Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1760-1831)

What is Marxism?

Do Academic Hairsplitting. Jesuitical Logic, and Legalistic Thinking Have Value in the Practical Application of Political and Religious Doctrines?

Much has been made –– primarily by leftist academics and those who’ve fallen under their spell –– of the supposed differences between Marxism, Fascism, Fabianism, Communism, Socialism, Progressivism, Liberalism, Statism and the American Democrats, as they've developed in the past hundred years.

Since all are COLLECTIVIST in nature, most openly HOSTILE to CHRISTIANITY, and therefore ANTI-INDIVIDUALIST, and all inevitably lead to DICTATORSHIP –– i.e. tyranny, despotism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism, which in turn are forms of slavery, 

I can't see any significant difference 

among them, can you?

I see that infamous group as a rough parallel to the Christian movement as it has developed since the Reformation. "How so?" you ask.

All right, here goes: The Roman Catholic, Greek and Russian Orthodox churches, the Coptic Church, the Church of the East, the various branches of the Lutheran Church, the Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Dutch Reformed churches, the Quakers, the now-defunct Shakers, the Seventh Day Adventists, the Assembly of God, the Jehovah's Witnesses. the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints better known as Mormons, and others ALL identify themselves as CHRISTIAN churches, yet there are difference among them that keep them divided and largely at odds.

Most claim to be The One True Church to the exclusion of the others, BUT they ALL want identify themselves as CHRISTIAN.

I believe the same could –– and should –– be said for all the various branches of LEFTIST IDEOLOGY all of which are united in their opposition to INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM, CAPITALISM, CHRISTIANITY, and SELF-DETERMINATION 

The naked hostility the Left bears towards LIBERTY 

is almost palpable.

I hope someone will take the time to discuss what I have said, add to it, introduce contrast and enrichment while sedulously avoiding mockery, derision, hectoring, badgering, cliché-ridden rhetoric and canned opinion gathered from Central Propaganda Mills of any stripe.

Why Hillary Clinton 

Won’t Run for 

President

Former Secretary of State H. Rodham Clinton

By Wesley Pruden - - Thursday, January 15, 2015

Hillary can’t win, and that’s why she won’t run. She may not know that yet herself, but a lot of Democrats want her because she’s all they’ve got. The Republicans are counting on her to run because they think she’s the candidate they can beat in what looks from here like it could be a Republican year.

Lady Macbeth has the resume that makes her plausible, which a lot of pundits and normal other people confuse with “inevitable.” Everybody recognizes her name. She doesn’t hear the music but she recognizes the words and knows policy, and likes to talk about it. She’s a woman, and that should help with the ladies. (It might hurt, too).

She has had to carry a lot of Bubba’s baggage, and people usually pity the wronged wife. Nobody is comfortable as the object of pity, but political widows have often exploited it. Political wives, not so much. Hillary has successfully used it, probably because she has thrown the occasional lamp. People like people who fight back.

She has even carried some of Barack Obama’s baggage, and she’ll have to work hard to avoid sharing the blame for the president’s bad choices. The map of the world is speckled with them.

Against every positive, there’s two or three negatives. Everyone has a list. Many women like her, some women worship her. Most men despise her. She reminds them of their ex-wives. Life is not fair. Men, a wise man said, are assumed to be competent until they prove otherwise; that was Mr. Obama’s good fortune in 2008, when nobody looked at him closely. Women are thought to be incompetent until they prove otherwise, as many women in politics and business do every day. Getting credit is not easy.

Successful men and women are born with an instinct for politics, or they never have it. Bubba was born with it, along with the ability to change convictions like changing his pants. The politicians who have it have no shame exploiting it. If they have the ability to wink, smile and say the right thing they can get by with anything short of murder, and maybe that, too. What can you do with a good ol’ boy like Bubba? He only rarely hit a false note. Hillary never hits anything but.

She’s stiff and wooden as a public speaker, as if trying to prove Dr. Johnson’s famous aphorism that a woman preaching is like a dog trying to walk on its hind legs. Hillary is tone-deaf besides. She’s always starting on her “back foot,” as the English say, and she’s a mediocre campaigner, too. Bubba would never have said the family, with millions in the bank, was “dead broke. Not because it was a lie but because everybody in America knew it was a lie. A skilled politician would never have asked, after the Benghazi debacle, “What difference, at this point, does it make?” Whatever gift for politics she has, she got from imitating Bubba. Voters won’t be satisfied with a pale imitation, and nobody listens to two-time losers.

Instinct and ambition — the “fire in the belly” — is a lethal combination, and Hillary has a version only of ambition, but it only occasionally flashes as the hard blue flame that drives winners. Mike McCurry, Bubba’s press secretary, asks the pertinent question about Hillary: At 67, does she really want to spend her golden years working 16 hours a day, eating bad food, sleeping in a strange and uncomfortable bed every night, shaking the hands of strangers in a drafty gym in Iowa, and rubbing elbows with indifferent diners in New Hampshire? She could live the luxurious life at her own pace, delivering the same canned speech written for her, enjoying a new granddaughter, making speeches for $200,000 a pop and watching the millions accumulate at the Clinton Global Foundation.

Running in 2016 won’t be the picnic of 2008, when she had no record to defend (nobody expects so much of a senator). The press, which took a dive in 2008, is loaded this time. She will get sharp questions that she won’t be able to blow off in 2016. She will find out quickly “What difference, at this point, does it make.” There will be no coronation.

Hillary is caught in a trap of her own ambition. The prospect of her as president, which keeps the big money coming from foundations and corporations buying access to a new president, will dry up once she announces, leaving her with only the anger of partisan friends with no candidate. But life for the Clintons has always been about Hillary and Bubba, and good luck to everybody else.

• Wesley Pruden is the editor emeritus of The Washington Times.

Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jan/15/wesley-pruden-why-hillary-clinton-wont-run-for-pre/#ixzz3P2rahf2E 

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The Garden of Proserpine

Here, where the world is quiet;

         Here, where all trouble seems

Dead winds' and spent waves' riot

         In doubtful dreams of dreams;

I watch the green field growing

For reaping folk and sowing,

For harvest-time and mowing,

         A sleepy world of streams.

I am tired of tears and laughter,

         And men that laugh and weep;

Of what may come hereafter

         For men that sow to reap:

I am weary of days and hours,

Blown buds of barren flowers,

Desires and dreams and powers

         And everything but sleep.

Here life has death for neighbour,

         And far from eye or ear

Wan waves and wet winds labour,

         Weak ships and spirits steer;

They drive adrift, and whither

They wot not who make thither;

But no such winds blow hither,

         And no such things grow here.

No growth of moor or coppice,

         No heather-flower or vine,

But bloomless buds of poppies,

         Green grapes of Proserpine,

Pale beds of blowing rushes

Where no leaf blooms or blushes

Save this whereout she crushes

         For dead men deadly wine.

Pale, without name or number,

         In fruitless fields of corn,

They bow themselves and slumber

         All night till light is born;

And like a soul belated,

In hell and heaven unmated,

By cloud and mist abated

         Comes out of darkness morn.

Though one were strong as seven,

         He too with death shall dwell,

Nor wake with wings in heaven,

         Nor weep for pains in hell;

Though one were fair as roses,

His beauty clouds and closes;

And well though love reposes,

         In the end it is not well.

Pale, beyond porch and portal,

         Crowned with calm leaves, she stands

Who gathers all things mortal

         With cold immortal hands;

Her languid lips are sweeter

Than love's who fears to greet her

To men that mix and meet her

         From many times and lands.

She waits for each and other,

         She waits for all men born;

Forgets the earth her mother,

            The life of fruits and corn;

And spring and seed and swallow

Take wing for her and follow

Where summer song rings hollow

         And flowers are put to scorn.

There go the loves that wither,

         The old loves with wearier wings;

And all dead years draw thither,

         And all disastrous things;

Dead dreams of days forsaken,

Blind buds that snows have shaken,

Wild leaves that winds have taken,

         Red strays of ruined springs.

We are not sure of sorrow,

         And joy was never sure;

To-day will die to-morrow;

         Time stoops to no man's lure;

And love, grown faint and fretful,

With lips but half regretful

Sighs, and with eyes forgetful

         Weeps that no loves endure.

From too much love of living,

         From hope and fear set free,

We thank with brief thanksgiving

         Whatever gods may be

That no life lives for ever;

That dead men rise up never;

That even the weariest river

         Winds somewhere safe to sea.

Then star nor sun shall waken,

         Nor any change of light:

Nor sound of waters shaken,

         Nor any sound or sight:

Nor wintry leaves nor vernal,

Nor days nor things diurnal;

Only the sleep eternal

         In an eternal night.

~ Algernon C. Swinburne (1837-1909)

KIPLING'S LITTLE MAN

~ or ~

Bolshevism Revisited

A Leftist caught in doubt

Lifts up his head to shout:

Your treatment is unfair,

You bully! How you dare

To question my veracity

With cruel, hard-eyed tenacity

I do not know. My views

Which boldly you accuse

Of being falsely ranked

In truth are sacrosanct.

My thoughts are Holy Writ.

Your thoughts are quite unfit;

Based on selfish fears

They inspire tears

And dare to say the blame

Lies squarely in the frame

Of those whose failing lives

Look to him who thrives

And say: Your gold is mine,

You greedy, bloated swine.

You have more than you need.

It's up to you to feed

Me, the ill and weak,

Else Heaven that you seek

Will ever be denied.

And I will see your hide

Shredded, tanned and dried.

And hung outside the gates

Of each neighborhood that hates

The needy and the poor,

Who soon will storm your door

And drag you from your bed

And then lop off your head.

While the masses you denied

Will ever take great pride

Your ignominious demise

Was effected in the guise

Of condign righteous wrath

Giving Bourgeois digs a bath.

With stolen food and goods

We'll raze your neighborhoods

And laugh to see you hurt

Dying in the dirt.

WE DO NOT CARE TO RISE:

We live for your demise.

We thrive on righteous hate.

It is by now too late

To make a plan to stop us

End the Founder's opus.

Our Marx destroyed your God.

He's in - not on - the sod

Feeding nematodes

In their dark abodes.

With mockery and shrill

Sarcastic gibes we kill.

We drool with sheer delight

At the thought of endless night.

Where everything that's witty,

Charming, gracious, pretty

Slumps to the nitty gritty,

As we revel in the dung

Corrupting all your young.

For 'we are the little folk, we

Too little to love or to hate.

Leave us alone, and you'll see

How quickly we'll drag down the state.'*

~ FreeThinke (2007)

–––––––––––––––––

* Rudyard Kipling

An Important Question

Is This a Portrait

 of

ALLAH

or 

MOHAMMED?

The heart asks pleasure first,

And then excuse from pain,

And then those little anodynes

That deaden suffering ... 

And then to go to sleep,

And then, if it should be

The Will of its Inquisitor,

The liberty to die.

~ Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

The Telegraph

Irish Priest Receives Standing Ovation after Revealing He is Gay

Stunned parishioners stand to applaud after priest tells mass about his homosexuality and support for gay marriage

~ § ~

Before committing Marriage Gay People should take pause
And consider the implications of Community Property Laws.

Lust may achieve satiety
With or without propriety,
So why become a martyr
To receive the imprimatur
Of a dull Bourgeois society
Whose strictures you flee gleefully?

Intimate relationships of each and every kind
Are blithely entered into by mad persons love made blind.
The stress and strain of living close together every day
Demands incessant giving causing tempers soon to fray.

The quest to reach Equality considers not, of course,
The Agony -- and vast Expense -- that comes with a Divorce!

~ FreeThinke

~ § ~

Same-sex couples are now legally allowed to wed in Canberra, Australia Photo: REUTERS

By Neil Murphy

1:20PM GMT 10 Jan 2015

A Catholic priest in Dublin has receiving a standing ovation from members of his church after revealing he is gay during mass.

Father Martin Dolan, who has served the inner-city Church of St Nicholas of Myra for the past 15 years, made the unusual step of coming out in support of gay marriage and added: I’m gay myself.”

Speaking to the Irish Sun, community youth worker Liz O’Connor said: “We are all very proud of Father Martin. Because he has admitted that he is gay he doesn’t change the person that he was before it.”

A source within the Catholic Church said “It was very brave. He said he was gay. That was it...no bones about it.”

“He was just doing his service, it was part of his homily, and that’s it. If he feels strongly about something, Martin just says it.

A referendum on the issue is expected in May and a recent poll showed that nearly 70% of people in Ireland are in support of gay marriage. Enda Kenny, the country’s prime minister, has said he will canvas in support of the proposed new legislation.

However, the Catholic Church is still fiercely opposed to same-sex marriage and has vowed to oppose any change in law. As recently as last month Bishop Liam MacDaid said the vote would be a ‘grave injustice’:

"To put any other view of unions on the same level as Christian marriage would be disservice to society rather than a service."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/11337423/Irish-priest-receives-standing-ovation-after-revealing-he-is-gay.html

FUCK

MOHAMMED

ALLAH

Takes It Up The

ASS!

FUCK

ISLAM

MUSLIMS

EAT SHIT

I AM CHARLIE

IS THIS WHAT’S 
IN STORE for the USA?

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/nhs-in-critical-condition-as-ae-waiting-times-are-worst-in-a-decade-9961509.html

NHS in Critical Condition as A&E Waiting Times are Worst in a Decade

A symbol of Britain's National Health Service today

Record number of hospital declare 'major incidents', as operations and outpatient appointments are cancelled

CHARLIE COOPER 

HEALTH CORRESPONDENT

Tuesday 06 January 2015

There are grave doubts over the NHS’ capacity to cope with ever-growing demand this winter after emergency departments recorded their worst week in a decade, and more than a dozen hospitals were forced to implement “major incident” emergency plans.

Despite mild weather and without a serious outbreak of seasonal illness, this week at least 15 hospitals in England have had to cancel operations, call in extra staff or limit A&E services to only severely ill or injured patients. 

The Government has blamed the drastic decline in hospital performance on growing numbers of frail, older patients, but charities supporting the elderly, including Age UK and Independent Age, said that cuts to council care budgets were now having a knock-on effect upon the NHS.

The warnings came as:

* Latest NHS England figures showed that 92.6 per cent of patients were seen in four hours at England’s A&Es and minor injury units from October to December 2014 – below the 95 per cent target and the worst performance in a decade.

*Only 83.1 per cent of patients were seen in four hours at major A&Es in the week before Christmas – the worst week on record.

*12 hospitals in England declared major incidents, and three others significant incidents, because of pressures on A&E and bed capacity

* Hospitals and ambulance services had to take drastic measures to meet demand. South Western Ambulance Services erected a temporary treatment tent in the grounds of Great Western Hospital in Swindon as a “precautionary measure”, and a fire engine was used to transport a patient to hospital in York.

Hospitals around the country are now telling patients not to visit the A&E unless they are facing an emergency. Although unprecedented numbers have declared major incidents, many others have cancelled operations or called in extra resources.

READ MORE: FIVE HOSPITALS DECLARE 'MAJOR INCIDENTS' OVER A&E DEMAND

Delays are being blamed on an influx of patients, with reports that levels of flu and chest infections are beginning to rise. However, long delays are also reported in transferring elderly patients out of hospital and into community care, causing hold-ups all the way back to the A&E door.

Latest figures show that in December, nearly 39,000 sick patients were forced to wait on trolleys for up to 12 hours after a decision to admit them to hospital – three times as many as last year.

The number of delayed transfers of care is up 20 per cent, NHS England’s director for acute episodes Professor Keith Willett said. He added that delays may be down to availability of care home places or social care packages.

“Obviously social care services have taken a substantial reduction in funding in recent years whereas the NHS, albeit not having any growth in funding, has had its core budget protected,” he told BBC Radio 4’s World At One.

Latest figures have not been released on A&E performance in Scotland and Wales, but many hospitals have reported severe pressures.

Jeremy Hunt, the Health Secretary, paid tribute to NHS staff, “busting a gut”, and said that the number of frail elderly patients requiring hospital care was the “key problem” facing the NHS.

“If you’re over 80 and you turn up at an A&E department, the chances are you won’t go home, you’ll be admitted to the hospital and you’ll probably stay in the hospital for a very long time… across the country [people] are saying that is the key problem because many of those people would be better looked after at home,” he told Sky News.

Mr Hunt added that NHS chief executive Simon Stevens’ five-year plan could resolve the problem, with greater investment in GP care in the community.

However, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham said that the Coalition Government’s council budget cuts had a created “a crisis in social care” that was “dragging down the NHS”.

“We have record numbers of older people trapped in hospital who can’t go home because the nursing home places aren’t there or care in the home isn’t there,” he told the BBC. “Because wards are staying full, A&E can’t admit to the ward, pressure is backing up through A&E and ambulance services can’t hand over patients at A&E. That is the root cause of what we are facing right now.”

Caroline Abrahams, charity director of Age UK, said social care services were “overwhelmed”, meaning that older people were more likely to end up in A&E and stay in hospital for longer.

“Politicians on all sides must recognise that there can be no long term solution to the NHS winter crisis until Government investment in social care – in the form of its central grant to councils – significantly rises,” she said.

Janet Morrison, chief executive of Independent Age, said that cuts to social care budgets “mean fewer frail elderly patients receive the support they need to stay out of hospital”.

Andy Burnham, the shadow Health Secretary, blamed council budget cuts as the 'root cause' of the A&E crisis (Getty)

Chris Ham, chief executive of the influential King’s Fund think-tank said that the country’s health and social care system was now “fundamentally broken.”

“What is needed is a single system in which primary, community and hospital care work together to provide services that effectively meet the needs of the population,” he said.

Dr Clifford Mann, president of the College of Emergency Medicine, warned that A&Es were still understaffed and that “exit block” caused by a lack of hospital beds and delays in discharging patients risked safety of patients at the emergency department, adding that in some cases “mortality increases” because of heightened pressures.

Case study: ‘I almost lost my foot’ long wait for ambulance

Rugby player Luigi Segadelli had to wait three hours lying face-down on a soggy pitch for an ambulance on Saturday after breaking his leg during a match. Mr Segadelli, 30, waited so long, paramedics told him he was in danger of losing his foot, which began to turn blue.

I was cold and shaking. When the paramedics saw how long it was taking to get colour back into my foot they said I had been in the cold so long there was a risk of losing my foot. That’s when I started panicking.”

Mr Segadelli broke his tibia and fibula while playing for Morriston RFC in Swansea and the game was called off. His teammates covered him with blankets as they waited for an ambulance which did not arrive until almost 6pm, by which time the floodlights had to be turned on.

“When we finally got to the hospital, I was pretty out of it but I did notice how incredibly busy A&E was. To be fair, the paramedics and all the hospital staff were brilliant and treated me really well once the ambulance arrived. It was just the wait that was so annoying.”

The Welsh Ambulance Service said emergency demand was unprecedented and they were unable to respond to some calls in the time they would have liked.

Mr Segadelli, added: “I want an apology for the delay – they must have the decency to make sure it does not happen to anyone else again.”

Major incident plans are put in place when patient demand reaches a point that threatens the delivery of hospital service. Bed capacity may have been reached, or may be near being reached. Resources are redirected to A&E and to discharging patients in order to free up beds. Routine operations are cancelled and extra agency staff can be drafted in

BRITISH HOSPITALS in CRISIS

1 Aberdeen Royal Infirmary: Up to 20 operations postponed and patients being redirected to GPs

2 Scarborough Hospital: Declared on Monday afternoon

3 Royal Bolton Hospital: Declared yesterday

4 Royal Stoke University Hospital: Declared late on Monday

5 Stafford Hospital: Declared late on Monday

6 Walsall Manor Hospital: Declared yesterday

7 Peterborough City Hospital: Declared on Monday

8 Norfolk and Norwich Hospital: Declared a major incident on New Year’s Eve, then reinstated the measures yesterday

9 Bedford Hospital: ‘Significant’ incident declared yesterday

10 Morriston Hospital: Patients warned of long waits and urged not to visit for minor illnesses

11 Princess of Wales Hospital: Patients warned of long waits and urged not to visit for minor illnesses

12 Gloucestershire Royal Hospital: Declared on Monday, for second time in a month

13 Cheltenham General Hospital: Declared on Monday, for second time in a month

14 Ashford Hospital: Declared late on Monday

15 St Peter’s Hospital: Declared late on Monday

16 Croydon University Hospital: Declared yesterday

17 Princess Royal Hospital: ‘Significant’ incident declared on Monday, some operations cancelled

18 Royal Sussex Hospital: ‘Significant’ incident declared on Monday, some operations cancelled