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Prayer For A Gay Rabbi

Posted on | December 1, 2014 | 36 Comments

by Smitty

In reference to this:

Not only is gay marriage now the law for over two-thirds of Americans while the value of marriage in general has been declining for decades; not only are television, film, music, and video games more vulgar than we could have imagined in 1980; but more Americans are declaring themselves “Nones,” that is, people of no religious affiliation, than ever before in our history. Sure, some churches are expanding, but overall, your way of life is in steep decline. In short, you are losing horribly.

Almighty God,

Your might and love are expressed from the breadth of Creation, through your written Word to that Creation, and through the Messiah you sent to reconcile that fallen Creation to Yourself.

You’ve created mankind in your image, with full liberty both to glorify you, or to choose to glorify the flesh. It can seem a party, albeit briefly, the hedonism. But we know that you Justice tends to blast the mockery, past an unspecified point of foolishness.

Lord, I lift up Jay Michaelson, whom I don’t know, but seems confused on some issues. Please, Lord, help him to take a clear look at your Word in faith, and not through the fleshly conceits of the Adversary, who seeks to make the unspeakable into a normal and accepted practice. How much of the history of the Israelites must we examine to see that, when decadence and foolishness reign, You bring in a foreign conqueror to calibrate the wayward?

Lord, help Jay Michaelson to understand the Messiah you sent, and to understand that, from an Evanglical perspective, Your children “are losing horribly” every time we, the branches, operate outside the scope of the vine. We are always “losing horribly” at Satan’s games, when we follow the Gospel as written.  The Messiah is the vine, Evangelicals are the branches, and politics is something happening down in the humus, awash with insects, politicians, worms, lobbyists, an vermin (but I repeat myself).

Lord, help Jay Michaelson to understand that, far from causing dismay in any actual Evangelicals, he’s instead written a piece somewhere between cautionary and unintentionally hilarious. He appears to know as much about You as he knows about Evangelicals as he knows about the proper use of the wedding tackle.

Help Jay, Lord. And help Evangelicals to cleave to your Word with even greater fidelity, for all it looks like “losing horribly”, to pagan eyes.

In Jesus’s name, Amen.

—

via Hot Air

Category: Culture

LIVE AT FIVESIX: 12.01.14

Posted on | December 1, 2014 | 5 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Obama To Meddle Further In Ferguson Mess

Thug parents of a dead thug

Cabinet meeting will review DoD programs that provide military equipment to police
No severance pay for Officer Wilson after resignation
STL Police Officer Association condemns Rams players’ gesture

Pope Francis Calls On Muslim Leaders To Condemn Terrorism
But also condemns anti-Islamic sentiments

Hong Kong Warns Protesters Not To Return After Clashes Close Government Offices
Thousands of pro-democracy protesters clash with police, force closure of offices and shops in Admiralty House district



POLITICS
Congress Returns With Budget, Immigration, And ISIS Topping The To-Do List

Working to avoid a shutdown

Temporary spending bill likely to cut funds for Obama’s immigration actions, EPA

Deval Patrick: Not Running For President In 2016


Supremes Weigh Limits Of Free Speech On Internet: When is A Threat Just Venting?

Hundreds Turn Out For Traficant Memorial Service

Incoming Senators Talk Compromise On Jobs, Immigration

Obamacare Small Business Site Opens To Weak Interest

Giuliani Stands Firm: Black Communities Must Do More To End Violence, Mistrust



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Asian Crude Plunges As OPEC Refuses To Cut Production: WTI $64.60, Brent $68.31
Cyber Monday Deals Lasting All Week
Russian Manufacturing Growth In Nov. Most Since October 2013
Amazon’s New Robot Army Is Ready To Ship
Girl Scout Cookie Online Sales Okayed
PNC Reveals Cost Of “Twelve Days Of Christmas” Gifts In Today’s Economy
Roku? Chromecast? Fire TV? Which Streaming Stick Is Right For You?
Next Google Glasses Tipped To Run On Intel Chips
Sony Hires Mandiant Afer Cyber Attack As FBI Begins Probe
Google Unseats Apple In The Classroom As Chromebooks Edge Out iPads
Study: Social Media Misused By Researchers
Super Smash Bros: Game Of The Year?



SPORTS
Pack Beats Pats In Potential Preview Of Super Bowl

Aaron Rodgers shakes hands with Tom Brady after the game

Green Bay defense seals 26-21 win with late sack


Alabama #1 In AP Poll After Iron Bowl Win #rolltide

Calgary Stampeders Finally Win CFL’s Grey Cup, 20-16


NASCAR Fines Ricky Stenhouse Crew $50,000

Grizzlies Top Kings For Fifth Straight Win

Rams Rout Raiders 52-0

Bryant Leads Lakers Past Raptors In OT

49ers Harbaugh On Trading Block?

Bulls Sink Nyets

Are The Nationals Headed To A Grievance Hearing With Bryce Harper?



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Snooki Got Married

“It’s not that hard to plan a wedding.”

Ms. Polizzi married father of her two kids Jionni La Valle on Saturday at Gatsby-themed wedding


Mel B: “I Do Have A Big Ego, And I’m In Love With Myself”

Kendall Jenner Reads Hateful Comments About Herself In “Mean Girls”-Inspired Burn Book

Idina Menzel: “Frozen” Sequel In The Works?

Janay Rice, In Her Own Words


Jake Gyllenhaal’s Startling “Southpaw” Makeover

“Mockingjay” Easily Wins Thanksgiving Box Office With $82.7 Million

Homeless Man “Took A Dive” In Mickey Rourke Bout

Sources: Joan Rivers’ Doctors Delayed CPR As She Lay Dying

Christian Bale Tells George Clooney To “Stop Whining”

Cuba Gooding Jr. Stays Out Of Restaurant Fight

Angelina Jolie’s “Unbroken” Is The Talk Of The Town

James Toback Recalls Watching Dance Icon Fight For Taxi – Literally

Susan Boyle Lands First Boyfriend

Scarlet Johansson Weds In Secret Ceremony

Palm Beach Becoming Thanksgiving’s Social Hot Spot?



FOREIGNERS
Boko Haram Attacks Nigerian State Capital
Suicide Attack At Afghan Funeral Kills Nine
Nigeria’s Economy Hurt As US Oil Exports Dry Up
Former President Vazquez Wins Uruguay Runoff Election
Germany Publishes Video Of Turkish Girl Who Died Fighting Molesters
Netanyahu To Decide Soon On Early Election
Iraq Graft Probe Finds 50,000 “Ghost Troops”
Poroshenko Promises European Path For Ukraine
Marxist FARC Rebels Release Captured Colombian General
Japanese Opposition Caught Off-Guard As Abe Calls Snap Elections



BLOGS & STUFF
American Power: CNN Pushed Bald-Faced Lies To Preserve Ferguson “Peaceful Protest” Narrative
American Thinker: Enough With The Ferguson Pandering
BLACKFIVE: Free Fire Zone – China Hacks Our Power Grid
Conservatives4Palin: Dems Still In Deep Denial Over Midterm Losses
Don Surber: Caveman Liberalism
Jammie Wearing Fools: Loathsome Protesters Crash Seattle Christmas Tree Lighting, Make Children Cry
Joe For America: Leftist Jihad Meets Islamic Jihad In America
JustOneMinute: A Classic Moment In Punditry
Pamela Geller: Popular Imam Omar Bakri Mohammed Preaches Killing Women And Girls On Facebook
Protein Wisdom: The $6.8 Trillion Keynesian Bubble In China
Shot In The Dark: North Dakota’s Greatest Sailor
STUMP: Public Pensions Teaser – A Taste Of Things To Come
The Gateway Pundit: St. Louis Teens Beat Bosnian Driver To Death With Hammers
The Jawa Report: Sandcrawler PSA – Shut Up Kid!
The Lonely Conservative: Obamacare Encourages Employers To Hire Immigrants Instead Of Americans
This Ain’t Hell: Air Force Can’t Walk And Chew Gum
Weasel Zippers: Atheist Group Blocks Food Donations From Children To Needy
Megan McArdle: Is Best Buy Back?


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Category: Live at Five

Rule 5 Sunday: Thanksgiving Tryptophan Coma Edition

Posted on | November 30, 2014 | 16 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Miss Alabama 2012, Katherine Webb
#rolltide

Between the ongoing Sex Trouble slog (which is starting to bear a strong resemblance to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia) and the Crimson Tide’s big comeback in the Iron Bowl Saturday (which is why I posed AJ McCarron’s main squeeze), it may be a while before we hear from Stacy again. Smitty and I will do our best to provide an erratic but daily flow of content – and speaking of which, I have just enough gas in the tank after a weekend in the Shenandoah to get this here Rule 5 post done. As usual, exercise discretion in clicking the links, because some of the pictures linked are most definitely NSFW.

Goodstuff leads off this week with everything you always wanted to know about Catwoman but were afraid to ask. Ninety Miles from Tyranny has Girls with Guns, Hot Pick of the Late Night, and Morning Mistress; Loose Endz submits Denise Crosby in one of the worst ST: Next Generation episodes ever, Animal Magnetism chips in with Rule 5 Friday and the Saturday Gingermageddon, and Brian Noggle spices up a review of Tiger at the Gates with some of the actresses who were in the stage version of this Trojan War novel. As usual, First Street Journal has a different spin on Rule 5 and this week is all about American girls in uniform. Also, Average Bubba sent Rule 5 Friday: Hannah Ferguson Edition.

This week, EBL’s herd includes Sea Gals (not actually present at the 49ers’ humiliation), Interstellar Rule 5, Kendall Jenner, and Hollywood Vintage Christmas.

Soylent Siberia found the coffee creamer this week, as well as Overnighty Diamonds, Monday Motivationer Jazmin, Evening Awesome Boots, Tuesday Titillation Twofer With Fur, Perils of Pygmalion, Humpday Hawtness Leona Rajacic, Overnighty Roxana, Soylent Thanksgiving, Evening Encore Leona, Corset Friday: Lascivious Lingerie, T-GIF Friday WeekEnder Foreplay: The Rockettes, Weekender Minion Submission: Clambake Buffet, and Bath Night A La Bond.

A View from the Beach submits Lily Aldridge and the Gap, Three Cups a Day Keeps Dementia Away, Happy Thanksgiving!, Nice Rack!, “I’m Only Happy When it Rains!”, Another Moment of Desperation, I Don’t Care What They Do, As Long As They Don’t Scare the Horses, “Wade in the Water”, Redskins Attack Gold Miners, and Celebrities Stuck in Traffic.

Proof Positive’s Friday Night Babe is Stephanie Szostak, his Vintage Babe is Thanksgiving, Sex in Advertising asks Got Milk? and the obligatory 49ers cheerleader comes with a friend this week. At Dustbury, it’s Noel Neill and Jennifer Batten.

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery! Deadline to submit links to the Rule 5 Wombat mailbox is midnight on Sunday, December 6.


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Category: Rule 5

FMJRA 2.0: Day Late And A Dollar Short Thanksgiving Weekend Edition

Posted on | November 30, 2014 | 1 Comment

— compiled by Wombat-socho

Rule 5 Sunday: Wax Ecstatic
Batshit Crazy News
Average Bubba
Regular Right Guy
A View from the Beach
Proof Positive
Ninety Miles from Tyranny

Is Salon Saying That Rep. Paul Ryan Is A Time Traveller?
The Pirate’s Cove
A View from the Beach

Report: Two Black Panther Terrorists Arrested in Ferguson Bomb Plot
Batshit Crazy News
A View from the Beach

FMJRA 2.0: Sold Me Down The River
The Pirate’s Cove
Batshit Crazy News

Why Ferguson?
Batshit Crazy News
Minority Report Blog
Regular Right Guy
Hogewash

In The Mailbox, 11.24.14
Regular Right Guy

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.25.14
Batshit Crazy News

He Stands There Appealing His Fruit
Batshit Crazy News
Regular Right Guy

LIVE AT FIVE: 11.26.14
Batshit Crazy News
Proof Positive

Weekend Reading
Batshit Crazy News

Ferguson Seen As Reverend Al Sharpton’s Racism Industrial Complex Checking In
Batshit Crazy News

Landrieu Would Do Anything For Love Of A Senate Seat. That, Too. With Gusto.
First Street Journal
Batshit Crazy News

Top linker this week: Batshit Crazy News (10)

Thanks to everyone for their linkagery this week!


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Category: FMJRA Award

Shout Out To Princess Pelosi

Posted on | November 29, 2014 | 24 Comments

by Smitty

Poor Princess Pelosi; once so regal. Now another beagle.
To the tune of “I’m a Little Teapot“:

I’m a bitter clinger, hear me roar.
Once I had power,
For now, it’s no more.
When I get all Beamed up,
Hear me shout!
Elections are over
Soon they’ll throw me out.

I’m a bitter clinger, yes it’s true.
Staying past my sell date’s what I do.
Scheming on my comeback; foes I’ll rout:
Tea Partiers Will. Pay. Have. No. Doubt.

Category: Democrats, Nancy Pelosi

Landrieu Would Do Anything For Love Of A Senate Seat. That, Too. With Gusto.

Posted on | November 28, 2014 | 28 Comments

by Smitty

 

Full clip:


The #FunnyNotFunny thing about Landrieu is that not only are the wages of her political sin going to be death in the runoff next month, but the way she’d so cheerfully promise to prostitute herself and her state in order to stay in office.

We can say, “Well, that’s politics” and shrug, but at some point one has to hope Mary gets to recover a bit of dignity.

Vote Bill Cassidy

An incumbent who has been reduced to a Meatloaf reference is not worth keeping.

via BCF

Category: Democrats, Louisiana

Ferguson Seen As Reverend Al Sharpton’s Racism Industrial Complex Checking In

Posted on | November 26, 2014 | 50 Comments

by Smitty

Saint Louis resident Kevin Jackson weighs in:

Instapundit offers some further analysis:

It’s about the base. And it’s not about the Democratic Party’s base, but about certain leaders’ base within the Democratic Party. This may be best understood as an intra-party struggle. Obama is the champion of the urban-black wing of the party, and because of him that wing has been on top. But his star is fading, black voters are beginning to realize that they haven’t benefited economically, and the next Dem nominee — whether it’s Hillary Clinton, Jim Webb, or Elizabeth Warren — will be from the white gentry-liberal wing of the Democratic Party. The riots, the marches, the traffic-blocking are a way of telling them that the Sharpton wing is still a force to be reckoned with, and to improve its bargaining power between now and 2016.

As usual, Insty’s analysis is more plausible than my own theory: that #OccupyResoluteDesk wants to foment chaos in order to move toward martial law.


The need to manage the competing bases within the Democrat Party adds a new angle to Missiouri Lt. Governor (and Republican) Peter Kinder’s claim about the National Guard getting a stand-down order from Democrat Governor Nixon, rather than do the logical thing and protect private property in Ferguson. Going in and calibrating the Racism Industrial Complex shock troops would be seen as the gentry “plantation owner” wing of the Democrat Party going after the plantation inhabitants so crucial at election time.


Niger Innis also sees Ferguson as a backfiring strategy:

“What happens when the circus, and I define the circus as the paid protesters, the anarchists, the activists, the card-carrying zealots that are out there, the Occupy Wall Street crowd that has come into Ferguson. what happens when they leave town…what will be left is an economic wasteland, and the very frustration, legitimate frustration that the people of Ferguson have, the young people of Ferguson have, jobs, economic opportunity, education choices, and education and economic uplift, their situation is going to be worse off, not better off because of this” he stated.

“Burn baby, burn: voter inferno”


So there was Trayvon Martin ahead of 2012; Ferguson after 2014. This seems to indicate that, prior to the 2016 election, there will be Yet Another Tragedy involving The Oppressor and The Victim, replete with presstitutes, rabble rousers, rightfully grieving family, and a whole lotta violence.
The property destruction will continue until the rabble rousers are rejected whenever they arrive to stir the pot.

Update: Ann Coulter is typically conciliatory, but which I mean she drops a Daisy Cutter on the Left.

Category: Democrats

Weekend Reading

Posted on | November 26, 2014 | 13 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


I am heading off into the Shenandoah Valley this weekend to spend Thanksgiving Day weekend with the family of an old friend, but before I grab my bags and head out into the rain, I need to stuff a few books into my range bag since I’ll be avoiding the Internet this weekend. I’m in the middle of re-reading Larry Correia’s Hard Magic, so that’s going, and from the library I have Dan Abnett’s Horus Rising, the first in a series of novels set in the Warhammer 40K universe.* Abnett comes highly recommended by my friends who are into WH40K, and I did like the hilarious (and horrifying) Ciaphas Cain: Hero of the Imperium by Sandy Mitchell, so we’ll see how this first novel in the Horus Heresy cycle sits with me. Also recommended was Peter Grant’s War To The Knife, the first volume of a trilogy; it is free through the Amazon Prime Lending Library, if you’re hooked up with that.

I’m also finally getting around to David Drake and Eric Flint’s Belisarius I: Thunder at Dawn, which combines the first two novels of the Belisarius series (An Oblique Approach and In The Heart Of Darkness) in one volume. This is essentially an alternate history series with a similar premise to Drake & Stirling’s Raj Whitehall novels (see Hope Reborn) but unlike Center in the Raj Whitehall novels, the entity aiding Belisarius has opposition from a parallel world, which has its own plans for humanity. It looks interesting, and I think I may actually have read the second novel before after mistaking it for Drake’s horror collection From the Heart of Darkness** so we’ll see how I feel about the rest of it.

Also on the Kindle is some non-fiction, Virginia Postrel’s The Substance of Style, currently on sale for the insanely cheap price of $1.99 (normal list price is $13.99). Postrel argues in this book that appearance counts and esthetic value is real. Postrel is an entertaining writer; her 1998 book The Future and Its Enemies is an excellent examination of the social and political tensions between “dynamists” and “stasists” that cuts across party lines.

For your amusement: a very short story wherein a Delta Green operative considers some relevant literature. 🙂
Happy Thanksgiving! See you Sunday for the FMJRA!

*Since I’m still pissed at Games Workshop over the way they treated Maggie Hogarth over Spots the Space Marine: Defense of the Fiddler, here’s an unsolicited plug for that book, which unusually for combat SF can actually be read by your children.
**Has Cthulhu Mythos content and other creepiness.


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