We’ve all heard and/or read about secondary school teachers who are exemplars of the ancient Roman poet, Catullus.  His most notable poem, “Odi et Amo” or, “I Hate and I Love,” expresses his ardent feelings toward his mistress, Lesbia, conflicted emotions due to the fact she dumped him.

Many, too many, of today’s teachers seem to have an equally-conflicting love, or lust, for some of their students which actually reflects a deep hatred for who and what they are, namely children.

If not totally innocent children, they are usually far less experienced, guileful, and worldly young people than the teachers and mentors who seduce and abuse them, whether they feel seduced and abused or not.

And classroom teachers are certainly not the only seducers and abusers of immature, “young adults,” a contemporary label which confers on kids an undeserved and misleading aura of adulthood.  School administrators and supervisors at all levels of education are also complicit in the smarminess.

The latter contribute to the near-epidemic incidents of illicit teacher-student relationships by tolerating student garb which is often more appropriate to a streetwalker in Times Square than a classroom setting.

They design courses for high school kids more fitting for college-level students.  They authorize and condone course material and readings one might expect in College English 101 but which only serve to stoke already-blazing teenage hormones.  Then they express shock and indignation when wayward teachers hit on the kids. 

Not often mentioned is the seductive behavior of the kids, behavior not offered as an excuse for lecherous teachers who should know better than become involved with children but, too often, don’t know better.

An Atlanta, Georgia teacher allegedly accented the “odi” rather than the “amo” part of Catullus’ poem: “Randolphe Forde,  a teacher at Mundy’s Mill High School has been charged with making terroristic threats,” an extreme charge considering that all he did was try to hire a “hit student” to kill another student at his school.

Forde’s motive is not as yet known but it’s likely it went beyond chewing gum in class.  The attorney for the target victim suggested it was because the 16 year old is gay and that Forde threatened to “hit him in his ‘effin mouth:” http://bit.ly/3UDCXy . . .

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Waging a successful war today usually requires establishing alliances and letting allies assume some of the burdens of the battles.  That requisite holds true for the Democrat War on the Christian God as well.

The Democrat allies in their war are legion, ranging from ACORN, to pro-abortionist feminist groups to the leftist blogosphere, even to a few Republicans in Name Only, RINOS, quisling traitors to their party’s and to the nation’s deep-felt values.

All one has to do is read the papers, watch the news, or peruse a few blogs to see the extent of how the United States, a former democratic republic founded on timeless Christian principles, has been inexorably deteriorating into a secularist, godless cesspool of Saul Alinsky-inspired chaos.

(Better yet, for a quick overview of the corruption in progress, see “The Democrat War on the Christian God, (Part I):” http://bit.ly/1XhuiL)

No significant political/social movements occur in vacuums and none fail to have ramifications that go beyond mere politics.  In military terms, the Democrat war on the Christian God is in progress on many strategic fronts. 

Those ramifications are varied and may be likened to pustules on the body politic, rotting the social structure from within even as those pustules gain favor in the general populace.

Two seditionist Democrat allies stand out from the others, one for the depth of its godless depravity, the other for its widespread capacity to control public thought.

The first is the homosexual, LGBT, movement, the second the mainstream media, the MSM. . . .

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It has been superseded in the Age of Obama with the Orwellian image of Big Obama Brother cautioning the citizens of Oceania to be on their toes because he’s watching every move they make. 

Orwell’s Big Brother presided over Oceania’s unending wars with Eurasia and Eastasia but the Obama Big Bro isn’t concerned with war and certainly isn’t perturbed by any war on terrorism since terrorism doesn’t exist.

His designs involve waging battle against the minds, hearts, spirits, and freedoms of his subjects.

And Obama’s Big Brother isn’t kidding!

Cross Obama’s version of Big Bro or make the Obamassiah cross in any manner, shape, or form, and your arse will be grass and either the Executive Branch or one of its congressional minions will take you out.

Or, try to.

For example:

Papists, Beware!  The Catholic Church had the impertinence to challenge Obama’s lies on the inclusion of abortion coverage in Obamacare.  As a consequence of its insolence, it’s in the cross hairs of Obama’s Big Bro!

The Church was more politic than Rep. Joe Wilson and didn’t confront the president on national television by validly charging, “You lie!” and simply apprised Obama that it begged to disagree on what Obamacare included.

That was enough for congressional lackey, Lynn Woolsey . . .
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Of course not, unless we include the multiple pagan gods, the god of Mammon, the god of Hollywood, Michael Jackson, et al.

We could say the Democratic Party is at war with the Judeo-Christian God, which is the same God, but that construct wouldn’t be precisely true either since their war rarely encompasses Judaism’s Yahweh–nor Islam’s Allah, nor polytheistic major and minor deities.

The reason for the Democrat’s war is fairly obvious: Having devolved into an irrelegious political party catering to a predominantly irrelegious and faithless consituency, Democrats must give that constituency its undivided attention.

Dominated by those who favor elimination of any mention of God in a nation founded on a belief in an Almighty Being, Democrats must ignore America’s history and focus on winning votes from the Great Unwashed.

America’s Left, Democrats, like to harp on the absence of the G-word, God, in the Constitution, suggesting that omission was deliberate and thereby implying the Founders planned on an atheistic nation.

What poppycock!

The issues of God’s “presence” in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and even in the Articles of Confederation are far too complex to be discussed here.  I would instead refer the reader to “Where Is God in the Constitution, a FreeRepublic.com article:” http://bit.ly/49OZAf

Suffice to say, neither the Founders nor later lawmakers, and certainly not the mass of Americans, had any intent of excluding God from this nation, except in the minds of today’s Democrats.

“In God We Trust” is America’s national motto and engraved on our currency.  “So help you God” concludes most oaths of office and legal testimony. “Under God” was added to the Pledge of Allegiance more than half a century ago.  A national holiday, Christmas Day, is a commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, even if it has now been widely secularized.

Democrats aren’t content with that secularization success . . .
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As more and more cracks appear in the previously-impenetrable Wall of Obamian MSM Idolators, the president must be wondering if he could get away with bailouts for all of his driveby media whether they need it or not.

When “SNL” feels free to take potshots at Obama, the Times prints truthful news about him, and even Theonion.com no longer feels he is sacrosanct and beyond reproach, something may be a-brewing that could approach even-handed treatment of the president.

Some queasiness just might be settling in on the banks of the Potomac and within the White House walls as the administration gets a tad nervous.

In an appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Eric Holder attempted to defend his decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-conspirators in a federal civilian court in Manhattan, within virtual spitting distance from Ground Zero.

Committee Chairman Pat Leahy (D. VT) wasn’t able to shield Holder from some hard questions concerning his decision, a decision he has contended he alone made, which is as preposterous as it is damning. 

Would the President of the United States have had absolutely no input in the matter of by-passing military tribunals?  If so, he is more out of touch with reality than it has seemed and once more he has contradicted himself.

Holder surprisingly admitted something Obama has long avoided by saying: “I know that we are at war.  I know that we are at war with a vicious enemy who targets our soldiers on the battlefield in Afghanistan and our civilians in the streets here at home:” http://bit.ly/2OUdSp

He held fast to the Obama position that the war is not against Islamic terrorism by never mentioning that abhorrent phrase.  . . .

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Dynasties, much like indigestion or honesty in the Obama administration, tend to come and go.

Egypt recorded no fewer than 31 dynasties, China a paltry 13, and even Somalia, Tonga, Myanmar, and dozens of other nations and regions have weighed in with their minimalist dynastic periods.

The United States, by virtue of our democratic republican form of government and sense of political values, has always looked askance at the concept of one family exercising prolonged rule, except maybe on the local level of late.

What some call America’s first family and others call America’s royalty, the Kennedys, epitomized by patriarch Joe and his three sons, are the closest we’ve come to anything approximating a national dynasty with various members in politics countrywide.

The Clintons would love to follow suit but needed more progeny, and more class, to get anywhere, dynastic-wise.

A local dynasty founded by former Democratic Congressman William Jennings Jefferson rose out out of the New Orleans Bayou to become a Jeffersonian dynasty which recently has met its Waterloo on the Bayou.

That Jeffersonian Dynasty was never much of a dynasty by Egyptian and Chinese standards, . . .

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When corrected after elaborating on such malapropisms as “Russian jewelry,” in lieu of “Russian Jewry,” SNL’s late, great Gilda Radner’s/Emily Litella’s standard rebuttal was always, “Never mind.”

Less than 4 weeks after British P.M. Gordon Brown issued his chilling warning of an imminent cataclysm “of floods, droughts, and killer heat waves” that would strike the planet if the climate change confab in Copenhagen didn’t save us in 50 days, the climate changeists have effectively said, “Never mind.”

It was funnier when Litella used the line.

There’s no rush after all despite Brown’s panic that Earthlings had less than 2 months to avoid catastrophe: ”U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders on Sunday supported delaying a legally binding climate pact until 2010 or even later, but European negotiators said the move did not imply weaker action:” http://bit.ly/2Y6Yuk.

Danish P.M Lars Lokke Rasmussen added, “We are not aiming to let anyone off the hook.”

What “hook” he meant was left unclear. . .

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“Black Liberation Theology,” is a term supposedly coined by James H. Cone who actually glommed it from the South American Marxist “Liberation Theology” movement of the fifties.

Cone synthesized his American meaning when he said, “The Christian faith has been interpreted largely by those who enslaved black people, and by the people who segregated them.”  It goes far beyond a disaffection with Christianity. 

As one observer wrote, it is “a product of the dreary, leftist politics of the twentieth century” to which “Militancy is important.  It’s the sword dangled over the head of society.  Either fork over more tax dollars, government services and patronage or else. . . [under threat of} Civil unrest.  Disruptions in cities.  Riot in the streets:” http://bit.ly/4EYouE.

Sound familiar?  It should.  We have witnessed that civil unrest, that militancy, those disruptions, those riots for decades.  They are intrinsic to black liberation and civil rights movements.  Ironically, they are often promulgated from the pulpits of supposedly Christian churches.

Two recent race-tinged stories may reflect a very feasible relationship to Black Liberation Theology follow:

ONE: The following dialogue is fabricated.  The facts of the incident–involving 3 people in a Harlem bar, a black man, a white woman, and a white man–are not.

Black Man: “Don’t you think that white privilege has gone on long enough in this country?”

White woman: “What exactly do you mean by ‘white privilege?’ “

“You know goddamned well what I mean!  Now I’ll show you some black privilege!” 

With that, a 59 year old Columbia University prof hauled off and sucker-punched the white woman in the face and then for good measure took a swing at the white man who intervened.

As reported by the New York Post, the black man, Professor Lionel MacIntyre,  and the white woman, Ms. Camille Davis, had been involved a racial disagreement a few weeks earlier.  Last Friday, it ignited into a “fiery discussion” at the bar, Toast.

MacIntyre concluded that chat by shoving and punching Davis . . .

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Ok, that’s an old line but a line as true with regard to the Left as the day it was first uttered.

Sarah Palin’s book, Going Rogue: An American Life,  due for public release on November 17th was probably targeted by the Forces of Darkness, the Left/liberals/mainstream media/Democratic Party, as soon as HarperCollins announced its publication.

Ever on the alert to discover conservative flaws and errors, the Associated Press assigned no less than eleven attack dogs to fact check the book and came up with little ammunition–6 alleged inaccuracies in the memoir’s 413 pages.  Fact-checking the AP fact checkers, the revelations are exposed as mostly reporter opinions and misrepresentations.

For the outing of the outers, see http://bit.ly/21NPol.

As Moonbattery.com illustrates, Sarah Palin is right on target:

Part One of Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg’s overview of the book’s six chapters was previously overviewed here. (http://bit.ly/wdUqw)  What follows are other tidbits gleaned from Trachtenberg’s commentary:

The Saturday Night Live Appearance: Palin bodaciously admits that as a teen, she snuck around under her parents’ radar to catch ”SNL” and jumped at the opportunity to appear on the show where Tina Fey had been surreally impersonating her.  She was to experience “a nice mom moment” with Fey and Fey’s daughter.  To her credit, she snubbed another guest on the show that night, director and re-interpreter of history, Oliver Stone, because of his hero-worship for Hugo Chavez.  Why she didn’t also snub another guest, Alec Baldwin, is a mystery but I guess she figured she had to talk to someone on the SNL set.

Palin’s Wardrobe: . . .

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Gasp!

Before I could believe it, I had to re-read the news item covering our Homeland Security Chieftess Janet Napolitano’s announcement that illegal aliens in the United States would be given a “fair pathway to earned legal status:” http://bit.ly/kGJGZ

Good grief!  Was that even worthy of a press conference since only ACORN and other brain dead Leftists ever thought otherwise?

(By the way, the above is sarcasm.)

Napolitano’s unsurprising announcement makes clear the long-established understanding of thinking Americans that this was the plan all along: Legalize illegals so that they will become eligible for Obamacare because they would then be legal and then give them the right to vote, for Democrats.

Voilà!  All bases covered!

It’s an insidious but efficient plot, one which Black Obama’s principal supporters, Blacks, will gleefully applaud, until they come to realize that they won’t still be America’s favorite minority. 

Within a few years after Napolitano’s scheme achieves fruition, Hispanics will have supplanted African-Americans as a more productive and more reproductive minority. 

Sec. Napolitano has just welcomed their illegal arses into the American fold.

Bottomline is Democrat votes, African-Americans. 

Forget Obama’s mixed heritage . . .

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