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Counter-Moonbats hold Pop Tart Gun Contest
March 14, 2013 by 2 Comments
Remember the boy who was suspended because he bit his Pop Tart into the shape of a gun? Well the lunacy was just too much for one local Pastor. He decided to celebrate the Second Amendment by making assault pastries during Sunday School. (Clash Daily) -- This past Sunday, a Chicago area church … [Read more...]
Evolutionary maybes
March 14, 2013 by 76 Comments
The difficulty of discussing evolution with those who stake their entire worldview on it is that it gets caught up in the maybes. It's quite humorous to me, for its hypocrisy. What I mean is religious adherents are often criticized by skeptics when they are asked something like "Why would God..." … [Read more...]
Does God talk to you?
March 13, 2013 by 12 Comments
One of the best books I have ever read regarding the will of God and its application to our lives is Decision Making and the Will of God: A Biblical Alternative to the Traditional View by Gary Friesen. In it he discusses in depth, but accessibly, how all too often Christians go about trying to … [Read more...]
The US Government is not broke: The proof!
March 12, 2013 by 16 Comments
Republicans and Conservatives are flooding their constituents and certain media outlets with the insane notion that the Obama administration is spending money we don't have. I used to believe this rumor too, and in fact I have erroneously perpetuated it here. (CNS News) -- The National Institutes … [Read more...]
Atheism is dangerous for children
March 12, 2013 by 63 Comments
I don't expect professing Atheists to agree. However there is, to a degree, a sense of abuse -- in the ultimate sense -- in teaching children that God doesn't exist. Mind you, I don't consider it abuse because (which) God's existence is obvious, though I believe it is. It's because … [Read more...]
Why is race so important?
March 11, 2013 by 2 Comments
In 2013 why is what color a person is still focused on to the degree with which it is? (CNN) -- Rep. Marcia Fudge, chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, expressed concern in a letter to President Barack Obama over the lack of African Americans among his new Cabinet picks. "Congressional … [Read more...]
How much should you go along to get along, or should you at all?
March 11, 2013 by 16 Comments
There seems to be a common criticism from what seems to be everyone about everyone else with whom they disagree. 'They are too much this, or are too inflexible about that'. Christians are too archaic regarding women in leadership roles within the church and too close-minded about homosexual sexual … [Read more...]
If believers in God are so gullible…
March 9, 2013 by 13 Comments
...then why do they hold on so dearly, for the most part, to their convictions? Why aren't they more easily tricked in to jumping around to different religious beliefs. It would seem that if they were so easily convinced of fairy tales, they would be just as easily convinced off of them, … [Read more...]
Forcing your view: Everyone does it
March 8, 2013 by 35 Comments
It's understandable that most people don't want someone else's vision of morality or personal political views forced upon them. If you are vocal on what you believe to be moral or political issues, there's no doubt that you've heard someone tell you that you shouldn't try to force your vision on … [Read more...]
Democrats have bet as to who can propose the most absurd gun control measures
March 7, 2013 by 2 Comments
Or they don't. But it's the only reasonable explanation for what has been coming out of State legislatures by their Democrat law makers. (Firstcoastnews.com) -- A mandatory anger management program before you can buy ammunition? That's what one Florida lawmaker who represents part of Duval County … [Read more...]
Pop Quiz:Who did they vote for, and why?
March 7, 2013 by 3 Comments
I hear that in 2016 registered Republicans vote on the first Tuesday in November, and registered Democrats on the first Wednesday, pass it on. … [Read more...]
Hearing on Global Warming postponed due to snow
March 7, 2013 by 4 Comments
Not that the presence of snow during winter is any indication that man-made global warming is a farce -- there's plenty of science which indicates that. However, the irony is excellent. (Politico) -- The snowquester has claimed yet another casualty: Wednesday's House hearing on global … [Read more...]
No Joke: MD school offers grief counselling to children over Pop Tart gun incident
March 5, 2013 by 14 Comments
In case you haven't heard, a seven year-old Maryland boy was suspended for two days after he chomped his Pop Tart into the rough outline of a gun. *gasp* Well, the madness doesn't stop there. School officials have since contacted parents of children to offer grief counselling if necessary. Two … [Read more...]
Sexual immorality?
March 5, 2013 by 25 Comments
If I had to place my finger on the most contentious issue the secular world takes with Christian ethics is its stance on sexuality. Without a doubt, the Old and New Testaments condemn certain sexual relations in the strongest terms available. Be it adultery, sex out of wedlock, beastiality, or … [Read more...]
Why can’t we have a health care system like England?
March 4, 2013 by 5 Comments
Supporters of single payer health insurance systems i.e., government run health care, and, to some extent, Obamacare, they will point to England as one of the successes of this kind of system. Here is just one more example of how efficient government run health care is: (Newsmax) -- At least 1,165 … [Read more...]
For the Obama Administration, the sky is always falling
March 4, 2013 by 2 Comments
Anyone ever notice that President Barack Obama always makes a case that unless we ask the more wealthy among us to pay a little more, their fair share, disastrous things will happen? Emergency personnel and teachers will be laid off, school lunch programs will be halted, single mothers will become … [Read more...]
Sunday Fun: Book signing
March 3, 2013 by 4 Comments
Yesterday I was able to meet -- if you can call such a brief encounter a meeting -- Stephan Pastis, author of my favorite comic strip, Pearls Before Swine. He was in my area promoting his new children's book, Timmy Failure, and was signing copies at a near by book store. I figured this was likely … [Read more...]
Our Emperor is fiddling
March 1, 2013 by 5 Comments
This comparison is not my own, I read it on another blog. But just as it is reported that Emperor Nero played his fiddle while Rome was burning, our President Obama is playing golf while America burns. Of course our burning is figurative, but the American economy is crumbling. Unemployment is … [Read more...]
My premiums went up for no good reason!
February 28, 2013 by 24 Comments
Or so says Donna Brazile: https://twitter.com/donnabrazile/status/306778350574260224 Those who know better -- those on the political Right -- have been saying since Obamacare's inception, that the program would indeed raise premiums even while the President himself has not only denied premiums … [Read more...]
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