A Heretical Opinion…
October 31, 2005
Here’s Michael Vick. Michael gets a lot of ink. 
Michael is one of the most exciting players in football. Michael can fly. Michael’s arm is one of the strongest ever seen in the NFL. And Michael’s Atlanta Falcons seem to play pretty good football when Michael is playing.
But you know what?
Michael Vick? He’s just not really a very good quarterback…
Now THIS is More Like It!!!
October 31, 2005
You run the play ’til you get it right! Sam Alito should have been the first choice, but better late than never. Bring on the fight; it’s a fight that is worth having!
Bush Nominates Alito for Supreme Court
We gotcha back on this one, Mr. Prez, so go for it.
My Newest Blog Link
October 29, 2005
I’m thrilled to see that Steve Camp is now a fellow blogger (well, for all I know, he has been one for some time). I just found “CampOnThis“, and it seems to be vintage Steve. In case you don’t know, Steve Camp was a successful CCM artist who got out of that corrupt industry a number of years back, and has some bold things to say about it; be sure to read his 107 Theses on Contemporary Christian Music if you haven’t yet. I appreciate his candor, his courage, and his music, which he still sings, but which isn’t published via any of the sellout “Christian” publishers. As you might expect, I at least largely agree with him.
Mona Gets the Point; Will George W.?
October 28, 2005
Excerpted from Mona Charen’s article in Jewish World Review:
This is the key point that liberals so often fail to grasp: This debate is about democracy. It is about republican accountability. It is about process. It is only tangentially about outcomes. Those who endorse originalist jurisprudence are not looking to pack the courts with conservative judges who will declare minimum wage laws unconstitutional or “find†a constitutional right to a flat tax. They (we) endorse original intent jurisprudence because it is the only way to anchor judges to the Constitution they claim to revere. In order to adjudicate, for example, what “unreasonable search and seizure†means in the 21st century, judges must ask what the founders understood by the idea, not what Justice Breyer or Souter thinks is fair or appropriate. If justices of the Supreme Court are simply going to legislate their policy preferences, why not simply close down the other two branches, and while we’re at it, tear up the Constitution? So lesson two: Avoid anyone who is not an explicit, marrow-deep originalist.
You tell ‘em, girl…
(Gotta) Kill De White Peepul…
October 27, 2005
Directions:
1. Go to local video store.
2. Rent the tape called “Eddie Murphy’s SNL Highlights”, or something of that nature.
3. Scroll to the sketch where the American Legionnaires have a meeting, and end up hiring an un-tried-out reggae group to perform. Eddie Murphy is doing his Marleyesque best, but the song he is singing to these patriotic American (whities) is entitled, “Kill de White Peepul”. It’s hysterical, a scream, one that sticks in your memory…
But this is not a scream; it’s real:
Questions:
1. Why is American mainstream media racist? “Racist”, you say, “how so?” Simple. Go do a Google search right now for the name “Kamau Kambon”. What did you find? Correct. This story is being told by WorldNetDaily, Townhall.com, Michelle Malkin, Mike Gallagher…did you see anything about CBS, NBC, ABC, for that matter, Fox…any of the major news outlets? Why not? If a white person appeared on C-Span and said these things, we all know what would happen: this person would be crucified in a national forum. Look what happened to Bill Bennett for making a reasonable point in a pretty dumb way: he was vilified nationwide. But this clown can appear on C-Span and call for genocide, and no major news source picks up on it. Do the major news outlets believe that black people ought not be held accountable for their inanity? And if so, if Kamau Kambon is beyond accountability simply because he is black, does this not make him less than human in their eyes? Maybe it doesn’t flow from racist motives, sure; but if we fail to hold people accountable, we are dehumanizing them.
2. Actually, one question was a-plenty…
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish!
October 27, 2005
How do you measure civilization? In Rome, this is how
Do note the words of the esteemed Monica Cirinna, presumably a person in favor as well of the banning of the giving away of fish as prizes at carnivals as well.
At least, though, things haven’t gotten to the place in Rome, as they have in “Shroudtown”, where the law penalizes those unwilling to walk their dogs a minimum of three times weekly.
Everybody sing with me:
“And I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m free!”
Sheryl Swoopes Comes ALL the Way Out
October 27, 2005
AgapePress had this piece yesterday:
…One of the star players of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) is talking openly about being a lesbian. In making her confession, however, Houston Comets forward Sheryl Swoopes may upset the homosexual community. Swoopes recently told ESPN The Magazine that she was not born a lesbian. That statement may put her at odds with many homosexual activists who try to argue that their homosexuality is not a choice. [Fred Jackson]
Assuming the accuracy of this piece, Sheryl is admitting what many of us are convinced to be true: living as a homosexual involves a choice. It is a sinful one to make.
That doesn’t mean, on the other side of the coin, that one chooses one’s temptations. There are many people who are tempted to homosexual behavior—and many of these resist that temptation, because they understand that they are human beings, created in the image of God with the capacity to make moral choices, accountable to God for the choices they make, and they are not bound either to act in keeping with their temptations, nor to take their personal identity from them. Sheryl Swoopes, unfortunately, chooses to live in a way contrary to God’s will in this area. But at least we’ll give her credit for admitting the truth.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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