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RANTS! & Raves! 12.19
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We’re staying in today.
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I recently came across a brilliantly written pamphlet by David Horowitz that I recommend to anyone for enlightenment about the politics of Barack Obama and his administration. It is titled, ”Barack Obama’s Rules For Revolution, The Alinsky Model.” You can obtain a copy here at his Freedom Center web site. Click on the “Bookstore” page, where you can order one for $3. Or, you can help your country by ordering them for $1 each in quantities of 25 or more, and then distribute them among your friends and acquaintances.
If you really want to understand the politics of Obama and his radical cabal, this pamphlet is a “must read.” He has been successful so far, precisely because most Americans are ignorant about his goals and methods that come right out of Alinsky’s playbook.
In the first section of the pamphlet, Alinsky and Obama, Horowitz gives us some background on Alinsky and how Obama has come to embrace his radical politics. You will discover how the smooth talking Obama is the near perfect match for Alinsky’s deceitful methodology.
In his early Chicago days, Alinsky was a personal friend of Frank Nitti, the mob enforcer for the infamous Al Capone gang. Later Alinsky said, “[Nitti] took me under his wing. I called him the Professor and I became his student.” Combine Nitti’s influence with Alinsky’s affection for Marx and Lenin and you have a really poisonous mixture.
This is what Obama brings to the table, having absorbed it all himself during his days with the largest radical organization in America, “The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now” (ACORN). ACORN was founded by Wade Rathke, who also organized draft resistors for the violent “Students For a Democratic Society” (SDS) while a student at Williams College in Massachusetts from 1966 to 1968. Rathke built ACORN on the Alinsky model of community organizing and Obama jumped in with both feet. He became one of Rathke’s top trainers at ACORN’s Chicago conferences and in 1995 he moved up in the organization to become ACORN’s attorney. In 1996 Obama listed ACORN as a key supporter for his Illinois Senate campaign. Then, in June 2008 Rathke was forced to resign after it was discovered that, for eight years, he had concealed a nearly $1 million embezzlement by his brother, from an ACORN affiliate of which he was the CEO. Working with Alinsky disciples like this, it is not hard to see where Obama gets his “redistribute the wealth” philosophy.
Another interesting insight into the thinking of Alinsky comes from the opening pages of his book wherein he praises Lucifer as the first and most effective rebel:
Alinsky then goes on to explain what a successful, Lucifer style radical is like. More about that later.
So, there is much more to Barack Obama and his admiration for Saul Alinsky than meets the eye. Having come out of the radical camp himself, David Horowitz gives us information from a unique and knowledgeable perspective. He was a member of the radical left, working with the Black Panthers, in the 60s and early 70s. However, his close friend, Beverly Van Patter, a bookkeeper for the Panthers, was murdered in Dec 1974, allegedly by the Panthers to keep her quiet about their financial corruption—so much for working with the disciples of Lucifer. After that sobering experience with the radical left, Horowitz began his journey into conservatism. He obviously knows what he is talking about, having a depth of personal knowledge and tragic experience that should catch the attention of all of us.
On election eve in 2008 Obama said, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Very few people really understood what he meant by that since his campaign had been so heavy on “change,” but very light on the details. Since the election, “many Americans have gone from hopefulness, through unease, to a state of alarm as the President shows a radical side that was only partially visible during his campaign.”
So, get a copy of “Barack Obama’s Rules For Revolution, The Alinsky Model” and you will learn a lot about our new President and how he intends to radically transform our country using Alinsky’s goals and methods.
In subsequent posts, I will write more about the disturbing information that Horowitz brings to light.
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MM–that was quite the rant
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Adios, I remember people saying that. I thought it sounded familiar when I typed it.
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Adios: Now, apparently, if the slip showes it’s supposed to. (sic)
If there even is a slip under the skirt. I get tired of having to turn away from an obviously see through skirt with no slip underneath.
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Twelve hours at Disneyland yesterday with four teenage girls, our grad student son, and my cheerful husband.
80,000 people at Disneyland last night–they closed the park. We, however, got there at 8 am and had hit all the major roller coasters by 10:15.
I tried to figure out what draws people(as a jaded native of L.A., I’ve been to Disneyland too many times to count). It’s clean, orderly, cheerful and the employees want you to enjoy yourself–they all were very accomodating. And nothing smells–I’d enter large waiting areas and try to detect a smell, any smell. Sensory neutral–which was pretty amazing given the number of people there with me!
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When sorrows like sea billows roll;
Whatever my lot, Thou has taught me to say,
It is well, it is well, with my soul.
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Hey, Donna, I thought about you last night when we got off the Artesia freeway for the Harbor freeway jag to catch the 405 north to Santa Monica. With the southbay spread before us, both my husband and I sighed we weren’t really heading home to the peninsula.
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Michelle,
I know that spot well. Don’t you love So Cal?
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Ah, our beloved tangle of freeways, under-over and around they go.
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Jillanne @12: The fragrance of baking cookies and the sound of favorite hymns- “it is well with my soul!”
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Meanwhile, we can see plenty of the real stuff on the mountains to the north. Gorgeous (while those of us in the coastal lowlands bask in our sunny weather once again after last week’s rains).
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Cherly D: I can empathize with your brother. It will take some time for the ache to wear off.
God give him peace.
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Pauline: Would you contact me at; roger.patno@hotmail.com.
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Chas told me to be quiet. In a very stern voice. He thought I was revealing top secret information but I was really trying to get answers to important questions.
The kids are working on the chilled and rolled cookies. My work is not done as official taste tester.
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Mumsee, I repented in sackcloth and ashes, but I answered your question. Not only that, but I’ve vowed not to leave the house today.
Nobody has been by our house all day, not the paper person nor postperson.
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Yes, Chas, you did. And therein is the concern. Is somebody going to step foreward and begin dictating how much of our air can be used for books? How about for electricity? How about for breathing. Oh, wait, they already have folks in those positions.
Daughter is here and getting the place decorated with the kids’ help. Hubby is here and snoring in his chair. Son is driving down but may have the flu. He has been traveling a bit so could have found it anywhwere.
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Looking around the room: there is one person typing to you all, one person writing out Christmas cards, one lying on the floor sleeping, a three year old and a 55 year old sleeping on the recliner, a 26 year old sleeping on the other recliner, a one year old sleeping in his playpen, and four children outside doing chores. It is a joyous peaceful time of year.
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Mumsee, sounds precious. Here there’s one person typing, and a dog (inside!) sleeping. No Christmas decorations anywhere, but plenty of Christmas cookies, and a few last Christmas letters waiting for addresses. And dishes needing to be washed. . . .
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Call this a rant
Word from daughter and son-in-law is that they are trapped on the WV Turnpike. Snowed in, it seems, at least until morning. And miles to go before Michigan and the parents.
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KBells, glad you’re having such a fun time, despite the iron of getting snow where you live as you’re traveling to be in more snow.
A co-worker on her way back to the east coast posted on Facebook that she’s now stranded in Charlotte, NC. Her baggage, however, seems to have moved on to some other destination without her.
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“irony” it should have read above.
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My first reaction to Harris’s #32 was that they shouldn’t be out in that. But I instantly remembered when I was that age. We did the same thing.
I remember driving through Richmond in a blizzard, having left Annandale. Traffic was tied up on the Petersburg TPk, which was the only road through Richmond at the time.
Another time, we went through it, and drove into Honey’s, a restaurant in Durham, with about four inches of snow on the roof and hood of my ‘66 Plymouth. People stared. But I think it was partly because Elvera was so pretty.
Harris’ kids will be ok, let us know. Sun’s out now,and it’s 35 degrees.
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I just heard the First Presbyterian Church on the radio. Bill Campbell preaches a good sermon. I thought I was listening to a Baptist.
Not really.
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The mommies and Random Granddaughter are coming to visit. Will she be able to participate in a family meal without being a drama queen? She will help fix pizza, (a traditional Christmas dish), so perhaps she will and she will visit the neighbors’ chickens and pet them.
My wife is obsessing about the house being perfect for the visit.
My computer is infested with spyware.
My blood pressure and insulin level is pretty good. Looks like I will live to the age of 66 and be able to post heretical comments for disrespectful Christians for a little longer.
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Up the Shenandoah (I-81) to the Penn Turnpike.
West to Knoxville then N
Or up 77.
They were hoping to catch up with their InterVarsity staff worker at Michigan before heading our direction. Ah, Schedules. Thanks Chas for your prayers .
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Roger’s people are in S.C.
KBells is in balmy Colorado while we freeze in N.C.
It’s good to know everyone is where he’s supposed to be.
Random, I know what you mean. Before our family get-together, Elvera has me helping make everything just right. As I said, she is not a relaxed hostess.
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Random, the Kid is such a drama king that one of his nicknames is “Shatner”. (you kind of have to be a nerd to get that)
Chas, they are complaining about a lack of snow out here, but it is plenty for us.
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Kbells – “Shatner”. That’s cute.
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I call myself a “recovering perfectionist”. To continue being a perfectionist only results in great frustration for me & those around me. Especially since my husband & younger daughter are ADDers, & ADDers tend to be messy & unorganized, & like their stuff to be spread out all over. So it was either try to deal with it or go crazy.
God has helped me learn to tell when “good enough” is really good enough, & let the rest go.
I can still get a bit uptight at times, & I still do a “real good” job of cleaning & such, but I can let things go & relax much better than ever before.
I feel sorry for Mrs. Random & Elvera cuz I know how it feels.
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I would love to curl up on the couch right about now, but still need to get the dogs out. Poor babies really were pushed to the sidelines around here during this past week.
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#48
I think this is the Pascal’s Wager comment for this weekend.
When I die, I will cease to exist.
If I don’t “get my soul right with my Maker,” what?
Will I roast or chill in eternal punishment?
Lot of problems with that belief system, starting with the lack of any evidence for existence after our death.
Then we get to the different religious beliefs. Starting with Christianity, you have Catholic, Orthodox, and the many flavors of Protestant. Are they all really just the same to boot and it doesn’t matter which one I choose? And then there are the weirdos (well, it’s all relative) such as the Mormons and the Jehovas Witnesses, and the 7th Day Adventists.
Now, I’m sure you are sure no one should pay any attention to the Muslims, and the Hindus, and the Buddhists, and my ancestors were Jews, and not all of them came along for the change.
And that only scratches the surface. There are lots and lots of other religious beliefs, some old and some new. And millions and millions of adherents. Sad to think all those souls burning in Hell. Or perhaps they are just obliterated, as a few people here (should I call them the “wets” a la Maggie Thatcher) think.
I think this is where I came in. There’s no there, there.
Unfortunately, for conservative Christians it’s not enough to think, “Yeah, yeah! I will live in Heaven and you won’t.”
You also seem to think you have some special insight on how society should be run.
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C JOY: We never get bored hearing of blessings.
Well, most of us don’t.
God bless you more and more at this special time of the year.
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Roger it was nice that they could stop and visit and rest. SC is a good point between Vermont and Florida. In this case, between Roanoke and Fl. But they needed it.
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No need to worry about all the ‘flavors’ out there – just try the Bible. By the way, I met a man who died before, and was brought back to life many hours later (and the morgue worker almost died of fright). He certainly didn’t cease to exist, and Hades was no fun at all. He got saved when he was sent back.
My grandfather also died in the hospital, and saw the operating room, the nurse who was praying for him, the hospital, the city, etc as he was leaving, but then he was revived. The nurse was so thrilled she asked him to give a testimony of how God saved him, but he refused, and seemed to really go downhill spiritually after that. He was even more anti-God than Random. but I loved him anyway. The hour of his final death, I was on the other side of the world, but I really felt the nudging of the Holy Spirit to pray for him, so I did, and I hope he found a place for repentance. I was shocked when they called me a day later to tell me he died at the exact time I’d been praying for him.
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