If you haven’t read Stephen King’s The Stand, please do. Compelling reading, especially in light of the swine flu.
The Stand is about a nasty bug (referred to as “Captain Trips”) that wipes out something like 99 percent of the world’s population, and survivors separate themselves into “good” and evil groups. The book, which I read in 1991, was made into a movie. I watched it but didn’t like it as much as I liked the book. Isn’t that usually the case?
At over 1,000 pages, the book is a satisfying read and pure Stephen King, if you know what I mean. If you’re a Christian who doesn’t read supernatural/occult fiction as a matter of conscience, steer clear.
Update: What do you know? Characters from The Stand are twittering!
The work of “Lila Rose,” the young woman who caught several Planned Parenthood abortion mills red-handed (pun intended) covering up statutory rape, is featured in the Los Angeles Times.
The article is biased in favor of abortion and against Lila Rose’s tactics, but I’m not hating on the Times. I’m surprised and quite pleased the mainstream newspaper wrote about the cover-ups at all. Hey, be grateful for small things. The more people who’re aware of Planned Parenthood’s stupendously hare-brained activity, the better.
The biased term “antiabortion” is used throughout the article. Obviously, the author believes abortion is okay. Otherwise, why not use “pro-life”? Because it shines a bright, revealing light on what abortion is: the death of a fetus. And pro-deathers prefer not to think of a fetus as a living human worthy of life.
Did you catch my bias? I call “pro-choice” people “pro-deathers.” I wear my bias on my sleeve and in my heart. I am neither impressed by sentiments nor persuaded by arguments that women should retain the right to kill their babies on demand. For whatever reason.
I am biased in favor of unborn life, not allowing women to snuff out that life because they don’t want “it.” Most mainstream media types are leftists who support atrocities like abortion, and it shows in how they choose to frame a story. I used to rant and rave about it. But I do the same thing. It’s human nature. Why fight it? I’m willing to give readers credit for being smarter than reporters (and freelance writers) think they are.
Race preferences bake sales (Asians pay a buck for a donut, women 50 cents, blacks 25 cents, and so on) are demonstrations that illustrate the demeaning nature of race-based preferences as practiced by colleges and universities across the country.
Earlier this month, Bucknell University closed down such a demonstration because of a technicality. Deans Commerford and Marrara cited a discrepancy between prices at the time of application and at the time of sale.
Hideously stupid, but when the Bucknell University Conservatives Club (BUCC) applied for a second demonstration, the school decided to suppress free speech altogether. The school said no dice. From the article:
“I concluded that this activity was a discriminatory fundraising event, which violates our stated, and legally required, nondiscrimination policy that is applicable to all sponsored or authorized events,” said Gerald Commerford, associate dean of students.
The BUCC’s choice to file another sales and solicitation form was an attempt “to test the University’s commitment to the issue of free speech,” Roesch said. He doubted that the only reason the original sale was shut down was because of a paperwork issue.
After this incident, Commerford said the rationale behind the decision to stop the event is consistent in both cases.
“When I closed the club’s prior event, I did so because their registration form was incorrectly filled out.
Right, Dean Commerford. Then he covers his politically correct butt:
However, upon reflection and review after taking that action, I concluded that even with a correctly completed registration form, the affirmative action bake sale was not a fundraising activity and is in violation of the University’s nondiscrimination policy,” Commerford said.
Bucknell is a private university, but students have free speech rights. Students ought to be allowed to demonstrate the unfairness and ridiculousness of race-based admissions, which I assume their school practices, by conducting race-based bake sales. One is offensive and the other isn’t?
Keep bucking the system, BUCC. As a black American turned totally off by government-sanctioned lowered preferences for blacks, I unequivocally side with you.
Every now and then a song captures me enough to blog about it. I haven’t turned my back on music and digital tech blogging. Just taking a haitus while I finish my strangely funny at-times Christian paranormal novel (it’s not supposed to be funny, but the characters are attempting to have their own way). After trying to squeeze into my schedule a long list of things I want to do, I chose one and decided to put most of my creative energy into it.
But I digress. This song is from Prince’s new three-CD set, available only through Target (so retro!). It’s a psychedelic remake of Tommy James and the Shondells’s “Crimson and Clover” with a bit of The Trogg’s “Wild Thing” mixed in. The song is rocking. Sounds so good to my brain. Check it out (listen to it through bass-friendly speakers/earphones):
When asked a question about homosexual “marriage” by a homosexual gossip blogger “Perez Hilton,” who, inexplicably, was a judge in the Miss USA pageant, Carrie Prejean provided a “controversial” answer:
“We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite. [Nope, and that's the way it should remain. She meant relationships, which is true.] And you know what, I think in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anybody out there, but that’s how I was raised.”
She was a little wobbly, but I’m sure it’s because the question caught her off guard. Despite her nervousness, she said what she believes. Marriage is between a man and a woman. Watch her Today show segment: “[B]iblically correct, not politically correct…I was true to myself.” And she talks about speaking to young people and being able to tell them to stand up for what they believe. On NATIONAL TV, no less. Love you, girl!
“Perez Hilton” has been on almost every network morning show and cable news show. That they gave the hypocrite a platform for his rude, crude, and moronic ramblings is most frustrating. But ratings rule.
This is sort of old news, but I’m blogging it now to reiterate a point. Apologize if you accuse someone of something and find out later you were wrong about the facts. Do not apologize for stating your beliefs and opinions or if someone is “offended” by them. I so admire people who stand by their convictions in the face of ridicule, criticism, and jackassery. This may be vulgar of me to write (let alone say out loud), but over the years I’ve been tempted to offer my backside to people who’ve sent me hate e-mail informing me of how “offended” they are by my views.
God has graciously exercised a restraining hand, tempering the snark and channeling it into more productive and edifying pursuits.
Again, don’t apologize for holding or stating your opinions. You think the other side even thinks about doing the same? Stand firm. Be strong. The truth will out, indeed.
Much like its counterpart in Arizona, Planned Parenthood in Memphis, Tennessee, encourages a girl who says her adult boyfriend knocked her up to lie about it.
Lila Rose, an adult posing as a minor, caught an abortion mill worker on tape saying, “Look, if we keep this conversation I’m gonna have to talk to my manager and yeah, [your boyfriend]’s gonna get in trouble…And please don’t say that I told you this…Don’t mention it. Just say you have a boyfriend 17 years old…whatever.”
Lila Rose goes undercover to expose this atrocity, but there have been real cases of PP workers covering up rape. In 2002, a judge found Planned Parenthood of Arizona negligent for failing to report the rape of 13-year-old girl by her 23-year-old foster brother, who brought the girl to the clinic twice in a six-month period. Too ridiculous for words.
One would think feminists who work in these mills and their “sisters” who support child killing on demand would be outraged even by the possibility that an adult male could get away with raping a female minor.
I don’t watch “American Idol,” but I’ve heard about Simon Cowell. Blunt. Difficult to please. Jaded. But a woman named Susan Boyle broke through the world-weariness on a show called “Britain’s Got Talent.”
Somewhat dowdy and looking older than her 47 years, this woman seemed kind of goofy and in over her head. The audience was laughing at her. But she stunned Cowell, the two other judges, and the audience with a voice nobody expected to emanate from her.
I laughed, I cried…
What’s the big deal, you ask? The big deal is that lots of folks unfairly judged her based on her appearance (including me), and I’m sure almost all were shocked.
This is too cool. Whether they intended to or not, a bunch of dolphins blocked “suspected” Somali pirates as they set a course to attack Chinese ships, causing the rogues to re-think their nefarious plans.
You’ve got to read this thing. According to the 10-page piece of dreck, DHS “has no specific information that domestic rightwing* terrorists are currently planning acts of violence, but rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues. The economic downturn and the election of the first African American president present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.”
DHS contends that “Rightwing” extremists are, among other things, “mainly antigovernment, rejecting federal authority in favor of state or local authority, or rejecting government authority entirely. It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration.”
According to the definition, I am a rightwing extremist. I am generally “antigovernment” when it comes to Big Government, and to the degree which the federal government violates the U.S. Constitution, I reject “federal authority in favor of state or local authority.” I detest child killing – nothing less than legalized murder (which God will deal with accordingly) – and I believe allowing illegal aliens to roam free (porous border – that’s some kind of homeland security!), and receive free health care and in-state tuition is appalling (strong word, and I mean every syllable), especially when one considers that people are waiting in line, and have been for years, to become Americans the legal way.
It’s quite possible DHS was referring only to so-called hate groups and not to conservatives like me. Regardless, the memo is a singular bit of stupidity, coupled with a comical case of paranoia brought on by the complacency and make-work condition of government employment.
I think race and sex preference bake sales (for example, Asians charged $3 for a cupcake, women $2, blacks $1…) at colleges and universities illustrate extremely well the illegal and immoral nature of such preferences as practiced by colleges and universities around the country. I’ve written reams on race preferences, so I won’t go into detail. Read until your eyes bleed.
Basically, schools lower admissions standards for minority students (black and Hispanic, not Asian) in order to admit a certain percentage of them for purposes of skin deep-only diversity.
Unfair and demeaning.
In the video below, two deans at Bucknell University, Commerford and Marrara, shut down (or attempted to) a race preference bake sale demonstration, which is protected speech, by citing a price discrepancy:
It’s a Christian, paranormal mystery with a bit of romance thrown into the mix. I briefly mentioned the specific topic a couple months ago. Do you remember what it was? (In the vein of Eric Wilson and Ted Dekker)
I don’t know if my book will see the publishing light of day, but I’m determined to finish the draft, revise it until it shines, and edit it. I’m almost halfway through the first draft. I plotted and outlined during February and started writing by the end of that month. I’m aiming for first draft completion by May 5, my birthday.
So, I haven’t dropped off the planet or given up blogging or ceased responding to e-mails. Just busy with clients, who pay my bills, and Book 1 of a three-book series, which may end up paying my bills. (God willing!)
I’m sick in more ways than one, readers. I’ve got to do something about my intense fears. They’re keeping me from living a normal life. I have to deal with my issues. For now, I’m shutting down this blog. This URL will no longer be valid in a couple of days. You can find me here.
If you haven’t read Stephen King’s The Stand, please do. Compelling reading, especially in light of the swine flu.
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Race preferences bake sales (Asians pay a buck for a donut, women 50 cents, blacks 25 cents, and so on) are demonstrations that illustrate the demeaning nature of race-based preferences as practiced by colleges and universities across the country. 
After this incident, Commerford said the rationale behind the decision to stop the event is consistent in both cases. 
But Miss California is good for my health. 
Et tu, feminists?
I don’t watch “American Idol,” but I’ve heard about Simon Cowell. Blunt. Difficult to please. Jaded. But a woman named Susan Boyle broke through the world-weariness on a show called “Britain’s Got Talent.” 
…I’m writing a book.