An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Archive for 16 March 2008
Heh
Swiped from Basti Says.
Violations on the First Amendment
This video is an excellent example of how the left has continuously violated the First Amendment rights of Christians. (It’s long, but well worth your time!)
Silencing Christians: Is This Thing On? (part 1)
Saturday Afternoon Laundry Time on Sunday and No Laundry
Lena Taylor’s Amateurish Campaign – Boots & Sabers
A Step Too Far? – Ban the Ban
Barack and Friends Are Lined Up at The Washington Pork Trough Just Like One Of The “Good Old Boys” – Chicago Ray
NFL Retirement Home.. – Ick’s Corner
Speeding Ticket – USMC Style – Bear Creek Ledger
What happened to our moral compass? – Isn’t It Rich
Why what Obama’s pastor says matters – Right from the Right
European Parliament Fines Members for Opposing EU Treaty – Brussels Journal
They saw the light at the end of the tunnel… – Badger Blog Alliance
Old School Social Engineering – WisdomIsVindicated
Obama nodded in agreement last summer – Michell Malkin
“Good Morning Iraq. McCain Here, Full Bag Of Moxie In Tow.” – Redstate
“Blogging The Constitution: What Came Before.” – Big Dad Gib
Queen Weasel
Morning Coffee 03/16/08
Missiles Hit House in Pakistan Tribal Area, Killing 20
Only American forces are known to have unmanned drones that conduct operations in the region.
Khan said the house — a huge, fortress-like compound — was known as a hub for visiting foreign militants. Four of those killed were not locals, he said without elaborating.
Seven other people were wounded in the attack, he said.
The missiles completely destroyed the building, toppling walls made of mud bricks mixed with stone, Khan said. Taliban supporters immediately surrounded the area.
I don’t suppose bin Ladan was in the mix?
The demonstrations come after protests in the Tibetan capital Lhasa escalated into violence Friday, with Buddhist monks and others torching police cars and shops in the fiercest challenge to Beijing’s rule over the region in nearly two decades.
“Whether intentionally or unintentionally, some kind of cultural genocide is taking place,” said the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. He was referring to China’s policy of encouraging the ethnic Han majority to migrate to Tibet, restrictions on Buddhist temples and re-education programs for monks.
Ever wonder just how they “re-educate”? I’m fairly sure there isn’t a lot polite conversation.
Iran’s Culture Ministry on Sunday announced the closure of nine cinema and lifestyle magazines for publishing pictures and stories about the life of “corrupt” foreign film stars and promoting “superstitions.”
The Press Supervisory Board, a body controlled by hard-liners, also sent warning notes to 13 other publications and magazines on “observing the provisions of the press law,” the ministry said on its Web site.
I guess the press law goes right in line with Muslim teachings. Women covered head to toe, no difference of opinion, etc.
Access to health records bolstered for employers
Medical privacy has been protected for years by the most unlikely guardians: insurance companies.
Now, the Texas Legislature has become the first in the nation to force insurance companies to pass along sensitive employee health records to their companies, a practice permitted under federal law.
Starting Jan. 1, companies became entitled to receive a list of their employees and family members — identified by number or some other code, but not by name — whose health bills exceeded $15,000 during the previous year.
Somehow, that just doesn’t seem right. What if a person broke a leg, and had to have surgery? If there is a hospital involved, at $6 per Tylenol, that will definitely add up. (Been there, done that.) Will the employers have the option to say, “Ooops, you’re accident prone, we can’t hire you”?
Conservatives win Iran election
Conservative candidates in Iran’s general election have kept control of parliament, in line with expectations. They did particularly well in the capital, Tehran, which is seen as the key to parliamentary power. However, many of the conservative winners are critics of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
What they consider ‘conservative’ is a whole lot different. Gubmint control of your entire life just doesn’t jibe. I wonder if they’ll oust Ahmabooboo.
Katrina aftermath erodes bayou culture
“We’re facing a greater hurricane now than we did with Katrina, with the bureaucracy,” Ancar, 60, said, gesticulating passionately and flashing a toothy grin as she glided down the bayou in a boat. “The government – that’s our hurricane right now that we’re in.”
Before Katrina, Grand Bayou and its 25-odd families of Atakapa-Ishak American Indians lived in a parallel world, in concert with moon cycles and migrations of shrimp. This living museum, where there are no roads and everyone travels by boat, is facing extinction.
Leave it up to the gubmint to help folks into extinction.
Rice asked Olmert to halt strikes in Gaza
Quoting US, Israeli and Arab officials, the newspaper claims that Rice “privately asked Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to issue a public statement that Israel would halt attacks if Hamas stopped firing crude rockets at Israeli towns and cities.”
And that worked real well, didn’t it. Y’know, I use to like Rice.
Pro-homosexual Baptist church votes to keep pastor
A group calling itself Friends for the Future of Broadway had collected more than 160 signatures on a petition calling for Younger’s removal. They worried that Younger was embracing a theology they considered too liberal.
“We respect the will of the majority and pray for the congregation’s healing, recovery and continued service to the community that befits a 125-year-old church,” said Robert Saul, a spokesman for the group.
I see a split coming. Too many churches are splitting these days because quite a few are moving away from the teachings of the Bible, and looking to the secular for guidance. That just doesn’t jibe well.
Verse of the Day
Colossians 3:12
12Â Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
