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Glenn Beck

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What do you do with a hard-line conservative recovering from substance abuse after losing his mother and brother to suicide? Give him a liberal-bashing show on CNN Headline News of course.

Rush Limbaugh has long been considered too offensive for television. He couldn’t even keep his quibs about racial bias silent as a football commentator for ESPN and was let go in 2003 after suggesting that the media only gave positive performance reviews for the Philadelphia Eagles quarterback because he was black (something Rush still bitterly complains about constantly on his radio program). Yet Glenn Beck, who often describes himself as a recovering alcohol and drug addict, runs a show on CNN Headline News that is almost a carbon copy of the Rush Limbaugh radio program. Now, we all know that accepting Jesus or Muhammed or some higher power has long been considered one of the unwritten rules of substance recovery, and in Beck’s case, it was the power of Joseph Smith who helped him overcome his troubles, but only lately has mental instability become accepted as a qualification for news commentary.

By his own admission, Beck has not completely come to terms with his own emotional demons within himself, yet he has taken the attitude that he has figured the rest of the world out (the rest of the world being far less complex than his own mind). You see, the UN is like the Third Reich, environmentalism is the new eugenics, and Al Gore is Hitler. No doubt many manic depressives agree with these amazing and thought-provoking theories. And since those crazy left-wing hippies at CNN have slowly begun to realize that a great deal of the American population hold similar ideas to those who are mentally ill, they decided to give him his own news platform to propell these wonderful ideas throughout the American conciousness.

Here’s what Beck had to say on the subject during his radio show:

“Al Gore’s not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is globalization. The goal is global carbon tax. The goal is the United Nations running the world. That is the goal. Back in the 1930s, the goal was get rid of all of the Jews and have one global government… You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire world behind you, and you seize power. That was Hitler’s plan. His enemy: the Jew. Al Gore’s enemy, the U.N.’s enemy: global warming… Then you get the scientists — eugenics. You get the scientists — global warming. Then you have to discredit the scientists who say, ‘That’s not right.’ And you must silence all dissenting voices. That’s what Hitler did.”

Now you know he’s up to date, since it was only a couple of months ago that conservatives found out that climate scientists were fudging their data in order to get more grants. The new common knowledge that disproves global warming is that all the scientists are fudging their data because they want to globalize the world under the U.N. This of course, has long been predicted by conservative radio-show prophets who forsaw that the Anti-Christ would come and try to take over the world through the U.N. This proves that the Bible tells us that America must only commit itself to its own interests and not allow devil-worshipping institutions like the World Court take control away from our soverign rights.

Of course, there are a few minor problems with this comparison. One is Hitler was head of his government whereas Al Gore is not. Another is climate science is peer-reviewed by other scientists from around the world rather than political appointees of one nation. But in this case, nearly all the climate scientists are in on it. So it’s no wonder that the Bush Administration has been forced to continuously block reports from their own agency:

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0927-10.htm

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6341451/

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/06/03/tech/main510920.shtml

Obviously, since eugenics was once considered “science,” we can never rely on this undemocratic form of tyranny ever again. This would explain other “scientific” reports that the Bush Administration has so wisely blocked, like this one on health care that was blocked in 2006 for “being too political.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/28/AR2007072801420.html?hpid=topnews

Obviously, liberals are no more interested in scientific purity than conservatives. Take their irrational stand against sociobiology, the idea that IQ is determined by evolution. Richard Hernnstein’s book The Bell Shaped Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life, funded by the conservative think-tank, The Heritage Foundation, in 1994, argued that classes were becoming more divided by intelligence rather than racial or social disadvantage. Conservatives touted the book as proof that Affirmative Action was unnecessary while liberals roundly criticized it. So if liberals could take such an anti-scientific stance against eugenics then, how do we know they won’t take an anti-scientific stance for eugenics in the future?

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1252/is_n3_v122/ai_16424249

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociobiology

Zero Tolerance

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When the government talks about “Zero Tolerance” in the War on Drugs, they are of course only talking about some drugs, and not only that, but some people who sell some drugs. For example, when Afghanistan was run by the Taliban, there were no drugs because the penalty for growing them was death. Now, 90% of the world’s heroin comes from Afghanistan, making it the number one export, but you won’t hear anything about it being a problem because that would endanger the lives of 3 million farmers. Of course the US could care less about that — they’ve destroyed the lives of plenty of cocoa growers in South America — but that would in turn bring public resentment against us, which undermines our war efforts there.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2007-05-20-edit_N.htm

During the Iran-Contra scandal, the CIA made an investigation of itself, and although it never admitted to selling cocaine to fund revolutionaries, they did admit to “getting in bed” with drug dealers in order to achieve their objectives.

The threat of drugs has also been used to further the immigration agenda of conservatives through the story of the cops who shot a Mexican drug carrier in the butt when he tried to evade them. The border agents, knowing what they did was wrong, picked up the shell casings and then filed a false report to cover up their actions, yet conservatives have tried to make these would-be murderers into heroes. Of course, if the man was white it would never have been a big story, but aside from the cover-up, it’s just what conservatives need to get the racist right wound up on their immigration policy, so the part about the coverup is routinely dropped. But ask those same conservatives if they would have appreciated it if their own son or daughter was shot while trying to flee the police in order to escape a drug conviction and that the cops then tried to cover the crime up and i’m sure you’d hear a different story.

http://www.cnsnews.com/Nation/Archive/200701/NAT20070126a.html

Immigration is of course a worthy topic of discussion, but rather than blaming liberals for convincing Bush (as if he would listen), conservatives should look at their own platform. Democrats may have a stronger Mexican vote, but its the business sector that has all the influence with the Republican Party and its in their best interests to keep illegals coming across the border because it means cheap labor for them. While conservatives are talking about constructing a giant wall and creating a mass transit system to move millions of illegals out of the country, they could have simply devised a system of making employers check their employees before they hire them. If illegals couldn’t get jobs here, they’d go back on their own, but that won’t happen because its not profitable for the Republicans who matter.

Meanwhile, the War on Drugs have gotten so out of hand that our Right to Free Speech has not become its newest casualty. Joseph Frederick, an 18-year-old adult, displayed a banner saying “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” in his car. The message is nonsensical and obviously made only for humor’s sake. The principal of his school took it down and suspended the student, despite the fact that the car was on a public sidewalk outside the jurisdiction of the school. But apparently jurisdiction and free speech are meaningless as long as there is a “reasonable” chance that a message implicitly promotes the illegal use of drugs, according to Bush’s Chief Justice appointee, John Roberts. As Justice John Paul Stevens said, “This case began with a silly nonsensical banner, (and) ends with the court inventing out of whole cloth a special First Amendment rule permitting the censorship of any student speech that mentions drugs, so long as someone could perceive that speech to contain a latent pro-drug message.” The Bush Administration is, naturally, on the side of the principal, and its hard to doubt that John Roberts got the message before his own decision on the case.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/25/free.speech/index.html

But this opens up another case, while we’re sacrificing our civil liberties to the War of Drugs, the government is aiding and abedding the “enemy” for the sake of the War on Terror. Regardless of the circumstances, helping some drug deals while putting others away is nothing more than Protectionism, keeping prices high for one supplier by doing away with the competition. The gospels say, “you can not serve two masters,” and in the same way, you can’t fight two enemies with equal zeal. If the War on Terror really is the most pressing concern America has, then we shouldn’t have the time and money to be fighting this other unwinnable war. By legalizing or at least decriminalizing drugs, it would help bring down the black market and help put an end to all the violence associated with the drug trade. But that would be “declaring defeat.” Of course we haven’t even had a president who “just said no” in the past 15 years, but if its one thing conservatives are good at, its deluding themselves into believing in a an undefinable victory far, far into the future.

Catch of 153 Fish

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch_of_153_fish

This is really interesting. There is also a symbolic passage similar to that in the Gospel of Mark. When Jesus says to watch out for the “yeast of the Pharisees and Herod,” his disciples think he is talking about literal bread. Jesus reminds them of the importance of the numbers, asking how many baskets were leftover after he divided five among 5000, the answer being twelve, and how many baskets were leftover after he divided seven among 4000, the answer being seven. Emphasizing its symbolic nature, Jesus replies, “Do you still not understand?”

Most people don’t know what it means. Although “twelve” and “seven” may fit in with the whole solar symbolism found in passages like that of Revelation (12 months; 7 days), I think they have to do with a secret history. The Sepher Toldoth Yeshu says that Jesus originally had 5 disciples, which would symbolize the original five loaves. Although they were executed, they fed 5000 Jews. The Sepher Toldoth Yeshu then said there were 12 original apostles that rose up in the first century B.C., which would account for the 12 basket of leftovers. These taught 4000 people, leaving seven baskets of leftovers, perhaps symbolizing the 7 churches of Asia Minor (also as referred to in Revelation).