The Paper-Thin-Learned Maureen Dowd Writes Again!

Every once in a while Maureen Dowd leaves her Lefty closet to poop.  Nature will have its way.

Maureen Dowd has written nonsense for years.   I once collected her scribbles in the New York Times as samples  of the intellectually kept feminist New Yorker, a lefty mental hooker of big mouth and small  brain, too ditsy to dislike.   She must have been the first female student to enter  Harvard when it finally allowed such people into its  halls.

Somewhere in the inner sancti of my house I have the best article she has ever written…….yes, this is a bit of hyperbole, for no, I haven’t reviewed  all of her poops.   Please forgive me.

It was probably early second week in that November after  one of America’s greatest insults to the world, John F. Kerry eked out a failure to become 43rd president of these United States.   This Maureen’s promising aardvark, was destined to throw  decency out of  the white house to find more room for his yachts.  

Maureen was intellectually, emotionally, religiously,  leftily,  hysterically, and in total dream was convinced of Kerrytime in the White House.     She must have spent days free of her closet restraints stunned trying to grasp the shock of  this eventful loss.    What  might she  write  to explain it?

She turned to family.

She turned to a Republican brother, her political enemy.   She described his conservative thinking.   There is no way I can paraphrase her words describing the mind and soul of her brother’s collections of conservative behavior and thought and do it any justice.     In a sense she was writing Maureen Dowd  stuff in the usual shallow  Maureen Dowd snotty way, but it didn’t quite ring  true.   She was trying to hate this brother  verbally for helping the enemy of her lefty  dreams, G.W. Bush win re-election.   She tried to write mean  by couldn’t  make it work.

Family ties ruled  her pen.   She must have loved this brother very much.  Respectfully, but not at all understood, Maureen Dowd described him as a deeply devoted conservative, an honorable man, a decent, intelligent thinking Republican  man, a wonderful member of her family, even listed some honorable conservative positions he supported………and she moaned, “How could he not be a lefty?”

  “How could he be a Republican?’   

Unlike many, maybe most of today’s  lefties, most Republicans are truly good people.   They have traditional honorable American values and try to live by them.   Their JudeoChristian ties have been an aid…..and are still likely honored in some way.

I know Maureen Dowd only by her column.   She is a classic lefty New York snot and makes her money being one.   If she is educated at all, her learnings are paper thin.    Someone should track her day to help her  discover why she knows so little about the real world.

Maureen Dowd doesn’t like Rick Santorum.   She wrote the following article in yesterday’s  New York Times:

“RICK’S RELIGIOUS FANATICISM”

Rick Santorum has been called a latter-day Savonarola.

That’s far too grand. He’s more like a small-town mullah.

“Satan has his sights on the United States of America,” the conservative presidential candidate warned in 2008. “Rick’s Religious FanaticismWhen, in heaven’s name, did sensuality become a vice? Next he’ll be banning Barry White.

Santorum is not merely engaged in a culture war, but “a spiritual war,” as he called it four years ago. “The Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country — the United States of America,” he told students at Ave Maria University in Florida. He added that mainline Protestantism in this country “is in shambles. It is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it.”

Satan strikes, a Catholic exorcist told me, when there are “soul wounds.” Santorum, who is considered “too Catholic” even by my über-Catholic brothers, clearly believes that America’s soul wounds include men and women having sex for reasons other than procreation, people involved in same-sex relationships, women using contraception or having prenatal testing, environmentalists who elevate “the Earth above man,” women working outside the home, “anachronistic” public schools, Mormonism (which he said is considered “a dangerous cult” by some Christians), and President Obama (whom he obliquely and oddly compared to Hitler and accused of having “some phony theology”).

Santorum didn’t go as far as evangelist Franklin Graham, who heinously doubted the president’s Christianity on “Morning Joe.”

Mullah Rick, who has turned prayer into a career move, told ABC News’s Jake Tapper that he disagreed with the 1965 Supreme Court decision striking down a ban on contraception. And, in October, he insisted that contraception is “not O.K. It’s a license to do things in a sexual realm that is counter to how things are supposed to be.”

Senator Sanitarium, as he was once dubbed on “The Sopranos,” sometimes tries to temper his retrogressive sermons so as not to drive away independent and Republican women who like to work, see their kids taught by professionals and wear Victoria’s Secret.

He told The Washington Post on Friday that, while he doesn’t want to fund contraception through Planned Parenthood, he wouldn’t ban it: “The idea that I’m coming after your birth control is absurd. I was making a statement about my moral beliefs, but I won’t impose them on anyone else in this case.”

That doesn’t comfort me much. I’ve spent a career watching candidates deny they would do things that they went on to do as president, and watching presidents let their personal beliefs, desires and insecurities shape policy decisions.

Mullah Rick is casting doubt on issues of women’s health and safety that were settled a long time ago. We’re supposed to believe that if he got more power he’d drop his crusade?

The Huffington Post reports that Santorum told Philadelphia Magazine in 1995 that he “was basically pro-choice all my life, until I ran for Congress.” Then, he said, he read the “scientific literature.”

He seems to have decided that electoral gold lies in the ruthless exploitation of social and cultural wedge issues. Unlike the Bushes, he has no middle man to pander to prejudices; he turns the knife himself.

Why is it that Republicans don’t want government involved when it comes to the economy (opposing the auto bailouts) but do want government involved when it comes to telling people how to live their lives?

In a party always misty for bygone times bristling with ugly inequities, Santorum is successful because he’s not ashamed to admit that he wants to take the country backward.

Virginia’s Republican governor, Bob McDonnell, touted as a vice presidential prospect, also wants to drag women back into a cave.

This week, public outrage forced the Virginia Legislature to pause on its way to passing a creepy bill forcing women seeking an abortion to undergo an ultrasound, which, for early procedures, would require a wand being inserted into the vagina — an invasion that anti-abortion groups hope would shame some women into changing their minds once they saw or heard about traits of the fetus.

Democratic Delegate Lionell Spruill hotly argued that the bill would force “legal rape.” “I cannot believe that you would disrespect women and mothers in such a way,” he chided colleagues. “This legislation is simply mean-spirited, and it is bullying, bullying women simply because you can.”

While the Democratic-controlled Maryland House of Delegates just passed a bill that would allow same-sex marriage, the Republican-controlled Virginia Legislature passed a bill allowing private adoption agencies to discriminate against gays who want to be parents.

The Potomac River dividing those states seems to be getting wider by the day”.

Comment:   As you notice while reading the above Dowd New York Times piece, there isn’t much worth remembering from her words.     She hasn’t described Rick Santorum’s religious concepts and ideas which may apply to his presidency.  

She reaches deep into the past to pick and choose his words.

When one reads any writing by leftwinger Maureen Dowd, one reads  the left wing.   So little has to do with problem solving but everything to do with hysterics.   The Left is indeed the Women’s club  for  the loony  female, the one Marueen Dowd so accurately represents…….except for that one writing nearly eight years ago.

 

 

Does the American Left Suffer from Severe Projection? Why is it so RACIST?

A few weeks ago we Minnesotans were informed, at least those who read an article at PowerLine were informed that the following billboard was erected in our Duluth community.    Its picture is shown below.

White women can be racists, too, according to the Duluth billboards:

I am guessing that these billboards were paid for, overwhelmingly, with taxpayer money; i.e, yours and mine. A considerable amount of that money, if you trace it back, was no doubt borrowed from Asian banks and governments. So, consider this: Chinese peasants are saving their money so that their banks can lend many billions of dollars to the Obama administration, which in turn passes some of those dollars on to universities and other non-profits so that they can spend millions to erect billboards accusing white Americans of being racists. Is this a great country, or what?”

Comment:  

Most cross racial crimes, especially murders  in America are caused by blacks murdering and pillaging whites.   Racist verbal attacks cross racially is almost entirely black against whites.   The NAACP is openly black racist in its language and politics.   Many other black racist groups are funded by the American taxpayer.    ACORN, Obama’s group of employment is one.

I suggest taxpayer dollars be spent on erecting billboards to expose this black racism disease in the neighborhoods of  the one-party Marxist-Democrat black racist  plantations in  two hundred of America’s largest cities.     Then all of America and the world will see for themselves in which racial community racist violence  dominates the culture.

Is it hard to see racism when  you are  an American  BLACK?    When it is practiced so frequently in its Democrat Party Inner City Plantation community,  day and night?

The American Left and its universities reek  with the stench of black racism.  Departments are devoted to it.

Self-improvement should always begin at home   Christian folks used to teach.    Marxists prefer to teach  hates.

 

Americans are MAD AS HELL about the National Condition? Well, They EARNED the MESS!

Americans seem to have forgotten that a peoples deserve the government they get…….an exceptionally TRUE statement for Western culture people who live in some kind of liberal democratic political environments.

AMERICANS, BOTH REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRAT AND EVERYONE IN BETWEEN, ABOVE OR BELOW DESERVE THE QUAGMIRE IN WHICH THEY FIND THEMSELVES!    When our forefathers designed the fabric of the nation, their expectations depended upon an ever more learned, skilled, and talented citizenry…..a citizenry expected to pursue life, liberty and happiness depending on these skills, talents, and learnings.

They were God-fearing people and so, clearly understood that for the Nation to succeed and become an example of liberty and successful pursuits of  happiness am0ng its people,  certain understandings were required…..NUMBER ONE ….citizens MUST be God fearing….they MUST understand and conduct themselves by the FEAR of GOODNESS.

Certain rules are classically clear for this God-fearing.   President Obama, however, has never got the message…..the best example of all for his phony claim he is a Christian.   His habits are filled with calculated deceit and dishonesty.   His policies are designed and executed NOT FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE NATION,  but for the bettermend of Barack Hussein Obama and his wife’s travel pleasures, and his Marxist goals.   

America has never had a president so UnAMERICAN in thought and deed!!   Never!

Why, then, are Americans so confused and angry and blame everyone (but themselves, after all, the country has expelled its Christian past requiring individual humility and modesty)?

Because Americans have, indeed, discarded the card which used to be at the core of the American dream and its success………its CHRISTIANITY AND THE  PILLARS  UPON WHICH THE AMERICAN COMMUNITY DEPENDED:

I.    Liberty……II.  In God We Trust…..III.   E Pluribus Unum      

The coins in my pocket have advertised those requirements for America’s good health nearly all of my life……actually almost all of the nation’s life, for until the rise of  the Marxist religion in the twentieth century it was once assumed that all thinking peoples  were humble before their GOD.

Have you ever spied on your coins?   Did you ever notice a few special words printed on them.   Did you ever  wonder what the  words meant and why they were printed on America’s money?  

NO?   

Whose damned fault is that?    As citizens in a democratic community, your major responsibility to that democracy is to keep it healthy.   Honesty, integrity, decency, trust in you and  others, safety, respect, tolerance, KNOWLEDGE  and wisdom are all REQUIREMENTS  for the health in a God-fearing, democratic society as America tried to be  until its cultural revolution by the Marxists, Neoracists, feminists, and anarchists of the 1960s and 1970s.

And now Obamafied America asks what is wrong with America?      The answer is simple.   Its citizens and their behaviors over the past 50 years were  nudged and crushed by the Bill Ayers crowds who terrorized on behalf of Marxist equality.   Citizens turned to pleasures and themselves and not only abandoned their duties to maintain a healthy democracy, but began to be programmed by Marxists at university  to celebrate a NEW AMERICA, a  mindless, narcissistic and atheistic America.     

Enter, Barack Hussein Obama’s , Media Matters’, and George Soros’  Marxism and the Marxist indoctrinated  college ‘educated’ crowd from the American university to create, dictate, and manage  a new  ”equal America”.

A good man makes his man’s complaints in the following “Mad as Hell” in America plea:   Please listen to it…..but remember, in a democratic society the citizen creates his and her environment!!!

 Does the guy really hit the nail on the head?    You decide.

This guy really hits the nail squarely on the head.   Click here: Are You Kidding Me

 

 

 

 

Your Neighborhood Small Businessman Speaks His PIECE!

WHERE IS THE LEADERSHIP IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY ?    WHO WILL BECOME AMERICAN ENOUGH TO EXPOSE THE INCOMPETENCE AND DEVIOUSNESS OF MARXIST BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA?

Please tune in below for these questions and more asked by your local neighborhood small businessman when he hears  Marxist golfer Obama and his expensive wife, world traveler, Michelle, require more tax payer dollars to cover their ‘deserved’ life style and political needs……..and a question from the small business crowd, “Where is the Republican leadership’s plan outlined clearly in  citizen language?        Bruce Taber sent ‘this guy’s’ message to you:

This guy really hits the nail on the head.   Click here: Are You Kidding Me

 

 

Good for YOU, Rick Santorum! Marriage is Between One Man and One Woman!

The following is an age old Christian statement of Holy Matrimony in the English language:

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health till death us do part.

And:

With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

(Read these lines again.   Let their beauty  remind you of their power, their meaning,  their dream and the expectations.)

                                                 ……………………………………

                                  And Now, We must move forward to our Obama world!

 In Great Britain a few years ago a wealthy British female citizen married her pet dolphin.

In the United States the Obama Courts, the Obama universities, and Obama’s political party profess there  is no significant difference between the human female and the human male   and so, two females or two males as mates are as natural    to raise a family as those submitting to the  bond of the words of Holy Matrimony, quoted  above in  traditional marriage stated in the English Language.

In the West in a few years groups of men will pressure to marry groups of women  and some will want to marry boys.   Groups of women will pressure  to marry girls or  groups of girls  or  groups of women  once the Obama definition of marriage becomes accepted and settles into practice.    Why can’t sisters marry sisters under the Obama standard?

The following  is from an article on the subject of marriage in America,   from yesterday’s  Wall  Steet Journal, by William McGurn:  

“SEX….Obama  LIES, AND RICK SANTORUM”

When  Barack Obama was campaigning for president in 2008, he declared that marriage is between a man and a woman.  For the most part, his position was treated as a nonissue.

Now, Rick Santorum is campaigning for president.  He too says that marriage is between a man and a woman.  What a different reaction he gets.

There’s no mystery why.  Mr. Santorum is attacked because everyone understands that he means what he says.

President Obama, by contrast, gets a pass because everyone understands-nudge nudge, wink wink- that he’s not telling the truth.   The press understands that this is just one of those things a Democratic candidate has to say so he doesn’t rile up the great unwashed.

It’s arguably the most glaring double standard in American life today.  It helps explain why candidates with social views that are fairly conventional among ordinary Americans-the citizens of 31 states including California have rejected same-sex marriage when put to a vote-find themselves depicted as extreme.  It also speaks to why even some who share Mr. Santorum’s social niews nonetheless fear that his outspokenness on these issues will only undermine his candidacy………..”

Further comment:   GO FOR IT RICK SANTORUM……KEEP AT IT …..DO YOUR THING TO BEAT OBAMA!

Everyone who follows toady’s politics knows Obama is a CHRONIC LIAR…..His leftwing Mass Media recognizes this truth regarding his liar habits, but they protect him.   The American leftwing mass media also do know CONSERVATIVES TEND NOT TO LIE, which exercises reporters, television lefties, entertainment masses and teachers and professors  to smear or contrive GOTCHA moments because the too, know  CONSERVATIVES TEND TO TELL THE TRUTH AS THEY SEE THE TRUTH.

President Obama is  noted for his  dishonesty, disingenuousness, deviousness, and duplicity.    This disreputable characteristic  he presents to America exercises his followers to do the same…..and they do. 

It is extremely difficult to sell Marxism in the open light of day to  a free democratic society.   Duplicity and dishonesty have replaced violence or revolution which historically have been the  essential tools of salesmanship to  hide Marxist  tyranny.    Obama sets this malevalence of  tone and vocabulary for his backers  to imitate during this 2012  battle for America’s soul.

IS IT CHILD ABUSE IF PARENTS REDESIGN THEIR 5 YEAR OLD BOY INTO A GIRL?

Every time I reach for my emails I have to endure the nuttiness, the bigotry of the light headed, poorly educated, Obama devoted folks at  MSN.   MSN is a gay and lesbian political  fan club and possesses all of the bigotry of Obama’s Marxist antiAmerican campaign to control  traditional citizen-oriented life.  I came across the following article, titled, “Five Year-Old-Boy Living As A Girl in Controversial Gender Case.”

Be certain to click on the msnNowhome page below for full view!

“Five-year-old Zach Avery used to love Thomas the Tank Engine, but since the age of 3, he’s been sporting tutus and ribbons and living as a girl. According to The Telegraph, the pigtailed primary-schooler is one of the earliest-diagnosed cases of gender identity disorder, or GID, in which there’s “a conflict” between an individual’s physical gender and the gender with which the person identifies. Zach’s parents and teachers have defended his decision — his school even changed the restrooms to gender-neutral units — but critics say he’s too young to make such a life-altering choice. Sandwiched in between support for Zach and blatantly transphobic comments on Twitter is this thought-provoking question: “How much leeway should parents give to their kids’ desires?”

Check out the msnNOW home page

The Book of Common Prayer: More Beauty in Words from Yesteryear

Common Prayer, Uncommon Beauty

By Jonathan Aitken from the February 2012 issue

The magnificent Book of Common Prayer has been going strong for 350 years.

Last year, this column and the world celebrated the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. This year brings the 350th birthday of another magnificent monument of early modern English—the 1662 Book of Common Prayer (BCP). All who savor the riches of our common linguistic heritage should rejoice in its commemoration. For the BCP’s combination of spiritual wisdom and literary beauty gives it a following far beyond the ecclesiastical frontiers of Anglicanism, Episcopalianism, and the Church of England that originally commissioned it.

The BCP was the creation of Thomas Cranmer, a Tudor statesman blessed with a genius for the writing of prose bordering on poetry. A court favorite of King Henry VIII, who made him Archbishop of Canterbury, Cranmer compiled the various prayers, collects, and orders of worship that eventually emerged as the 1662 prayer book. However, before it could be published in its final form its principal author was burned at the stake for his Reformist sympathies during a period of Catholic repression.

Although these power struggles have long since been forgotten, Cranmer’s majestic command of the English language lives on. In the words of his leading biographer, Diarmaid MacCulloch: “Millions who have never heard of Cranmer or of the muddled heroism of his death have echoes of his words in their minds.”

These echoes of Cranmer’s gift for language ring down the centuries because he had a perfect ear for cadences that are both beautiful and eternal. He wanted “a mere ploughboy” to be able to remember the BCP’s most powerful phrases. He did not hesitate to borrow from the finest spiritual writers of his time such as Miles Coverdale, an early translator of the Psalms, and Archbishop Reynolds, who authored the prayer of General Thanksgiving. Yet the most sparkling gems of the BCP were Cranmer’s own compositions such as:

We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done. And we have done those things which we ought not to have done. And there is no health in us. (General Confession)

Or:

Lighten our darkness we beseech thee O Lord; and by thy great mercy defend us from all perils and dangers of this night. (Collect for Evening Prayer)

In my own love of the rhythms and resonance of such prayers I am conscious that I may be one of a dwindling band of English old fogeys. My familiarity with Cranmer’s language dates back to the 1950s, when hardly any form of liturgy other than the BCP was used in Britain’s schools and churches—as had been the case for the previous 300 years. But in the last half-century, evangelicals and modernists have elbowed out the BCP, replacing it with liturgical practices whose flexibility is all too often equaled by its banality.

American worshippers of various denominations may find the arguments for and against the BCP to be an esoteric British debate between the cult of quaintness and the pressures of political correctness. Yet excellence is excellence whatever the current fashion, and Cranmer’s words, like Shakespeare’s, have survived because they are “not of an age, but for all time.

A recent reminder of the BCP’s timelessness was provided last year by the global reaction to the royal wedding when Prince William and Catherine Middleton chose Cranmer’s “Solemnization of Matrimony” liturgy for their marriage service in Westminster Abbey.

As a result a worldwide television audience in excess of 1.5 billion listened to ancient yet spine-tingling spiritual phrases such as:

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health till death us do part.

And:

With this ring I thee wed, with my body I thee worship, and with all my worldly goods I thee endow.

Such sentiments are light years removed from the current practices of pre-nuptial agreements and quickie divorces. The promises are couched in a solemnity of language that heightens the commitment.

As the vows of marriage and many other lines from the BCP demonstrate, Cranmer had a master’s touch for the sonorities and structures of an English sentence. He has influenced innumerable authors over the past 350 years. It is easy to find Cranmerian echoes in the prose of writers as diverse as Edward Gibbon, John Milton, William Makepeace Thackeray, the Brontës, T. S. Eliot, P. G. Wodehouse, John le Carré, and P. D. James. But the literary heritage of the BCP is surpassed by its spiritual challenges.

The first vernacular prayer books (there were forerunners in 1549 and 1552, also largely authored by Cranmer, from which the definitive 1662 BCP emerged) were far more original than the “Latin Mass translated into English,” as has sometimes been asserted. Although the structure of the Holy Communion service was fairly close to the Catholic Sarum Rite, even here there was a new “in your face” power to the BCP liturgy. For example the invitation to make a confession prior to accepting the sacramental bread and wine is dramatic:

Ye that do truly and earnestly repent you of your sins, as are in love and charity with your neighbours, and intend to lead a new life following the Commandments of God and walking henceforth in his holy ways: Draw near with faith and take this holy Sacrament to your comfort; and make your humble confession to Almighty God meekly kneeling upon your knees.

Apart from the special exhortations and rubrics in the order of various services, the key dynamic in the BCP is the interplay between Scripture, doctrine, devotion, and prayer.

Eighty percent of the 1662 Prayer Book is Scripture. It contains readings from the King James Bible with Epistles and Gospels selected for every Sunday of the year. Also central to the BCP are the Psalms, set for morning and evening readings on each day of the month. These are in the 16th-century translation of Miles Coverdale whose vernacular version of the Psalter had become so popular by the start of the 17th century that Cranmer did not dare replace it with the King James Version.

Herein lies a vital clue to the BCP’s continuing survival and perhaps revival. It was always meant to be read aloud. Cranmer’s genius came from being as good a listener as he was an author. He had perfect hearing for spiritual language that would season with the familiarity of repetition and perfect pitch for writing jeweled miniatures of prayer known as “The Collects.” One such collect, for the Second Sunday in Advent, captures the oral spirit of the BCP with its emphasis on reading and memory. Its opening words are famous:

Blessed Lord, who has caused all holy Scriptures to be written for our learning: Grant that we may in such wise hear them, read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them…

The inward digestion of Scripture is one of the keys to a Christian spiritual journey. It is magnificently guided by the Book of Common Prayer—still going strong after 350 years.

About the Author

Jonathan Aitken, The American Spectator‘s High Spirits columnist, is most recently author of John Newton: From Disgrace to Amazing Grace (CrosswayBooks). His biographies include Charles W. Colson: A Life Redeemed (Doubleday) and Nixon: A Life, now available in a new paperback edition (Regnery).

 

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The above article was sent by Mark Waldeland.