Nutshell #1

Last Song Heard on mp3 player: Mean Town Blues - Johnny Winter
Currently Reading: Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

A good friend of mine from pulseHEAD created what he called a "nutshell" post: a post where he doesn't have any one thing to talk about, but a nugget or two that he wants to comment on.

I'll probably be doing that a lot.

So, Christian Nationalism. A dangerous little group.

Let me say here, that, although I really enjoy a good conspiracy, and I am gullible to an astonishing degree, I don't really think that any of the strange things I write about will happen, or will have any great effect on the world.

Christian Nationalism is not Christianity, it is a political movement. Its goals, as stated by George Grant in his book "Changing of the Guard":

"Christians have an obligation, a mandate, a commission, a holy responsibility to reclaim the land for Jesus Christ -- to have dominion in civil structures, just as in every other aspect of life and godliness.

But it is dominion we are after. Not just a voice.

It is dominion we are after. Not just influence.

It is dominion we are after. Not just equal time.

It is dominion we are after.

World conquest. That's what Christ has commissioned us to accomplish."

These people really believe that our forefathers were devout Christians and never intended to create a secular republic. The separation of church and state, in their opinion, is some cruel twisting of history.

I dunno. When religion infiltrates the state, the state becomes the religion. Crazy.

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The folks over at Crime Scene KC had this one today. Should schools have the right to strip-search students?

How about, uh, no? Are they kidding?

In a case regarding a female student who was accused of possessing prescription-strength ibuprofen, a nefarious drug to be sure, the school district had this to say (from CNN.com):

... requiring a legal standard of "probable cause" to conduct student searches would cast a "roadblock to the kind of swift and effective response that is too often needed to protect the very safety of students, particularly from the threats posed by drugs and weapons."

What can I add to that? Police require search warrants, but not school administrators.

That makes sense. Because they are keeping our children safe.

This goes to our national need to absolutely elliminate all possible dangers before they manifest themselves.

I'm sorry, but in my opinion, in order to maintain the moral high ground sometimes you have to let the other guy strike first. Then you are within your rights to react.

Of course, the false flag operation is a time-honored method of making it look like the other guy struck first...

Good thing I'm not in charge.

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Let's finish with a nice quote:

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." -- Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss