The Supreme Court has over turned a 32 year old ruling, prohibiting the citizens of D.C. from carrying hand guns these many long years. Here is the story from the BBC News.
I had the pleasure of sharing time and lunch with a lady whose work in Christian activism I admire, Stacy L. Harp. She is one of the voices of reason in the often, maddening and illogical din of those who work toward getting special rights and privileges for persons living the homosexual lifestyle.
We need more people in the Christian community to speak out and have their voice heard. We are being too compliant, standing by silently while our rights and constitutionally (used to be) guaranteed freedoms continue to be stripped away.
Please go to her site and read about the truth.
I’m headed off to finish up some things for home group tonight.
Once again, Muslims are some how able to circumvent the laws in a nation, gaining special treatments outside of that nations laws that actually allow the Muslims to commit crimes against other non-Muslim citizens in the name of their religion. Some how, it is now a hate crime (I hate that phrase) to evangelize to Muslims in designated, ‘Muslim areas’. The Muslims in Britain have their own ‘area’?! Here is the LINK to the story.
While watching a news story on One News Now I was appalled to hear President Bush say in a sound bite (1:40) in an attempt to show his concern for the flood victims in the Midwest that he ‘hope they are able to find some strength, knowing there is a love from a ‘Higher Being’. Really, and what ‘Higher Being’ might that be Mr. President? Is it Higher Being with capital letters or higher being? See, there is a difference. Is the president incapable of acknowledging the Lord, the One True God even after professing to be a Christian and after he knows he won on the votes of Christians? Is our nation becoming so hobbled by pressure to be p.c. that a person can’t feel comfortable in saying the word God with a capital G?
Brannon Howse is calling for a boycott of Barnes and Noble until they change their policy and how accessible the pornographic martial is, that they sell, to minors. Usually, such things are kept behind counters out of easy reach to young eyes and minds. Not this time. Mr. Howse was walking through the store and an open book was lying on a table in clear view of anyone passing by. If you don’t want your child’s innocence corrupted in such a way, please, make your voice heard with your money and consider joining the boycott. LINK to the full story.
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama on Friday called for higher payroll taxes on wage-earners making more than $250,000 annually, a step that would affect the wealthiest 3 percent of Americans…
By CHARLES BABINGTON, Associated Press Writer
Continued at the link.
So, Obama is already targeting white Americans, talking about policies and tax increases that would mostly affect white American males who are once again, being punished for their entrepreneurial skills and successes. Obama’s proposed payroll tax is not only unfair to white American males who make up most of the 3% richest Americans (while $250,000 is certainly nothing to sneeze at, it doesn’t exactly put a person in the ranks of a Rockefeller) it is also unfair to those who make $250,000 on their own. Those person in double income households that meet or exceed the $250,000 threshold with their combined salaries, will escape this most unfair and blatant form of discrimination and punishment. Is Odama encouraging mediocrity among the working and middle class? Example:a person could go for that promotion, but if it would kick him into a higher tax bracket, he could decide to back off a little and let someone else take the hit rather than pay higher taxes as a punishment for his ambition. Some would say that it is his choice not to go further in his career, I say the payroll tax handcuffs don’t really give him much of a choice. This is especially bad news for families living on a single income such as one parent is staying home to raise the children or a single parent trying to make ends meet with daycare costs, rising gas prices, rising food costs, etc. Just because a person makes $250,000 doesn’t mean they are living on easy street and should be punished.
Increasing taxes is not a cure all when budgets get tight yet that is the first place many in office look when the spending gets tough, the week raise taxes. Why not cut back on unnecessary spending? Do we really need all of these government funded programs?
Here, in the city in which I live, we are facing some serious budget issues. Will city and local government officials release their spending receipts from the last few years so that cuts may be made to secure the budget and the future of the city. Of course not. Instead, the city is proposing to sell off our parks to builders in order to raise enough cash to balance the budget along with a 1% sales tax increase. Everyone else has to live on a budget, why not the people who are running the city (into the ground)?
Obama, we don’t want a president who targets minorities, even if they are rich and white. Your proposed tax increases are discriminatory.
My but Mr. Chesterton was all over the map in Chapter Two. I am going to touch on some of the things he wrote about that impacted me. In Chapter Two, Chesterton mentions a pamphlet written by Mr. G. W. Foote in which Mr. Foote said, ‘ a picture of a drunkard’s liver would be more efficacious in the matter of temperance than any prayer of praise.’ Do you remember those living lung displays they would bring into school every year to show us what a diseased smoker’s lung looked like? I do. It worked on me, that is, until the memory of it faded and my friend’s influence took hold. We do have pictures now a days of things that are bad for us, and people protest them and are offended, as usual, by the truth. Posters in subways of the effects of abortion on a woman’s body are considered religious propaganda even though the science is there to back it up.
In Chapter two, Chesterton goes on to write about how some influential writer’s of his time went to great lengths to muddle things and in one example, Ibsen wrote two particular plays that Chesterton mentions. In, The Wild Duck, when the truth is revealed, it destroys the lives of the family that had previously been ‘enjoying’ life living their lie. In, Pillars of Society, it is falsehoods, or telling lies, that brings the family to ruin. Oh,how often we see this in our modern society, where people embrace whatever, ‘truth’, “works for them”.
The truth is not like a litter of puppies, you can’t just walk up to the one that best suits you and take it home and nurture it until it becomes your reality. Sometimes, the truth bites us, that is called conviction.
Finally, Chesterton writes about all the things we do and talk about to avoid talking about what is good. Is it because if we discuss that there is something good then there must also be something bad to balance the good? ‘Good’, has become the new elephant in the room. It has to be since all other dirty laundry has not only been exposed, but hung up to be bowed down to as being normal and laws are being passed to protect abhorrent behavior. Calling, a spade a spade, is now considered, ‘hate speech’. You cannot keep your modesty and propriety without being ‘phobic’. The ‘rights’ of less than 3% of the population have been protected while the other 97% must suffer and have their rights stripped from them, shockingly unprotected by those they placed in office.
Here is a quote from Chesterton’s Heretics, Chapter Two on what is good:
Every one of the popular modern phrases and ideals is a dodge in order to shirk the problem of what is good. We are fond of talking about “liberty”; that, as we talk of it, is a dodge to avoid discussing what is good. We are fond of talking about “progress”; that is a dodge to avoid discussing what is good. We are fond of talking about “education”; that is a dodge to avoid discussing what is good. The modern man says, “Let us leave all these arbitrary standards and embrace liberty.” This is, logically rendered, “Let us not decide what is good, but let it be considered good not to decide it.” He says, “Away with your old moral formulae; I am for progress.” This, logically stated, means, “Let us not settle what is good; but let us settle whether we are getting more of it.” He says, “Neither in religion nor morality, my friend, lie the hopes of the race, but in education.” This, clearly expressed, means, “We cannot decide what is good, but let us give it to our children.”
So, I boldly declare what I know is good.
WHAT IS GOOD: marriage between a man and a woman, respecting men (especially husbands being respected by their wives), getting to know our neighbors, praying, standing up for the rights of Christians, opening our houses up to others, forgiving our enemies, waiting until marriage to have sex, keeping the body clean of drugs and chemicals, looking nice, speaking to others with respect, being polite, using good manners, speaking softly in public, not letting children run crazy in public, driving the speed limit and obeying traffic laws, repenting and turning away from sin, fighting against those who would try and tear down society in favor of fashionable immorality. That is not the end of the list, but I will stop there as I think you get my point. There is good and there is bad. There is right and there is wrong. How could this even be arguable?
Don’t forget Mr. Linky.
Gov. Ritter gave in and sold out yesterday by signing the controversial ‘anti-discrimination’ bill, SB-200.
Here is part of the article and a link to the rest.
Ritter signs controversial anti-discrimination bill
Gov. Bill Ritter today quietly signed a controversial bill expanding the prohibition of sexual-orientation-based discrimination, over the vocal opposition of conservative Christian groups like Focus on the Family…
Emphasis mine. If you believe what you are doing is the right thing, why do it so, quietly?