Good summary of the counterproductive futility of the Democrats on fuel prices – Pelosi & Reid: The Drill Nothing Congress
In November of 2006, House Speaker-elect Nancy Pelosi issued a press release touting the Democrats’ “common-sense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices.”
She accused the oil companies of “price gouging.”
The average price of regular gas crept over the $4-per-gallon barrier over the weekend . . . That represents a more than 75% increase in the retail price of a gallon of gasoline on Pelosi’s watch. Call it the “Pelosi premium” we’re all now paying.
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The myth of Galileo – this is one of those things that never seems to go away. Sadly, it helps perpetuate the religion vs. science false dichotomy.
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Nice summary of how the Global Warming hoax got started and perpetuated. If only this could be taught to all the kids forced to watch Gore’s propoganda film.
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Sadly, even the pro-legalized abortion leaders don’t listen carefully to pro-life arguments . . . or is it deliberate? The head of the ACLU kept using the straw-man argument that pro-lifers are trying to force their religious views on others, even though she was the only person in the debate who brought up religion.
Yes, our pro-life views happen to be in concert with our religious views (”don’t murder”), but we don’t need the Bible to argue the pro-life ethic (or pro-traditional marriage for that matter). And the pro-legalized-abortionists never seem to object to the apostate religious organizations who aren’t pro-life, even though they are presumably “forcing” their religious views on others as well.
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Nice summary of the differences between Catholics and Protestants on salvation. Also see Does the Catholic church teach a true Gospel?
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There are more ways than one to rob people – great little video of real life issues hospitals face with illegal aliens. Your insurance $$ at work.
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Woo-hoo! I Can Plainly See is back.
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Thorough explanation of the problems with the book of Mormon changing to accomodate the Civil Rights movement
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More hypocrisy from Al Gore – his already significant energy consumption goes up 10%
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Filed under: Weekly roundup | Tagged: Catholic, Galileo, gas, gas prices, LDS, Mormon, Politics, Pro-life, religion, science
HI Neil,
Thanks for the plug lol
And, thanks for the link to the Lone Star Times.. right up my alley.
Hank
Wow! That’s a big roundup.
I thought Hank might make the roundup. Isn’t it funny how most of us met each other through him?
Awesome roundup.
How to Win Friends and Influence Mormons
http://summatheologica.wordpress.com/2007/09/28/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-mormons/
quite the roundup Neil..ty for the efforts!:)
Your origin of Global Warming theory doesn’t go far enough. I can’t prove it, but I believe it all started when someone walked out of their house one morning and thought, “Wow! It’s sure hot today! And it’s only May! Hmmmm. Come to think of it, it sure seems like the world has been getting hotter the last couple of years. Some one should do a study”
Apparently, that person managed to convince some pseudo-scientist to help him prove a hypothesis based on this flawed observation, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Addendum: Before anyone ever heard of Global Warming, I myself developed a theory that the earth must be turning over sideways on it’s axis. I had no proof or evidence, but it seemed to me that the weather in the winter was getting warmer and in the summer, cooler. Why didn’t Al Gore start encouraging us to push the world back upright?
I totally agree about providing health care to undocumented people. We should let these people die. It’s the “pro-life” thing to do.
Seriously, it isn’t the fault of undocumented individuals that the world’s only capitalist health care system has become unaffordable.
Mike,
If health care costs so much here, why don’t the illegal aliens (please don’t use the term “undocumented individuals,” as it is highly misleading) stay in Mexico and get health care there? Or be “undocumented individuals” in Europe or Canada?
Second, since when is it the job of pro-life people – who enforce the negative right to be free from deadly aggression – to provide people with positive rights (i.e. a free lunch – whoops, free health care)?
Third, why should I take on second jobs to pay my health care – and those of illegal aliens – while they get to sit at home and squirt out illegitimate children at an astonishing rate?
Finally, if your health (and life) is not worth paying for, from your perspective, it sure as heck isn’t worth it from my perspective. My first bill – the one thing that gets cash before all else – is my health. My life goes to the top of the list of bills to pay. That’s why I worked 30 hours/week during law school finals – have medical bills that need paying. I need medical care more than I need sleep, shopping, partying, or a night with my TV, so I will put it ahead of shopping, TV, books, or anything else on my list of priorities. It is not someone else’s job to pick up the slack if I choose to do something else with my money or time or both. Nor is it my job to rearrange my budget to pay for someone else who can’t be bothered to pay for his own life.
Socialised medicine is the height of leeching. It says that your own life is not a priority for you, but you’ll force it to be a priority for someone else. Sick in the extreme.
/rant
“Seriously, it isn’t the fault of undocumented individuals that the world’s only capitalist health care system has become unaffordable.”
Theobromophile said it better than I can, but I’ll just add that if they collect donations to send the illegals to Canada (permanently) to soak up the wonders of socialized medicine, I’ll be glad to contribute. It would be a good investment.
And if capitalistic systems are bad by definition, as you imply, why don’t those folks head back to Mexico for stellar socialized care?
I’m sorry, I thought this was a blog from a Christian perspective.
“Whatever you did for one of the least of these…you did for me.” Matthew 25:40*
*(except for illegal immigrants, some restrictions apply, void where prohibited)
“I’m sorry, I thought this was a blog from a Christian perspective.”
I understand what you are saying Mike, and that is why I’m for fairly open immigration. I want to give other people the opportunity to the life we have here. Concerning legal immigration, my only concern is national security.
Concerning immigration in general, I don’t think it is anti-Christian to ask that people be documented and be taxpaying citizens if they choose to live here.
And besides, being undocumented is not always very ideal for the workers either. If they are under the radar, the employer is more likely to mistreat them and give them substandard working conditions. Yes, despite the freebies illegal immigration can breed exploitation and oppression. Things that are un-Christian.
Mike,
Tammi has a post up on Grizzly Groundswell about Christianity and socialism. I’ll add in some thoughts of my own:
Yes, Matthew says “you.” Not “you, through your government” or “you, with your neighbour’s money;” it says “you.”
You should be happy to learn that conservatives (who are much more Christian than their liberal counterparts) earn less but give more money to charity than do liberals. You should also be happy to learn that they also give more blood. They also run far more charity hospitals to give medical care to low-income people than do non-theists.
So – money, blood, cheap medical care. That’s not enough, because we recognise the limitations on our own ability and know that we simply cannot provide for the entire world?
Neil spends a tremendous amount of his own time and money going to help build homes for those in third-world countries, giving to the local community, and giving to women in crisis pregnancy. So it’s rather silly to start on him about the way he lives his life…..
“So it’s rather silly to start on him about the way he lives his life…..”
I’m not doing that at all. Did you watch that video? That woman wanted to remove these people back to their home country knowing full well that they were suffering from renal failure and were dependent upon dialysis. This would certainly mean death for many of them. We can’t in our pursuit of enforcing immigration laws forsake our basic humanitarian, and Christian, obligation.
Hi Mike,
I understand the issue of setting someone outside the hospital to die. But can you see how this could be a catalyst to tighten up immigration laws and borders so the hospitals wouldn’t be in this situation? If nothing else, the administrator is shining a light on a huge problem.
Remember, unless you are funding this hospital this isn’t fulfilling “your” humanitarian and/or Christian obligation. Would your obligation be lessened if this person had stayed in Mexico?
Food for thought: experts predict that there will be a shortage of doctors (to the tune of about 10,000 per year for the next 10 years) in the United States.
That will invariably lead to longer wait times for treatment (which translates into early death), lower time per treatment (again, early death, worse detection of problems, etc), and less care in general. Why should illegal aliens worsen the doctor shortage (which is, IIRC, most pronounced in the services used by illegals, i.e. emergency care and obstetrics), which will directly affect other people’s ability to receive good medical care?
This is a zero-sum game here. Generousity is not taking from one group and giving to another. If you’re really concerned, lobby your state legislature to open a state medical school, or, if you have one, increase enrollment and decrease tuition. Or get a foundation to make a med school, promise inexpensive tuition, provided that the graduates go into treatment for low-income individuals.
The proper solution is not to complain about how people who forced their way into this country are now stuck with our wretched medical system, and it is our moral duty to pay for them.
“Remember, unless you are funding this hospital this isn’t fulfilling “your” humanitarian and/or Christian obligation.”
That’s true. I don’t have $1.2 million to give to this individual. However, the hospital ethics board which is preventing this woman from expelling these patients is acting out of a (surprise!) … Christian ethic.
Mike: Here is Tammi’s post on the subject.>