I am really getting tired of hearing what I believe is offensive on televisions, in the papers, and every - what is worse the ones saying it lost the election!
Who is allowed to define offensive? In my opinion that is really at the root of all the hate spewed toward Bush and the "red states" - they are worried we might, no positive the "red states" have stopped listening to their opinion! Media is being blasted and proven for the liberal elitist they are and conservative media is jumping ahead rapidly, which is probably more telling than the election. I would not be surprised if NBC, CBS, or ABC tries to change their liberal strips soon to capitalize on the "movement".
Nevertheless - back to "What is offensive" - that is as subjective as "What is fair". Yet someone or some people, somewhere deems it their responsibility, no they believe it is their right to make those decisions for all, but when the masses they have attempted to control step forward to be heard the elitist call "foul" "you are trying to force your values on me". Now to be clear it was not offense when the role was reversed and my concerns and values were not considered, but now it's offensive! That is offensive!!!
Never mind the fact that the "revolting" masses give compromises (i.e. civil unions instead of marriage) - they yell "foul all our way or nothing" - yet claim the "red states" are dividing the country - Now that's offensive!
No in an effort to unify the country the "red states" are told "go ahead and secede", "your all are simply stupid", "we know what's best", "this is not fair", etc. - That's offensive!
Mary Frances Berry finally
agreed to leave, but civil rights leaders are upset! Because, there is a conservative in
chairman's seat and that is just wrong. We have seen how the press and minority leaders accept conservative minorities, they don't - this is no different. Gerald A. Reynolds assumes chairman of the
U. S. Commission on Civil Rights and has already got his critics, from the we must unite crowd. Mr. Reynolds awful sin in the first hours of his new position was to say things like "Somebody can look at disparities in income and home ownership and conclude that it is due to discrimination, but before you can do that you have to perform an investigation because there are other factors that could explain these disparities," how dare him! Mr. Reynolds went on to say "The disparities could be the result of discrimination or it could the result of something else that has no relation to discriminatory conduct," doesn't he know any negative news about minorities is always about race and has been for forty years! Shouldn't we give Mr. Reynolds a chance or are we afraid he might discover that racism isn't as bad as we are lead to believe?
CondomThis story just hit me funny and I had to say something about it. You see Korea has no word for condom so they have been using the English word. Wanting to change the word they had a campaign to come up with a name. After 19,000 submissions they thought they had one - however, it was to close to actual names and people complained. Bottom line they are staying with condom to mean condom...
(Read here) Hat tip:
Flying Yangban
(via
David Limbuagh)
Mr. Limbaugh identifies more media persecution in one of his latest
blog entries. An
article from Reuters lumps Islam and Christianity into the same bucket by saying that distortions of both religions lead to spousal abuse and "honor killings". Where do they get this stuff? I was raised in a Christian home and was taught only to respect and honor women - I want even address the "killing" accusation!
Magdlena Sroda says: It is a structure based on patriarchal domination of God the Father and the less important role of women can be seen for example in the letters of Saint Paul.
Here is a little of what Paul had to say about how to treat wives:
Ephesians 5:25 (New International Version) Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
How can it be said this teaches abuse and "killing"?
In this
article we find that the Vatican is attempting to get "Christianophobia" recognized as an evil that is equal to hatred of Jews and Muslims. Archbishop Giovanni LaJola said, "It should be recognized that the war against terrorism, even though necessary, had as one of its side effects the spread of 'Christianophobia' in vast areas of the globe".
I would have to say, with all due respect, hatred of Christians has been around much longer then the "war against terrorism". Christians around the globe have been persecuted for their belief long before 9/11 and having been documented I hope people don't assume this is a new phenomena. Another thought, would you choose phobia? Phobia "an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation" - does it point to the true evil and hatred?
Do we need a word to know that people hate Christians? Is there a need to label the persecutors of Christianity anything else but persecutors or evil? Is this just a simple attempt to label a "group" and the "never ending" search to understand evil of a now labeled group? Evil is just that evil and it is real; naming it something other than evil doesn't change that it is evil, anti-Christian, against God
Can you believe in a country that was based on religious freedom and founded on Christian beliefs we have gotten to the point Christmas cannot be mentioned because it contains the word "Christ" - People the historical reference for Christmas is the birth of "Christ", the "Christ", the Son of "G"od! Are we really attempting to create a secular holiday yet have it the same day "Christ" was born, yet fail to acknowledge that point in fear of offending some! This is absurd and I am sure our founding fathers are "turning over in their graves"... Here is the
article by Jennifer Harper that has gotten my dander up. Some snippets:
Denver, for example, refused to allow a Christian church float in the city's holiday parade, because "direct religious themes" were not allowed. Homosexual American Indians, Chinese lion dancers and German folk dancers, however, were welcome.
The mayor of Somerville, Mass., issued a formal apology this week to anyone offended by a press release "mistakenly" issued from his office that called the town "holiday party" a "Christmas party."
School districts in Florida and New Jersey have banned Christmas carols altogether, and an "all-inclusive" holiday song program at a Chicago-area elementary school included Jewish and Jamaican songs, but no Christmas carols.
Down in Kentucky, local officials rejected the offer of Grace Baptist Church to stage a live Nativity scene in a public square.
God help us!
Charles Hunt has an
article about "a new bill on immigration security" - I want to know if you think they will go far enough or too far... My internet traffic has picked up and I really want your opinion you can
E-mail or simply post a comment. I plan to give my opinion but later.
FoxNews has a great "letter" written by
Father Jim Chern that I think everyone should
read - makes you think.
I was excited when
Afghanistan held elections and now I am elated that their new president was
sworn in. I admit I have not seen much news in the last twenty-four hours but what I did see did not have much coverage. Is this not great news - one of our
main objectives achieved! Now on to January and the Iraqi election!
(Story/Video here)
(via
David Limbaugh)
Hey, Democratic Party; do yourself a favor and get rid of
Terry McAuliffe quickly and unceremoniously. Mr. McAwfully-Nasty (D. Limbaughism) used Pearl Harbor day to
attack Republicans in yet another show of his uncouthness and I find his tactic of using December 7th (day of infamy) distasteful! Read Mr. Limbaugh's take
here
(via
National Review Online)
Mary Frances Berry refuses to acknowledge her term as a member of the
U. S. Commission on Civil Rights is up.
Peter Kirsanow has an
article outlining her refusal to depart and other troublesome character flaws. During Berry's rein as chairman (12 years) "a culture of unaccountability has become and entrenched feature of the commission's administrative character", revealed by numerous governmental reviews. Some snippets:
In 1997, a Government Accountability Office report noted that management is in disarray, projects are poorly managed and take years to complete, spending data isn't maintained by office, program, or function and the agency's policies and procedures are unclear. GAO couldn't even verify project spending because of the commission's indecipherable record keeping.
The GAO's 2003 review of the commission showed that the commission had also failed to comply with the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993. The civil-rights commission has not updated its strategic plan since 1997.
[...]
Just last week she released a deeply flawed and biased report critical of the Bush administration's civil-rights record, despite the fact that such report had been rejected by the commission at its November 12 meeting (the report was originally scheduled for release just days before the presidential election but Republican commissioners succeeded in tabling it, noting that the report on the Clinton civil-rights record wasn't released until after his second term, expressly to avoid politicization). Why even vote on reports if the chairman will simply issue them as she sees fit?
UPDATE: Decmeber 8th: Berry steps
down.
Interesting
article by
Amy Fagen describing different courses Republicans are taking to deal with the United Nations.
- Annan needs to step down:
"I don't think we'll get all the facts as long as Mr. Annan is remaining at the helm," Mr. Wicker said.
Nineteen Republicans and one Democrat -- Rep. Gene Taylor of Mississippi -- had signed the resolution, as of late yesterday.
Calls for Mr. Annan to step down already have come from Sen. Norm Coleman, the Minnesota Republican who is heading the main congressional inquiry into accusations of fraud, bribery and corruption in the United Nations' administration of the Iraq oil-for-food program.
- Withhold funding until full disclosure, and no more "get out jail free cards":
A separate group of Republicans led by Rep. Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican and member of the House International Relations Committee, yesterday pushed legislation that would tie the United States' U.N. funding to the organization's cooperation with investigators.
The corruption accusations have prompted numerous investigations, including several congressional inquiries, a U.S. Treasury Department investigation and a U.N.-commissioned inquiry conducted by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker.
But Mr. Flake and other Republicans say the United Nations is not cooperating with investigators, is withholding information, and has denied Mr. Volcker's investigation any subpoena power to get information.
[...]
Under Mr. Flake's bill, which has 77 co-sponsors, Congress would withhold 10 percent of its U.N. funding in fiscal 2005 and 20 percent in fiscal 2006, until President Bush certifies that the United Nations has agreed to certain standards laid out in the bill. The bill calls for full disclosure of documents related to the oil-for-food program, asks U.N. officials to waive diplomatic immunity, and asks any U.N. official who benefited from the program to reimburse the full amount that was improperly received.
I believe either is a start and worth looking into - it is understood saying something has to be done.
(Read more)UPDATE:
National Review Online
Thought I would share a
website that tells the reason for the season.
Remember
Pearl Harbor: want to ensure that this
day of infamy is never forgotten.... Here is another
link to a story remembering the USS Oklahoma....
ALWAYS REMEMBER!
Good
article by Ian Robinson on
Calgary Sun's website, dated November 14, 2004. I wish I had seen it earlier but I found it interesting and funny. Some snippets:
I hope I'm not alone in gently suggesting to those considering coming to Canada: Stay home, you pathetic whining maggots.
Particularly celebrities. Canada has suffered enough without having to put up with any of the Baldwin brothers or -- heaven forfend! -- Barbra Streisand.
And frankly, I don't know if we can afford to feed Michael Moore.
Bad enough that Canada became a haven for the gutless wonders of the 1960s who fled the Vietnam draft. I sometimes think that the draft dodgers welcomed by the Trudeau government were a political virus that invaded our body politic, and we still suffer the lingering effects of that illness. (Read it)
There is an interesting
article in
The Weekly Standard that provides details of a "media bias" study by UCLA. Some excerpts:
These researchers use a clever statistical technique to construct an objective measure of conservative or liberal bias in the news coverage of major U.S. television and radio stations, newspapers, magazines, and the Internet. Their main finding is that the liberal inclination of the mainstream media is clear. Among 20 major outlets, Fox News and the Washington Times emerge as conservative, but the other 18 range from slightly to substantially left of center.
Before you jump on the hate Fox bandwagon lets look further.
On the conservative end, the only two outlets below 50 were the Washington Times (35) and Fox News Special Report with Brit Hume (40). Although right of center, these ratings are much closer to the centrist position of 50 than to congressional Republicans' average position of 16.
The other 18 outlets are on the liberal side of 50. Particularly striking are the high liberal ratings for the New York Times and CBS Evening News (both 74), not too far below the average score of 84 for Democratic members of Congress. The news programs of the other two traditional television networks are closer to the center--62 for NBC Nightly News and 61 for ABC World News Tonight. (Read more)
MSNBC, I assume in an effort to attack the Military or President Bush released a
story containing new facts about
Pat...wait, are they new facts? Here is a
story (dated 5/20/2004) that brings the same
new (?) facts to the surface. This is simply another example of MSM regurgitating old negative news stories in it's never ending attack on President Bush and the Military. No they aren't biased, right! As I stated in
Good News Please "It could be said the media is acting treasonous and attempting to destroy the country from within – come on how about a “Little Good News” today".
REMINDER: Regurgitating stories is not new; see
here and
here and
here.
Fact:I want it abundantly clear that how Mr. Pat Tillman died does not detract from the honor due him!
(via
Betsy's Page)
After reading this
story would you want the French training anybody in security? I am not sure I do!
