Mark's Views, Perhaps — from behind my eyeballs
Clinton Launches 2008 White House Bid
| Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton embarked on a widely anticipated campaign for the White House on Saturday, a former first lady intent on becoming the first female president. “I’m in and I’m in to win,” she said on her Web site. |
You go, ma’am.
I would have waited a little longer to launch, but what do I know about politics?
Do I want her to win?
Of course not.
But I don’t know the mind of God on the matter.
What do you see in this screen shot at 6:37 this morning here in Oregon?
I am intrigued by these three headlines:
What lesson(s) do you see there?
Professor Robert Reich on homeschooling and parenting:
| If parents can control every aspect of a kid’s education, shield them from exposure to the things that the parents deem sinful or objectionable, screen in only the things which accord to their convictions, and not allow them exposure to the world of a democracy, will the children grow up then basically in the own image of their parents, servile to their own parents’ beliefs? |
Why is that so repulsive, frightening, and objectionable to him?
Surely he doesn’t think that I as a parent should purposefully expose my children to those things I deem sinful or objectionable. Surely he doesn’t believe that parents should so disregard their own convictions as to bring in those things which undermine and oppose those convictions.
If he does, then he should chuck his own convictions and objections on this subject, allowing parents the latitude to train their children. That would be a consistent position for him to take.
I believe it is my God-given responsibility to train my children in the way they should go.
They are God’s children given into my care for love, nurture, and training.
The idea that they are the responsibility of the state or the village or some other institution flies in the face of that.
| Oil prices briefly fell below $50 per barrel Thursday for the first time since May 25, 2005, after the government reported larger-than-expected jumps in crude oil and gasoline inventories.
Oil has dropped 17 percent since the end of 2006 amid weeks of mild winter weather in the U.S. Northeast, a key consumer of heating fuels, and growing energy stockpiles. |
And what will happen in Congress?
| The oil executives found little sympathy from senators, who said their constituents are suffering from high energy prices while Big Oil makes big profits. |
Maybe it’s time for similar hearings so Senators can extend gratitude to the oil execs?
Yeah, right.
(PS: This is not a defense of Big Oil.)
🙂
Russian Forces on High Terror Alert
| Russian authorities have ordered security forces on high alert after receiving information from foreign officials pointing to the threat of a terrorist attack on public transportation, officials said Tuesday. |
Is Putin get ready to make another move and will use some sort of “terror” event as cover and justification?
Then there’s this, unrelated though it likely is:
Obama forms presidential exploratory committee
| Obama, who has leapt from the Illinois General Assembly to national stardom with dizzying speed . . . . |
I know this is weird, but when I read that, I thought of Left Behind‘s Nicolae Carpathia, who also leapt with dizzying speed to international prominence from regional obscurity.
Yeah, I know. Weird.
So, good night and don’t worry about it.
🙂
What Paul Taught Me About Pain:
| My cancer is growing. How fast, I cannot say, but it is more difficult now than it was last week, both in what I can do and in terms of pain. I won’t dwell on that here, except that it has brought unexpected blessings of perception, perhaps a few insights. |
I never would have a imagined a post like this one this morning at WizBangBlog. Read it all!
It uplifed, inspired, and encouraged me.
Thank you, DJ!
Housework is better for my wife than for me!
| The research on more than 200,000 women from nine European countries found doing household chores was far more cancer protective than playing sport.
Dusting, mopping and vacuuming was also better than having a physical job. The women in the Cancer Research UK-funded study spent an average of 16 to 17 hours a week cooking, cleaning and doing the washing. Experts have long known that physical exercise can reduce the risk of breast cancer, probably through hormonal and metabolic changes. But it has been less clear how much and what types of exercise are necessary for this risk reduction. And much of past work has examined the link between exercise and breast cancer in post-menopausal women only. The latest study looked at both pre- and post-menopausal women and a range of activities, including work, leisure and housework. All forms of physical activity combined reduced the breast cancer risk in post-menopausal women, but had no obvious effect in pre-menopausal women. |