The question answers itself

 Patricia McCarthy asks What is it about healthcare workers refusing the vaccine tha the administration fails to grasp? When I heard that New York was going to fire a bunch of nurses and doctors, and replace them with National Guard people, I was stunned. After all, no one without a great deal of training can perform the functions of these healthcare workers. Thus New York would be taking people from other parts of the state to fill those roles in New York. Seems like a zero sum game.

Then there is this:

If there is any group of people who know about Covid, it is these healthcare workers in hospitals, ERs, and ICUs. So, what explains their vaccine hesitancy, their resistance to being vaxxed with an untested gene therapy jab that has so far had hundreds of thousands of adverse consequences, disabilities, and deaths? How dare these people reject the directives of Fauci and his NIAID, the CDC, NHS, the WHO?

I was convinced that the vaccines were "safe" because they weren't a gen therapy. But McCarthy raises the concern that a "gene therapy" is exactly what they are. One has to wonder what these vaccines REALLY do:

>The mainstream media and the administration are equally corrupt, hopelessly politicized. The Covid pandemic farce has brought out the worst in the left; they embraced it, and possibly orchestrated it, as their chance to implement their Marxist vision for America. Covid would be their means of destroying America as founded.

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Most of us were ignorant of these sociopaths dying to experiment on human beings, soulless scientists working to make existing viruses more lethal, the more lethal the better. Gates has been clear about his goal, reducing population. What was/is Fauci’s motivation? Fame and fortune? A will to control people? Who knows? The man is a cipher, a dangerous one. According to VAERS, there have been 1,600,218 adverse events from the vaccines. The vax for the 1976 Swine Flu was banned after just a few deaths. VAERS currently reports that there have been at least 16,000 vaccine-caused deaths from the covid jabs.

Whoever is scripting Biden’s pathetic speeches seems to think that firing thousands of healthcare workers throughout the nation is somehow going to bring an end to the virus. They are slow learners.

Lockdowns and masks have not prevented the transmission of covid, not one bit. The vaccines have clearly aided the virus’s mutations, their durability is being downgraded by the week; Pfizer antibodies now last just two months. Firing our most essential workers, along with law enforcement personnel and truckers is going to be even more catastrophic than what we’ve experienced the last year and a half. Biden’s ill-advised policies have already created massive inflation. What will happen when our hospitals are severely understaffed, when there are even fewer police on the job, not enough pilots to fly for the airlines and the shelves in our grocery stores are empty because there are too few truckers to bring stock and supplies?

McCarthy's question seems to answer itself. The fact that healthcare workers are refusing the vaccine causes doubt in the general public. The more the general public doubts, the less certain the globalist socialists are that they can transform the United States into a socialist dictatorship. that is why healthcare workers who refuse the vaccine are treated as enemies of the state.

Socialism, of course, will be great for whoever is at the top. But it means misery and death for everyone else. We most recently saw its effects in Venezuela. Store selves are empty. People scrounge for food in garbage cans. They have emptied out the zoo for crying out loud. Venezuela was once incredibly prosperous. Now they are one of the poorest. We can not let that fate overtake us.

Texas 'Heartbeat' Law Temporarily Reinstated

Madeline Leesman has an article at Townhall.com telling us how Pro-Abortion Advocates React As Texas 'Heartbeat' Law Is Reinstated By Federal Appeals Court.

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals issued an administrative stay, halting U.S. District Judge Robert Pitman’s ruling on Wednesday which granted a temporary injunction over the law, S.B. 8. S.B. 8, which took effect on Sept. 1, bans abortions statewide once fetal heartbeat is detected.

Following Pitman’s ruling, at least six clinics in Texas resumed providing abortion services past the six-week threshold, which is around the time a fetal heartbeat is detected, as I reported. Now, clinics in Texas that provide abortions will be prohibited to do so pending further legal actions.

On Twitter, one Texas-based abortion provider, Whole Women’s Health, said that every abortion performed during the temporary injunction was a “win” and that “Texans deserve better.”

Clearly the Left is going to fight like...well...hell to save abortion. First, it is the major sacrament of the Left, which should tell you one whose side they fight. But let's face it, abortion is big business. It will be interesting watch where this goes, but you have to understand that God is in control, and eventually this has to end in the end of abortions.

A Christian Education As An Antidote To CRT

 Paul Krause has an today at the American Thinker entitled Christian Education and the Future of Western Culture that urges renewed emphasis on Christian education as a way to fight critical race theory and other academic nonsense.

The war over education will be a defining issue for the next decade. Unfortunately, defeating Critical Hate Theory isn’t going to stop the poison that already infects our educational system. Beneath the veil of diversity, inclusion, and tolerance is the acidic educational philosophy that America is evil, that its values need destroyed, and that Western culture is irredeemable. That is what actually motivates progressive education: hatred of their culture and homeland.

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At the heart of our educational culture war are two visions for culture and education. One believes education is a training in virtue and excellence, an engagement with a living tradition of 3,000 years of wisdom, goodness, and beauty that has the power to enlighten and transform our lives for the better.

The other educational outlook is premised on hatred, division, and destruction. The goal here is not a training in virtue or excellence but an indoctrination into revolutionary ideals that will overthrow the supposedly oppressive and tyrannical present and wipe away all the vestiges of an evil and irredeemable past. The purpose of education is to create storm troopers of cultural vandalism and demolition. To hide this reality the proponents of educational desecration call it all the names we are accustomed to hearing and assert to be against such progressive inclusion is to be inhumane and racist.

At least half of the parents, and it is probably and even larger percentage, do not want Critical Race Theory, or any of the many "gender" relate issues taught in our schools. They are not in favor of having drag queens reading sexually suggestive stories to their children at library story hour.  Talk about not being age appropriate!  There is no reason to bring such filth to elementary or middle school students. Instead, what should be taught are the three "Rs;" Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic. I would argue that they don't even need to be taught so called "computer skills" since these can be learned fairly easily and likely will be.

Rather, teaching proper research skills, critical thinking skills, expository writing, history and logic. In addition, as students mature, Krause encourages the teaching of the canon of Western Culture. This would include teaching the Bible as literature. One of the things that makes reading not only the Bible, but even early English literature difficult is that students are not taught to read it from the perspective of people living at the time, who are the author's audience. Instead, students seem to be encouraged to read into literature a modern viewpoint. 

Please go read Krause's article, and contemplate what you can do. 

We Must Put On The 'Armor of God'

 Joy Pullman has an excellent article up at The Federalist entitled As The Christian Cold War Heats Up, The Faithful Are Equipping For Battle. I urge gentle readers to take the article to heart. And while this blog has always been a gun blog, understand that the battle we are facing is a spiritual battle. As St. Paul wrote in Ephesians 6:12:

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.

Pullman points out that church leaders are split along some of the same lines as our political split. The high places of the culture are held by Leftists, and this culture affects the people.  But when the Church accommodates the surrounding culture, the Church loses its authority. It becomes just another voice among many, and even begins to sound like a kind of business. And of course, that was one of the issues Martin Luther had with the Church in 1517. At the time, the Church was engaged in the selling of indulgences to have to pope forgive the sins of those who paid.  But as Luther points out, forgiveness comes to anyone by faith in Christ.

The Southern Baptist Convention, the United States’ largest Protestant denomination, is one key example of this dynamic affecting American Christianity as a whole. On Oct. 1 in The American Conservative, Jackson Waters and Emma Posey reported on new developments in that denomination’s growing identity crisis. They contrast the Russell Moore, Beth Moore, and David French wing with the Voddie Baucham, Douglas Wilson, and I’d add Thomas Ascol wing.

“The direction Moore, French, and Moore are walking is not simply traditional evangelicalism, but a form of cultural accommodation dressed as convictional religion,” Waters and Posey write, after describing how the three have theologically shifted in recent years and months. “The result is a religious respectability that promotes national unity, liberalism, and wokeism under the rhetorical guise of love for neighbor. While Moore and his guest [Beth Moore] try to straddle the fence, there is little doubt that their biggest support is now coming from those significantly to their left politically.”

In modern times, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has made accomodation with the abortion culture, and the LGBTQxyz community by ordaining gays and lesbians, as well as electing a "transgender" bishop. Interestingly, ELCA congregations are losing congregants. By contrast, the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS) adheres to traditional Christianity and has growing congregations, with young families joining the Church.

While examples of leadership failures in the church are legion, one seems front and center today. In the face of mass government persecution of religious exercise over the past year and a half, Christian leaders overwhelmingly cowered and canceled services.

Shutdowns violate the theology of all Christians, both non-sacramentarians to sacramentarians. Those who don’t believe Christ’s statement, “This is my Body,” do heavily lean on his command called the Great Commission. In it, Christ tells the apostles to “Go and make disciples of all nations,” then tells them exactly how: “Baptizing them in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you.” You can’t baptize or make disciples via Zoom.

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For Christians who do believe in Christ’s real presence in Holy Communion, forbidding in-person worship is an even greater blasphemy. It means denying the Christ-mandated distribution of his physical Body and Blood to heal and preserve the souls of the redeemed for all eternity, the very reason for which Christ came to earth, was crucified, and resurrected.

While in other states, and in Canadian provinces, shutdowns of services continues, we here in North Carolina can attend church services relatively freely. But even our governor early on attempted to restrict services. This is wrong. People should always be allowed to decide for themselves.

While it is true that the Christian faith and the Church is under assault even here in the United States, I want to point out that it is far worse in other countries.  I recently had a link to the atrocities committed against the Armenians by the Ottoman Turks.  The Taliban is no doubt hunting down Christians and killing many.  And of course, earlier the Chaldean Christian community in Iraq was under attack as are Christians in Nigeria under Boko Haram.  And these are but a few of the many cases of Christians being hunted and persecuted.

But because we are not being hunted and killed yet, doesn't mean we shouldn't pay attention and call out each attack.  We, as Christians, must put on the "Armor of God," seek His Will for us through prayer, and courageously confront the evil facing us.

The Tyrants Can't Win if We Don't Surrender

An excellent article, which I encourage gentle readers to read, by John Green at the American Thinker is They Can't Win if We Won't Surrender. The American Revolution was won for a number of reasons. One of them was that the British Empire was distracted by war with France. Another was that France saw a chance to push the thorn in deeper by supporting the Americans. But the fact that General Washington kept a fighting force together, in the field, and wouldn't give up was the final nail in the coffin of the British colonies. Winston Churchill held the same view, when he gave his famous speech "Never, never never, give up."

Green is worried that too many conservatives are too ready to surrender. But in Green's view, we have the stronger position, and we should press the advantage.

Next to the Vichy RINOs, the “America is finished” crowd are the Left’s favorite conservatives. They have tired of the fight and bought the propaganda. They’re ready to give up.

But the reality is very different than the narrative that’s being peddled. Via their propaganda ministry they’ve used deception to win a couple of elections. Obama was supposed to heal our racial wounds -- he poured salt in them. Biden was supposed to return us to normalcy -- he burned down everything that was working. They’ve been lying to us, and now we know it. Propaganda only works as long as it’s credible, and theirs no longer is.

The Left is at its weakest position of the past 15 years. The Democrats have only tenuous control of the legislative branch and they’re spending more time fighting with themselves than actually passing any legislation. Let’s not forget the leadership of their party. President Asterisk is perhaps the most corrupt, inept occupant of the White House we’ve ever had -- and we’ve had a few real losers. Under his leadership, the Democrat party looks like the final scene of Thelma and Louise -- with Gropey Joe at the wheel. They seem determined to drive off the cliff with enthusiasm.

Green even has an interesting take on the Covid virus. He think it is a gift from God. In our current Lectionary, we are reading Jeremiah. Jeremiah could have used an editor, but looking at the events of his day, I can't help but think that indeed Green may be right.

God gives us many gifts which are not immediately recognized as such. I believe COVID-19 was one such gift. The pandemic was the alarm that wakes us up before the building burns down around us. It gave us a glimpse of a future without liberty.

Autocratic orders

Draconian restrictions

Unequal treatment under the law

Fraudulent elections

Blatant disregard of the Constitution

Thankfully, COVID gave us a taste of tyranny on the cheap. America didn’t become a Cuba or Venezuela to experience it. The pandemic has shown us how important and fragile liberty is. I’ll never take it for granted again. I suspect a great number of patriots feel the same way. We’re seeing an awakening all across America. It’s starting to go beyond CRT protests and anti-Biden chants. BLM is even protesting the vaccine mandate! I’ll bet the Left didn’t see that coming.

John Green doesn't say it quite as explicitly, so I will. What those ready to surrender to the left lack is faith in God and His power to act in the world around us, and in spite of us. Some clearly don't believe in God.  Some have no faith that He will act to bring about His purposes. In any case, perhaps Green has been given the same advise I was; that one should not be so...religious...if one wanted to influence more people. I have concluded that that advise was hogwash.

But an author who writes even more explicitly than I do is Austin Ruse, in his new book Under Siege: No Finer Time To Be A Faithful Catholic. Ruse points out that the situation today has parallels throughout the history of the Church. We have been persecuted before, and with more vigor than we are experiencing in America. How would you like to be thrown to the lions as the Roman Christians were? Or to be crucified as many Armenians were by the Ottoman Turks. The fact is that the so called atheistic Left is not atheistic at all. They have their own pagan religion: the State. But the State is human and therefore fallible. Our God, the God of Creation, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the Holy Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost are eternal and infallible. Ruse is like a prophetic voice that says if we remain steadfast, we can not lose.

Ruse, at the end of his book gives us some things we can do, depending on our calling. Some people are called to be the spear point, but not all, or even most. There are many things you can do to resist. Some of them are like sticking a pointing stick in the eye of the Left, such as flying the flag. You know the sight of the flag causes their blood to boil. And while you may not be able to stand in front of an abortion clinic and protest, you can send a check to those that do.

(As an aside, Students For Life of America is one such group.)

We are in a war for the soul of America. Make no mistake about it. It is, for now a cold civil war. But there can be no doubt that as events have shaken out, there are now two opposing sides. One side desires Tyranny. The other side desires liberty and freedom. It has, sadly, ever been thus. But the tyrants can't win if we won't surrender.

The Left Is Preparing the Battleground

 I have said it hear before, but it is not new, and I don't take credit for it: Guns don't kill people, people kill people, as reported at the American Thinker by Andrea Widburg. Widburg tells the tale of a man with prior criminal history who after a fight with his boss, killed several colleagues with a bat and a knife.

When someone is coming at you with a knife, it’s almost impossible to defend yourself. As an experiment, put on old clothes, hand your friend a marker, and try to defend yourself as he “attacks” you with the “marker” in lieu of a knife. A frenzied knife attack will leave you covered with marker slashes. And if you’re interested in trying to defend against an equally frenzied baseball attack, have your friend arm himself with a pool noodle. Good luck avoiding “deadly” strikes.

In the hands of a person determined to kill, any and all weapons other than guns are devastating. That is, not everyone has to be a Timothy McVeigh to commit mass murder without a gun.

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The thing about the Second Amendment is that it’s premised on the belief—which still holds true in America—that there are more good people than there are bad people. That means that an armed population is disproportionately likely to use guns to save, not take, lives.

The reality is that the world is an imperfect place and there will always be bad people who use whatever weapons are available—guns, knives, fists, bats, poison, cars, rocks, broken bottles, teeth, acid—to attack their enemies. We are never safer than in a moral community with trained, armed citizens. (Obviously, this doesn’t apply to Democrat-run communities, which have substituted gun control for morality, and managed to end up with uncontrolled guns in the hands of an immoral, sociopathic population.)

Well said.

But while we are on the topic, the Democrats have been on a tear to take guns away from private citizens since I can remember.  The strategy has been to use Rules for Radicals RULE 12: Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.” Years ago it was the supposed "Saturday Night Special." Saturday Night Specials were small, snub nosed and cheap revolvers supposedly used by blacks to kill others on, of course, Saturday nights. This picking and freezing of the target lead to the Gun Control Act of 1968.

Recently the gun grabbers have been attempting to pick and freeze the AR-15 by calling it a military style "assault rifle." I have been puzzled by this, because rifles of any sort are so infrequently used in crimes. But as war with China has become more of a probability, I have come to the conclusion that the fact that the AR-15 shares its ammunition with the Army's M-16, M4 and other variations suggests the Left's reason for going after it. There are a lot of AR-15s scattered among us, and the fact that we can share ammunition with the military suggests the possibility of once again defending the homeland with militias.

An apocraphal quote of Admiral Yamamoto during WWII was that Japan could never invade the American continent because they would find a rifle behind every blade of grass. The Left is attempting to prepare the battle ground for foreign invasion. This makes them our enemies, sad to say.

Turns Out Dogs Prefer Meat. Who Knew?

It isn't often that the problem with Leftists and their crazy ideas becomes quite so obvious.  They believe things that we know are not true.  They believe, and act on the belief that men can become women, and women can become men just saying it is so (and of course whacking off a few body parts.)  Lately that have brought up that old idea that all society's problems can be solved by taxing the rich.  But if they confiscated all the money of every rich person, it would only last a few months.

Yesterday, at the American Thinker Thomas Lifson had a must see post entitled Saturday Schademfreude: Prog things she can change nature, suddenly (and hilariously) discovers she can't.

Progressives are by their very nature contemptuous of the natural order of things. Everything can be improved by their superior intellects. By virtue of the purity of their motives and the advanced understanding we have these days, they can impose policies that violate human nature and, they think, prevail. The Marxists are explicit in their promise that communism will create a "new man" (now updated to read "new person"). Self-interest would no longer operate in the communist utopia that would follow the supposedly transitory period of "dictatorship of the proletariat." "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." Never mind who chose to lay about and who chose to work hard...

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Voluntary vegetarianism is not necessarily disastrous or even contrary to human nature (if you just ignore those specialized canine teeth that we come equipped with for ripping animal flesh prior to grinding it up farther back in the mouth). But it does require great care to supply all the essential nutrients and, in my observation, often leads to unfavorable outcomes. A highly educated young woman very close to me found a cure for many physical and psychological ailments when she gave up the vegetarianism that she had picked up from her environment of educated, affluent school and workplace associates.

But if you want to practice it, I have no objection and wish you all the best in maintaining your health. But the problem with progressive zealots anxious to impose their superior understanding on others is that "voluntary" means nothing to them. Those who oppose them stand in the way of progress, and that's a sin, especially to people who don't believe in God or Natural Law.

So, you may be wondering, where is Lifson going with this. Well, it seems that a woman of the Progressive variety in Britain, thinks that she can train a dog against that dogs nature. She wants to show as a dog that prefers to eat a pile of broccoli rather than meat.  The results are hilarious.  As has been noted since Biblical days, the real world doesn't answer to human will.  It is what it is.  But you can see for yourself.  Watch