For Your Entertainment

The Bible tells us that a merry heart does good like a medicine. I hope this brightens your day.

On my back decompression blog, I get a load of spammed comments from people who have obviously neither read nor even visited the page. I received one this morning that plainly came from someone whose first language is not English:

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Until next time, I urge you to keep smiling . . . and "board up the good work."

Cognitive "Enhancement" for Soldiers

The U.S. military is funding a project to produce an electronic device that will fit in a standard ballistic helmet and  "control a soldier's psychiatric status". So, will public school children be next?


Here's a link to the Worldnet Daily article about this ominous device:

U.S. soldiers to be subjected to 'mind control'

9/11: A Solemn Remembrance

Nine years ago on this date, my wife and I watched people leap to their deaths, and then we saw the collapse of the Twin Towers. I wept openly and unashamedly at the tragic losses.

Today, to commemorate the events of that day, we watched The Reflecting Pool. It's a movie about a man who lost his daughter in the attacks of 9/11 and whose investigations led him and a Russian immigrant journalist to the many discrepancies in the official account of those events.

Although the story is fiction, the facts that it uses, including some actual TV footage come from mainline news sources. The story is not an action flick, and it may unfold a little slowly for some, but if you can follow mystery stories with the way investigators unfold evidence, then you will probably find this movie intriguing.

I recommend it with the following caveats. Two warnings about this movie:

1. There is some occasional foul language in the movie, including my count of four instances of irreverent usage of the name of the Lord Jesus;
2. If you are comfortable with the idea that the US government is always open, honest and aboveboard and always acts on behalf of the interests of its citizens, then you will probably not want to watch this film.

I put this under the label of terrorism not because of the hijackers, but because the worst terrorists are those who coldly traffic in human life for political and economic advantage.

Man Arrested for Defending Home & Family

The video below tells the story of George Grier who fired four warning shots into his lawn when a gang of about two dozen men threatened to kill him & his family. Long Island police arrested him for reckless endangerment.

The video makes the point that you are only allowed to use force against force. Since none of the gang were brandishing weapons, I suppose the law would require him to put his rifle down & take on the gang empty-handed.

This is the foolishness a nation embraces that rejects the King and His Royal Law of Liberty.

Developing Alertness/Awareness

I call it your DEW (Distant Early Warning) line. My barber calls it situational awareness. Gavin De Becker calls it The Gift of Fear. Jeff Cooper (Principles of Personal Defense) simply calls it alerness.

It's based on the God-given, inborn ability each of us has that warns us when something's not right. But you can enhance and develop that ability once you teach yourself to listen to it.

Developing situational awareness is what David Morris's free lesson in urban survival is all about. Of course I disagree with what he says about luck at the beginning of the lesson -- I believe in and affirm God's overriding providence in all things. Nevertheless, the author's advice on thinking like a mugger in order to develop awareness is good.

It's similar to the advice Marc MacYoung gives in his video Safe in the Street (A DVD I highly recommend).

Anyway, read the PDF for what you can gain from it.Note:  I don't know anything about the rest of David Morris's course, so this is not necessarily a recommendation.)

Machete: The Movie Hits Theaters

A few months ago, I gave a preview/warning about the movie Machete. The film is now in theaters, and it apparently lives down to its reputation.

Here is a brief review from Movieguide:

MACHETE is an ultra violent, extremely lewd and bloody exploitation movie about a Mexican immigrant who, working with left-wing revolutionaries, violently stops a conspiracy involving a corrupt white businessman secretly in cahoots with a Mexican drug lord who’s manipulating white vigilantes killing illegal immigrants. MACHETE is one of the worst movies ever – an ultra violent, bloody mess with extremely lewd content and a hateful, offensive, racist, Anti-American worldview.

Movieguide rates it "heavy" for violence, language, sex and nudity. They go on to say, "If it had not been preceded by ANTICHRIST, MACHETE probably would be the worst movie ever made."

It will not surprise me if the strong racist bias coupled with the extreme violence in Machete lead illegal aliens and their supporters to further violence against white Americans.

I will not be wasting my money nor my time to go see this film. I sincerely believe I would be worse rather than better off for seeing it.

Peacemakers

In 2003 there was a short-lived television Western called Peacemakers which starred Tom Berenger as a town marshal in Colorado. I think the series did not last because those responsible never decided what they wanted it to be.

On the surface, it's CSI set in the Old West: an interesting perspective that chronicles the birth of some of the technologies that made forensic science possible. The characters are also interesting and easy to identify with (whom!).

You can see a lot of promise in the pilot which is available to watch on Hulu -- Click here to view

.Sadly, the second, third and fourth episodes use the series as a vehicle to deliver -- in a heavy-handed manner -- a series of "politically correct" messages. Then came the fifth episode.

Episode five, "Legend of the Gun" I found to fall more into the category of traditional Western, supported by the forensic premise and the cast of interesting characters. Yes, it's a bit formulaic and therefore predictable, but I found it enjoyable, nonetheless.

I'm posting it here for you to watch, because it addresses the issue of taking human life against the backdrop of justice, revenge & ego. I hope you find it worthwhile.