It looks like the Russians are wasting no time. They are going to move missiles on the EU border in “response” to our plans to install a missile DEFENSE system. It looks like the Cold War is restarting.
Nov
04
2008
Choose life that you may live
It looks like we have just chosen a candidate who not only supports abortion but also seeks to deny medical care to those babies who survive abortion. Can the Author of life bless a people who have so clearly declared that they disdain it?
If you believe that God holds nations and generations accountable for their actions (and votes!), it is hard to conceive of a good future for the United States.
Oct
29
2008
How would you like to be beaten?
Although many Americans choose to remain blissfully ignorant, the United States has international enemies. Russia would be one. China would be another. Venezuela, Iran, North Korea and Cuba would be a few others. There are more.
They are not ignorant of our current situation.
They realize that we have continue to elect politicians who are determined to keep us dependent on foreign oil in the name of protecting the environment.
They realize that we are weak financially because of our insatiable thirst for more than we have.
They also realize that we are divided as a nation.
If I were our enemy, now would seem like a good time to test us.
With this in mind, this election shapes up as a choice between two beatings.
If we choose to hold onto our Christian heritage and the freedoms that it gives us through the Constitution by choosing the McCain/Palin ticket, we are choosing to be whipped by our parents. It will hurt, but it will be redemptive.
If we choose to reject our heritage of liberty by choosing Obama/Biden, we are choosing to be taken to a dark alley and beaten by our enemies. There will be no mercy.
Oct
16
2008
Bush didn’t lie
For the past 5 years the Left’s mantra on Iraq has been that “Bush lied and people died.” This rallying cry grew out of Joe Wilson’s op-ed piece in the New York Times in which he clearly declared that Iraq was not pursuing the purchase of raw nuclear material. This led to the Robert Novak/Valerie Plame/Dick Cheney affair which ended up with “Scooter” Libby’s prosecution. You can read a good summary here.
Well, since “we all know” that Bush has been “so thoroughly discredited on the WMD issue”, I thought you might be interested in learning that Iraq really did have an ongoing nuclear program. In 2003, our troops found a HUGE amount or raw nuclear material.
However, President Bush has been willing to endure public humiliation and defamation for the past 5 years to prevent this discovery from becoming known to any terrorists. That is unselfish maturity. The uranium has been sold and secretly delivered to a Canadian company.
Did you notice when this operation was completed? Did you hear anything about this? I wonder why?
Maybe the broadcast media didn’t think that this was a big news item? Just like the San Francisco Chronicle didn’t think that a certain candidate for the Presidency planned to bankrupt the coal industry was important news to their readers.
Just thought you might be interested in a little truth.
Sep
07
2008
This really happened
…in my new state
This morning, I somehow stepped into the quicksand of going cleaning out my old e-mails. I came across one about a minister opening the Kansas Senate with a very forceful, profound prayer.
I verified that it was essentially factually correct. Here is the story and the prayer according to Snopes.com:
Back in January of 1996, the Rev. Joe Wright, senior pastor of the 2,500-member Central Christian Church in Wichita, was invited to offer the opening prayer at a session of the Kansas House of Representatives (not the Kansas Senate, as claimed in the text), and the prayer he offered was this one (which differs somewhat from the version cited in the text above):
Heavenly Father, we come before you to ask your forgiveness. We seek your direction and your guidance. We know your word says, “Woe to those who call evil good.” But that’s what we’ve done.
We’ve lost our spiritual equilibrium. We have inverted our values. We have ridiculed the absolute truth of your word in the name of moral pluralism. We have worshiped other gods and called it multiculturalism.
We have endorsed perversion and called it an alternative lifestyle.
We’ve exploited the poor and called it a lottery. We’ve neglected the needy and called it self-preservation. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. In the name of choice, we have killed our unborn. In the name of right to life, we have killed abortionists.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem. We have abused power and called it political savvy. We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it taxes. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.
Search us, oh, God, and know our hearts today. Try us. Show us any wickedness within us. Cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent here by the people of the State of Kansas, and that they have been ordained by you to govern this great state.
Grant them your wisdom to rule. May their decisions direct us to the center of your will. And, as we continue our prayer and as we come in out of the fog, give us clear minds to accomplish our goals as we begin this Legislature. For we pray in Jesus’ name, Amen.
The prayer Rev. Wright used wasn’t of his own crafting; it was a version of one written in 1995 by Bob Russell who offered it at the Kentucky Governor’s Prayer Breakfast in Frankfort, Kentucky.
Rev. Wright had been invited to serve as the House’s guest chaplain by Rep. Anthony Powell, a Wichita Republican who was also a member of Wright’s church. Accordingly, Rev. Wright read the prayer at the opening of the legislature on January 23, and departed, unaware of the ruckus he had created until his church secretary called him on his car phone to ask him what he had done.
Reportedly, one Democrat (not “a number of legislators”) walked out in protest, three others gave speeches critical of Wright’s prayer, and another blasted Wright’s “message of intolerance.” House Minority Leader Tom Sawyer (also a Democrat) asserted that the prayer “reflects the extreme, radical views that continue to dominate the House Republican agenda since right-wing extremists seized control of the House Republican caucus last year.” Rep. Jim Long, a Democrat from Kansas City, said that Wright “made everyone mad.” But Rep. Powell, who had invited Wright in the first place, claimed that House Democrats were only trying to make political points with their criticism and affirmed that he supported the theme of the prayer.
Rev. Wright said afterwards: “I certainly did not mean to be offensive to individuals, but I don’t apologize for the truth.” His staff stopped counting the telephone calls that came from every state and many foreign countries after the first 6,500. Wright appeared on dozens of radio shows and was the subject of numerous TV and print news reports, and his prayer stirred up controversy all over again when it was read by the chaplain coordinator in the Nebraska legislature the following month.
Wright later explained, “I thought I might get a call from an angry congressman or two, but I was talking to God, not them. The whole point was to say that we all have sins that we need to repent — all of us . . . The problem, I guess, is that you’re not supposed to get too specific when you’re talking about sin.”