Creationists for Obamacare

April 5, 2013 by 3 Comments

hypocrisyI don’t really get “young earth” Creationism. If the world was created 6,000 years ago, then how do you explain the fossil record, which provides clear evidence of much older life? Why would God jam million-year-old bones into the bedrock just to confuse us? While He certainly isn’t averse to mystery (quite the contrary), this would fall into the realm of purposefully misleading.

On the other hand, I don’t get the near conniptions thrown by secular progressives in response to Creationists, as if a misguided belief about the origins of Earth is any more damaging to young minds than inadvertently hearing a Nicki Minaj song on the radio. Furthermore, their disgust with Creationists’ lack of acceptance of scientific evidence is a prime example of their not listening to Jesus’ teaching in the only subject they claim he cared about. Hypocrisy.

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.” Matthew 7:3-5

Who really knows what happened 6,000 years ago? No one. But in the 5,999 years and 364 days since, people have consistently responded to financial incentives, yet the left still acts astonished when it happens. For example, when France’s new Socialist president enacted a 75% tax rate, a number of prominent millionaires left the country to avoid the extortion. How did the socialists react to this perfectly predictable response to their new policy? Shocked outrage.

Beyonce’s chart-topper Single Ladies is a tribute to fed up women who have finally kicked an unappreciative man to the curb. The culture rightfully cheers on those independent women.  Yet when the abuse is financial, and an unappreciative society undermines small business owners or others making more than $250,000, the rich are expected to turn the other cheek, and are vilified as ungrateful traitors when they have other ideas. All hail the god of Envy.

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Big Brother shuts down Little Sisters of the Poor

December 20, 2012 by Leave a comment

little sisters of the poorCaught between their Catechism and Caesar, the Little Sisters of the Poor must either pay crippling fines or defy their church’s teaching and comply with the Obama Administration’s contraception and abortifacient mandate. It’s fair to say that you’ve surrendered any claims to pragmatism when your policies force those who have taken a vow of chastity to buy birth control. When my grandchildren ask me if there was a point when I knew for certain that the United States was going down the tubes, I’m going to say, “Yes, it was when we made the nuns buy condoms. That’s when I knew.”

The Little Sisters won’t be able to afford the fines for refusing to comply, and since all of their older siblings are Poor, they can’t expect much financial help there either. As a result, they’ve announced that they may be forced to move their order out of the country due to the religious intolerance. If that happened, the United States would join a prestigious list of Little Sister religious oppressors that includes the Chinese communists and Myanmar military junta. That’s like the Brazilian national soccer team suddenly joining an NFL division that included the Oakland Raiders and Baltimore Ravens, only incredibly sad instead of absolutely fascinating.  Read more of this post

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Liberals’ “tax fairness” is really tax arbitrariness

September 10, 2012 by 4 Comments

In Obama's America tax fairness is only for RepublicansMichael Ono of ABCNews found an interesting contradiction. Liberal icon Elizabeth Warren, practically the inventor of “you didn’t build that”, disagrees with an aspect of Obamacare, her ideological soulmate’s crowning achievement. Ono does well to note the discrepancy between Warren’s usual positions and her rhetoric in this specific instance. However, he misses the mark on what the contradiction really says. The opening paragraph’s embedded liberal assumptions and language obscure the real issue:

U.S. Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren is a superstar within the Democratic Party and a lightning rod for Republican outrage over the issue of tax fairness. But there is one tax that Warren doesn’t like and it’s part of Obamacare.

Conservatives lose the battle over the language time and again. Allowing the party that created the family and ambition-destroying welfare state to get away with claiming the mantle of “social justice” is one example. Likewise, what is “the issue of tax fairness”? Did the Republican platform include a section titled “Our plan for unfair taxes”? Populist  posturing that stokes envy against high earners should not associate the Democrats with ”tax fairness”. More apt but less pleasant-sounding would be the clearer phrase ”tax increases”.

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Weekly Breakdown: Roanoke Revelations

July 20, 2012 by Leave a comment

• President Obama gave an immediately infamous speech in Roanoke, VA last Friday. One line in particular led to disbelief and outrage, energizing the conservative movement in 13 words: “No, it’s true.  There is a term limit for Presidents.  You get two.” In response, Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona said, “Yeah, you’re also supposed to be natural-born, but that didn’t stop him.” Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan chimed in, “Good to see he’s familiar with the 22nd Amendment. I guess he’s reading them backwards.” And Chief Justice John Roberts added, “Hmm, let me see if there’s a way around that.”

• Another interesting part of the speech was when Obama showed those concerned about Obamacare’s implementation how incredibly hands-on it would be: “…some of you have been standing for a while and I see a couple folks slumping down a little bit.  Make sure you’re drinking water.  Bend your knees.  Don’t stand up too straight… The paramedics will be coming by, so just give folks a little bit of room, they’ll be fine.” Parents with small children quickly left for fear he would begin explaining the HHS contraception mandate.

• Finally, Obama unleashed a line that is sure to define the campaign, staring an audience member straight in the eyes, proclaiming, “I would wake up every single morning thinking about you.” A surely humiliated Michelle Obama could not be reached for comment. Read more of this post

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Weekly Breakdown: A lot of big bangs

July 6, 2012 by Leave a comment

• A horrific thunderstorm plowed through DC on Friday night, snapping trees and leading to widespread, long-term power outages during a brutal heat wave. Newt Gingrich called it “mild taste of what an emp (electromagnetic pulse) attack would do”, Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post cited it as evidence of climate change, Nancy Pelosi called it “part of the comprehensive Republican voter-suppression effort,” and Joe Biden stood by his window repeatedly yelling “BOOM!”

• Escaping from the storm was Chief Justice John Roberts, who took a much needed family vacation after a stressful end to the court’s term. One night, his kids asked for dessert, but their mother said their behavior had been so bad that day that they weren’t allowed to eat dessert. Roberts said he agreed with their mother that they didn’t deserve dessert because of their bad behavior, but then gave them money to go buy milkshakes so they wouldn’t technically be eating dessert, but drinking it.

• CERN physicists announced that they’ve probably discovered the Higgs Boson, aka “the God Particle”, which could give insight into the Big Bang. Upon hearing the news, a visibly perturbed Obama said, “You know, I originally wanted to predict that in my acceptance speech instead of the ridiculous “oceans will stop their rise” line. That was the last time I let Biden overrule me.”

• Reports came out that Obamacare implementation efforts have already burned through $1 billion and lawyers have drafted over 13,000 pages of new regulations, with more to come. In response to this massive expansion of federal government power represented by all the new codes, media members are asking the obvious question, “Is the Romney campaign going to call them rules or regulations?”

• In California, one bill was proposed that would enable children to have more than two legal parents, and another that would prohibit police officers from turning over non-felon illegal immigrants for deportation. When asked about the possibility of radical Muslims crossing the border and seeking sanctuary in the state, police said that there’s nothing they’ll be able to do about it, other than hope they just came for the polygamy.

• San Diego’s famous Big Bay fireworks show lasted only 15 seconds as a programming glitch caused all of the fireworks to blow up simultaneously. Show organizers are assuring the public that they did not intend it as an ominous portent for the state’s budget… but they’d be a lot cooler if they did.

• On Thursday, “global central banks went on the offensive against the faltering world economy, cutting interest rates and increasing bond buying as a round of international stimulus gathers pace.” In a similar story, a junkie struggling with withdrawal convinced himself that just a little more heroin would help him cope, and finally set him on a straight path.

• On Tuesday, stocks on Wall Street abruptly stopped trading shortly after 1pm. Market observers declared that simultaneous unemployment, Euro, and Middle East worries had caused the entire market to have a seizure, before realizing that the market had simply closed early for the Fourth of July.

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