"We Love Death”

Israeli tank in the Sinai¹

As Yom Kippur, begins with today's sunset, so does the remembrance of another sunset in 1973 when 13 Islamist nations had every intent of affirming that Israel was "not only incompatible with modern human life, but with life itself."

Outnumbered and outgunned by staggering proportions, Israel was going "down"! In the Sinai, exactly 450 Israeli troops faced a force of 100,000 Egyptians, with superiority in artillery of 40-1 and a force of 1,350 tanks to Israel’s 91. On the Golan, the Syrians had eight tanks for every Israeli tank.

Golda Meir later recalled, "They fought and fell like lions." It was at that point that Moshe Dayan secured her authorization to arm 13 intermediate-range Jericho missiles with nuclear warheads as well as Eight F-4 Phantom fighters with nuclear arms... and Israel came close to fulfilling the passion of the jihadist confraternity: "We love death more than you love life!"

“And the Philistine said to David, Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field. Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied. This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand… that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. And all this assembly shall know that the LORD saveth not with sword and spear: for the battle is the LORD'S” (cf. 1Samuel 17:44-47).

1"Destroyed m60" by Sherif9282 at en.wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia by SreeBotOriginal caption: “Military Battles on the Egyptian Front by Gammal Hammad”. Licensed under Public Domain via Commons

Sunday Circuses

VLadimir Lenin reading Pravda, Circa 1918

The Russian newspaper Pravda, predicted "the American descent," three years ago. In "American Capitalism Gone With a Whimper" Stanislav Mishin writes:

"... the American decent (sic) into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple [people]....





the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then (sic) the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights....

Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.... The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker."

But why?

"... their faith in God was destroyed... their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more then (sic) Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then (sic) happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power."

Why do I feel more at peace with my enemy then with those in the once hallowed halls of Washington, gathered to deliver our Constitution the "coup de grâce"? But it is just a formality, for a nation already convulsed by a death rattle convoluted in talking points and "argumentum ad nauseam."

“For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?” (1 Peter 4:17).

National Geographic

The "Archaeoraptor" pseudo-fossil¹  

The timing of National Geographic's publication "This Face Changes the Human Story... " is suspect in that it occurred within hours of the sale of National Geographic magazine and other publishing operations to Murdoch-controlled 21st Century Fox!

It appears to be the last feeble salvo of the Society's century-plus "evolutional" propaganda war.

National Geographic’s “sensationalistic, unsubstantiated, tabloid journalism” was challenged some years ago by one of the world's foremost avian paleontologists. in an “OPEN LETTER TO” Dr. Peter Raven regarding the Society’s November 1999 publication of "Feathers for T. rex?" by Christopher P. Sloan. The letter concludes:






… The idea of feathered dinosaurs and the theropod origin of birds is being actively promulgated by a cadre of zealous scientists acting in concert with certain editors at Nature and National Geographic who themselves have become outspoken and highly biased proselytizers of the faith. Truth and careful scientific weighing of evidence have been among the first casualties in their program, which is now fast becoming one of the grander scientific hoaxes of our age---the paleontological equivalent of cold fusion. If Sloan's article is not the crescendo of this fantasia, it is difficult to imagine to what heights it can next be taken. But it is certain that when the folly has run its course and has been fully exposed, National Geographic will unfortunately play a prominent but unenviable role in the book that summarizes the whole sorry episode.

The complete article follows:

National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D. C. 20560
1 November 1999

OPEN LETTER TO:
Dr. Peter Raven, Secretary PRaven@nas.org
Committee for Research and Exploration
National Geographic Society
Washington, DC 20036

Dear Peter,

I thought that I should address to you the concerns expressed below because your committee is at least partly involved and because you are certainly now the most prominent scientist at the National Geographic Society.

With the publication of "Feathers for T. rex?" by Christopher P. Sloan in its November issue, National Geographic has reached an all-time low for engaging in sensationalistic, unsubstantiated, tabloid journalism. But at the same time the magazine may now claim to have taken its place in formal taxonomic literature.

Although it is possible that Mr. Czerkas "will later name" the specimen identified on page 100 as Archaeoraptor liaoningensis, there is no longer any need for him to do so. Because this Latinized binomial has apparently not been published previously and has now appeared with a full-spread photograph of the specimen "accompanied by a description or definition that states in words characters that are purported to differentiate the taxon," the name Archaeoraptor liaoningensis Sloan is now available for purposes of zoological nomenclature as of its appearance in National Geographic (International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, Article 13a, i). This is the worst nightmare of many zoologists---that their chance to name a new organism will be inadvertently scooped by some witless journalist. Clearly, National Geographic is not receiving competent consultation in certain scientific matters.

Sloan's article explicitly states that the specimen in question is known to have been illegally exported and that "the Czerkases now plan to return it to China." In Washington, in June of 1996, more than forty participants at the 4th International Meeting of the Society of Avian Paleontology and Evolution, held at the Smithsonian Institution, were signatories to a letter to the Director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences that deplored the illegal trade in fossils from China and encouraged the Chinese government to take further action to curb this exploitation. There were a few fossil dealers at that meeting and they certainly got the message. Thus, at least since mid-1996 it can hardly have been a secret to anyone in the scientific community or the commercial fossil business that fossils from Liaoning offered for sale outside of China are contraband.

Most, if not all, major natural history museums in the United States have policies in effect that prohibit their staff from accepting any specimens that were not legally collected and exported from the country of origin. The National Geographic Society has not only supported research on such material, but has sensationalized, and is now exhibiting, an admittedly illicit specimen that would have been morally, administratively, and perhaps legally, off-limits to researchers in reputable scientific institutions. Prior to the publication of the article "Dinosaurs Take Wing" in the July 1998 National Geographic, Lou Mazzatenta, the photographer for Sloan's article, invited me to the National Geographic Society to review his photographs of Chinese fossils and to comment on the slant being given to the story. At that time, I tried to interject the fact that strongly supported alternative viewpoints existed to what National Geographic intended to present, but it eventually became clear to me that National Geographic was not interested in anything other than the prevailing dogma that birds evolved from dinosaurs.

Sloan's article takes the prejudice to an entirely new level and consists in large part of unverifiable or undocumented information that "makes" the news rather than reporting it. His bald statement that "we can now say that birds are theropods just as confidently as we say that humans are mammals" is not even suggested as reflecting the views of a particular scientist or group of scientists, so that it figures as little more than editorial propagandizing. This melodramatic assertion had already been disproven by recent studies of embryology and comparative morphology, which, of course, are never mentioned.

More importantly, however, none of the structures illustrated in Sloan's article that are claimed to be feathers have actually been proven to be feathers. Saying that they are is little more than wishful thinking that has been presented as fact. The statement on page 103 that "hollow, hairlike structures characterize protofeathers" is nonsense considering that protofeathers exist only as a theoretical construct, so that the internal structure of one is even more hypothetical.

The hype about feathered dinosaurs in the exhibit currently on display at the National Geographic Society is even worse, and makes the spurious claim that there is strong evidence that a wide variety of carnivorous dinosaurs had feathers. A model of the undisputed dinosaur Deinonychus and illustrations of baby tyrannosaurs are shown clad in feathers, all of which is simply imaginary and has no place outside of science fiction. The idea of feathered dinosaurs and the theropod origin of birds is being actively promulgated by a cadre of zealous scientists acting in concert with certain editors at Nature and National Geographic who themselves have become outspoken and highly biased proselytizers of the faith. Truth and careful scientific weighing of evidence have been among the first casualties in their program, which is now fast becoming one of the grander scientific hoaxes of our age---the paleontological equivalent of cold fusion. If Sloan's article is not the crescendo of this fantasia, it is difficult to imagine to what heights it can next be taken. But it is certain that when the folly has run its course and has been fully exposed, National Geographic will unfortunately play a prominent but unenviable role in the book that summarizes the whole sorry episode.

Sincerely,

Storrs L. Olson
Curator of Birds
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC 20560


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"Feathers for T. rex?"

“This Face Changes the Human Story" Again!

Java Man (artistic depiction)

Today's National Geographic editorial¹ begins with the credulous assertion "This Face Changes the Human Story." The announcement is the latest edition of the “the Rosetta stone” of human origins complete with with requisite artistic depictions. Here is the remarkably similar "first" edition:









A skullcap and a femur uncovered a year and twelve meters apart, was the "quintessential evidence" for Java Man on the Indonesian island of that name. Eugène Dubois, the self-assured discoverer, immediately christened his find Pithecanthropus Erectus (erect ape man).

Imaginative artistic reconstructions, based on a single bone and a skull fragment, appeared in newspapers, magazines, and academic journals arresting the 1892 public’s attention.

The creditability of the discovery was immediately challenged, and the “brute” was generally dismissed as the jumbled combination of "human and ape remains." Although Dubois contested that the relics were from a single individual, decades later it was reported that his Pithecanthropus collection contained an additional left femur, i.e., Java Man had “two left feet.”

However, despite the hominid’s dubious authenticity, the “evidence” came just in time to rescue Darwin’s waning theory of evolution, a theory that had been increasingly discredited due to a lack of transitional fossil evidence.

Eugène Dubois

The real intrigue of the Java narrative is not the revelation of some primeval “brute” but rather the humanity of its “evolved” counterpart who, compelled by arrogance and ambition, coerced his family to leave the familial setting of his professorship in Amsterdam and live among the danger, pestilence, and stagnant malaria infested waters of the impenetrable jungles of Java. Dubois buried four children there (American Scientist, Vol: 87, Num: 6, p504). And as the desperate ship’s captain, on the itinerant paleontologist’s eventual return to Europe, readied the lifeboats during a violent storm, Dubois instructed his wife: “If the lifeboat is lowered, you see to the little ones, for I shall have to look after this [Pithecanthropus]."









“For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day” (cf. Exodus 20:11).


¹The timing of National Geographic's publication "This Face Changes the Human Story... " is suspect in that it occurred within hours of the sale of National Geographic magazine and other publishing operations to Murdoch-controlled 21st Century Fox! It appears to be the last feeble salvo of the Society's century-plus "evolutional" propaganda war.

How can I be saved?

The Death of Israel?

The Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by David Roberts 1850

Today, in a contrived display of emotion Democratic Party Chair, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz gushed:"There's nothing that's more important to me, as a Jew, than to ensure Israel's existence is there throughout our generations" then she cast her lot in league with those who negotiated the “deal” that left the normally reserved Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif literally dancing for joy on his balcony.

The time is coming when two thirds of the Jews of Eretz-Israel will die:

“And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD is my God” (Zechariah 13:8-9)

How can I be saved?

Eagles cut Tim Tebow

Tim Tebow¹

Since when was quarterbacking NOT about getting POINTS? SINCE TEBOW!

“If the world hate you, know that it has hated me before you. If ye were of the world, the world would love its own; but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, on account of this the world hates you” (John 15:18-19).

How can I be saved?

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The Criminalization of the Bible

Black Lives Matter?

Do red lives matter? Do brown lives matter? Do yellow lives matter? Do black lives matter? Do white lives matter? It all depends on the person under that infinitesimal facade of pigmentation. Will he chose to make his life "matter" or will he be the "chaff which the wind driveth away"?

"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper. The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the ungodly shall perish" (Psalms 1:1-6).