Our Vanishing Culture *Spit*

Liberal Culture

Boy Scouts Name Change Looms Now that Girls Allowed to Join The Boys Scouts organization will change its name to reflect its coming new membership now that girls are allowed to join the formerly all-male organization. This marks an end to a 108-year tradition due to the forces of political correctness. [FULL] Cultural genocide - Wikipedia List of destroyed heritage - Wikipedia 10 historical sites destroyed by ISIS and why they matter UN warns that destroying cultural heritage may be war crime Trampling culture, destroying history

... rename Jefferson Davis Highway

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Alexandria (VA) will seek to move Confederate statue and rename Jefferson Davis Highway Ellen Tabb decried the task force that recommended the changes to the council, noting that none of the members knew Southern history. She said native Virginians had been vilified at the commission’s meetings as “racists, bigots and murderers.” Not for the first time I will fall back on Shelby Foote for a response to this cultural hysteria. WATCH

....culture goes right?

"This generation is frightened of ideas." Matt Drudge. ... then there's this https://youtu.be/Irbu2-kuikA The progressive establishment has a problem. The hunger for non-conformist thought and opinion is raging. Contrarianism is becoming cool once again. Marc Miller

Baby Killers and Consequences

Liberal Culture

“ The Elimination of Christianity in the West Brings Disrespect for Life Warner Todd Huston  Abortion activists are taking the next, logical step in their justification of abortion by agreeing that, yes, abortion kills a human baby, but… “so what?” It is just the next logical step in abortion apologia that results from the end of the Christian philosophical influence in society. But we don’t see that end affecting just abortion. We see it throughout society. Whether leftists like the idea or not, the United States of America was conceived as a Christian nation. Not a Catholic one, not a Muslim one, not a Jewish one and not a secular one, but a Christian nation built solidly on the Christian ethos. Every state initially formed with a particular flavor of Protestantism as a state sanctioned religion and our entire culture was fueled by the twin influences of Christian philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment. It is certainly true that our form of government is essentially secular in that it is not guided or controlled by any particular religion, but the ethics underlying those governments where heavily informed by Christian ethics. The left, though, has been angling to destroy the underlying Christian ethos since the turn of the last century as academia and the left became imbued with communist and socialist propaganda. The efforts to destroy the bedrock principles upon which the nation was built began under the destroyer of our education system, John Dewey, who, along with famed “History” professor Charles Beard, worked to tear down America’s founding principles and replace them with socialist-inspired anti-American ideals. (And they succeeded, by the way.) [Continued] A regular theme of mine.  It is, or ought be, a no brainer that nations which share a common language and religion are more stable.  In our case it was English and Christianity.  Din't matter if you were agnostic, atheist or just going along to get along; everyone gained by the common dialectic and guardrails by osmosis.  Agent provocateurs like Madalyn Murray O'Hair, to name just one,  who argued "tyranny of the majority" have won.  So now it's tyranny of the minority.  How's that working?  ”

More Whiny Charges of Racism byt Some Racists

STFU

“ FIREFIGHTERS ORDERED TO YANK OLD GLORY Chief claims 'racism' provoked ban ... Its chief, Craig Bronaugh Jr., told the newspaper that four firefighters who had been removed from their duties and sent home actually may return. But officials with the Service Employees International Union Local 73, which represents the suburb’s firefighters, said it had gone too far for only that, and they filed a complaint with the state Labor Relations Board, the Tribune reported. “It’s about freedom of speech, and there should be nothing wrong with them expressing their patriotism,” spokesman Adam Rosen said. He explained the department had simply refused to bargain with the union over the issue, creating a hostile work situation.  A report from Chicago’s WGN TV explained what apparently happened. An order came down from Bronaugh that because of a culture of racism, firefighters had to remove all decals or stickers, including American flags and military stickers, from their city lockers. Showing a picture of a “monkey smoking a cigarette” that had been taped to one locker, he said, “As a fire chief here, I cannot afford nor tolerate [racism].” But several firefighters refused, and ultimately were sent home. They explained the monkey picture had been put on one firefighter’s locker years ago by a buddy who wanted to chide him about his smoking, and the actually tension started, according to the WGN report, when the chief ordered a new American flag be removed from Fire Station 2.   [Full] 6 years of incendiary race-baiting by the Obama-Holder faction have created this culture of Black racists looking to pick a fight.   On the plus side, the firefighters are SEIU thugs, so there is some nice schadenfreude here.  A pox on them all. ”

You will be made to care

“ You Will Be Made to Care Vanderbilt University has decided student groups on campus cannot determine their own leadership. Consequently, a muslim can run the Christian group, a global warming skeptic can run the Earth First group, a Republican can run the College Democrats, etc. You get the idea. The rule came in part because, as you will not be surprised to learn, a Christian fraternity “had expelled several students for violating their behavior policy. One student said he was ousted You will be made to care. You’ll be made to care about gay marriage. You’ll be made to care about killing kids. You’ll be made to care about the influence of a secular culture on your children as they grow. You’ll be made to care about a host of issues. because he is gay.” Tish Harrison Warren wrote about this at Christianity Today. Her Christian group allowed anyone to be a member, “but it asks key student leaders—the executive council and small group leaders—to affirm its doctrinal statement, which outlines broad Christian orthodoxy and does not mention sexual conduct specifically. But the university saw belief statements themselves as suspect.” The first bit of Tish Harrison Warren’s column is really the most relevant part for my purposes here. I thought I was an acceptable kind of evangelical. I’m not a fundamentalist. My friends and I enjoy art, alcohol, and cultural engagement. We avoid spiritual clichés and buzzwords. We value authenticity, study, racial reconciliation, and social and environmental justice. A lot of Christians have long thought they could sit on the sidelines. Only the icky evangelicals they don’t much care for and the creepily committed Catholics would have to deal with these issues and the people who hate those deeply committed to their faith. They, on the other hand, could sit on the sidelines, roll their eyes, and tell everyone that they didn’t think it was that big a deal. They were, after all, on birth control or watching whatever trendy HBO series is on or having a cocktail or perfectly willing to bake a cake for a gay wedding. Nonetheless, the secularists at Vanderbilt kicked her Christian group off campus “for being the wrong kind of Christians.” My friend Matthew Lee Anderson has some thoughts on it. In part he writes, “if we do not grasp the joy of the martyrs, we do not understand them at all.” I tweeted out Matt’s post yesterday, but was reminded of it again today by my friend Nick. He sent me Rod Dreher’s piece on the whole thing. Folks, this is precisely why I started the saying “You will be made to care.” It all stemmed from a diarist here at RedState who took the position that gay marriage did not affect him, he did not care about it, and he would never care about. But, of course, you will be made to care. It is a larger issue than just gay marriage and many comfortably naive, living at the margins of faith, Christians, think they have a comfortable path through life in the United States. Put bluntly: if you do have a comfortable path through life with no fears at all of persecution, you probably are not a Christian. Islam may be about submission, but Christianity is about suffering.1 The suffering may not be major. It may be an accumulation of small sleights over time. It may be the loss of a friend or just the expulsion of your Christian group from your private school. But Christianity is a religion of suffering and persecution.  You may think you can sit on the sidelines. You may think you can opt-out of the culture war. You may think you can hide behind your trendy naked Leena Dunham t-shirt while you sip trendy drinks talking about trendy shows and writing columns demanding Christians be forced by the state to bake cakes, provide flowers and farms, and offer up photographs of gay weddings. But not only will you one day be called to account to your God for how you advanced his kingdom, but on this Earth you will be made to care. That does not mean you have license to be bitter or angry or hateful. You should love others and help others. Just do not expect anything in return. [Full Article] This blog is, and has been for 12 years, about whatever I'm into at the moment.  Politics mostly.  I've eschewed discussing religion except to ponder things like, "who do atheist turn to ... " sort of thing.   Now, I have been made to look deeper into the state or our culture, and the reasons why ... why all of it?   I won't evangelize, but it has become impossible for me to ignore.  Metzger summarized nicely with  "I'm not a practicing Christian, but ... as a strong believer in custom and tradition and ritual as the glue that keeps a culture intact .."  With the loss of those guardrails came this, today. Ten million words will not beging to summraize.  But, you know; you feel. War is declared against the Judeo-Christain ethic. Monsters have been embraced. Last week the ubiquitous "Anonymous" challenged a Tailgunner Dick comment with,   "But if you want to prove Mr. Dawkins is wrong it's necessary to prove that God does exist (which no-one has managed to do to date). I responded, but quicky deleted; it was the stuff of a range war.  On reflection though, my answer is that I am proven that God exists.  My suggestion to Anonymous would be to read ( to make it easier) Saint Thomas Aquinas's  Shorter Summa (or the even the more concise pony), and we can take it from there. But it's a sterile challenge,  for the same reason it's impossible to discuss, say, the 984 outrages against our rule of law perpetrated by this Liberal/Obama government:  Obamunists have their own media, their own history, their own wise men, and most importantly, their own statist religion and pope.  By the by, if Anonymous, or anyone else,  would like to know why I know God exists, I will be happy to answer  via e-mail,  for whatever that's worth.  I am of average intellect, and no match for the godless philosophers that  Dawkin's camp will utilize,like, say, Friedrich Nietzsche. “ After coming into contact with a religious man I always feel I must wash my hands. Friedrich Nietzsche The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. Friedrich Nietzsche ” Huh? JMJ ”

A POX on All of Them

Liberal Culture                       Memorial Day...saw google displaying a tiny Memorial Day "flag" Late In The Day...an afterthought TODAY....this same gaggle of rabble is displaying a quaint little tribute banner to the first known Green Queen, the woman who may have had the [m]ost to do with the banning of DDT....worldwide... Carson may be the largest Mass Murderer that the world has known. She’d give Pol Pot and Stalin a run for their money, for certain.  (Free Republic) MASS MURDERING DO-GOODER

Bishop Sheen on MFCCS

“  "The Kiss That Blistered" The Dennis Praeger video below's message is that we have failed to pass on to our children the Big Idea.  The values that formed this nation, and unarguably made us the greatest nation in this cycle of human history.  I don't proselytize here, but some things are so much a part of who I am that they cannot be ignored in the context of today's turmoil. As a kid (I apologize to those who've heard this) in Catholic school (Chicago),  we were literally compelled to watch  Bishop Sheen's "Life is Worth Living" on Monday evening.  It cannot have been for religious indoctrination since we were immersed in it anyway.  It was more than that. The nuns would quiz us the next morning to weed out miscreants who had succumbed to Milton Berle (who joked "He uses old material too."). Anyway, the reason Sheen's show was an Emmy winner was due in no small part to his delivery and stage presence.  He began every show with a humorous anecdote that segued into his message.  That message was seldom religious, but would lay a foundation for one that often was.  At any rate, he reflected the values of a nation,  and was part of our character formation. Start this video at the 1:07 mark and watch until his point about Communism is made (ahem), and he moves into Judas's betrayal of Jesus parallel (to avoid the religious part).   I think that most people here will agree that these ideas were part and parcel of  their own experience and belief, and why the hair raises on our necks when Government Speaks. ”

Good Pirates Don't Rape and Pillage

Culture War                         Somali pirates are the nicest; they're Muslums Blah-blah Which means somebody's selling this crap to your kids; kids who prolly sleep with a Pedobear.

Après Nixon, le déluge de merde communistes

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Après Nixon, le déluge de merde communistes WTF?  Explanation below the fold. Thanks to George Kowalczuk for this bit of fun.  Again, this is representative of  the culture many of us grew up in; so what happened?  If I was to pick a turning point, it would be  AUGUST 9, 1974.  That's the day Richard Nixon was driven out of office in what I (and many others) can only view as a silent coup. The 1974 off-year elections saw a wholesale slaughter of Republicans; replaced by what we now recognize as  the vanguard of the neo-Democrat  Party that rules today.  How leftist were they?  Hint; ten years later the the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) nominated their last presidential candidate, Gus Hall.  After that,  the CPUSA simply endorsed Democrat candidates.  .

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Putin v Obummer

KULTURE - WHOM DO YOU ADMIRE MORE?   I've lately come across a  "conservative Americans admire Putin" meme (deliciously pictorialized HERE). RED STATE Why are American conservatives in love with Putin? DAILY BEAST Why American Social Conservatives Love Putin Didn't  read any of the articles, probably because I could see why without.   Let's be clear; Putin is at heart still a Communist KGB assassin who has rivals liquidated.  Still, he has leadership qualities that no Democrat politician in over 50 years have come close to exhibiting.   Although Obama similarly attempts to theoretically (and possibly in a real sense, ahem) "liquidate" anyone who threatens  him;  this is America, not Nazi Germany or Stalinist Russia. So,  if you don't by now fear and despise Obama, there's something terribly wrong with you. By the by, I did look at The leftist Daily Beast's lede.  They reason that Putin's popularity amongst Americans is much simpler to understand: "Thirty years ago, American conservatives declared Russia the enemy. But now that Putin has declared war on gays, the religious right is in full support of its freedom-limiting tactics. By James Kirchick." You Stupid Berks!

Happy Pearl Harbor Day!

sigh Ron "I Metzger in St. Louis: sent me this.  I think I used it before, or at least saw it before, but is there a better Memorial Day picture?  I know, I'm a day late, but I'm engaged in some heavy lifting these days, and my  time isn't always my time (just like people who work).  Anyway, we could use more symbolic tribute like this considering some Drudge itemry I saw yesterday. Happy Pearl Harbor Day Everybody! HBO Star Lena Dunham: tweeted 'Happy Memorial Day!' yesterday. The linked Raw Story's headline is  "Conservatives freak out over Lena Dunham’s peculiar Memorial Day tweet."  Interesting categorization wot, that suggests "non conservatives"  could care less, which I feel is certainly the case.  I don't have to say that Lena Dunham is not alone in her generation (Gen Y)  when it comes to being undereducated re: anything that happened before she was born, do I? Good. And this corollary Massachusetts town cancels Memorial Day parade, cites lack of veterans Am I still the only person to think ending the universal draft was terrible, even disastrous  policy in the long term?  And so what if there are no living veterans?  Duh.

Liberals and the destruction of a fine culture

When Liberals are in charge                                                TO THE REAR, MARCH! After its historic vote to grant membership to openly gay youth, leaders of Boy Scouts of America are anxious to “move forward” as a unified Scouting family, even as an unknown number of chartering organizations, councils, troops and members reassess their participation in the iconic institution. The new membership policy — approved by 61 percent of nearly 1,300 voting members — says that “no youth will be denied membership in the Boy Scouts of America on the basis of sexual orientation or preference alone.” Boy Scouts will ‘move forward’ after vote on gays

Before the invention of writing, these stories and legends were handed down from generation to generation in the form of rituals and oral traditions. The reappearance of certain themes, time and again, in different mythologies, leads to the realization that these themes portray universal and eternal truths about mankind   .... Campbell states that modern society lacks the stability it previously derived from being educated in the mythology and legends of the Greek and Roman classics. Campbell and Moyers agree that there is no effective mythology in modern society by which individuals can relate to their role in the world. The Power of Myth, Joseph Campbell Things may have changed, but when I was a Boy Scout I had to, at twelve years of age, move up to the Explorer Scouts. I didn't want to, so I quit.  The point being that wtff?  Eleven-twelve year-old kids?  We are just getting pubic hair; we have no idea about "sexual preference." We like to see naked girls (and that included all the kids I knew who as adults became hairdressers, ahem). We are however highly suggestible.  When I read about syphilis at age 14, I was absolutely certain that I had it,  based on God only knows?  Toilet seat?  A steamy dream? I went to the movies with my family (Peyton Place) and was afraid  to put my hand in mom's popcorn box when offered for fear of contaminating the family.  The Boy Scouts capitulated then because the Liberal media infrastructure have portrayed them as hateful, venal MOFOs, for not formlly accepting homosexuality; denied them use of public lands, andtook their property.  Another tradition and ritual then have been destroyed by the same pricks who have all but destroyed this nation's cohesive fabric; our national identity.  What we really need from the BSA is  more of this .

ABC NEWS

Meet The Press                      Pope Francis' First Crisis? Defiant Archbishop Refuses to Quit “ ABC News, which for example, ignored the Pennsylvania trial  of Dr. Kermit Gosnel— the abortion doctor accused of performing late-term abortions on already delivered babies, killing one woman, but decides this is imprtant?  It's a mere piffle. What I take umbrage with is ABC's lede. “ The new pope's first crisis is not related to the Church's controversial position on contraceptives or proposals for female clergy. Rather, Pope Francis' first major quandary is getting rid of a Puerto Rican archbishop who, despite the Vatican's numerous requests, has repeatedly refused to step down. ” How are tenets of the Catholic church, unchanged for a millennium, controversial?  And to whom?   ”

Co-Ed Combat

Culture War Co-Ed Combat Problem #27

Berkeley Logic

Culture War                         News From the Front “ Terminal lance is a guy that got out of the Marines and now makes cartoons. He is featured in the military times. This one was funny. Well, they all are. Crass, what you would expect from a grunt. thoR~ (This is so spot-on!-RS) ”

Lorea Gandiaga- World Hero

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Psyco-babble

Must Eat Brains                      Trying to Identify the Next Far-Right Extremist Before He Shoots It’s easy to see the crazed race hatred of a violent white supremacist after the fact… but getting them before they kill is an imperfect science at best. Eliza Shapiro reports on the race to stop the next mass murderer before he strikes. (Ahem) God this was depressing. At first.  Ma Perkins sent it with this  notation:  "SOB was a skinhead, skinheads are socialists, as Nazi's are socialists. WTF?" 'Zactly.  Unlike at the New York Times, credit is given here for not using the words "Tea Party" or "Conservative."  However,  when you cater to the left (Daily Beast), and use "Far-Right Extremist," they're implied.  This study in Liberal psycho-babble does have a happy ending— Below, a handful of contiguous comments. “ Heywoodjablowme I have a better idea.  Since the only consistent features of government-run programs are their appalling failure, corruption and oppression, how about if we just allow an armed populace to defend itself EVERYWHERE instead of limiting the places where people who have been through a background check can carry concealed weapons? Ronin of rouen considering the last two were both lefties maybe an article telling us how to spot them would be more useful for anyone not planning a move to norway. Capn Who knew national socialists practicing selective progressive eugenics were "far right"? Darklord Any Elizabeth Warren fans out there?  Like, realy out there? ” .

I feel pretty, oh so pretty ...

Culture War                         News From the Front Openly gay athletes still scarce at Olympic Games “ Why Was This Story Written? Why did AP writer Jill Lawless write this article?  Is it that she's a lazy slug, looking for an easy story? Is she herself gay,  and trying to curry favor with a lesbian  Bulgarian weightlifter?   Does AP have a cultural victim story quota ?  There are more than 10,000 athletes competing at the London games, but when the gay website OutSports.com set out to count how many were openly gay, it came up with 23. "It's an absurdly low number," said site co-founder Jim Buzinski. He said that compared to the arts, politics or business worlds, "sports is still the final closet in society." Estimates of the percentage of gay people in any given population vary widely. In a 2010 survey by Britain's Office for National Statistics, 1.5 percent of respondents identified themselves as gay or bisexual, although many consider that an underestimate. This is where the story of Conrad Mickelbauer, the gay sprinter who clocked a 9:57 in the 100m, but denied a spot on the U.S. Olympic team because he was gay will be told. . *tap tap tap*  I'm  waiting. That's because there is no Conrad Mickelbauer excluded for gayness story.  "I am an archer, middle-aged and a lesbian," the 46-year-old South African archer Karen Hultzer told me— but said she looked forward to the day when her sexuality was not an issues. HELL-OH?   Maybe it's an issue only because gay website OutSports.com set out to count how many were openly gay?  So STFU.  ”

What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?

Culture War                                    News From the Front What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress? “ This one is parody The night before Susan and Rob allowed their son to go to preschool in a dress, they sent an e-mail to parents of his classmates. Alex, they wrote, “has been gender-fluid for as long as we can remember, and at the moment he is equally passionate about and identified with soccer players and princesses, superheroes and ballerinas (not to mention lava and unicorns, dinosaurs and glitter rainbows).” They explained that Alex had recently become inconsolable about his parents’ ban on wearing dresses beyond dress-up time. After consulting their pediatrician, a psychologist and parents of other gender- [blah blah fkng-blah] What's so bad about wanting to fondle the breasts of the girl who sits next to you in Math? What's so wrong about wanting to smear feces on your head to attract green flies, which shimmering  iridescence please you? What's so bad about wanting to put dog turds on your peanut butter sandwich? What's so bad about not wanting to say the Pledge of Allegiance? Nothing.  Unless you talk about those desires, or act on them, and are willing to accept the ridicule.   Because, laws aside,  it's abnormal  behavior;  unacceptable by social norms. Social norms are  necessary in any society; guidelines and silent agreements which allow lots of people to live together in some  harmony.    Accommodating people like Alex, and certainly Alex's parent, means imposing on everyone a requirement to accept their behavior as being perfectly normal, or face a political punishment.  We call this political correctness, and it's a cancer.   PC makes people want to throw other people who work for the New York Times down a volcano.  Someday, given the opportunity, they probably will. ”