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Saturday, February 6, 2010
Tim Tebow Already In Super Bowl--Ad That Is
Tim Tebow has won the Heisman Trophy and two national titles. Now before being drafted into the NFL, he will be in the Super Bowl. Well, he will be featured in a commercial with his mom celebrating their pro-life position. Pam Tebow was gravely ill during her pregnancy with Timmy in her stomach and the doctors in the Phillipines advised an abortion. She said no and had Timmy, who turned out to be quite healthy and maybe the best college football player in NCAA history.
Pro-Choice advocates are having fits that this "political" commercial is being allowed on the air during the most watched event of the year while a gay dating service ad was rejected.
Kudos to CBS for sticking to their guns under heavy pressure from these strong-armed groups and congratulations to Timmy and Pam for sticking to their Pro-Life stance in such a visible way!
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Friday, May 29, 2009
California Changes Its Ways Once Again
The laws in California change like a driver on a high speed chase changes lanes while alluding police. As of this writing, gay marriage is illegal in the Golden State. Tomorrow it may be legal again. The gays that married between the time of the court ruling legalizing it and the people voting against its legalization will still be recognized as married. Got that so far?
Drew Barrymore and other protesters claim that anyone "in love" should have the right to marry. That is blatantly false. Marriage is limited and presided over by each state with different laws governing its validity. First cousins don't have the right to marry in every state. Why not? If homosexuality was normal and natural, wouldn't it have gone extinct over time, as opposed to increasing at amazing rates? Please don't make the case that more are coming out of the closet and its getting more press. It certainly is, but more teens are subjected to the concept in their sexual forming years and experimentation makes it available, not natural.
Marriage has been an institution to keep structure for children and American values has traditionally valued the family unit. That value has deteriorated over time, but if homosexual marriage is allowed as "normal", then adult men should be able to marry their mothers and fathers their adult daughters and what could be more normal, natural and loving than that?
Monday, May 18, 2009
Obama wants to disagree with respect
President Barack Obama made his much anticipated graduation speech at Notre Dame on Sunday to much fanfare. There was also much prayer. Much of the prayer was outside of the commencement as students and other protesters of Obama's presence took their troubles to the creator of all life, supposedly the one that Obama also prays to.
Obama acknowledged that the two sides of the abortion debate are irreconcilable, but people should avoid "demonizing" others for their personal beliefs or values. This comes from the guy that told Pastor Rick Warren of Saddleback Church last summer that knowing when a baby got human rights was "above my paygrade".
If abortion is the killing of a human baby, then it is a hard task not to demonize those who think that it is a woman's right to kill that baby at any time. Many proponents of abortion argue a timeline for acceptability, breaking it down by trimesters or by viability of the fetus. There is no magic day in the baby's life in the womb when it becomes a human baby. One day it isn't worthy of life and the next day it is, is certainly irreconcilable in every human's mind, no matter how badly you want to be pro-choice.
This president stood up in the Illinois Senate and argued that a baby born alive after an abortion couldn't kill it, should still be murdered because that was the intent going in and would put an undue burden on the mother and doctor.
No, there is no way to philosophical reconcile these two opposing views to the sanctity of life and really impossible to reason respectfully when there is so much disrespect to life itself.
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Obama's First 100 Days Celebration
The historic presidency of Barack Obama has reached its 100th day! His administration started as historic because of the color of his skin, but has become historic for all the wrong reasons, of which there are so many we won't be able to log all of them here.
In only his third day in office, the Christian president made federal funding available to help pay for international abortions. Who needs a defense budget if you can get other countries to kill their own future soldiers, right?
He reversed the former administrations policy on human embryo testing very quickly as well. This and other human life "obamanations" has caused a major protest at Notre Dame, as he has been invited to speak at graduation and receive an honorary doctorate degree.
Barack Obama talks about global warming and reducing carbon outputs, but has spent more time logging miles on his jumbo jet than any president in history in such a short time. Don't forget, he took a cross-country jaunt to spend a few minutes on Jay Leno's couch (he threw in a speech or two to justify the trip).
B.O. spent a long week in Europe telling the world how many mistakes the United States of America has made and how arrogant it has been in the past.
He has spent more money than any other in human history to gain more control over the private sector than ever in U.S. history.
He has broken multiple campaign promises over transparency. He said he would allow the public to view new laws and policies before signing anything. He lied. He said he would go line by line through everything, cutting out wasteful spending. He lied.
Barack Obama has had multiple international incidents in which he made mistakes, but tried to cover them up with lies. None was more blatant than a bow to the Saudi king. His people said he did everything in the world but bow. Don't insult our intelligence anymore please. North Korea test-launched a long range missile with no ramifications.
B.O. hasn't filled top administration positions (Health & Human Services, CDC, Treasury) with a flu pandemic on the way, economic crises, immigration border violence and other issues, but since all of his appointments are tax cheaters, no one that he believes is qualified is qualified.
Those are the accomplishments of B.O. in his first 100 days and those are just off the top of my head.
Boy, can't wait for the next 100, its been quite a rollercoaster.
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
Obama Teams with World at G20
I am in my 40's and have never had any devisive or derisive feelings toward Europe, but Obama spoke for me and all Americans, saying we have had those feelings. To be fair, he did mention that Europeans (who have rioted in the streets against America) have held anti-American views as well.
I'm no historian, but didn't America help Europe to stop Hitler? Aren't we now "friends" with Germany and Japan (who attacked Pearl Harbor)? I think most Americans would consider a European trip their "vacation of a lifetime", not someplace to ridicule. But there was my president on European soil, making apologies for who I am not sure, and growing closer to a one world governing body than ever before.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Sean Penn Adds Little To Academy Awards
Sean Penn was great at "Jeff Spiccoli" in Fast Times at Ridgemont High in the 80's. Back then he was easy to like because we didn't know anything about him.
In the 21st century he is self-admittedly easy to not like because of his anti-American alliances with foreign leaders, his spousal abuse allegations and other rants against God-fearing Americans.
Last night's star-studded Academy Awards didn't seem to reflect the struggling economy or concern for global warming, but before it was all over, Penn made his "Best Actor in a Leading Role" Oscar speech political. Not that the award itself wasn't a political statement by The Academy of Motion Pictures, Arts and Sciences against Mickey Rourke's recent and decent comments about President Bush or Sean Penn's portrayal of a gay character. Funny how the best movies (Brokeback Mountain), directors and characters are about homosexuals. No, no agenda there.
Glad Sean Penn remembered Mickey and is his brother, but gave no mention of his wife in his speech that spoke of the shame that proponents of California's gay-marriage ban should have. He was speaking to the majority of Californians and Americans that think differently than he does.
He is also glad that this country elected an "elegant" man. Has America never had an elegant man as president before?
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Darwin is 200
The 200th birthdays of Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln were celebrated last week, which is ironic that two men who greatly changed the world in dramatically different ways, were born on the same day.
Abraham Lincoln is considered to be one of the greatest U.S. Presidents because of his successful efforts to free men, women and children from slavery, culminating in the Emancipation Proclamation and giving America a chance to live up to the ideals that all men are created equal.
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution did just the opposite. Darwin's theory put black people at a closer evolutionary step to apes and it is in the title of his book "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life". His theory has fallen apart with the increase in knowledge of biology and the complexity of all pieces of life.
This week a pet chimpanzee attacked its owner and bit the hands off of a neighbor trying to help. The news reporters are calling it a "wild animal". It's too bad this pre-human couldn't evolve fast enough to fit into society better. I always wonder why there aren't any apes deciding to move out of the jungle and get up on their hind legs and walk out? Or why don't some fish take a look out on dry land anymore and sprout some legs to check things out? Where are the transitional creatures that are changing from one species to another? Surely evolution hasn't stopped and don't tell me it takes so long to make that change that we can't see it happening during our short life spans. No, there should be more transitional creatures all over the world and in the seas than are finished works. Not one speck of fossil record to help with that "theory of evolution", thank God.
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