Horses and Horses' Arses
It’s an eternal enigma with no satisfactory answer: Why did God create so many more horses’ arses than horses? It’s long posed an epistemological dilemma that may never be resolved since the conundrum is ongoing.
Cases in point:
Welcome to our America: Goshen College in Goshen, Indiana, a school affiliated with the Mennonite Church which preaches non-violence, has agreed for the first time in its 116 year old history to permit the playing of (an instrumental version of) the national anthem at some varsity sporting events.
That represents a sea change in Goshen policies and politics.
Pushed into lifting the anthem ban by negative publicity arising from a media awareness of the prohibition, Goshen President Jame Brennaman defended the new policy by saying, “Playing the anthem offers a welcoming gesture to many visiting our athletic events, rather than an immediate barrier to further opportunities for getting to know one another.”
Whatever that means.
In deference to the pacifist beliefs of the Mennonite Church, Brennaman graciously added, “Spectators would not be asked to ‘honor’ or ‘give allegiance’ but simply be invited to respectfully stand during the playing of the national anthem:” http://bit.ly/bF8e29
The relevant question is why Goshen College took over a century . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1530)
Showing posts with label bob casey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bob casey. Show all posts
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Monday, December 21, 2009
Bob Casey versus Pre-Born Life
Bob Casey Versus Pre-Born Life
People often get so wrapped up in themselves, so immersed in their personal lives and interests that they can’t see the forest because those stupid trees keep getting in the way.
Most politicians by nature are self-absorbed–think Obama–and that absorption seems to extend to their spouses, at least in the case of Terese Casey, bride of almost 25 years to the junior senator from Pennsylvania, Bob Casey.
The Caseys have four beautiful daughters.
Many Pro-Lifers consider Sen. Casey to be their last, best hope in the U.S. Senate to repel the abomination of Obamacare but they may be very, extremely disappointed.
One of 8 children of the late Pennsylvania governor and staunch Catholic anti-abortionist Robert Patrick Casey, Jesuit-trained Sen. Casey is poised to help put the final nail in the coffin of the pre-born by casting his vote on Thursday, Christmas Eve, for Harry Reid’s version of Obamacare.
Merry Christmas!
Terese Casey was annoyed that pro-lifers were staging a vigil outside the Casey home in Scranton, PA: “Why are you doing this; you know he’s not here, right?”
The pro-lifers know full well that the senator is currently in D.C. yet are demonstrating in front of his Scranton home.
Mrs. Casey’s question is a valid one. So too are the reasons why Randall Jarrett is staging his group’s 4-day vigil in Pennsylvania.
One Merriam-Webster definition of vigil is “an act or period of watching or surveillance,” often characterized by prayerful hopes that some minor miracle will occur to accomplish a good end.
It will take at least a minor miracle to sway Sen. Casey’s vote to favoring the pre-born.
A seemingly distraught Terese Casey, sounding much like the twit who appealed to Britney critics, asked the vigil-keepers, “Why wont you leave him alone? Why doesn’t anyone give him credit for the votes for life he has made?”
She was upset about their presence and added, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1382)
People often get so wrapped up in themselves, so immersed in their personal lives and interests that they can’t see the forest because those stupid trees keep getting in the way.
Most politicians by nature are self-absorbed–think Obama–and that absorption seems to extend to their spouses, at least in the case of Terese Casey, bride of almost 25 years to the junior senator from Pennsylvania, Bob Casey.
The Caseys have four beautiful daughters.
Many Pro-Lifers consider Sen. Casey to be their last, best hope in the U.S. Senate to repel the abomination of Obamacare but they may be very, extremely disappointed.
One of 8 children of the late Pennsylvania governor and staunch Catholic anti-abortionist Robert Patrick Casey, Jesuit-trained Sen. Casey is poised to help put the final nail in the coffin of the pre-born by casting his vote on Thursday, Christmas Eve, for Harry Reid’s version of Obamacare.
Merry Christmas!
Terese Casey was annoyed that pro-lifers were staging a vigil outside the Casey home in Scranton, PA: “Why are you doing this; you know he’s not here, right?”
The pro-lifers know full well that the senator is currently in D.C. yet are demonstrating in front of his Scranton home.
Mrs. Casey’s question is a valid one. So too are the reasons why Randall Jarrett is staging his group’s 4-day vigil in Pennsylvania.
One Merriam-Webster definition of vigil is “an act or period of watching or surveillance,” often characterized by prayerful hopes that some minor miracle will occur to accomplish a good end.
It will take at least a minor miracle to sway Sen. Casey’s vote to favoring the pre-born.
A seemingly distraught Terese Casey, sounding much like the twit who appealed to Britney critics, asked the vigil-keepers, “Why wont you leave him alone? Why doesn’t anyone give him credit for the votes for life he has made?”
She was upset about their presence and added, . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1382)
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
D.C. Chatter
D.C. Chatter
Why do people choose to enter politics?
Some surely become politicians out of purely altruistic reasons. One such person is New York Democrat Rep. Carolyn McCarthy who ran for office on an anti-gun platform after her husband was murdered and her son seriously injured by black maniac Colin Ferguson on the Long Island Rail Road in 1993.
Dyslexic and not the brightest crayon in the box, after being rejected as a candidate by the Republican Party in the heavily GOP 4th CD, she ran as a Democrat and won in 1996 and has been in office since.
Since then, McCarthy has firmly aligned herself with liberal causes and has become a reliable vote for Speaker Pelosi’s agenda.
Despite her evident pique-voting, I can respect Rep. McCarthy who at least seems like a decent person, a characteristic not applicable to the majority of Democrats.
Those are the mass of the other people who get involved in Democratic politics out of a sense of self-importance, to advocate for leftist causes, and to achieve higher office and who will compromise whatever principles they ever had in their quest for that goal.
One such over-achiever is Pennsylvania Senator Robert Patrick Casey, son of a true rarity, a Democrat conservative governor and arch-opponent of abortion, Bob Casey.
After failing to follow his father’s footsteps as PA governor, the son ran for and won a Senate seat in 2006. The rest has been a downhill trajectory that would have made his dad disown him were he still alive.
A master of equivocation, Casey has defended . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1366)
Why do people choose to enter politics?
Some surely become politicians out of purely altruistic reasons. One such person is New York Democrat Rep. Carolyn McCarthy who ran for office on an anti-gun platform after her husband was murdered and her son seriously injured by black maniac Colin Ferguson on the Long Island Rail Road in 1993.
Dyslexic and not the brightest crayon in the box, after being rejected as a candidate by the Republican Party in the heavily GOP 4th CD, she ran as a Democrat and won in 1996 and has been in office since.
Since then, McCarthy has firmly aligned herself with liberal causes and has become a reliable vote for Speaker Pelosi’s agenda.
Despite her evident pique-voting, I can respect Rep. McCarthy who at least seems like a decent person, a characteristic not applicable to the majority of Democrats.
Those are the mass of the other people who get involved in Democratic politics out of a sense of self-importance, to advocate for leftist causes, and to achieve higher office and who will compromise whatever principles they ever had in their quest for that goal.
One such over-achiever is Pennsylvania Senator Robert Patrick Casey, son of a true rarity, a Democrat conservative governor and arch-opponent of abortion, Bob Casey.
After failing to follow his father’s footsteps as PA governor, the son ran for and won a Senate seat in 2006. The rest has been a downhill trajectory that would have made his dad disown him were he still alive.
A master of equivocation, Casey has defended . . .
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1366)
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Maine, SEIU, and Bob Casey
Noteworthy News Items: Maine, SEIU, Bob Casey
The great state of Maine made a collective decision on Tuesday to buck the trend of its New England neighbors and to effectively make an announcement to its resident and non-resident homosexuals.
The Pine Tree State announced that it doesn’t necessarily condemn their lifestyle but it emphatically rejects their agitation for state-approval of what Christians call Holy Matrimony.
The vote to overturn the state legislature’s bid to extend Maine’s imprimatur to gay marriage stood at 53-47% at last count adding Maine to the 30 other states which have voted against same-sex weddings.
By judicial fiat, in five New England states plus Iowa such marriages have been legalized.
That vote is only relatively newsworthy compared to the reactions of one prominent homosexual.
According to the Bangor, ME Daily News, Jesse Connolly ”pledged” after their defeat “In a defiant speech to several hundred lingering supporters, . . . that his side ‘will not quit until we know where every single one of these votes lives.’ “ (http://bit.ly/3FgU4K)
For some reason, that threat was omitted in most other mainstream news reports.
Just why Connolly is so committed to learning the addresses of “these votes” is unclear but it sure smacks of an effort at intimidation against those who voted to oppose gay marriage.
Could Connolly and fellow gays be planning to attack their opponents with their purses and feather boas?
Next, and lest we disregard the dedication and vicious nature of Obama supporters such as the Service Employees International Union, SEIU, take a look at this reaction to a rara avis, that rare bird, a conservative African-American.
Kenneth Gladney had come to demonstrate his rights to free speech at Rep. Russ McClanahan’s town hall meeting by distributing free “Don’t Tread on Me” flags when he was attacked by SEIU thugs.
“Gladney said he was giving out the “Don’t Tread on Me” flags when someone walked up to him and asked, ‘Who in the (expletive) is selling this (expletive) here?’
“Gladney said he asked him if he wanted one of his flags, and the man (who was also black) asked Gladney, “What kind of n_____ are you to be giving out this kind of stuff?” (http://bit.ly/367DJ5)
One of those arrested in the unprovoked August assault on Gladney was Elston K. McCowan, Baptist minister, community organizer, former local SEIU director, and Green Party candidate for the mayoralty of St. Louis who had accused the mayor of racism: http://bit.ly/2fyUx4.
See the attack and the more civil protest which followed here: http://bit.ly/cwsDo.
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1305)
The great state of Maine made a collective decision on Tuesday to buck the trend of its New England neighbors and to effectively make an announcement to its resident and non-resident homosexuals.
The Pine Tree State announced that it doesn’t necessarily condemn their lifestyle but it emphatically rejects their agitation for state-approval of what Christians call Holy Matrimony.
The vote to overturn the state legislature’s bid to extend Maine’s imprimatur to gay marriage stood at 53-47% at last count adding Maine to the 30 other states which have voted against same-sex weddings.
By judicial fiat, in five New England states plus Iowa such marriages have been legalized.
That vote is only relatively newsworthy compared to the reactions of one prominent homosexual.
According to the Bangor, ME Daily News, Jesse Connolly ”pledged” after their defeat “In a defiant speech to several hundred lingering supporters, . . . that his side ‘will not quit until we know where every single one of these votes lives.’ “ (http://bit.ly/3FgU4K)
For some reason, that threat was omitted in most other mainstream news reports.
Just why Connolly is so committed to learning the addresses of “these votes” is unclear but it sure smacks of an effort at intimidation against those who voted to oppose gay marriage.
Could Connolly and fellow gays be planning to attack their opponents with their purses and feather boas?
Next, and lest we disregard the dedication and vicious nature of Obama supporters such as the Service Employees International Union, SEIU, take a look at this reaction to a rara avis, that rare bird, a conservative African-American.
Kenneth Gladney had come to demonstrate his rights to free speech at Rep. Russ McClanahan’s town hall meeting by distributing free “Don’t Tread on Me” flags when he was attacked by SEIU thugs.
“Gladney said he was giving out the “Don’t Tread on Me” flags when someone walked up to him and asked, ‘Who in the (expletive) is selling this (expletive) here?’
“Gladney said he asked him if he wanted one of his flags, and the man (who was also black) asked Gladney, “What kind of n_____ are you to be giving out this kind of stuff?” (http://bit.ly/367DJ5)
One of those arrested in the unprovoked August assault on Gladney was Elston K. McCowan, Baptist minister, community organizer, former local SEIU director, and Green Party candidate for the mayoralty of St. Louis who had accused the mayor of racism: http://bit.ly/2fyUx4.
See the attack and the more civil protest which followed here: http://bit.ly/cwsDo.
(Read the rest at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=1305)
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