Ain't Complicated

A Second Holocaust or Divine Protection?

The Germans, along with their non-German helpers, had to round up the men, women and children from their houses and drag and beat them through the streets and mow them down in nearby woods or push and pack them into cattle cars and transport them to the camps, where “Work makes free,” separate the able-bodied from the completely useless and lure them into “shower” halls and pour in the gas and then take out, or oversee the extraction of, the bodies and prepare the “showers” for the next batch.

The second holocaust will be quite different.

I believe Israel will survive till the end of time.

Presidential Perspective

"We guard against the forces of anti-Christian aggression."

“No greater thing could come to our land today than a revival of the spirit of religion. . . . I doubt if there is any problem — social, political, or economic — that would not melt away before the fire of such a spiritual awakening.

“Name the optimistic president of the past 80 years who said that and added, “We guard ourselves against all evils — spiritual as well as material — which may beset us. We guard against the forces of anti-Christian aggression, which may attack us from without, and the forces of ignorance and fear which may corrupt us from within.”

Who said that?

And more importantly, was he right about all that?

Franklin D Roosevelt on anti-Christian aggression

Original source: World Magazine

FDR at Madison Square Garden, 1940

Hillary Launched

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.

Learning from Headlines

What do you see in this screen shot at 6:37 this morning here in Oregon?

Headlines at 6:37 am Pacific on January 19, 2007

I am intrigued by these three headlines:

some study somewhere says Holocaust survivors are owed a whole pile of money by somebody
some Palestinian militants say they will do more abductions
Israel hands over a bunch of money to some Palestinians

What lesson(s) do you see there?

Whose Children?

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.

Thank You, Big Oil?

What will happen at the pump?

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?

Oil execs before congress -- November 9, 2005

Yeah, right.

(PS: This is not a defense of Big Oil.)

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Suspicious Ole Me

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.

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