Hope you're having a great Christmas!!!
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Sunday, December 23, 2007
Religion and Politics: A Disgusting Combination
As Christmas approaches, the presidential campaign has taken a rather repulsive turn: each candidate is trying to out-Christian the others.
Huckabee, the former Baptist minister, has the appearance of a Christian, but his behavior during the campaign has (in my opinion) shown him to be divisive and judgmental, trying to make grandiose statements about who may or may not be Christian enough to be president. Romney seems the most sincere about his faith - most Mormons I've known are very good people, even the bad Mormons. In my opinion, this is a huge point in Romney's favor, even if I don't agree with all of his policies.
Obama and Hilary have joined the fray, as well, with Obama producing a commercial geared solely toward portraying him as a strong family man (which he may be - as a conservative, I haven't payed much attention to his campaign). Hilary's new Christmas campaign commercial accentuates her willingness to bribe Americans for their votes via welfare & government-provided health care, but she has made a point to give speeches in churches...as if giving a speech in a church could somehow prove how Christian she is.
Fred Thompson looks like a very good candidate to me - I've been very impressed by him every time I've heard him interviewed...but unfortunately his campaign has been pretty stagnant.
Two things disgust me about this current campaign: politicians playing the religion game, putting on a veneer of spirituality in order to woo voters, and campaigns playing the minority game in order to win sympathy from the minority voting bloc.
Educated voters should not be impressed when candidates wear their religiosity on their sleeves, because most of the time it's nothing but a hoodwink: politicians playing the field to coerce ignorant people into voting for them. The minority game is the same scam: elect Hilary because she's a woman, elect Obama because he's black...but who cares about the fact that their policies would effectively ruin the nation's economy and send us spiraling into a liberal fascist state, with enforced equality: all citizens equally poor and oppressed.
Huckabee, the former Baptist minister, has the appearance of a Christian, but his behavior during the campaign has (in my opinion) shown him to be divisive and judgmental, trying to make grandiose statements about who may or may not be Christian enough to be president. Romney seems the most sincere about his faith - most Mormons I've known are very good people, even the bad Mormons. In my opinion, this is a huge point in Romney's favor, even if I don't agree with all of his policies.
Obama and Hilary have joined the fray, as well, with Obama producing a commercial geared solely toward portraying him as a strong family man (which he may be - as a conservative, I haven't payed much attention to his campaign). Hilary's new Christmas campaign commercial accentuates her willingness to bribe Americans for their votes via welfare & government-provided health care, but she has made a point to give speeches in churches...as if giving a speech in a church could somehow prove how Christian she is.
Fred Thompson looks like a very good candidate to me - I've been very impressed by him every time I've heard him interviewed...but unfortunately his campaign has been pretty stagnant.
Two things disgust me about this current campaign: politicians playing the religion game, putting on a veneer of spirituality in order to woo voters, and campaigns playing the minority game in order to win sympathy from the minority voting bloc.
Educated voters should not be impressed when candidates wear their religiosity on their sleeves, because most of the time it's nothing but a hoodwink: politicians playing the field to coerce ignorant people into voting for them. The minority game is the same scam: elect Hilary because she's a woman, elect Obama because he's black...but who cares about the fact that their policies would effectively ruin the nation's economy and send us spiraling into a liberal fascist state, with enforced equality: all citizens equally poor and oppressed.
Saturday, December 22, 2007
Reid's Flip-Flop
Harry Reid, Senate Majority Leader and liberal wacko extraordinaire has now officially reversed his position on the Iraq troop surge (now let's count the days until he changes positions yet again).
Earlier this year, in April, to be exact, Reid denounced the surge, saying that it would never work. Reid also publicly stated that the surge was a failure...before all of the troops had even been able to reach Iraq.
Now Reid has reversed his position...because maybe the troop surge wasn't such a bad idea, after all.
From News Hour with Jim Lehrer:
The truth is that the troop surge has been a great success. The situation in Iraq has never been perfect - not even close...but since the surge, troop deaths are down, civilian deaths are down, and real progress is being made - so much progress that even Harry Reid has to admit that the surge has been a good thing.
Earlier this year, in April, to be exact, Reid denounced the surge, saying that it would never work. Reid also publicly stated that the surge was a failure...before all of the troops had even been able to reach Iraq.
Now Reid has reversed his position...because maybe the troop surge wasn't such a bad idea, after all.
From News Hour with Jim Lehrer:
The president said, "Let's send some more troops over there, and that will give the Iraqis the time to take care of themselves." We sent other troops over there, and there are a lot of reasons the surge certainly hasn't hurt. It's helped. I recognize that.Ever the partisan, Reid's admission was colored with denunciations of President Bush and proselytizing for liberal spending programs...but for someone as partisan as Harry Reid, even a partial reversal is extremely significant.
The truth is that the troop surge has been a great success. The situation in Iraq has never been perfect - not even close...but since the surge, troop deaths are down, civilian deaths are down, and real progress is being made - so much progress that even Harry Reid has to admit that the surge has been a good thing.
Saturday, December 01, 2007
Maybe Liberalism Really Is A Mental Disorder...
A recent Gallup poll shows that, across the board, Republicans report much better mental health than independents or Democrats.
The survey, conducted over the last four years, shows that no matter the demographic break-down, Republicans report that their mental health is "excellent" or "good" in higher numbers than the Dems. Maybe this explains all of the whining and crying whenever a Republican wins an election or a conservative bill is passed by legislators...it also reminds me of a story after the 2004 Presidential election about large numbers of liberals seeking counseling for post-election depression. After the '06 election, there was no mention of conservatives running to their shrinks because the Republicans lost their congressional majority...so this, combined with the Gallup poll, leaves only one logical conclusion: Republicans are just more sane than Democrats.
As the Republican party moves farther and farther to the Left, though, I wonder just how long this trend will last......
The survey, conducted over the last four years, shows that no matter the demographic break-down, Republicans report that their mental health is "excellent" or "good" in higher numbers than the Dems. Maybe this explains all of the whining and crying whenever a Republican wins an election or a conservative bill is passed by legislators...it also reminds me of a story after the 2004 Presidential election about large numbers of liberals seeking counseling for post-election depression. After the '06 election, there was no mention of conservatives running to their shrinks because the Republicans lost their congressional majority...so this, combined with the Gallup poll, leaves only one logical conclusion: Republicans are just more sane than Democrats.
As the Republican party moves farther and farther to the Left, though, I wonder just how long this trend will last......
This Is The Peaceful Religion
This story has been developing over the last few days, but it has now taken a most bizarre (yet predictable) turn:
A British teacher who was working in the Sudan was arrested not long ago on charges of insulting Islam. Her crime: she allowed the students working in her classroom to name a teddy bear, and the name they chose was "Mohammed." As it turns out, one of the students in her class was named Mohammed, and the class decided to name the bear after him. Unfortunately for Gillian Gibbons, however, this fact makes no difference to the Islamofascists in the Sudan.
Gibbons has been sentenced to 15 days in jail and subsequent deportation, but that is not enough for the radicals, who took to the streets in protest, saying that Gibbons should be killed. This is the true nature of Islam: complete intolerance. Why the liberals defend this religion is beyond me. First it was riots over cartoons, now it's mobs protesting over an elementary school class naming a teddy bear. Gibbons has been moved to a secret location by the Sudanese government in order to protect her from the mob.
Oh, and for all of the liberal wackos out there who say that Christianity is just as dangerous as radical Islam, try going to Vatican City or any evangelical Protestant church with a teddy bear named "Jesus," and see if you get the same results as Gibbons (who, as it turns out, may have just been the victim of a "vindictive school secretary").
My guess is, we won't see any uprising of moderate Muslims in Europe and the U.S. denouncing the actions of their fascist brethren. CAIR and similar organizations are all too willing to defend the actions of Imams acting like terrorists on a US airliner, but they don't really want to improve "American-Islamic relations." They want the kind of Islamic law that is practiced in the Sudan to come here. Anyone with any modicum of common sense should be able to see that Islam is dangerous...Muslims in the Middle East are always providing us with new examples.
A British teacher who was working in the Sudan was arrested not long ago on charges of insulting Islam. Her crime: she allowed the students working in her classroom to name a teddy bear, and the name they chose was "Mohammed." As it turns out, one of the students in her class was named Mohammed, and the class decided to name the bear after him. Unfortunately for Gillian Gibbons, however, this fact makes no difference to the Islamofascists in the Sudan.
Gibbons has been sentenced to 15 days in jail and subsequent deportation, but that is not enough for the radicals, who took to the streets in protest, saying that Gibbons should be killed. This is the true nature of Islam: complete intolerance. Why the liberals defend this religion is beyond me. First it was riots over cartoons, now it's mobs protesting over an elementary school class naming a teddy bear. Gibbons has been moved to a secret location by the Sudanese government in order to protect her from the mob.
Oh, and for all of the liberal wackos out there who say that Christianity is just as dangerous as radical Islam, try going to Vatican City or any evangelical Protestant church with a teddy bear named "Jesus," and see if you get the same results as Gibbons (who, as it turns out, may have just been the victim of a "vindictive school secretary").
My guess is, we won't see any uprising of moderate Muslims in Europe and the U.S. denouncing the actions of their fascist brethren. CAIR and similar organizations are all too willing to defend the actions of Imams acting like terrorists on a US airliner, but they don't really want to improve "American-Islamic relations." They want the kind of Islamic law that is practiced in the Sudan to come here. Anyone with any modicum of common sense should be able to see that Islam is dangerous...Muslims in the Middle East are always providing us with new examples.
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