Make Mine a Double

Happy New Year

Angel on Flight 253

P + P = More P

Theory:
Poverty + Programs = Power

Therefore, one might say that votes matter more (to some) than the prosperity of a nation.

The Ancients

If you are interested, a brief comparison of Jesus and Muhammad can be read by clicking here.  Article is by William Federer, historian and author of all kinds of interesting stuff.  His website is http://www.americanminute.com/ if you're interested in putting current events in a historical context.

The reason I posted this is because it seems that among all the other issues we think about (as a nation), we are also in the middle of debating whether or not to trust Muslims as a whole.  Islam is sometimes said to be a religion of peace, but the facts about this religion are not so convenient.  Of course there are exceptions, such as the thus-far peaceful Green movement in Iran currently engaged in what appears to me to be a remarkable act of civil disobedience and bravery.

Judge for yourself about Islam.  If you decide that trust in Islam is misplaced, that is your right.  But remember that Christianity does not promote the spread of violence or persecution.  It is possible that Muslims are a brainwashed people.  It would seem this presents an enormous opportunity for spreading the love of Christ, albeit a potentially dangerous one.

Carbon-bon

Let me preface this post by saying that when I watched the new movie, Avatar, I rooted for the Na'vi (the blue jungle-dwelling people).  I'm an animal and nature lover.  One of my own family members died of asthma related complications.  So I want you to know that I do care about the environment, clean air, etc.  The earth's resources should be used appropriately, not simply squandered beyond necessity to get at whatever goodies might lie beneath its surface. 

But it seems to me that this carbon footprint / climate change stuff is a money-making scheme created to pull at your heartstrings while doing nothing to actually better the environment.  This is what happens when an ideology becomes an idiocracy.  Pay special attention to the next to last paragraph in this article where the lady says she was just "trying to be good..."  What a sad religion is Gorism.  The Earth was doing a fine job of coping with temperature before Al Gore came along.  The only inconvenient truth here is that Al Gore and others like him have been able to make a mighty fine living off of ignorant people.

Bribes, kickbacks, and other political booty

If the health care insurance reforms revered by liberal democrats are so great, then why the hell'd you have to buy off so many members of congress, Harry? Shouldn't people just naturally want to, you know, buy in on their own?

Of course, "buy in" is the appropriate term now, what with mandates and penalties and all.

60/40

Before you try to take over the world, thank you for at least letting me know who my friends are.  Also, this article rocks my face (not off, but it still rocks it).

I hate to say I told you so, but...

I told you so. Just not in quite a high-minded economics fashion.

Wait, let me retract that. I said months ago that it's basic economics: raise the cost of labor, and demand for labor will decrease.

The argument for a "living wage" or a higher minimum wage has almost always been based on specious emotional reactions and not on sound economic facts. I maintain that the two quickest, best things that Our Gov't could do to mitigate both the current economic situation and the longer-term budget deficit would be to reduce corporate income taxes and lower minimum wage, with reduction of personal income taxes a close third. This would stimulate business development, production, hiring, investment, and make the US a more attractive business environment to foreign firms. All of which would, in aggregate and over time, increase the tax base and gives us a fighting chance to lower the deficit before our children are grandparents (assuming hell freezes over and Our Gov't reduces spending).

Is there hope for the Left after all?

Wow, maybe there is still some hope and change left under those seat cushions.  Does the Left have a conscience after all?  I want to give them credit where it is due.

Well, maybe except for the likes of Chavez and the other Copenhagen weirdos.  They're already too gone.

Budget

“Because if we don't do this, nobody argues with the fact that health care costs are going to consume the entire federal budget,” the president said recently in an interview with Charles Gibson.

[Grimp raises hand]

Why?

Parker?! I don't even know her...

Hehehe, that's what she said... Okay enough.

Her first name, Annise, would have been much funnier if she were a man, by the way. You know, I don't want to rag on gays. Because the Lord said, "Love thy neighbor." And I do. But that doesn't mean I have to praise my neighbor's sin. Love the sinner not the sin. Yes, we all sin.  Yes, we all fall short.  Does that mean we all deserve for our sin to be made into an acceptable norm in our culture?  Um...no, not so much.

I love how being openly gay (apparently much better than regular gay) makes you worthy of a personal phone call from the president of the US.  Our president apparently loves the sin.  I also love how about 150,000 people made the choice to have an openly gay mayor for the other 2.2 million residents of Houston while the other registered losers didn't bother to get off their duffs and vote. 

Obama says, "We're watching and very proud..." 

Of??? 

Being gay???  Yes, congratulations and happy trails. 

Just another log to add to the morality bonfire.

Well of course it does!

I haven't posted here in a few weeks, so it only makes sense that my first post back would be something stupid.
What English Sounds Like to Non-English Speakers (It's a music video, natch).

The dancing at 1:27 of the video cracks me up more than anything else.

Oh, and there's a harmonica.

The Power of Obama Compels You

As our fearless leader likes to say, "Let me be clear."  If our president were to get on board with America, I would be one of the first people to support him.  But until that day, I will be forced by conscience to disagree with him.

"I didn't run for office to help Fat cat bankers on Wall Street..."

These are the telling words of a communist that echo in the hearts of downtrodden minorities: "Don't be a banker...don't do anything that makes you or your family prosperous (unless it's writing a memior before you've had a life to write about)...making money is immoral (for conservatives)...unlike abortion and gay marriage which is no biggie...stay poor...stay ignorant...I will help you...I am from the government...I am all powerful and righteous...you are my subjects...let me (s)mother you...come to my bosom, and I will give you rest..."

Makes me wanna spew!  Out both ends!  Simultaneously. 

Banks owe the American public (as if these businesses were not made up of the American public)?  For what exactly?  Being bailed out against our will?  Wasn't that congress' doing?  Wasn't that our leadership?  No banks didn't cause the recession.  Congress did because people like Barney Frank regulated a "free" market system into what it became and opened a door to to incentives for poorly structured financial transactions. 

Be sure to watch the whole video linked in the paragraph above, and you can see Obama feign humility on Oprah.  I haven't seen that kind of acting since Hillary squeezed a steaming tear out on the campaign trail.  A B+ huh...  Wow, man, don't be so hard on yourself.  I mean, you're doing a great job of ramming new policies down the throats of unwilling Americans.  On the communist grading scale, I'd give you an A.  You can get an A+ when you have your own gulag.

Obama spoke.  And there was light...  Suddenly common sense and truth don't matter that much anymore.  This self-proclaimed savior of America is simply a man with a mic behind a fancy green curtain.

Entropy (or why the left isn't right, Part III)

Entropy is considered a measure of disorder.  The term is used to describe the concept in science of systems naturally tending towards a lower state of energy (an increased state of chaos).  Living things use engergy to "defeat" entropy.  More energy is required to keep systems organized and working than what is needed to allow them to fall into a state of chaos.  Take an old tractor for example.  It has to be oiled, filled with fuel, and maintained in order to continue to run.  If it is left out in a field without any care, it will rust and eventually fall into a non-working state.  Your own house may even be an appropriate analogy.  If you do nothing to keep up with the laundry, do the dishes, or vacuum, eventually your house accumulates a list of needed chores so long that it seems insurmountable.  Similarly, that which is dead will begin to decay and be prayed upon by the living.

Entropy can be used to describe the liberal point of view.  Communication is important, and in the realm of communication, the conservative viewpoint is at a natural disadvantage that must be overcome.  Entropy describes why it is easier to convey the liberal message to the general public.  It is much simpler to say, "We're from the government, and we're here to help" than it is to convey a conservative message of personal freedom and the concepts of individual responsibility and individual charity.  It is much easier to be passively taxed by the government than to make a conscious decision to take action and give to someone in need.  Liberal views are lethargic and result in a removal of energy from the system due to complacency and waste.  Liberalism makes empty promises to the public without consideration of repercussions.  It takes the easy road: says what is easy to say and takes the path of least resistance. 

As these promises are believed, the public begins to rely on government for its wellbeing (business regulations, health care, etc.) and has a decreasing incentive to be productive resulting in a net loss of freedom, prosperity, and ability.  One expects charitable giving to decline as reliance on government to service the populace increases and for the general skillset to suffer as regulations are expected to solve personal deficiencies in the arts of math and money management. 

We have not even yet mentioned the direct destruction of life:  a liberal invention for solving personal social crises.  Energy is required to support life, and it is much easier to tell a young woman who is scared of an unwanted pregnancy that it is her right to abort the child than it is to teach her the value of human life.  When the culture of putting energy into the system is no longer valued, lives will be worth nothing.  Liberals prefer immediate solutions but have no intention of dealing with their unintended consequences.  They end up looking like humanity's saviors, but, much like orchids, they are simply beautiful parasites.

In short, communicating the conservative approach requires more work but results in a living organized system.  It must be maintained.  Energy must be put into it to make it work.  In the end, a stronger, more capable organism will remain.  The liberal alternative is an empty cup labeled "hope and change".

Why the Left isn't Right Part I
Why the Left isn't Right Part II

Scientific Nobel Prize

In honor of the ignominious anniversary of the blog. I would like to take a moment to rectify a wrong. When the Nobel Prizes were awarded this year, you noticed, of course, that the American media were not among them. Why is this, when the American media have managed the greatest scientific discovery of our time, the Hills Singularity? We all know about black holes, singularities of immense gravitational power that can bend light itself. But who, I ask you, could have imagined that MTV would create a singularity so powerful that not even rational thought can escape? This incredible discovery is named in honor of that weird TV show where teeny-boppers just kind of awkwardly stare at each other for extended periods of time. I can only assume that they stare at each other without dialogue of any kind because the actors of the show are victims of the same singularity they helped to create, and their rational thought is being sucked out their tear ducts while the cameras are rolling. Bravo, American Media. I can only hope that your pioneering scientific spirit can continue to extend beyond the realms of our universe into other dimensions where logic, reason, and morality continue to carry a weight of importance that approximates that of a half-eaten cheese puff. You, American Media, are the reason that the terms "morning" and "mourning" are indistinguishable in spoken communication. Your epic fail is only eclipsed by the Russian Navy's ability to generate massive and well-recorded light shows with their failed sea-launched missiles. Next week - we discuss the topic of "subtlety". Until then, remember, if you're not cheating, you're not trying...

PHD

In honor of fallen heroes...

Photos

But I Never Learned to Reid!

Wow, there is a feminine hygiene product that describes Senator Harry Reid to a "t".  Yes, I know, that's a bit tacky.  But he is just awful.  The man unreluctantly equates enemies of communism to enemies of equal rights.  In his own words regarding the recent debates on health care communism: "When women spoke up for the right to speak up, they wanted to vote, some insisted they simply, slow down, there will be a better day to do that, today isn't quite right."  Really?  Can no one help this poor man?  And then, "When this body was on the verge of guaranteeing equal civil rights to everyone regardless of the color of their skin, some senators resorted to the same filibuster threats that we hear today."  In other words, since people wanted to slow down progression back then, it follows that people who want to slow down a really bad form of progression today must be evil.  Is there a lapse in judgment there, or is it just me?  It's the same old argument: "Anyone who thinks my ideas suck (and they do, Harry) must be prejudiced against blacks or maybe even women."  No Harry, just you.  I'm prejudiced against you.  So Harry, if you're ever thinking of jumping into a swirling lava-filled inferno, and I tell you to wait, slow down, think about it...by all means, don't listen to me, because I'm a conservative, and I wouldn't want to keep you from being progressive.

The Strength of America

The Senate is currently debating the gargantuan health care bill.  There are a million and one sad stories that bleeding heart liberals can come up with to tug on your heart strings.  But no amount of willful blindness will make this bill a good idea.  The strengh of America is at stake now.  You can watch C-SPAN for a mere 5 minutes and realize democrats in congress have completely forgotten that the strength of America is found in the independency of each American and not in his/her reliance on the state.  Ever since we fought for liberty against Great Britain, the strength of America was Americans.  Americans are strong, able, intelligent, and charitable.  The government's mothering is smothering.  We don't need them to save us from ourselves.  This bill, which is thousands of pages of ambiguous controls is nothing more than one small step for congress, one giant leap towards tyranny.  As Europeans are pulling themselves out of the fires of socialism, we are rushing headlong into the flames.

Check out Cornyn around an hour 17 on this CSPAN video.  Nice to see Obama's empty promises of transparency made more transparent.

Completion

In case you missed the president forget last night to inspire a WIN versus bring the campaign operation fighting thingy to a successful completion, you may watch it by clicking the link below.  "As your commander in chief, I owe you a mission that is clearly defined and worthy of your service."  Time to pay up Mr. President.

Speech video

On Welfare

Ever seen this man in an American welfare line?

Me neither.  Maybe we were doing okay with capitalism the way it was.  I wonder if helping people on welfare who have big screen tv's in their living rooms is like spitting in the face of the man shown above and making a mockery of the freedom and the strength with which God has blessed our nation.  How long will we have these gifts to waste?  Obviously there are people who need help in the world (yes, even in the US), but apparently not all our priorities are sorted correctly. 

You'll have a hard time convincing me that every American deserves to own their own home when that philosophy has almost certainly led to the foreclosures we are experiencing now.  Plus there is such a thing as renting.  Plus there is this man seen above who deserves a meal, a shirt, and pants before you deserve to get help financing a home you can't afford. 

A reworded highschool speech dug out of a box in the attic might be enough for America's "poor" to cast their votes for the Left, but it will take more than empty promises of hope and change to help the man above.

Oh yeah, I forgot...and also, the sky is falling

For Al Gore that is.  Guess what relatively big story regarding the not-so-irrefutable climate change "crisis" is not on MSNBC.  Huh.  Weird.  Oh well.  Guess they're covering bigger stuff...oh thank goodness, there it is...I was worried all night about who was going to fill Oprah's void after she moves into the adult film industry.  I like how "Breaking news, Weather, etc." includes the absence of "Global Climate Change".  Maybe not mentioning it is just their simple way of admitting defeat.

Don't debate. Discriminate.

So what am I supposed to call race baiters if they're not ironically racist?  Antidisdiscriminationalists?

(image above on loan from thepeoplescube.com)

Life after Death

Two possibilities seem to exist: 1) either the universe has always been or 2) there was a time when it did not exist.  Either way, can you comprehend it?  Scientific types, you might be interested in this article regarding science and eternity.

Andy McCarthy on Terrorism

You might also be interested in reading one of Andy's recent articles on this issue: click here.

Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody

Reading Holder his Rights

This video is so awesome, I'm posting it again: here.  Too often do you see liberal congressmen reaming individuals on CSPAN.  It's not hard to see when it's all for show.  Not often enough do you see a congressman come down on an individual for making bad decisions that impact the other 300 million of us.  And I appreciate the respectful way that Graham was able to do it, allowing Mr. Holder to save face.  It may have been a little harder for me not to unleash hell.

Protected Class

In the wake of everyone becoming a protected class (except white Christian heterosexual males who apparently can all just go to...), I think this fellow makes some interesting points.  See Progressives, Islam and the Universe of Lies.  In the world of homosexuals, pro-choicers, trans-this-and-thats, government defined minorities, committed atheists, code pinkers, and illegal immigrants, it would sometimes seem that the only unprotected class is the one called Americans.  And if you are an unwanted fetus, you are the most unprotected class of all and ironically the weakest.  No one speaks for you.  In a liberal society, only throwaway babies get the death penalty without a trial.

Why the Left isn't Right, Part Deux

Pardon me, liberal, I'd like to ask you some questions...

What is your complaint against conservatives?  Is it that conservatives are all white fat cats?  Well how about Thomas Sowell, who I mention frequently on this blog?  He's very black.  He looks black and sounds black.  He was raised in Harlem, graduated magna cum laude at Harvard, started out as a Marxist, and is now one of the greatest minds on the conservative side.  Liberal, how do you answer for supporters of your side such as Warren Buffet and George Soros?  They are pretty darn rich and white.

But conservatives hate the poor, you say.  Do they?  Why do you say that?  Because they hate the idea of bringing down the successful in order to support failure?  Because they don't like to punish the hard working people that are responsible for coming up with the businesses and ideas that offer employment to the poor?  How do you answer for the fact that studies show that conservatives give more of their own hard earned money to charity than liberals do?  Even if that study weren't true, why don't you hear about liberals donating more of their money in taxes if they trust the government so much?  Social justice, helping the poor, equality?  Those are things the liberal stands for!  Yeah, right...  You wish that is what people believed.  You want to give other people's money and other people's time, not your own.  Pretty smart really.  If more people do your work for you then you don't have to.

Maybe you hate conservative talk radio for being so popular.  Maybe more people would listen to liberal programming if it actually said something.  Better yet, something true.  Only a real liberal can take up a full hour to talk and wind up saying nothing at all.  Why don't any of your show hosts appear to work to educate themselves beyond what is on the New York Times bestseller list or Oprah's book club?

Maybe you can't stand that conservatives don't use the F-word in every blog post or don't make fun of Bush's southern twang enough.  Maybe "F Bush" just isn't that powerful of an argument anymore.  Let's not forget that we are war-mongering.  Yes, because it is much better to wait until a Muslim terrorist has his foot on your nuts in your own home than to take the fight to his country.

So come on, give me a reason.  You have your heroes.  Let's see them.  Do you hate conservatives for...I don't know...freeing the slaves (thank you Abe Lincoln) or maybe being strong on defense in a world with radical nuke seeking miscreants, or Bush's unsung contributions to Africa?  Have we just not done enough?

Why do you hate us?  Is it because we think you should have a baby even though you didn't want to?  Do  you hate that life is more important than your selfish nature?  Have you forgoten the answer to unwanted pregnancy is love?  Do you just hate responsibility so much that you'd rather justify taking an innocent life without a trial and fight to free a murderer from capital punishment?

Are you mad that conservatives prefer logic over raw emotion?  Do you wish that feeling something really made it true?  Did you know that if you wish in one hand and crap in the other, only one hand has something in it?  Are you mad that conservatives like to ask "why", that annoying little three letter word that you do such a good job of avoiding?

As for the bumper sticker that says "Jesus is a liberal"...well folks, if that were true, he would have chosen to avoid the cross, be aborted in the womb, and come back as a gay, pot smoking, narcisist.  In other words, he would have come back as Barney Frank.

To educate yourself on health care...

Allow me point you to a resource that is sure to fill you with practical knowledge about health care.  Click here to read Thomas Sowell's series on the Economics of Medical Care.

Why the Left isn't Right!

I'm sorry if you fall into the category of someone who agrees with democrats and liberals because of their empty rhetoric about how much they care about the poor and downtrodden.  Your heart is probably in the right place, but your logic most likely isn't.  If you are going to identify yourself with any political party at all, why would you want to identify yourself with a group of loose lipped, terrorist appeasing, schemers that are devoid of understanding history and economics and are incapable of honoring the sanctity of life?  Does that mean republicans are better?  No, not always.  Republicans have had their share of self-interested hypocrites at times.  So does this mean true Conservatives are a better choice?  Yes.  It really does.  Are democrats and liberals the same thing?  No, not always.  But why would you want to identify with a party to which the term "liberal" so easily attaches?  Why would you want to simply be a fence-sitting liberal that knows nothing but emotion and only votes present when choices are hard?

The leftist policies that seem to be invented almost daily typically contain so many unintended consequences that they become increasingly idiotic, as well as despotic, with time.  Look at minimum wage, water and building restrictions in California, global climate change, civilian trials for terrorists, increased spending, government run health care, welfare, tax hikes, etc.  They all come with lofty guarantees and disclaimers of low side-effects.  But as soon as you swallow the blue pill, the nausea begins.  You're now more likely to have probes put in places you don't like.  Though they'll market to you how much help they've given society, the reality of what they've done to society is something quite different.  They even market ambiguous things like "hope" as if that is actually going to provide hope.  That's like jumping off a building without a net and yelling "fly". 

Conservatives need to drop the gentlemanly attitude and start kicking butts and drudging up the truth on opponents because we know they aren't going to play fair.  Stop being afraid to fight people like Ted Kennedy (may the Lord forgive his soul) who should have gone to jail but instead was considered a liberal hero.  Some democrats even want to pass this disaster of a health care bill in his honor.  Nevermind the American people they represent.  It's Ted's honor they're worried about.  That should tell you all you need to know about liberals.  Stop being afraid to tell people that Barrack Obama has very sketchy friends, and his own preacher was a certifiable lunatic.  Stop walking on eggshells because he's black.  Big deal.  That's no excuse for being liberal.  No thinking person is against Obama because he's black.  That would just be silly and ignorant.  I am, however, strongly opposed to having a liberal socialist in charge because that person will continue to make well-spoken but stupid and selfish choices for America.  What kind of person thinks it's fair to give the planner of the 9-11 attack the same kind of trial an American citizen has access to but doesn't think it's fair for his daughter to be "punished with a baby" (his own words) if she were to get pregnant on accident.  In other words, only unwanted babies deserve the death penalty without a fair trial?

So please vote more carefully next go-around and say what needs to be said if you are running for office.  If you have to vote based on race, pick someone like Thomas Sowell instead of voting like the presidency is nothing more than a high school popularity contest.  As for reaching across party lines, John McCain disappointed me greatly in the general election.  Instead of repeating ad nauseam how he could reach across the isle, he should have told those snakes that if they reached across the isle, they'd pull back a nub.  It's time to stop making deals with the devils.

Siwhatti?

Had to go to the UK for this one.  Click here to read an article about a woman you've probably never heard of but probably should have.  I mean, it's almost good enough for a Lifetime evening drama.

The culture of unions

The headline of the (Allentown, PA) Morning Call news story reads:
Union troubled by Eagle Scout project in Allentown.

Nick Balzano, president of the local Service Employees International Union, told Allentown City Council Tuesday that the union is considering filing a grievance against the city for allowing Anderson to clear a 1,000-foot walking and biking path at Kimmets Lock Park.

"We'll be looking into the Cub Scout or Boy Scout who did the trails," Balzano told the council.

Balzano said Saturday he isn't targeting Boy Scouts. But given the city's decision in July to lay off 39 SEIU members, Balzano said "there's to be no volunteers." No one except union members may pick up a hoe or shovel, plant a flower or clear a walking path.

Let me just say for the record: you are a sick man.

Just a Thought

If KSM wants to be a martyr, why do we have trouble helping him out with that?  On second thought, maybe he does deserve a second chance.  How about a job at the White House as the Obama kids' bed-time story reader?  Or better yet, Nancy Pelosi's pool-boy.  I heard she likes 'em with a little hair on their chest.

A Response

You know, just once I'd like to actually witness a conversation like that of the post below instead of just reading about it.

The conversation Grimp posted here is certainly illustrative of the argument a professing Christian would like to make in the face of an openly hostile, disbelieving critic. I doubt that the conversation is, in fact, a strictly true story. It is nice to read. It is nice to imagine laying the verbal smack-down on the metaphorical disbelieving critic. But the story is almost certainly not true, in the sense that there was an actual college classroom where this exact exchange took place.

But of course, everyone reading the story knows that.

The salient point is that disbelieving critics should be debated rationally, logically, but with a sense of the faith our hero in the story professes. Christians should, as Saint Peter wrote, "be able to give an answer to anyone who asks" about what and why we believe as we do.


I was originally going to do this as a comment to the previous post, but then I realized it was getting longer and longer and...hey! I've got posting access! So here it is as a full post.

An Interesting Conversation

An atheist professor of philosophy was speaking to his class on the problem science has with GOD, the ALMIGHTY.  He asked one of his new Christian students to stand and debate him...

Professor : You are a Christian, aren't you, son ?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor : So, you Believe in GOD ?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD Good ?
Student : Sure.
Professor : Is GOD ALL - POWERFUL ?
Student : Yes.
Professor : My Brother died of Cancer even though he Prayed to GOD to Heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn't. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?

(Student was silent )

Professor : You can't answer, can you ? Let's start again, Young Fella. Is GOD Good?
Student : Yes...
Professor : Is Satan good ?
Student : No.
Professor : Where does Satan come from ?
Student : From . .. . GOD . . .
Professor : That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this World?
Student : Yes.
Professor : Evil is everywhere, isn't it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.
Professor : So who created evil ?

(Student did not answer)

Professor : Is there Sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the World, don't they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor : So, who Created them ?

(Student had no answer)

Professor : Science says you have 5 Senses you use to Identify and Observe the World around you. Tell me, son . . . Have you ever Seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor : Tell us if you have ever Heard your GOD?
Student : No , sir.
Professor : Have you ever Felt your GOD, Tasted your GOD, Smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any Sensory Perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Professor : Yet you still Believe in HIM?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my Faith.
Professor : Yes,Faith. And that is the Problem Science has..
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor : Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor : Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn't.

(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events )

Student : Sir, you can have Lots of Heat, even More Heat, Superheat, Mega Heat, White Heat, a Little Heat or No Heat. But we don't have anything called Cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero which is No Heat, but we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as Cold. Cold is only a Word we use to describe the Absence of Heat. We cannot Measure Cold. Heat is Energy. Cold is Not the Opposite of Heat, sir, just the Absence of it.

(There was Pin-Drop Silence in the Lecture Theatre )

Student : What about Darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as Darkness?
Professor : Yes. What is Night if there isn't Darkness?
Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the Absence of Something. You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light . . . But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and its called Darkness, isn't it? In reality, Darkness isn't. If it is, you would be able to make Darkness Darker, wouldn't you?
Professor : So what is the point you are making, Young Man ?
Student : Sir, my point is your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
Professor : Flawed ? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue there is Life and then there is Death, a Good GOD and a Bad GOD. You are viewing the Concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can't even explain a Thought. It uses Electricity and Magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view Death as the Opposite of Life is to be ignorant of the fact that Death cannot exist as a Substantive Thing. Death is Not the Opposite of Life: just the Absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your Students that they evolved from a Monkey?
Professor : If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process, yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shook his head with a Smile, beginning to realize where the Argument was going )

Student : Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at work and cannot even prove that this Process is an On-Going Endeavor, are you not teaching your Opinion, sir? Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?

(The Class was in Uproar )

Student : Is there anyone in the Class who has ever seen the Professor's Brain?

(The Class broke out into Laughter )

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's Brain, Felt it, touched or Smelt it? . . ..No one appears to have done so. So, according to the Established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that You have No Brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then Trust your Lectures, sir?

(The Room was Silent. The Professor stared at the Student, his face unfathomable)

Professor : I guess you'll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student : That is it sir . . . Exactly! The Link between Man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that Keeps Things Alive and Moving.

The Daddy Mac'll Make Ya Flip-Flop

Remember Kris Kross, who made us jump-jump back in the 90's and helped us see that wearing your pants backwards could be cool?  I'm reminded of someone else who likes to flip things around. 

"And I think that it is important for us to recognize that if, in fact, you are going to mandate the purchase of insurance and it’s not affordable, then there’s going to have to be some enforcement mechanism that the government uses. And they may charge people who already don’t have health care fines, or have to take it out of their paychecks. And that, I don’t think, is helping those without health insurance."
             - Barrack Obama (while debating Hillary Clinton in 2008 prior to election).

Why I'm a Racist

It's Friday the 13th, and I've just realized 13 reasons why I'm a stinking racist!

1. I must be racist because I don't support the liberal policies that my president and democrat-majority congress are always working to cram down our throats.  Since the president happens to be black(ish), then I have to support everything he stands for in order to be an equal opportunity open-minded citizen.

2. I must be racist because I believe in prosperity and safety for my fellow Americans over soft-soap rhetoric about how we should be our brother's keeper while making real decisions that hurt minorities and the poor more than anyone else.  I heard somewhere that being a hypocrite was kind of a bad thing.  I believe in America not Victimica.

3. I must be racist because I dislike the idea of punishing the successful and middle class and using them like a blank check to fund failing programs that keep the poor stuck where they are, including the black poor.

4. I must be racist because I think it's a blessing for the people of this nation to be able to visit its country's capitol and see the history and inner workings of our great nation. I don't care if Harry Reid can smell them or not.

5. I must be racist because I don't believe that government bureaucrats living in the twilight zone can make decisions about my life better than I can.

6. I must be racist because I feel that black preachers are better from the pulpit than they are from the Oval Office. Church of Obama is still not a real denomination.  And usually they don't have their wives preaching too.  Thanks Michelle.  We all know your hubby's in control of our lives.  You can stop talking now.  Great arms, by the way.

7. I must be racist because I happen to think that Americans donate lots of money and effort to causes that really help people more effectively than government and that taxes take away from their ability and/or eagerness to do so.

8. I must be racist because I don't believe that big businesses are inherently evil. When you punish a big business (via taxation or fees to pay for government programs), you simply punish the small people that work there and the customers that buy their product.  I also believe that more blacks would be employed if not for minimum wage laws and an unhindered continuation of "stimulus".

9. I must be racist because I think that fairness means fairness. It doesn't mean protecting the rights of people who do evil things in the name of religion or personal preference while treating those who disagree like bigots. After all, by that logic, are you not also a bigot for thinking I should be just like you? Secondly, fairness means that if your liberal radio/TV program blows goats because the only thing it's good for is displaying your cool rhinestone encrusted Che t-shirt and how witty you are at regurgitating liberal groupthink, it should stay in the toilet where it belongs.  Hopefully you flush, even when it is just a single.

10. I must be a racist because I believe that aborting little black babies is worse than taking responsibility for them. Abortion (ie killing people that are weaker than you so that you don't have to care for them) is bad for our culture, the parents, and the baby. But then again, my black president doesn’t want his own daughters “punished with a baby” if they got pregnant.  So I must be racist.

11. I must be a racist because Jeremiah Wright has never invited me over to hear any of his new stand-up routine.  But I shouldn't pick on a man who is just bitter to know that if had been white, he could have been Bill Maher?

12. I must be a racist because I was taught that men have a penis and women have a vagina.  And for some reason it seems like those go together (for married people anyway).  I don't think that "gay" is a race anymore than being fat is.

13. Finally, I must be racist because our liberal media and Nancy Pelosi say so.  They can't refute items 1 thru 12 which makes them mad.  So they lie and call people racist when they really aren't.  But that's okay because it's not racist to lie.

If our president spoke for us...

If our President believed in America, he'd be saying something a lot like this:

Nothing short of ridiculous.

Obama's stash.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19v5Kjmc8FI

Hey Obama, since when are you concerned about spending our money? Only when it results in skimping on our military's strength and success? (Below is an excerpt of the transcript of Jake Tapper's interview of Obama - occurred 11/09/09):

Tapper: “You are about to make a final decision about the new strategy in Afghanistan and Pakistan. What variables play into your decision making that would cause you to not just take General McChrystal’s recommendation and implement it?”

Obama: "These are not only eh, enormous burdens that we’re placing on our young men and women — and that’s the thing I think most about. It’s also expensive. Every thousand troops we spend that’s costing us a billion dollars. Uhh, if you send 40,000 troops you’re looking at maybe $50 billion per year above and beyond the costs that we’re already spending."

How can you have it both ways??? First the stimulus package, now the health care "reform" bill? Yet the "commander in chief" can't support our troops when they need more resources and manpower?

Strength & Honor

Borrowed from Nothingbuttruth.com

V is for...

There's a lot of talk regarding the recent tragedy at Fort Hood.  Some say Muslims should not be singled out; others want to lock them down.  Some say Hasan alone is the only one responsible for his crime.  Some say Islam is a religion of violence and that Islam is extremist by its very nature (ie jihadist Islam is the same as regular Islam).  Furthermore, we are confused because there seem to be Muslim heroes in the US armed forces; their graves strewn amongst many other American heroes.  Well, I don't know the answers to all those questions.  What I do know is: if it walks, smells, talks, and acts like a duck, then it's pretty darn logical to think it might be a duck (or in this case, a traitor).  And the penalty for treason in this country is pretty serious (like death).  Not much of a penalty though, it would seem, for a people who believe in blowing themselves up for their cause of removing infidels from the earth. 

In regards to the Ft. Hood tragedy, our own military command seems to be off base just a tad.  General Casey recently said, "I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here."  Maybe the word "greater" wasn't used so well in this context.  Loss of diversity would certainly pale in comparison to the loss felt by the wives, children, and families of the recent victims of this murdering robotic parasite.  Whether Hasan was of the "x-treme" or more "regular" version of Muslim, there is something to say here about a repeatedly violent mindset; a mentality that is controlled by far away Imams rather than conscience.  Over and over again Muslims kill lots of people for so-called religious reasons.  In recent times, people calling themselves Christians have murdered people too.  But were they really trying to follow the word of God as real Christians aspire to do, or were they simply acting in deluded self interest?  Were they praised by other followers of Christianity for their bravery as in Islam?  Did they grow up as children being taught that stealing another person's life is a great honor?

As Patrick Stewart playing Capt. Picard once said in Star Trek: "The line must be drawn here!"  A line must be drawn between what we believe in our hearts and minds in this nation and what we are expected to bend over and accept with political correctness.  This clip also contains some interesting parallels to how we might feel at a time like this (maybe some feelings of vengeance mixed with feelings of responsibility and the urge for strong leadership and safety):


If you're a radical Muslim like Hasan, V might stand for Vendetta.  But if you're a true American, V stands for two things: first, it stands for Victory!  And victory will be ours because we are a people of conscience, honor, truth, and freedom who worship the one true God.  We refuse to lose.  Secondly, it stands for Veteran.  With tomorrow being Veteran's Day, please remember those, whether they be Christian, Muslim, Hindu, or Confusian that helped preserve the freedom we enjoy today and help to regain it every time it is threatened by enemies foreign and domestic. 

True heroes exist.  True evil exists.  Hasan may have been a hero to a select bunch of non-thinking jealous radicals who want their 72 virgins in heaven.  But he has no honor.  And hopefully he has no honor among Muslims as a whole.  But it's unfortunate that it is so difficult to know that for sure. Honor belongs to those who are able to sacrifice themselves for the good of others not only for themselves.  Honor belongs to the American soldiers that give of themselves.  I wish them safety, and though they are trained for war, I wish them peace.  And I hope that our government and military command place more importance on the safety of the American soldier than they do on the politically correct, softsoap, shortsighted, misprioritized concept of diversity.

Correlation and Causation

This interactive graphic at the NYT is interesting.

Among other things, it illustrates data that shows that almost half of black men aged 15-24 without a HS degree have been unemployed at some point during the last 12 months. On the other hand, only 3.5% of white women aged 25-44 with a college degree have been unemployed at some point during the last 12 months.

Some might look at this data and think about the latent racism of our country. I think the data behind the numbers deserves a deeper look.
1) Somewhere between 30-40% of the 15-24 age bracket is not old enough to have completed high school, much less received a degree.
2) Teenage unemployment rates are historically significantly higher than that of the general populace. Wage floors (i.e. minimum wage laws) are a primary contributor to this phenomenon.
3) Skin color does not determine employability or lack thereof. Availability of jobs (supply) is one primary factor. But boiling job availability down to the word "supply" dilutes what is an incredibly complex soup of corporate, economic, governmental, individual, geographical, geopolitical, and financial ingredients. Taking into account the availability of jobs, there will always be a certain subsection of individuals who are more likely to be employed: college educated, highly-skilled, charismatic, intelligent, well-spoken, those with many well-placed contacts. I could go on. None of those characteristics have anything to do with race, gender, or income.
4) In case you're curious, blacks make up approximately 13% of the US population. Black men are a little more than 6% of the population. Black men ages 15-24 are approximately 1% of the population. Simple math says that if about 50% of these men are unemployed, then that equates to around one-half of one percent of all the unemployed people (10.2% of the populace) in the United States.

All of which to say: stop focusing on one small subgroup of America and start focusing on creating jobs. Which, if you are a (rational) government means lower taxes on businesses and individuals, remove the federal minimum wage laws, provide for the common defense, reduce the federal deficit, and get out of the way while businesses create, market, and sell products and services; hire employees; and (in aggregate) grow the economy out of the mess we find ourselves in.

Reagan Smash

Have we gone from Reagan to pagan in barely over 20 years?  Recommending the following video in its entirety: view here.

The Visitors

Wasn't that the title of a scary movie?  Oh wait, it's real life!  Anyway, O'Reilly had an interesting column here about recent visitors to the White Hizzle.

Compare and Contrast

Republican health care plan: $61,000,000,000 over 10 years. Which is 3.5% of...

Democrats health care plan: $1,800,000,000,000 over 10 years. That's trillion with a T.

Change I can believe in.

Change of Heart

Director of Planned Parenthood in Texas town has change of heart.  So did Roe.  So would anyone when they have a real opportunity to see the difference between right and wrong.

"The best way to prove a stick is crooked is to lay a straight one beside it" - FW Boreham

Airport Hijinks & Healthcare Hootenanny

The fact that the word "Airport" is in the title of this post will probably flag some freakishly advanced satellite to start taking high res images of my bald spot.  But it must be done.  Also, I'd like to point out that I don't care if healthcare is one word or two.  This is a little diddy (not about Jack & Diane, as much as I love those kids) about my favorite burning topical ointment, bureaucracy.  Bear with me.  I have a point.

I was at an airport a while back and had to go through customs.  For the most part, the customs procedure was fine.  The airline employees were kind enough to pass out US customs declarations forms (that look a whole lot like this) for us to fill out before we, the people, unloaded the plane and waded our way like a frumpy Chinese dragon winding round and round a path of shiny silvery poles with their cinema style velvet rope dividers waiting to meet our destiny at customs. 

Waiting in line wasn't all that big a deal despite almost 24 hours of airport travel up to this point.  At the end of this lazy congo line was a man.  A man in a hat.  A mysterious man in a hat (let's call him Jack) that controlled the flow of traffic and told people when they were ready to go to a customs station to have their declaration form checked by a customs officer in a booth.  Presently, we came to the beginning of the line.  After quickly looking at the form the airline had given us which was filled out nice and pretty, Jack says, "No, you have the wrong form.  You have to fill out this form."  Really?  I mean, with Lindsay Lohan hitting rock bottom, I just don't know how much I can handle right now.  Thanks Jack.  What was funny about "this form" is that it was exactly the same (word for word and line by line), the SAME as the form we had already filled out except for two MAJOR differences.  One was that his form was an ever so slightly darker shade of blue.  The other was that the form number at the bottom right corner was slightly different, probably to denote that this form and its superior shade of blue keeps America much safer than its paler counterpart, Form 605-9er-letterQ-b12-or-whatevertheheck-version1. 

So, using the coke-can sized top of a silvery pole as my writing desk, I copied what I had written on the first form onto its identical cousin, all while keeping a close eye on my luggage so that no terrorist could slip a mickey into it while I was performing my civic duty.  Made it thru.  Here you go, Jack.  "Okay, head over to booth 9".  Thanks again, Jack.  At booth 9 (or whatever number it was), customs officer says, "Huh, why did you fill out two forms?"  Because I love forms, dude.  I download them and fill them out when I have spare time...when I'm not harping about Jack-In-The-Hat on my blog.  "I wouldn't have even noticed that," says the officer.  I know.  Nor would you have cared unless you too were among the living brain-dead.  But alas, that is not the world we live in.  Zombies with a little bit of authority.  Sorry, Jack-In-The-Hat...I love you like a brother.

In conclusion, I think that's what I want to happen to healthcare.  More government influence.  More bureaucracy.  I want to have trouble in the hospital because the nurse in the lobby had me fill out Form OMGMyHead'sFallingOff-A instead of Form OMGMyHead'sFallingOff-C3.  The point is that this type of thing isn't that big of a deal at the airport or while standing in line at the DMV, but when you are talking about health issues, matters of life and death, there is no room for it.  There is certainly a place for government involvement, especially in the realm of national defense and law enforcement, however, when bureaucracy permeates even the smallest decisions of our daily lives and puts procedure above useful information, we, the people, will certainly be bogged down by it and lose to it every time.

VDH Must Reads

All Falling Down
Obamanoia

More on the Nobel Prize

Another worth-a-read by Walt:  great final paragraph!  Be sure to check regularly in the Society section to the right for new columns by Walt Williams, Thomas Sowell, and Victor Davis Hanson (VDH) - the trifecta of brainpower.

Study: Stupid Laws Produce Stupid Results

Another in the long line of the unintended consequences of government intervention. I forget what number we're up to now.
Anyway, there are federal subsidies in Porkulus that will help you invest in the lucrative market for...golf carts.

The IRS also has ruled there’s no limit to how many electric cars an individual can buy, the Journal reports, inspiring some enterprising investors to stock up on multiple carts while the federal credit lasts, in order to resell them at a profit later on.

Seriously. What does it take to get lawmakers to just shut up and stop making stupid laws?

Anniversary

The word "anniversary" comes from the Latin "anniversarius" for the words "year" and "to turn".  Today we return to some humble beginnings.

Why is history important?  At least two reasons: because hindsight is 20/20, and because history repeats itself (therefore offering a clearer picture of the present and the future).  Perhaps also because it is fitting to honor the brave men and women who have risked their own lives and spent their own histories so that we could live in freedom from oppression and micromanagement.  Today is the 1 year anniversary of Quaestor Fidelis as Chris was kind enough to predict for me several weeks ago.  No doubt these are interesting times, as all times and ages seem to be in their own ways.  In such interesting times, perhaps it is appropriate to revisit history. 

Our federal government today seems to have in its collective mindset the doctrine of such as Rahm Emanuel, Chief of Staff, who warned almost a year ago, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."  It would even seem that Bush, the younger, was taken in by the word "crisis" and opened a door for tremendous government spending and bailouts which Obama and his strange gang of personal czars has further seized upon.  A shift of control, an increase in bureaucracy, and inflation (ie increase in poverty) appear to be the results of such decisions though their intentions may have been noble.  As someone smarter than me once pointed out on the radio, mature adults make decisions based on results not just on good intentions.  Recent events make me wonder how many adults we have left.

There is a tendency to believe that everyone in office is a "professional" and that he knows what he is doing.  While that may often be true, it is also much too often untrue.  Many representatives appear to be history illiterate, and that is probably not good.  Remember, government is made of people.  They are only people.  Ideally they are people like you and I that relate to people like you and I, you know...Americans.  When they no longer feel fortunate to be public servants and begin to believe themselves to be the elite upper crust because they "know" more about what is going on it politics is when it is time to remove them from office by Constitutional means and put someone more fitting in their place.  When they "know" how to solve all the world's ills thru the art of micromanaging, they are tottering on the edge of tyranny.

So in turning to history, I recommend reading Thomas Paine's entire work Common Sense.   It's short, it's very interesting, and it's full of insights written more than 200 years ago that apply today.  What's more, here's a link to a free online version of Common Sense and other works of Thomas Paine.  "These are the times that try men's souls."  Remember that old saying?  That's Paine.  In contrast to what our government teaches today - that a crisis is a spring fed well of opportunity - read Paine's words:

"Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions. Expedience and right are different things. When the calamities of America required a consultation, there was no method so ready, or at that time so proper, as to appoint persons from the several houses of assembly for that purpose; and the wisdom with which they have proceeded hath preserved this Continent from ruin. But as it is more than probable that we shall never be without a congress, every well wisher to good order must own that the mode for choosing members of that body deserves consideration. And I put it as a question to those who make a study of mankind, whether representation and election is not too great a power for one and the same body of men to possess? When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

In Defense of America

VP Dick Cheney, speaking last night at the Center for Security Policy.

Summarized: Obama is screwing everything up, and the repercussions will be significant.

Text here, video here. 25 minutes long.

Walt on Liberty & Tyranny

You'll want to read these words from Walter Williams:  Imprimis

Scary

It really is.

Be sure to mouse over the picture to read the subtext.

How to Win the Nobel Prize

Use the word "hope" at least 10 times a day.  Let us "hope" that terrorist harboring nations think well of us now as they gear up their nuclear arsenals.

Lovebird

See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today's Big Thing.

Require

Marching to Her Own Drumbeat

I find this story, about an 85-year-old metalhead grandma, entertaining. Not that I'm a Metallica fan at all, it's just that I appreciate the fact that you can be 85 and still rebel against conventional wisdom ("It's too loud, Junior! Turn that crap down!"). Or perhaps it's that, at 85, you've lived long enough that you ought to be able to do whatever the heck you want.

Either way: rock on, Grandma. Rock on.

More Lib Logic

Alan Grayson says that the Republican solution to healthcare is "don't get sick." Actually, it's more like "Don't be a communist."  But I'd rather be a knuckle dragging neanderthal than a liberal any day.  At least it makes me closer to human.  Liberal drones don't mind linking some people's lack of health insurance to the holocaust while considering abortion a basic human right.  Makes sense: killing millions of babies each year is nothing like a holocaust, but not having health insurance is just like being burned in an oven at Dachau.  Men (more like adolescent boys) like Grayson run congress.  That needs to change.  That's change we can believe in.

The Most Interesting Advertisments in the World

I love good advertising. Emphasis on "good".
This is good.
...and interesting.

Moore Bull

"To the Democrats in Congress who don’t quite get it: I want to offer a personal pledge. I – and a lot of other people – have every intention of removing you from Congress in the next election if you stand in the way of health care legislation that the people want. That is not a hollow or idle threat. We will come to your district and we will work against you, first in the primary and, if we have to, in the general election." - Michael Moore

That's funny, Michael.  I said something similar to my congressman, but I actually favor a strong America over making a German spectacle of myself and plugging my whinumentaries.  Your idea of healch care reform is Monica Lewinksy giving you a toe job (pedicure that is) and the vaaaaast right wing conspiracy having to pay for it.  The same right wing conspiracy that unzipped Bill Clinton's pants in the oval office.

"If a true public option is enacted — and Obama knows this — it will eventually bring about a single payer system, because the profit-making insurance companies won’t be able to compete with a government run plan and make the profits they want to make." - Michael Moore (again)

Government bureaucracy - Competition in a free market = Poverty

Liberals support a poorer America in the name of fairness because not all people have the same resources.  Do you want to join them in the sinking of all ships?

Sad but true

...or is it just sad?

On Housing (and other things)

I recommend the following interview with Thomas Sowell for your viewing and learning pleasure.  Parts 4 and 5 start getting very interesting:

Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5

And as a fitting accompaniment, this article: readme

What is Quaestor Fidelis?

First, what it's not.  Quaestor Fidelis was not created to preach with hypocrisy.  You may find that it talks of religion, faith, politics, and various passions of mankind and is often full of strong opinion; opinion which you are welcomed to disagree with but encouraged to consider.  Ultimately, Quaestor Fidelis exists as a search; a quest for truth (even though sometimes we just post things because they seem interesting at the time).  We welcome you to be a part of a growing movement of people seeking reality over illusion.

In our relativistic world of competing "truths", the concept of truth can be a little slippery.  It is the goal of this blog to strengthen opinions and beliefs by comparing them to reality.  I cannot claim to be perfect by any means or to know all truth.  But I will claim that only truth can be used as a measuring stick against the sea of information and claims on reality that we all face each and every day.  Remember: a "truth" is not the truth just because I say so or even because the president or your favorite actor says so.  Truth is independent of what you or I may want it to be.  That is why it is so important for us to know what it is and why it is worth knowing.  Our culture tries to teach that everything is relative to who you are or where you're from. But I don't believe that, and furthermore, I believe that is a dangerous perception.

What's a little bit funny/ironic is that people are often afraid of truth. Heck, we all are sometimes. But some people use arguments like, "People who believe in absolute truth are the ones that ran the Spanish Inquisition, slaughtered the Jews, and lynched blacks in Mississippi. Having strong beliefs only leads to problems and prejudice." No doubt, it can. I've heard similar arguments from our own president. The truth is, there have been people throughout history who have believed the wrong things and regarded them as absolute truth. Truth has never been the problem. Perception has. Just because people call themselves Christians doesn't make them followers of Christ. I might just as easily light my rear on fire and call myself a rocket.

Perceptions are the only things that are relative. Truth is what it is regardless of how you might perceive it. Truth is like a large boulder around which a river's water flows. Though continually pushed, it remains solid and still, though etched throughout history with the scars of time's challenge to its permanence.  In the quest for truth, history matters for two reasons: because hindsight is 20/20 and because history repeats itself. Therefore, knowing accurate history ought to improve your foresight.

Our goal is to explore what truth is, correct our errors, and prioritize truths.  As Proverbs 27:17 states: "As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another."  Therefore, don't sit on the sidelines.  Such a topic as this will stretch into all facets of human life including faith, politics, and philosophy. Fence with us. Sharpen yourself.

As we begin this quest each day, we invite you to join us in our quest for truth that matters.  We invite you to join the discussion, correct us when we're wrong, share your opinion, and be open to learning for yourself.

My Son

“We are content and happy if Obama can stay forever as president of the United States.” - Muammar Qadhafi

Words & Turds

Thomas Sowell is just so awesome sometimes it hurts a little bit.  Besides that, being black, raised in relative poverty, and being a very well educated economist and author makes him even that much more credible in a world where any argument against socialism is considered racist.

article part one: readme
article part two: readme