by La Shawn on August 31, 2005
in General
Thursday, September 1: For the latest information, follow this link.
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Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. - Mark 16:15
Tomorrow bloggers will unite in a hurricane relief day to blog and give to the charities of their choice. I’m asking my readers to donate to the Salvation Army. As you may know, the Salvation Army began as — and in many ways still is — a Christian organization. Read more of the history.
You don’t have to wait until Thursday to begin donating. You can donate money online here or send to PO BOX 4857 JACKSON, MS 39296-4857. You can also give clothing, food, and your time. Most of all, hurricane victims need your prayers.
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…for allowing the invasion of illegal aliens, says Pat Buchanan:
Where is Bush? All wrapped up in the issue of whether women in Najaf will have the same rights in divorce and custody cases as women in Nebraska. His legislative agenda for the fall includes a blanket amnesty for illegals, so they can be exploited by businesses who want to hold wages down as they dump the social costs for their employees — health care, schools, courts, cops, prisons – onto taxpayers.
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Because it certainly isn’t “news” to people with IQs higher than 80.
Islamofascists have exploited our lax immigration laws. Oh, no! Whatever.
The report provides newly compiled data on U.S. terror arrests to illustrate gaps (GAPS?) in the nation’s border security, visa approval and immigration systems. It was written by Janice Kephart, who served as counsel to the 9/11 Commission that investigated missteps leading to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
“The attack of 9/11 was not an isolated instance of al-Qaida infiltration into the United States,” the 46-page report found.
“In fact, dozens of operatives both before and after 9/11 - other than the 9/11 hijackers - have managed to enter and embed themselves in the United States, actively carrying out plans to commit terrorist acts against U.S. interests or support designated foreign terrorist organizations,” the report concluded. “For each to do so, they needed the guise of legal immigration status to support them.”(Emphasis added) (Source)
Here’s one lie in the story: “Tightening U.S. borders has become a top priority for Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who last week called immigration enforcement an issue of utmost importance.”
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Michael Graham was fired from WMAL after criticizing Islam. A gutless move but not a violation of his First Amendment rights. The amendment restricts the government, not private entities, from suppressing protected speech.
A Florida teacher was recently suspended for exercising her constitutional rights. She wrote to her representative about the burden illegal aliens place on America, and the school board suspended her.
Dear Honorable Congressman,
Please consider my views when you are voting and representing voters.
I believe we must close the doors to all foreigners for awhile (sic) until we get this economy and the schools back on their feet. As a classroom teacher in Florida for 28 years, I know that foreigners are the largest users of our taxpayers’ money. Foreigners are taking all of the jobs that poor and little-educated Americans could have. Many people are being paid under the table, and therefore they are not paying their fair share of taxes. Schools are dealing with too many problems with language differences, and time is lost to our American children who have parents who pay taxes. I’m seeing money going to local charities going to Mexican, Haitian, and Mid-Eastern immigrants instead of to the poorer people of American descent. (Read the rest)
Whether you agree with her or not is hardly the point. Jan Hall is an employee of a government institution, and she was suspended for criticizing the government, the type of speech the First Amendment was created to protect.
If you’d like to write to the school board urging her reinstatement, visit this site [corrected link].
Other sources: Civil Commotion, Teacher Suspended Over ‘Puerto Ricans Destroying Orlando Letter
by La Shawn on August 27, 2005
in Lunacy
Journalists who have visited Niger are reporting finding a strange phenomenon: villages in which women and children are going hungry, while there is still food in their households.
Kim Sengupta of the UK’s Independent newspaper found that men had left their families, locking the grain store, while they were away.
“They’ve gone away to look for work or look for money and sometimes across the border in Nigeria. And you have this strange situation where there were women in the villages with stocks of sorghum and millet with hungry children, but no access to the food,” he says. (Story and photo source)
Niger men love their multiple wives and children enough to teach them the value of scrounging for food. Africa is filled with such wonderful traditions.
Men are allowed to drop their seed all over the place, and they don’t have to fend for anyone but themselves. Women and children are on their own except when it’s time to cater to their men. A rogue’s paradise.
Here’s another gem: “And men may be calculating — correctly — that if they don’t provide for their families, aid agencies will step in to fill the gap.”
Hmm…making babies with multiple women, knowing the state will feed them. Why does that sound familiar?
Wait just a minute…now that I think about it, it’s probably the white man’s fault! Those blue-eyed devils are forcing these oppressed men to starve their babies.
Racists!
by La Shawn on August 27, 2005
in Bloggers
by La Shawn on August 26, 2005
in Faith
Christian bloggers: I know it’s only fiction, but The Da Vinci Code should definitely be on your list of “things to blog.” The book was a raging bestseller, and the movie is scheduled for release in May 2006.
The convoluted plot is just window dressing. The two main characters discover that the “Holy Grail” is not a chalice but a woman: Mary Magdalene. Mary and Jesus were married, and after Jesus was killed, she fled to Gaul (France) and had a child. One of the main characters is a descendant of the child.
The Roman Catholic Church hid this knowledge for 2,000 years, recasting Jesus the man as Jesus the divine Son of God. The Jesus of The Da Vinci Code was a sinner… just like you and me. In the end we learn that the way to God is not through repentance, redemption, grace or divine mercy. No, the way to God can be found through a pagan sexual ritual.
The Da Vinci Code hype has died down in the past couple of years, but it’s sure to heat up again. The story is not true, but that’s hardly the point. In a world hostile to the faith, we must be prepared to defend the faith when confronted by questions and absurd arguments based on the nonsense within the pages of this book.
Related post: Review of Breaking the Da Vinci Code
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Update (8/27): From a reader:
Just a thought as I hear more about the book and the movie and the claims made therein. Can you imagine… just imagine… what muslims would do if such a book/movie were made about islam?
-They commit terror in the face of Korans in the toilet
-They riot when someone suggests Mohammad would’ve married a Miss Universe contestant
-They issue a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for the “blasphemous” Satanic Verses
I think the DaVinci Code’s movie release may provide an opportunity for Christians to show that we can oppose such a blasphemous work without resorting to violence, and perhaps that opens a door or two allowing for some opportunity to witness to others.
Originally posted 8/24/05
…says Australia’s prime minister. According to The Australian:
On top of trying to promote Australian values in Islamic schools, Prime Minister John Howard said the Government would monitor what was said in certain schools and mosques to ensure they did not foster terrorism.
Mr Howard was blunt when asked whether he was prepared to “get inside” mosques and schools to ensure there was no support for terrorism.
“Yes, to the extent necessary,” he said on Southern Cross radio.
If only our own government were bold enough to do the same and curb illegal immigration in the process. Speaking of which, Texas has stepped up prosecutions against border jumpers. People are fed up.
Update (8/26): The Australian prime minister is radical. Now he’s telling Muslims who want to live under Islamic law to scram. Too bad America’s elected leaders won’t say the same. Sharia is the antithesis of freedom, as defined by the West. If Islamofascists don’t like freedom (and love death), they can leave.
Another Update: Oops. The stories were posted on the same day (8/24). Radical for freedom, I like.
by La Shawn on August 26, 2005
in Liberals
I’m getting a fair number of hits for Kay Hymowitz, so I decided to investigate. In the search results is a link to post I wrote called The Mission: Middle-Class vs. Lower-Class Families. I discussed an article written by Hymowitz titled What’s Holding Black Kids Back?
She has another black-themed article in the Summer 2005 issue of City Journal, The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies. I always thought the information in the article was common knowledge, but apparently it’s still new to some people, denied by others, or just plain ignored by die-hard socialists:
So why does the [New York] Times, like so many who rail against inequality, fall silent on the relation between poverty and single-parent families? To answer that question — and to continue the confrontation with facts that Americans still prefer not to mention in polite company — you have to go back exactly 40 years. That was when a resounding cry of outrage echoed throughout Washington and the civil rights movement in reaction to Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s Department of Labor report warning that the ghetto family was in disarray. Entitled “The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,†the prophetic report prompted civil rights leaders, academics, politicians, and pundits to make a momentous — and, as time has shown, tragically wrong — decision about how to frame the national discussion about poverty.
Oh yes, the Moynihan Report. The late Moynihan, a Democrat, presented a thesis for which he was maligned and branded a racist. His crime? He warned that the collapse of the black family, already at a critical point 40 years ago, would have devastating consequences. Anyone with half a brain can see that family structure plays a role in the well-being of children in particular and society in general, but we’re not suppose to discuss the fact that 70 percent of black babies are born out of wedlock.
I don’t agree with everything Moynihan wrote, but he was an intellectual giant compared to vacuous liberal politicians running things today, with their hare-brained, more-money-will-solve-the-problem schemes.
Before you comment on this post, I encourage you to take the time to read the City Journal article and the entire Moynihan Report. It’s a lot of reading, but I think if you’re at least familiar with the material, it will make for a better discussion.
Just a suggestion.
Jeff Goldstein wrote a thoughtful post on the matter. Another at TrueGrit.
by La Shawn on August 25, 2005
in Lunacy
I guess that’s supposed to be an insult.
There’s a ruckus brewing in Gainsville, Florida, and black journalists from Washington D.C. to Boston are weighing in about something that’s really none of their business.
But how fun would life be if we couldn’t comment on what somebody else was doing and saying?
Howard University journalism professor Clint C. Wilson takes issue with the New York Times’s effort to market a “black” newspaper to black people.
“Critics” say NYT is “simply” looking for revenue from the black community. That’s what businesses do. Seek revenue. And the problem is what, exactly? Beats me. When race is at the forefront of every discussion and every action, this is what happens. Everything is perceived as a threat or an insult.
Update: OK, OK. You’ve spoken, and I’ve listened. I know there were many thoughtful and intelligent people commenting on this blog, and I know you miss the interaction. I will re-open comments on a limited basis. Let’s see how it goes. Numbskulls excluded, of course.
The child killing post is open for comments.
You know you’re living in a horribly degraded culture when people spend years doing research to find out whether unborn babies feel pain so they can feel justified in their pro-child killing stance.
The lead author of a report which concluded that fetuses don’t feel pain until the seventh month used to work for a pro-child killing group. Another author works for a child killing clinic.
Critics disputed the findings and called the report biased….”They have stuck their hands into a hornet’s nest,” said Kanwaljeet Anand, a fetal-pain researcher and professor at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He believes fetuses as young as 20 weeks feel pain….
The review by researchers at UCSF comes as Congress and state legislatures are considering fetal-pain laws aimed at curtailing abortion. (Source)
If the mere possibility that innocent babies are tortured in the womb doesn’t make these women want to hang their heads in shame for advocating murder…but they’ll realize one day soon how depraved they are.
It’s too tragic for words.
Jason Smith: “Ok, wasn’t going to blog this, but LaShawn made me.”
Update: Forgot to include the link to a related USA Today story.
Update II: From Frank Z.:
As an anesthesiologist, I can tell you:
There is a large body of medical literature strongly suggesting (outside of a questionnaire) that even very small premature infants (some younger than aborted fetuses) DO feel pain.
They cry when they are stuck with needles. During surgery, they show responses of hormones and blood pressure consistent with pain.
Therefore, we anesthetize them as we do adults.
by La Shawn on August 24, 2005
in Bloggers
Update (8/25): To reduce some of the e-mail I get from bloggers requesting links, please start using the trackback feature to let me know you’re blogging about a particular post.
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I decided to move some of the links below to this post.
- Welcome Carolina Christian Conservative to the blogosphere! Also welcome Right Faith. The blogosphere definitely needs all the conservative Christians it can hold.
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Be sure to stop in at Power Line News and browse the selection. Also visit News Unfiltered.
- Another blogging pastor. I like. And as always, James White.
- A blogger conference called ConvergeSouth might be worth attending. Organizer-blogger Ed Cone says it’s scheduled for, “Saturday, October 8, 2005, on the campus of North Carolina A&T State University…Preceded by a journalism and new media conference on Friday, October 7 that is hosted by the A&T journalism department.”
Ed Cone attended my faith-based blogging session at BlogNashville in May, and although not a Christian, he said it “really worked.” He added that it was “one of the most interesting, diverse, and dynamic blog-con events I’ve attended.”
Carolina Christian Conservative will lead a faith-based blogging session at ConvergeSouth, and he writes, “He [Cone] said that one of the main reasons why he wanted to have a faith-blogging session here was because yours in Nashville was so successful.”
God had much more to do with that than I did.
Bloggers, you will not realize just how nerdy you are until you travel by plane, train, or automobile to sit in a room full of laptop-chained bloggers blogging and talking about blogging and listening to others talk about blogging. It was a rude but somewhat pleasant awakening. 
- Christian Coalition has a blog.
- The Christian Mind: “In one sense, the idea of needing to come to Christ in order to have a personal relationship with God is misleading. Every person stands in a relationship with God. Coming to Christ changes the nature of that relationship from one of condemned criminals before a just judge to that of pardoned and accepted sinners graciously adopted into a nurturing family.” (via Jolly Blogger)
- Macho Nachos laments over a war weary generation.
- One of the worst web site intro pages I’ve ever seen. And there’s no “skip intro” feature. Reminds me of a leisure suit from the 70s.
- Eight reasons not to vote for Condi in ‘08. You already know why I’m not voting for her.
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Defining Conservativism Down
- What difference does it make now???
Guess who’s coming to Rightalk.com? They can shout him down, but they can’t shut him up.
According to rumors, Graham will turn up here. You should also check out Michael Savage. He’s said a lot worse than Graham. And he’s one of my favorite radio show hosts.
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Michelle Malkin points about WMAL’s inconsistent reactions.
