Global Warming
Eight inches of hail in Nebraska? More evidence for global warming, undoubtedly. Some think we're on a global warming bubble, and that Americans aren't going to put up with it much longer, especially as the nonsense infringes upon their lives and pocketbooks more and more. That would be fine with me: let it burst! If you want a great visual on exactly how devastating the CO2 content is to our atmosphere, go here and follow the instructions. It's pretty astounding how little there really is out there, and to think it's going to destroy the planet is laughable. Regarding ANWR, you would think that the person with the most vested interest in keeping Alaska's environment clean, it would be the Governor, right? Gov. Palin said, in effect, 'just drill, baby!' What should this tell us about which is the higher priority for Alaskans? To give you yet another taste of just how bad the environmental madness has become, the green nitwits in Madison, Wisconsin are trying to ban drive-throughs because they encourage people to drive their cars. Even more ridiculous is the fact that Spain's Parliamentary is moving to give rights to apes. The sheer idiocy of environmentalists should be enough to convince people their whole premise is a joke.
Profiling
Read this:
A schoolboy aged 12 has been identified as an al-Qaeda inspired extremist after sending beheading videos to his classmates, police have disclosed.
Anti-terrorism chiefs have said the example revealed how violent extremism is spreading "like a virus infecting young minds".
The blond, white schoolboy from West Yorkshire is among 120 people being dealt with by police in a new anti-terrorism scheme targeting al-Qa'eda inspired youths.
Does this not strike you as odd? Why do they specify this kid is a 'blond, white' kid? This article goes out of its way to repeatedly stress his whiteness and that he's not a Muslim. Call me crazy, but isn't this profiling? I mean, they're identifying him by his physical characteristics (or the lack of Muslim physical characteristics), aren't they? I thought that profiling was unacceptable...
Illegal Immigration
In what could be a signal for the November election, a shameless open-borders amnesty proponent was destroyed in the Utah primary this week. Chris Cannon -- who had the full backing of the White House, incumbents campaigning for him, and a 7-to-1 spending margin advantage -- was beaten by 20 points, and the only main difference between him and his GOP challenger was illegal immigration. Warning...warning...warning...Americans are still ticked off about this...!
By the way, Europe is trying to implement some strict new reforms regarding illegal immigration, but it is likely to meet with stiff resistance from the sizable Muslim minorities in many of those countries. Will we see more riots from 'teens'? Can Europe save itself, or is this too little too late? My guess is the latter, if this report from the U.K. is any indication. A radical Islamic cleric known to have influenced the 9/11 hijackers was released recently after deportation efforts were defeated in court. Um...is anyone in America paying attention to this? Perhaps in relation to GITMO...?
Religious tolerance and moral decay
From the NYT:
Although a majority of Americans say religion is very important to them, nearly three-quarters of them say they believe that many faiths besides their own can lead to salvation, according to a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
The report, the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey, reveals a broad trend toward tolerance and an ability among many Americans to hold beliefs that might contradict the doctrines of their professed faiths.
For example, 70 percent of Americans affiliated with a religion or denomination said they agreed that "many religions can lead to eternal life," including majorities among Protestants and Catholics. Among evangelical Christians, 57 percent agreed with the statement, and among Catholics, 79 percent did.
Among minority faiths, more than 80 percent of Jews, Hindus and Buddhists agreed with the statement, and more than half of Muslims did.
The findings seem to undercut the conventional wisdom that the more religiously committed people are, the more intolerant they are, scholars who reviewed the survey said.
"It's not that Americans don't believe in anything," said Michael Lindsay, assistant director of the Center on Race, Religion and Urban Life at Rice University. "It's that we believe in everything. We aren't religious purists or dogmatists."
Is it any wonder that we're experiencing an incredible amount of moral decay in this country? People of pretty much all faiths don't even have faith in their own faith!
Speaking of moral issues, the homosexual agenda has now officially been made public by a group of homosexual advocacy organizations. [I would like to take this opportunity to specifically point this out to the anonymous person who heckled one of my posts several months ago where I suggested precisely this plan for long-term desensitization. It's not so laughable now, is it?] The plan is to use progressive desensitization to wear down resistance:
"Essentially, they are doing the so-called 'boil the frog in the water' routine," Mat Staver, founder of Liberty Counsel, speculates. "They're wanting to, basically, prepare the ground, prepare the ideas and thinking so that, one day, you just simply wake up and same-sex 'marriage' has become commonplace," he explains. "And then, once people accept that kind of relationship, then they're going to bring out the cross-dressers, the transvestites, the trans-sexuals, and other kinds of deviant activity."
Not surprisingly, the MSM is fully on board to help push the agenda forward.
Another tactic is to relegate the role of the father, instead promoting same-sex parenting as equal to that of heterosexual parenting. As the building block of stable society, the family is probably the institution most under attack in our country right now. Without a moral foundation for upholding it, we are losing our understanding of what a family provides, and with that loss of understanding will come the loss of our society as we know it.
FEMA
In stark contrast to New Orleans after Katrina, we haven't heard one peep of whining or moaning about needing federal help for Iowa and Missouri, we haven't heard rumors of raping and looting, we haven't heard reports of rioters shooting at helicopters. Why not? Could it be that it's a different mentality? Some of it could be that, according to reports from all throughout Iowa and Missouri, FEMA is doing an excellent job of assisting with some of the worst flooding seen in decades. Still, it will be very interesting to see how the reporting (or lack of) continues once the problems begin affecting areas like New Orleans (downriver). Will we see more of the complaining and expectations for government to save those poor, helpless people, or will we have what we see now in Iowa and Missouri, where people roll up their sleeves, dive in, help each other, and just plain get things done? If we do see the difference, we'll be forced to examine the question of why, and that won't make liberals (or New Orleans) look good. For more details and thoughts on the matter, check out the Elephant Forum's comparison of the two disasters, and Heavy-Handed Politics offering some questions worth thinking about.
The liberalism parade continues...
It's hard to find a more appropriate example of liberalism fixing the wrong problem than what's going on in Michigan. There is apparently a horrendous problem with people moving around a LOT, which is making it hard for students to focus on schoolwork and education. What's their solution? To give $100 in rental assistance to help people stay put. Never mind that Michigan is the only state to be going through a multi-year recession while the rest of the country is growing, never mind the quality of education, never mind the suffering economy based on decades of Democrat policies...let's just shell out some more money to try to persuade people to stay in their current awful circumstances. Liberalism never offers solutions; it only offers enslavement.
And how about this story from Toronto, where a mother was accused of sexually abusing her autistic daughter based on a suspicion from a psychic!!!
Okay, I've had enough. This madness is starting to make me nauseous...
There's my two cents.
No comments:
Post a Comment