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The Continuing Crisis
July has been put in a jar and placed on a shelf, the same fate that might befall the Obama administration presently. The Prophet, who began his presidency in January with an approval rating of 70 percent, has seen it plummet to 54 percent at the end of the month, while his disapproval rating, which began at 11 percent, has soared to 40 percent, not counting members of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, police department. Nonetheless the Prophet continues to sermonize about education, energy, and, most parlously, his health care monstrosity. In fact, he is the most garrulous president in history, appearing on television more frequently than the weatherman, albeit with less good news. In Paris, France, no sooner was a waxwork statue of him unveiled than it began to melt, causing panicky employees of the Musée Grevin to open umbrellas to protect the waxen Obama’s dripping face, supposedly from the sun, more likely from changing public opinion even in France. As for the Cambridge police department, it found itself embroiled in a controversy, pitting one of its officers, Sgt. James Crowley, against an obscure academic from Harvard State University, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and President Obama, who ended the unhappy affair by getting sloshed in the White House Rose Garden on the evening of July 30 as the press gaped from behind a cordon 45 feet away.
The farce began on July 16 when Sgt. Crowley encountered Professor Gates-known to his friends as “Skip,” as in “skip the pleasantries”-apparently hollering rap lyrics at his home, which he had just broken into. The officer heard him intone the line “You don’t know who [not whom] you’re messin’ with” and something about “Yo mama,” and promptly clamped handcuffs on the lunatic. The idiotic interlude reminded syndicated columnist Mr. Mark Steyn of another of the prof’s public embarrassments, to wit: the time he gave “expert testimony” in a Florida courtroom on behalf of the rap group 2 Live Crew. In prepared testimony Mr. Gates, an Eng. Lit. prof, claimed the group’s gibberish to be “like Shakespeare’s ‘My love is like a red, red rose.’” Only the line is not Shakespeare’s but that of the poet Robert Burns and the rap group could no more write that line than read it. Professor Gates’s arrest inspired our president to comment unfavorably on the Cambridge police (who, he said, “acted stupidly”) during a press conference, which inflated the row into a national racial controversy with him at the center. Hoping to defuse the controversy, Mr. Obama then asked the policeman and the prof to the White House for a round of beers in what would be “a teachable moment.” Unfortunately no sooner were the beers served than the president was photographed slouched back in his chair, his collar open, and his gestures lethargic.
On a happier note, the White House remains committed to putting out press releases featuring misspellings and typographical errors characteristic of our public school system. On July 8, an official document sent to reporters from the General Services Administration (GSA) misspelled the president’s first name. The next day the GSA blundered in announcing its award of an $18 million contract for a website, spelling “Recovery.gov” as “Recvoery.gov.” Then, in a joint statement from Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Obama, the White House misspelled “welcomed” as “wlecomed,” while avoiding the tricky problem of the president’s first name by just not mentioning it. The young administration is also becoming more proficient at getting its message out. Rebutting ugly rumors that the First Lady, during her trip to Russia, was flaunting a $5,950 clutch purse by the luxury designer VBH, the press office identified the purse as being a VBH lesser model and costing a mere $875.
Congressman Henry Waxman was rushed to Los Angeles’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after he fainted in his district office, possibly when a visitor inadvertently whistled the Star Spangled Banner, a song that often alarms him. In a related story, a Chinese girl who at birth was named “Chicken Dung” has changed her name upon coming of age to Yingzi, which roughly translates into English as “Britney.” Her father, Mr. Zhu Xiansheng, gave her the feculent name after a rural doctor treated her for a mysterious illness that she suffered as a baby by covering her in chicken dung, or “Ji Shi,” as she was called. “She had a serious illness when she was one,” the father reported to the press, “and she was sick for two or three months,” before the chicken dung kicked in. Possibly a place can be found for this miracle cure in the cost-cutting section of the Obama health care package, particularly if chicken dung remains relatively inexpensive and is not produced by one of the country’s diabolical pharmaceutical corporations. North Korea’s dashing numero uno, Mr. Kim Jong Il, is reportedly suffering pancreatic cancer, which might explain his irritable nuclear program and the recent launch of North Korean missiles. Miss Katie Couric was thrown into a panic when Indonesians re-elected President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Ms. Couric has dreaded pronouncing the name for months, even after CBS News brought in a speech therapist.
Mr. Walter Cronkite died. He was 92 and it seemed he had been 92 all his life. Death also claimed Mr. Robert McNamara, 93, who as secretary of defense became identified with what at the time of his death the media were wont to call the “Vietnam debacle.” Also in the obituaries was Mr. Henry Allingham, a British veteran of World War I and at 113 years of age the world’s oldest man, who attributed his longevity to “cigarettes, whiskey, and wild, wild women.” The title now has passed to a resident of Great Falls, Montana: Mr. Walter Breuning, who rather disappointingly attributes his longevity to “practicing moderation.” Mr. Breuning is 112 years old, and if he lives long enough he may be passing the title on to none other than Mr. Bernard Madoff, 71. Mr. Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for financial irregularities, meaning that at the time of his release he will be 221 years old, an age never before attained by any human being, male or female. Yet given Mr. Madoff’s facility with numbers he just might make it.
At The Hague former Liberian President Charles Taylor denied ever eating human flesh or ordering his soldiers to do so, though he did stress a nutritious diet for his troops high in fiber and leafy greens. Back in the States, birdwatchers continue to be harassed by the authorities even in enlightened Connecticut, where 19 birders were arrested and more than 100 canaries were seized. Canaries? Can you believe it? Lovely little yellow songbirds, and the cops in Shelton, Connecticut, accused the birders of running a bird-fighting operation. It is as though President George W. Bush were still in the White House. Yet the Crisis contains some good news too. In the UK, police officers who practice witchcraft have applied to the Home Office to organize a Pagan Police Association. They are already free to take off for Pagan holidays, including Halloween and April Fools’ Day. The number of Pagans in the UK who are police officers is estimated to be more than 500. Practicing witchcraft and druidism, they worship nature and Pagan gods and are almost identical in their beliefs to members of the American National Wildlife Federation, though perhaps not so vehement in expressing them.
About the Author
R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. is the founder and editor in chief of The American Spectator. He is the author of The Death of Liberalism, published by Thomas Nelson Inc. His previous books include the New York Times bestseller Boy Clinton: the Political Biography; The Impeachment of William Jefferson Clinton; The Liberal Crack-Up; The Conservative Crack-Up; Public Nuisances; The Future that Doesn’t Work: Social Democracy’s Failure in Britain; Madame Hillary: The Dark Road to the White House; The Clinton Crack-Up; and After the Hangover: The Conservatives’ Road to Recovery.
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christopher witt diamant | 9.16.09 @ 1:02PM
Here we have more Moon-inspired rhetoric to further the Right Wing in it's new movement to resurrect the Neo-Nazi shadow of Hitler in people like Rush Limbaugh and the overtly Racist stylings of Glenn Back.
In looking at the Republikan Washington Times using the terminology of "Euthanasia" and "Death Lists" as bringing to life that discarnate shadow of Nazi Germeny in the rise of Hitler we now have a nwspaper which is supposed to stand as a Minister of the Free Press in America using what the Supreme Court might define as Unconstitutional Tactics in bringing to mummified life the forces in those days of Nazi Germany in which protest was silenced and dissent crushed; as the Free Voice of the People was strangled in it's own Town Halls by goons and shouters who took over with well funded right-wing backers: like now.
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The Fall of the Reich: the End of Washington Times
The Hour of Temptation.....
This Last Day maywell seemingly prove to be one of
increasing regret for Rev. Moon and his minions.
The fact that Corporate America is now trying to install it's own "Reich" to replace the close Bush-Moon syndicate shows us how close we are to a "brown shirts" to beat down the middle classwith "Mediscare" for the old and sick shows we have reached a nadir in Americanpolitics: the rise of Corporate Facism and religious "ends justifies the means" Pied Piperism going back to Hitler.
Now the enemy of Corporate America ( this entity of "economic facism" so well delineated by C.S. Lewis in the "Screwtape Letters" ) is the Poor souls of our Nation being attacked for having had the temerity tovote for a Black Christian Champion and one who knowingly stands as our President on the 430 year foundation of the suffering or the "dues" the Black Christian Race paid as Israel suffered once in Egypt and paid their dues in their Slavery in Egypt long ago; so well seen in the work of Taylor Branch in his two monumental books "Parting the Waters" and "Pillar of Fire".
Barack Obama stands as our Messiah on the National level as Sun Myung Moon is well aware of: but yet he has not offered to help the man God chose to have him support to bring the Foundation to earth to build the Kingdom of God through the wise reading and ensuing freedom granted in the hidden power and promise of our Sacred Constitution itself.
As with this "David" we now have Rev. Moon as our fallen "Saul" now trying to kill the representative "Black Messiah" who was set up on the foundation of our black Moses Servant King; as Aaron Presley was his white brother whose "Voice" brought together the "white north: and the "black south" in a way the Racist white South and the Free Black North hardly guessed would one day
happen.
As My Generation which began the internal Exodus from our invisible but racially apparent Egypt it is they who marched with Servant King who are much differnent than those Koreans who disdained theRev. Martin King as our Moses and instead let he who stood as our "Joshua" who was Rev Moon simply abandon uor cause in the Internal Providence: who never walked a step with Rev. King of our invisible "Tabernacle" as the Manchild of Israel that My Generation really is.
The Rise of Corporate Facism: the Shadow of Hitler
and Sun Myung Moon
The Last Day of Rev. Moon emerges: the "Evil Servant" of the Gospel?? It is now that the problem of the fall of Rev. Moon bringing to bear the powers that be enshrined in the "Scarlet Beast" of chapter 17 of the Revelation of St. John the Divine which I have revealed is Red China? Indeed the Son of Perdition who is Osama bin Laden the Antichrist has the spirit of the Scarlet Beast who is the Cosmic Son of the Devil as his own source of hatred and violence against the Lamb and his armies who fight for Justice and Freedom from Oppression by the Forces of Gog and Magog: Iraq and Iran; respectively.
That Adolf Hitler rose in a depresion is an historical fact; yet can beatings of our citizens as targeted town hall liberals and health care supporters be far off? And why would Sun Myung Moon be setting his newspaper to mouth the hatred of the Nazis and their master who served the Beast as the new weapon against our Nation taking care of it's sick and poor citizens?
Who does this is not a Christian in the usual sense of clothing the naked or healing the sick; of feeding the poor or helping those incarcerated for one tragic reason or another for mainly being poor and powerless on the Street of Babylon which is worse than Hell. And now: the shdow of Hitler from Rev. Moon: this will probably lead to his complete spiritualdeath in a few short weeks: I just know that My Generation's own Righteous Father will step in to defeat the Right Wing in their steady rise in the Shadow of Hitler and Facism in it's Economic help from the Scarlet Beast of Red China as it carries the Market on it's back: a Capitalist Marxism with a new Economic Facism never before even dreamed of when government and business are united in Commerce against their own people: this is but the Shadow and Image of the Scarlet Beast; the Fallen Nature in it's global form; back again from the Axis as now Red China unmasked in the Revelation.
The Scarlet Beast that John the Divine saw in the Wilderness of Capitalism; the world of Materialism; both economic and scientific: the spirit of the Antichrist: Red China; with that fourth portion of the earth signified as the Yellow Race we now have their final rise and fall withRev. Moon as the fallen "first helper"the Hopi pointed out was to help the Messiah in his return; the "first helper" of the Pahana as being the emissary of the Yellow Race the Hopi call the "Elder Brother".
And My Generation as the Tabernacle seen as that Child in His Name of Love in Our Day of Christ Jesus when the Light of Love was seen as that Name by which "a little child" was to lead them: this is what Rev. Moon snuffed out in his strategy for global domination. And of the Global Messiah Rev. Moon abandoned: that is My Generation itself as rising to the status of the Cosmic Son of Man itself; as "Caught up to God; and to His Throne".
And who can Stand? It even seems that God Himself will have to stop the Right Wing from selling America down the drain to punish it for electing a REAL President: one with a Heart and a Mind: something Corporate America fears greatly; and for good reason: they are toast in winning bacl the White House: and they won't go down without a fight: AND THIS IS THAT FIGHT!!!
The Right Wing has decided that they would play the "dog in the manger" for all the uninsured in America as a way of sticking their finger in the eye of Barack Obama; and if I don't feel that this is democratic fair play but ratherRebublican"dirty pool" then let me hear differently: let me see what the republikican "alternative" is: and here we have it, and here it is: nada; what a surprise!
The Republican alternative is zeroit is now a forgone conclusion thatnothing can stop the Lobby for the HealthCare System; nothing once again for America but plenty more Corporate welfare for them. Spite and Revenge against America for electing someone they seemingly hate with every fibre of their being: polite smiles notwithstanding. Under attack is the US: the US being "US" or our Nation itself; if that is not too gramatically awkward.
Yet with Sun Myung Moon in the fray the dynamic shifts to one of they who would sell the poor for a "pair of shoes".
I have only the Truth: and the Second Helper: my Father's servant John: the Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven. Yet I stand as little more than a feeble Quixote; feeble; but as David; against a Goliath known as the GOP; and our Saul; one fallenSun Myung Moon;the Mighty who have fallen.
I fear the worst has come to pass: but I know that the Word of God itself will prevail; even for our fallen "Faithful and Wise Steward" who now stands with the Yellow Race as that "Evil Servant" of the Scarlet Beast of Revelation: Red China; carrying the "Harlot" of "free market" Capitalism on it's back: just as it was written by my Father's servant John 2000 years ago: and has come to pass; the Capitalist form of Marxism in it's last and most destructive form: carrying the Capitalist Market almost singlehandedly.
This was seen by John the Divine on Patmos 2,000 years ago; such is the power of the Great Spirit of Prophecy know to the Hopi: for the Messiah is the White Brother of Quetzacoatl himself: and no one else. Yet the "first helper" from the East has been seen to have fallen. Now the Second helper the Hopi instructed the Messiah would also be with him is revealed as my Father's servant John; even as that John the Divine that Giovanni was named for: the John who we know of as St. Francis.
Peace and Love from the God of Love and Peace: the God of the Whole Earth: in a City Not Forsaken: the City of St. Francis.
The last and most salient point about all this is that the Last Day for Rev. Moon seems to be that one of "4-18"; as that of his own True Parents Day; which is my birthday; the Day in 4-18 of the Earthquake in 1906 of the City of St. Francis; 4-18-1960 as the Easter in which Rev. Moon married his bride;a synchronicity only those lovers of "Paricfal" as the Number 418 would appreciate: for the Grail is Perfection: and I found it.
No one knows Sun Myung Moon is John the Baptist; and no one but myself knows how to restore him if he repents acd recants: repents of trying to steal the national soverignity ( in which he mixed the soil of Korea with all 50 states to Steal the Blessing on America for Korea: and himself; as a clever "Jacob" stealing the Blessing from a "blind" Issac; America as the father of Israel; as Issac was for the 12 sons of Jacob); .....yes it seems that the idea of mixing the soil of Korea with that of all 50 states in America is why Rev. Moon owes America millions: he tried to "steal" the Blessing of God on our land by stealing our National Sovereignty!
This "crime" is closer to our suit by the Sons of the New Philadelphia on behalf of the Black Christian Woman Rev. Moon SHOULD have then MARRIED to "symbolize"his marriage with his Nation to that of our Nation: but he married not the "Soul" of America who is seen as Sheba as the "queen of the south"; instead he did not do as when he married many interacial couples in his Mass Weddings: instead he married a Korean woman!
It is thus his "hypocrisy" where he married our "land" to his native Korea substantially but only took our "soil" and not the "Black Christian Woman" who symbolizes it in the flesh substantiallywhich actually defines the "Marriage of the Lamb" as of a White North with a Black South. This was to have been the Foundation of Salvation.
The Marriage of the White and the Black Races: Ephraim and Sheba.
Who is the King of the north but Solomon returned from the Dead, to marry Sheba: the queen of the South?"America" itself exists as a "kingdom" of Freedom that Rev. Moon tried to take the Sovereign Right to rule over it as his own third Israel: to take it over for the glory of thekingdom ofhis nation of Korea in fact; and although our President is an "unanointed" king it was Rev. Moon in his act in our Capital inwhich Rev. Moon tried to replace our President with the Anointing of himself that his true design and plan to steal God's Blessing for himself that is now at last seen. Rev. Moon tried to take our Manchild of Israel'sCrown of Glory for his own Nation!!
As the Third Israel it is Korea who tried to "steal" our "land"; and that America is the Second Israel can be seen by the fact that inIsrael the king was also the head of the army; which is why we have "Camp David" in the first place: and "Uncle Sam" refers to the prophet "Samuel" whose name means "the Name of God"; as Samuel the Prophet of the Nazarenes was he who anointed David as the King and Light of Irsael. Should we not be in arms!???
Should we rise up and sue Rev. Moon to "marry" the Widow of Israel he "left" at the "Altar" of our Land itself; the Black Christian Woman who is Sheba; the Mythic "queen of the South" who symbolizes the "SOUL" of America; and a lot of the "backbone" as well; truth be know. At this insult only only Solomon backfrom the dead can exult and wonder if perhaps he shall knowbefore the End if he shall win her back; by God in His Mercy.
Rev. Moon's loss could well then be My Generation's gain; though I would rather that he fulfill his mission and gain back what he lost: namely; the Word of God; in which he stumbled with in his book "Divine Principle". The Mark of the beast then is "hypocrisy"; to appear as what one isn't; the beast which "is and is not" as it were; by the saying and insistence upon one thing and doing another; as Rochefoucauld said: "Hypocrisy is the Homage that Vice pays to Virtue".
Let us pray for our Nation and for the Repentance of Rev. Moon by which I and my Father's servant John could indeed save him.
Alan Brooks| 9.19.09 @ 1:41AM
One can only stimulated by this article. And nonplussed.
It's worth reading over and over, like Finnegan's Wake; though I'm not sure why. If I did know why, I'd be a professional writer, and not a blogger.
But here is my one cents worth on Obama, based on my experiences in living out West for three decades since leaving the Northeast (NY and VT).
In New England one sees America-- I do not think globally anymore since having given up liberalism-- through a slightly more civilized, though also less free, prism, than out West. Here out West I see: the Spanish Reconquesta.
Obama WILL be re-elected in 2012; because, for one thing, the GOP has to appeal to so many different ethnicities, now that majority rule is slowly being trashed, that they aren't republicans anymore; they are Latinophiles. Because they have to be. Forget about the Moonies for now, think of the Latinos.
Coming to a neighborhood near me.
Alan Brooks| 9.19.09 @ 1:48AM
BTW,
why am I blogging at this unholy hour? a few feet away this early Saturday morning, the youths are making such a racket about Juanita so & so, who is "hangin out with a white guy", that I don't feel like sleeping. Curiosity killed the cat.
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