Views from the Nest 2-9-2015


From the Top of the Nest

The bloggosphere is all a twiiter about President Obama’s remarks at the National Prayer breakfast last Thursday. During his speech Obama spoke against violence committed in the name of religion, and stated that Christians have been just as guilty as Muslims and other terror groups of this crime.

He equated the Crusades with the Muslim jihad as if the two are equal. The Christian crusades came about as a result of Muslim jihad and were a defensive move to protect Christians who were being killed by Muslim jihadists, much like today. Unlike the Muslim jihad, the Christian crusades ended centuries ago.

Misconceptions about the Crusades are all too common. The Crusades are generally portrayed as a series of holy wars against Islam led by power-mad popes and fought by religious fanatics. They are supposed to have been the epitome of self-righteousness and intolerance, a black stain on the history of the Catholic Church in particular and Western civilization in general. A breed of proto-imperialists, the Crusaders introduced Western aggression to the peaceful Middle East and then deformed the enlightened Muslim culture, leaving it in ruins. For variations on this theme, one need not look far. See, for example, Steven Runciman’s famous three-volume epic, History of the Crusades, or the BBC/A&E documentary, The Crusades, hosted by Terry Jones. Both are terrible history yet wonderfully entertaining.

Not much has changed when it comes to the Muslim jihadists since they are attacking the same region and the same people groups as they did centuries ago. In fact their war on Christianity has never ended. Except for the Crusaders Europe would have been a Muslim Caliph today.

The true intent of the Muslim Jihadists is to rid the world of Christianity and Jewry. That crusade has never ended. Christians on the other hand may have given up the fight to make disciples of all nations, teaching and baptising in the name of Jesus Christ.

The Real History of the Crusades

A series of holy wars against Islam led by power-mad popes and fought by religious fanatics? Think again.


The Cuckoo’s Nest

Univ. of Michigan Spends 16k On Inclusive Language Campaign

The University of Michigan has spent over $16,000 at its flagship Ann Arbor campus on a campaign to encourage students to avoid using language that may be offensive, The College Fix reported Monday. So much for free speech.


California Taxing Taxes during Freezing Winter because Global Warming


UC Students Vote To Divest … From America

The University of California Student Association has passed a resolution calling on the university to divest itself from several world governments … including its own.


Tail Feathers

Other news of note

Virginia is Voting on Calling for a Convention of States


Scots reject independence from United Kingdom in historic vote


And last but not least: Your kids college tuition at work.
Harvard Students can’t recite the Pledge of Allegiance, but know what ISIS stands for

In response to a video showing how Harvard students believe America is a greater threat to the world than ISIS, another movie-maker asked them to explain what ISIS means, and then recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Not surprisingly, they were way better at the former than the latter.

Isn’t Obama a Harvard alum?


That’s all for today until next time have a blessed day! Eagle out!

 

 

Views from the Nest 2-5-2015


Jeb Bush Believes DREAMers Should Stay in U.S.

If Jeb Bush wins the Republican presidential nomination, it will indicate a softening of the GOP approach to immigration. The progressive American Bridge, an opposition research firm that targets Republicans, released videos of Bush at a meeting of the Hispanic Leadership Network explaining his…y


Abortion versus the States

With the 2015 March for Life two weeks behind us, states across the country are debating and voting on bills related to life issues. From “telemed” abortions to parental notification and consent, U.S. legislatures continue to defy the “science is settled” one-size-fits-all Roe v. Wade and Doe v.y


Islam and Appeasement

Europe and America are impaled on the horns of a strategic dilemma. On the one hand, the world is besieged by jihadi religious terror, barbarity, and serial wars with jihadists. Concurrently, most of the civilized world defends the very religious cultures, Sunni and Shia Islam especially, where the problems originate.y


Global Warming Pause: Is the End Near?

Global Warming (GW) alarmists are in a pickle: no GW, in spite of rising CO2 levels. True believers are using quasi-religious slogans, like “The End [of the GW pause] is Near” and “Repent [Stop emitting CO2] Before It’s Too Late.”y


How to Make Young People Conservative

Influential talk show host Mark Levin has called on constitutional conservatives to come up with a way to appeal to young people. Levin said it is not enough to make intellectual arguments for conservatism and constitutionalism; we must come up with a way to reach young people that has emotional impact.y

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America Loves a Sniper

I took with me to the movie a buddy who was a sniper in the Vietnam War. While gasbags like Michael Moore toss around the word “cowardly” about men whose boots they are not fit to lace up, those who have served in combat know that snipers are just another reliable weapon, typically picking off with precision enemy threats to our own troops, at considerable risk to the snipers themselves, who were hunted with vigor.y


Obama: ‘People Committed Terrible Deeds in the Name of Christ’

(CNSNews.com) – Professions of faith can be used both as instruments of great good but also twisted and misused in the name of evil,” President Obama told the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on Thursday, in a speech that drew light smatterings of applause.y


 

 

 

‘He Redeemed My Life’: Man Who Lived as Woman for Years Now Shares Christ With Transgenders


LOS ANGELES, Calif. — A California man who obtained a sex change operation in the 1980’s to live as a woman and later reverted back to his biological gender is …

Source: christiannews.net

Here is a story I am sure you will not find in the LGBTQ literature.

 

Transgendered individuals need to be transformed not transitioned. They need the help of the great healer Jesus Christ and not a plastic surgeon. Walt Heyer lived 8 years as a woman even though he was born a man.

 

Heyer told the Daily Mail recently that he believes his problems stem from his childhood, when he was sexually abused by one relative and cross-dressed by another.

 

“[M]y grandmother, when I was being babysat by her, started dressing me in female clothing. She even made me a purple chiffon evening dress,” he recalled. “And when dad found out what grandma had been doing, and dressing me up like a girl, it did change everything.”

 

“[My father’s] adopted brother Fred began to sexually molest me,” Heyer said.

 

Although Heyer went on to marry and have children, at the age of 37, he decided to obtain a sex change operation to become a woman.

 

He said that he divorced his wife just before the operation because he did not want to put her through the ordeal. However, his children were not happy with how the situation was destroying their family.

 

“When a father does that, you’re betraying your children, and what came to my mind later on was I saw myself as much more important than my kids,” Heyer explained. “That is probably the most self-centered, narcissistic thing a person can do. It’s just nonsense to place yourself over a couple of kids, who needed someone to be there for them.”

 

Many never arrive at the place Walt eventually did, they do not see themselves as selfish and self-centered, even when they place their needs above all others. They feel that it is all about them and what they want, their happiness is all that matters to them. What many fail to realize, whether gay or straight, is that true happiness and true love comes from denying yourself and doing for others.

 

Although Walt attempted to change his sexual identity he came to the realization that one can not change biology.

 

"One day while studying psychology at the University of California, Heyer had an epiphany: He wasn’t a transgender. He was a man with a psychological problem that trying to live as a woman wasn’t going to fix. Heyer also learned that his answer wasn’t within himself; it was in Christ.

 

So, eight years after obtaining the operation, Heyer reverted back to living as a man, and now says he doesn’t believe that people are born transgender.

 

“Gender dysphoria is a psychological condition where you are dissatisfied with your gender,” he told the Daily Mail. “Nobody’s ever born a transgender. They’re manufactured as a result of something, a developmental childhood issue that has yet to be determined for many people. In retrospect, I can see that changing genders, quite frankly is just pure foolishness.”

 

Heyer says that those who struggle with the condition are not receiving proper care, and many medical professionals are too quick to agree to surgery.

 

“All of them have some level of depression, and we’re not treating them,” he lamented. “We’re just cutting off body parts and giving them a new name and a new gender.”

 

“[But] biologically, no one can transport to the other gender, it’s not even possible,” Heyer stated. “All they do is pump people full of hormones, put in breast implants and declare that they’ve manufactured a female. It’s biologically impossible to make a man into a woman.”

 

Matthew 19:4 (HCSB)
4  “Haven’t you read,” He replied, “that He who created them in the beginning made them male and female,”

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Holocaust Remembrance Day, 2015 | The Atlas Society


As the death camps in Europe were being liberated 70 years ago, every civilized person was asking, “How could this have happened?” and vowing, “Never again.”

 

The “how” is on display in our world today. The only way the “never again” vow can be fulfilled is for all individuals who aspire to be civilized stand up and fight for the values of reason and individual liberty, and against any dogmas and dogmatists who would oppose them.

Source: www.atlassociety.org

Those who refuse to learn from history or doomed to repeat it.

 

The ideas that led to the Holocaust are infecting our world today, principally through Islam. Islamist dogma holds that theirs is the only true religion, that they should wield absolute power and should enslave or even exterminate the infidel. The failure to oppose evil ideas and to defend civilized values allows the evil ones to crush the good. In the 1930s European leaders and thinkers, rightly seeking to avoid another world war, ignored the fact that Hitler’s ideology and actions showed that he was serious in his goal of creating a Greater German Reich dominated by his Master Race. The result of their failure to oppose his ideas and policies led to another world war. Are we on the verge of a third world war?

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Obama’s Massive Land Grab Has Alaska Furious: ‘We Will Fight Back’ – Freedom Force


Obama’s Massive Land Grab Has Alaska Furious: ‘We Will Fight Back’

Source: freedomforce.com

 

"President Obama announced Sunday that his administration plans to lock up the oil-rich 1.5 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain and offshore areas in Alaska from oil and gas exploration.

 

Obama is asking Congress to designate 12 million acres of ANWR as a “wilderness” to keep it off-limits to development, despite widespread Native Alaskan support for drilling in the area. ANWR’s coastal plain alone is estimated to hold 28 billion barrels of oil."

 

 

Environmentalists have long campaigned to hinder oil production in Alaska.

 

"But Alaska lawmakers were furious with the administration’s proposal — for decades Alaska Republicans and Democrats have been pushing for opening ANWR to drilling.

 

“What’s coming is a stunning attack on our sovereignty and our ability to develop a strong economy that allows us, our children and our grandchildren to thrive,” said Alaska Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski. “It’s clear this administration does not care about us, and sees us as nothing but a territory.”

 

The Obama administration has already proposed designating 226 million acres of waters off Alaska’s coast as a critical habitat for the Arctic ringed seal. Alaska’s outer continental shelf is believed to be home to the world’s largest untapped oil and gas reserves. According to Alaska’s Resource Development Council, the outer shelf could hold 27 billion barrels of oil and 132 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

 

“The promises made to us at statehood, and since then, mean absolutely nothing to them,” Murkowski said. “I cannot understand why this administration is willing to negotiate with Iran, but not Alaska. But we will not be run over like this. We will fight back with every resource at our disposal.” I am pretty sure that if Russia needs an influx of natural oil and gas Putin will have no problem drilling for it off the coastline of Alaska.

 

Alaska’s energy production has been hampered in recent years due largely to federal restrictions and adverse economics. In recent months, the state has seen its financial situation grow worse because of plummeting oil prices. At one point, the Trans-Alaska Pipeline used to transport some 2.1 million barrels per day. It now carries well under 1 million barrels per day. The pipeline has so far only carried oil from state lands, as federal lands have been off-limits. The pipeline will have to be shut down and dismantled if it drops below 300,000 barrels per day. Opening federal lands would allow more oil and natural gas exploration and bring prosperity to our country along with a steady of supply of domestic oil and natural gas. Shutting down the Trans-Alaska pipeline would be a huge mistake and would cost millions to reopen under a more economically friendly administration.

 

"Environmentalists have been keen on slowing down the flow of oil through the pipeline to make it uneconomical and impractical to get oil from Alaska. Eco-activists have labelled Alaska a ground-zero for global warming, saying shrinking sea ice levels are harming polar bears, wildlife and Native Alaskans – despite evidence to the contrary."

 

I thought that states were supposed to be sovereign under the Constitution of the United States? I was under the impression that under our Constitutional form of government that each state could operate independently of the federal government and enact their own laws. This central planning has brought our economy to a standstill and it appears it is only going to get worse if there is not a FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE at the federal government level to address this encroachment of the federal government into private property, and meddling into State’s affairs.

 

You would think that our elected leaders would be fighting to protect the rights of individuals and states. But on the contrary the federal government seems to be doing everything it can to hinder the economy and stifle energy production through regulations and the federalization of state lands.

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