Celebrate the Nativity of the Real Messiah Today (There's No Disputing His 'Eligibility,' Whether He is Qualified--or Even Where He was Born!)

Dec. 25th may well have been an accommodation by the established Church of the day to take a long-observed pagan winter festival, the Nativity of the Invincible Sun, and "baptize," adapt and repurpose it to a higher, more noble Christian ideal, the birth of the Invincible Son.

For better or for worse, Christmas (Christ's Mass), December 25th, is the day that mainstream Christendom has chosen to commemorate and celebrate the birth--the Nativity--of the only begotten Son of God, Jesus the Christ (Greek), Jesus the Messiah (Hebrew).

Today, let us set aside the unhappy truth that human governments, human rulers and human institutions are fraught with error, excess and injustice, and let's embrace the happy truth and incomparably reassuring reality that divine government, instituted and employed by a divine Ruler--who loves his loyal subjects like no other Sovereign--can never be anything else but a blessed fountain of truth, equity, perfect mercy and perfect justice (something we'll never see coming out of Washington, D.C.--or for that matter any other seat of human, civil authority in this world).

So let's honor Him, Christ the Lord, the only lawful and rightful King of Kings and Lord of Lords over the nations of the earth, the only Ruler and Potentate entitled to all of our worship, all of our allegiance, all of our sincere obedience, all of our love.  He alone is worthy.

"And the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.  Of the increase of his government and his peace there shall be no end,..."  (Isaiah 9:6b-7a)

"Change We Can Believe In?"--the Polluted and Corrupt Illinois Political Gene Pool is What Obama's Ideological DNA is Made of.

The closer we get to Obama's sham inauguration in January, the more unsavory characters we catch a glimpse of who have ties, associations and prior dealings with the president-elect.  Now the governor of Illinois gets arrested by federal agents.  For what?  Criminal corruption charges. We have to ask ourselves, Can any good thing come out of Chicago/Cook County, that isn't sordidly tainted with greed, corruption, vice and scandal?  That doesn't reinforce the image of Chicago as a city of thieves and thugs in power?  The answer is, apparently not.

Lies, distortion, deceit, prevarication, self-aggrandizement, extortion, etc.  These seem to be the elements that form the basis of political success in the "Land of Lincoln."

Obama cut his political teeth there.  He came of age in his political career there.  He burnished his marxist-activist-socialist credentials there.  He embraced that culture of dishonesty and political pretentiousness.  It has served to catapult him into the Democratic political limelight. That is what got him to where he is today.  And now the Powers That Be have ordained him to be the next vicar of globalism, the minister of marxist-fascism, the pontiff and bishop of 21st-century socialism.  And they're not about to let a trivial technicality like "constitutional eligibility" get in the way of implementing their leftist, anti-American, anti-capitalist, anti-free-enterprise, pro-socialist, anti-freedom agenda through their handpicked party apparatchik, Barack Hussein Obama.

The more we examine this man, the more machiavellian he becomes.

The Rhodium Less Travelled: Obama Commissions Italian Jeweler to Spread $30K of Metallic Wealth to Wife Michelle. Ah, Capitalism!

After all the empty rhetoric Obama employed to hold himself out as the messiah of the masses, the hero of the working class, deliverer of the non-working poor from the oppression of the rich capitalists, disparager -in-chief attacking the productive and wealthy, threatening them with higher taxes, sharply criticizing even his opponent, Sen. McCain, for having the audacity (there's that word again) to own several houses at the same time-- Imagine.  Several houses. Why that's enough to provide shelter for all of Obama's destitute relatives, at the same time-- comes the revelation that Obama is having a 20,000 pound (USD$29,845) rhodium ring embedded with diamonds created as a "thank you" gift for his radical wife Michelle and her political support of him during his campaign.

Where are the media watchdogs to denounce this flagrant show of opulence as an extravagant and unseemly display of wealth by a young president-elect?  Huh? What? Oh, of course.  It's Barack Obama.  Sorry.  Never mind.

Don't misunderstand, I am a dyed-in-the-wool, hard-core capitalist and defender of the free enterprise system. If a man wants to buy his wife an expensive gift, and it is within his ability to do it, it is his prerogative to do so. But, the same worldview that motivates me also compels me to be a hard-core, dyed-in-the-wool critic and adversary of those who preach soap-box socialism in public and practice self-enriching, greedy capitalism in private. This is disingenuous and detrimental to all who practice it. It is also indicative of a double standard that has always existed in the upper echelons of liberalism-socialism. 

True egalitarianism--enforced equality--like income taxes, is meant only for "little people." As in all socialist countries where this has been tried before, the party elite becomes the new bourgeois and the common people assume an emasculated role in their government-mandated mediocrity as the new proletariat.  The more things "change" the more they stay the same.

The Real Messiah gave a parable two thousand years ago, which I paraphrase here (Paul's Non-Inspired Version): Be not censorious and magisterial about the splinter that is in your brother's eye, while you ignore, minimize, deny and seek to conceal the beam that is in your own. For that is what the unbelieving scribes, Pharisees, politicians and hypocrites do to get elected; and these you shall always have with you, especially since you keep voting them into office, year after year. (Note: last verse not found in the original, earliest manuscripts.)

Here's another verse that is more to the point: "Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity." (Matthew 23:28)