Jeff Foxworthy 

On Muslims

1. If you refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to liquor, You may be a Muslim.

2. If you own a $3,000 machine gun and a $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can't afford shoes, You may be a Muslim.

Mohammed watching shameless women burn in Hell
for letting strangers catch a glimpse of their hair

3. If you have more wives than teeth, You may be a Muslim.

4. If you wipe your butt with your bare hand but consider bacon to be unclean, You may be a Muslim.

Mohammed watching women burned in Hell
suspended with hooks put through their tongues
for talking back to their husbands

5. If you think vests come in two styles:  Bullet-proof and suicide. You may be a Muslim.

6. If you can't think of anyone you haven't declared jihad against, You may be a Muslim.

Mohammed watching women burned in Hell
with hooks put through their breasts
for the sin of having been born a woman

7. If you consider television dangerous but routinely carry explosives in your clothing, You may be a Muslim.

8. If you were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs, You may be a Muslim.

9. If you have nothing against women and think every man should own at least four, You may be a Muslim.

10. If you find this offensive and don't share it, You may be a Muslim.

THE DOW JONES  

INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE

As of Wednesday, 10/13/14,  4:30 PM 

16321.07 -223.03 (-1.35%)

Open: 16, 535.43

Low: 16, 310.67

Volume: 107, 830, 340 shares traded

After having had a banner year reaching record  highs of well over 17, 500, the DJIA has been in retreat for most of the past month wiping out the year’s gains in a few short weeks.

“I’m not rich,” you say, “why should I care? I have no sympathy for the rich. I work for a living. Investing is a rich man’s game. How could this effect me?”

We here at FreeThinke’s blog are hoping for a variety of answers that might help others to understand why and how the market matters. 

Like it or not, we are are all in this together. If the market fails, it produces a chain reaction that effects everyone. If the rich are faced with sudden poverty, the rest of us will soon be destitute. 

What are your thoughts?

~ § ~

IRRELEVANT REMARKS, BOILERPLATE, PERSONAL REMARKS, and EVIDENCE of  BLOG FEUDS, POISONOUS GOSSIP, IDIOCY and ILL WILL WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.

WHO IS THIS MAN?

He is nothing special –– just another myth for leftist iconoclasts to smash –– another target for them to abuse mercilessly in their fervent quest to denigrate the White Man while defaming and discrediting all that White Men have accomplished in order to deal the coup de grace to Western Civilization, and sweep it into the dustbin of history.

NOW MOVE ON. NOTHNG TO SEE HERE.

JUST BE SURE TO SPIT ON HIS IMAGE, AND MUTTER "YOU GOD-DAMNED BASTARD! I HOPE YOU ARE ROASTING IN THE HOTTEST CORNER OF HELL" BEFORE YOU GO.

Why We Are Where We Are, and What Might We 

Do About It?

I hate to be the one to have to say it, yet again, but endless sparring with militant morons makes for very dull, ultimately pointless conversation.

HOWEVER, we must give credit where credit is due. One of the latest comments by a certain self-styled Chronic-Irritant-in-Residence, who shall in the interests of concord remain nameless, said something profound and definitely worth serious consideration at Who’s Your Daddy, yesterday:

"Let me know when you actually find real honest conservatives [who] believe in balancing the budget, reducing the federal debt, curtailing the MIC (military industrial complex), supporting an infrastructure that benefits all Americans, not just the oligarchs, plutocrats, and the very wealthy (you know by keeping good paying jobs in the USA rather than outsourcing and offshoring) and I'll help you put them in office."

The question lurking BEHIND and BENEATH these generally correct assertions is not IF, but WHY Big Business has moved in this regrettable direction?

Other questions we need at least to attempt to answer intelligently:

1. Who are The Oligarchs?

2. What forces brought to bear on Business and the Economy in the past century helped create them and put them so firmly in place?

3. Why do The Oligarchs seem to have abandoned all loyalty to the USA or any other nation in particular?

4. Has anyone seen NETWORK with Peter Finch and Bill Holden lately? It's hardly "mere entertainment." NETWORK graphically raises questions and gives plausible answers as to the true nature of the forces that REALLY shape govern us. It's brutal cynicism –– like that of E.M. Forster's The Machine Stops (1909) and Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four (1949) –– seems chillingly justified.

5. If the dystopian fantasies of Forster, Huxley, Orwell and Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale - 1985) and the film NEWORK have, indeed, proved poignantly prophetic, which seems the case on the face of it, what do YOU think might be done to undo the great harm various forces have done to Western Civilization and the ideals of our Founding Fathers?

6. If The Oligarchs exist, (as so many who aid, abet and draw sustenance form them would insist they do not), and their influence is, indeed, real, that means the traditional wrestling match between Left and Right no longer matters. Why? Because The Oligarchs, apparently, have succeeded in USING BOTH camps to further the ends of The Oligarchs. How? By cynically exploiting and exacerbating divisions, encouraging enmity and promoting ENDLESS WAR these few "titans" have us all at each other's throats, or don’t you agree? And if not, why?

WHY would they want to do that?

What could be gained? Who would gain?

How would they gain?

If we put our heads together and at least TRY to answer some of these questions, we MIGHT start to move in a productive, agreeable direction one again.

What we ARE doing, instead, with the relentless, daily exchange of insults, accusations and bitter recriminations is getting us nowhere fast.

Flinging Poo Poo all over the place may be fun, and give a momentary release from tension, but it’s childish and irresponsible. Besides, what does it produce other than a stinking mess no one in his right mind would want to live with, and no one wants to accept responsibility for cleaning up?

I can all but guarantee HE will not bring us Salvation,
and just who do you think HE might be?

NEED ANYONE SAY MORE?

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Success is counted sweetest

By those who ne’er succeed.

To comprehend a Nectar

Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple Host

Who took the Flag today

can tell the definition

So clear of Victory

As he –– defeated –– dying ––

On who forbidden ear

The distant sound of Triumph breaks ––

Agonized and clear.

~ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

The Place of Humiliation

10/2/14

If You can do anything, have compassion on us and help us —Mark 9:22

After every time of exaltation, we are brought down with a sudden rush into things as they really are, where it is neither beautiful, poetic, nor thrilling. The height of the mountaintop is measured by the dismal drudgery of the valley, but it is in the valley that we have to live for the glory of God. We see His glory on the mountain, but we never live for His glory there. It is in the place of humiliation that we find our true worth to God— that is where our faithfulness is revealed. Most of us can do things if we are always at some heroic level of intensity, simply because of the natural selfishness of our own hearts. But God wants us to be at the drab everyday level, where we live in the valley according to our personal relationship with Him. Peter thought it would be a wonderful thing for them to remain on the mountain, but Jesus Christ took the disciples down from the mountain and into the valley, where the true meaning of the vision was explained (see Mark 9:5-6 , Mark 9:14-23).

“If you can do anything . . . .” It takes the valley of humiliation to remove the skepticism from us. Look back at your own experience and you will find that until you learned who Jesus really was, you were a skillful skeptic about His power. When you were on the mountaintop you could believe anything, but what about when you were faced with the facts of the valley? You may be able to give a testimony regarding your sanctification, but what about the thing that is a humiliation to you right now? The last time you were on the mountain with God, you saw that all the power in heaven and on earth belonged to Jesus— will you be skeptical now, simply because you are in the valley of humiliation? 

My Utmost for His Highest - Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers (c. 1905)

SWEENEY TODD

The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

starring 

Angela Lansbury 

and George Hearn

  The 1982 Television Adaptation of 

STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S 1979 Broadway Musical 

with book by

HUGH WHEELER

Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett, Len Cariou as Sweeney Todd

Senator Ted Cruz, R, Texas

STOP, LOOK, LISTEN,  Determine for Yourself What You See and Hear THEN TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

This Crazy World

Daumier - The Third Class Carriage

VIAGROSIS? CIALISITIS? PARRICIDOMANIA?

Rare Syndrome Causes Man To Suffer 9 Orgasms At Father's Funeral...

AUTOS NOW IN LOCO PARENTIS?

'Smarter' Cars Recognize Owners, Access Phones For Reminders...

Hogarth - Bedlam

MUSICAL GHOULS?

Manilow Halloween Surprise: 'I Sing with Dead People'...

Duets with the Deceased...

Bette Midler Announces Comeback Album...

Hogarth - Gin Lane and Beer Street, London

DO YOU REALLY WANT TO KNOW?

PAPER: What does human meat taste like?

DO WE NEED TO FUNCTION AT ALL?

CHALLENGE: 'Artificial tongue' better than finest wine critic...

WRETCHED EXCESS HITS NEW HIGH

Gustave Doré - Houndsditch, London

BOOM: Manhattan Condo to Be Listed at $130 Million!

Bong Franklin

Fail, Columbia

Fail, Columbia, crappy land

Fail, ye zeroes, hellbound band

Who fought to kill the Founder's Cause

To hear the Devil's loud applause, 

And when the storm of words was done

Enjoyed the wreck your efforts won.

Tom Paine gone raving mod 

Let fierce dependence

Be your boast

Ever mindful what you've lost

Ever scornful you have won the prize:

Independence vanquished lies.

George Washedupton

Disunited let us be

Lauding our slavery,

As a band of gangsters joined

Endless conflict we shall find.

~ Frank Hoaxingson

I should've stayed in France. The food's better there.

With deepest gratitude to Kurt Silver Fiddle 

who gave Mr. Hoaxignson the title, 

and inspired the parody.


And Now Francis Hopkinson's Original

The Jersey Bounce

Two Versions

Connie Frances 

and 

Ella Fitzgerald

Benny Goodman

"The Jersey Bounce" is a song written by Tiny Bradshaw, Eddie Johnson and Bobby Plater with lyrics by Buddy Feyne who used the nom de plume Robert B. Wright (as this song was written during an ASCAP strike). It hit #1 in 1942 as an instrumental recorded by Benny Goodman and his orchestra, and also charted that same year by Jimmy Dorsey (#9) and Shep Fields (#15) . It was covered by numerous bands and swing orchestras including Glenn Miller, Jan Savitt and Red Norvo. Artists such as Ella Fitzgerald, Ella Mae Morse and The King Sisters also recorded it. Fitzgerald recorded it on her two albums Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! and again on All That Jazz. The King Sisters and Ella Mae Morse recorded singles.

Burned head to foot an American soldier desperately clings to life

The Face of War

SO YOU WANT to GO to WAR?

Fine, But First Try To Answer These Questions 

How does it feel to be cut in half 

_____ by a sudden burst of machine gun bullets?

What does it feel like at the precise moment 

_____ when a bullet enters your eye, and pierces your brain?

Can you imagine having your lower jaw smashed by bullets

_____ and then see its bloody, splintered fragments 

__________ drop to the ground ?

What is it like to take a direct hit to the skull? 

_____ Would you know that you were dead?

What sensations must a person feel 

_____ as his body is being consumed by fire?

What might be the thoughts of someone 

_____ just thrown to the ground and kicked, 

__________ whose hands have been tied behind his back, 

who then gets chained by his heels 

_____ to the rear end of a vehicle 

__________ about to drag his still-healthy, still-unbroken 

_______________ young body over stones, gravel, 

____________________ dirt and thorny stubble?

How does it feel to have the flesh ripped off your cheeks? 

_____ To have all the flesh on your hands torn off 

__________ exposing bones and tendons?

How does it feel to have grit and gravel 

_____ embed themselves in your eyes? 

How does it feel to be torn 

_____ limb from limb by a jeering mob? 

Exactly how does it feel to have your head 

_____ stomped to jelly by hobnailed boots? 

Or your genitalia ripped out by the roots 

_____ and stuffed into your screaming mouth?

How does it feel to be smart enough to realize 

_____ you are suffering and dying for the sole purpose 

__________ of lining the pockets of international bankers, 

____________ ___ global industrialists and the suppliers 

____________________of war materiel with gold?

Exactly how would you react to being held down 

_____ and having your teeth kicked down your throat, 

__________ your eyes gouged out, 

_______________ your ears and your nose sliced off, 

____________________ or a glass rod inserted in your urethra

_________________________ and then smashed to pulver?

How would you feel when you are forced to eat 

_____ ground glass or drink hydrochloric acid?

How would you feel if you were sodomized by barbarians 

_____ then buried up to your neck in sand 

__________ and systematically stoned and kicked to death?

How does it feel to be held down and deliberately blinded by acid?

How does it feel to be maimed by “Friendly Fire?"

How does it feel to be flayed alive 

_____ and then slowly cut to ribands?

How does it feel to be forced to kneel before your captors, 

_____ hands tied behind your back

__________ while you wait to have your head hacked off

_______________ by a hand held knife?

How? How? How?

But much more important is

WHY?

__________ WHY?

____________________ WHY?

~FreeThinke

American soldiers witnessing the destruction of a Japanese bunker

How, when we need to ask questions like this now more than ever, could we imagine even for a moment we have no need for the healing power and redeeming grace of Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ?

Agnus Dei, qui tollis pecatta mundi, miserere nobis