Battlefield Earth… for the Unborn

My friend Roman Jaquez is filming for the documentary Silent Fall in Las Vegas. He is an embedded partisan journalist on the front lines. Keep him in your prayers and check out the disturbing reality of modern-day atrocity right here in our “civilized” country. [Facebook Las Vegas photo album]

Maybe the Girl Should Be Roasted In the Oven?

I can barely find words to express the disgust I have for people who torture animals. This article covers the story… Cheyenne Cherry, a 17-year-old non-contributing zero, breaks into an apartment with a 14-year-old… trashes the place… destroys furniture… steals DVDs… and kills a kitten in the oven!?! WTF!? After her court plea deal she goes outside and taunts the crowd. Maybe I’m over-reacting… but I think if someone sends me a video of this girl being roasted in an oven I’ll actually host the video on one of my websites for as long as the legal system will allow me to.

Government Health Care Makes Me Sick

I am so opposed to government run health care that it’s giving me a coronary just thinking about it. It has to be one of the worst, naive, imbecilic schemes of illogical putrescence to exist on US government paper (probably). Nowhere in the Constitution of the United States is health care a right, yet that’s the word I’m hearing for it these days in the mainstream drivel.

Ignorance. Stupidity. The kind of emotionally driven flatulence that comes from people who feed California condors fast food until they forget how to hunt and need a bailout — who would pine with moist eyes over school children’s crayon drawings of soldiers knitting peace sweaters — who would have out entire society revert to pre-industrialized agrarianism before converting to plentiful clean nuclear energy (or before admitting that their man-made global warming hysteria is, itself, man-made).

This cluster-screwed plan will NOT improve health care, and over the longer term will HURT the poor, defenseless, widows, and orphans more than help them. BAD. As a Christ-follower I am called to fight this.

Forced nationalization is the worst possible answer. To get elected, many politicians promise “free” medical care for everyone. But health care nationalization in European countries resulted in longer waiting periods, severe lack of choice, deterioration of health care quality, prohibition of alternative health treatments, higher taxes, and sadly (for some) permanent illness or death because they could not get the care they needed.

Also, a nationalized system is not “free” at all because someone has to pay for it. And why should anyone be forced to pay for someone else’s medical care? Very few decent people would personally assault their neighbors at gunpoint and steal thousands of dollars to pay for their own medical needs. How could any freedom loving person agree to delegate such criminal acts to the government by supporting a nationalized health care system?

~Ron Paul on health care

John Calvin turned 500 today – sort of…

From Calvin500.com: “John Calvin was a theologian, pastor, biblical exegete, and tireless apologist for Reformed Christianity, and ranks among the most important thinkers in church history. His theological works, biblical commentaries, tracts, treatises, sermons, and letters helped establish the Reformation as a legitimate and thriving religious movement throughout Europe. No theologian has been as acclaimed or assailed as much as Calvin.” Also check out more on Calvin’s big 5-0-0 at Desiring God and The Resurgence.

The Consumerist

Let me just shout out to a great website that is demonstrating how the internet can be used in a focused way to illuminate shady business practices almost anywhere, anytime, anyhow. The Consumerist! Great tips for the consumer… the folks spending their hard-earned (hopefully) bucks on products/services that may or may not deliver. Recently they featured an article about a guy who secretly videotaped Toyota service staff stealing from his truck during servicing!

Happy Fourth of July 2009

On this day of all days, never forget that it is a profound privilege, and a blessing from God, to live in the United States of America. Volumes could be (and have been) filled with evidence of this simple yet oft slippery truth. Even in certain circles of American “Christians” it’s becoming uncool-ish to have a Christ-honoring gratitude and pride for our country… so I can only wonder who those folks are honoring today instead. For the rest of us, let us engage our culture this Independence Day with our patriotism and our remembrance of the soldiers and sailors – past and present – who made this possible.

I leave with you with a well-put-together tribute to our troops from a USAF officer, and a message from one of the few spokesmen for freedom in Washington… Ron Paul.

Logos Great Bible Giveaway

From the Logos website: Logos Bible Software is celebrating the launch of their new online Bible by giving away 72 ultra-premium print Bibles at a rate of 12 per month for six months. The Bible giveaway is being held at Bible.Logos.com and you can get up to five different entries each month! After you enter, be sure to check out Logos and see how it can revolutionize your Bible study.

GOP Playing Cards

From a recent email:

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You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away people’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

Michael Jackson

Nothing turns you from media pinata to media darling as fast a death. I was a fan in his prime – the 80′s – and I truly enjoyed the Thriller album. It’s a portrait of human fallibility that someone at the “top” could topple so hard in later years. Those of us who understand the depravity of man already know that this capacity for a downward spiral is in each of us.

A New Addition… Sawyer

My posting has (again) been sparse… but with good reason. I have a new addition to the family! Our little Sawyer was born a week ago today, and has thus far been consuming much of our time with poop, sleep, crying, and cuddling. We wouldn’t trade him for the world! :-)

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