Archive for January, 2012

Obama is Doing Bad Enough to Get Re-elected

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

A few months ago, Dr. Walter Williams wrote a column saying that Obama cannot be defeated in 2012, regardless of who the Republican challenger is.  Unfortunately, I have to agree.  Williams noted the economy won’t matter because Obama will simply spend $1B in campaign money to convince us that it’s not his fault, since things were much worse than we understood when he took office.  The majority of liberals, Democrats, Independents, union members, minorities, women, and special interest groups will vote for him simply based either upon his race, charm, inspiration, and convincing speeches, or upon the fact that they won’t vote for a Republican.  Not only that, but his coattails will reach far enough to retain the Senate, and perhaps to regain the House. 

Well, due to the events of the past few months, a few other factors can be added to this argument: 

– Obama brought the troops home from Iraq (even though he had little choice), fulfilling a campaign promise. 

– Obama got Osama Bin Laden, something they’ll say that Bush couldn’t do in eight years. 

However, I believe that there are even more compelling (and ironic) arguments why Obama will be reelected.  We now have 46 million people on Food Stamps, 50 million collecting Social Security benefits, 13 million collecting unemployment, and millions more receiving Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, government pensions, and farm subsidies; and, nearly half of us pay no federal income tax.  The vast majority of these people support for Obama, just so he’ll keep those monthly checks coming in.  That’s well over half of the people in the country–over 150 million people, and it takes only 50 million to win.  In other words, the people collecting money from the government now outnumber the ones paying for all of this with their taxes. 

Obama has us so dependent upon the government that we don’t want to rock the boat.  We assume that our national debt doesn’t matter, and that the government will always find a way to write us that monthly check.  We’ve decided that unemployment is a good thing, since the government pays us when we’re unemployed.  So, who cares how high unemployment is?  We pay no taxes, but we get money from the government, so who wouldn’t want this system to continue? 

I believe that we have reached the point of no return.  Our debt is out of control because there are too many of us collecting money from the government, and too few of us paying taxes.  I now truly believe that we will reelect Obama, and then decline into being a bankrupt third-rate nation in just a few short years. 

How can Obama be defeated?  I see only two ways, but I don’t think they will happen:  1) We could have a low voter turnout because His supporters will be complacent enough not to vote (while Tea Party folks do vote).  2) The money that he spends on ads will backfire, causing people to get tired of him.

A Judge’s Silly Decision on a Prayer Banner

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

On January 11th, 2012, a federal judge ordered the immediate removal of a prayer mural displayed in the auditorium of a Rhode Island public high school.  A teenage atheist had sued the city of Cranston, RI and Cranston High School West officials, demanding that they remove the banner because it promotes a religion. She called it offensive to non-Christians.  Her attorneys argued that the banner is a violation of the Constitution and the Supreme Court’s 1962 decision banning state-mandated prayer in school.

People just don’t get it.  The separation of church and state in the constitution means that the government cannot mandate a state religion, not that one’s faith cannot be expressed, or that morality cannot be honored.  The 1962 decision banned mandated prayer, not the display of moral encouragement that would have made our founders proud.  Here’s the prayer:

OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, GRANT US EACH DAY THE DESIRE TO DO OUR BEST, TO GROW MENTALLY AND MORALLY AS WELL AS PHYSICALLY, TO BE KIND AND HELPFUL TO OUR CLASSMATES AND TEACHERS, TO BE HONEST WITH OURSELVES AS WELL AS WITH OTHERS, HELP US TO BE GOOD SPORTS AND SMILE WHEN WE LOSE AS WELL AS WHEN WE WIN, TEACH US THE VALUE OF TRUE FRIENDSHIP, HELP US ALWAYS TO CONDUCT OURSELVES SO AS TO BRING CREDIT TO CRANSTON HIGH SCHOOL WEST. AMEN

Is it offensive to do our best; to grow mentally and morally; to be kind and helpful; to be honest; and, to be good sports?  This is a great prayer, and the judge’s decision is just sad. At least I’m still allowed to post it here.

How Do We Reconcile Science to the Bible?

Thursday, January 12th, 2012

Below are some typical questions from those trying to reconcile science to the Bible.  

Does the Bible Imply That the Earth is Flat?  

Ezekiel 7:2 and Revelation 7:1 reference “the four corners of the earth.”  Similarly, Isaiah 11:12 references “the four quarters of the earth.”  The Oxford English Dictionary defines “corner” to mean “An extremity or end of the earth; a region, quarter; a direction or quarter from which the wind blows.”  The word “corner” comes from a Latin root “cornu,” meaning “horn,” as seen in words such as “cornet,” “corn,” and “cornucopia.”  So, the four corners of the earth can be interpreted as referring to the four cardinal directions–north, south, east and west.  In addition, the “four corners of the earth” can also be interpreted as four “horns” of the earth.  One obvious example of such a “horn” is Cape Horn, the southernmost tip of South America.  So the usage of the phrase “four corners of the earth” does not necessarily signify a flat, rectangular earth.  

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