December 2009

He is Christ the Lord

by La Shawn on 12.24.09

in Faith

Star-of-Bethlehem“In those days Caesar Augustus issued a decree that a census should be taken of the entire Roman world. (This was the first census that took place while Quirinius was governor of Syria.) And everyone went to his own town to register.

“So Joseph also went up from the town of Nazareth in Galilee to Judea, to Bethlehem the town of David, because he belonged to the house and line of David. He went there to register with Mary, who was pledged to be married to him and was expecting a child. While they were there, the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her firstborn, a son. She wrapped him in cloths and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.

“And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them ‘Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.’” – Luke 2: 1-12

Niece Has Too Much Time On Her Hands

by La Shawn on 12.21.09

in Comedy

Funny kid, my niece. She elfed me and friend of the family Allyson Felix.

Merry Christmas week, everybody!

I’m working on a novel (third draft!) that falls in the Christian and paranormal genres, and one of the main characters is black. I don’t consider it an “African American” novel. If published (woo-hoo!), I want to see it in the Christian fiction section at Barnes and Noble, not the African American (cringe) fiction section. (Why am I cringing?)

Unfortunately, I don’t think I get to decide that.

A periodical called Publishers Weekly, an informative read for writer types, put the image below on its cover, itself a photo from a book about black people. The PW cover announces “New books and trends in African American publishing” inside.

Someone at PW apparently thought the cover and the copy was clever word-imagery play. (Misfire!) I don’t usually complain about magazine covers or photographs, or comment on other people’s comments about “offensive” images, but this one leaves me with a headache.

The afro picks image as “art” in a book of photos isn’t a problem. The way PW used it is a problem.

This blogger sums up the problem nicely (emphasis added):

“The photo Reid chose is arresting — and ironically comes from ‘Posing Beauty: African American Images from the 1890s to the Present,’ a book celebrating the diverse beauty of black women. But PW’s cover misses the mark because it turns a compelling photo into a joke with the ‘Afro Picks’ text. Meant as an inside joke, it’s subject to all sorts of misinterpretation in the larger world, Clearly, the topic of image is too sensitive to be tossed off lightly. At least the PW editors were quick to note their error in judgment.”

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Lila Rose does it again.

The video below is part of Live Action‘s Rose Acuna Project, which will document Planned Parenthood’s so-called counseling techniques. A Planned Parenthood worker tells an undercover “pregnant” woman her baby has only “heart tones” at seven weeks. “Heart beat is when the fetus is active in the uterus…can survive…which is about 17 to 18 weeks.”

Can you believe it? Where did she get that information? A baby’s heart doesn’t beat until after the first trimester? Abortion counselors are supposed to provide truthful information. As the video I linked to yesterday shows, the baby’s heart is beating at four weeks. Some sources say it starts beating as early as 18 days.

Then the counselor says the life growing inside her isn’t a baby.

“So when does it become a baby?” the woman says.

“At birth,” says the counselor.

I’m sure abortion counselors across America and the “pro-choice” in general play semantics games to downplay the truth. I wonder if the counselor in the video has children. When she was pregnant, would she have thought the life she carried was anything other than a baby?

Next, the woman asks the abortionist himself when “it” becomes a baby, and he says, with a straight face, I presume, “When you’re like seven months pregnant or so. Six, seven months pregnant. Right now you’re just a little more than two months.”

I’ll repeat that. A doctor, who knows he’s lying, tells a pregnant woman that the life growing and developing in her womb is not a baby.

I get it. I really do. The abortionist’s aim is to dehumanize the unborn child as much as possible to lessen the pregnant woman’s guilt and to accomplish (Ka-ching!) the killing.

I’m stunned, I must confess, that people really believe the U.S. Constitution gives women a “right of privacy” to do this, and medical ethics groups, or whatever they have, allow the wholesale slaughter of unborn human beings.

I better go now, before I say something un-Christian.

Inside the Womb: The Heart in Action

December 9, 2009

I wanted to point readers to an organization called The Endowment for Human Development and the wonderful images of life inside the womb. In particular, the heartbeat of an “abortable” four-week-old unborn child. Most abortions occur during the first trimester of pregnancy (0-12 weeks). That tiny “blob of tissue” on the left is quite spectacular, [...]

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William Shatner Interviews Rush Limbaugh

December 8, 2009

I’m an unabashed fan on William Shatner’s portrayal of Captain James Tiberius Kirk on Star Trek. I’d like to appear on his show, taking it easy and talking about the issues. I’m regressing just thinking about it. So cool. Shatner recently interviewed Rush Limbaugh. I don’t listen to Limbaugh as much as I used to, [...]

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Harry Reid Forgets Democrats’ History

December 8, 2009

In light of Senator Harry Reid implying that the Republican party defended slavery, I’m republishing my review of Wrong On Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past, by Bruce Bartlett: “[V]irtually every significant racist in American political history was a Democrat.” On December 5, 2002, Republican senator Trent Lott toasted 100-year-old Republican senator Strom Thurmond, a [...]

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Rev. Carlton Veazey Says Child Killing God-Given Right

December 3, 2009

Reverend Carlton Veazey strikes again. This so-called man of God heads the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, formerly called the Coalition for Abortion Rights. He recently said God gave women the right to slaughter their babies in utero. Back in the day, such a statement would have knocked me out of my shoes. But I’m [...]

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Superhero Slayer of Perverts

December 2, 2009

Depressing post. Read at your own risk.

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