Archive for May 25th, 2007
Some Days It’s Best To Remain Quiet
May 25th, 2007
I wrote a story of Rosie O’Donnell insinuating our troops are terrorists, a story showing a congressman being emotional because Congress finally agreed to fund the guys who are fighting the war and allow them to get equipment such as vehicles that can withstand an IED explosion and numerous other posts and all I get is someone making a comment about how hypocritical Christians are and another one talking about a congressman being so emotional he needs counseling. Just as Durbin needed it when he cried in the Senate, I suppose.
Nothing commenting on the soldier found dead in the Euphrates or anything but potshots.
This will be my last post today. I’m tired, I’m grumpy and I’m not going to fight over things of this world.
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Gas Prices
May 25th, 2007
If you want to know why gas is going so high contact your congressman and senators and ask them to sponsor a bill that would force stickers to be put on gas pumps showing how much of the money you are spending for a gallon of gas is going in taxes.
That should curl your hair.
Besides that we don’t have the refining capacity to meet the needs of the consumers but building more refineries will cost money and the oil companies will have to charge for it and unless they do it for free everyone will complain about the awful oil companies.
The People Are Speaking
May 25th, 2007
Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California says the public emotion surging around efforts to overhaul the nation’s immigration policy is the greatest she has seen since her 1992 election.
The Democrat said the topic hasn’t translated into the 30,000-plus phone calls to her office that would mean “something is really going on” in the nation’s most populous state, but the enthusiasm of opinion is fervent.
“We’re dealing with an issue about which people have very strong, very deeply set views,” Mrs. Feinstein said.
She said most of the nearly 8,000 calls her office has fielded have been “very hostile and very negative” despite polls that show up to 80 percent of Californians support legalizing “undocumented workers.”
From the Western border states to the heartland and the East Coast, lawmakers are being flooded with constituent calls as the Senate considers mechanisms for granting citizenship to some of the estimated 12 million to 20 million illegal aliens in the United States and ways to improve border security and the nation’s guest-worker program.
The office of Sen. Johnny Isakson, Georgia Republican, says it has received several thousand calls, the majority from people opposing what they call “amnesty” for aliens who entered the country illegally. Nearly all 5,000 callers to Mr. Isakson’s office expressed disapproval of the Senate plan.
“We’re still getting calls on other topics, such as Iraq, gas prices and hate crimes, but these topics are generating less than a dozen calls each per day,” said Isakson spokeswoman Joan Kirchner.
A staffer for Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, says: “The phones have been off the hook.”
The pressure on legislators mounted immediately after a bipartisan group of senators announced their intentions on immigration reform last week. Lawmakers expect to get an earful from constituents when they go home this weekend for the Memorial Day recess.
I’ve called my congressman and one senator. The other senator’s phones are constantly busy. They’d better go on a secret vacation next week or their ears will be burning about this issue. People on both sides of the aisle are upset about this.
North Korea test-fires missiles
May 25th, 2007
Here we go again.
North Korea fired several short-range guided missiles Friday in an apparent test launch, South Korean officials and media reports said.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff confirmed the launches, but said it was still investigating how many missiles were fired and where exactly the tests occurred.
“The short-range missile launches are believed to be part of a routine exercise that North Korea has conducted annually on the east and the west coasts in the past,” the Joint Chiefs said in a statement.
Japan’s public broadcaster and other media, citing Japanese and U.S. sources, reported that the missiles were surface-to-ship. Japan’s Defense Ministry and Foreign Ministry could not immediately confirm the reports, but were investigating.
Christian Men Plan October Rally in Washington
May 25th, 2007
Christian organizers on Thursday announced plans for a “sacred gathering of men” in Washington, D.C., in October, almost 10 years to the day after the group Promise Keepers conducted one of the largest rallies in the city’s history.
Organizers say the 2007 “Stand in the Gap” (SITG) rally will differ from the 1997 gathering of the same name sponsored by the non-denominational Promise Keepers. The 2007 event, sponsored by the National Coalition of Men’s Ministries is expected to attract about a fourth of the crowd that gathered in 1997 and will focus on “interactive elements” rather than Christian speakers and bands.
The Promise Keepers drew more than one million men to the National Mall on Oct. 4, 1997. Organizers of the 2007 event were able to obtain a permit for only 250,000 due to portions of the Mall being closed for repair in the fall.
‘Sex addict’ sues over firing
May 25th, 2007
I didn’t know how to categorize this. It’s a ridiculous story but some may see it as sad. You deside. 
A man in the US is suing IBM for $5m in a wrongful dismissal case after he was fired for visiting adult internet chat rooms while at work.
James Pacenza, 58, says he was addicted to online chat rooms and that IBM should have offered him sympathy and treatment instead of firing him.
The Vietnam War veteran says he has suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder since 1969.
He argues that he used the internet to control his psychological problems.
Bill Maher ‘makes Imus look like a saint’
May 25th, 2007
If Don Imus could be fired for offensive racial remarks, Bill Maher certainly deserves discipline from his employer for bashing Christians, including his description of a Catholic Mass as graphic homosexual acts, charge media watchers.
Explicit sexual mockery of Scripture and Catholic theology on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher” should be addressed by parent company Time-Warner, say Brent Bozell III, president of the Media Research Center, and Robert Knight, director of the MRC’s Culture and Media Institute.
Maher’s comments began with a verbal assault on Jerry Falwell three days after the Baptist minister’s death May 15 then “escalated into a vicious attack on Christianity in general and Roman Catholicism in particular,” MRC says.
Mosques awarded Homeland Security grants
May 25th, 2007
While the European Union investigates mosques for ties to Islamic terrorism, the U.S. government is giving mosques security grants that are designed to protect churches, synagogues and other nonprofit groups from Islamic terror.
Most recently, the Islamic Society of Baltimore landed a $15,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security to upgrade security at its Maryland mosque.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations since April has been urging leaders of mosques and Islamic schools across the nation to apply for the DHS grants, even though the agency’s program was set up to help protect nonprofit facilities that are at high risk for attacks by Islamic terrorists.
CAIR encouraged its Muslim members to take advantage of $24 million in federal funds DHS has made available – specifically, DHS says, for nonprofit organizations “deemed high-risk for a potential international terrorist attack.”Organizations in 46 urban areas designated high risk for Islamic terror attack are eligible to participate in the new Nonprofit Security Grant Program.
The CAIR alert issued April 29 to Muslim members reads as follows: “ACTION REQUESTED: All eligible 501(c)(3) American mosques and other Islamic institutions are urged to begin the application process to receive training and to purchase equipment such as video cameras, alarm systems and other security enhancements.”
Several Islamic institutions already have applied and are receiving government approval.
The New Establishment
May 25th, 2007
This is a very interesting story. I don’t think it leans one way or the other but some might.
                                 How Evangelicals Became Part of Washington’s Fabric
To the Bush haters of America, the young Monica Goodling is a footnote of this wretched era, one of the many Washington types that they’ll be happy to get rid of come January 2009: Venal Vice President, Ex-Lobbyists Turned Regulators and, in Goodling’s case, Young Evangelicals in High Places.Until she appeared before the House Judiciary Committee this week to testify about her role in the Justice Department firing scandal, Goodling had been mocked on the Internet and on late-night TV as a certain type: one of a “bunch of hayseeds” staffing the administration, as HBO comedian Bill Maher called her.Goodling graduated from Messiah College (“home of the Fighting Christies”and the law school at Regent University, founded by Pat Robertson (“a televangelist’s diploma mill”
Goodling is part of a new generation of evangelicals ushered in by Falwell, who insisted that Christians get involved in politics. They are graduates of the exploding number of evangelical colleges, which no longer aim to create a parallel subculture but instead to train “Christian leaders to change the world,” as the Regent mission statement reads.
Speaking of Snakes
May 25th, 2007
Yesterday I said I hated snakes. Well, you have to watch this short video and enjoy.
I guess someone else isn’t fond of snakes.
