Holy Thursday is the day that the universal Church honors the institution of the Eucharist and the priesthood, two sublimely intertwined mysteries of faith.
In commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the death of St. John Paul II, the FPP Founding Team of priests and laity offer for reflection the final letter of the Holy Father John Paul II to priests, written days prior to his death on April 2, 2005.
Holy Thursday is a graced time for deeper contemplation and appreciation of Jesus, the Eternal High Priest, the Eucharist and the priests who make Jesus present in the sacred mysteries. Let us resolve to never take for granted such sublime gifts of God.
1. In this Year of the Eucharist, I particularly welcome our annual spiritual encounter for Holy Thursday, the day when Christ's love was manifested "to the end" (cf. Jn 13:1), the day of the Eucharist, the day of our priesthood.
My thoughts turn to you, dear priests, as I spend this time recuperating in hospital, a patient alongside other patients, uniting in the Eucharist my own sufferings with those of Christ. In this spirit I want to reflect with you on some aspects of our priestly spirituality.
I will take as my inspiration the words of Eucharistic consecration, which we say every day in persona Christi in order to make present on our altars the sacrifice made once and for all on Calvary. These words provide us with illuminating insights for priestly spirituality: if the whole Church draws life from the Eucharist, all the more then must the life of a priest be "shaped" by the Eucharist. So for us, the words of institution must be more than a formula of consecration: they must be a "formula of life".
expressed by Jesus as he broke the bread: that of thanksgiving. Gratitude is the disposition which lies at the root of the very word "Eucharist". This expression of thanksgiving contains the whole Biblical spirituality of praise for the mirabilia Dei. God loves us, he goes before us in his Providence, he accompanies us with his continuous saving acts.
In the Eucharist Jesus thanks the Father with us and for us. How could this thanksgiving of Jesus fail to shape the life of a priest? He knows that he must cultivate a constant sense of gratitude for the many gifts he has received in the course of his life: in particular, for the gift of faith, which it is his task to proclaim, and for the gift of the priesthood, which consecrates him totally to the service of the Kingdom of God. We have our crosses to bear — and we are certainly not the only ones! — but the gifts we have received are so great that we cannot fail to sing from the depths of our hearts our own Magnificat.
3. "Accipite et manducate. Accipite et bibite". Christ's self-giving, which has its origin in the Trinitarian life of the God who is Love, reaches its culmination in the sacrifice of the Cross, sacramentally anticipated in the Last Supper. It is impossible to repeat the words of consecration without feeling oneself caught up in this spiritual movement. In a certain sense, when he says the words: "take and eat", the priest must learn to apply them also to himself, and to speak them with truth and generosity. If he is able to offer himself as a gift, placing himself at the disposal of the community and at the service of anyone in need, his life takes on its true meaning.
This is exactly what Jesus expected of his apostles, as the Evangelist John emphasizes in his account of the washing of the feet. It is also what the People of God expect of a priest. If we think about it more fully, the priest's promise of obedience, which he made on the day of Ordination and is asked to renew at the Chrism Mass, is illuminated by this relationship with the Eucharist. Obeying out of love, sacrificing even a certain legitimate freedom when the authoritative discernment of the Bishop so requires, the priest lives out in his own flesh that "take and eat" with which Christ, in the Last Supper, gave himself to the Church.
4. "Hoc est enim corpus meum quod pro vobis tradetur." The body and the blood of Christ are given for the salvation of man, of the whole man and of all men. This salvation is integral and at the same time universal, because no one, unless he freely chooses, is excluded from the saving power of Christ's blood: "qui pro vobis et pro multis effundetur". It is a sacrifice offered for "many", as the Biblical text says (Mk 14:24; Mt 26:28; cf. Is 53:11-12); this typical Semitic expression refers to the multitude who are saved by Christ, the one Redeemer, yet at the same time it implies the totality of human beings to whom salvation is offered: the Lord's blood is "shed for you and for all", as some translations legitimately make explicit. Christ's flesh is truly given "for the life of the world" (Jn 6:51; cf. 1 Jn 2:2).
Repeating Christ's venerable words in the recollected silence of the liturgical assembly, we priests become privileged heralds of this mystery of salvation. Yet unless we sense that we ourselves are saved, how can we be convincing heralds? We are the first to be touched inwardly by the grace which raises us from our frailty and makes us cry "Abba, Father" with the confidence of God's children (cf. Gal 4:6; Rom 8:15). This in turn commits us to advance along the path of perfection. Holiness, in fact, is the full expression of salvation. Only if our lives manifest the fact that we are saved do we become credible heralds of salvation. Moreover, a constant awareness of Christ's will to offer salvation to all cannot fail to inspire us with fresh missionary fervour, spurring each of us on to become "all things to all men, in order to save at least some of them" (1 Cor 9:22).
5. "Hoc facite in meam commemorationem." These words of Jesus have been preserved for us not only by Luke (22:19) but also by Paul (1 Cor 11:24). We should keep in mind that they were spoken in the context of the Paschal meal, which for the Jews was indeed a "memorial" (in Hebrew, zikkarôn). On that occasion the Israelites relived the Exodus first and foremost, but also the other important events of their history: the call of Abraham, the sacrifice of Isaac, the Covenant of Sinai, the many acts of God in defence of his people. For Christians too, the Eucharist is a "memorial", but of a unique kind: it not only commemorates, but sacramentally makes present the death and resurrection of the Lord. Jesus said: "Do this in memory of me". The Eucharist does not simply commemorate a fact; it commemorates Him! Through his daily repetition in persona Christi of the words of the "memorial", the priest is invited to develop a "spirituality of remembrance". At a time when rapid social and cultural changes are weakening the sense of tradition and leading the younger generation especially to risk losing touch with their roots, the priest is called to be, within the community entrusted to him, the man who faithfully remembers the entire mystery of Christ: prefigured in the Old Testament, fulfilled in the New, and understood ever more deeply, under the guidance of the Spirit, as Jesus explicitly promised: "He will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you" (Jn 14:26).
6. "Mysterium fidei!" Every time he proclaims these words after consecrating the bread and wine, the priest expresses his ever-renewed amazement at the extraordinary miracle worked at his hands. It is a miracle which only the eyes of faith can perceive. The natural elements do not lose their external characteristics, since the "species" remain those of bread and wine; but their "substance", through the power of Christ's word and the action of the Holy Spirit, is changed into the substance of the body and blood of Christ. On the altar, then, Christ crucified and risen is "truly, really and substantially" present in the fullness of his humanity and divinity. What an eminently sacred reality! That is why the Church treats this mystery with such great reverence, and takes such care to ensure the observance of the liturgical norms intended to safeguard the sanctity of so great a sacrament.
We priests are the celebrants, but also the guardians of this most sacred mystery. It is our relationship to the Eucharist that most clearly challenges us to lead a "sacred" life. This must shine forth from our whole way of being, but above all from the way we celebrate. Let us sit at the school of the saints! The Year of the Eucharist invites us to rediscover those saints who were vigorous proponents of Eucharistic devotion (cf. Mane Nobiscum Domine, 31).
Many beatified and canonized priests have given exemplary testimony in this regard, enkindling fervour among the faithful present at their celebrations of Mass. Many of them were known for their prolonged Eucharistic adoration. To place ourselves before Jesus in the Eucharist, to take advantage of our "moments of solitude" and to fill them with this Presence, is to enliven our consecration by our personal relationship with Christ, from whom our life derives its joy and its meaning.
7. "Mortem tuam annuntiamus, Domine, et tuam resurrectionem confitemur, donec venias." Every time we celebrate the Eucharist, the remembrance of Christ in his Paschal Mystery leads to the desire for a full and definitive encounter with Him. We live in expectation of his coming! In priestly spirituality, this expectation must be lived out through pastoral charity, which impels us to live in the midst of God's People, so as to direct their path and to nourish their hope. This task requires from the priest an interior attitude similar to that of the Apostle Paul: "Forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on towards the goal" (Phil 3:13-14). The priest is someone who, despite the passing of years, continues to radiate youthfulness, spreading it almost "contagiously" among those he meets along the way. His secret lies in his "passion" for Christ. As Saint Paul said: "For me, to live is Christ" (Phil 1:21).
In recent years, I have warmly recommended the contemplation of the face of Christ, especially in my Letters Novo Millennio Ineunte (cf. Nos. 23ff.) and in Rosarium Virginis Mariae (cf. Nos. 9ff.), and I have pointed to Mary as our great teacher. In the Encyclical on the Eucharist I then spoke of her as the "Woman of the Eucharist" (cf. No. 53). Who more than Mary can help us taste the greatness of the Eucharistic mystery? She more than anyone can teach us how to celebrate the sacred mysteries with due fervour and to commune with her Son, hidden in the Eucharist. I pray to her, then, for all of you, and I entrust to her especially the elderly, the sick, and those in difficulty. This Easter, in the Year of the Eucharist, I gladly repeat to each of you the gentle and consoling words of Jesus: "Behold your Mother" (Jn 19:27).
With these sentiments, I send you my heartfelt blessing, and I wish you the profound joy of Easter.
From Gemelli Hospital in Rome, on 13 March, the Fifth Sunday of Lent, in the year 2005, the twenty-seventh of my Pontificate.
and a glorious Easter Season.
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FVCbank (I.O.) Announces Patricia A. Ferrick as EVP and CFO
June 22, 2017 by FVCbank
For Immediate Release — June 22, 2007
David W. Pijor, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of FVCbank, in organization, announced Patricia A. Ferrick has been named Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining FVCbank (I.O.), Ms. Ferrick had been Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Potomac Bank of Virginia, Fairfax, Virginia from June 2005 to May 2007. From 2000 to 2004, Ms. Ferrick was Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Southern Financial Bancorp, Inc., Warrenton, Va. until its merger in 2004 with Provident Bank when she was Senior Vice President – Investor Relations.
Mr. Pijor stated: "We are delighted to have Ms. Ferrick join our new bank. She has extensive community banking experience and will be an integral part of our success and growth."


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LKF wants to revive women's basketball set up base in Druskininkai
The Lithuanian Basketball Federation (LKF), which set ambitious goals for women, has become one of the founders of the Basketball Center.
Points are earned this season.
"Agrokoncerno grupė" together with the LKF and the city of Druskininkai created the public institution "Girls Basketball Center". The mission of this long-term project is to train top-level women basketball players with the ambitious goal of reviving women's basketball in Lithuania and fighting for the top spot in the Olympics. World and European Championships.
According to Alina Adomitytė, who initiated the Agrokoncernas GDP Director Center, a subsidiary of Agrokoncernos grupė and vice president of the Lithuanian Basketball Federation, this is a long-term national project. One of his tasks is to strengthen Lithuanian women's basketball and gather the core of the national team.
"One year from now, the Girls' European Championship will be held," said Adomaitytė, who became president of the newly formed center. – We hope that the students of the "Girls Basketball Center" will form the core of the national team. "This is a short-term goal and our main goal is to increase the number of top players that will make Lithuania famous."
The center president plays professional basketball on her own, so she understands exactly what it takes for a female athlete to achieve excellence. According to Adomitytė, girls will train at the center until they graduate, then they can move on to the club and pursue a career as professional players. The best of them are expected to lead the national team.
Alina Adomati
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The "Girls Basketball Center" will be located in Druskininkai. This year, 15 of the most talented 14-15 year olds from all over Lithuania will be selected for it. Next year, it is planned to gather a second team to which 13-14 year olds will be invited. The girls will live in the Druskininkai Olympic Center, they will go to school, train and participate in competitions. Female students of the center will be provided with full care as well as paid scholarships.
Athletes will be coached by experienced basketball coach Aurimas Jasilionis. Tomaž Brinec, the famous Slovenian in the world of basketball, will lead the fitness training for the players.
Vydas Gedvilas, President of the Lithuanian Basketball Federation, is pleased that private businesses have taken the initiative to nurture a new generation hoping to regain the prestige of Lithuanian women's basketball.
"The women's basketball team has not participated in the finals of the European Championships for ten years – Gedvilas examines the status of women's basketball in Lithuania. Not going to the European Championships, no one understands. Girls, girls are harder to gather in a basketball team. Nowadays, women basketball players are being Training in state-funded sports gyms in Panevėžys and Šiauliai, and another center will also be set up in Klaipėda.
The "Girls Basketball Center" of this form is currently the only one in Lithuania at Druskininkai. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Lithuanian basketball, LKF representatives traveled around Lithuania in search of talented students. Girls with good physical data are seen not only in basketball halls but also in other sports.
According to the Secretary General of the Lithuanian Basketball Federation, Mindaugas Balčiūnas, when raising the level of women's basketball, attention is paid to two priorities: the number of young players and their skills.
"The emergence of such a center is a great development and good news for women's basketball as a whole," Balčiūnas said. – Historically, we have examples of how a center trained top level players. However, this was done by a public fund and we now have a special case where the "Girls Basketball Center" was initiated and supported by a private business. Talented players will be provided with the best education, training and accommodation conditions.
The owner of "Agrokoncerno grupė" Ramūnas Karbauskis believes that the long-term goal set for the students of the newly formed "Girls Basketball Center" to become the elite of the world's women's basketball team is realistic. And achievable.
"There are talented players in Lithuania who can play not only locally but also in foreign clubs and represent Lithuania in the national team. However, it is clear that women's basketball is not very popular, players lack support. That is why we, as a leading group of agricultural companies, want to contribute and help where the most difficult situation is today, "Karbauskis commented on the decision to support women's basketball.
Since the restoration of independence, the Lithuanian women's basketball team has participated in 10 European Championships and 3 World Championships. The national team's most important victory was a gold medal at the 1997 European Championships. The national team is coached by the current president of the Lithuanian Basketball Federation, Gedvilas. In 2001 and 2005, Lithuanian women ranked fourth in Europe and won tickets to the World Championships. There, Lithuania was ranked No. 6 twice.
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Lady Gaga in Thanksgiving special on ABC television
duration 23 November 2011
image captionThe star adds an extra verse to White Christmas during the special show
Lady Gaga is to appear in a Thanksgiving Day special in front of friends and family on Thursday night.
The star will perform eight songs on the American TV programme, including her own version of White Christmas.
A leaked online version of the song seems to show she has added her own extra verse to the classic song.
The 90-minute show will also feature an interview at Gaga's former school and see the 25-year-old cook turkey and waffles for the audience.
Other songs in the special show include her latest single, Marry the Night, You and I and Edge of Glory.
Tony Bennett, who worked with Amy Winehouse before her death, will also duet with Lady Gaga on The Lady is a Tramp.
The festive theme of the show also sees the star take on the classic song White Christmas.
In an unverified leaked clip on YouTube, she is heard saying the song is "too short" and adding an extra verse.
She sings: "I'm dreaming of a white snowman, with a carrot nose and charcoal eyes.
"And when he cries I'm going to tell him it's alright, 'cause Santa's on his sleigh and he's on his way."
Lady Gaga also directed the Thanksgiving Special, which is being aired on the ABC network.
The star told the network her own festive traditions were surprisingly normal.
"I just love to be with my family," she said
"I just love to eat all day long with my grandma and watch old movies and talk about the year."
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Hommage to Robert Burns
Monday, January 01, 2018 HOMMAGE Blog
The 25th of January is fast-approaching and Scotland is bristling. Each year on this day — the anniversary of their most celebrated poet's birth — preparations begin for the night ahead. Burns Night, or Burns Supper, is an evening where the all those who participate feast on haggis (a savoury Scottish delicacy of sheep's heart, liver and lungs minced with onion, oatmeal and suet which is seasoned before being wrapped in sheep's stomach and cooked), neeps and tatties (turnips and potatoes to the rest of us) and perhaps most filling of all: Burns' poetry and song.
Below are just a few of the reasons why are we paying homage to Robert Burns, the Bard of Ayrshire, known affectionately as Rabbie Burns and widely-regarded as Scotland's national poet:
ROBERT BURNS WAS CLEAN-SHAVEN
Having died before the invention of photography, our perceptions of the Scottish poet and lyricist are much based on his portraits. In each and everyone, the Scottish poet sports a clean-shaven, well-defined jaw.
ROBERT BURNS SHAVED WITH A CUT-THROAT RAZOR
Although technically this was pretty much the only way to shave in the 18th century, we are still impressed. See his razor and shaving mirror below:
Robert Burns' Straight-Edge Razor
Robert Burns' Shaving Mirror
ROBERT BURNS IMMORTALISED SHAVING IN HIS POETRY
In his poetic portrait of his publisher, Mr William Smellie, Burns focuses his attention on the growing scruff of his dear friend and counted the days until 'shaving night'. Read the poem below:
Mr. William Smellie: A Sketch.
Shrewd Willie Smellie to Crochallan came;
The old cock'd hat, the grey surtout the same;
His bristling beard just rising in its might,
'Twas four long nights and days to shaving night:
His uncomb'd grizzly locks, wild staring, thatch'd
A head for thought profound and clear, unmatch'd;
Yet tho' his caustic wit was biting-rude,
His heart was warm, benevolent, and good.
— Robert Burns (1787)
ROBERT BURNS INFLUENCED THE IMPORTANT COUNTRIES TO OUR BRAND
Through the ages, Burns' influence around the world has been astonishingly far-stretching. As far as America is concerned, it is said that even Abraham Lincoln could recite many of the poet's works by heart and Auld Lang Syne, arguably his most famous work has appeared in over 170 Hollywood films. American writer John Steinbeck also took the title of his most famous work, Of Mice & Men, from a Robert Burns poem. In Japan, the jingle at pedestrian crossings is a rendition of his song Coming Through The Rye.
ROBERT BURNS' WORDS ECHO THE HOMMAGE ETHOS
"Dare to be honest and fear no labour." — Taken from a Robert Burns letter to R. Graham of Fintry, dated December 9, 1789.
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A Fantasy Piece
#PWHS #Article #UntoldTalesOfUndertaker #AFantasyPiece
The Undertaker, a man who was born Mark Calloway, and a man who gave everything he had to the business of professional wrestling. Some would say he gave too much, but I assure you, there is no such thing as too much, when it comes to something or even someone, you love. This piece will explore a feud that never was meant to happen in the first place. While it is a fantasy piece, I will be reinventing one of The Undertaker's earliest feuds that didn't really play out on T.V.
Let's begin with a feud that happened, but didn't lead to anything big:
The Undertaker Vs. The Ultimate Warrior!
It's the summer of 1991. At The last WWF PPV, Wrestlemania, The Undertaker defeated "Superfly" Jimmy Snuka in his first Wrestlemania. Also the first of many Wrestlemania victories. Meanwhile, The Ultimate Warrior retired, albeit briefly, "Macho Man" Randy Savage. Both competitors wanted fresh opponents. So, on Saturday, June 22nd, the WWF president, Jack Tunney announces a battle royal, that would take place on WWF Superstars the following week, with the winner of the battle royal facing new WWF World Champion, Hulk Hogan, at SummerSlam.
During the battle royal, The Ultimate Warrior eliminates The Undertaker. The Undertaker grabs Warrior's ankles, drags him to the floor, and tombstones Warrior onto the concrete! The Ultimate Warrior was deemed unfit to return to the match, and thus eliminated by the Dead Man. The following week The Undertaker had a match,and a message for The Ultimate Warrior.
The Undertaker beat Barry Horowitz. (4:45)
"Ultimate Warrior, you consider yourself among the immortals. There are no immortals. Everyone falls to the reaper. Your fate is sealed inside this casket. Rest...In...Peace."
The following week, WWF President, Jack Tunney announces The Undertaker will face The Ultimate Warrior at SummerSlam, in a casket match!
In July, Undertaker and Warrior faced each other in a series of body bag matches at house shows across the country. On T.V. however, it was a different story. Warrior appeared on the Funeral Parlor with Paul Bearer, and was attacked by The Undertaker. Warrior managed to gain the upperhand though. and shut Undertaker inside the casket!
The next week, Warrior had a message for The Undertaker!
"Dead Man! You may have beaten many men, but you have not beaten a true immortal among men! SummerSlam is upon us! You will fall like all who have tried to destroy the power! The power, of The Ultimate Warrior!"
Then at...
Casket Match
The Ultimate Warrior beat The Undertaker. (12:25)
It wouldn't be the last tie they faced in a casket match.
The Undertaker beat The Ultimate Warrior. (11:37)
After that Warrior would not be seen again until the following year. At Survivor Series, The Undertaker would still go on to defeat Hulk Hogan for his first WWF World Title.
Hope you enjoyed reading this! Please don't hesitate to give your opinion in the comments section below! This is a fantasy piece, I'm Shea Heath! Until next time, save me a seat in the front row!
Other Articles By Shea
Untold Tales of the Undertaker.
Author: Shea Heath.
Published: July 27, 2017.
Article: #170.
Editor: Jimmy Wheeler.
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After 42 years, thats a wrap
Saturdays UWPlatteville Badger Camp telethon will be the last
The first Saturday in December has been the date for the annual UW–Platteville Badger Camp Telethon since 1973.
Saturday's Badger Camp Telethon, broadcast live on local cable TV from the Pioneer Tower basement, will be the final telethon after 42 years as Wisconsin Badger Camp's biggest fundraiser.
"We certainly hate to see it go, but I'm so grateful to the university for all the years of their support," said Brent Bowers, Badger Camp's executive director and an employee since 1992. "We've had the telethon since 1973, and it's always been the largest fundraiser for Badger Camp. But I can see how change happens.
"The telethon grew and grew … what started out as a teaching tool grew into a community event that kept on going. It's a really unique event, and it really gets the community involved together."
The telethon is being discontinued because of the resources it took to put on the telethon.
"To produce that, it took something on the order of 900 staff hours, and that's a lot of money and staff energy," said UW–Platteville Chancellor Dennis Shields. "This is not any flagging of our support of Badger Camp, and we'll find other ways to support it."
Another problem is that a decreasing number of cable TV systems have been carrying the telethon. The telethon can be viewed on Centurylink channel 5 in Platteville and online at www.badgercamp.org. It also can be viewed in person at Pioneer Tower.
About 90 percent of the telethon's 10 hours, from noon to 10 p.m., is carried live, with everything the word "live" implies.
"Since I've been involved, I don't think we've gone to black too many times," said Bowers. "There were a couple times we wished we would have.
"At the very end, everyone's pretty wiped out, and there's still work that goes on until 11:30 or midnight."
This last telethon will be different, though.
"We'll have some emotional times," said Bowers. "There will be a lot of alumni that come back and that really cut their teeth on this live production."
About two-thirds of Badger Camp's telethon-related fundraising comes from the silent auction and the corporate sponsorship.
Bowers said that yearly pledges should continue, but without the telethon "It's going to be a big hole to fill."
Fundraisers to replace the telethon could include "a variety of things, from a holiday gala to a variety show to an additional silent auction," said Bowers.
"We're still talking about that," said Shields of future support of Badger Camp. "Last year was going to be the last year, and we agreed to extend it a year so they could adjust their planning and programming. We're open to suggestions."
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The Devil's Smile
Sprightly Ahmadinejad tours nuclear facilities, having stolen an election he marches on as his police batter and protesters. And everywhere he goes, he smiles his trademark loopy smile. The smile of a psychopath or a saint.
Why is Ahmadinejad smiling? The answer is not a terribly complicated one. With every step he takes and every day that he remains in power, he discredits the most deeply held ideas of Western liberals about the power of diplomacy to resolve conflicts and internal civil disobedience to achieve peaceful regime change. Despite years of diplomatic and hundreds of thousands of protesters taking to the streets-- Ahmadinejad's grip on power remains as secure as ever.
Walking over the bodies of student protesters, of political dissidents, of the thousands killed by the wars he has touched off, he continues to taunt the rest of the world to do anything about it. And the rest of the world has done nothing except talk. And as Ahmadinejad has demonstrated, talk counts for nothing at all.
While Mahmoud Ahmadinejad may be detached from ordinary reality, living in an Islamic version of Charles Manson's fantasies about touching off a spectacular war in order to bring on a new age, he understands his enemies well enough to call them out on their weakness. Like every other Islamic terrorist and warlord, Ahmadinejad sees diplomacy as weakness behind a mask of civility. And like just about every strongman in the world, he laughs at it.
Ahmadinejad may be a monster, but there are no shortage of monsters in the Middle East. Saddam Hussein was just as bad, yet much of the American and European left proved eager to shut their eyes to the rape rooms, to Uday's horrors of mangled limbs and broken fingers, to the ethnic cleansing and gassing-- while demanding that we respect Saddam's sovereignty. Today those very same people pat themselves on the back, as if defending the right of a tyrant to keep killing his own people were some great act of moral courage.
But even Saddam and Ahmadinejad are not particularly unique, because monsters proliferate in the Middle East like mushrooms after a rainstorm, growing off the oil money that their enemies send them, which they exchange for weapons and payments to their own loyalists to secure their base of power. Every petrodollar sent to the Middle East means death of a certain kind, whether it's the death of a passerby by a suicide bomb in Basra funded by Iranian or Saudi money, the death of an imported Indian contract worker in Dubai or the murder of an African Sudanese in Sudan. Either way oil money is death money, and the world knows it, and yet does nothing. No wonder Ahmadinejad keeps on smiling.
The Middle Eastern tyrannies of today often began as client states by Western governments and the USSR, which thought that they could control their oil by way of a strong leader or two. They were right and they were wrong. Because it didn't take a great genius to realize that the leaders would take the oil and the reins would soon be pointing the other way. That's what happened to the United States and Saudi Arabia. The US oil companies were nationalized, and then the Saudis proceeded to nationalize the US government as well.
Eisenhower's intervention on behalf of Nasser's seizure of the Suez Canal, and against England, (despite Nasser being a Soviet ally) demonstrated that America would rather turn on its allies, than risk alienating Arab and Muslim states. When the Saudis nationalized ARAMCO, they were confident that America would do nothing. And they were only partially wrong. America did something, it used taxpayer money to compensate shareholders for the nationalized by our "Saudi" friends.
And then the pattern was set. And it's still set. The Saudi plan of slow conquest is proceeding on schedule, as their front groups promote Islam in America and Europe, their Chevron board members (formerly ARAMCO) hold key positions on foreign policy, and everyone bows to the Religion of Peace. But there are those on both the Sunni and Shiite side who are dissatisfied with slowly boring from within, who want apocalyptic showdowns and governments of the faithful installed post haste in every Muslim and non-Muslim country. Al Qaeda represents the Sunni extreme. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad represents the Shiite extreme. Together they have become the conductors of the international orchestra of death.
Because the West did not just underestimate their own vulnerability to blackmail, once all that black crude was in the territory of "our close friends", but they failed to take Islam into account. To the mindset of the time, Islam was a borderline irrelevant factor, a primitive tribal religion that few of the Sheikhs took seriously anymore. It might be used by a Mahdi to drive a crowd into a fevered rage. It might be used to command a certain amount of loyalty. But the idea of Islam and the modern world colliding in any way, was not taken seriously by too many of the Oxford and Harvard educated pipe smoking chaps who made the maps and wrote what they thought was the future of the Middle East.
But while Islam may be backward, it is the primitive things that are the hardest to kill and exercise their strongest grip on the mind of man. And while the abstract battle between capitalism and communism raged on, abstract because the Middle East was already full of capitalists who lived communal lives under totalitarian rule, Islam, which had never gone away, inevitably because the dominant theme of the region. And eventually the world.
And what will the West throw up against it? Back in 1956 the British tried to stage a phony crisis in order to send in peacekeeping troops in order to stop Nasser's nationalization of the Suez Canal, a weak effort that was aborted when Eisenhower threatened to use the Treasury to destroy the British Pound. Eisenhower would later go on to regret it, but the deed was done.
Today the West threatens extensive diplomacy, possible trade sanctions (which amount to a puff of dust in the wind) and eventually perhaps some kind of liberation force intended to implement regime change and democracy. All of which essentially translate into a show of weakness. And that is why Saddam wanted nuclear weapons, knowing that having them would enable him to bluff any threat. Ahmadinejad wants it for the same reason, but his bluff is aimed a lot wider and higher. Because he plans to actually use nuclear weapons and then call the world's bluff to do anything about it. And he may be right.
Ahmadinejad's smile is nurtured by the toxic self-assurance of a monster who knows he is unstoppable. Hitler wore that same smile as his armies tore across Europe, and only when those same armies were finally shattered and sent back in retreat at a terrible cost, did his madness finally turn on him and drive him deeper and deeper into delusion, and finally suicide. Hitler believed he was unstoppable, because the only thing his enemies seemed willing to throw at him was diplomacy and more diplomacy. This only fed his grandiose complex and his sense of omnipotence, for how better to encourage a madman who believes that nothing can stand in his way, than to fail to stand in his way.
But Ahmadinejad's story is also the larger tale of the Middle East. Where the world turns its face away from genocide, terrorism, oppression, gender apartheid and slavery by oil rich Muslim nations, while lambasting Israel in the hopes of winning their favor. The Muslim world has gone from a fetid swamp to a radioactive dump, its green glow shining poisonously into the sky. And there is a very simple reason for that. Because when you do not oppose evil, or worse when you actively pander to it, the evil grows that much worse.
Both the slow Saudi apocalypse and the speedy Iranian armageddon can be stopped by demonstrating that the people who they think are their victims are neither weak nor willing. The tyrants of the Muslim world are not afraid of diplomacy, they are not all that terrified of protests, and bombs and bullets don't worry them too much unless they are backed by real resolve. You can scare a wolf pack away for a time by firing into the air or by occasionally firing at them, but eventually the predators realize how the game works and they either work their way around your position or just charge. The slow apocalypse or the speedy one. Then there is a third option. When the hunters become the hunted. In half a century, oil money has built petty tyrants and tribal coalitions into imaginary nations and states. In less than a decade, all that can be taken away. If we continue retreating or bluffing with the power we dare not use, the wolves will have their way, one way or another. Only by going on the offensive can we win.
careyrowland 13/11/11
So now it comes to this?: We will fight them on the beaches...with blood and toil and sweat...and (once again), never will have so few done so much for so many.
So this is where all this is going?
CHMartel 13/11/11
My book, "Satan's Trinity: Hitler, Stalin & Muhammad, is available at http://satanstrinity.wordpress.com/ For the first time in history "HSM" appear together on a book cover. The idea behind the book is to make headway against the ludicrous idea that Muhammad should be conjoined with any religious leader/founder. This book uses the specific names of Hitler and Stalin to efficiently identify the nature of Muhammad and by extension Islam. It compares the personalities and approach of each man to such categories as; war, peace, sex, torture, slavery, women, their respective childhoods and deaths, the critical affects of geography and timing, each man's anti-social and narcissistic personalities. http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=CHMartel&aq=f
Trencherbone 13/11/11
Moral equivalence is self-delusion
Those infidels who use the 'moral equivalence argument' to compare Islam with other religions need to examine their own subconscious psychological motives. They are not only attempting to delude others, but are in deep denial and trying to delude themselves. They are administering self-generated taqiyya as a tranquilizer to blot out reality.
The conscious part of the moral equivalence argument takes the form "Christians and Jews have committed atrocities such as the McVeigh, Breivik and King David Hotel bombings, so Christianity and Judaism are just the same as Islam. Therefore Islam poses no special threat."
The fallacies are obvious: Christian and Jewish acts of terrorism are rare and infrequent; they are rejected by the majority of followers of the religions, go against the core teachings of the religions, and are committed by a few isolated loonies. In contrast, Islamic acts of terrorism are commonplace, are encouraged by the Koran and are supported, if not actually carried out, by a substantial proportion of Muslims.
The unconscious and self-deluding part of the moral equivalence argument is the refusal to face the fact that Islam is an intrisically violent totalitarian ideology that has infiltrated our civilization, and is bent on our conversion, subjugation or elimination. To acknowlege this would be deeply disturbing and well outside the comfort zone of most people (remember the popular enthusiasm for appeasement of Hitler and 'Peace in Our Time'?) . So we reassure ourselves, by the moral equivalence argument, that Islam is just like other religions.
It's far easier to stay in denial and regard Islam as being no more a threat to our lives and culture than the Quakers or Lubavitcher Hasidim. That way we don't have to worry about the looming global clash of civizations, or think about the unpleasant courses of action that may be necessary to reduce the threat.
Moral equivalence is moral cowardice.
but pygmies 13/11/11
Oil Tyrannies = Pimps
Oil = Prostitutes
West = Johns
There are two things that the West (USA & Israel) have that the oil states don't have:
1. overwhelming destructive power
2. a sense of morality
We don't yet know how to say, "We are taking your oil. If you don't like it, too bad. Just try to stop us."
A big enough terrorist attack or a bad enough depression might or might not bring us to the edge of decision.
I'm backing Israel to come out on top on this one. Heres why:
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/16/786/Why_Israel_Would_Decisively_Beat_Iran.html?currentSplittedPage=1
Keli Ata 13/11/11
i'll say it again--we need to declare war against these countries and start fighting.
Enough with the wishy washy war on terror. The countries are run by terrorists. These are all terrorist nations. I want to see the US make a direct declaration of war against Iran.
I want that declaration against a country.
In order to fight evil, a society has to know the difference between right and wrong. We have lost the ability to make that distinction.
Until we fight and win that battle here, evil will march forward unopposed.
At some point it is too late. It may already be.
moncler jackets 14/11/11
Enough with the wishy washy war on terror
Kristin Solo 14/11/11
Little wonder that the pontificating Persian midget has the fixed grimace of a marionette since he is the puppet of the corrupt clerics and Satan's stooge!
The oppressive iron fist of the Ayatollahs will ultinmately be turned on themselves crushing Ahmadinutjob in the process.
GOD is not mocked!
The death of Brig. Hassan Moghadam, head of Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) missile development and sections of its nuclear program, and numerous others in Saturday's explosion is fair warning!
IRAN is making a GRAVE mistake in threatening to annihilate Israel.
A bigger disaster marked Persia's Pitfall is up ahead!
Kufar Dawg 14/11/11
Israel, the UK and France should've told Eisenhower to pound sand when he interfered in the campaign in the Sinai and Suez in '56'. After all, France and the UK had nuclear weapons
and they could also have threatened to pull out of NATO.
Maybe China, India and Israel can form an alliance that can oppose islamofascism? Because I have no faith in the moral bankrupts that run the US or Europe/Eurabia or Australia these days.
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