Comments on: My Blogosphere Wish List For 2005

By: Renee

Renee — Sun, 02 Jan 2005 03:06:17 +0000

For those who would like to follow the military as they aid the tsunami relief effort, go to http://www.pacom.mil

There’s a lot of good stuff there.

By: Darleen's Place

Darleen's Place — Sat, 01 Jan 2005 17:55:39 +0000

Happy New Year!
Did you have a good New Year’s Eve? How many resolutions are you planning to abandon today? Rather than New Year resolutions, Dennis Prager and LaShawn Barber offer up some New Year wishes. And some really good ones, too….

By: MyssiAnn

MyssiAnn — Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:50:02 +0000

Happy New Year, LaShawn. Hyperbole aside, I wish for all your wishes to come true. My wishes for next year are #1 to come to some sort of understanding for living civilly with my adolescent daughter (This is a constant subject of prayer since she decided about 2 months ago that I hate her in spite of the fact that I still feed and clothe her and even let her out of the house with her friends more than I did at this time a year ago.) #2 to have more opportunities to practice generosity and #3 to glorify God and worship Him in everything I do (that’s the toughie – for instance, how do you worship God when the aforementioned daughter is screaming that you hate her because you asked her to wash the dishes?) You may notice in my wishes that I’ve given up on getting along with those outside my family with whom I disagree politically or otherwise, this year I have learned to practice “blessing those that curse (me)” and pray for them rather than trying to argue or change them. I’ve seen change for the better in many relationships that I thought would never change since I started this practice. God may change more of them one day, but it’s not gonna be on my time table so I have decided not to stress about it.

By: LB

LB — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:54:05 +0000

I hope God blesses you beyond measure, Ray!

By: Rainmaker

Rainmaker — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:46:37 +0000

Happy New Year Lashawn..
I suppose I have only 2 wishes for the coming yr. One is quite serious..the other somewhat in the realm of whimsical immaturity.
The experts say to make your resolutions and wishes specific. Well I say to hell with that. The more general and vague the higher the chance for success. I wish for a stronger understanding and faith of God’s will(the serious one)..I also wish for heaven to have thunderstorms.
God bless you Lashawn on your path. Love Ray..

By: Classical Values

Classical Values — Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:56:38 +0000

Start the New Year with a well centered Carnival !
The 119th Carnival of the Vanities is up at The Radical Centrist. First of all, I love the blog name, and it would have been an excellent name for this blog but I went with “Classical Values” because I’m a…

By: LB

LB — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:31:10 +0000

Thanks, Rex. That’s very kind of you.

By: Lornkanaga

Lornkanaga — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:28:10 +0000

Father Clem,

The problem with “loving your neighbor as you love yourself” is that many people are self-haters.

Alas, many christian faiths forget that, in order to forgive others, we first must learn how to forgive ourselves. I was in my early twenties before I learned this valuable life lesson.

By: Rex

Rex — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 16:22:29 +0000

La Shawn, I was about to write a post quibbling with some of your thoughts on the liberal half of the blogosphere, but I decided instead to take a cue from your “airport” post, in which you found the good in an unfortunate situation. I may be a godless and meandering liberal, but I always come back to your blog for your thoughtful commentary and graceful writing style. We may disagree on most issues, but your generous spirit is always reflected in your posts and at the very least, I hope your New Year’s wishes for additional traffic are granted!

By: Father Clem

Father Clem — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 05:35:31 +0000

Remember, we must try to fully understand the true meaning of the verses of Matthew where the Lord is saying that we should not assume the office of judge and jury, condemn an individual or pass down a decision based on that individual’s faults – or else the same judgment will fall on us. And moreover we must remember the word of God in Luke:

“And he, answering, said, ‘Have love for the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind; and for your neighbor as for yourself.’”

We should never leap to judge, but look to heal; and that living one’s life by the Golden Rule is very much a life worth living.

Once we have acheived this, the liberals will no longer trouble us.

Peace be with you,

By: Rod Stanton

Rod Stanton — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 02:58:04 +0000

Can #2 happen? I think not.
Rod Stanton
Cerritos

By: Dave in AZ

Dave in AZ — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 01:38:57 +0000

My wish #1: all those loud mouth liberals who said they were moving out of the country as a result of the election would make good on their word and DO SO!

By: Sherry

Sherry — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 20:42:49 +0000

No comments? I understand after I just deleted a ton of spam from my blog, but too bad. I enjoy the interaction.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:14:44 +0000

Check out the NOT funny article at Scrappleface (click my name).

By: Lornkanaga

Lornkanaga — Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:03:50 +0000

I consider myself a hardcore conservative, but I have some very liberal, and even libertarian, leanings.

I’m hardcore conservative mostly in education–we need a liberal (in the classic sense) education in order to make proper life choices. After “man” partook of the fruit of the tree of knowledge we were given freedom of choice. I take this as a god-given right/ability/talent/task/mission, and anytime someone restricts my ability to obtain knowledge–by denying free speech or refusing to show opposing viewpoints or hiding the truth–that person/group/whatever is preventing me from making an informed decision. Mind you, many people in this world don’t really care to make “informed” decisions, would rather allow others to make those decisions, and that is their choice. Not me.

I am most liberal in the sense that I believe in a person’s right of choice; that everyone should be able to live his or her life as he/she chooses as long as that person’s choices do not infringe on anyone else’s ability to choose. If that person’s choice is to be gay, have an abortion, believe or not believe in god, or engage in what others might see as sexual deviancy–that is that person’s choice. We each have to face the god of our beliefs alone; we stand under judgment only with the life we have lived/choices we have made.

I’m quite the libertarian in that I believe in personal responsibility and lack of government interference. The government has no business in charity, the health care system, or retirement funds; these are all things that we as “the people” should take care of, using churches and other charitable organizations to take care of the poor and sick and business (banks and other investments/investors) to take care of our retirement.

What am I? A moderate, conservative, liberal, or libertarian? The label I attach to myself is conservative, but like any label attached to any person–it doesn’t show the whole picture.