Great…now we’re gonna have racist monkeys
September 19th, 2009
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Categories: Current Events
Welcome to the U.S.S.A.!
September 18th, 2009
Why? Because he represents a democracy that legally and rightfully deposed a dictator wannabe. That’s not how the Obama administration would frame it, as they disingenuously call it a military coup, but it is the accurate representation of the situation.
Our government is consistently siding with socialists, communists, dictators, and thugs while ostracizing freedom and democracy loving leaders and countries, especially Honduras. I’m proud to be an American, but I’m not very proud of this America.
Categories: Politics
Big deal…Cubans can drive anything across the ocean
September 17th, 2009
Some New Zealanders rigged up their van and drove it across the open sea. Pretty cool.
Categories: Pop Culture
Obama is acting ‘stupidly’ when it comes to Honduras
September 17th, 2009
Doug Bandow, at American Spectator, has a great examination of the current stance the U.S. is taking toward the interim government in Honduras. From siding with Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro in backing Manuel Zelaya, the deposed Honduran president who was properly removed from office for trying to illegally change the constitution, to threatening not to recognize the upcoming elections in the country that would have taken place regardless of Zelaya still being in office, the U.S. State Department and the Obama administration have been on the wrong side of this thing from the beginning.
They have denied all economic support to the country, except for humanitarian aid, in an effort to force Honduras to reinstate Zelaya. They have also stopped granting visas to Honduran tourists and businessmen as though that will somehow force Honduras to bend to their will.
No one explained exactly how preventing a Honduran businessman from traveling to America to complete a deal will help Zelaya’s quest. Perhaps President Obama expects frustrated children hoping to go to Disney World to rise up and overthrow the Micheletti administration. In fact, outside sanctions typically encourage people to rally around their governments rather than back the interfering outsiders.
Why does the Obama administration insist on trying to push totalitarianism on a country that is fighting to maintain it’s democracy? For a bunch of democrats, they don’t seem very interested in promoting actual democracy.
Categories: Politics
How badly will Obama be treated?
September 16th, 2009
They say that “hate” is rearing its head, and that President Obama and the Democrats are the victims of it. Let me make a couple of predictions: I predict that the chairman of the Republican National Committee will never say, “I hate the Democrats and everything they stand for. This [politics, basically] is a struggle of good and evil. And we’re the good.”
Howard Dean said that about the GOP: “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for. . . .”
I predict that an editor of a conservative magazine will never write a piece called “The Case for Obama Hatred,” beginning, “I hate President Barack Obama.”
A New Republic editor did this, about Bush.
And there is increasing worry about assassination: that someone will take a shot, not just at the president, but at the first black president, which would be extra-catastrophic for the country. A few protesters have carried signs urging violence against Obama, or smacking of violence. Let me make some more predictions:
I predict that a network talk-show host will not show a video of President Obama giving a speech and put the following words on the screen: “SNIPERS WANTED.”
Categories: Politics
No respect for the dead
September 16th, 2009
Andrew Breitbart lets us know that empathizing for a family’s loss doesn’t mean you can forget the truth when it comes to the lives lived by Teddy Kennedy and Michael Jackson. Death does not bestow sainthood nor does it cause amnesia. It doesn’t rewrite history and it doesn’t atone for wrongs. It is simply the end of life and the facts of that life will remain.
Categories: Current Events, Pop Culture
What are they scared of?
September 15th, 2009
An Idaho school is suing in an effort to use the Bible as a textbook. They were barred from using the Bible because Idaho law limits the use of religious texts, which causes me to wonder if they only limit Christian texts or do they limit texts from other religions. Normally, these “separation of church and state” laws only prohibit Christianity, while catering to other religions, especially Islam (there are schools that allow Muslim prayer times, but send students home if they were a Christian T-shirt).
It’s always interesting how worked up certain people get at the thought of students learning anything about Christianity, even if it’s in an historical/academic context rather than an evangelical one. What is it that is so dangerous about Christianity to them?
After all, the Bible is the bestselling book of all time, each and every year. For that reason alone, it is worthy of study as literature right alongside Shakespeare, Dickens, and Twain.
It is a chronicle of historical events and the narrative of one of the world’s three primary religions, thus it is worthy of study regarding it’s impact on the world from an historical and sociological perspective.
A large portion of the world’s population seeks to live their lives according to it’s dictates. Isn’t that worthy of study from a scientific and psychological perspective?
The Bible has many uses in education, none of which involve an attempt to make converts. Arguably the most influential book ever written, it deserves to be studied, analyzed and examined in an academic setting. To deny students the opportunity of exploring the Bible, and developing their own opinions about it, is a crime against education.
Categories: Current Events, Religion
Three times is a pattern
September 15th, 2009
Get caught advising a prostitute how to get a house and cheat on taxes…maybe it’s just a couple of bad apples. Get caught twice…coincidence. Get caught a third time…now we know there’s a larger issue at work here. ACORN’s workers seem to be routinely engaging in criminal conduct. This organization receives millions of dollars from the government (taxpayer money) and it is becoming more clear every day that they are simply a front for all kinds of nefarious activity. From fraudulent voter registrations to aiding and abetting prostitution, these folks need to be investigated hard and shut down. The government has already cut ties to them in regard to the census, but they are still receiving money. It’s time for ties to be cut completely and the only connection ACORN should have to the government should involve a grand jury.
Categories: Current Events, Politics
There’s something to be learned here
September 14th, 2009
A New Hampshire court has decided, against the mother’s wishes, to force a 10 year old home-schooled girl to attend public school. The parents are divorced and the issue arose because the father wants the girl to go to public school and feels she will lack socialization skills if she is home-schooled.
However, the mother is the primary custody guardian, therefore it should be her decision and it’s appalling that a court would overrule the mother based on what would appear to be a difference in worldviews. The decision was made based upon a political belief (home-schooling is not appropriate) rather than on what the best environment for the child is and on the mother’s freedom as primary guardian to decide how best to educate her daughter.
This is not the first case of this nature and they are becoming more common. There is a segment of society and government that wants to dictate to parents how to raise their children and one of the first steps in that battle is the effort to eradicate home-schooling despite evidence that home-schooled children are better prepared, academically and socially, for the adult world.
Our freedoms to run our own lives are slowly being taken away. It will be a sad day when we aren’t even allowed to have control over the raising of our own children.
Categories: Current Events, Politics
But Chavez wouldn’t lie, would he?
September 14th, 2009
News out today that Hugo Chavez and Venezuela are getting help from Russia to start a nuclear program, supposedly just to supply energy to their country. Chavez says, “We’re not going to build a nuclear bomb, so don’t even bother us about that.”
I’m sorry, but when he denies he wants to build a nuclear bomb before anyone can even ask the question, then my only assumption is that building a nuclear bomb is exactly what he wants to do. Unfortunately, Russia is always all to willing to help these dictators realize their nuclear aspirations. A greater fear is that the US will help them also, considering that we get most of our oil from Venezuela.
The only way Venezuela, or Iran, North Korea, or any other totalitarian regime should ever come close to a nuclear bomb is if we (or Israel) drops one on them.
Categories: Current Events, Politics
