Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Obama's Christmas Message? 2 of 2

Obama’s Christmas Message? – 2 of 2
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Wednesday, December 23, 2009

(# 2 of Chuck Norris article in the WorldNet Daily, Away with a Manger, Dec. 21st)

Will President Obama’s Christmas address rival those Christmas confessions of past presidents? Or will his yuletide cheer be another politically correct concoction that has already adorned the first year of his presidency?

Based upon President Obama’s first year’s utter disregard for America’s Judeo-Christian heritage and promotion of a secular-progressive agenda and pro-Islamic platforms, the only white Christmas I would count on the White House is continued whitewashing of religious tradition in Washington. But does America really need another version of “Away with the Manger”?

First, even during his campaign for the presidency, Obama sarcastically belittled America’s Judeo-Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist: “Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation”; “The dangers of sectarianism are greater than ever”; “Religion doesn’t allow for compromise”; “The Sermon on the Mount {is} a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn’t survive its application”; and “To base our policy making upon such commitments {as moral absolutes} would be a dangerous thing.” (See the YouTube video: “Barack Obama on the importance of a secular government.”)

Second, President Obama has already denied America’s rich Judeo-Christian heritage before the eyes and ears of other countries, as he publicly declared in Turkey on April 6, 2009, for the whole world to hear: “We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation.” (Who are “we” to whom he refers? Would our former presidents agree with his “we.”?)

Third, quite contrary to Obama’s negative tone and sentiments about Judeo-Christian belief, in countless speeches over the past year he has sympathized and supported pro-Islamic theology and practice. Just recently, he encouraged Americans “not to jump to conclusions” about the Ford Hood shooter being a Muslim extremist. And he refused to say anything when the Muslim extremist and president of Iran publicly accused the U.S. of actively planning and plotting to stop mankind’s real savior: i.e. Mahdi, the iman that Muslims believe will be ultimate savior of mankind.

Fourth, President Obama has enabled an anti-Christian agenda unlike any former president by revising America’s religious history, minimizing the role of religion today, passing secular-progressive legislation and turning a blind eye to issues like atheists’ lawsuit to remove the national motto (“In God We Trust”) off of the walls of the new Capitol Visitors Center in Washington, D.C., or the ACLU’s disposal of Veteran memorial crosses in the Mohave Desert and at Mount Soledad. Every time President Obama has had an opportunity to stand for Christianity in any way, he has not only denied it but disdained it.

A GRAVE MANIFESTATION IS OBAMACARE’S INCORPORATION TO USE FEDERAL FUNDS TO PAY FOR ABORTION AND THEREBY FORCE PEOPLE OF CONSCIENCE WHO ARE PRO-LIFE TO PAY FOR THE TERMINATION OF LIFE IN THE WOMB ACROSS THE COUNTRY…
George H. Kubeck

Tuesday, December 22, 2009

FEELING CATHOLIC?

FEELING CATHOLIC
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Feeling Catholic and being Catholic are two different things. Being Catholic could mean common sense, reason and natural law, the Ten Commandments, the Catechism of the Catholic Church and faith. What does feeling Catholic mean?

Let’s check out the meditation of Pope Benedict in Co-Workers of the Truth on December 18th, written about 32 years ago. Maybe the pope can help us.

“It is only true that religion, for many, has dissolved into an emotion no longer based on anything real, because the faith that once fed this feeling has disintegrated. Yet, in a certain respect, even more destructive may be the attitude of those who consider themselves believers but confine their religion equally to the realm of feelings only, excluding it from the rational proceedings of their daily lives, in which they pursue exclusively their own advantage. … Such an attitude is but a caricature of true faith.”

When Catholic-label politicians feel good about voting for a healthcare system that includes abortion coverage and no conscience protection for doctors and health care workers, there is something wrong with that good feeling.

The position of this writer is: there is more than abortion with a Catholic-label politicians like Rep. Patrick Kennedy voting against the Stupak Amendment in the House which limits public funding in Health Care. Catholic writers must recognize that abortion is just the tip of the iceberg. The political party that these Catholic-label politicians belong to also promotes the absolute and intrinsic evils of same-sex marriage, embryonic stem-cell research, and indirectly assisted-suicide and euthanasia. Why keep this information silent from their readers?

Why should Catholic writers treat these Catholic-label politicians with kid- gloves and as sacred cows? I have written last week a short message to about ten Catholic magazines and periodicals: Editorial Board and Writers, “Please research the Catholic-label politicians in Congress. Explain your findings to your readers. Make some recommendations when they run for office in 2010.”

1.) Commonweal 6.) Orange County Catholic
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2.) America 7.) New Oxford Review
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4.) National Catholic Register 9.) First Things
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5.) The Tidings 10.)The Catholic World Report
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George H. Kubeck, Except for America, I receive all of the above and most of it stays unread.

Obama's Christmas Message? 1 of 2

Obama’s Christmas Message? – 1 of 2
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, December 22, 2009

The President will give his first Christmas message in a couple days. Let’s compare it to past presidents. Chuck Norris has written a poignant and serious article for WorldNet Daily, Monday, Dec. 21, 2009, titled, Away with the Manger.

Chuck begins as follows: “I am willing to bet that President’s Obama’s Christmas address will shine with religious significance about as bright as his unusually short Thanksgiving Proclamation, which gave a token reference to God via a quote from George Washington…” However, you decide. Let’s begin with the good news from our past presidents.

1.) On Christmas Day, 1795, President George Washington with members of Congress at his Mount Vernon estate, complete with a fox hunt, feast including “Christmas pie,” music, dancing & visiting that at times continued for a solid week.

2.) America’s second president, John Adams, was the first to hold a White House Christmas party.

3.) Thomas Jefferson loved celebrating Christmas, from his youth considering the day as a time of “merriment” and “The day of greatest mirth and jollity.” He threw elaborate parties at the White House and his Monticello estate for family and friends, played his violin, sang his favorite Christmas song, “Adeste Fideles” (“Oh Come All Ye Faithful”),…

4.) President Abraham Lincoln read the Bible throughout his life and attended services at the New York Avenue Presbyterian Church on a regular basis, including Christmas time. During the Civil War he and his wife would visit hospitals on Christmas to help care for the wounded. During one political campaign, he declared “ I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; & I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general … I do not think I could myself be brought to support a man for office whom I knew to be an open enemy of religion.”

5.) In 1870 President Ulysses S. Grant signed into law the bill that made Christmas Day a national holiday.

6.) Sen. Kennedy disclosed at the National Conference of Christians and Jews Dinner in 1957 what he believed would remedy the ills of society: “Upon what we rely? In what can we find hope for the future? The answer, I believe, lies in the very principles which we honor tonight – the principles of our Judaic-Christian heritage.

7.) President Ronald Reagan repeatedly, affirmed his and the nations’ Christian faith at Christmas time, like these words on Dec. 16, 1982, “In this holiday season, we celebrate the birthday of One who, for almost 2,000 years, has been a greater influence on humankind than all the rulers, all the scholars, all the armies and all the navies that ever marched or sailed, all put together … {I}t’s also a holy day, the birthday of the Prince of Peace, a day when ‘God so loved the world’ that He sent us His only begotten Son to assure forgiveness of our sins.”
George H. Kubeck

Sunday, December 20, 2009

DOWN WITH OBAMA'S JACOBINS!

Down with Obama’s Jacobins!
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Sunday, December 20, 2009

“Henry Waxman – a congressman of some power and influence – sent a letter in August to the CEOs of health care companies asking for schedules of all salaries above a certain amount, and of the conferences they had been to, and how much they cost, and who was there.
Was it coincidence that he wanted this information just as health care debate was starting up? Could it be that he was trying to intimidate and silence potential opposition?

One of the many “czars” – isn’t that an ominous word? – in the Obama administration is Cass Sunstein, the czar of regulatory policy. Mr. Sunstein is a very smart man – a law professor, like the president – but he is on record of saying that speech rights should be redistributed by government bureaucrats much a wealth is distributed through Post-New-Deal tax and entitlement policy. This is not supposed to be a country where there are czars dealing with things like speech. BUT IT IS SUCH A COUNTRY RIGHT NOW.

The economic policies being proposed these days are very bad. But the principles behind them are worse. They represent a return to the idea THAT THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION REPUDIATED – the idea that some are equipped by nature or training to manage the lives of others without their consent.
I have been making the point lately that people are wrong who accuse the Obama administration of being socialist. I take the president at his word when he says he has no desire to own the automobile companies. Instead he wants to control them – and the rest of us as well – through a regulatory apparatus overseen by czars and bureaucrats. And again, his intentions are good.

WHAT IS BAD IS THE VIEW UNDERLYING THEM OF WHAT HUMAN BEINGS ARE. Rather than looking on us as equal beings with a set nature – such that none of us should rule another in the way that God rules man or man rules beast – our political leaders today have been taught to see us as material to be shaped and perfected by experts who have the proper technical training.

It has been close to 100 years now that the majority of people teaching in American colleges and universities have agreed with Woodrow Wilson, one of the founders of the Progressive movement and the first to write explicitly THAT THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE IS OBSOLETE, and that we need to liberate the Constitution from the Declaration’s restraints.

This liberation leads to the idea of a “living Constitution,” characterized by constant changes or progress. Absolute truth, to the extent that ordinary people still believe in it, obstructs change or progress – which is why President Obama refers to it … as tyrannical.

But if change or progress is the rule, who is to determine what version of change or progress is good? And as any Hillsdale College student could tell you – is that once you deny the existence of absolute truth, the definition of “good” becomes subjective and the only standard of behavior is what want – “we,” in the political sense, meaning the government or bureaucracy. It reduces politics not to right, but to force. That is why there is bullying spirit about our government today, and why so many Americans are worried.

It is time for that to stop, and there are two conditions for stopping it. The first is for the ordinary folk of the United States to see in this the despotism that it is, and to rise up and repudiate it. The second … replace leaders who have bad education with leaders who have good education.

This is our work at Hillsdale College. We aim to recover the meaning of the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God” and place that meaning firmly in the minds and hearts of ambitious men and women who have the courage to do something with that knowledge…”

George H. Kubeck, All of the above by Larry P. Arnn, President of Hillsdale College. IMPRIMIS – DEC. 2009. This is a monthly sent to you FREE – (800) 437-2268

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Thoughts for the New Year!

Thoughts for the New Year
In pursuit of the truth - www.cinopsbegone.com – Tuesday, December 15, 2009

“I am the vine, you are the branches.”
“Without me you can do nothing.” (Jn 15:5)

Point 1: The transformation of ourselves and the society around us:
The following has never happened before: It is a book recommended by Pope Benedict XVI and is to be translated in Italian. Why?

1.)Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, secretary of state sent a telegram in the Pontiff’s name, “This book will awaken renewed fidelity to Christ and generous evangelical witness.”

2.)Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, the president of the Pontifical Council for the Laity: “handbook for Catholic laity who make an effort to build a civilization of love.”

3.)Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, said this volume with “”typical clarity, in addition to the competence of Americans,” is very useful “for the formation of the laity.” He particularly lauded the reflection of questions found at end of every chapter.

4.)Silesian Father Guiseppe Costa, director of the Vatican Publishing House, “It gives us a plan of spiritual things to practice for he building or our interior and social I.”

5.)All of us are proud of the leader of the Knights of Columbus, Carl Anderson, Supreme Knight who has written this book, “A Civilization of Love,” a best seller in the United States. It synthesis the teachings on the civilization of love forged by Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and then applies it to the life of the laity, in the family, in the globalized world, in the market ethics and in defense of life.

On the net: http:///www.acivilizationoflove.com buybook.htlml
Ref for the above: http://www.zenit.org/article-27794?1=#english

Point 2: Without doubt after five years, the following book should also be in your library and maybe part of your Christmas gift purchases. It is Pope Benedict’s book titled: Co-Workers of the Truth – Meditations for Every Day of the Year- Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1992.

Briefly, the Pope hopes to awaken in each reader the courage and generosity to become co-workers with the Gospel, which is the truth of Jesus Christ.

George H. Kubeck

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Message to "Our Sunday Visitor"

Message to “Our Sunday Visitor”
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Saturday, December 12, 2009

Please send this message is to all U.S. Catholic Newspapers and their writers:

Ref.: The National Historic Declaration on Christian Conscience posted Nov. 23/09
(Check Google and download The Manhattan Declaration)
Who Are You Senator Tom Harkin? Posted Sunday, Dec. 6, 2009
Catholic Writers Are On The Hot Seat! Posted Dec. 8th, 2009

Scene 1: The Supreme Court Decision of Roe vs. Wade – Jan. 22nd, 1973. In 1973 what we failed to do?

Scene 2: ObamaHealthCare: In December, 2009, what we must not fail to do?

Scene 3: A.) Today is the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe: Miracles occurred in Mexico. They can also occur in America. B.) Now for today’s meditation from Pope Benedict’s Co-Workers of the Truth: “John the Baptist and Mary are the two great personages typifying our existence in Advent. They,therefore, dominate the liturgy of Advent. Let us first gaze on John the Baptist. Challenging and active he stands before us, a “type” of the manly vocation. In harsh terms he demands metanoia, a radical transformation of attitudes. Those who would be Christians must be “transformed” ever again… Metanoeite: change you attitude, so that you may see God’spresence in the world … that God may dwell in you… and in the world…”

What’s the good news?
Thanks to President Obama and the education our country has received from the mindset of his staff and the Czars around him; we are today a strong pro-life right of center nation. This transformation is in many ways miraculous. A negative was turned into positive. All of this was accomplished in spite of the secular media, Hollywood and academia. We have found other sources of info:

What’s the beef?
1.) The Obama Health Care has crossed the line on the fundamental truths about justice and the common good: 1.) Sanctity of Life 2.) The Dignity of Marriage as the conjugal union of husband and wife. 3.) The rights of conscience and religious liberty. It must be killed. Only a bi-partisan approach will rectify these evils.

2.) THE HEALTH CARE BILL CANNOT PASS WITHOUT THE ASSISTANCE OF CATHOLIC-LABEL POLITICIANS. CATHOLIC WRITERS ARE DUTY BOUND TO TALK AND WRITE ABOUT THESE HORRIBLE SCANDALOUS POLITICIANS. This may be the biggest Catholic-label religious fraud in U.S. History. It needs to be discussed and rectified today and not in 2010.
George H. Kubeck, P.O. Box 865, Stanton, Ca. 90680 - 99998

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Friday, December 11, 2009

The American Tea Party Handbook - 2

The American Tea Party Handbook – 2
In pursuit of the truth – www.cinopsbegone.com – Friday, December 11, 2009

President Reagan ideas are like pebbles for David against Goliath. Other weapons are common sense, reasonableness, Constitution and Founding Fathers.

Government:
The more government we can keep at local levels in local hands, the better off we are and the more freedom we will have. Students, April 12, 1973

Common Sense practices of the private sector will work in government if you will just give them a chance. Interview, Sept. 18, 1973

Heaven help us if government ever gets into the business of protecting us from ourselves, Students, April 12, 1973

To be more responsive to the people, we must have enough government to carry out all of government’s legitimate responsibilities, but not one bit more. Speech, Sept. 7, 1973

The tragic inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems, it subsidizes them. Speech, Nov. 14, 1974

For too many years, government has been growing is size and power with no regard for the economic consequences. And government loves it. Oct. 15, 1974

Wisdom in government is not a one-way street that always runs downhill. More often, the higher up the ladder of government you go, the less common sense you find. Speech, Oct. 15, 1973

Government in the United States at every level has been on a long financial drunk. We are in the first stages of the hangover: inflation and debasement of the dollar. And we beset by helpful souls who have us believe that what we need is more of what got us into this condition to begun with.

For a look at where we will be if we do not sober up in a hurry, hark back to Germany of the 1920’s. Workers were given time off every two hours to spend their earnings before the value of their money dropped. Germans carried 50,000 mark notes for lunch money. And that wild inflation brought them, finally, an Adolf Hitler. Speech, Oct. 15, 1973

Prosperity is something created by people and their industries and business for which government takes credit. There are always those who insist government must keep pace with our free society by increasing in size, in cost and ultimately and inevitably in power. It will not come as a shock to you. I am sure, to hear that even though I am part of government, I disagree… Speech, Aug. 6, 1973

George H. Kubeck – THE ABOVE FROM THE QUOTABLE RONALD REAGAN – J.R. HOLMES