http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124364352135868189.html
A Lexus, big screen Sony TVs, really expensive cameras, etc. How do these people sleep at night? Probably on memory foam mattresses with 1000 thread count sheets. Check it out.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Somebody just doesn't understand- a misguided protester
Today a friend of mine posted a link to this picture on digg and facebook. I had to comment. This photo originally ran with an article in the Wall Street Journal online edition. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124329389315852597.html
The reason my friend "dugg" this photo was the sign the protester in the background is holding which reads "Jesus had two dads why can't I?" Attached to the posting of the photo on digg is the caption "Take that Pope." How clever. I suppose now they'll get that nasty, closed-minded old guy in Rome to admit that he was wrong and gay is ok after all.
I think it is fair to assume that the protester had in mind that Jesus had two fathers, his earthly father, Joseph, and his Heavenly Father, God. Too bad she missed the entire point. To equate Joseph and God to a gay couple is not only completely misleading, it is also blatantly blasphemous and utterly offensive.
The Lord God himself gave us this command in Leviticus 18:22 (New International Version) "Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable." and in 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (New International Version) "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."
It is clear that homosexuals “marrying” is not God’s will, and would be, in fact, sinful since the God condemns both homosexual acts and desires. And for those who say that the Bible never directly condemns homosexual marriage, my response is that whenever the Bible mentions marriage, it is between a male and a female from the first mention of marriage in Genesis which describes a man leaving his parents and being united to his wife to later passages with instruction for marriage in Corinthians and Ephesians which clearly state the relationship between men and women in marriage.
And furthermore, Jesus Christ is not the product of any sexually immoral union. The Gospels clearly state that Christ was the product of a virgin birth -son of God the Holy Spirit through the vessel, the virgin Mary.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
What a day in the news!
There was a lot of note in the news today. Lets start with California upholding the same-sex marriage ban. Despite severe criticism by activists, the CA supreme court upheld the will of the 52% majority who approved Proposition 8 with a 6-1 vote today. Same-sex marriage remains invalid in the State of California. Conservatism lives!
Unfortunately, the government seems to have gotten its hands on GM today as well. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/business/27auto.html?hp According to the New York Times, the Treasury Dept will hold 70% of GM when it emerges from bankruptcy. With the UAW holding 37.5% that leaves very little for bondholders and creditors. Hmmmm.... I don't think that is how bankruptcy is supposed to work. Next thing you know, the federal government will be controlling other industries as well. And we've seen that done before. This is the same thing that Castro did to foreign corporations including nearly 6,000 American companies operating in Cuba in 1959.
And then there is President Obama's pic for the Supreme Court- Sonia Sotomayer. Where do we begin? I was reading comments on a story run on CNN in which Florida senate hopeful Marco Rubio http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/ expresses concern over Sotomayer's admission that she would set policy from the bench. The majority of respondents to the story thought the republicans were being naysayers, racists, lemmings, and big babies for raising such concerns. many even responded that they believe that the job of the SCOTUS is to set policy. It is unfortunate the lack of understanding that the average American citizen has when it comes to the Constitution of the United States and the separation of power in the Federal Govt.
But there seem to have been breakthroughs in climate change today. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090526/sc_afp/climatewarmingusbritainchu The AFP reported that the Obama administration wants to paint roofs white (or other cool colors) in order to cut down on global warming. This goes well with the article in the Sunday Times in the UK that suggested giving up eating lamb, tomatoes, and other "carbon rich" foods will cut down on methane production and therefore help save the planet.
I do think we may be fast approaching Armageddon.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Obama vs. Cheney...I pick Cheney.
Despite the best efforts of the President to fend off the issues raised by VP Cheney's speech this morning, the message came across loud and clear. The President's plan for national security puts Americans at risk. I applaud Mr. Cheney's efforts at getting the truth out to Americans regarding the very real threats which have faced the United Stated in the last 8 years. It is no wonder that Bush and Cheney approval ratings are going up. People are starting to realize that the hope and change Obama promised us are not in line with the hopes we have or the change we want.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Dems did something to be proud of today!
Hooray for the Democrats in the senate!
Bet you never thought you’d hear that from me. But they earned their paychecks today by turning down funding to close Guantanamo Bay prison –at least until the President and his staff come up with a viable plan for the detainees. The house passed their war funding bill last week with the same noticeable omission. They haven't completely forgotten national security after all!
http://tinyurl.com/r8b6yj
AP source: Democrats won't fund Guantanamo closing
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press Writer
Bet you never thought you’d hear that from me. But they earned their paychecks today by turning down funding to close Guantanamo Bay prison –at least until the President and his staff come up with a viable plan for the detainees. The house passed their war funding bill last week with the same noticeable omission. They haven't completely forgotten national security after all!
http://tinyurl.com/r8b6yj
AP source: Democrats won't fund Guantanamo closing
By ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press Writer
Monday, May 18, 2009
President Obama at Notre Dame
Yesterday, President Obama addressed the graduating class at Notre Dame. Unless you’ve been living in a cave in the Ozarks for the last several weeks, you know about the controversy surrounding this particular speech. President Obama not only supports traditional abortion, but also partial birth abortions and embryonic stem cell research. The Catholic Church opposes all forms of abortion wholeheartedly and therein lies the controversy.
So the President, recognizing that many Catholics do not support his views (oddly enough, they already have a Messiah), called for people to be more “open-minded” on the issue of abortion. He recognized that the different points of view are irreconcilable. How then, can one still hold to his/her convictions and stand by as those convictions are denied in federal courts?
The answer is that you can’t. To pro-lifers, the issue of abortion is about life and death. How do you compromise on life and death? Abortion is murder. One human takes the life of another human. It is pretty simple. But liberal politicians like President Obama claim that the life of the baby in the womb (or partially out of the womb) has no value. To them, abortion is a solution to the inconvenience associated with irresponsible sexual behavior. They justify the killing of babies by claiming that it is the right of the mother to decide what to do with her body. They claim that the baby isn’t really its own person until it is fully born and breathing air. They claim that it is better to abort than to bring the baby into a world in which it may not be well cared for.
But the pro-choice folks are leaving out some pretty important considerations. It takes two to make a baby. Where are the rights of the father when it comes to abortion? They do not exist. And that baby is a real, living child in the womb with a heartbeat, and brain function and the capacity to feel pain. http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/Fetal_Pain/FetalPain091604.pdf. And as far as bringing a baby into a world in which it may not be well-cared for, perhaps the liberals should look at their social programs and start focusing on helping parents learn to prevent pregnancy in the first place and to teach them to care for babies rather than providing a way to get rid of them. And perhaps legislators should look at drafting enforceable laws with serious consequences for parents who neglect their responsibilities as parents rather than providing for federally funded abortions.
Advocates for “choice” often indicate that mothers must have the option of abortion to protect their own health, but the reality is that 93% of all abortions performed in this country are performed for social reasons and not for health related reasons. Less than .5% are the result of rape, 4% for the mother’s health, and 3% because the baby may have a health problem while the other 93% are performed because the mother isn’t ready, can’t afford, or simply doesn’t want a baby. *
In response to conservative pro-lifers, many liberal pro-choicers claim that there is hypocrisy in being pro-life. They claim that the churches promote war, that many conservatives support the death penalty, etc. My response to that is that wars happen for various reasons and they are always tragic- but they are not all products of the church by any means. Whatever your feelings on the death penalty might be, comparing it to abortion is like comparing apples and oranges. Death penalty is reserved for extreme cases of violence and law-breaking. Since 1973 (the year of Roe v. Wade) fewer than 2,000 death row executions have taken place in America. That is just over half the number of babies who were aborted today! Since 1973 over 49 million babies have been aborted in this country. How can you even compare the situations?
As usual, President Obama left the Notre Dame graduates with some words of wisdom (after all, he is the smartest President ever- or so I've heard) :
“But remember, too, that you can be a crossroads. Remember, too, that the ultimate irony of faith is that it necessarily admits doubt. It's the belief in things not seen. It's beyond our capacity as human beings to know with certainty what God has planned for us or what He asks of us. And those of us who believe must trust that His wisdom is greater than our own. “
Perhaps the President could take heart to those words and have faith that when God said thou shalt not kill, He knew what he was talking about.
*Source: Lawrence Finer, et. al, "Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives" Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 37 No. 3 (Sept., 2005) p. 110.
So the President, recognizing that many Catholics do not support his views (oddly enough, they already have a Messiah), called for people to be more “open-minded” on the issue of abortion. He recognized that the different points of view are irreconcilable. How then, can one still hold to his/her convictions and stand by as those convictions are denied in federal courts?
The answer is that you can’t. To pro-lifers, the issue of abortion is about life and death. How do you compromise on life and death? Abortion is murder. One human takes the life of another human. It is pretty simple. But liberal politicians like President Obama claim that the life of the baby in the womb (or partially out of the womb) has no value. To them, abortion is a solution to the inconvenience associated with irresponsible sexual behavior. They justify the killing of babies by claiming that it is the right of the mother to decide what to do with her body. They claim that the baby isn’t really its own person until it is fully born and breathing air. They claim that it is better to abort than to bring the baby into a world in which it may not be well cared for.
But the pro-choice folks are leaving out some pretty important considerations. It takes two to make a baby. Where are the rights of the father when it comes to abortion? They do not exist. And that baby is a real, living child in the womb with a heartbeat, and brain function and the capacity to feel pain. http://www.nrlc.org/abortion/Fetal_Pain/FetalPain091604.pdf. And as far as bringing a baby into a world in which it may not be well-cared for, perhaps the liberals should look at their social programs and start focusing on helping parents learn to prevent pregnancy in the first place and to teach them to care for babies rather than providing a way to get rid of them. And perhaps legislators should look at drafting enforceable laws with serious consequences for parents who neglect their responsibilities as parents rather than providing for federally funded abortions.
Advocates for “choice” often indicate that mothers must have the option of abortion to protect their own health, but the reality is that 93% of all abortions performed in this country are performed for social reasons and not for health related reasons. Less than .5% are the result of rape, 4% for the mother’s health, and 3% because the baby may have a health problem while the other 93% are performed because the mother isn’t ready, can’t afford, or simply doesn’t want a baby. *
In response to conservative pro-lifers, many liberal pro-choicers claim that there is hypocrisy in being pro-life. They claim that the churches promote war, that many conservatives support the death penalty, etc. My response to that is that wars happen for various reasons and they are always tragic- but they are not all products of the church by any means. Whatever your feelings on the death penalty might be, comparing it to abortion is like comparing apples and oranges. Death penalty is reserved for extreme cases of violence and law-breaking. Since 1973 (the year of Roe v. Wade) fewer than 2,000 death row executions have taken place in America. That is just over half the number of babies who were aborted today! Since 1973 over 49 million babies have been aborted in this country. How can you even compare the situations?
As usual, President Obama left the Notre Dame graduates with some words of wisdom (after all, he is the smartest President ever- or so I've heard) :
“But remember, too, that you can be a crossroads. Remember, too, that the ultimate irony of faith is that it necessarily admits doubt. It's the belief in things not seen. It's beyond our capacity as human beings to know with certainty what God has planned for us or what He asks of us. And those of us who believe must trust that His wisdom is greater than our own. “
Perhaps the President could take heart to those words and have faith that when God said thou shalt not kill, He knew what he was talking about.
*Source: Lawrence Finer, et. al, "Reasons U.S. Women Have Abortions: Quantitative and Qualitative Perspectives" Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Vol. 37 No. 3 (Sept., 2005) p. 110.
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Jennifer Granholm on short list of potential Supreme Court nominees
http://tinyurl.com/d4syva
This is some scary stuff! I don't think I want a Supreme Court justice who is so out of touch with reality. In her two terms as governor of the great state of Michigan, Granholm has accomplished much of her agenda- to trim manufacturing jobs and to destroy the rights of the unborn.
Just take a drive down any one of our deteriorating roads in your foreign car and stop to talk to the locals. Don't worry, they'll be home. (Our jobless rate is 12.6%) But before you head out, you might want to fill up first. Michigan gas taxes are among the highest in the nation (behind only California, New York, Connecticut, and Illinois) even before you consider a proposed 15 cents per gallon increase in the works to keep our roads in "good repair". Stop to enjoy our natural resources (if you can get to them). You might notice how expensive things are in the tourist areas- but don't fret- that is just because we have to tax you to help balance our state budget (which hasn't happened in a long time even though taxes keep going up on everything from gas to ski lift tickets). Just keep driving. Pay no attention to the closed auto plants...Governor Granholm doesn't want us to focus on those. Instead, look for movie crews and wind farms. Those are the future jobs in Michigan.
And in case all of that doesn't give you confidence in our governor, perhaps you should consider her social agenda. She's Catholic and claims to rely on her faith as long as it supports her social agenda. For instance, when trying to balance a budget without cutting her pet social welfare programs to the mentally ill and homeless, Granholm took aim at Republicans who opposed her by saying...
"Often those who cloak themselves in a cape of religiosity happen to be some who are the biggest cutters. Now, some of that can balance out. But when you get to cutting the services for the least of these – in the 25th chapter of Matthew in the 37th verse the Lord says, 'Whatsoever you do to the least of these, so also you do unto me' – that's when I question whether somebody is really living out the faith that they profess."
But at the same time, Governor Granholm wholly supports abortion and embryonic stem cell harvesting which are in opposition to the core of Christian faith, Granholm said that “as a Catholic, I can say to be pro-cure is to be pro-life." She has been publicly rebuked by Bishop Earl Boyea of Lansing for those remarks. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” Bishop Boyea said. “While the Catholic Church strongly supports legitimate forms of stem cell research and all other proper forms of scientific inquiry, the Church also teaches that is it is always immoral to destroy a human embryo.”
As a Supreme Court justice, Granholm would have the potential to influence or perhaps "legislate" from the bench. This is when her anti-life stance really becomes a problem. In 2008, Granholm vetoed SB 776, a bill which would ban partial-birth abortions in Michigan. She vetoed the bill claiming that there was no loophole for life-threatening situations for the mother. This veto has no precedence because a similar bill has already been passed and upheld by the Supreme Court at the Federal level. This blatant disregard for the rights is indicative of Granholm's character and her history of opposing life issues. In October 2003, Governor Granholm vetoed Senate Bill 395, the "Legal Birth Definition Act," which sought to outlaw partial-birth abortion by granting full legal status to the child as soon as any part of his or her body emerges from the mother.
This woman is reckless and dangerous. Her record in Michigan is atrocious and her social agenda does not belong on the bench of the highest court in this land.
This is some scary stuff! I don't think I want a Supreme Court justice who is so out of touch with reality. In her two terms as governor of the great state of Michigan, Granholm has accomplished much of her agenda- to trim manufacturing jobs and to destroy the rights of the unborn.
Just take a drive down any one of our deteriorating roads in your foreign car and stop to talk to the locals. Don't worry, they'll be home. (Our jobless rate is 12.6%) But before you head out, you might want to fill up first. Michigan gas taxes are among the highest in the nation (behind only California, New York, Connecticut, and Illinois) even before you consider a proposed 15 cents per gallon increase in the works to keep our roads in "good repair". Stop to enjoy our natural resources (if you can get to them). You might notice how expensive things are in the tourist areas- but don't fret- that is just because we have to tax you to help balance our state budget (which hasn't happened in a long time even though taxes keep going up on everything from gas to ski lift tickets). Just keep driving. Pay no attention to the closed auto plants...Governor Granholm doesn't want us to focus on those. Instead, look for movie crews and wind farms. Those are the future jobs in Michigan.
And in case all of that doesn't give you confidence in our governor, perhaps you should consider her social agenda. She's Catholic and claims to rely on her faith as long as it supports her social agenda. For instance, when trying to balance a budget without cutting her pet social welfare programs to the mentally ill and homeless, Granholm took aim at Republicans who opposed her by saying...
"Often those who cloak themselves in a cape of religiosity happen to be some who are the biggest cutters. Now, some of that can balance out. But when you get to cutting the services for the least of these – in the 25th chapter of Matthew in the 37th verse the Lord says, 'Whatsoever you do to the least of these, so also you do unto me' – that's when I question whether somebody is really living out the faith that they profess."
But at the same time, Governor Granholm wholly supports abortion and embryonic stem cell harvesting which are in opposition to the core of Christian faith, Granholm said that “as a Catholic, I can say to be pro-cure is to be pro-life." She has been publicly rebuked by Bishop Earl Boyea of Lansing for those remarks. “Nothing could be further from the truth,” Bishop Boyea said. “While the Catholic Church strongly supports legitimate forms of stem cell research and all other proper forms of scientific inquiry, the Church also teaches that is it is always immoral to destroy a human embryo.”
As a Supreme Court justice, Granholm would have the potential to influence or perhaps "legislate" from the bench. This is when her anti-life stance really becomes a problem. In 2008, Granholm vetoed SB 776, a bill which would ban partial-birth abortions in Michigan. She vetoed the bill claiming that there was no loophole for life-threatening situations for the mother. This veto has no precedence because a similar bill has already been passed and upheld by the Supreme Court at the Federal level. This blatant disregard for the rights is indicative of Granholm's character and her history of opposing life issues. In October 2003, Governor Granholm vetoed Senate Bill 395, the "Legal Birth Definition Act," which sought to outlaw partial-birth abortion by granting full legal status to the child as soon as any part of his or her body emerges from the mother.
This woman is reckless and dangerous. Her record in Michigan is atrocious and her social agenda does not belong on the bench of the highest court in this land.
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