miracle.