+ Decades ago, V.I. Lenin knew precisely what he was talking about when he famously dubbed Western Leftists "useful idiots".
+ I cannot believe what I'm hearing from presidential candidate, Senator John Kerry. To make his case against President Bush, John Kerry has been relying on stories from proved unreliable sources --the New York Times (home of Jayson Blair) and CBS (Dan Rather).
+ Yesterday Kerry grabbed on their story that "nearly 380 tons of powerful explosives are missing from Iraq's sensitive former military installations."
Kerry calls it "one of the great blunders of Iraq" and "incredible incompetence."
+ What these people have forgotten is that this cache of explosives was already missing in 2003 when U.S. troops arrived in Baghdad to liberate its people!
+ This is amazing to me.
+ This is a non-story, yet after Kerry argued for months that Saddam Hussein posed no threat and had no ties to terrorists, Kerry now shifts and claims that "terrorists could use this material to blow up airplanes and level buildings."
+ Vladimir Lenin was on to something. And you get the idea that if President Bush said it was sunny, John Kerry would jump to his feet in anger and declare that a 10% possibility of light rain proves that George W. Bush has not been honest with the American people.(!)
Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Friday, October 22, 2004
Thursday, October 21, 2004
Forced charity
I don't know if most Americans know why there is a shortage of flu vaccines.
For the most part this problem has its genesis with the previous administration, and their government plan of vaccinations "for all Americans."
To make the vaccines more affordable, President Clinton decided that the private manufacturers should sell them at very low profit --in order to make them available to all Americans.
As a result, instead of 5 companies making vaccines, we have only one or two.
Essentially, the Government forced private companies to be charitable --or get out of the vaccine-making industry!
For the most part this problem has its genesis with the previous administration, and their government plan of vaccinations "for all Americans."
To make the vaccines more affordable, President Clinton decided that the private manufacturers should sell them at very low profit --in order to make them available to all Americans.
As a result, instead of 5 companies making vaccines, we have only one or two.
Essentially, the Government forced private companies to be charitable --or get out of the vaccine-making industry!
Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Instead, pray for Liberty
AS MISSIONARIES, my wife and I have seen the "fruit" peace produces.
CHRISTIANS shouldn't use peace to define a nation's moral health. North Korea is a peaceful country. Cuba is a peaceful country. When we first deployed to Vietnam, it was a very peaceful country.
PRECISELY because there is no freedom of expression, freedom of worship, or of association --peace rules these places.
IF YOU ARE a student of history a better measure of a nation's health would be Liberty.
INDEED, liberty bears witness to the mission of Jesus Christ, and was the reason for His incarnation.
IF THE ENTIRE world lived in peace, Earth would be nothing more than a giant penal colony - the 3rd rock from the sun.
CHRISTIANS shouldn't use peace to define a nation's moral health. North Korea is a peaceful country. Cuba is a peaceful country. When we first deployed to Vietnam, it was a very peaceful country.
PRECISELY because there is no freedom of expression, freedom of worship, or of association --peace rules these places.
IF YOU ARE a student of history a better measure of a nation's health would be Liberty.
INDEED, liberty bears witness to the mission of Jesus Christ, and was the reason for His incarnation.
IF THE ENTIRE world lived in peace, Earth would be nothing more than a giant penal colony - the 3rd rock from the sun.
Sunday, October 17, 2004
Promises to America's infirm
Taking a break from working on Pastor's autobiography, I was almost convinced I had found a politician with more faith than our Reverend Dick Bernal!
It was V.P. candidate John Edward's comment last week that nearly had me reaching to call my wife on her cell phone:
"If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work
that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like
Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that
wheelchair and walk again."
Wait, can Kerry and Edwards do that for us!
In my years of observing human nature at the national level, I have never heard a more repellent example of prejudice and
false claims.
For certain, faith's anchor is hope, yes, every Charismatic knows that, but promising false hope is bad; and for personal gain? Raising false hopes in Americans who are crippled and afflicted is very low.
Promise me a chicken in every pot, promise me medical marijuana, that's part of the game. But to give false hope to people with an assurance of Christ-like cures --that's going too far. It seems that there is nothing Kerry-Edwards will not say to get elected.
Thankfully, I realized before I called my wife, and before I had to break the bad news to my Pastor --that I was being duped. Whew.
It was V.P. candidate John Edward's comment last week that nearly had me reaching to call my wife on her cell phone:
"If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work
that we will do when John Kerry is president, people like
Christopher Reeve are going to walk, get up out of that
wheelchair and walk again."
Wait, can Kerry and Edwards do that for us!
In my years of observing human nature at the national level, I have never heard a more repellent example of prejudice and
false claims.
For certain, faith's anchor is hope, yes, every Charismatic knows that, but promising false hope is bad; and for personal gain? Raising false hopes in Americans who are crippled and afflicted is very low.
Promise me a chicken in every pot, promise me medical marijuana, that's part of the game. But to give false hope to people with an assurance of Christ-like cures --that's going too far. It seems that there is nothing Kerry-Edwards will not say to get elected.
Thankfully, I realized before I called my wife, and before I had to break the bad news to my Pastor --that I was being duped. Whew.
Saturday, October 16, 2004
A man's faith
Wednesday's debate was a lot of fun to watch. John Kerry believes abortion is morally wrong.
Bob Schieffer asked (Catholic) John Kerry to respond - regarding supporting a candidate who supports abortion on demand and unlimited stem cell research. Kerry defended his Catholic belief, thus: "I believe that I can't legislate or transfer to another American citizen my article of faith." But then said:
"And I think that everything you do in public life has to be guided by your faith, affected by your faith, but without transferring it in any official way to other people."
"That's why I fight against poverty. That's why I fight to clean up the environment and protect this earth."
"That's why I fight for equality and justice. All of those things come out of that fundamental teaching and belief of faith."
I discovered that fighting poverty, protecting the environment, promoting equality --are all derived from Kerry's faith.
Why doesn't this same faith require a man to oppose abortion and killing embryos for medical research?
Bob Schieffer asked (Catholic) John Kerry to respond - regarding supporting a candidate who supports abortion on demand and unlimited stem cell research. Kerry defended his Catholic belief, thus: "I believe that I can't legislate or transfer to another American citizen my article of faith." But then said:
"And I think that everything you do in public life has to be guided by your faith, affected by your faith, but without transferring it in any official way to other people."
"That's why I fight against poverty. That's why I fight to clean up the environment and protect this earth."
"That's why I fight for equality and justice. All of those things come out of that fundamental teaching and belief of faith."
I discovered that fighting poverty, protecting the environment, promoting equality --are all derived from Kerry's faith.
Why doesn't this same faith require a man to oppose abortion and killing embryos for medical research?
Friday, October 15, 2004
Pursue the straight course
"There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." --George Washington
Thursday, October 14, 2004
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