Hear ye, hear ye

(AP Photo/Miraflores Press, Francisco Batista) Cindy Sheehan and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez

This could be a future announcement. "Ladies and Gentlemen (echo), Your new Senator from the state of California."

Doesn't this make you proud?

Only in California, the left coast.

Get it right

If you are going to quote old Ben, please get it right. Ben actually said, "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" (emphasis mine). It is amazing how deleting a few words can make such a big difference.

The left love to use this misquote of Ben. How come they don't use other quotes from him, such as,

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it "Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith".

Or

"Man will ultimately be governed by God or by tyrants." (H/T QuoteDB)

Hmmm.

Daily reading for 1/24/2006

John 5:1-18 (NRSV)

1 After this there was a festival of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. 2 Now in Jerusalem by the Sheep Gate there is a pool, called in Hebrew Beth-zatha, which has five porticoes. 3 In these lay many invalids-blind, lame, and paralyzed. 5 One man was there who had been ill for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had been there a long time, he said to him, "Do you want to be made well?" 7 The sick man answered him, "Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up; and while I am making my way, someone else steps down ahead of me." 8 Jesus said to him, "Stand up, take your mat and walk." 9 At once the man was made well, and he took up his mat and began to walk. Now that day was a Sabbath. 10 So the Jews said to the man who had been cured, "It is the Sabbath; it is not lawful for you to carry your mat." 11 But he answered them, "The man who made me well said to me, 'Take up your mat and walk.' " 12 They asked him, "Who is the man who said to you, 'Take it up and walk'?" 13 Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for Jesus had disappeared in the crowd that was there. 14 Later Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, "See, you have been made well! Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you." 15 The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had made him well. 16 Therefore the Jews started persecuting Jesus, because he was doing such things on the sabbath. 17 But Jesus answered them, "My Father is still working, and I also am working." 18 For this reason the Jews were seeking all the more to kill him, because he was not only breaking the sabbath, but was also calling God his own Father, thereby making himself equal to God.


Jesus heals on the Sabbath. Many use this story as a proof text that Jesus brought new ways for us to follow. We don't have to live under the old rules any longer. Then they take the next jump in logic to state that Jesus is open to any changes we come up with today.

What they fail to recognize is this statement in verse 14, "Do not sin any more, so that nothing worse happens to you." This statement is similar to the one Jesus gives to the woman caught in adultery. He tells her to go sin no more.

Go sin no more. That is quite a challenge for anyone. I quess it would be possible to sin no more if we redefine what is sin. If my sin of choice is say, lieing, and we come to the enlightened postition that lieing in no longer a sin, then it would be easy for me to sin no more.

Hall of Shame

Here are the new inductees to the Hall of Shame. They were chosen because they have no shame.

Hillary Clinton for her "plantation" remarks. "You know what I'm talkin' about".

Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans, for his "Chocolate City" remarks. I thought Hershey, PA was the chocolate city.

Ted Kennedy for his smear tactics and guilt by association during the Alito hearings.

Ted Kennedy again for finally realizing that he belonged to an all boys club that excluded women. "Judge not, lest ye be judged".

The U.S. Supreme Court for going along with the culture of death.

The members of the religion of peace (Islamic fascists) who murdered more innocents and kidnapped others.

Osama bin Laden who wants a truce after spending the last few years hiding under a rock.

The Executive Council of the Episcopal Church for approving membership in the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) a pro-abortion group. This one really makes me ill.

Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy.

Culture of Death

Supreme Court Upholds Oregon Suicide Law

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court upheld Oregon's one-of-a-kind physician-assisted suicide law Tuesday, rejecting a Bush administration attempt to punish doctors who help terminally ill patients die.

Justices, on a 6-3 vote, said that a federal drug law does not override the 1997 Oregon law used to end the lives of more than 200 seriously ill people. New Chief Justice John Roberts backed the Bush administration, dissenting for the first time.


This is another example of the current culture of death. States rights is used when we want to allow death. But when a state wants to restrict abortion, the courts overrule saying federal law trumps states rights.

Lord have mercy.

How low can you go?

The Senate Judicial Committee hearings with Judge Alito are in a word, embarrassing. If I were a Democrat, I would be totally embarrassed by the way the Senate Democrats are behaving. Since I am not a Democrat, I almost feel embarrassed for them. NOT.

When will the people of Massachusetts come to their senses and vote that Kennedy fellow out of office? Wake up and smell the coffee folks.