The plague of being politically correct is the blight imposed on culture to sanitize concepts of multiculturalism or diversity. Being PC these days seems to be an attack on Christian Free Speech and Religious Freedom.
The PC assault on Christianity also seems to be strongest during the Christmas season. It could be the PC assault is more noticeable during Christmas because even nominal or secular minded Christians tend to have an awareness of the PC attack for even the MSM reports on such. The MSM reports tends to validate the humanist view which leads to a Leftist love affair with the contrived concept Separation of Church and State.
The implementation of the PC assault on Christianity often has its testing ground in Europe. Secular Humanism has nearly made the faith of Christianity an anachronism in Europe. Thus the concept of French egalitarianism has reinforced the Leftist view multicultural diversity. By extension then the morally corrupt alternate lifestyle of homosexuality or transgenderism has brainwashed a formerly Christian moral society into acceptance as normal.
The PC assault on Christianity unfortunately includes defining as hate speech anything of Biblical Morality that insults the Leftist warped concept of multiculturalism. In Europe calling homosexuality evil immorality could land you in jail or a hefty civil suit as hate speech.
Criminalizing or rendering politically incorrect the act of standing behind Christian tenets of faith can also get one in legal trouble by talking negatively about the theo-political death cult known as the religion of Islam.
The criminalizing of standing against alternate lifestyles or a religion that should be offensive to Christians and secularists alike usually has its beginning in Europe. Such is the case of hotel owners Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang of the United Kingdom.
The Vogelenzangs have been described as Christians. That is a rare breed in Europe today. It seems that most Europeans consider the Christian faith to be a politically incorrect anachronism of yesteryear.
What was the criminal hate crime the Vogelenzangs are accused of?
Let’s look at some possibilities Christians should be concerned about with Islam:
· Islamic Supremacism: The belief that Islam is superior to all religions or cultural practices to the point of violent intolerance.
· Women treated as chattel.
· Islam treats multiculturalism as evil for it insults the supremacy of Allah and the deity’s prophet Mohammed. Hence in the Muslim world atheism, homosexuality, transgenderism et al can lead to a capital crime. In the non-Muslim world (e.g. the West) women can be targets of rape, women can be the recipients of an honor killing for offending the Muslim family, Muslim only zones exist in which Shariah Law is enforced which is counter Western principles Liberty, Freedom and the pursuit of happiness.
· I could find more reasons to criticize Islam but time to look for specifics eludes me.
Specifically the Vogelenzangs are accused of the heinous crime of describing to a Muslim hotel guest that the hijab is female bondage and that Mohammed was a warlord.
If this kind of multicultural diversity comes to America, God have mercy on our soul and may the legacy of the Founding Fathers forgive us.
JRH 12/9/09
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The prompt:
His glass bubbled over with frothy perfection, and the ring box was bulging in his pocket. Nothing could ruin this perfect night, he thought, as he spied her in the corner booth, tapping her foot and eying him suspiciously. Paying no mind to the innocent billiards player he mowed over, he staggered toward his girl, winking in a manner he thought quite dashing. She was aglow, sparkling even; gleaming like a diamond even as she pulled a face and turned her back on him. Or maybe it was the booze.He was fond of a lass and fond of a glass, and fond of a ran-dan
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STATE OF EMERGENCY
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Most people will know Bill Cosby from The Cosby Show or Fat Albert, but did you know that early in his entertainment career, that he released a music album called Silver Throat: Bill Cosby Sings? He also plays drums and bass... so it shouldn't surprise anyone to know that he's the person behind State of Emergency.
Before we continue, let me be clear in one thing: Bill Cosby does not sing on this album. Most of the singing is done by Jace the Great, with some help from Cedric Miller and Brother Haz. It's not clear on the music writing credits, most of the songs are credited to W.H. Cosby Jr (Bill Cosby), William Patterson, Cedric Miller, Jamal Gary (Jace?) and Hassan McMillan (Brother Haz?).
My favorite song off the album is "Dads Behind the Glass", with its refrain "I wish my daddy was home/tired of sitting here all alone/Mommy's not here she's working two jobs". The song also features samples from Bill Cosby and Friends' performing "Ursalina".
Some of the song's message, I can see Cosby writing. Like the constant "Why?" question, or "In a Perfect World", or "Runnin'". But songs like "Where Did I Go Wrong?", about being a Blood gangster, with being the son of a Muslim, I can't see Cosby writing this... but I can feel it's Brother Haz's contribution to this song.
Even if Cosby have little to do with this album, he's involving and lending his name to the project - and for most people, that's good enough. He believes in the project enough to do talk about it and promote it, and I think that's awesome. Though, I would've pegged him as a Jazz guy, considering his love for jazz music, but it's refreshing to see him working in the hip-hop music industry.
State of Emergency is available now at BillCosby.com. There's a variety of packages, but I recommend getting the CD and book (New York times bestseller Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors by Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint) combo.
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Having spent all of my holiday reading on and off KRS-One's The Gospel of Hip Hop, I came to the conclusion that, like the Holy Bible, understanding of its message does not come overnight... but through years of practice and study.
If you love hip hop and embrace all of its kulture and lifestyle, then I say this is a wonderful book for your library shelf. This 800+ page hardcover, gold embossed cover, words of wisdom, is well worth its price of $24.95. I have bought more expensive books for less content and value, so take it from me, this is a good deal. Plus, I noticed that your order of The Gospel of Hip Hop via Powerhouse Books will come autographed by KRS-One.
So, this book does not necessary require you to read front-to-back, but you can't just skip around either - considering that it makes sense to read "The First Understanding" vs "The Eighteenth Understanding". What KRS One, who, in the book, refers to himself as the teacha, tries and break down some of the components that makes hip hop - in particular: graffiti art, DJ, emcees, b-boy, and free styles.
The book isn't necessary all about the hip hop culture, but also faith, religion, and, most of all, love. Love to stop the violence, and love to help others in need. I'll give you evidence, this past Thanksgiving, KRS-One practiced his teaching by serving meals to thousands of New York's homeless at the Bowery Mission:
My favorite chapter from The Gospel of Hip Hop is the Fourth Understanding: The H-LAW. What the H-LAW is an acronym for Health, Love, Awareness and Wealth. For anyone, a healthy body & mind also translate to peace and positive attitude. There's an interesting bit in the section that describes that not all food is life-giving, that everything edible is not food. What follows Health, Love and Wealth, seems pretty obvious. Love is not lust, while Wealth doesn't always mean riches in the monetary sense. The Awareness part, that seems more like Knowledge. KRS-One gives you an example of a normal person and an electrician, who looks at a room with very different perspective. For instance, the electrician, with his knowledge of wiring knows a little more than the average person.I am participating in The Bowery Mission's Thanksgiving food drive and event because I myself was once homeless, walking these very streets, and spending time with these wonderful people at The Bowery Mission. I depended on them to survive. I am showing up for Thanksgiving this year to not only lend a hand, but hope that I am may inspire others in the Hip Hop community to consider their role towards helping the homeless, and join me by helping those in your community that need help during this holiday season.
I chose the Bowery Mission because it epitomizes the spirit of true human resources, love, care and compassion. I have stayed at many shelters were you are called "the client" and the administration made you feel like a prisoner in a system. At the Bowery Mission you feel at home. Homelessness is a pandemic, and most people do not realize the severity of the situation. You may be homeless one day yourself. I urge the Hip Hop nation to live up to the true nature of our culture and give.- KRS-One
Again, let me be clear: the understanding of all of The Gospel of Hip Hop's teaching and written words does not come overnight. In some ways, this book will require multiple reading. Below, I leave you with a small teaching from the book, which you can apply in any situation:
Disobedience, stubbornness, suspicion, criticism, fear, doubt and/or arrogance toward your teacher only hinder YOUR learning. We must not unnecessarily criticize each other; we must question and always acknowledge our collective development as a young nation.
THE PEACE
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The impossible to search for The Peace, a band out of Vermont, plays what they bill themselves as "hip hop folk" - a combination of their inspiration of music from Dave Matthews and KRS One. At least that's what they describe themselves, personally, in my opinion, I don't believe The Peace to be hip hop (or even folk). They seem like a jam band, their influence is closer to funk and improvisation progressive rock.
The most hip-hop/rappish song on the album is "Heaven", but based on Bobby Kendes' singing style (which actually sounds so much like Dave Matthews), it's not really a hardcore rap song. I did enjoy hearing Kurt Cobain's name drop in that song. And speaking of name-dropping, there's a ton of that on "Rookie And The Vets".
As their name suggest, this album is about zen, harmony, and peace. Songs like "This Is Life" and "Goin To Yoga" are great theme for the album - but some song like, "Racing The Devil", seems conflicting. The thing I remember about the Devil song is that the f-word is censored.
My favorite song on the album is "Seven", I think mostly because I enjoyed the Spanish and can pick out "siete", "por favor" and "callate". Not sure about the last word, I could've sworn he said 'shut up' in the song.
If you live in New York, The Peace is spending some time there. I know they played a few dates prior to this writing. Their next show is at Arlene's Grocery (which is famously not a grocery store) on December 13th. The Peace's self-titled debut can be bought via hipfolkinc.com. If you don't mind a milder Spin Doctors, you'll enjoy this. If you were looking to Notorious BIG-type, I would avoid.
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Here is an interesting feel good analysis of the AfPak portion of the Global War on Terror (GWOT).
George Friedman writes that the Taliban/al Qaeda fractured terrorist consortium has failed in the last eight years of war with the USA. Friedman admits America cannot make a central strike on the terrorists for the very reason that they are fractured and not centralized. On the other hand the Sunni Islam terrorists failed in their objective the last eight years.
Al Qaeda in particular felt a very public attack on American soil would show that American is not an all powerful kafir. They hoped an international display of a successful Muslim attack would inspire Sunni Muslims of dar al-Islam would rise up and through off the hegemony of fitna Muslim governments that kowtow to Western interests. Al Qaeda/Ikhwan theorists had nations like Egypt and Saudi Arabia in mind. According to Friedman the irony of the strategy led these despotic governments to gravitate toward American security to bolster their regimes against jihadists’ designs.
You can read Friedman’s analysis HERE.
JRH 12/8/09
The Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) belongs to Jews and not Arabs that call themselves Palestinians. Recently I posted an Israpundit book review that utilizes the Sam Remo Resolution as a foundation for a modern validation for this claim that is extra-Biblical. In the mind of the secular West (especially deluded Leftists), extra-Biblical protocols and treaties carry more weight.
Here is further secular validation from Israpundit. This time Ted Belman is the writer. The thing is there seems to have been some discrepancy in an email list sent out that Belman wishes to correct. I missed that email. Regardless here is Belman’s disclaimer:
NOTE: My last email with the subject OBAMA BREAKS U.S. LAW BY DEMANDING FREEZE was not written by me and contained numerous errors. This article should replace it. It is these rights and US law that Obama is violating.
With that disclaimer now you should read “Jewish legal rights to Judea and Samaria.”
JRH 12/8/09
Well, it's been one full week since NaNoWriMo. I have thoroughly enjoyed the vacation from churning out two or three thousand words of fiction every single day. And I was fully intending to continue work on my unfinished NaNo book in January after a nice long break from it. But NaNo put me in the habit of writing every day and I realised I need to keep going before that habit vanishes altogether. After all, writers write, right? (har har - bad one, I know) And they write a lot in order to improve themselves.
So I figured, I have this vox blog, right? I never really use it anymore, right? Well, I should. I decided I need to quit worrying about whether or not I have anything worthwhile to post, and just write. Of course I've known that for the last two years, but I still always drew a blank on what to write about. Or just didn't feel like it. And facebook gets all my frivolous internet finds these days.
So here's the thing. I have decided I need to post a paragraph a day. That's five sentences. Sounds easy enough, right? Gee, I hope so. Ideally it would be fiction; a fiction paragraph that can stand on its own. Or perhaps something like this old post that totally dramatised my stinky, icky trash chute. I suppose I could start by looking at the vox question of the day. Never did pay much attention to those. But that's because they never really inspired me in the first place - thousands of other people potentially writing about the same thing and all. Plus - not fiction.
So one thing it occurred to me to try is to pick a random book off my shelf, turn to a random page, point to a random sentence, and then try to expand on that. Not sure if that'll work or not. For one thing, I may still draw a complete blank - working off the words of others and all. For another, I don't have many books here, as the majority are still in storage. The ones that are here will either end up being an excellent trove of ideas or a really really bad suck hole of non-ideas. Most of the books I have here are reference books on cool, obscure or fictional topics like Celtic lore and history, British mythology, or encyclopaedias of fairies or monsters or magic. Quite frankly, I might become intimidated trying to write even just a simple paragraph on such topics without having fully studied up on them. But we shall see.
Now, I no longer have NaNo's invisible guilt monkeys to keep me on task, and even making myself write this post was a challenge only overcome by the fact that I wanted to start this precisely one week after NaNo. Which is right now - tada! Instant deadline. And I don't honestly expect myself to do it every single day without fail, indefinitely. But if I refer to it as roughly a daily thing, maybe that will help the guilt monkeys come round. You know, when many days go by and I haven't touched the vox compose page and I start to feel guilty for allowing "daily" to turn into "weekly" to turn into "occasionally" or worse.
So that's my spiel. But I want you to help me too. I want you to throw ideas at me. If the book thing isn't working it might be nice to have ideas to fall back on, to choose between when nothing else sparks a single sentence. (Seriously. You'd be surprised just how empty my head can become when I sit down to write for the sake of writing. Remember journaling in junior high? Yeah, I hated that more than gym, I think. I could never think of anything to write in the moment.)
But more than the benefit of having the ideas themselves, if you are sending them to me, I'll know you're reading. And expecting something from me. Nothing gets me going like knowing someone is expecting me to do something I've set out to do. In essence you become my invisible guilt monkeys. Invisible, of course, only because I can't see you through the interwebs.
So, wish me luck. And I hope my paragraphs don't bore you to pieces! (like this post undoubtedly has ~__^)
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Angry Muslims rarely prove their point when confronted with the truth of their theo-political cult called the religion of Islam. Since Muslims are programmed to follow Mohammed and Allah no matter the evidence that proves Islam’s core tenets are supremacist and violent. I learned recently the utter devotion of Muslims no matter what is the result of fitna.
There is or I should say there was an anti-radical Islam website called Islam in Action. A probable angry Muslim under the programming of fitna uploaded a virus to the site which also affected the site owner. Islam in Action was a Blogger universe blog.
Due to the cyber attack Islam in Action has been removed by Google owned blogger. Below is the explanation and the location of the replacement site for the fight to educate about Islam goes on.
JRH 12/7/09
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