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Ralph Northham, your callous depravity is astounding

Yeah, I know I haven't been posting - but the Democratic (I mean, "DemonRATic") Party candidate for [EDIT2: Yeah, I HATE it when I skip my third editorial scan before I post! Northam is running for LIEUTENANT Gov. *grf* Missing a darned "Lt." and I didn't catch it. Grrrrs@self] Governor in Virginia seems to have set a new nadir for campaigning.

Watch this:

 

Oh. My. GAWD!!!! I cannot believe this moron is running on "4 out of 10 unplanned pregnancies end in termination - but that's okay"....

Really? It's "OK"?? It's "OK" that babies are "terminated"? It's "OK" that they're killed before they might have a difficult life? It's "OK"?!

However, it's "cruelty" to insist that a woman have an ultrasound and have the abortion procedure completely explained BEFORE she chooses to abort, because she shouldn't be guilted into parenthood??? THAT'S "cruel"????

[EDIT: I should add that this point is particularly hypocritical for Northam. After all, the DemonRATs are all about "empowering" women, right? Well, what could be more empowering than making sure that women have ALL the information they need to make an informed, intelligent decision? But, no! DemonRATs are really all for making sure women are "empowered" only so long as women fall in line and vapidly follow all the directives/actions/opinions hand fed to them by their liberal overlords. Yeah, now there's real empowerment for you!! Dear God in Heaven, I do fear deeply for this country. /EDIT]

Northam and his crew ought to be horsewhipped for this disgusting, amoral, selfish, and depraved view of pregnancy and the unborn - and that's "OK," because I'm truly not sure whether or not these guys have any shred of their God-given conscience left, much less any morals.

This country has a government that as designed to be run by moral people serving moral citizens. Northam ain't it.

Thanks (I think?) to Shaun Kenney over at Bearing Drift.

By the rivers of Babylon

I think many Republicans, conservative, and (possibly) even libertarians are only now coming out of the shock and disappointment of Tuesday's reelection of Obama. 

I know many who are looking to reevaluate and reprioritize, who are planning to do what they can to weather what is likely to be at least a decade (and possibly two or three) of aftershocks from the policies this administration will push through, either by Presidential fiat (no, I'm not going to use "executive order") or regulation, and I'm definitely one of them.

I've seen a lot of articles about "what the Republican Party needs to do now," but they are really just a rehash of four years ago when McCain/Palin lost - and they were as ineffective then as I suspect they will be now. I think the Right is just as deeply divided as America herself is (check out this article by Michael Barone in the New York Post), and the problem is not with the politics or the presentation of policies, but rather with the foundations the politics and policies rest on.

For all that 80% or so of Americans claim Christianity, for all that many of us assert a fondness and respect for Judeo-Christian principles, America is no longer a nation interested in living according to those foundations. We are no longer interested in rewarding personal responsibility, civic duty, mutual respect, true tolerance, diligence, hard work, or earned success. An entitlement attitude has trumped the work ethic, and crisis deferral has become the preferred method of dealing with problems.

Personally, I'm not planning to draw back into my shell like a hermit crab, but I'm also not going to put my heart into politics any more. I'll be involved and aware, certainly, and I'll continue to vote for the best available candidates, but I think that what this election did for me was to hammer in the fact that I'm not living in Zion any longer.

I'm living in Babylon.

This election has made me realize that I've gone down to Egypt for help, and that I've been trusting in horses and chariots, instead of God. I suspect the American church (I should say, rather, "the Church which happens to reside in America") is suffering from the same disease. And so we need to remember that we are but pilgrims in this world, and that it is not our home, it is not our Father's Kingdom.

Well. The Jews were exiled to Persia and Babylon, and eventually dispersed throughout the world - and they've remained the Jews. 

Christians lived in ancient Rome, in Corinth, and are in all the world. They, too, have lived as an unusual people, set apart to glorify God while living in a strange land.

So I need to work on revising my whole identity and begin to realize - and act out - that I'm not an American. First and foremost, I am an undeserving sinner saved by the great grace and mercy of the Sovereign Creator of the Universe, and that my allegiance is to Him above all other people, nations, causes, or desires. 

I am a child of the King - and it's time that I learned what that means.

By the rivers of Babylon,
There we sat down, yea, we wept
When we remembered Zion.
We hung our harps
Upon the willows in the midst of it.
For there those who carried us away captive asked of us a song,
And those who plundered us requested mirth,
Saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

How shall we sing the Lord’s song
In a foreign land?

(Psalm 137:1-4, NKJV)

Time to learn how to live in exile, and yet still proclaim the Name and Glory of God my Savior.

 

"Monster minds" - today's dose of John Calvin

This is from the Institutes, Book 1, chapter 5, section 4:

But herein appears the shameful ingratitude of men. Though they have in their own persons a factory where innumerable operations of God are carried on, and a magazine stored with treasures of inestimable value—instead of bursting forth in His praise, as they are bound to do, they, on the contrary, are the more inflated and swelled with pride. They feel how wonderfully God is working in them, and their own experience tells them of the vast variety of gifts which they owe to His liberality. Whether they will or not, they cannot but know that these are proofs of His Godhead, and yet they inwardly suppress them. They have no occasion to go farther than themselves, provided they do not, by appropriating as their own that which has been given them from heaven, put out the light intended to exhibit God clearly to their minds. At this day, however, the earth sustains on her bosom many monster minds—minds which are not afraid to employ the seed of Deity deposited in human nature as a means of suppressing the name of God. Can any thing be more detestable than this madness in man, who, finding God a hundred times both in his body and his soul, makes his excellence in this respect a pretext for denying that there is a God?

I find it very interesting that, while Calvin wrote this back in the 1500's, it is still so true today. We have "monster minds" running around everywhere we look. Leaders in science, politics, society, and - God help us! - even in religion, who use the minds and intellect given by God to deny that He exists!

God knows the human heart inside and out and centuries ago, He inspired a man to write the book of Ecclesiastes which says:

That which has been is what will be,
That which is done is what will be done,
And there isnothing new under the sun.
Is there anything of which it may be said,
“See, this is new”?
It has already been in ancient times before us.
There is no remembrance of former things,
Nor will there be any remembrance of things that are to come
By those who will come after.

We are indeed a race of madmen...

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REPENT!!!! Oh, by God's mercy and grace... Repent!

Folks, we Christians in the United States (and I do include myself) are selfish, complacent and unfeeling.

We live in the richest nation on earth - resources, opportunities, finances, families - and yet, although America is the most generous nation on earth, the Christian Church has not stepped up to the plate and given to God's work proportionately to the blessings He has HEAPED upon us.

I am convicted and shamed by my own selfishness and concern for the future. I need to be slapped in the face with God's promises to provide for the needs of His children and His promise to pour out blessing to faithful givers. He does not promise financial blessings, but rather to bless the influence and grace of our inheritance in Heaven.What a treasure could be waiting for us, if we only open wide our hands and give back to God that which is already His!

Yes, for some, He will add blessing upon blessing financially - because He has found faithful servants (or is testing the servants whom He has blessed with financial assets) who will still put His Kingdom before their own needs. God is searching for men and women to bless richly so they can bless others according to His provision in their lives.

Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church spent 30+ hours in Haiti after the earthquake. I ask you to please watch the whole video... And then do what God lays on your heart.

We in America have been given riches beyond measure. The poverty line in Haiti is roughly $1300.00 a year, and 80% of the population can't even make that...

As Christians, we have no percentage guideline for giving to the Church in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the end of the earth." Folks, for us, Jerusalem is our home, Judea is our community/state, Samaria is our nation... And the "end of the earth" is all our brothers and sisters in Christ who need our help to spread the wonderful Gospel of Salvation.

Do you earn $10,000? Can you offer $10 - at least???? Do you earn $60k? Can you give $500? Do you earn whatever, and realizing the blessings God has given you - just by being born to this prosperous and blessed country!! - you realize you need to give back to His Kingdom by loving, supporting and encouraging your brothers and sisters in a far country?

Please watch the whole video... and then give all that you possibly can to rebuild, uplift and encourage the Church in Haiti and all her people.

Yep, this pretty much says it all...

via blog.cagle.com

Merry Christmas, America - you've been so wonderful and awesome in electing TehOne™ and his DemonRATic cohorts, that here's a nice smelly, steaming pile called "health care reform" to sit under your tree...

The Senate goes for the pragmatic solution rather than a truly practical one

With a self-imposed Christmas deadline at stake, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid engineered a last-minute compromise in the health care debate that has won the support of the lone Democratic holdout and clinched the required 60 votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health care system.

via www.foxnews.com

And thus puts America further in debt, places more restrictions on businesses, and penalizes health insurance companies.

It's pragmatic because it "works" right now, but it's not practical because it provides no REAL solutions. As I said, this places America further in debt - a debt our children and grand children and GREAT-grand children will be paying.

It's extremely short-sighted and selfish, but then that doesn't surprise me when it comes from a DemonRATic Congress.

More worthy quotes from the article:

"The best thing government could do to ensure more Americans have access to health care insurance is to institute reforms that would rein in costs and make health care more affordable," said McCain, who lost last year's presidential race to Obama. "Regrettably, there's nothing in this legislation that effectively addresses the problem."

(Yep. Like tort reform, multistate regulations, and so on...)

In an article she wrote in Saturday's Washington Post, Vicki Kennedy, the widow of Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, said that while the Senate bill is imperfect, it would achieve many of the goals her husband fought for over four decades.

"I humbly ask his colleagues to finish the work of his life, the work of generations, to allow the vote to go forward and to pass health care reform now. As Ted always said, when it's finally done, the people will wonder what took so long," she said.

(It's for TEDDY! Oh, just freakin' gag me! That's not a rational, logical, intelligent argument; it's solely an appeal to emotion, and we should not be making and passing laws on the basis of pure emotion!)

The compromise package Reid released Saturday puts new limits on insurance company  profits.The measure would require insurers in the individual market to spend 80 percent of premiums on medical care. The requirement for group policies would be 85 percent.

(Big business is is Teh Eeeeee-Vuhl™!!!! It must be stopped! Never mind the money it pumps into the economy via jobs and insurance payments... Look for reduced coverage, company layoffs, and refused new enrollments.)

I refer my readers to Zombietime's excellent article on why rank-and-file America hates universal health care:

What I don’t like about the very concept of universal health care is that it compels me to become my brother’s keeper and insert myself into the moral decisions of his life. I’d rather grant each person maximum freedom. I’d prefer to let people make whatever choices they want, however stupid or dangerous I may deem those choices to be. Just so long as you take responsibility for your actions, and you reap the consequences and pay for them yourself — hey, be as foolish or hedonistic or selfish or thoughtless as you like. Not my business.

But if the bill for your foolishness shows up in the form of higher taxes on me, then I unwillingly start to care what you do. And, trust me on this, you don’t want me turning my heartless judgmental eye on your foolish lifestyle. Because I’d have no qualms criticizing half the stuff you do.

Make sure you read the whole thing, 'cause Congress sure won't. Or, even if they did, they'd ignore it...

Obama: Blaspheming God by his actions (UPDATED)

White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod suggested Sunday that President Obama will intervene to make sure a controversial amendment restricting federal funding for abortion coverage is stripped from final health care reform legislation. 

In doing so, the president would be heeding the call of abortion rights supporters like Planned Parenthood that have called the White House their "strongest weapon" in keeping such restrictions out of the bill. 

via www.foxnews.com

Hardly surprising; Obama is arguably the most radical pro-abortion President we've ever had. Plus, he certainly didn't hide his views while in the Illinois Senate where he refused to support legislation protecting the lives of newborns whose mothers' had just tried to kill them. No, Obama wouldn't even agree that these children should be offered any medical care or comfort during the too-short time they lived after birth. It says a lot about a person - all bad - who doesn't care if helpless children are tossed into a trash bin and finish their tragically short lives struggling to survive without aid or succor.

Well, Mr. President, God sees all this, and He is not amused. Rather, I daresay He is nauseated by your cavalier claims to being a Christian. How dare you claim the Name of Christ and yet refuse to come to the rescue of these most innocent of victims?! You hate the fact that a legally tried and convicted murderer would be put to death for his crimes, yet you cannot guard the right to life that belongs to our weakest and most vulnerable citizens.

Shame on you Mr. President! You cannot claim to follow Christ without being a defender of these children. You cannot claim His name without passionately and firmly supporting life. You cannot claim His name and then blaspheme Him by supporting the murder of our children.

God is not mocked; He will repay. And it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of an angry God.

UPDATE: For an overview, please go over to Gateway Pundit, who has some excellent  links about Obama's anti-life stance.

"So much for 'peaceful coexistance'"

On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.

There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even recommend they not be uttered. To those individuals I say step aside because now is not the time for cowardice. Our Country has become so paralyzed by political correctness that we have allowed a vile and determined enemy to breach what should be the safest place in America, an Army post.

We have become so politically correct that our media is more concerned about the stress of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The misplaced benevolence intending to portray him as a victim is despicable. The fact that there are some who have now created an entire new classification called; “pre-virtual vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” is unconscionable.

via www.redcounty.com

This is what liberals and lazy citizens have made our country.

We are too enamored of our own comfort and deceptive peace that we will not face the threat of Islam; we will not call it what it is, we refuse to fight against it. Instead, we lay down and show our bellies, and sympathize with the evil murderer rather than the true victims.

God help us!

For Ft. Hood...

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away." (Revelation 21:1-4,ESV)

Cass at Villainous Company posted this video to mourn the terrible tragedy of the Ft. Hood killings today, and it moved me to remember God's promises and His love for us:

May God bless them and keep them, may He cause His face to shine upon them, and bring them peace. May He lift up their faces and turn their mourning into dancing. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

For we do not grieve as those who have no hope; we know to Whom we have entrusted our souls, and we have faith that He is able to work all things for good to those who love Him and are called according to His purposes. He has begun a good work in us, and He will complete it. It is His power that works within us so that we may so shine before men that they may see our good works and glorify our Father in Heaven.

He is Father to the fatherless, and Husband to the widow. He watches over and cherishes the orphans. He leads us through the valley of the shadow of death, yet we fear no evil, for He is with us. He will never leave us nor forsake us; He is with us always, even to the end of the age.

He is our Rock and our Savior. Thousands may fall by our side, and ten thousand before us, yet we will not fear. He is the perfect Judge and will execute righteousness upon the earth.

We dwell in the shadow of the Almighty - He is our refuge and our strength, a very present help in time of trouble. We place our full trust and faith in Him, and He will direct our paths. We rejoice in God our Savior, the Living God, who loves us and gave Himself for us.

The Lord is a warrior; our enemies will stumble and fail, they will be dishonored and shamed. The Lord of Hosts is a mighty man of valor; none can withstand His wrath and none can deny His rule. His will shall be done, in earth as it is in Heaven.

Our Savior pours out His lovingkindness upon His people. His Spirit of comfort dwells within us and makes us cry out to our Father. He gives us life and freedom; His power upholds all creation and He owns the cattle on a thousand hills. All the earth is filled with His glory, and the heavens proclaim His name. He blesses us from the heavens in accordance to all His riches, and there is no good thing that He will withhold from those who call upon His name.

He knows our end from our beginning, and His hands formed us in our mothers' womb. There is no place we can flee from His presence; even if we descend to the depths of Hell, behold He is there. He has made us a little lower than angels, yet we will one day judge them as we sit at His right hand. He has ransomed us and purchased us and has clothed us in His glorious righteousness, so we may worship Him in spirit and in truth.

What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised— who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written,

    "For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
   we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered."

No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:31-39, ESV)

Amen, and amen. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away: blessed be the Name of the Lord.

Whoopi Goldberg doesn't have the moral sense of a Frenchman

The French director Luc Besson refused to sign the petition calling for Polanski's release.

He said: "I have a lot of affection for him, he is a man that I like very much but nobody should be above the law. I don't know the details of this case, but I think that when you don't show up for trial, you are taking a risk."

via www.telegraph.co.uk

A 45 year old man plies a 13 year old girl with champagne and quaaludes, rapes and sodomizes her, tries to get her to keep it a secret from her mother, and then flees the country before the trial when it looks like he might actually be convicted.

Take a look at the transcript over at the Smoking Gun.

And Whoopi thinks it's not "rape-rape." Oh, really?! Well, then, what the hell is it?

Well, she knows she tossed the shan into the fit, because she's apparently trying some damage control:

Whoopi wanted to clarify the comment and make it clear that she was talking about the legal charge against Polanski at the time.

No, Whoop, you said something that displayed an incredible, insensitive, ignorant, and idiotic lack of character.

Even a Frenchman knew better.

Obama is not operating on all cylinders

In declaring that it is time for Middle East peace "without preconditions," President Obama used his speech to the U.N. General Assembly Wednesday to fire a warning at Israel that "America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements."

Obama's stark declaration, which drew applause, was coupled with a call for Palestinians to end their "incitement of Israel."

But it was the use of the U.N. forum to carry the settlement message to Israel that drew the most enthusiastic response on the floor -- and incredulous reaction outside its walls.

Obama just put Israel "on the chopping block," said former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton.

Obama said he met Tuesday with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was not in attendance at the speech, and agreed that the two have made some progress in both strengthening security and facilitating freedom of movement, which have allowed the economy in the West Bank to grow.

via www.foxnews.com

What's that definition of insanity? "Doing the same thing, the same way, and expecting different results"?

HOW many times has Palestine been brought to the table for peace talks? HOW many times has Israel graciously turned the other cheek? Israel has endured unprovoked, murderous attacks on its citizens ever since they became their own state, and have reacted aggressively only on comparatively rare occasions, and under extreme and foul provocation.

Palestine? Palestine has received pats on the head from the whole world, billions - trillions, probably - of dollars in aid and relief, and in response they elected a terrorist organization to power, continue the unprovoked and cowardly attacks on Israeli civilians, and refuse to renounce their intent to destroy Israel.

The second paragraph of Hamas' charter (you know, Hamas, the elected ruling party of Palestine? The terrorist organization?? Ooops! Ron, over in the comments at Virginia Virtucon, reminds me that it's Fatah. But - a difference which makes no difference... IS no difference) states

Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it" (The Martyr, Imam Hassan al-Banna, of blessed memory).

In the second paragraph of their charter! They obviously think this is a critical point to make, to give it such high priority...

You know, that's racist and genocidal - it's amazing that all the liberal lunatics are so concerned with "free speech" and the "rights of mankind," and yet refuse to open their eyes and SEE that this is insanity!

Obama and all those who favor talking with the Palestinians are willfully irresponsible and criminally callous when they insist that Israel cannot be permitted to protect its citizens and itself from slaughter.

I hope Prime Minister Netanyahu spits in Obama's eye on behalf of the Israeli people.

I firmly believe that America is in great danger due to Obama's stance on Israel. Not just because he is giving respect to terrorists who have no interest in peace and coexistence with Israel, but also because of God's great promise to Abram when He called him out of Ur:

Now the LORD said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed."

America has steadily removed blessing after blessing from our ally, Israel. I believe that we have now, definitely, crossed the line and begun cursing it.

The Palestinians pray to their great "god," allah, who is nothing more than a demon from hell who is intent on the destruction of lives and souls. Demons are created beings who once were angels in Heaven before they followed Satan in prideful rebellion and were thrown out - and there is no chance of redemption for them.

God - the true God, the Creator and Sustainer of all, the Good God, the Loving God, the Merciful God, the Righteous God, the real Judge of all the earth, the Omnipotent God who gave the Promise to Abram and Israel after him - is so far above "allah" that, as the song goes,

The Prince of Darkness grim,
we tremble not for him;
his rage we can endure,
for lo, his doom is sure;
one little word shall fell him.

One little word.

"allah" is just a pissant wannabe. He's so over-matched that his final end won't even be a byline in the weekly small town paper!

And at this point, I can't see many other options for Obama: Either he is greatly deluded and does not know the facts of his professed faith in Christ or the clear word of the Bible, as well as being incredibly naive, or... He is a willful servant of Satan and his minions and will end up being cut down by the God who still holds Israel as the apple of His eye.

President Obama, I strongly urge you to reconsider your stance on Israel and Palestine. If you do not, I warn you that, as the old saying goes, "Your arms too short to box with God."

(crossposted to Virginia Virtucon)

I remember...

Eight years ago.

What does one TRILLION dollars look like?

What does that look like? I mean, these various numbers are tossed around like so many doggie treats, so I thought I'd take Google Sketchup out for a test drive and try to get a sense of what exactly a trillion dollars looks like.

via www.pagetutor.com

Just click that link above this sentence, and go find out...

(kittipurrs to the All American Blogger)

Arrogant women and spineless men

Too many women are seduced by the common image in the media today of the sexy, high-powered, important, ball-busting career woman. She’s hot, she’s smart, she doesn’t take any crap, and she knows she’s got it all. She doesn’t need a man. Think Samantha or Miranda from Sex and the City. About half of the heroines in chick flicks fit this mold (the other half are desperate for a man and do nothing but sit around waiting for Mr. Right to magically appear). They always end up with some man who surprises them and is “nothing that they want”, but inevitably, the man who starts off in the beginning unwilling to be Ms. Powerful’s doormat always ends up, in the end, becoming just that. After seeing that for so long, women start to emulate those women. They expect their relationships to work that way. They expect to be able to get away with being a ball-busting bitch and have their man just happily take it.

There’s just a small problem.

No man will ever be happy in that kind of relationship, and neither will any woman.

via www.cassyfiano.com

No. I agree with Cassy - this sort of relationship is a recipe for disaster! It's insulting to both parties, and I'm truly astonished at how many women have turned into disgusting and unattractive harpies because they've bought into this satanic (yes, I meant satanic!) worldview.

One of the things the Bible says about this is in 1 Peter 3:3-4:

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear— but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.

Women are not supposed to be strident, vicious, selfish, arrogant and condescending witches (true, men aren't supposed to be testosterone-addicted, overbearing boors either, but we're dealing with women at the moment)! How much better to be calm and gracious, firmly stating your views and wishes with courtesy and respect to whomever you're addressing? Isn't that how women want to be treated, with courtesy and respect? Well, then, if you're not willing to give it, then don't expect to get it!

If Megan Fox and "womyn" like her want to behave like screeching harridans, I certainly can't stop them. But, like I tell my daughter, "You can choose your actions, but you cannot choose the consequences."

Unless Ms. Fox has a drastic change of attitude, I suspect her consequences might include a long string of shattered relationships, cauterized emotions, and a very lonely old age.

A post well worth the read - and the reminder: NEVER AGAIN!

The first thing that surprised me about Auschwitz is that it is not as secluded these days as I expected; it is just right there in what seems like the middle of this average small town. It’s just…right there. It is jarring. There’s a busy parking lot about 50 yards from the “front door,” a lot that is filled with buses and cars and noisy tourists. Again. Very jarring.

via www.rachellucas.com

Rachel Lucas is one of my favorite bloggers - she can talk about pretty much anything (and does), and does so in her own style which can make you laugh or cry... Or change your world view.

I read this post early this morning, and it reminded me of my visit to Dachau back in 1980.

I urge you to go over to Rachel's and read her post, and remember the depths of depravity and cruelty that humans can descend to - and vow to keep earnest watch so we can stand fast against this sort of obscenity.

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David Letterman: hypocrite, sexist, mysogynist and pervert.

I won't go into detail. Many other people have provided plenty of coverage about the twisted, vicious "humor" of this despicable cretin.

I think that Gov. Sarah Palin says it best:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took a second swipe at David Letterman on Wednesday, calling the CBS “Late Show” host’s jokes about one of her daughters “disgusting” and “sexually perverted.”

In an e-mailed statement, the Republican governor said: “Laughter incited by sexually perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl is not only disgusting, but it reminds us some Hollywood/N.Y. entertainers have a long way to go in understanding what the rest of America understands— that acceptance of inappropriate sexual comments about an underage girl, who could be anyone's daughter, contributes to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by older men who use and abuse others.”

Will Letterman be censured? Nope. Certainly not by the feel-good protest warriors of leftist "feminists" or "child advocates."

He'll get a pass because he's one of their own, and one day in the future if a conservative makes a mild crack about the teenage hijinx Obama's teenage daughters might have gotten into, the whole sanctimonious and hypocritical left will have a mass case of the vapors.

Dear LORD, sometimes I hate - completely despise - what occasionally passes for humor and political discourse in this country...

Why are you arresting a priest for protecting innocent life?!!!

May God have mercy...

Lord God Almighty, I pray Your protection on this priest and all the men and women in peaceful protest against the presence of pro-abortion - pro-infanticide! - President Obama. I pray that Your hand guides them and helps them act in accordance with Your will, and that their witness for Christ brings shame to Your enemies and the forces of death. Father, You brought this country into being and have blessed it beyond measure with protection, resources, strength, prosperity, and freedom - and we have thrown them all in Your face and made gods of ourselves.

Father, have mercy! Lay Your hand upon us, send Your Spirit to bring us life, bless us with a revival and turn our hearts toward You, lest we are brought to nothing for our grave sins and vanish from the earth. Renew this land, O Lord, give us all hearts of flesh and engrave Your commandments upon them. Convict us of our sin and bring us to our knees, so You may forgive our sin and so we may lift up Your name and be a holy nation to Your glory.

Lord... Have mercy!

The GIVE Act - opens door to slavery AND violates First Amendment! (UPDATED)

The other day, I posted about HR1388, also known as the GIVE Act, and pointed out that it opens the door to "voluntary" MANDATORY service - an oxymoron (emphasis on MORON) if I ever read one.  UPDATE: I've corrected that post; I got my links mixed up, and section 6104, while in the original referred to the House, does NOT appear in the final version sent to the Senate.

Well, now look at Section 125: {UPDATE: The link on http://thomas.loc.gov is not permanent, so you'll have to go here and then click into one of the text-of-bill links to find section 125}

(a) Prohibited Activities- A participant in an approved national service position under this subtitle may not engage in the following activities:

     (1) Attempting to influence legislation.

     (2) Organizing or engaging in protests, petitions, boycotts, or strikes.

     (3) Assisting, promoting, or deterring union organizing.

     (4) Impairing existing contracts for services or collective bargaining agreements.

     (5) Engaging in partisan political activities, or other activities designed to influence the outcome of an election to any public office.

     (6) Participating in, or endorsing, events or activities that are likely to include advocacy for or against political parties, political platforms, political candidates, proposed legislation, or elected officials.

     (7) Engaging in religious instruction, conducting worship services, providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship, constructing or operating facilities devoted to religious instruction or worship, maintaining facilities primarily or inherently devoted to religious instruction or worship, or engaging in any form of religious proselytization.

For a refresher, here is the full text of the First Amendment (link has the full Bill of Rights):

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

So, let's break it down a little, shall we:

• Prohibiting the free expression of religion? Check.
• Prohibiting the freedom of speech? Check.
• Prohibiting the right of peaceful assembly? Check and check (both for political AND religious reasons - nice double play there, you anti-constitutional buffoons!)
• Prohibiting the right to petition the government for redress of grievances? Check.

As you can see, the seventh point really burns my gut. And I know, I know, some of you anti-American, anti-freedom, anti-Constitution liberal lunatics out there will say, "Oh, that's just for MANDATORY religious services!" Nope. Sorry. That word applies only to the phrase "providing instruction as part of a program that includes mandatory religious instruction or worship," not the rest of that paragraph.

So, programs run by Prison Fellowship and Alcoholics Anonymous, for instance, would be on the list of activities which are likely to be prohibited.

Congress is pushing this law through - not private citizens or private businesses or private organizations. CONGRESS.

So, where are the liberal moonbats and their screams of censorship and suppression?

[crickets chirping]

Yeah, I thought so.

Time to make sure we're stocked up, and to triple polish the guns, folks. We just might be getting into the Second Revolution any day now...

President Obama:

It's NOT above your pay grade...

It's not beyond anyone's pay grade!

CHOOSE LIFE!

(kittipurrs to Gribbit)

Choose ye this day: Life and blessings, or death and cursings

Gateway Pundit posts this damning video about Obama's position on abortion:

Christian, if you are faithful to your Bible, you cannot vote for Sen. Obama. If you do, you are spitting in the face of God Himself - and displaying serious evidence which would lead many to conclude that you are not truly His.

Look at the way Obama prevaricates with Pastor Warren. Listen to his strong statements in favor of abortion. Remember how he describes a baby as a punishment when referring to his daughters and a hypothetical unplanned pregnancy.

Do you know how GOD describes children? Like this:

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
        The fruit of the womb is a reward.
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
        So are the children of one’s youth.
Happy is the man who has his quiver full of them;
        They shall not be ashamed,
        But shall speak with their enemies in the gate.

The Lord has been abundantly kind to this nation, but we have fallen so terribly far from where we began! The fact that He has restrained His hand of judgment for so long both amazes and terrifies me, because America has earned His condemnation.

And if you think that I'm too single-issue about this, that's not my problem. But a true Christian recognizes and submits to God's absolute sovereignty over us all, even from before our birth - and He hates the murder of children. His holy hatred will exact a terrible retribution, and I fear for Sen. Obama's very soul when he espouses such evil while claiming the title of Christian.

At Sinai, God commanded the Israelites to choose, and to hold fast to that choice. He gives America the same choice today, with the same sober warning:

See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil, in that I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the LORD your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them, I announce to you today that you shall surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land which you cross over the Jordan to go in and possess. I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live; that you may love the LORD your God, that you may obey His voice, and that you may cling to Him, for He is your life and the length of your days; and that you may dwell in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them. [emph. mine]

Choose wisely, America. Your fate, and the fate of your children, hangs in the balance.

"I fear for my country when I reflect that God is just."

Via NewsBusters, I see this heinous and disgusting article by Nicholas Provenzo in "The Rule of Reason" -

Like many, I am troubled by the implications of Alaska governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's decision to knowingly give birth to a child disabled with Down syndrome. Given that Palin's decision is being celebrated in some quarters, it is crucial to reaffirm the morality of aborting a fetus diagnosed with Down syndrome (or by extension, any unborn fetus)—a freedom that anti-abortion advocates seek to deny. [emphasis mine]

"It is crucial to reaffirm the morality" of killing an innocent life?! I cannot believe that millions of people in this formerly godly country have been deluded by this lie, and that this person would be so obscenely brazen as to proclaim it. I am amazed that God in His forbearance has not yet judged us severely for allowing the daily murder of thousands of unborn children.

But make no mistake: God is allowing America to heap up the full measure of our sin, and He will pour out His wrath on us in due time.

And Mr. Provenzo, God has something to say to you:

The wicked are estranged from the womb;
         They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

I would suggest that this appears to be an accurate description of you and your opinion of the unborn children whose murder you endorse. It would actually be far more just and "moral" if you were to say that you should have been aborted!

God affirms that all children, born and unborn, are a blessing:

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
         The fruit of the womb is a reward.

The Psalmist rejoices that

... You formed my inward parts;
         You covered me in my mother’s womb.
I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
         Marvelous are Your works,
         And that my soul knows very well.
My frame was not hidden from You,
         When I was made in secret,
         And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
         And in Your book they all were written,
         The days fashioned for me,
         When as yet there were none of them.

God knows the end from the beginning, and He knows what is in the heart of every man.

Mr. Provenzo, though you may not believe in Him or His Word, God knows you inside and out. One day, you will stand before Him, and He will judge you. And woe unto you if He should say:

“‘Depart from Me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels, for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you gave Me no drink, I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.’

“Then they also will answer Him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to You?’ Then He will answer them, saying, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.’ And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Take careful heed, Mr. Provenzo, lest your pride, arrogance and callousness be your eternal downfall.

I pray that America will return to her senses and decide that the "freedom" of abortion is only another kind of slavery and will vehemently renounce it in sorrow and grief for all those already murdered.

Child rapists deserve to live... (UPDATED and BUMPED)

 ... or at least, that's what our Supreme Court decided today, in what must be one of the most disgusting rulings ever to come out of that chamber.

The nation's highest court ruled by a 5-4 vote that the death penalty for the crime of raping a child violated the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment.

Writing for the court majority, Justice Anthony Kennedy said the Constitution barred a state from imposing the death penalty for the rape of a child when the crime did not result, and was not intended to result, in the victim's death.

Kennedy concluded that capital punishment, based on current evolving standards, should be reserved for crimes that take the life of the victim.

Now, I understand that not all cases of child abuse deserve the death penalty. It's hard to conceive, yes, but I do understand the concept. But for anyone to so use a child and exploit their innocence, their inability to fight back is beyond the pale.

Liberals are always going on about "but it's for the children!!!" Well, now you see their true colors: it's all for the children - except when a convicted child rapist's life is at stake. They would far rather pander to the poor feelings of the criminal, and ignore the cries for justice from the innocent victim.

< p>We kill them in the womb, and we deny them righteous justice.

"For the children," indeed.

God help us.

UPDATE: Leslie Carbone has further details about the rape:

An eight-year-old girl woke suddenly in the early hours of March 8, 1998. Five years later, a jury convicted her step-father, Patrick Kennedy, of her rape. According to state of Louisiana prosecutors, she awoke to the sensation of the 300-pound man atop her small body, one hand undressing her, the other covering her mouth. The bleeding and internal injuries the child sustained from the ensuing rape were so great that she required surgery. Afterwards, according to testimony, Mr. Kennedy called his workplace to say that he would not be in because the child had "become a lady"; he then ordered a cleaning service to remove blood from his carpets before calling 911 to report his step-daughter's attack and request an ambulance. [all emph. mine - but make sure you read her whole article]

This decision by the Supreme Court is a disgusting and obscene perversion of justice.

"Justice" Kennedy, when you say that, according to *spit*"evolving standards"*spit* when "the crime did not result, and was not intended to result, in the victim's death" the death penalty is un-Constitutional, you are a moron. Worse, you stab at the heart of the spirit of the Law, which is to protect and, if necessary, avenge the innocent. Sure, Patrick Kennedy may not have intended to kill his step-daughter, but his actions displayed a callousness, selfishness and depravity which truly springs from the most base elements of humanity.

He may not have intended to kill her, but any thinking person could have seen it was a definite possibility.

You, sir, and the other four "justices" who agreed with you disgust me so much for this decision, that in this case I will take a page from Misha's book and quote:

Rope. Tree. Justices.
Some assembly required.

UPDATE 2.0: Yes, I knew Misha would weigh in on this, although he doesn't use his classic phrase -

I’ve had it with those scum-cuddling, sub-retarded liberal activists.

and he links to Stop the ACLU's post, which quotes the press release from Louisiana's Governor, Bobby Jindal:

One thing is clear: the five members of the Court who issued the opinion do not share the same ‘standards of decency’ as the people of Louisiana. One Justice said that ‘the death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child.’ That is incredibly absurd. The most repugnant crimes deserve the harshest penalties, and nothing is more repugnant than the brutal rape of an eight-year-old child.

You tell 'em, Gov. Jindal!!

Offering our children to Molech

You know who Molech is? He's a demon, and back in ancient times, many deluded and twisted people would sacrifice their children to him.

Of course, these days, we're not so unsophisticated as to offer our children to a demon - oh, no! - instead we offer them up to our own selfish and sinful desires [link needs sign in ID - go to Bugmenot to get one]:

A federal appeals court panel in Richmond, Va., on Tuesday struck down a Virginia law that made it a crime for doctors to perform what the law called “partial birth infanticide.”

Both laws prohibited the procedure known medically as intact dilation and extraction. It involves removing an intact fetus and, typically, piercing or crushing its skull. The more common second-trimester abortion procedure, dilation and evacuation, involves dismembering the fetus in the uterus. [emph. mine]

The key difference between the two laws, Judge M. Blane Michael wrote for the majority, was that the federal law imposes criminal charges only when doctors intend at the outset to perform the procedure, while Virginia law also made it a crime for doctors to perform the prohibited procedure by mistake.

Seems to me that if the "procedure" is performed "by mistake," that would -at least!- be cause for a malpractice suit, yes?

, who reminded me of this story, has this .gif of what happens during a partial birth abortion:

How about a reminder of the human life involved in each abortion?

Here are two videos on YouTube which explain two common methods of abortion.

Not only have we become a lewd and depraved culture, we now actively seek ways to slaughter our babies in the womb... What's next, people? Are we going to start eating the poor, mangled bodies we abort?