Fish Czar

What does it mean when the cowards of yesterday are coming out in force and naming themselves the great thinkers of today. Is it just me, or is the fact that we have a "science czar" a little uncomfortable, especially when that man once published the following words: "...a fetus is no more a complete human being than a blueprint is a building."?



See related article here. Honestly, I'm a little troubled here. Our current administration is looking into managing health care, deciding how to deal with the elderly (death counseling etc.), and deciding at what point a human is in fact a human. This is so troubling that I think most of us simply ignore it as an overblown trivial issue. Do you have any idea how many abortions take place each year. It's an awesome number. And I don't mean that in the cool way. It is staggering! And that's just counting what the government is able to track.

It's not just that the mere volume of abortions is so enormous that troubles me alone; it's the fact that our society willingly accepts it and convinces itself through faulty logic that killing a child is not killing a child. The thinking goes: "It's legal sometimes, so it must not be immoral." Sin city is far from Vegas, it's at your local Planned Parenthood. Of course violent retaliation upon the employees of Planned Parenthood is unacceptable. Violence against the administration is unacceptable. I don't know what the answer is to stopping this failure of ours to understand the difference between what's right and what's convenient for covering up our mistakes.

It seems like we, as a people, voted for Obama to cover up previous mistakes. In a way, I feel like he is the consequence of our current abortion of conservatism. We the people, having perhaps felt that conservatism has failed us, are deciding to be rid of it, soon to find ourselves one lonely evening crying in our beds because of the terrible thing we've done. We'll wake up to miss what we had: like a newborn child; a responsibility beyond measure and a freedom beyond compare. We'll be left with a liberal shell; a bloody pile of wasted tissue.

I like Obama. That is, if I were to see him in person, I bet it would be hard not to be taken in by his charm. I bet he would know just what to say to me to make me feel comfortable. He's cool. He's funny and charismatic. But then I remember that so were so many other leaders that led their nations to disaster. I also remember Michelle Obama's nightmarish words that "Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual...unengaged, uninformed...", and that reminds me that the actions being taken right now are not in the interest of a people that are governing themselves. They are the actions of an elitist administration that has forgotten that the people are the carpenter and the government his tools, not the other way around.

Cowards are those in government that use the people as their tools for success. It's easy to make promises to give people what they want. It's easy to convince yourself of your own power to give them what you think they need. It's hard to let them tell you and truly listen. It's much easier to give a man a fish than teach him how. There are those in congress and in the administration that look to me as if they are trying to control the oceans while handing out minnows.