Overtures And Rejections

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. In 1973, I offered to serve in The Chaplain Corps of The United States Navy. I passed the physical and Navy brass in San Diego made arrangements for me at the school for such things in Rhode Island. My first friend, upon matriculating at The Union Theological Seminary,…

Operation Iraqi Freedom

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. These studies date from early years of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF): 2004 to 2006. One perceives in them the U.S. Army coming to grips with terra incognita. They represent a rich retrospective for formulating lessons learned, lots of insights, answers, and projections to test against outcomes. Of note is…

PRC’s Plans, And The Other Guy’s

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. In formal classical philosophical discourse, this type of reasoning is known as sophistry and also as arguing from non-givens, in this case that so-called human rights law is plenary and neither arguable nor appealable. Human rights law is an artifact compiled by Communists / Progressives from gleanings of…

Avatars

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. The following meditation dates from 1984and our early days in Washington State.It is lightly edited from the original,which is available here in PDFof original the typescript. Avatars are unlike anything generally known in Western civilization. The experience of an Avatar has been granted to a few individuals in…

Vectors Of Non-Being

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. We observe two vectors of non-being looting Americans of their wealth and national sovereignty altogether. One is foreign: Afro-Carib Imperialism, also denoted in these precincts as Arab/Pan-African Imperialism and Afro-Mohammedan Imperialism. The other is foreign-domestic: ChiCom Imperialism acting through American proxies, denoted in these precincts and elsewhere as…

Fratelli Tutti / Operation Crossfire Hurricane

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. Fratelli tutti derives from mal-exegesis of the Parable of the Good Samaritan. All lefties hell-raisers use it, throw it in the teeth of Christians, who they expect to apologize for not forcing everyone to give up their wealth for the greater good and empowering government agents to force…

Where’s The Boss?

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. Where’s The Duty Officer? Our Hindu-Christian white supremacy, systemically racist Constitution has done better at protecting inalienable rights than anything coming out of Africa or the Caribbean, so I think (1) it’s a keeper and (2) more Hindu-Christian white supremacy and systemic racism are emphatically indicated. The endowed…

Thandava – XXVIII

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. Reynolds awakes: Okay, let me just spell this out a bit more: The typical thing to do — and what critics would have expected Trump to do — is return hate for hate. All the white-people bashing at the DNC, with the platform mentioning white people 15 times,…

To Correct A Consequential Mistake

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. They don’t want a new structure of global governance from which they can rule the world. They want to rule the world from what they think of as the old structure of global governance — namely themselves personally as The Government of The United States of America —…

Theology and Ethics: Tillich and Niebuhr

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. From October 1995, excerpt of a discussiononline with a Christian Scientist. I was comparing Tillich as a theologian with Niebuhr as an ethicist. The main thing that keeps coming back to me about this distinction — which I feel is a real and useful one — is that…

Wealth In Geo-Strategics

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. The ability to produce, not properties or money in a bank, is wealth. This is why a poor man can become a rich man. One can make something from nothing, but a something is just nothing. Wealth is the ability to make, not the thing made. Power is…

COCOM Revisits

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. In the grasp and design of US Foreign Responsibility and Policy, I have focused on the importance of the Combatant Commands, aka COCOMs. I have been dissatisfied with both the demarcation and the composition of the present system of COCOMs. I remain so. While I believe the COCOMs…

The American Clearances

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. BLUF: the goal of our ruling class (oligarchs) and their satraps (bureaucrats/experts) is to turn the USA into regions of the planet administered by a global governance regime based somewhere. Over that where our oligarchs are not in agreement: Beijing, Washington D.C., or Ankara/Mecca/Tehran. Lipizzaners An actor’s failure…

A Constitutional Republic Under The Rule Of Law

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. A summary of Counselor Powell’s suggestions for restoring faith in our judicial system: Fire every DOJ prosecutor and FBI agent who has violated the Brady rule [to produce exculpatory evidence to the defense up to and beyond sentencing], criminalized innocent conduct, made up a crime against a person,…

Rhetorical Bear Spray

As Is The Feeling,So Is The Result. Thandava And Christian Culture In the Spring of his Plebe Year at West Point, Cadet Douglas Mac Arthur was summoned before a Board of Inquiry mandated by Congress and comprising some Congressmen. The question was hazing, which that year had reached harmful extremes. Cadet Mac Arthur was summoned…

Reconnecting With Reality

As is the feeling, So is the result. A religion is a set of procedures that can be used to reconnect a personality — body, mind, intellect, spirit — with reality. Saying something is irrational is saying that it is disconnected from reason, where reason is a synonym for reality. Parmenides: Where there is Being…