One speech, two networks, you decide:
Today, I’m celebrating the fact that I canceled my cable TV subscription, saving myself about $600 a year and hours and hours that I used to spend watching this garbage.
So much for William Jefferson…
By on August 27, 2008 Leave a Comment
The GOP hasn’t bashed William Jefferson around nearly as much as he deserves, and this is why: they’ve got their own and they knew this was coming. Via Instapundit.com -
The corrupt and contemptible Republican senator from Alaska, Ted Stevens, who first burst onto the political scene shortly after the land bridge between North America and Asia disappeared, is in fine form after winning his GOP primary.
One of the many reasons I switched my registration to Independent. A pox on both their houses.
Quote of the Day
By on August 26, 2008 Leave a Comment
@ Winds of Change.NET: Silencing Citizens Should Concern Us All.
It is unfortunate to see the Obama campaign moving to silence political speech by citizens during an election. Their attempt to get the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute a 501c4 for daring to mention Obama’s relationship with [unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill] Ayers is un-American.
… Neither President Bush, who inspired and then signed the law, nor Sen. McCain, who wrote the law, nor Sen. Obama, who used the law to silence American citizens, none of them should escape our wrath.
… We have come to a time in America when our political class wants desperately to silence American citizens.
… Our courts, which are ready to extend “free speech” to nude dancing as a form of “expression,” won’t recognize and defend the First Amendment right to free political speech that was the Founders’ whole purpose.
Whatever your politics, and whomever you support, this behavior is un-American. It is wrong, vile, and an assault on the most basic liberty that the Republic was founded to protect. If an American citizen has something to say about an issue or a candidate, let him say it, and let us all decide the merits in common debate. If citizens must band together to afford the rates for advertisements, and care enough to spend their own coin to voice their opinion, let them do so.
Buffy the Christianity Slayer?
By on August 26, 2008 Leave a Comment
I was amused to read this Telegraph article – Buffy the Vampire Slayer slaying church attendance among women, study claims.
[A report] says that instead young women are becoming attracted to the pagan religion Wicca, where females play a central role, which has grown in popularity after being featured positively in films, TV shows and books.
… The report’s author, Dr Kristin Aune, a sociologist at the University of Derby, said: “In short, women are abandoning the church.
“Because of its focus on female empowerment, young women are attracted by Wicca, popularised by the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
First, any woman who leaves the church because a TV show makes another faith look enticing wasn’t that knowledgeable or devout a Christian in the first place:
My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.
John 10:27-28
Second, given how incorrect the representation of Christianity is in entertainment, it’s a safe bet that they’re portraying Wicca incorrectly too.
But the bottom line is that Buffy could do her worst and still not top what we Christians do to drive people away from church. Now, “church” is obviously not the same thing at all as “the faith” and given the condition of the average Christian church, I don’t blame people for leaving. It’s hard to find a good church, and harder still to maintain one. We’re sinful, selfish, self-centered creatures and any time you get a bunch of us together, there are going to be problems. Churches (especially modern churches, as opposed to Acts 2 churches) have a tendency to compound that because members pretend they’re above such things. Still, churches do much for our sanctification. It’s not just a matter of getting good biblical teaching and partaking in corporate worship, which is obviously critically important, but churches provide challenges and a unique atmosphere for us to serve, forgive, and grow in Christ. That in turn helps equip us to minister to an unbelieving world.
