Metal Dad - Hardcore for Life

Let Me See If I've Got This Straight

Guy flouts existing laws and partly due to a cock-up by the Air Force is able to obtain guns he should not have. Goes on murder spree in Texas church. Murderer is neutralized by law-abiding, legal gun owner. Collectivist busybodies have a hissy fit demanding more laws to restrict gun ownership. Makes perfect sense. Let's enact more laws which won't be enforced and problem solved. Only the most naive deny that the true goal of the gun control crowd is banning private ownership of guns and ultimately confiscation.

If this guy had survived, gone to trial, been convicted and sentenced to death for murder I would wager many of the same folks clamoring for additional, onerous restrictions on lawful citizens owning firearms would be protesting his execution. But that's a story for another day.

Hooray For Hollywood!

I was beginning to think nothing could dislodge the NFL "protests" from the top of the MSM's list of important news items with which to badger the unwashed masses in the hopelessly ignorant flyover states. Then Harvey Weinstein came along. More accurately details of his long career as a sexual predator have been made public. 

It's been amusing to see and hear the shock and dismay from a growing number of the beautiful, enlightened, socially conscious, and progressive denizens of the cultural wasteland called Hollywood.
Forgive me if I get a little cynical here. I think their shock comes from the exposure of this man's predation. After all this is a community which has cheered for convicted rapist and child molester Roman Polanski.

This is a community which uses its considerable talents to ridicule and mock mainstream culture, values, and morals. It uses its talents to lift up the perverse and degenerate as normative.

I predict Harvey will go off to rehab for his "sexual addiction," will donate a ton of money to some progressive institutions, and confess, "Sorry guys and gals, I screwed up!" He'll appear at some Hollywood function and excoriate himself for his past transgressions, vowing to use his talents and resources to fight the patriarchy. The only question is will he be forgiven?

It's Not Just Your Speech The American Stalinists Want To Control

These busybodies trust the government so much they would like to see the populace disarmed leaving only the military and police armed. Listening to some sports talking heads go on and on about Cam Newton's transgression against women sportswriters it was quite clear that so-called progressives wish to control not only speech but thought as well.

One panelist expressed the idea that the offending words were the result of a viewpoint which needed to be corrected. Who decides which viewpoints are defective and in need of correction? Are we soon to see  Red China style self-criticism sessions on television for those who dare to hold ideas or speak opinions not considered correct?

Sex And Spirituality, A False Dichotomy

Hearing about the passing of Hugh Hefner got me thinking. Did not read any online comments about this. I suspect the comments would fall into one of two camps.
Camp A: He was a sexist pig who made a living objectifying women.
Camp B: He was a pioneer who helped the culture shed its puritanical attitudes about sexuality.

Smarter folks than I will have to decide his legacy and posterity. However, I think describing prim, prudish views of sexuality as puritanical does a great injustice to the Puritans. Contrary to popular belief the Puritans were not a grim, dour lot who viewed life as a hard, joyless slog. Life was to be enjoyed and all things were to be done as service to God. The calling of a housewife and mother was just as high and holy as the call of a minister. 

Their view of love and marriage was informed by their understanding of the Scriptures. Hebrews 13:4 tells us, "Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous."

Sexuality was viewed as a gift from God to be enjoyed within the estate of marriage. J.I. Packer wrote in A Quest For Godliness - The Puritan Vision of the Christian Life, "... the Puritans expected and indeed directed that wedded love should be ardent and robust. Though self-controlled, they were uninhibited people, and often were exuberant in expressing love for their God, so they believed that they should be with spouses."

This is true sexual liberation - enjoying God's gift within the safe confines of the office of marriage.

Sit, Stand, Or Kneel?

I haven't heard so much chatter about whether to sit, stand, or kneel since the sweeping reforms of Vatican II when the Eucharist Liturgy was profoundly altered (to its detriment, in my opinion). But today the discussion is centered around the participants of a game refusing to take part in a ritual pledging allegiance to a piece of cloth. OK, I'm being snarky a bit. I know that the allegiance is purportedly to the principles which the piece of cloth is supposed to represent. One question might be: why does an entertainment entity begin its spectacles with an homage to militarism which all in attendance, participants and spectators, are supposed to take part? If someone's conscience prevents them from standing and gazing at the cloth flying in the wind and repeating some phrases, whose business is it? And why does the president of the nation feel he must inject himself in a discussion which rightly belongs to the owners of the entertainment entity and its employees? This begs the question: do the owners have any reasonable claim to force its employees to participate in this ritual? When the national debt of the nation is 18.96 trillion dollars, when local, state, and federal governmental agencies are awash in corruption and waste, when the nation is mired in endless wars around the globe is the pledge really such a pressing matter?

Call Me An Ignorant Hillbilly If You Want

but if this is indicative of a "progressive" civilization, count me out.

The nation of Iceland is well on its merry way to eliminating Downs Syndrome.They have not discovered or invented some method of addressing the genetic anomaly which leads to this condition. They are eliminating it by eliminating unborn babies whose mothers test positive for the condition.

You want to talk about Nazis? This is exactly what they did. And let's not forget the coerced sterilizations in the US in the early 1900s. The early victims of the Nazi regime in Germany were the disabled. Coming soon to a hospital or doctor's office near you: "Why inconvenience yourself with a problem? It's not murder, it's ending a thing."

I don't care how many letters they have following their names or how sparkly white their lab coats are. They are barbarians. And before you get on your high horse I am the adoptive father of daughter with significant cognitive and medical needs. My wife and I chose this path as a practical application of our belief that God is the Author of all life and we should respect and defend life, especially the most helpless among us.

 

Since I Gave Up Hope I Feel A Lot Better

I haven't really given up hope. But I have felt a lot better since I stopped watching news on the television. A quick perusal of a couple of news sites tells me what I need to know without the hysteria from the news-entertainment television networks who are actually short on real news and devoid of entertainment.

I do not place my hope in government or other man-made institutions. My hope is in the Triune God who reveals Himself through His creation, our conscience, the Person and work of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, and His Inscripturated Word.

Stop Calling Them Protestors!

They're rioters and looters otherwise known as criminals.

Chicago Shootings Over Memorial Day Weekend

52 people were shot in Chicago over the Memorial Day Weekend. 7 of those shootings resulted in fatalities. The collective of liars and thieves known as the Illinois House of Representatives immediately leapt into action and approved a bill to increase penalties for repeat gun offenders. They also approved a measure that would bring automatic voter registration to Illinois. And to make sure those automatically registered voters vote Democratic they also approved a measure to prohibit state law enforcement agencies from enforcing federal civil immigration laws.

"I swear that as an elected representative of Illinois I will line my pockets and the
pockets of my friends with the money we coerce from the hard working people of Illinois.
I also swear to dismiss debate about secession as lunatic fringe stuff while working
hard to determine which federal laws we will enforce."

 

"Can Blue Men Sing The Whites?"

A very important question raised by The Bonzo Dog Band on their wonderfully creative and clever 1968 album, The Doughnut in Granny's Greenhouse. The American release had their UK single "I'm The Urban Spaceman" added and the album was re-titled Urban Spaceman for release in the US.

Listening to this album today got me thinking about the whole "cultural appropriation" discussion being heard these days. The song whose title is the title of this blog entry is a very funny send up of the British interest in American blues at the time. I would've written 'it takes the piss out of' but I might get criticized for cultural appropriation since that's a very Commonwealth expression.

Anyway I had an idea about the appropriation debate. How about POC don't use anything invented by white people and white people won't use any of their stuff. And while we're at it, have any of the SJWs discarded their Clash and Police albums and CDs because these white British bands stole reggae for themselves?

We Spent What We Stole From You On Something Else So We Need To Take Some More

That gaggle of liars and thieves know as the Illinois Senate Democrats(this does not imply partiality towards the Illinois Senate Republicans. They are just as reprehensible.)voted on Tuesday to approve a $5.4 billion tax increase. The state is behind $14.4 billion in bills. But I'll bet these criminals got paid on time.

While we're at it could someone please explain why the Chicago Public Schools have $9 billion in debt with only 381,000 students? And they want to borrow $900 million more in the coming weeks!

Barbarians At The Gate

Actually, they're not at the gates. They've been inside for quite awhile and have wreaked a hell of a lot of havoc. Some folks point at the schools and think that's the problem. But the simple truth is that probably most, if not all, of the kids have already been lost before starting first grade. And this is because parents have abdicated their responsibility to instill ethical values in their children.The city of Chicago is experiencing a horrendous wave of murders in some communities. Every now and then someone from one of these neighborhoods will show up on the news talking about the need for someone to do something. When I hear that I think, "You raised them. The responsibility is yours." or "You didn't raise them. You defaulted on your parental responsibility to correct and guide them and you're surprised they've turned out to be murderers and criminals."

I am under no illusion that I was a really good parent. I have failed in so many ways as a husband and father. But when we married we made a committment to God, our friends and families, and each other to stick with it no matter who or what came along. Those vows were not taken lightly.

Now just looking at the state of this nation and the rest of the world might make one pessimistic. But I am reminded of these words by David Chilton, "...the purpose of prophecy is ethical. It is God's assurance that history is under His control, that He is working out His eternal purposes in every event, and that His original plan for His creation will be fulfilled. He has placed us into the great war for world history with the absolute guarantee that we will win. Even if He has to make the whole universe stand still for us (Josh. 10:12-13) the day will last long enough for us to achieve victory. Time is on our side. The Kingdom has come, and the world has begun again. Now: Get to work."

That Sure Didn't Take Long

When The Donald was elected president I recall thinking the political machine (red and blue) would do all in their power to co-opt him and if he could not be co-opted would try to destroy him. The destroy attempt came first. Witness the ridiculous claims that Russia interfered/hacked/manipulated the election and/or his campaign was colluding with this Russian interference. When this spin started to lose traction due to a total lack of believable evidence the co-opt phase began. Maybe it's all the generals on his staff but something or someone turned him to do something he campaigned against.

I guess the Washington insiders and their sycophantic media lapdogs aren't tired of endless war. Or maybe The Donald saw this as a way to get them off his back. But whatever the reason that's spun out to the sheeple, it hasn't got a damn thing to do with national security or protecting children. How many children have been killed by U.S drones?