Yew'll recawll't on Aprull 27th ("A New Twist"), ah postid bowt the Fedz' planz ta sahlince the likes of "Rev." Phelps at milliturry fyoonrullz. Ah sed it was the furss baby step in whut'd evinchully be the demise o the Furss Amindmint. Wayull, they done gone'n passt the "Respect For America's Fallen Heroes Act" (zzif ewe cood lejislate respeck). Good wurk, Phelps. Yew's doin a crack job furthrin yer Leftist financierz' fascist aginda.
But asahd frum this assawlt on our freedum, sumpin else cawt mah eye: 'ccordin ta Rpublikn Senator Bill Frist, this mezhur "will protect the sanctity of all 122 of our national cemeteries as shrines to their gallant dead." Ballz o fahr, didjoo ketch them loadid wurdz?! While they'z uhsiddjooussly dismantlin our preshuss Bill O Rights, they'z also sneakin in the rezurrekshn o ancesstr worship.
Ewe reckun 'at'll bekum the new Nashnl Relijun?
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Tuesday, May 16, 2006
Across the Board
Folk haz tekkn me ta task fer referrin to the Redshirts n thur varyunts az fascist. "Obviously, Granny, your coelanthean mind is confused. It is the BrownShirts alone who qualify as fascists." Ah beg ta differ:
>>> The fascist is whoever is trying to shut you up, shut you down, dis-employ you, silence you, cripple you or marginalize you for the crime of daring to fall out of step with the party[line] and the conventional wisdom. <<< (The Anchoress, 5//15/06)
N by the way, 'at thar blogger ain't no knservuhtiv.
>>> The fascist is whoever is trying to shut you up, shut you down, dis-employ you, silence you, cripple you or marginalize you for the crime of daring to fall out of step with the party[line] and the conventional wisdom. <<< (The Anchoress, 5//15/06)
N by the way, 'at thar blogger ain't no knservuhtiv.
More Bowt the Happiniss Croosayd
My lass poss kwoddid frum that thar blog where the feller wuz talkin bowt a "Happiness Crusade." Now, mahndjoo, ta be shore, 'ass a beddr type croosayd than the type't stardid with a kapitull "C." But here's whut Mr. Lone sez'll happin at the ind o hiz vawntid "croosayd":
Progress towards changing the world might seem slow in the beginning but once that special density of happiness is reached, POW !!! Force H will become active and spread happiness like wildfire. Greed and corruption and armies will be helpless in it's path.
Sownz good on the surfuss. But whin ewe thank abowd it fer a momint, thar'z sum snagz:
(1) Frum what preceedid that purragraf, we know't kordin ta Mr. Lone, happiniss iz sumpin folk jiss simply DECIDE ta feel. But whut abowt all them folk who needz Prozac? Donchoo thank't if happiniss wuz so eezy ta kum by, they'da jiss hopped on that bandwaggun'n rode it inta the grown?
(2) Whud abowt perfeshnull kurmudjunz lahk Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin...?
(3) Whud abowt that part of us 'at required the Savior ta havta die on 'at ole Cross? If this whole Happiness Bizniss wuz really The Slooshn, He cooda bin spared all that thar turrible agony He had ta suffer in ahr place.
Psst, Mr. Lone, yew might wanna check, but ah thank yer yootopyunizm iz showin.
Progress towards changing the world might seem slow in the beginning but once that special density of happiness is reached, POW !!! Force H will become active and spread happiness like wildfire. Greed and corruption and armies will be helpless in it's path.
Sownz good on the surfuss. But whin ewe thank abowd it fer a momint, thar'z sum snagz:
(1) Frum what preceedid that purragraf, we know't kordin ta Mr. Lone, happiniss iz sumpin folk jiss simply DECIDE ta feel. But whut abowt all them folk who needz Prozac? Donchoo thank't if happiniss wuz so eezy ta kum by, they'da jiss hopped on that bandwaggun'n rode it inta the grown?
(2) Whud abowt perfeshnull kurmudjunz lahk Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin...?
(3) Whud abowt that part of us 'at required the Savior ta havta die on 'at ole Cross? If this whole Happiness Bizniss wuz really The Slooshn, He cooda bin spared all that thar turrible agony He had ta suffer in ahr place.
Psst, Mr. Lone, yew might wanna check, but ah thank yer yootopyunizm iz showin.
Monday, May 15, 2006
More Anthropomorfussahzin
A feller named Mike Lone writes:
"Ever wise, nature developed the process of natural selection. A process intended to fulfill the prime directive established for all life. Nature's prime directive: "preservation of the species". Certainly, nature accepts the loss of species due to environmental and catastrophic causes, but it has never wavered one iota from the original prime directive. It accepts it's [sic] losses and patiently applies every effort to preserve the remaining species.
Sometime during these billions of years, nature invented symbiosis to aid natural selection in the difficult job of evolving higher life forms. " ("Happiness Crusade" @ happyplace.net; imfasiss mahn)
Yew'll recall't a while back, I commintid on the fack 'at folk jiss COON'T seem ta avoid yoozin personal terminawelujjy whin referrin ta whut happinz in nature. Here, yew kin see it wuncet agin. This feller, bless hiz heart, haz a bad case o anthrowpohmorficitis. Jis lookit all them wurdz in orunj! Ballz o fahr, yew git the impression 'at Nature iz a Gibralter-rezoloot Nobel Prize Winner---n a saint ta boot! Summun with a Grand Plan, a Plan't kint be budged fer nuthin. N a yoomaniturryun Plan at that!
N yet, ah distinkly recall Darwin---that M.C. o Nachrull Slekshn---claimin that "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."
Psst, Mr. Lone, yew might wanna check real quick, but ah thank yer imuj-o-God is showin.
"Ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature, namely, His eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made."
"Ever wise, nature developed the process of natural selection. A process intended to fulfill the prime directive established for all life. Nature's prime directive: "preservation of the species". Certainly, nature accepts the loss of species due to environmental and catastrophic causes, but it has never wavered one iota from the original prime directive. It accepts it's [sic] losses and patiently applies every effort to preserve the remaining species.
Sometime during these billions of years, nature invented symbiosis to aid natural selection in the difficult job of evolving higher life forms. " ("Happiness Crusade" @ happyplace.net; imfasiss mahn)
Yew'll recall't a while back, I commintid on the fack 'at folk jiss COON'T seem ta avoid yoozin personal terminawelujjy whin referrin ta whut happinz in nature. Here, yew kin see it wuncet agin. This feller, bless hiz heart, haz a bad case o anthrowpohmorficitis. Jis lookit all them wurdz in orunj! Ballz o fahr, yew git the impression 'at Nature iz a Gibralter-rezoloot Nobel Prize Winner---n a saint ta boot! Summun with a Grand Plan, a Plan't kint be budged fer nuthin. N a yoomaniturryun Plan at that!
N yet, ah distinkly recall Darwin---that M.C. o Nachrull Slekshn---claimin that "The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."
Psst, Mr. Lone, yew might wanna check real quick, but ah thank yer imuj-o-God is showin.
"Ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature, namely, His eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made."
Anuther Columbine, Part 2
"You never hear about anybody who plays the violin building a bomb in their basement." (Adele Ronchetti, mother of prodigy son, in interview about babies and music.)
Az summun who's bin playin the fiddle since the age o 9, ah'll vowch fer that. (Altho o course, tharzzat disconcertin li'l fack bowt folk like Heydrich, who played the fiddle real wayull, too, but it certinly din't increase thur hyoomaniddy none...) Worst thang't ever crosst mah mahnd wuz keepin mah shootin ahrn sharpind by trainin it on them Revinooerz whin they starts trespassin on mah lan ta go rootin arown fer mah still...
Az summun who's bin playin the fiddle since the age o 9, ah'll vowch fer that. (Altho o course, tharzzat disconcertin li'l fack bowt folk like Heydrich, who played the fiddle real wayull, too, but it certinly din't increase thur hyoomaniddy none...) Worst thang't ever crosst mah mahnd wuz keepin mah shootin ahrn sharpind by trainin it on them Revinooerz whin they starts trespassin on mah lan ta go rootin arown fer mah still...
Anuther Columbine, Innywun?
The pyootridniss of 40 yearz of the Leftist/Librull/"Modrut" culture-AIDS iz bekummin ever more apparint:
"A high school teacher in St. Joseph, Mo., gave a horrifying writing assignment in April to his beginning drafting class. The 30 students, who range in age from freshmen to seniors, were told to write a composition explaining who they would kill and how they would do it. The Associated Press reports that the Central High School teacher, Michael Maxwell, has apologized, insisting the instruction was only a writing prompt." (CompuServe News)
Sownz more lahk a murder prompt ta me. N thin they wunner why kidz iz goin on shootin sprees. Maybe he's the same guy who lass yeer wuz teachin kidz how ta stretch a condom over a cuke. This sorda thang iz zackly why Skoolmarm 'n me iz sech ardint perponints ov homeskoolin.
Oh fer a way ta rewind the kussette o histry and erase the past 40 yeerz.
Sunday, May 14, 2006
Speakin o That Thar Infumuss Terjecktry
22 January 2023
Dear Mom,
Can you believe it is 2023 already? I am still writing "22" on everything. Seems like yesterday I was sitting in first grade celebrating the century change! I know we haven't really chatted since Chrismas. Sorry. Anyway, I have some difficult news, and I really didn't want to talk about it face-to-face.
Ted's had a promotion, and I should be up for a hefty raise this year if I keep putting in those crazy hours. You know how I work at it. Yes, we are still struggling with the bills. You were right about overbuying on the house, but is IS nice.
Timmy's been "okay" at kindergarten, although he's still not happy about going. But then he wasn't happy about day care either, so what can you do?
He's become a real problem, Mom. He's a good kid, but quite honestly, he's an unfair burden at this time in our lives. Ted and I have talked this through over and over and finally made a choice. Plenty of other families have made this choice and are certainly better off because of it.
I don't expect you to "understand," but you need to be sensitive to our circumstances. I can't afford years of parenting with Timothy if I'm going to have any sort of career, much less any time with my husband. Do you know how long it's been since we just went out together?
Our pastor is supportive and says hard decisions sometimes are necessary. The family is a "system" and the demands of one member shouldn't be allowed to ruin the whole. He told us to be prayerful, consider ALL the factors and do what is right to make the family work. He says that even though he probably wouldn't do it himself, the choice is ours. He was kind enough to refer us to a children's clinic near here, so at least that part will be easy.
I'm not an uncaring mother. I do feel sorry for the little guy. I think he overheard Ted and me talking about "it" the other night. I turned around and saw him standing at the bottom step in his pj's and the little bear you gave him under his arm and his eyes sort of welling up. Mom, the way he looked at me just broke my heart. But I honestly believe this is better for Timmy too. It's not fair to force him to live in a family where there isn't enough money or room.
And please don't give me the kind of grief Grandma gave you over your abortions. It's the same thing, you know. We've told him he is just going in for a vaccination. Anyway, they say the termination procedure is painless.
I guess it's just as well that you haven't seen that much of him. Give our love to Dad. Both of you, stay well--I don't want to have to face another one of these soul-wrenching decisions.
XX Jane
(Original version penned by George Koch; text in orange by Randy Alcorn, epm.org)
Perfickly Lawjikl Terjecktry
>>> In a 1997 cover story in the prestigious bioethics journal the Hastings Center Report, philosopher John Hardwig argued that there is not only a right, but also a "duty to die":
A duty to die is more likely when continuing to live will impose significant burdens--emotional burdens, extensive caregiving, destruction of life plans, and yes, financial hardship--on your family and loved ones. This is the fundamental insight underlying a duty to die. A duty to die becomes greater as you grow older. [Ah bayg yer pardun!!!] As we age, we will be giving up less by giving up our lives . . . To have reached the age of say, seventy-five or eighty years without being ready to die is itself a moral failing, the sign of a life out of touch with life's basic realities. [Shame on me fer livin ta a hunnert 'n fahv!!! Ah reckun soon them revenooerz'll be haulin me off fer more'n jiss runnin a still (which bah the way iz how ah got this ole in the furss place...)]
Bioethicist Battin has also supported the concept of an eventual duty to die for those living in rich countries, not just to spare burdening our loved ones but to promote world egalitarianism. [Donchoo kidjerself: not too long after all the "eligible" folk in "rich" countries haz kumplied with self-eradikayshn, then the Battins will trayn thurr crosshairs on the pohr folk o the wurl, fer the vuri reezunz her cawleeg Hartwig enoomrates abuv.]
Thus, she wrote in a book chapter called "Global Life Expectancies and the Duty to Die" that the time may come when we will have the moral obligation to "conserve health care resources by forgoing [sic] treatment or directly ending [our] life" toward promoting "health prospects and life expectancies that are more equal around the globe"... [Battin n her ilk haz guttid the meanin of "morull."]
Once assisted suicide is accepted in law and culture, the premises of radical autonomy and allowing killing to alleviate human suffering would conjoin, unleashing the irresistible power of logic that would push us inexorably toward the humanist nirvana of death on demand. <<< (Wesley J. Smith, Lifenews.com)
A duty to die is more likely when continuing to live will impose significant burdens--emotional burdens, extensive caregiving, destruction of life plans, and yes, financial hardship--on your family and loved ones. This is the fundamental insight underlying a duty to die. A duty to die becomes greater as you grow older. [Ah bayg yer pardun!!!] As we age, we will be giving up less by giving up our lives . . . To have reached the age of say, seventy-five or eighty years without being ready to die is itself a moral failing, the sign of a life out of touch with life's basic realities. [Shame on me fer livin ta a hunnert 'n fahv!!! Ah reckun soon them revenooerz'll be haulin me off fer more'n jiss runnin a still (which bah the way iz how ah got this ole in the furss place...)]
Bioethicist Battin has also supported the concept of an eventual duty to die for those living in rich countries, not just to spare burdening our loved ones but to promote world egalitarianism. [Donchoo kidjerself: not too long after all the "eligible" folk in "rich" countries haz kumplied with self-eradikayshn, then the Battins will trayn thurr crosshairs on the pohr folk o the wurl, fer the vuri reezunz her cawleeg Hartwig enoomrates abuv.]
Thus, she wrote in a book chapter called "Global Life Expectancies and the Duty to Die" that the time may come when we will have the moral obligation to "conserve health care resources by forgoing [sic] treatment or directly ending [our] life" toward promoting "health prospects and life expectancies that are more equal around the globe"... [Battin n her ilk haz guttid the meanin of "morull."]
Once assisted suicide is accepted in law and culture, the premises of radical autonomy and allowing killing to alleviate human suffering would conjoin, unleashing the irresistible power of logic that would push us inexorably toward the humanist nirvana of death on demand. <<< (Wesley J. Smith, Lifenews.com)
Friday, May 12, 2006
Uhvoydinss Taktix
"...instead of according religion its proper place, much of society ridicules and disdains it, and mocks those who are serious about their faith. In America today, the only respectable form of bigotry is bigotry directed against religious believers. [Yer not callin a spade a spade, Sir: 'at should read
"against Bible-beleevin Christians"] This hatred toward people of faith cannot be explained by the well-publicized moral failures and financial excesses of a few leaders or charlatans or by the censoriousness of some of their followers. No, the reason for hatred of faith is because it forces modern man to confront matters he would prefer to ignore." (William Bennett---imfasiss mahn)
"against Bible-beleevin Christians"] This hatred toward people of faith cannot be explained by the well-publicized moral failures and financial excesses of a few leaders or charlatans or by the censoriousness of some of their followers. No, the reason for hatred of faith is because it forces modern man to confront matters he would prefer to ignore." (William Bennett---imfasiss mahn)
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