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October 31, 2007
"Most Challenged Books of the 21st Century."
LiberalViewer asks:
"Is it really fair to challenge any of those books on the "Most Challenged Books of the 21st Century" as having a bad influence on children?"
(Source.)
To which the obvious answer is: yes.
"Some people disapprove of gay men and lesbian women.... Usually these people know little or nothing about homosexuals, and their views are often based on fears or misinformation, not facts. (p. 17-18 It's Perfectly Normal by Robie Harris.)"
(Source; More inappropriate images, from that book, which LiberalViewer says should not be challenged.)
This is emphatically not what I teach my children--but I ain't 'fearful' or 'misinformed'; it certainly is NOT what God says; but further, I say 'may my soul be eternally damned if at least five children of this generation are not taught the TRUTH!'
This was only an excerpt from one single, book. With a minute amount of searching, it was easily apparent that, no, I would not allow my children to be perverted by such lasciviousness.
But more importantly, this gentleman works for the ACLU. So I was wondering: Don't ya'll defend "freedom of speech?" Oh, that's right...not unless said speech agrees with you. Got it.
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October 30, 2007
Freedom and the Law.
"Where the law of majority ceases to be acknowledged there government ends, the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them."
(Source)
Is there really any need to give contemporary examples in order to illustrate both the veracity and pertinency of this truth?
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Ain't that the truth!
"If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise, in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing and talk by the hour? That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected."
(Here.)
If the present Congress steals too much....
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October 29, 2007
"The hopes for freedom...rest with the legislative branch of our governement." --Al Gore.
""This is the greatest country on the face of this earth; and the hopes for freedom and the viability and efficacy of self-government rest with the legislative branch of our, of our government in this day and time."
(Emphasis Mine; Source YouTube.com video.)
[Loud, annoying, game-show like sound] ...WRONG. C'mon former Vice-President-Al, Just what the heck do you think self-government means, anyway? Sounds like you might need more than just science lessons.
And besides, if what you're saying's true: we are friggin' doomed. Doomed, I tell ya.
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IDEOLOGICALLY BASED VIOLENCE
Is not most violence "ideologically based?" For that matter, ain't everything?
Link.
HT Endiana.
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"It is necessary to separate belief from science."
Thank goodness! 'Cuz half the time I don't believe in danged 'science.' Well, dern "scientists" at least. And ain't no one in their right mind believes this crap:
"The Parliamentary Assembly therefore urges the member states, and especially their education authorities...to firmly oppose the teaching of creationism as a scientific discipline on an equal footing with the theory of evolution and in general resist presentation of creationist ideas in any discipline other than religion..."
Less uh course, they means that 'fake-o-lution' ain't equal cuz its lower. Yuh know, like less evoluted?
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Global warming [tele?]evangelist, Al Gore.
"Just hours after winning the Best Documentary Oscar for his vigorously spun movie about the threat of global warming, a Tennessee public policy institute released records showing that Mr. Gore's Nashville mansion annually consumes 20 times the amount of electrical power and natural gas as the average American household - nearly $30,000 worth." (Source here.)
Seems old Al really is like one of those hucksters.
(HT to Canada's National Post for the phrase, here.)
More about Eco-Faux Gore:
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The truth about Global Warming.
"What Drudge misses is that Al Gore’s movie will result in hundreds of thousands or even millions of other people reducing their energy consumption. If they reduce that just 10%, Al Gore, Arianna Huffington, and Laurie David could have ten times as many mansions and fly Gulfstream V’s around the world and we’d still help prevent global warming."
It's not about the CO2. No, no. It's all about the ostensibly benevolent oligarchy, baby!
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October 25, 2007
Interesting quotations from what I have read.
"I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he has no natural right in opposition to his social duties."
(Emphasis Mine; Here.)
"Patrick Henry, long a friend of Baptists, had urged Baptist ministers to perform marriages without approval of the law. He believed that the best way to have the unjust law repealed was to ignore it."
(Here.)
Did you know who said this next one? (He told me the secret.)
"The Cretans, always liars, evil beasts, idle bellies!" (Here; or here.)
Also from Titus:
"God who cannot lie (ὁ ἀψευδὴς θεὸς : ho apseudēs theos). 'The non-lying God'." (From his word pictures.)
Wow. What a thought.
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October 20, 2007
THE SKY IS FALLING! THE SKY IS FALLING!
Really. It is.
(Image source.)
"Scientists believe global warming might get worse if the oceans soak up less of the greenhouse gas."
Saturday, 20 October 2007, 04:50 GMT 05:50 UK
(Emphasis Mine; Source BBC News)
Those emphases? Key words baby.
Just ignore this next quote. Seriously. Ignore it. Don't read it.
"Thick Arctic ice may be the reason for a precipitous drop in this spring's two-month gray whale count at Point Piedras Blancas."
ASSOCIATED PRESS 7:59 a.m. June 6, 2007
(Source, and here.)
I told ya not to read it.
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What is this world coming to when you can't burn Guy Fawkes in effigy?
I mean, seriously?!
"Slough Borough Council claimed the polluting effects of smoke would go against its environmental policies, but said it would still display fireworks [cough--ahem: cause everyone knows fireworks are grrreat for the environment]...The £4 a ticket Slough Firework Spectacular will now offer a funfair, trapeze show and an Elvis Presley tribute act instead of the traditional bonfire and burning of Guy Fawkes...He said the council wanted to promote a "cleaner, safer, greener" attitude and to "encourage residents to do what they can to improve the local and global environment"." (Emphasis Mine; Source BBC News.)
Oh, that emphasized line? That is precisely the problem.
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October 17, 2007
How to avoid giving to the poor; or Just use the Parking meters please.
The mayor has a brilliant new plan on how to help the poor:
"Don't give em money. They're poor anyway, whadda they need it for?"
More as this story develops.
HT Josiah.
In a related story, the City of Chattanooga has now outlawed helping other people entirely. "Ideally what we'd like to see," the mayor's spokesperson said at an earlier news conference, "is this. Whenever you think about doing something nice for your fellowman, don't. Just stop. Even if you're in the middle of the act itself. Later that week, when you're downtown on some errand, drop a nickel in one of our highly-decorative parking meters. BAM! You've helped your fellow man!
It really is just as easy as that.
You don't have to deal with real, live people. Their stories are boring--they are your neighbors after all--and it really isn't your fault they're in the jam they're in. Just take that one tiny nickel--a penny if you haven't got that; we'll understand--and plunk it into our shiny collection boxes. And when you go to bed at night, you'll sleep better. Honestly, you will. 'Cause even if you did shove that old lady down in the mall why, Chattanooga is gonna collect money to pick her right back up again!
There is one precaution, though. Don't stick your money into one of our other tax-grabbing, money-grubbing machines. Otherwise it just goes to line our pockets."
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October 10, 2007
Belmont City Council Bans smoking in some homes...for now.
"Smoking will be permitted only in designated outdoor areas of multi-unit housing.
Additionally, smoking will not be allowed in indoor and outdoor workplaces, or in parks, stadiums, sports fields, trails and outdoor shopping areas.
Smoking on city streets and sidewalks will be permitted under the ordinance, except in the location of city-sponsored events or in close proximity to prohibited areas."
To which I reply in words not mine, but which I have adopted as my own.
"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God."
"Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?---Forbid it, God!"
"We have had thirteen independent States eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let these take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
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October 08, 2007
Delinquent Parents; and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
"Zola and Veronica are two-year-old twins.
Their parents took them to Folsom Street Fair where they waddled amongst strange men, some wearing fishnets and leather crotch pouches, others were semi and fully nude. The parents dressed the twins in animal collars purchased at a pet store.
The parents wanted to expose their children to San Francisco's diverse community. "Every parent has to decide for themselves what is right for them," said one of the two dads. "And I respect that. And we decided that this is right for our children."
Is this good parenting?
Some fairgoers didn't think so.
"Why do (these people) bring kids here? This is a leather fair for god's sake," said Bahran Aliassa, who was masturbating in public. He has been doing it annually for the past six years." (Source here.)
Sad. Just...sad.
Second, check out this link. Apparently Dr. Ahmadinejad thinks so much of America he lets his guest use our flag as a carpet.
Gee, now I see why Columbia thought he should get his 15 minutes...
Rubes.
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October 05, 2007
How Mercury causes brain Neuron degeneration.
It really is fascinating. (Also some interesting parallels to Christianity.)
Hat tip Barlow Farms.
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October 04, 2007
Cancer, Eternal Life, and Christianity.
If I remember--and get the time to do so later--I will write more about this.
First. I find it not a little ironic that what gives Cancer cells the ability to live forever (eternal life) is the self-same thing that kills the body.
Second. There is a very interesting parallel to be observed between Christianity and cancer cells. Briefly it is this. Cancer cells are diametrically opposed to our body's continuance. Blood cells promote life; cancer cells destroy.
More later.
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October 01, 2007
Fun news story.
I think this is gonna work real well...
"New Zealanders have been given the chance to write their own laws, with a new online tool launched by police. The "wiki" will allow the public to suggest the wording of a new police act, as part of a government review of the current law, written in 1958." (Dom's Weird News.)
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So, like, let's make immigrants dumb too...
That's what our tax dollars are for, right? (Among other insidiously stupid projects.**)
"New Test Asks: What Does ‘American’ Mean?: Patrick Henry and Francis Scott Key are out, but Susan B. Anthony and Nancy Pelosi are in. The White House was cut, but New York and Sept. 11 made the list." (Source The New York Times.)
I suppose that Susan and Nancy did great things too, huh? Forget; I say forget Patrick and Francis! What'd they ever do?!
**Like this. Forget that our lawmakers are exempt; if you can. It'll help ease your frustration. 'Cause smoking is totally banned, right?
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