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.
Update: DHS, you may track my tweets here. Thanks for following!
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I love when stories like this break and hate when I find out about them so late. The Department of Homeland (In)Security (DHS) released a memo titled, “Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment.” (PDF)
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.
Memo to DHS: rightwing, and proud it.
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:
One word for the deans: lame.
(Hat tip: National Policy Institute)
…I’m writing a book.
A novel.
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!)
Did I fool you? I came up with the water-blogging joke on the fly. Hey, I had to try!
Nothing I do will ever top the April Fool’s Day post from 2006. I still can’t believe people fell for it! Check out Secrets.
I skipped 2007 and tried again in 2008. Check out Outsourcers Anonymous. That was fun.
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.
The Fetus Hater of the Month award goes to Nancy Keenan, president of NARAL/Pro-Choice America, for calling Virginia governor Tim Kaine’s decision to allow “Choose Life” license plates “divisive political ideology.” (Source)
Congratulations, Nancy! I thought I’d take a moment to recognize all you don’t do to protect unborn life. But I’m being modest! The slaughter of babies is no small feat. (Bad pun?)
Ever since the Supreme Court wrenched a phantom “right to privacy” from the Constitution, a right that includes the murder of children, incidentally, you and your sisters-in-arms have been working diligently to make sure no “unwanted” fetus goes “unshredded” or “untorn.” Rights of the unborn? Not on your watch, right Nancy?
Oh, to be a proverbial fly on the wall when you meet your Maker. Sing along, everybody, to a song of liberation and sisterhood (and try to ignore the ironic birth references):
I’ve been under the weather for a couple of weeks. Wicked cough, constricted breathing. Doc says it’s probably just a bad cold. Meds are helping a bit. Man, I hate being sick. 
But I’m getting a lot of reading done. 
Last month, I blogged about Joel Rosenberg’s non-fiction book, Epicenter: Why the Current Rumblings in the Middle East will Change Your Future. I was curious about it, so I picked it up from the library. Couldn’t put it down. See Joel Rosenberg and the Scriptural Lens.
Now I’m reading his novels, which are political thrillers based on biblical prophecy. Just finished The Ezekiel Option, which ended with a wild cliffhanger, and will start reading The Copper Scroll this weekend. Next week, Dead Heat.
I wish I could embed, but alas…
Check out this 18-minute video at ID the Future, which features interviews with scientists who’ve grown skeptical of Darwinian evolution.
There’s no limit to what humans will do to avoid accountability. They will contort themselves into all sorts of strange and horrible positions to deny the existence of a God who’ll one day judge them for what they’ve done to themselves and to others.
Darwinian evolution, the absurd theory that magnificent life is based on random chance and developed through genetic mutations (which are harmful to the organism, by the way — X-Men is only entertainment), is taught in government schools as if it were the gospel. In my opinion, it takes much more faith to believe in macroevolution than to believe a Creator designed the universe with purpose.
The Wall Street Journal reports that the Texas School Board is set to vote on a new science curriculum that challenges the theory of evolution. Good luck with that. Some people who believe in evolution are so vehemently against any alternatives, they resent others even asking questions that raise doubts about the theory or point out weaknesses. They don’t want it challenged, debated, or examined. Great way to teach young people how to think. 
While I believe Christians and the like-minded should take their kids out of government schools altogether, I applaud the effort to inject real debate and common sense into the government school curriculum.
For further reading:
- Discovery Institute
- Uncommon Descent (blog)
- Post-Darwinist (blog)
- ID the Future (highly recommended podcast – subscribe at http://intelligentdesign.podomatic.com/rss2.xml)
Okay, I see why some people would want to kill a fetus. Some believe he/she has no rights until he/she is viable. Others believe the mother’s right to do with her body as she pleases trumps everything. Reasons for wanting to kill a fetus vary from the most well-meaning (fetal deformity or life of the mother at stake) to the most evil (Just get rid of the thing!).
But I’ll never understand why grown “feminist” women overtly cover up the rape of young girls. Yes, that is more puzzling to me than condoning the slaughter of an unborn child.
I don’t care how developed their bodies may be. What does a 15-year-old understand about the consequences of opening herself up to an exploitive adult male whose only intent is to get as much as he can from a still-forming, naïve young girl who thinks she’s a woman? Feminists, more than anybody, should be all over Planned Parenthood for not only allowing the exploitation to continue, but for encouraging girls to lie about it. Aren’t feminists against the exploitation of women??? Good grief.
Perhaps the pathological disregard for unborn babies causes some “pro-choice” people to also disregard long-term consequences to a young girl of being taken advantage of by a grown man. The fetus if the focus. Everything and everyone else can go to hell.
In 2002, Planned Parenthood of Arizona failed 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!
Lila Rose, a college student and pro-life crusader, poses as a minor to catch Planned Parenthood employees covering up statutory rapes. In the latest episode, Jackie Stollar of Live Action Films posed as a 15-year-old impregnated by her 27-year-old boyfriend, and Planned Parenthood did not report the rape. In fact, an employer told her that “everything is confidential” and that she wouldn’t say a word:
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I try to avoid lazy blogging – posting a huge excerpt of an article and adding a sentence or two of my own opinion – but today I’ll be lazy because Shelby Steele’s recent article is a must-read, and long-time readers are familiar with my view on Republicans “reaching out” to blacks. I vote for Republicans based on shared values, and I will never understand why that’s not a good-enough way to attract anybody, regardless of race. However, I don’t think the GOP will ever attract a significant number of minorities (which is not a bad thing, by the way). Why? Here’s my theory.
Steele offers his theory in “Why the GOP Can’t Win With Minorities.” He writes:
“[C]onservatism sees moral authority more in a discipline of principles than in activism. It sees ideas of the good like ‘diversity’ as mere pretext for the social engineering that always leads to unintended and oppressive consequences. Conservatism would enforce the principles that ensure individual freedom, and then allow ‘the good’ to happen by ‘invisible hand.’
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“What drew me to conservatism years ago was the fact that it gave discipline a slightly higher status than virtue. This meant it could not be subverted by passing notions of the good. It could be above moral vanity. And so it made no special promises to me as a minority. It neglected me in every way except as a human being who wanted freedom. Until my encounter with conservatism I had only known the racial determinism of segregation on the one hand and of white liberalism on the other — two varieties of white supremacy in which I could only be dependent and inferior.
“The appeal of conservatism is the mutuality it asserts between individual and political freedom, its beautiful idea of a free man in a free society. And it offers minorities the one thing they can never get from liberalism: human rather than racial dignity. I always secretly loved Malcolm X more than Martin Luther King Jr. because Malcolm wanted a fuller human dignity for blacks — one independent of white moral wrestling. In a liberalism that wants to redeem the nation of its past, minorities can only be ciphers in white struggles of conscience.
“Liberalism’s glamour follows from its promise of a new American innocence. But the appeal of conservatism is relief from this supercilious idea. Innocence is not possible for America. This nation did what it did. And conservatism’s appeal is that it does not bank on the recovery of lost innocence. It seeks the discipline of ordinary people rather than the virtuousness of extraordinary people. The challenge for conservatives today is simply self-acceptance, and even a little pride in the way we flail away at problems with an invisible hand.”
George Tiller, a child killer facing numerous criminal charges for performing illegal “partial birth” abortions in Kansas — and who admitted killing babies a day before the mother’s due date — is scheduled for trial on March 23. (Source)
It’s not what you think. Tiller isn’t going to trial for the killings per se; he’s charged with failing to have a second, independent “physician” sign off on the infanticide.
Courtesy of Operation Rescue, you may download this PDF copy of the complaint.
Sometimes during infanticide procedures, babies slip out of the womb alive, which Tiller calls “sloppy medicine.” Thank God groups like Operation Rescue are praying for Tiller’s salvation. Because if it were left up to me…
Bad Christian! I need to re-read the Book of Jonah.
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In what I thought was a parody interview, Michael Steele, head the of the Republican National Committee, the same man who failed to challenge a cable show host when he compared white Republicans to Nazis, told GQ magazine this:
Why do you think so few nonwhite Americans support the Republican Party right now?
‘Cause we have offered them nothing! And the impression we’ve created is that we don’t give a damn about them or we just outright don’t like them. And that’s not a healthy thing for a political party. I think the way we’ve talked about immigration, the way we’ve talked about some of the issues that are important to African-Americans, like affirmative action… I mean, you know, having an absolute holier-than-thou attitude about something that’s important to a particular community doesn’t engender confidence in your leadership by that community—or consideration of you for office or other things—because you’ve already given off the vibe that you don’t care. What I’m trying to do now is to say we do give a damn.
Here’s the problem with Steele’s thinking. Forget for a moment that he’s head of the Republican National Committee – a leader, for crying out loud. The offered-them-nothing refrain is why skin color outreach is counterproductive (not to mention useless). To me, it reeks of condescension. Whenever politicians start doing “minority outreach,” they treat people like children. What concerns should black Americans have that are different from everyone else’s? What “black issue” is more important than individual liberty, for instance? What “African American” concern trumps the necessity to uphold traditional values that have served American families and the nation well since its inception? What’s holier-than-thou about stating what you believe and defending your position?
For example, many people believe “affirmative action” (a euphemism for race preferences) is abhorrent, insulting, and immoral. People fought and died to get the government out of the skin color business. That’s what the whole civil rights movement was about! Yet Steele thinks opposing the continued practice of race preferences is to take an “absolute holier-than-thou attitude?” The GOP has got to be regretting Michael Steele’s chairmanship. And I don’t blame them.
But then again, I’m not a Republican, so I don’t have a dog in this fight.
If the “African-American” issues comment weren’t bad enough, Steele’s comments on child killing certainly are. This made me downright queasy:
How much of your pro-life stance, for you, is informed not just by your Catholic faith but by the fact that you were adopted?
Oh, a lot. Absolutely. I see the power of life in that—I mean, and the power of choice! The thing to keep in mind about it… Uh, you know, I think as a country we get off on these misguided conversations that throw around terms that really misrepresent truth.Explain that.
The choice issue cuts two ways. You can choose life, or you can choose abortion. You know, my mother chose life. So, you know, I think the power of the argument of choice boils down to stating a case for one or the other.Are you saying you think women have the right to choose abortion?
Yeah. I mean, again, I think that’s an individual choice.You do?
Yeah. Absolutely.
Michael Steele, Republican, is pro-choice. I didn’t know this. You see, this is why being conservative is more important than being Republican. Being a conservative Christian is even more important. You either believe abortion is wrong, or you don’t. If you think women should be allowed to kill their babies for whatever reason, you’re not pro-life. There is no middle ground.
“I believe abortion is wrong,” some say, “but I support a woman’s right to kill her baby.”
Does that make any sense? It’s a weasel position typically expressed by people who don’t have the guts to call a thing what it is or take the heat for wanting to protect children, regardless of the consequences.
People seem to think it’s enlightened, intelligent, and/or sophisticated to support a woman’s right to choose to kill her baby. To hold the absolute position that child killing, in any case, is always wrong, is to risk being considered ignorant and/or a religious zealot.
Count me among the right-wing religious wackos, then.
The Republican party is in a quandary. You’ve got your first black chairman, but when he talks to mainstream media, he sounds like a liberal…and ashamed to be a “black Republican.” That’s a problem. But you’ve made your proverbial bed. Toss and turn, if you must, but lie in it you will.
Update: According to Politico, Michael Steele backtracked on his child killing stance:
I am pro-life, always have been, always will be.
I tried to present why I am pro life while recognizing that my mother had a “choice” before deciding to put me up for adoption. I thank her every day for supporting life. The strength of the pro life movement lies in choosing life and sharing the wisdom of that choice with those who face difficult circumstances. They did that for my mother and I am here today because they did. In my view Roe vs. Wade was wrongly decided and should be repealed. I realize that there are good people in our party who disagree with me on this issue.
But the Republican Party is and will continue to be the party of life. I support our platform and its call for a Human Life Amendment. It is important that we stand up for the defenseless and that we continue to work to change the hearts and minds of our fellow countrymen so that we can welcome all children and protect them under the law.
Why didn’t Steele say all that to the GQ reporter? It’s possible he said something similar, but the reporter left it out.
When talking to reporters, you’ve got to remember that they have an agenda, which is the story’s angle. If you hold a controversial position, you’ve must speak in black and white terms. Talking to reporter is no time to be wishy-washy. Say what you believe, and don’t allow the reporter to get you to qualify your answer. This attitude probably is why mainstream news reporters conveniently exclude my quotes. I won’t compromise just to see my name in a news story.
Unsolicited advice for Steele: Stay out of the spotlight and get to work!
