Eagle Freedom Links - Christmas Movies Edition: 11-29-11

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This week was a very interesting week.  I had a wonderful Thanksgiving and hope everyone else did too. There was some Black Friday mayhem across the country.  The past few weeks I had started to feel better but that didn't last for long.  Thankfully, my dizziness is down to a minimum. But sometimes it really hurts me to breathe along with some other abdominal pain which as increased at times. I know the Lord is watching out for me. Hopefully, when I have some procedures done on Dec. 7 the doctor will figure out what is going on.  Oh, then, I had an Islamofascist nutjob who threatened to kill me since I support Pamela Geller.  In some ironic twist of logic he claimed Pamela and I are hateful, bigots while he's not, even though he threatened me.  These dhimmis and Islamofascists  are certainly pieces of work.  On the political front my top three choices from the candidates for President are: Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, and Ron Paul. 

*American Perspective* - Will Student debt cancel a generation of future home buyers? 

_It Don't Make Sense_ - From the people who really know how to occupy 

A Catholic View - Gingrich takes heat for immigration stance 

A Conservative Teacher - Teaching and brain-dead liberal students 

A Pissed Off Irishmen - Thomas Sowell on socialists and occupy wall street occupiers 

A Western Heart - Should the rich be condemned? 

Acts Of Apostasy - Welcome to my new home 



Adrienne's Corner - Righteous rant on reality...

Always On Watch - The Worm Turns 

American Power Blog - The Rolling Stones at 50 

Amusing Bunni's Musings - Cats say thank you!

ARRA News Service - Potential surrender of American liberty in defense authorization bill...

Atlas Shrugs - Hamas-linked Cair's war on freedom of speech, demands FBI target anti-jihad blogs and commenters - WordPress caves, suspends BNI 

Barking Spider - Islamofascism - Ignore it at your peril 

Barracuda Brigade - Tatyana Limanova, Russian newsreader fired after Obama middle finger insult!!!



Battle Beads Blog - How do you spell *M-A-R-T-I-A-L *** L-A-W* ????

BBCW - The history of Romneycare (Obamacare) Mitt Romney doesn't want you to know 

Beer, Bicycles and the VRWC - More class warfare 

Big Blue Wave - Quebec to ban prayer in home-based daycares 

Black Or White Is A Choice - Better days are coming!!! 

Blog de King Shamus - Herman Cain, David Axelrod, and the Chicago Way 

Blowing San #1 - Why yes, I do have one 

Bluegrass Pundit - Video: Linus' Thanksgiving prayer 



Bunkerville - Obama won't "redistribute" to his brother George

Catholic Once Again - Book Sale: young adult fantasy 

Common Cents - 2nd Scott Walker Ad; "I'm not big on recalls"

Conservative Girl With A Voice - Putting the swagger back into the step of American politics: my choice for 2012

Conservative Hideout - Occupy Berkeley: " if they wanted to clear the path, they would have to go through us..."

DeanO - Jetsons, meet the Jetsons 

Don't Tread On Us - In search of cheap amusement: listening to Air America 

Eye Of Polyphemus - Anya Monzikova 



Faith Of The Fathers - From the Vatican website 

Fuzzy Logic - Dude "predatory black sexuality." Seriously? 

Generational Dysfunction - An impossible question to answer.... 

Give Me Liberty - Colin Powell blames media and tea party for divisive tone in Washington 

Greg Mankiw's Blog - What Milton Friedman might say to the Occupy Movement 

HolyCoast.com - Newt wins New Hampshire union leader endorsement

I Know The Words I Need To Say ... - Some Thoughts... 

Innominatus - Screwt Newt 



Just A Conservative Girl - Quote of the day - Matthew Staver Edition 

Left Coast Rebel - Martin Luther King Jr. On Communism 

Let The Truth Be Known - Breaking news headlines Nov. 19, 2011 

Legal Insurrection - So do I 

Libertarian Republican - Austrian Freedom Party poised for big win! 

Lone Star Parson - Black Friday 

Lonely Is The Nights - Baptized Yet? 

Maggie's Notebook - ESPN Bernie Fine: ESPN hides Bobby Davis sex abuse audio for 9 years



Milton Wolf - Judge Napolitano: what if? 

Mind Numbed Robot - #OccupyWallStreet thugs encouraging violence - audio compilations via Glenn Beck 

Motivation Truth - Summoning Palin's endorsement 

My Daily Trek - Panetta to Israel: don't touch Iran 

Nikon Sniper - Sunset at the Oak 

Nonsensible Shoes - Insolvent nations should leave EU? 

NoOneOfAnyImport - We are here from the Federal Government 

Obama Cartoons - Keystone Pipeline, shove that plug somewhere else Barack 



Patriot's Corner - Persecution Update November 27 

Pedaling Fast - Gratitude 

Political Realities - The principles of Ron Paul 

Proof Positive - #Occupy L.A. about to become an endangered feces 

QUICKWIT - Talking about turkey! 

Randy's Roundtable - More bad news for global warming fanatics 

Rational Nation USA - Facts about Romneycare 

Reaganite Republican - Obama/Cameron/Sarko's 'New Libya' descending into violent, medieval chaos 



Right Klik - Worst recovery since the Depression, $1T down the drain 

Robbing America - The mother of all conservative endorsements: Sarah Palin's

Saberpoint - The real meaning of Thanksgiving: the triumph of capitalism over communism 

Sancte Pater - Robert Downey Jr. asks Hollywood to forgive Mel Gibson 

Sentry Journal - Friday Ramblings: Should we be trading our principles for electability? 

STOP MARXISM - God Bless The United States Military 

The Audacity Of Logic - Barney Frank quits! 

The Blog - Tuna takers 

The Camp Of The Saints - The spot-on quote of the day... 



The Conservative Lady - So easy, a game show host can do it 

The Conservative Pup - Socialism is for the people, not the socialists

The Country Thinker - Letter from Ron Paul 

The Daley Gator - New Jersey nurses charge religious discrimination over hospital abortion policy 

The Libertarian Patriot - "Jumpers and Dumpers" gaming Romneycare in Massachusetts 

The Malcontent - Is Occupy Wall Street - just like the Tea Party? I don't think so! 

The Observatorium - Newt hearts amnesty 

The Other McCain - Exploring 'explaining postmodernism' by Stephen Hicks 2: Counter-Enlightenment 



The Right Guy - Not on Fox or GBTV 

The Scottcarp Dream - Obama demoralizes our military 

The Wyblog - All your children are belong to the nanny state 

They Say/We Say - As the debates continue, the questions are more direct. Here is the video of the debate....

TOTUS: Conservative Commentary - Two Obama voters 

Virtual Mirage - The sin of ingratitude 

Warning Signs - The threat of a global financial collapse 

We The People... - Gun news 



Western Hero - Are Teachers overpaid? 

What Does The Prayer Really Say? - SERIOUS Occupy Wall Street Commentary. No, Really

Woman Honor Thyself - Black Friday! 

Woodsterman - Did you plant any willy peppers? 

Zilla Of The Resistance - "We no longer have creeping sharia; it's a damn stampede" 

Teresamerica's News and Views: James Delingpole Talks To Roger Hedgecock On Watermelons & Communitarianism

Here is James Delingpole's article:

The most unsettling aspect of modern politics is that the Enemy is no longer plain in view.

The most unsettling aspect of modern politics is that the Enemy is no longer plain in view. We may feel in our bones that we are as oppressed, disenfranchised and generally shat upon, in our way, as those who suffered under Nazism, Marxism and fascism. But the actual evidence doesn’t seem to bear this out.

We’re free to fly wherever we want on our hols. No one is starving. We can vote. There are no death camps. We don’t dread the small-hours knock at the door. Our politicians consult focus groups because they feel they ought to care what we think. There are lots of channels on TV, not all of which reflect the ideology of the state. Being Jewish, gay or an intellectual are not crimes. (More’s the pity in the case of the last one.) We can speak out against whomsoever we want (so long as they’re not Muslim) without fear of being arrested. We don’t need to belong to the Party to get a job. There are no bread queues. Our kids aren’t obliged to spy on us.

Why then do we yet feel so un-free? By ‘we’ I don’t mean all of us, of course. I can’t imagine, say, David Aaronovitch waking up every morning and gnashing into his Coco Pops over the liberties Big Government is taking with his liberty. I doubt Michael Moore, Paul Krugman or the environment pod at the Guardian have ever done anything except shudder very pleasurably as the tentacles of state have crept ever deeper into their every orifice. But I’m guessing I’m not the only Speccie-reading type who surveys this brave new world we inhabit with growing alarm. ‘I do hope it’s no more than my imagination,’ we say to ourselves. ‘But it seems to me that, politically, we are ****ed.’

And if that’s what you think, you’re right, we are. But your problem — as was mine, till I discovered this thing I’m going to tell you about — is that you don’t really know whom to blame, whom to hate, whom to fight. And the reason for this is that the Enemy have arranged it that way. These are exactly the same kind of people who brought you Nazism, Marxism and fascism. Their controlling, bullying, puritanical, freedom-hating instincts are as intense as ever. The only difference is that this time they’re inflicting them on you with your permission.

This nebulousness and insidiousness is precisely what makes communitarianism so much more dangerous than any of the other totalitarian philosophies I’ve just named. Communitarianism? Though it crops up quite a bit on websites, it’s still not a term you find in quotidian use. Which is odd, because it’s the defining ideological concept of our age — embracing everything from the puzzling leftishness of the supposedly ‘Conservative’ David Cameron to Australian farmers no longer being able to cut down trees on their land, to the mystifying career of comedy academic Philip Blond, to the EnvironmentalProtection Agency, Barack Obama, the Big Society, the EU, the UN, the BBC, your kids’ schools, my kids’ schools, Maurice Strong and the Rio Earth summit, to name but a few.

How does it work? Well one good example is the Localism Bill mentioned by Charles Moore the other week, which will give you, the people, more citizen power, supposedly. Except it won’t. What it will actually do is undermine one of the pillars of a free society: your property rights. By allowing ‘local people’ (clearly whoever drafted it has never watched The League Of Gentlemen) to designate something a ‘community asset’ — say, to use Charles’s example, a private field which the owner allows villagers to use as a cricket pitch — the Bill will strip away the ability of the property owner to dispose of his asset as he sees fit. What’s happening is a more consensual, touchy-feely version of what Jews experienced under the Nazis or aristocrats experienced under Lenin. Call it Big Society; call it social justice; call it what you like. What’s going on is state-sanctioned theft.

I wish I had space to explain the communitarian philosophy in more detail. One of the best primers I’ve found is a blogpost by an Alaskan called Niki Raapana, who neatly defines it as ‘a Dictatorship of the Community’ whose ‘global standard of norms’ will ‘rebuild the world under a new model of governance with jurisdiction over all national state citizens’. Communitarianism’s great enabling act was a measure launched at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit called Agenda 21. Its almost risibly sinister name (quite accidental: it just means ‘an agenda for the 21st century’) means that whenever worried conservatives invoke it they come across like paranoid conspiracy freaks. But its effects are all too real. Over six hundred local government groups around the world from the City of Dallas to Woking Borough Council have signed up to Local Agenda 21, a voluntary code of practice committing them to a range of superficially worthy causes from (Marxist codeword) ‘sustainability’ to ‘diversity’. You didn’t vote for this stuff, but it’s on the books anyway.

One more brief example: lots of London councils have taken upon themselves the responsibility of ‘combating climate change’ by charging 4 x 4 owners more for their parking permits, encouraging electric cars, penalising non-recyclers and so on. But what if you’re a council taxpayer who knows it’s a crock: that electric cars are every bit as eco-unfriendly as normal ones, that recycling often uses more energy than it saves? Your view doesn’t count, nor even can you express it at the ballot box, since all the main political parties share the same valuesystem. This is communitarianism. And you are stuffed.

I didn't have all that great knowledge of Agenda 21 so I did some research on it and found two informative videos on it. 

This video shows at least some of the key players of Agenda 21



This explains Agenda 21 very well. Plus, this video exposes the Communitarians purposeful, harmful goals.




I apologize for the delay in posting my Eagle Freedom Links post but I have had a health issue to deal with which is quite painful and will hopefully have the post up tomorrow.  Have a great day!

Archbishop Fulton Sheen Condemns Communists & Talks on the Church and Communism

Refusal to Compromise on Fiscal Responsibility is "Dangerous" and "Unchristian"

Now the Christian Left is accusing Wisconsin's Governor Walker of being a bad Christian because he cut off the unions' means to keep the bottomless pit of money and cushy benefits fund keep on coming - a.k.a. collective bargaining, even though the collective bargaining tactics employed by unions have hurt hard working taxpayers for years.  Diane Butler Bass accused Gov. Walker of being "dangerous" and unchristian" for being unwilling to compromise when it came to fiscal responsibility with regards to the budget.  Gov. Walker's fiscal policy is in fact responsible, pragmatic, harmless and ethically sound.



Then we have Jim Wallis asking What Would Jesus Cut?  Of course he's against the GOP making cuts to both domestic spending and international aid.  He claims that these cuts will hurt the poor and are unfair. He complains about the tax cuts for 2 percent of Americans and the fact that Republicans support an increase in military spending.  For some reason Jim Wallis makes the assumption that the high taxes imposed under Clinton were just and that the lower taxes imposed under Bush were unjust.  Both John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan made tax cuts which spurred job growth and helped many people, including the poor, to obtain jobs.

Hunter Baker tackles Jim Wallis' claim that cuts in spending is a sub-Christian position:

"The implication is that this is obviously a sub-Christian position. But is it? Probably the most essential purpose of government is to protect the life and freedom of citizens. The government achieves this goal through military means. Unless one takes the position that Christianity implies corporate pacificism, then it is unclear the Republicans have blundered according to Christian ethics. Now, match the question of military spending versus international aid and/or domestic spending. Are the latter obviously superior to the former? No. It depends on not only what the stated objective is for the different types of spending, but whether they actually achieve their purposes. To simply state that the Republicans want to bolster military spending while cutting international aid and domestic spending is to achieve nothing at all by way of an indictment."

Here Hunter Baker deals with Wallis' position on taxes and asks " If there is a community need, is it righteous to grab a rich person and employ the power of legal coercion to extract the needed funds?" 


Then, Hunter Baker explains what's wrong with Jim Wallis' redistributionist philosophy: 


"Still another problem with this redistributionist attitude about taxes and spending is that it assumes a zero sum state of affairs. For example, one could assume that the most people would be better off under a system like the old Soviet Union that spread resources out to citizens in a way that prized equality of rations. The United States system didn’t do that nearly as much, not nearly at all. But which of the two systems provided a better life for people? The answer is easy. The United States and its emphasis on liberty did. Why? A more free economic system produces far more wealth than an unfree one. If your equality system produces a little, bitty pie, it may give you a lot of philosophical satisfaction, but it doesn’t do as much actual good for people as the system that prizes free productivity and success over equality." 


No, fair isn't better. It just means equally poor or equally miserable but not equally better off in society.  If so, then Communism would have worked in the past, but the cold hard facts have proven that Communism has always caused lives to be drastically worse rather than better wherever it has been implemented.  At the very least Communism harms.  Communism has also killed many people.  

According to Courtois who wrote The Black Book of Communism here is the breakdown of the number of deaths which have occurred under Communism: 

• 65 million in the People's Republic of China
• 20 million in the Soviet Union
• 2 million in Cambodia
• 2 million in North Korea
• 1.7 million in Africa
• 1.5 million in Afghanistan
• 1 million in the Communist states of Eastern Europe
• 1 million in Vietnam
• 150,000 in Latin America
• 10,000 deaths "resulting from actions of the international Communist movement and Communist parties not in power."

Do federal programs achieve what they set out to do?  Is there government waste or is the money allocated properly and used efficiently?  Well, the Government Accountability Office found wasteful spending on ending homelessness.

From Fox News:

The Government Accountability Office report found that in 2009, federal agencies spent about $2.9 billion on more than 20 programs that targeted homelessness. If that money were to be targeted toward the building of homes, at say, $200,000 per home, it could theoretically produce 145,000 houses.

"Take that money directly and give them sort of a voucher so they can go get housing on their own, or get some mental health benefits," Brian Darling, director of government studies at the Heritage Foundation suggested. "But the way it is now when you have all of these different government agencies administering the same program, you have government waste."

It is self-evident that government programs aren't efficient and in fact don't achieve what they set out to do.  Our government can do better with less money.  This government waste needs to stop.  Plus, the assertion that Governor Walker is a bad Christian is absurd.  He is exercising fiscal responsibility which is a good thing.