The CRIB's periodically fugacious concerning all things political ...
- GUNS: More people in America are killed by pit bulls, than by NRA card holders. [FOX News]
- JUSTICE FOR ALL: Not hardly - California's judicial system is thoroughly irrational and out of the control of the people. [FOX News]
- SPLIT PERSONALITY: Time Magazine makes Obama "Man of the Year" one month and then calls him a bigot the next! A little conflicted wouldn't you say? [News Busters]
- OBAMA AND GUNS: He says "take me at my word" - Hmmmm!!! Seems his base did and are not happy now! [American Thinker]
- STRANGE BEDFELLOWS: Air America agrees with Rush Limbaugh on the fairness doctrine - Jon Sinden of AA says libs don't need FD to compete - WOW [News Busters]
- GLOBALISM: Denials aside, I'm convinced if the USA is taken over, it will be from the inside by outsiders. [FOX News]
- LIBERTY: Maggie's Farm has some thoughts on the subject. [Maggie's Farm]
Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Obama. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
POLITICAL: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!
Saturday, December 20, 2008
POLITICAL: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!
The CRIB's periodically fugacious concerning all things political ...
- FAIRNESS DOCTRINE: look out Beck, O'Reilly and Dobbs - Solis the Socialist is coming through the back door [Yahoo!]
- INSANITY: "Like putting Cheney in charge of gun control," Joy Behar [News Busters]
- MSM: Obama seems to be ending up on the floor a lot lately; odd considering being in bed with them during the whole campaign. [News Busters]
- ECON 101: classic article on basic economics - The Pencil - 1st read this via Sowell several years ago. [FEE; h/t Am. Digest]
- MSM: "Ann Curry, you can't handle the truth." And Rick Warren gave it to her! [News Busters]
- SOCIALISM: NYT helps move USA to left then complains when China censors them? [FOX News]
- NATO: America's retreat to fortress foreign policy will replace NATO's dependence on US defense umbrella w/ all the attendant risks. [Brussels Journal]
Friday, December 19, 2008
POLITICAL: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!
The CRIB's periodically fugacious concerning all things political ...
- You have to admit Obama's campaign logo was and is effective ... like to know how it came to be? [Next Gen GOP]
- Does the Hill have her own Constitutional Crisis? Yes she does, according to some. [Am Spectator]
- FAIRNESS DOC: again & again we're told by the left they won't seek reinstatement of fairness doctrine but here it is again [NewsBusters]
- E!! points us to a political grid test - where do you land? Left/right? Authoritarian/Libertarian? [Political Compass; h/t E!!]
- Coming to our shores soon - censorship the European way; "Freedom is what freedom does!" - Forrest Gump [Brussels Journal]
- Interesting Telegraph UK piece that comes alongside my posted review of Herb London's "America's Secular Challenge" [Telegraph UK; Sheep's Crib]
- IRAQ VICTORY: death rate in Basra, Iraq, now lower than that of Detroit, Mich. Cobb says, "smells like victory" [Cobb]
FAITH: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!
The CRIB's periodically fugacious concerning people and events of faith ...
- If it's true that Prez Elect BHO will offer up his first post-inaugural speech in a major Muslim nation, perhaps he should listen to this guy? [YouTube]
- Another fine article on the church at The M Blog; one I entirely agree with. [M Blog]
- Faith & Science have been at war for 3 centuries: a commentary. [First Things]
- The Establishment Clause did not establish what revisionists say it did ... but they control public podium, so it means whatever they want it to mean. [Medved: Townhall; h/t View From 1776]
- Russell Moore links to and comments on Christopher Hitchens' cristophobic and incoherent rant at Slate (Jesus for President) [Slate; h/t Moore to the Point]
- Interesting Telegraph UK piece that comes alongside my posted review of Herb London's "America's Secular Challenge" [Telegraph UK; Sheep's Crib]
- David Dockery writes response to Newsweek's diatribe duo at TBC [Baptist & Reflector - TBC]
Friday, December 12, 2008
FAITH: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!
The CRIB's periodically fugacious concerning people and events of faith ...
- Tolerance, justificatory liberalism, freedom of religion, and California's Proposition 8 ... what they have in common. [First Things]
- I know it's sacrilegious but I think it is creative. [MacCleans]
- Our government is so good to us lowly citizens ... they've agreed to display a copy of our Declaration of Independence in their new $621 million Capitol Visitors Center and even use some God speak (like "In God We Trust") ... well, whoop dee do! [Christian Post]
- Obama family nativity ... HO-HO-HO! [Reyters; h/t Brain-Terminal]
- POLL: One-third of Americans believe OT & NT are word of God
That’s about the same as the percentage of people who believe in UFOs (36 percent) and less than the amount of people who believe in ghosts (44 percent), Harris Interactive found through its online survey.[Christian Post]- David Dockery's reading list for 2008 [Tim Ellsworth]
- Really, except for researchers and theologians, what difference does it really make? [Christian Post]
Sunday, December 07, 2008
SHINSEKI: Maybe not one of Bush 43's best decisions!
There is a need for context and content in the Shinseki stories floating around, not to mention truthfulness.
Some in the liberal media are gleefully re-telling the 2003 story of the now famous general's senate testimony regarding troop levels in Iraq and his subsequent retirement.
But the truth of the matter, based solely on hindsight, is that his advice might have been helpful.
Clearly, there's an element of Bush rebuke in the appointment but what departing president has every not been symbolically rebuked by at least one of his successor's decisions?
Friday, December 05, 2008
TAXATION: Without representation all over again!
According to news reports yesterday, over 60% of American taxpayers opposed the $700 billion bailout of the mortgage industry, now an equal number oppose bailing out the auto industry. This is significant because American liberals (and the world in general) have validated Obama's recent victory at 52.3% as a "landslide" (specifically the 349 - 147 electoral college vote) for the president elect; what's good for the Grand Goose is good good for the Geezer Gander.Contrary to their constituent's wishes, their representatives went ahead and passed the Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac "bailout" scam. Now, ignoring that some of the funds in that scam have been used where not intended (where they've reached the intended target, they've not been disbursed by the recipients according to plan), our "representatives" are poised to pass this auto bailout scam.
Where there's no consequence for performance or behavior, man is prepared to perform and behave as badly as his circumstances will allow him. Since we, the people, have no power or control over the performance or behavior of either the lending or the auto industries, we look to our government to protect us from their bad performances and behaviors. The same principle is true with regard to our national defense; we look to our government representatives to protect us from the performance and behavior of those over whom we have no control.
Our representatives are already using the bailout of the lending industry as justification for bailing out the auto industry ... which begs the question of where we stop the bailing out? This doesn't even address oversight ... an hidden cost of all bailouts.
Nor does it address the subject of "representative" governance.The reason for the American War of Independence was the Crown's failure to provide both representation and protection. The Declaration of Independence was written to tell him his colonialists were through with his failures and intended to set up their own government to do what he would not do. Our current government, the one in WDC, the one under George 44, is worse than the one under George III.
Thursday, December 04, 2008
POLITICAL: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!
This periodically fugacious post should have appeared a week ago, I found it hiding as a "draft" ...Let's hope Cao, the good guy, wins this one ... "a Vietnamese refugee-turned physics major-turned Jesuit-turned philosophy professor, lawyer, and dual-hurricane survivor." [American Spectator]Free speech making a comeback in Canada ... but extensive Cristophobia revealed in the process. [Ezra Lavant]Obama and others have repeatedly claimed the current financial crisis is "the worst since the great depression" but 95% of them are not economists nor do they have any expertise to support the claim; someone who does, says, "Bull puckey." [WaPo; News Busters]I truly hope Joe the Plumber sues the hell out of Ohio and the dimwit who thought she was a real wit! [Yahoo! News]We were told Main Street was the target group, not Wall Street ... so what happened? [Yahoo! News]The spy game (aka - cold war) heats up in Canada. [The Right Perspective]If you fix the data but move the centerline of a normal distribution one standard deviation to the left, can you then say the leftists in that standard deviation are now centrists? Some thinks so! [American Spectator]Ed Driscoll quotes John Agresto: "there's a whole segment of our country we can never reach. These people ... are the people to whom things are owed" [Ed Driscoll; via Maggie's Farm]
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
FAITH: Ephemeral links by their common ancestry!!
The CRIB's periodically fugacious ...
- Insight: God knows what "100 mph" means! [Yahoo! News]
- For an Iraqi Christian, Syria and Hell are preferable to going home! [Christian Post]
- This makes one wonder why homosexuals, as victims of HIV/AIDS, hate Bush 43 so much? [Christian Post]
- The cost of the Obama victory to our witness is finally setting in with some Christian leaders! (I suspect the link below is further evidence.) [Christian News Wire]
- Franklin Graham, Son of Billy Graham, at California Megachurch: "Abortion is Murder" Yes, it is! [Life Site News]
- What's going on in Kentucky? The secular humanist band plays on! Psalm 2:1-3 [FOXNews/AP]
- The Daily Mail and "His Grace" are reporting on the latest in Soft Jihad in England ...
Muslim prayer rooms should be opened in every Roman Catholic school, Church leaders have said. The Catholic bishops of England and Wales also want special toilet facilities in schools to be adapted for Islamic cleaning rituals.Cranmer asks - "Can we expect Muslim reciprocity?" [DM; Cranmer]
- It would not be a good idea to stand near this guy on judgment day! [FOX News]
- Paul, of The Dickens Family, comments on faith and community, something I commented on from the perspective of "connectedness" a few days ago. Both posts are worth the read, especially if you follow our links. [SBC Aggregator; SHEEP'S CRIB]
- Paul also links to Bro. Matt's Blog re kids and the innate knowledge of God! [SBC Aggregator]
Monday, December 01, 2008
PALIN: Blame Sarah in 2013!
Assuming Sarah Palin can be the 2012 success we think she can be (see comments; h/t Ed Driscoll), the following should give the Democrats and the Robamatons some comfort ...
The United States can expect a terrorist attack using nuclear or more likely biological weapons before 2013, reports a bipartisan commission in a study being briefed Tuesday to Vice President-elect Joe Biden. [Yahoo! News]Because, if we allow for a serious Robamaton screwup in preventing such an attack, the BHO administration will have Sarah to blame in 2013, guaranteeing an unbroken record for blaming others and job security for some aging journalists.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
CATHOLICS & FOCA: Should be no complaints there!
Jeffery T. Kuhner, of the Washington Times, is of the opinion that if President-elect Barack Obama signs the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) that ...it will trigger a harsh response from Pope Benedict XVI, as well as a political revolt among practicing American Catholics. [WashTimes]It may well be that Benny the 16th will rebuke our new president (he seems not to fear any man) but I can't fathom what "American Catholics" will have to complain about ... they got what the voted for, just like the rest of the blind.
h/t Black Kettle
CLINTON: Our new SOS, what if?
If President-elect Obama appoints Hillarious Clinton as his administration's Secretary of State, what happens if, on Friday the 5th of December, SCOTUS vacates Obama's election because he fails to prove his qualifications as a viable candidate for the office of POTUS.
OBAMA: What? The President-elect is black? I didn't know that!
Well so much for a color-blind society.The number two man at NBC News believes Barack Obama's skin color gives him more legitimacy around the world than possibly any American leader in history.After watching the left, the MSM, and the Democrats fawn all over each other for six months and noticing they brought up BHO's race ad nauseam, I'm convinced almost half of our citizens never considered the man's ethnicity an issue. And they lost the election.I think it goes beyond the Middle East, and I think it's a bigger phenomenon which is the leader of the biggest democracy in the world is now a person of color and that is going to give him what political scientists would call a legitimacy in the street around the world that I don't think an American leader has had, ever perhaps.[News Busters; via Marc Shepherd at American Thinker]
OBAMA: Birth Certificate question redux!
I don't think anyone in his right mind really believes that the "system," or anyone in it, will force Obama to reveal his trump card until after he's broken the "natural born" clause of the US Constitution. Once the precedent has been established the courts will simply re-interpret (pdf) that clause of their "living" document.
So it seems simple to me: one way to get this birth certificate issue before a federal judge is for someone to directly disobey a clear order of the next Commander-In-Chief.
Someone, somewhere, will be in a position to perform an act of insubordination on the basis that BHO is an illegitimate pretender to the highest office in the USA.
The only problem with that is that Joe Biden will inherit the office.
Friday, November 28, 2008
NEWS MEDIA: Once in awhile!
Yes, every once in awhile someone puts fingers to keyboard (we used to say pen to paper) and writes something so clear, so prescient, so common-sensible that it needs to be passed on to others ... often.
Alan Nathan writes such a piece regarding the abysmal and embarrassing self-destruction of the national press in America ...What chance do arguments have to rise and fall on their merits if they're framed by a seemingly party-owned press?Not a rhetorical question, by any means, but a question with only one possible answer.
And once that party comes to power, won't its lackey journalists constitute a type of state-owned press? In other words (after Inauguration Day), how can the blushing news media keep from sharing President-elect Barack Obama's political bed - given they have already serviced his electoral needs? [Washington Times]
Some day the whole lot will awaken and ask, "My god, my god, what have we done?"
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
PALIN'S CONNECTEDNESS: That intrinsic our MSM, politicians and bureaucrats so readily forget!
A gentle and insightful article caught my attention this morning; it prompted me to think about life and its meaning.Small towns have been in the news lately. The past election featured them often. Barack Obama commented on the bitterness of those who cling to guns and religion. Sarah Palin and the McCain campaign celebrated small town virtues to contrast with “big city elitism” of the Democrats. [First Things]Most, who really care about such things, realize in the grand scheme of things "the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning" (Isaiah 29:14) matter little.Any rational, unbiased historian realizes the panoply of man's history does not well recognize the intellectual, the writer, or the orator (Ecclesiastes 12:11-12) ... manifold generations have brought forward few of these.
It's as if an unseen law scrubs our history of their memory; as if that law says, "If you (i.e., mankind) won't acknowledge my work in your world, all memory of you will perish from it."
History's heroes surprise the intellectual, the author, and the orator (as well as the politician and bureaucrat); yet they don't or won't proclaim the law, to do so would make the foundations of their choosing tremble, so they stumble over it!
Only those who seem to somehow discern the existence of this royal law (James 2:8), understand it, accept it and defer to it.
These have learned humility before that law for ...Rather than time irradicating the law or the memory of it, time has exalted and commemorated it to the lasting chagrine of those who boast in the things of this world.
- they understand its most comic moments shame the accumulated wisdom of the world's wise men
- they have relaxed their "can do" will, and stand in slack mouthed awe at the presence of the law's greatest weakness, and
- they see how it accommodates the unwanted, the unwashed, the unprotected, and the unrich ... bringing humiliation those who boast in their possessions.
I moan when the MSM and the liberal left wax on about the genius, the education, the charisma, the experience of Obama and his cabinet designees; though I admit there are a few bright lights on the left.
When they use these descriptors on Obama and his cabinet picks, they are denigrating the rest of us ... especially the lame-duck administration. The establishment boasts endlessly about an existential and materialistic world.
The kneejerk reaction of the MSM and our political elites is not introspection but frontal assault: those who suggested they were elitists and snobby were attacked; those who pointed to the existence of a vast "fly over" land found their communities denigrated, their neighbors mocked, and their hobbies ridiculed.
At few points did those who hold social or cultural power, position, or privilege acknowledge their critics' roles in our common society and culture ... rather, they were treated as lepers, were disdained, and were summarily dismissed.One cannot help but to be connected to those around you in a small town. Many of them are related to you by blood. They are kin. Folks can rattle off relations and branches of the family tree. As an outsider, this can be quite intimidating.Mistake '08 clearly revealed the extent to which the educated, the powerful, and the articulate of this great nation have fooled themselves and stumbled from under the intrinsic protection of the unseen law.
But there is a virtue in living in the midst of such family ties that is hard to describe. It involves living in such a way that you, as a person, are not an individual. You are not a solitary center of decision-making. Rather, you exist in a web of tangled claims. You are a point at which many lives intersect. You are at the same time a son or daughter, a granddaughter, a great-granddaughter.Such connectedness often produces a reflexive attitude of caring that strikes a newcomer as strange. One does not hesitate to visit, be with, console, or give to those around you. The web of relatedness surfaces at times of loss and significance and stress. Often there are no concrete actions that express this attitude other than visiting.In case you don't see it, connectedness equals community and vice versa.
This solves the mystery which surrounds the public's fascination with Sarah Palin ... she, her family, her friends, and her neighbors get it!
When she spoke of "real Americans," she wasn't disparaging the rest of America, she was speaking to her audience, the audience who knows her because of common (root of community), about tradition, culture, and connectedness.It is this sort of connectedness to place and people and the past that that makes small towns different. It is not an easy set of slogans that can be trumpeted by a political party or captured in a sound bite. It is the shape of the small town itself which has embedded itself in its people. That shape takes the form of a web that connects that person to a multitude of places and people and past experience. That web becomes the stuff of that person; it is his identity.This generation and the previous generation are too quick to move the boundaries, to bend or destroy fences, and to build roads without signage or shoulders.
Such a way of being a person is slowly being worn away by the storm surge of generic commercial culture. The children feel less a part of the small town than their parents, who are less connected than their parents. It is an inevitable process. Yet small towns are still here, struggling, battling tough economic realities but not extinct. Their shared past is still felt and passed on. The stories are told. The visiting still goes on. The churches and groceries and service stations and post offices still function as gathering places. The connections are still being made.
Unfortunately, over half of America's citizenry comes from or are influenced by these two generations; it is to their ultimate demise that they are unaware of connectedness and its corollary - community.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
WARNING: Connect the dots, connect the dots!
Reports have it that part of Obama's planned infrastructure and service program is a national police force. Though the idea is not new with him; Mexico is currently evaluating such a move.
Today we were informed that Bush 43's Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates, has been wooed by the Obama administration to remain put for a couple of years.
Now we're told that Gates wants... to conduct a broad review to determine whether the military, National Guard and Reserve can adequately deal with domestic disasters and whether they have the training and equipment to defend the homeland. [CRIB emphasis; Yahoo! News]We must remember that a national police force was instrumental in the rise of Hitler to power in Nazi Germany. I believe the same is true of Stalinist Russia. (others)
His memo comes in the wake of a stinging 400-page independent commission report that concluded the military isn't ready for a catastrophic attack on the country, and that National Guard forces don't have the equipment or training they need for the job.I can't see the future or into the hearts of men but I do know this: history is filled with the tormented futures of many generations led to disaster by men with dark and evil hearts ... most of them proclaiming to have the best interest of their compatriots at heart.
That report, released early this year by the Commission on the National Guard and Reserves, said the Pentagon must use the nation's citizen soldiers to create an operational force that would be fully trained, equipped and ready to defend the nation, respond to crises and supplement the active duty troops in combat.
In response, Gates said that indeed the Guard and Reserves are an integral part of the force and have assumed a greater role in military operations. And he pressed his top leaders to review the training that active duty and reserve troops receive for homeland defense and civil support missions, as opposed to the warfighting now consuming them.
MSM: The media, undergirded by cultural ignorance, reveals perverse fantasy!
Increasingly and suffocatingly, Americans are being exposed to MSM and liberal bias (h/t News Busters), a bias not always well hidden.WARNING: NOW ENTERING OBAMALOT
What's been revealing to this writer is their continued and persistent desire, on the one hand, for a Messiah figure in our national leadership and, on the other, for a royal family (h/t News Busters). As far back as March 2008, Kathleen Parker discussed the public's Messiah fixation.
I seriously doubt that anyone in the MSM or on the liberal left would acknowledge the existence of such a perversity in American politics, but I predict the existence of just such a phenomena will one day be reported by historians and political researchers as they uncover this kind of piffle ...It’s a symbiosis in which shows such as “Access Hollywood” and “Entertainment Tonight” cover the Obama family like royalty, bringing back a Camelot mythology to the White House. In return, they are enjoying a ratings bump with unexpected staying power. [TV Week]
Monday, November 24, 2008
PROPHETIC VOICE: Be assured America's respect for life will soon end after Europe falls!
If the gist of this report is true ... no rational reason to assume it's not ... then all we have to do is wait until the EU shoe drops, the cheap thud of the USA shoe won't be far behind ...Pro-life and pro-family campaigners have been warned to expect the publication of documents, funded by the European Union, promoting abortion, euthanasia and other anti-life and anti-family practices. These documents will purportedly allow “zero tolerance for dissent,” in particular seeking to eradicate the right to conscientious objection. [LifeSite News; h/t Black Kettle]If this continues at its present pace, I envision a Christian Masada on every continent at some point ... unless the Lord takes us up first (1 Thessalonians 4:13-18).The movement towards removing the right of “conscientious objection” has also become a looming concern in the United States. President-Elect Barack Obama has promised to sign into law the Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA), should it be passed by Congress. FOCA would force all hospitals and medical professionals to provide abortions, with no rights of conscientious objection.The man calls himself a Christian but he is a fraud, a total fraud.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
FAITH: Linking the ephemeral by their DNA!
A CRIB offering of the periodically fugacious ... by their common ancestry!Gaggle of gay geeks pushes SF police to perform public service for proselytizing prayer party! [Never Yet Melted (video)]American Jewish thoughts on the unborn's right to life and the seemingly contradictory position on partial birth by Jews in general. Read carefully and in context. [Classical Values]Seems Catholic Cardinals should know that "blistering rants" and "diatribes" are the private preserve of the Main Stream Media and not to be used by men of the cloth. [News Busters]At the time I thought something smelled about the CIA's testimony before congress - a missionary's wife and daughter died - a yet to be detailed Inspector General's report reveals just how bad. [FOXNews]Sure wish I could do what the Ayatollahs have done; Obama has plans of his own [FOXNews; American Thinker]More on the place where the king eaten by worms (Acts 12:23) may have been buried. [Yahoo! News]It's one of the most disobeyed commandments in Scripture ... them and widows (Zechariah 7:9-10; James 1:27) [Christian Post]Though I'm not anti-Catholic, I'm not pro-Catholic either; but good news is good news for Muslim conversions in Kosovo [Balkan Insight; h/t Europe News]Moore on more of Joseph's tailor and Potiphar's wife ... oh yea, and God's will for our lives. [Moore to the Point]Sad to hear some are losing their Focus but I knew it was coming; a sign of the times? [Christian Post]Now this is a horse of another color and curiously fascinating - and I like the adherence to the biblical texts. [FOXNews]
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