PREMEDITATED MERGERProtesters to converge on North America summitCanada hosts trilateral SPP meeting with Bush, Mexican president(People need to know what's going on)
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6.20.2007
Ted Kennedy stands for stupid. It's his job, and a source of great pride.
With guys including Ted Kennedy sending weapons and money to Fatah, the PLO and other terrorist organizations can it be any surprise that he is working to subvert law and order in our country too? But only for tax payers. Illegals and terrorists have a different set of rules.
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I read something about the CFR (the Council for Foreign Relations) a few minutes ago that is very interesting. A man was trying to debunk the conspiracy theories that it's a globalist regime, working towars open borders and perhaps socialism. The short piece on the issue began by saying without a doubt that the CFR is a think tank on policy, not a globalist agenda. By the end of the piece, he had changed his tune a bit.
"If all the CFR conservatives renounced their membership and quit CFR today, this would be a bad thing, because there would be no more debates, and CFR would adopt lock, stock and barrel a one-world view.
The conservatives are needed in the CFR so they can keep an eye on the libs and keep them occupied, lest the Leftistas use the organization unimpeded to more effectively promote world socialism."
Something kind of fishy is going on there if you ask me. Maybe I'm paranoid, but something just doesn't quite add ud.
-S.K. Johnson
"If all the CFR conservatives renounced their membership and quit CFR today, this would be a bad thing, because there would be no more debates, and CFR would adopt lock, stock and barrel a one-world view.
The conservatives are needed in the CFR so they can keep an eye on the libs and keep them occupied, lest the Leftistas use the organization unimpeded to more effectively promote world socialism."
Something kind of fishy is going on there if you ask me. Maybe I'm paranoid, but something just doesn't quite add ud.
-S.K. Johnson
6.19.2007
6.17.2007
Will the real Ronald Reagan please stand up?
Janet Folger illustrates why the current Republican front runners are not conservatives at all. They are in fact all RHINO's!
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Q&A Friday #55: Can Duncan Hunter Win The Primaries?
Question: Presidential candidate Rep. Hunter is a conservative except, as you've noted, when it comes to his protectionist tendencies (e.g. opposing NAFTA).
Do you think that a somewhat-protectionist but otherwise capitalist conservative can win in the Republican Party presidential primaries?
I really have reservations about how much our economy has been opened and left vulnerable to foreign manipulation (e.g. China's undervalued currency). I feel that Republicans could stand to gain votes from moderates and the union crowd if they became a little more aggressive about fighting unfair foreign trade practices. What are your thoughts?" -- RepublicanPig1
Answer: Here's the thing: Hunter is not running against the perfect prototypical conservative who has conservative views on every subject. To the contrary, he's running against real people who deviate from the conservative orthodoxy on a lot of fronts.
For example, the two front runners right now appear to be John McCain & Rudy Giuliani. Although I am a free trader and don't agree with Hunter on that issue, I also don't agree with McCain on campaign finance reform, his incredibly broad definition of "torture," global warming, the protection of marriage amendment, illegal immigration, etc., etc. When it comes to Rudy Giuliani, you have a guy who is pro-abortion, pro-amnesty, pro-gun control, etc., etc. So personally -- and I think this will be true for most conservatives -- despite my difference with him on trade, I still have much more in common ideologically with Hunter than I do with Giuliani or McCain.
Moreover, let me add that Hunter's views on the free trade issue would probably be very useful in appealing to blue collar Democrats working in factories, mills, unions, etc. The sort of things Hunter is saying about CAFTA, NAFTA, and China would be music to their ears and I think a lot of them could be persuaded to vote for him because of it.
I'm not endorsing him or anything at this point (I probably won't pick the candidate I'm going to get behind until shortly before the first primary), but I think Duncan Hunter would be the most electable candidate that the GOP could run in 2008. He has no serious baggage that I've seen, served in Vietnam, has enormous credibility and experience on defense issues, a tough anti-illegal immigration stance, favors a Balanced Budget Amendment, wants a 2/3 majority to raise taxes. I believe he would pull in some Democratic voters because of his trade stance and I think he's a candidate that conservatives would actually turn out to vote for (as opposed to say, turning out just because they don't want Hillary in the White House).
Can Hunter gain the name recognition and backing he needs to have a real shot of winning the nomination? That remains to be seen at this point, but since Republicans desperately seem to be searching for someone to represent the conservative wing of the Republican Party and since Hunter seems to fit the bill better than anyone else running, I think a meteoric rise into the top tier over the next few months is within the realm of possibility for him.
PS: Granted, the best candidates for the presidency are usually governors, but when you look at the candidates in the race, the pickings are pretty slim at the moment. Huckabee? No. Pataki? Please. Romney? The only reason he is even getting a hard look from people is because so many conservatives really don't like the idea of having McCain or Giuliani as a candidate.
PS #2: When Howard Dean ran in 2004, he built up name recognition and buzz online. Then, when he won the MoveON.org primary, people started to take him seriously as a candidate. The same thing could happen with Hunter. If he can build up some buzz and win or place surprisingly high in a prominent poll (like the National Journal Insider's Poll), then next thing you know, people will start to give him a hard look. So, although a guy like Hunter would have had no chance to get up into the top tier in, let's say 2000, because of the new media in today's political environment, he has a real chance to pull it off if he can appeal to conservatives.
Question: Presidential candidate Rep. Hunter is a conservative except, as you've noted, when it comes to his protectionist tendencies (e.g. opposing NAFTA).
Do you think that a somewhat-protectionist but otherwise capitalist conservative can win in the Republican Party presidential primaries?
I really have reservations about how much our economy has been opened and left vulnerable to foreign manipulation (e.g. China's undervalued currency). I feel that Republicans could stand to gain votes from moderates and the union crowd if they became a little more aggressive about fighting unfair foreign trade practices. What are your thoughts?" -- RepublicanPig1
Answer: Here's the thing: Hunter is not running against the perfect prototypical conservative who has conservative views on every subject. To the contrary, he's running against real people who deviate from the conservative orthodoxy on a lot of fronts.
For example, the two front runners right now appear to be John McCain & Rudy Giuliani. Although I am a free trader and don't agree with Hunter on that issue, I also don't agree with McCain on campaign finance reform, his incredibly broad definition of "torture," global warming, the protection of marriage amendment, illegal immigration, etc., etc. When it comes to Rudy Giuliani, you have a guy who is pro-abortion, pro-amnesty, pro-gun control, etc., etc. So personally -- and I think this will be true for most conservatives -- despite my difference with him on trade, I still have much more in common ideologically with Hunter than I do with Giuliani or McCain.
Moreover, let me add that Hunter's views on the free trade issue would probably be very useful in appealing to blue collar Democrats working in factories, mills, unions, etc. The sort of things Hunter is saying about CAFTA, NAFTA, and China would be music to their ears and I think a lot of them could be persuaded to vote for him because of it.
I'm not endorsing him or anything at this point (I probably won't pick the candidate I'm going to get behind until shortly before the first primary), but I think Duncan Hunter would be the most electable candidate that the GOP could run in 2008. He has no serious baggage that I've seen, served in Vietnam, has enormous credibility and experience on defense issues, a tough anti-illegal immigration stance, favors a Balanced Budget Amendment, wants a 2/3 majority to raise taxes. I believe he would pull in some Democratic voters because of his trade stance and I think he's a candidate that conservatives would actually turn out to vote for (as opposed to say, turning out just because they don't want Hillary in the White House).
Can Hunter gain the name recognition and backing he needs to have a real shot of winning the nomination? That remains to be seen at this point, but since Republicans desperately seem to be searching for someone to represent the conservative wing of the Republican Party and since Hunter seems to fit the bill better than anyone else running, I think a meteoric rise into the top tier over the next few months is within the realm of possibility for him.
PS: Granted, the best candidates for the presidency are usually governors, but when you look at the candidates in the race, the pickings are pretty slim at the moment. Huckabee? No. Pataki? Please. Romney? The only reason he is even getting a hard look from people is because so many conservatives really don't like the idea of having McCain or Giuliani as a candidate.
PS #2: When Howard Dean ran in 2004, he built up name recognition and buzz online. Then, when he won the MoveON.org primary, people started to take him seriously as a candidate. The same thing could happen with Hunter. If he can build up some buzz and win or place surprisingly high in a prominent poll (like the National Journal Insider's Poll), then next thing you know, people will start to give him a hard look. So, although a guy like Hunter would have had no chance to get up into the top tier in, let's say 2000, because of the new media in today's political environment, he has a real chance to pull it off if he can appeal to conservatives.
Reflections in Angel Wings
Angels are perfect aren't they? At least, that's what everyone says isn't it? While, interestingly, I'm not sure of what the Biblical basis of that idea is, I generally cling to it. Angels, at the very least, are good. In the same sense as man as good before the fall. But it would seem, that although good, they are left prey to many of the same temptations and feelings that we have...one of those things, being jealousy.
Jealous, you say? Why would angels be jealous? From a theological standpoint, if they are perfect they do not know pain, suffering, illness, sin, separation from God...they only know goodness. What would they have to be jealous about? It doesn't make much sense. If that isn't strange enough, may I make my claim even more outrageous. Not only are they jealous, but they are jealous of humanity itself.
No doubt you are sitting on the edge of your seat, head in hands attempting to understand how on earth angels could be jealous of cancer, backstabbers, murderers, adulterers, AIDS, sickness, famine, deceit, fear, greed...those things that mark humanity. We, who are idiotic and childish rebels against God, are the object of jealosy of ones we are not worthy to look upon? They? Who sit in winsome obedience to that same God, every beating moment? How can it be?
There is one thing that we have that they don't. One privilage, one gift, we have been given that they have not received. Yes, we have imperfection...but they know full well what kind of God we serve. They know that we serve a God of rescue, of grace, of compassion, of redemption. They know that with imperfection, comes the ability for restoration. This process of redemption that we enter into with Christ isn't just a forgiveness of sin...but the forgiveness of sin is a part of something even bigger. It is the scrapping of something old and the replacement of something new. Could it be...could it be...that this great mystery of God that is in every word of Scripture, every bit of beauty and every bit of ugly, in every breath of life, in every thought, in every molecule is a great story...not just of a people who rebelled and were forgiven, but of a people who get to reflect the depth of the nature of God by being fallen and then redeemed. And could it just be, that a perfect world, has nothing on a world that has fallen and been restored?
You know that it is true, somewhere deep down. It is written into our very lives. Ever noticed that funny way it works out that when God gets to work on the worst thing about you, it suddenly becomes the best thing about you? Ever noticed how a seed must die, to bring forth something so much greater than a mere seed could ever be? Could it be that the rare privelage of being renewed in Christ, is so much better than never having needed him? In the book of Genesis, we are given a wonderful garden. Ages later, after all these days of pain and war, the world is finally renewed...and as the book of Revelation has told us, we will be given a city. Something to think about.
I Peter 1:12:
10-12The prophets who told us this was coming asked a lot of questions about this gift of life God was preparing. The Messiah's Spirit let them in on some of it—that the Messiah would experience suffering, followed by glory. They clamored to know who and when. All they were told was that they were serving you, you who by orders from heaven have now heard for yourselves—through the Holy Spirit—the Message of those prophecies fulfilled. Do you realize how fortunate you are? Angels would have given anything to be in on this!
Remember how fortunate we are, my brothers and sisters, even the angels are jealous of us.
Jealous, you say? Why would angels be jealous? From a theological standpoint, if they are perfect they do not know pain, suffering, illness, sin, separation from God...they only know goodness. What would they have to be jealous about? It doesn't make much sense. If that isn't strange enough, may I make my claim even more outrageous. Not only are they jealous, but they are jealous of humanity itself.
No doubt you are sitting on the edge of your seat, head in hands attempting to understand how on earth angels could be jealous of cancer, backstabbers, murderers, adulterers, AIDS, sickness, famine, deceit, fear, greed...those things that mark humanity. We, who are idiotic and childish rebels against God, are the object of jealosy of ones we are not worthy to look upon? They? Who sit in winsome obedience to that same God, every beating moment? How can it be?
There is one thing that we have that they don't. One privilage, one gift, we have been given that they have not received. Yes, we have imperfection...but they know full well what kind of God we serve. They know that we serve a God of rescue, of grace, of compassion, of redemption. They know that with imperfection, comes the ability for restoration. This process of redemption that we enter into with Christ isn't just a forgiveness of sin...but the forgiveness of sin is a part of something even bigger. It is the scrapping of something old and the replacement of something new. Could it be...could it be...that this great mystery of God that is in every word of Scripture, every bit of beauty and every bit of ugly, in every breath of life, in every thought, in every molecule is a great story...not just of a people who rebelled and were forgiven, but of a people who get to reflect the depth of the nature of God by being fallen and then redeemed. And could it just be, that a perfect world, has nothing on a world that has fallen and been restored?
You know that it is true, somewhere deep down. It is written into our very lives. Ever noticed that funny way it works out that when God gets to work on the worst thing about you, it suddenly becomes the best thing about you? Ever noticed how a seed must die, to bring forth something so much greater than a mere seed could ever be? Could it be that the rare privelage of being renewed in Christ, is so much better than never having needed him? In the book of Genesis, we are given a wonderful garden. Ages later, after all these days of pain and war, the world is finally renewed...and as the book of Revelation has told us, we will be given a city. Something to think about.
I Peter 1:12:
10-12The prophets who told us this was coming asked a lot of questions about this gift of life God was preparing. The Messiah's Spirit let them in on some of it—that the Messiah would experience suffering, followed by glory. They clamored to know who and when. All they were told was that they were serving you, you who by orders from heaven have now heard for yourselves—through the Holy Spirit—the Message of those prophecies fulfilled. Do you realize how fortunate you are? Angels would have given anything to be in on this!
Remember how fortunate we are, my brothers and sisters, even the angels are jealous of us.
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