Okay yeah I understand that we vote for our representatives but honestly how good is this Bush-Clinton legacy for our Republic?
I honestly think Hillary will pass through the Democratic primary and that’s something to be concerned about. And though I doubt she’ll be our next President it’s kinda scary to think of her being that.
This sounds like a repeat of the Tower of Babel. On September 14, Nebraska Democratic State Senator Ernie Chambers filed a lawsuit against God. The suit asks for a “permanent injunction ordering Defendant to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats.” Chambers alleges that the harmful activities God could stop are “fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornados, pestilential plagues, ferocious famines, devastating droughts, genocidal wars, birth defects and the like.”
Chambers has represented Omaha, Nebraska, since 1970, and after nearly 40 years in office, it sounds like it’s time for the ancient Senator to move on. Although he probably does not expect the Defendant to respond (in a legal manner of speaking), he had better prepare to argue when when he actually does face the Defendant in court… the Defendant’s court.
The insanity (yes, this is insanity: ordinarily and generally decent people choosing to associate with evil people over good people is insanity) of leftist academia is appalling as always. In the wake of the Ahmedinejad speech at Columbia University, the leadership of that asinine austere institution stated that they’d have hosted Hitler if he visited in 1938.
In a new discovery for me (thanks to The Point): this beautiful article by an ex-atheist who found what she thought to be a intellectual experiment examining the effects of living according to God’s rules (if He existed) turned into so much more.
As she says: “you know the real thing when you get it.“
Marcel Marceau has died. The French mime was perhaps the most famous of his profession, entertaining millions. I still recall his dance routine where the girl he’s dancing with is … well, watch it yourself:
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Do you ever wish life weren’t so complicated? Do you wish you could move to a small country town where everybody knows each other and where the biggest problems the local school has to deal with are bubble gum and bobby socks?
Nostalgia is a powerful thing. The “Good ol’ days” are a siren song unequaled in our minds. But is there anyplace that time truly has passed by? Or are we all human and are all human problems to be found everywhere?
I do not deny that different physical locations can be more or less hazardous to your health, but we are told not to fear that which can destroy the body but to fear that which can destroy the soul.
Two stories this week, one a little better known than the other, indicate that there is no safe city, no quiet backwoods town where it is just safer in America.
First, the Jena story. By all rights this is a classic southern country town that would be at home on the stage of Happyville. But as any other place where humans live together, there are problems. There are many mistruths and misconceptions swirling around this story, and I considered writing a play-by-play timeline of what I heard and what I thought as this story unfolded for me. In my searching, this article appears to be the most complete exploration of the entire story and the feelings around the town. After reading the article, I have this to say to Mr. Jackson: Go home. You are a race-baiter and hate-monger, and you do none of the citizens of Jena any good by being there. They are aware of the problems in their town and while recognizing that much progress has been made since segregation, they are also very cognizant of how far they have yet to go.
Second, the story out of Sampson County, North Carolina, of a girl who was told that wearing a t shirt with the American Flag on it was against the rules. This is another small town where the last thing an “outside” would expect would be people arguing about suitable expression, especially regarding Old Glory. The school district has since changed position and gone all the way over to the other side: all flags are allowable now.
Solomon said “there is nothing new under the sun”. All humanity experiences similar problems, born of our fallen natures. All humanity shares the same nature, and this nature of sin is the reason that so many liberal policies are doomed to failure. It is the reason that government answers are so often bigger problems themselves. It is the reason the conflict of human nature creates a better, safer equilibrium than assuming the best in each. Adam Smith, the economist whose work Marx was attempting to rebut in his socialist experiments, claimed that out of selfishness man would find the most stable and free society. Small-town America is not free of greedy or envy. Mayberry county still needed a Sheriff.
In response to the run-on sentences of David Klaess (I’m tempted to say he’s writing as though he’s drunk) responding to my previous post on abortion, I found my comments reaching “new article” length, and proceeded to do just that:
your a racest kook and furthermore extreamists like you are the people who cause more war death and distruction around the world thinkabout the fact that all those middle eastern terrorists feel as strongly about their causes as you do about yours dont get me wrong Im not condoning abortion but if your truly a god fearing person you must realize that god gave us our own free will so we eahc have the choice to rize or to fall if a woman wants to take an unborn life thats not up to me or you to decide or to punnish THATS UP TO GOD AND THE MOTHER TO DECIDE. also if everyone would stop worring about who’s racist or not and just worry if they are or not all of the sudden there would be no racism.
Of course it’s not up to me to punish mothers who choose to kill their children. It’s up to me to continue to love them and care for them and help them in any way I can.
Further, I can assure you that based on actions and stated intentions (that’s words), Messrs Jackson and Sharpton and many other their sycophants are indeed very racist, just because you’re not white does not mean you can’t be racist. And past racism against a person does not ever justify their own racism against another.
It is not racist but is instead the epitome of UN-racism to care enough for all people that you warn them of plots against them. There is no disputing the fact of Sanger’s racism and her frequent association with white supremacists and Aryans. So if there is no dispute, how is it racist to try and warn people of her nefarious designs against them?
Instead, I would submit that not only is it racist, but evil, to stand by and claim, as you do, that I ought to turn my head and ignore a struggling woman who might very well be carrying the next Einstein or Mozart in her womb, kill that future with the assistance of the Eugenics clinics.
David, it is indeed between God and the woman what her punishment ought to be, which is why you do not see many pro-life people who argue for the tightened regulation of abortion arguing for the punishment of the women except in cases of very late term abortion, instead arguing for the punishment of the doctors who perform such evil.
Abortions for the health of the mother or the child, even under the most loose definitions which include cases of diagnosed Downs Syndrome and other mental differences in the child, account for about 6 percent of all abortions. Abortions for rape and incest are only about 1 percent. (see data)
In cases of the babies health, which is better, a sick baby or a dead baby? When the babe is diagnosed with Down Syndrome or similar mental differences through amniocentesis, an admittedly unreliable testing method, is it morally ok to kill the child? Does such a child have less of a life to look forward to than a “normal” child?
And even in the cases of rape and incest: is it the child’s fault who their parents are and what the circumstances were of their conception? Why heap upon the mother the additional pain of abortion on top of the shame of rape or incest? It is known and accepted that mothers who go through abortions are significantly more likely to commit suicide, suffer from depression, or experience other emotional harm as a result of the abortion. Why add that to the hurt of incest? Are there not families waiting to adopt, to share their surfeit of love with the child, if the mother is not able or willing to keep it?
No David, following your thoughts and your words, you are either unknowingly (in which case, open your eyes) or willingly (in which case, shame, sir, shame for your evil thoughts) ignorant, racist, and unloving. I pray the God you reference grants you mercy, bringing you conviction and teaching to change your thoughts and your ways.
Abortion mill parent company Planned Parenthood, progeny of the racist white supremacist Margaret Sanger, has encountered an unexpected roadblock in the construction of a new abortion mill (aka. Planned Parenthood Clinic, or reproductive health clinic) in a suburb of my own beautiful Chicago.
The planned clinic in Aurora was being constructed by Weitz Construction when pro-life activists found they’d lied in their permit requests to the city. The structure was bought and paid for by Planned Parenthood, and was to be used exclusively for that purpose. But on the permit filings Gemini Office Development listed the tenants as “unknown”.
In this city, opinion is never very far away, and there are a few telling opinions on this issue.
First, from the pro-abortion side. Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn (the Tribune ran the original article revealing the true nature of the building project) begins his piece on the conflagration this way:
Well of course Planned Parenthood representatives didn’t tell the truth to Aurora city officials while they were building a new clinic in the western suburb.
Why is it such a matter-of-fact thing, Mr. Zorn?
Their goal was straightforward: To open a reproductive-health clinic on land zoned for such purpose.
Indeed, no one denies their goal, but still, why the secrecy?
But they had to use a certain amount of stealth because abortion is one of the services Planned Parenthood offers. And foes of abortion rights, longtime losers in the battle for public opinion, traditionally raise all kinds of rukus when Planned Parenthood comes into a community.
“Longtime losers”? If, as you say, the pro-life ideology is such a loser in the battle for public opinion why the hiding, the subterfuge, the concealment? There have indeed been cases of crazies causing physical harm to abortion doctors, in some cases killing, and destroying clinics. Such actions on the part of individual vigilantes are wrong and the perpetrators have been prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Those few cases are not a suitable excuse if, as Eric claims, abortion is such a universally accepted procedure. Hey, it’s only a baby.
In his smug pride, assured of the moral superiority of his position, he implies that Planned Parenthood and the services is provides ought to be as amoral as a Best Buy or Walmart. As if the killing of babies and the emotional and physical damaging of mothers, the admitted genocidal aims of abortion as issues are anywhere near the moral level of a big box store selling baubles and gewgaws. It makes me want to scream.
(P)oll after poll shows that, even after all the picketing and haranguing and hurling of moral opprobrium in the last 34 years, roughly 2 out of 3 Americans still support Roe v. Wade — the 1973 decision establishing a woman’s constitutional right to choose to have an early-term abortion.
Reading the other polls on the page, I see, not a losing pro-life ideology, but a closely divided America leaning to the side of further limiting the availability of abortions.
Responding to the news, the Reverend Dr. Johnny M. Hunter, DD. National Director of LEARN Inc., which claims to be the largest evangelical pro-life black organization, compares racial tragedies of true similarity. Unlike the sad Mr. Zorn, Dr. Hunter understands the proper order of morality and compares things which really ought to be compared.
Between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 Blacks were lynched in the U.S. That number is surpassed within 3 days by abortion.
Abortionists snuffs out the lives of 1,452 African-American children each day. This is womb-lynching, the implementation of black-genocide.
LEARN has been instrumental in providing an alternative voice in the African American community, speaking the truth when so many of their self-proclaimed moral leaders seem to fall completely for the thinly veiled eugenics plans of Sanger and her confederates.
Do they not have the wisdom, Messrs. Sharpton and Jackson, to know what Kimberly Jane Wilson’s father knew? That “not everyone who smiles in your face is your friend”?
Is their ignorance willful or blissful?
Racism in a white person is bad enough, but when you subscribe to a belief system whose known and stated goal is the control or extermination of your own race, is it racism still?
Back at the clinic building, the sides wait for the court hearings to proceed deciding whether Planned Parenthood broke the law in concealing their intent and what, if any, punishment there ought to be for such duplicity.
Mr. Zorn believes, as a good relativist, that there is no moral condemnation for breaking the law in order to achieve what he believes to be the greater good, the opening of a Eugenics Clinic. Also, as every relativist must, he believes he is right.
UPDATE: A Federal judge has just ruled that Planned Parenthoods rights are not being denied as it is being prevented from using it’s new clinic until the legal battles are over. The clinic will stay closed until all appeals are completed.
…who believe those who leave Islam must be killed. Thanks to LittleGreenFootballs.
I have little sympathy for fat people, and even less when they’re sitting next to me in an airplane. Apparently at least one fat person thinks he ought to be allowed to try and squeeze his bulk into a single seat with no thought for the poor person(s) forced to share 2/3rds of (their) seat(s) with him. This is selfishness, and I support Southwest Airlines in their decision to require people to purchase two seats if they cannot lower the armrests past their gluttonous bodies.
Thankfully, the gentleman who was compelled to buy a second seat to store himself has taken the terrible “shame” he experienced and used it to drive himself to lose weight. Good for him. Give it a bit more time and he’ll be thanking Southwest for shaming him into actually doing something good.
The sad part of this story is the fact that shame is seen as something which ought to be assuaged, the guilt is bad because it is guilt, not because it indicates how the person is in the wrong. Mr. Hill ought to have been ashamed of his weight long before he got to the airline ticket counter. Shame is a good thing, it tells us when we’re wrong and ought to change.
There is a significant difference between merciless taunting and true shame. I do not need to act any less loving or caring to cause shame in another. To taunt one for their difference or deformity is wrong at all times and in all cases. It is when the over-reaction to taunting causes all commentary and truth telling to be considered taboo that the whole culture loses its ability to self-regulate and now we have ugly fat people, and ugly fat kids, and walking medical bills, and public stupidity, and so many other visible scars walking the streets and sleeping on park benches.
I do not discount that these are humans who need love more than most. But Jesus came for those who knew and admitted they were sick.
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