by La Shawn on April 9, 2004
in Bloggers
Update: How could I have forgotten Sneakeasy’s Joint? I found him by following a link on someone else’s blog to “My Thinking Problem.” You’ve got to read it.
I’ve been lurking over at The Mulatto Advocate for a while. Check out his post about Wal-Mart bashing.
Here’s a blog called The Black Republican. I was looking for brown faces when I stumbled across these! They write, “[W]e are still Radicals trying to set free an oppressed people. Accepting the derisive nickname the Southern Democrats gave our greatest president [Abraham Lincoln], call me The Black Republican.”
Go visit a straight-to-the-point blogger at Brutally Honest. Reminds me of someone I know…
Jared Bridges is a Christian commenter worth reading at TruePravda.
The guys at letters from babylon say they’re modern-day versions of Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, known in Babylon as Belteshazzar, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who “faithfully served the God of Israel in the midst of a hostile pagan culture.”
More tripe from the Chicago Tribune. The media must think people are stupid. A disgustingly biased “news” story, which belongs on the opinion page, displays this headline: “In South, issue of gay marriage exposes hate and fear.”
This is objective reporting? The news editor, some editorial minion or the “reporter” herself made a value judgment about Christians’ opposition to homosexual “marriage” as “hate and fear.” It’s the opinion of others that it’s hate and fear, not fact. Disgusting.
While many Christians are calling for tolerance, some evangelical see homosexuality and same-sex marriage as an assault on the most sacred values of their religion. Nowhere has the opposition to gay marriage been more intense than in the South, where conservative Christian values are firmly ingrained….
As gay couples have obtained marriage licenses in places such as San Francisco and upstate New York, local governments in the South are scurrying to find ways to keep from legally recognizing them.
Scurrying? As you read the story, notice the way the “reporter” uses quotes by homosexuals and Christians critical of those who speak out against the abomination of homosexual “marriage,” as opposed to the way she uses quotes by evangelicals. We’re supposed to get the impression that they’re raving, backward, hillbilly lunatics. But we have no idea how much of what they said was left out.
If this were an unbiased article, the headline would read something like this: “Homosexuals and Christians Go To Battle Over ‘Marriage’” or “Southern Christians Seek To Uphold Traditional Values.”
Okay, maybe these are biased, too. But I admit it. Not only that, I’m an opinion writer, not a news editor. The Chicago Tribune ought to be ashamed. But there’ll be peace in the Middle East before that happens.
by La Shawn on April 8, 2004
in Rants
I’m exhausted after that post yesterday. I could’ve kept writing all day. I never run out of words when it comes to people jumping all over black conservatives. Or mangling Scripture.
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice will testify this morning, beginning at 9:00 a.m. EST in the Hart Senate Office Building. It’s going to be mayhem.
All three major networks will preempt daytime trash TV to cover the hearing live as she testifies about what, if anything, the Bush Administration knew about al Qaeda before September 11.
I knew this whole September 11 investigation was going on, but I hadn’t written anything about it before yesterday. To be honest, I was blocking it out. These liberal types think they’re so smart.
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by La Shawn on April 7, 2004
in Rants
Dear Dawn Turner Trice,
In “Rice’s Politics Isolate Her From Many Blacks”, you assert that the “African-American Republican woman” is the “rarest (loneliest) of birds.” I want to assure you that we’re not lonely. I also wanted to address all your statements, line by line, but to do so would require a novel-sized post. There are only 24 hours in a day, and I’ve got a day job.
I’m not a columnist for a high-profile daily newspaper read by millions of people. I’m just a regular person with an Internet column and a web log. My opinions are somewhat strong and considered offensive in some circles. But as a revolutionary, I expect my views to be unpopular.
Let me begin with where we agree. You write that “civil rights” and feminist groups have not rushed to Condoleezza Rice’s aid after her competency was questioned by former government official Richard Clarke. Our reasons for why these groups shun her are very different.
I, like Condoleezza Rice, am one of those “rare birds” you write about. Though not a member of the Republican Party, I am an Independent Conservative (I like the sound of it).
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by La Shawn on April 7, 2004
in General
Check out this week’s posts by Christian bloggers at the Christian Carnival, hosted this week by ChristWeb.
In the meantime, stay tuned for my next entry, “Open Letter To A Liberal Columnist”, based on a column by Dawn Turner Trice (registration required).
This is a picture of a month-old unborn baby. During an abortion, a “clump of cells” this age is most often suctioned out of the womb.
When I saw the picture, I thought about a soft-spoken, left-leaning acquaintance of mine who came out swinging against me on the issue of child-killing. I think it was in response to this column.
Of all the issues I address in my columns, this was the one that aroused her passion. She vehemently defended the “right” to kill a child.
Yesterday when I read this headline, “Judge Quizzes Doctor Whether a Baby Ever Cries During an Abortion,” I hesitated to read the story because I didn’t want to know the answer.
U.S. District Judge Richard C. Casey is hearing evidence about the constitutionality of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act. Child killer Carolyn Westhoff, who performs or supervises over 500 abortions a year, was questioned by Judge Casey.
The doctor testified that she usually takes steps to collapse or crush the head of the fetus to extract it from the uterus, a statement that prompted the judge to ask, “Do you tell the women that, do you use the words collapse or crush?”
“No I do not,” she said.
“I didn’t think so,” Casey said.
Later, the judge asked her if she tells women undergoing abortions when she knows the procedure must include brain extraction to collapse the fetus head. He asked the question just after she said some women like to hold the fetus to aid grieving.
“Did you tell them you were sucking the brains out of the same baby they desired to hold?” the judge asked.
“They know the head’s empty,” the doctor responded. “I don’t tell them I’m sucking the brain out.”
When Westhoff added that she doesn’t “think that helps the grieving process,” Casey snapped, “I didn’t ask that.”
In testimony a day earlier, Dr. Cassing Hammond said he sometimes tells women that he will crush the skull of the fetus during an abortion.
“We want them to know exactly what the procedure is going to entail,” said Hammond, who estimates having performed 3,000 abortions in the last 15 years.
Hammond, who works at Northwestern University Medical School, said the doctors “actually try not to sugarcoat this for them because they’re the ones who are going to undergo the procedure.”
He said many of the women before an abortion are emotionally fragile.
“We don’t go into gory detail,” he said.
Indeed. The gory death business is booming.
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by La Shawn on April 3, 2004
in Bloggers
Happy Saturday! Looking for something fun to do? Go “Caption This” soon-to-be classic photo over at Nykola.com.
Unofficial survey: I’d like to know what you think of Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s thesis. Please feel free to comment and don’t hold back!
- A man needs to feel strong and needed as a protector for women — basically, to conquer the beast and rescue the fair maiden.
- A man needs his woman to show him that she needs his strength to help her through life.
- A man needs his wife’s encouragement in order to be a man.
Those are just a few examples of what men want, based on Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s innumerable letters, e-mails and telephone calls received from frustrated men. “[W]omen get married thinking largely about what their marriage and their men can do for them, and not what they can do for their men,” she writes.
Simple truths from a straight-forward woman. For over 25 years, Dr. Laura Schlessinger (“Dr. Laura”) has been “preaching, teaching and nagging” on the radio, encouraging men and women to create healthy and stable homes for children. She goes a step further in The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, encouraging wives to use their power as women to create happy homes.
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by La Shawn on April 1, 2004
in Faith
Bill over at Walloworld has an interesting post about Chuck Colson’s take on Christians engaging the culture. Bill writes:
If we keep on trying to “change the culture” by force, without changing the hearts and minds of the people who comprise the culture, we’ve failed miserably. We have imposed our morality, without impressing our faith upon them. And of the two, the faith is the most critical, because from the knowledge of God is where all true wisdom begins.
Colson’s article is a comment on a piece by David Brooks, a conservative columnist for the New York Times. Colson says Brooks argues that “Americans no longer take religious doctrines seriously. We assume religious differences are temporary, that denominational distinctions will fade away, and ‘We will all be united in God’s embrace.’”
Based on the negative reaction that my post on John Kerry and James 2 received, I agree with Colson’s assertion: “When it comes to the culture, there’s no such thing as peaceful coexistence. If we’re not defending truth, fighting for Christian values in all of life, the truth will be sacrificed on the altar of mainstream secularism.”
Amen to that.
