There is only one answer to this:
[21] I have discovered this principle of life–that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. [22] I love God’s law with all my heart. [23] But there is another power * within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me. [24] Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death? Romans 7:21-24 (NLTse)
INSIDE THE GREAT OBAMA AMMO GRAB
By: Raquel Okyay
http://www.humanevents.com/2013/06/23/inside-the-great-obama-ammo-grab/
An international firearms dealer said the White House is blocking ammunition sales to American citizens as federal agencies continue to stockpile.
“There are elements in the United States government moving to obstruct commercial ammunition sales,” said Anthony Melé, an international firearms dealer and owner of AMI Global Security, LLC. AGS is a defense trade and manufacturer’s exporter registered with the U.S. Department of Defense and the United Nations. …
There is a real shortage of ammunition in the United States perhaps due to the Obama administration buying-up the entire surplus and directing agencies to block ammunition imports. …
Prices for ammunition have gone up considerably and major stores are rationing supplies, he said. “Wal-Mart in Albany County is now limiting purchases to three boxes per customer. …
… the exercise of our Second Amendment right has been temporarily neutered because of an artificial ammunition shortage. …
… A gun is just a paper weight without an ammunition supply. …
Exp God, June17 – Abba, Father
… it is so important not to take your understanding of your heavenly Father from your experience. Take it from Scripture. You undoubtedly had an imperfect earthly father, perhaps even one who brought you harm. But, as in all of your Christian life, the key is not to understand the Bible based on your experience, but to understand your experience in light of the Bible. God is your model of a father in the truest sense of the word. …
WAR – excerpt from Jerry Pournelle’s Chaos Manor
Go back a few years. Imagine a CIA plot to get Iran which considers us the Great Satan and hates us, to declare war on al Qaeda and expend blood and treasure on exterminating al Qaeda – which long ago declared war on us, and which is the most easily defined enemy in our War of Terror. Imagine that al Qaeda might be induced to expend its resources fighting Hezbollah and Iran. Imagine that we could get our enemies to fight each other using whatever weapons they could muster, and expend their blood and treasure on exterminating each other, so that neither had very much to spend on killing Americans.
Come to the present, where that is happening. Israel after careful consideration has stayed out of the Syrian civil war on the grounds that the Assad Family has kept the peace with Israel for decades, while al Qaeda attacks Israelis. Imagine that somehow the trick has been made to work, and our enemies fight each other in a war in which the United States has no describable national interest.
Now imagine that having achieved that result we decide to enter the war.
Obama to step up military support of Syrian rebels
President Barack Obama has authorised sending weapons to Syrian rebels for the first time, U.S. officials said, after the White House disclosed that the United States has conclusive evidence President Bashar Assad’s government used chemical weapons against opposition forces trying to overthrow him.
Napoleon Bonaparte once said that one should never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. The problem comes when the incompetence is so grossly incompetent that one begins to wish for more competent malice… Anatol France once said that a thief in power is to be preferred to a fool, for a thief may upon occasion take a vacation.
We have no national interest in Syria, and we have no obligations. The Assad regime has been more tolerant of Christians and Bahai minorities than al Qaeda anywhere al Qaeda is in power. The rebels against Assad recently beheaded a 15 year old boy – after a trial – on a charge of blasphemy and insulting the Prophet. The al Qaeda insurgents have no chance of winning without powerful Western support, but they can make the war drag on a long time, neutralizing both Hezbollah and al Qaeda or at least slowing them down. Whereupon the United States will give aid and comfort to our enemies no matter which side we choose to support.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence, but one need not choose to support incompetence.
Obama apparently is rushing to enter his third war, and one in which we have few allies and no national interests at all. We do so on the basis of far less intelligence evidence about Assad’s use of Sarin than we had of Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction.
The Cost of our government energy policy
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From Access to Energy
“Government energy suppression has cost the American people the greatest windfall of prosperity ever offered to any civilization in human history.
“Had the government not suppressed the development of nuclear power, our national gross domestic product would be more than double its current value and the standard of living of our people – especially the poor and the middle classes – would would be twice as high as it is today.
“Instead, we find our country with very serious economic problems, with a large part of our productive industries lost abroad, and with our landscape increasingly littered with windmills, whbich are little more than false advertising propaganda for an economically useless technology”
Alas it is all true. The worst of it is that we didn’t need to put tax money into nuclear power. We needed only to end useless regulation and endless hearing and rehearing and reregulation. Note that China has more than 50 nuclear plants under construction. The low cost energy from those will drive a thriving economy. The United States will have windmills, and some rooftop solar panels.
Home rooftop solar power for home consumption in daytime can even make economic sense for the user, so long as they are willing to adjust to being without much power on cloudy days, and don’t run the air conditioner at night. Batteries are of course out of the question: at night you use the power grid. But none of this will get the United States out of economic doldrums.
As I have said for many years, low cost energy is the solution to nearly all US economic and pollution problems. Do not think that those who run the Department of Energy do not know this. They have a different agenda.
Snippets from Jerry Pournelle’s blog, Chaos Manor, 6-10-13
… On the data collection scandal:
SUBJ: Six lines . . .
“If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.”
– Cardinal Richelieu
And now your every email and every board posting are available for the amusement of the Richelieus.
Like many others, I believe the Republic perished last November. We are now merely being presented the conqueror’s terms.
“An intelligent victor will, when possible, present his demands to the
vanquished in installments.” – Adolf Hitler
With public outrage, the “Overton Window” now moves a fraction back to the left. But its architects are relentless.
I pray good men will rebel while they still can.
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An afterthought: How did they really discover Petraeus’ and Broadwell’s emails? The story given at the time seemed wildly unlikely.
IE, does the political operation *already* have access to this database?
Meanwhile, Glenn Greenwald is claiming NSA types have already used it to listen in on personal enemies. Which also tends to support my guess that they are archiving call content as well as metadata.
I’m beginning to think I haven’t been nearly paranoid enough…
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For me, Peggy Noonan’s best line in that piece about the IRS was this one: “But why did all the incompetent workers misunderstand their jobs and their mission in exactly the same way?”
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Assuming that the US believed that Japan had a nuclear weapons program, there would have been a strong motivation to force Japan to surrender before they could employ it. Japan could not have delivered a nuke by aircraft, but mounting a bomb on a submarine then sailing it into a US harbor such as San Francisco or Seattle was very plausible.
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Atmospheric temperature:
http://www.drroyspencer.com/ (June 4th post)
Sharp cooling continues this spring.
Arctic Sea Ice
Currently trending at the highest level for early June in the past 6 years, …
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Trusting God First – Exp God, May 31
- Where do I turn when I experience a crisis?
- When I am hurting or afraid, to whom do I go?
- When I have a financial problem, whom do I want to tell first?
- Where do I seek comfort when I am under stress or discouraged?
Gun Shop Allegedly Banned From Partcipating in Popular Store’s Contest: ‘Entry Contains Content That Promotes…Firearms’
Maple Creek Gunsmithing, a firearms store in Fremont, Nebraska, is claiming that Staples, the popular office supply chain, rejected a recent contest application from the shop — because Maple Creek sells guns…
The alleged rejection e-mail that was sent by Staples and subsequently published on the Maple Creek Gunsmithing Facebook page reads:
We’re sorry, but your small business entry into the Staples PUSH It Forward Contest has been rejected* for the following reason(s):
Entry contains content that promotes alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing); promotes any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous; promotes any particular political agenda or message; is obscene or offensive; or endorses any form of hate or hate group.
Please visit the Staples PUSH It Forward Contest if you wish to submit a new entry for your small business.
…“They went as far to say that they lump us in with illegal drug use…
…“I was blown away. I couldn’t believe what I was reading,” he said. “They lumped us in with criminals.”
Both owners are Army veterans.
According to Starnes, Staples confirmed its policy not to award firearms companies…
Exp God, May 29 – EVERY CARELESS WORD
(Personal note: This one hits too close to home for me -hh.)
Jesus spoke plainly about our idle words, yet His warning often goes unheeded…
…We too quickly assume that the sins of our tongue are minor sins…
Mark 12: 36 And I tell you this, you must give an account on judgment day for every idle word you speak. 37 The words you say will either acquit you or condemn you.
Proverbs 17: 28 Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent; with their mouths shut, they seem intelligent.
James 1:19 …You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry.
Ep 4: 29 Don’t use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.