I wish my income reflected the hours I put into doing things on my to-do list. Part of it involves wage-earning; the other, stop-talking-about-it-and-just-do-it stuff that provides no guarantee other than my personal satisfaction. Blastful™ good times, for sure.
From the monthly archives:
July 2009
You know, it takes a brave person to go against the grain, something I’ve witnessed first-hand since I began writing for publication. The pressure to conform is even greater if you’re a black person who believes white racism is the least of America’s concerns and certainly plays no significant role in the lives of blacks. Fatherlessness and illegitimacy do play significant roles, however. These conditions cause more harm in the so-called black community than racism ever has or ever will.
It isn’t simply a matter of holding views that diverge from the group’s; it’s expressing those views publicly that make people angry enough to send hate-mail and call you names like self-hater. “Racist” whites may use your views to bolster their own opinions, they say. In other words, stick to the script and don’t attempt to ad-lib. Words and ideas are dangerous, so pipe down and keep your opinions inside your head.
Black police officers in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who support Sgt. Crowley (arrested Henry Louis Gates) and the Cambridge police force are probably catching it right now. Then again, maybe not. Perhaps people have evolved beyond castigating those who refuse to march in lockstep, regardless of skin color.
(Of course they haven’t, but I wanted to do what Jesse said and keep hope alive!)
I hadn’t planned to blog about this Henry Louis Gates mess. Frankly, it’s embarrassing. A so-called intelligent man, Harvard professor, respected scholar and all that, shouting at police and invoking racism where there was none. In that moment, he embodied the stereotype of the loud and ignorant-sounding black person shouting racism whenever something negative happens to him, even if the whole thing is his fault.
What convinced me to blog about Gates was this piece of news: Lucia Whalen, a white woman who reported what she thought was a break-in and who should be commended for giving a rat’s butt in the first place, did not mention the race of the two men she saw trying to pry open Gates’s door. (Source)
Whalen was accused of calling the cops because the men were black, not because they appeared to breaking into a neighbor’s house. The lack of racial reference on the 911 tape tends to refute that. Unfortunately, the lack of racist behavior on the cops’ or Whalen’s part will not change the minds of people who believe that Gates, who should know better, is some sort of oppressed martyr. Idiotic.
Going off on the police, no matter how angry you are, is an ignorant thing to do. And anyone who, at this point, given all that’s come out about this incident, still believes Gates was the victim of racism is willfully ignorant.
Gates has some issues to work out. Perhaps he needs a vacation. At any rate, he definitely needs a shrink. 
One of the most ironically absurd memes to emerge from the abortion debate is that child killing is health care.
Whose health?
Abortion obviously isn’t healthy for the fetus, as it leads to a violent death, so it must be the woman’s. Carrying a baby, after volunteering to perform the act that creates babies, apparently is unhealthy for the woman who doesn’t want the baby. Instead of concerning herself with the health (read: life) or her unborn child, she proceeds to snuff out that life, and abortion proponents want taxpayers to foot the bill for the snuffing.
Twisted world, indeed.
The Christian Defense Coalition and Operation Rescue created a campaign called “Abortion is Not Health Care” to bring attention to the $1.5 trillion health care bill, over 1,000 pages worth, scheduled for a vote at the end of July. Our Christ-professing president will include taxpayer-funded child killing in his socialized medicine plan. The Coalition will begin its campaign on Sunday, July 26, in Washington, DC.
Coalition director Rev. Patrick J. Mahoney said, “President Obama talks about being a progressive leader who embraces human rights and equality for all. It is tragic that he would turn health care, which is supposed to heal and bring comfort to those in need, into something that destroys innocent life.”
Live Action Film’s “Lila Rose” and Alabama Attorney Troy King discuss Alabama Planned Parenthood’s illegal activities on “The O’Reilly Factor,” guest-hosted by Laura Ingraham. The country needs more AG’s like King:
You may recall my blog post about the Birmingham Planned Parenthood’s failure to report statutory rape. The abortion mill is making this too easy.
Adoption 2.0!
Pregnant women out there in the audience who don’t want your babies, consider adopting them out to Christian families instead of killing them. You can even adopt out Down Syndrome babies. If you choose to endure the physical, emotional, and financial “inconvenience” of carrying an unwanted baby to term, you’ll be saving a precious child’s life and enriching a family’s life.
Bethany Christian Services is just one of many adoption agencies for Christian families who want to give orphans and unwanted babies a loving home. Bethany has joined the social networking trend and established its presence on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, and other sites. (Follow Bethany on Twitter.) Bethany strives to make families aware of what they do and help them find orphaned and unwanted children.
Please let your unborn baby live. Give him a chance to love and to be loved, and experience the bittersweet joy of this sometimes chaotic and confusing yet amazingly wondrous thing called life.
LifeNews reports that the National Education Association (NEA), which represents government school teachers, rejected a proposal that would have had the group take a neutral stance on child killing.
Surprise, right? The proposal was put forward by pro-life teachers.
The late “late-term” abortionist George Tiller, who slaughtered infants for his supper, was honored at a Feminist Majority Foundation conference held at NEA headquarters a couple years ago. Students for Life of America secretly videotaped him talking about babies slipping out of the womb alive during abortions, which he called “sloppy medicine.”
Tiller made the case for infanticide by showing graphic photos of unborn babies with abnormalities at the conference. He admits on tape to having aborted babies a day before the mother’s due date. One murdered baby in Tiller’s photo collage was a child with three arms. The right to choose death over corrective surgery, eh?
Did the NEA merely allow the foundation to use its facilities and doesn’t endorse infanticide? Optimistic assumption, to say the least. The NEA knew Tiller’s record. It’s safe to say the NEA not only believes women have right to have their babies sucked down a sink (reproductive freedom), they also believe women have a right to have their infants murdered a day before their due dates.
Applause, applause.
Fourth of July flashback
When I was going through an existential phase in college many years ago, I used to ask, “What’s the meaning of all this? What is the point?”
Why was I born in South Carolina, in the United States, in this skin, and with this body?
“I could have been born anywhere,” I’d say. Why here? Why now? Why a woman? Why a black person? What does it all mean? I’m still seeking answers to some of those questions, but I know this: I thank God I was born on American soil, and he must have a good reason for making it so.
My country is a land of the free, home of the brave, but I used to talk trash about it and take for granted its freedom and opportunities. I saw the error of my ways, however. America is my homeland, and I have grown to love it.
Who cares what “they” say? Envy! Let them complain and criticize and demonize. For all its faults (which are legion), America is the freest, the best, the greatest, the most benevolent and charitable country on the planet.
It is my homeland, and I love it. Here’s to another 233 years!
An editor at a New York Times blog asked me to weigh in on the disgraced Governor Mark Sanford’s faith-talk, particularly his comparing himself to King David of Israel. Although I’m no expert “on faith and religious life,” I submitted a comment.
I don’t know how I ended up on the same “panel” as the incomparable Chuck Colson of Prison Fellowship Ministries (cool). Check out the post.
Update: Hanging out in SC, Mark Sanford’s domain. I was born and raised here and hadn’t realized how much I missed being called “ma’am” and “hon.” The first time a young man called me “ma’am,” I was not pleased. (Do I look that old?) Now, I dig it. My perspective changed. 
Rest easy, everybody.
Fewer babies will die in Texas. The abortion mill has closed all seven of its El Paso clinics. Money woes. The bad economy is a mixed blessing. Families and businesses are having a tough time, but baby killing operations are feeling the pinch, too.
Determined and inconvenienced women will always find ways to snuff out their unborn babies’ lives, and the clinics likely will re-open once the economy improves. But for now, I’m praying for a pro-life revival groundswell to sweep the country.
People can delude themselves into believing life doesn’t begin at conception. They de-humanize the child so they can sleep better at night after advocating all day for his death. They can ignore the technology that reveals just how human and precious and wonderful and beautiful that “clump of cells” really is.
But they know. Deep down they know there’s something not quite right about vacuuming this tiny person out of the womb and rinsing his torn body down a sink. Or stabbing him in the brain. Does the unborn child feel the pain of his death?
If those people don’t know something is very wrong, one day they certainly will.
More at WND.
Addendum: Ever heard of Rock for Life? This group promotes the pro-life cause through music, showing up at concerts to spread the message and enlisting the help of pro-life bands. Follow Rock for Life on Twitter.
