I could live with this.
The Price
I know the economy has taken over this election, but don’t forget that we are a nation at war, fighting not only to protect our freedom but to liberate and equip the Iraqi people. Listen to the perspective of a veteran who’s been there, and make sure to watch til the end.
Redistribute the wealth!
I got this email recently and since everyone is so sensitive about me trying to “brainwash” them about the evils of Barack Obama, my blog will see a lot more forwards in the days to come:
In a local restaurant my server had on a ‘Obama 08′ neck tie. I laughed
as he had given away his political preference–just imagine the
coincidence.
When the bill came I decided not to tip the server and explained to him
that I was exploring the Obama Redistribution of Wealth Concept. He
stood there in disbelief while I told him that I was going to
redistribute his tip to someone whom I deemed more in need–the
homeless guy outside. The server angrily stormed from my sight.
I went outside, gave the homeless guy $10 and told him to thank the
server inside, as I’d decided he could use the money more. The homeless
guy was grateful.
At the end of my rather unscientific Socialistic Redistribution
experiment, I realized the homeless guy was grateful for the money he
did not earn, but the waiter was pretty angry that I gave away the
money that he did earn, even though the actual recipient needed the
money more.
I guess this Redistribution of Wealth is an easier thing to swallow in
concept than in practical application.
This is why I am a Pro-life Republican
This morning I was listening to the Laura Ingraham show on talk radio and she had a guy on named Nicholas Provenzo. Check out his blog for the source of my fury. Basically he was saying that anyone who chooses to keep a Downs syndrome baby is an idiot and adding a “burden” to society. He was condemning Sarah Palin for the choice she made to keep her child and even touted it as “immoral”. He stated that life only begins once a child is out of the womb, and he literally said he had no problem with stabbing a 9 month old fetus and killing it if it was still inside the womb.
What has gone wrong with people when they say (and truly believe) these sorts of things? I felt the anger building up and wanted to turn it off, but I couldn’t because I was just so incredulous. Where as most people would say that Sarah Palin is a normal human being who loves her children no matter what, this guy condemns her for keeping her baby because she knew he had Downs before he was born. If people want to make an argument for her not running for office because of this child, that’s one thing (though I disagree with it and think it is actually a step back for the feminist movement… but feminists don’t want to claim Sarah Palin because she is on the side of LIFE even if its been “inconvenient”). But making an argument that she has done this child, her family and her country a disservice by giving birth to an “imperfect” child is so wrong. This way of thinking, that it is “all about me” and that if you are not a contributing member to society you should be dead is SO DISTURBING to me. How can anyone think that this is reasonable or moral? That puts a huge list of people in jeopardy- the elderly, those in nursing homes, Alzheimer’s patients, people with cerebral palsy, those with AIDS, and the mentally retarded to name a few. The dehumanization of these people, God’s children, happens when guys like Nicholas say that they were never really human to begin with.
I don’t know if his point of view is in the majority but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was. I don’t want to live in a world that is so eager to kill the inconvenient. I don’t get this liberal crap because its like, okay, they are always throwing fits about being “politically correct” and then they are saying retarded people should be dead? They are all about fighting for the little man, for the helpless, for handing out free health care and food and money to those who “can’t help it” but they are all for the murder of those who “can’t help it”? The lessons that can be learned from people unlike us is not worth it to them, it is a burden and God forbid that life not be a bowl of peaches all the time.
I am angry, I am scared, but most of all I pray for the people in America who would say that a world with legalized convenience murder is a world that is right and just.
What do you think?
HURRAH!
As Sarah Palin so eloquently put it a few minutes ago: Thanks Hillary for those 18 million cracks in that glass ceiling, but now we have a chance to shatter it once and for all! I’m PUMPED about a woman VP, and one as conservative and level-headed as Sarah Palin. John McCain is brilliant for this one!
Fairy tale lessons part 2 (this one’s for Mégan…)
The Man, the Boy, and the Donkey (Aesop’s Fables)
A Man and his son were once going with their Donkey to market.
As they were walking along by its side a countryman passed them
and said: “You fools, what is a Donkey for but to ride upon?”
So the Man put the Boy on the Donkey and they went on their
way. But soon they passed a group of men, one of whom said: “See
that lazy youngster, he lets his father walk while he rides.”
So the Man ordered his Boy to get off, and got on himself.
But they hadn’t gone far when they passed two women, one of whom
said to the other: “Shame on that lazy lout to let his poor little
son trudge along.”
Well, the Man didn’t know what to do, but at last he took his
Boy up before him on the Donkey. By this time they had come to
the town, and the passers-by began to jeer and point at them. The
Man stopped and asked what they were scoffing at. The men said:
“Aren’t you ashamed of yourself for overloading that poor donkey
with you and your hulking son?”
The Man and Boy got off and tried to think what to do. They
thought and they thought, till at last they cut down a pole, tied
the donkey’s feet to it, and raised the pole and the donkey to
their shoulders. They went along amid the laughter of all who met
them till they came to Market Bridge, when the Donkey, getting one
of his feet loose, kicked out and caused the Boy to drop his end
of the pole. In the struggle the Donkey fell over the bridge, and
his fore-feet being tied together he was drowned.
“That will teach you,” said an old man who had followed them:
“Please all, and you will please none.”
And here’s my moral- I’d rather have a president that some people hate and know why they hate him than one who everyone loves but can’t really tell me why…
