“We start therefore with a strong presumption that
the Second Amendment right is exercised individually and belongs to
all Americans.”— Justice Antonin Scalia writing for the Supreme Court in 554 U. S. ____ (2008)
Wednesday
Published Tue, Jun 19 2007 11:15 PM
Technorati Tags: Software Development, Open Trackbacks
Sometimes the best laid plans of mice just seem to fall apart. I started the day out with a few plans. I wanted to change the site theme a bit. That went well, and now you're seeing the "summer" theme.
I also wanted to get a new flag video for the open trackback posts. I took the previous one standing outside my car in a Wal-Mart parking lot, without a tripod. I wasn't really satisfied with it, because you can tell that I'm not a "steady-cam" operator.
On my way in to work this morning, I spotted this flag flying in the breeze. This time I was armed with my tripod, and so I was able to get a much steadier video. Now if only it had been a bit windier. I like this one better. The sky wasn't cloudy today, but with the trees in the background you can't tell.
This afternoon, Texas Fred asked me to add the "Reject the U.N." contributors list to the side bar. That didn't go so well. When I uploaded the new side bar, the site crashed. That was extremely frustrating. I quickly put up a temporary home page for the site, then gussied it up a bit.
Meanwhile I had to wait for a while so I could get some of my real work done before I could contact Brinkster support and have them restore the backup files. After the restore, things were almost back to normal. The side-bar isn't quite back the way I want it, but it's a little better.
While I was at the job of fixing it, I also cleaned up the block of images that shows up underneath all of the posts. Somehow during one of my updates I had a few tags get crossed. They should be fixed now.
This linkfest is for the 20th of June, 2007.
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Wednesday Hero - Lance Cpl. Hatak Yuka Keyu M. Yearby
Published Tue, Jun 19 2007 10:25 PM
Lance Cpl. Hatak Yuka Keyu M. Yearby
21 years old from Overbrook, Oklahoma
3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force
May 14, 2006
Hatak Yuka Keyu Martin Yearby was remembered in funeral services as a small town boy who balanced his Choctaw tribal heritage and his military life.
He did traditional American Indian dances with grace, compassion, discipline and free spirit — "the way he lived his life," the Rev. Timm Emmons said Monday.
"He had a desire to be in the military since he was a young boy. And he believed in what he was doing. He was a warrior, and he was a hero and he finished the course."
Yearby was killed by a roadside bomb, along with fellow Lance Cpl. Jose S. MarinDominguez Jr., in the Al Anbar province of Iraq, two months after he arrived in that country.
Friends and family, fellow American Indians, teachers and classmates filed past his open casket for an hour after the funeral while a U.S. Marine Corps honor guard stood at attention.
About 1,000 people attended a funeral service meant to celebrate the life of the 21-year-old newlywed from Overbrook in southern Oklahoma’s Love County.
Those who spoke in the packed Marietta High School auditorium talked of how he loved to hunt, but never came back with anything. He played tricks, won dancing awards at powwows and appeared on a recruiting magazine for Upward Bound because of a headdress he made from a T-shirt.
Nine of his friends stood on stage to remember Yearby. Jake Barber spoke for them, pausing several times to regain his composure.
"Many great words describe Hatak. The only real word you need to say is 'brother'. He will always be known to us as the ace of spades, the most important card in the deck. He touched us so dearly that words cannot explain,".
These brave men and women sacrifice so much in their lives so that others may enjoy the freedoms we get to enjoy everyday. For that, I am proud to call them Hero. We Should Not Only Mourn These Men And Women Who Died, We Should Also Thank God That Such People Lived
This post is part of the Wednesday Hero Blogroll. To find out more about Wednesday Hero, you can go here.
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Bugs...
Published Tue, Jun 19 2007 7:20 PM
Technorati Tags: Software Development, Annoyances
I hate it when things don't work right. For most of the day the sidebar and the main page of the site were broken. I had a temporary page up for a while. Now things are back, but the sidebar is missing a lot of its newer content.
I'll be putting some of that content back tonight, but it's been a bit of a frustration trying to get everything back together. Fortunately Brinkster keeps backups. Unfortunately they don't keep backups longer than 24 hours. So I've lost a few minor things.
I'll be fixing them soon. I hope. Unless I break them again.
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A false priest preaches blasphemy in Seattle
Published Tue, Jun 19 2007 12:49 PM
Technorati Tags: Political Correctness, Multiculturalism and Intolerance
One of the most basic creeds in the Christian Church is the Apostle's creed:
I believe in God, the Father Almighty,
the Creator of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord:Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried.He descended into hell.
The third day He arose again from the dead.
He ascended into heaven
and sits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty,
whence He shall come to judge the living and the dead.I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy *catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting.Amen.
In a nutshell this is the basis of Christianity. There is also the Nicene creed, which says in part:
I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God, begotten of the Father before all worlds; God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God; begotten, not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made.
These two creeds make it plain that the Christian believes not only that Jesus was the Son of God but that He Is God. This is also part of the doctrine taught by the Episcopal church.
The basic teachings of the church, or catechism, includes:
- Jesus Christ is fully human and fully God. He died and was resurrected from the dead.
So how then can an Episcopal priest still call herself a Christian and adhere to a religion that teaches that Jesus is neither God nor the Son of God? I guess we'll have to ask Janet I. Tu, the "Seattle Times religion reporter", who wrote a glowing, gushing article about Ann Holmes Redding:
Shortly after noon on Fridays, the Rev. Ann Holmes Redding ties on a black headscarf, preparing to pray with her Muslim group on First Hill.
On Sunday mornings, Redding puts on the white collar of an Episcopal priest.
She does both, she says, because she's Christian and Muslim.
...
Redding, who will begin teaching the New Testament as a visiting assistant professor at Seattle University this fall, has a different analogy: "I am both Muslim and Christian, just like I'm both an American of African descent and a woman. I'm 100 percent both."
Redding doesn't feel she has to resolve all the contradictions. People within one religion can't even agree on all the details, she said. "So why would I spend time to try to reconcile all of Christian belief with all of Islam?
"At the most basic level, I understand the two religions to be compatible. That's all I need."
Face it folks, The "Reverend" Redding is an apostate, if she was ever truly a Christian. She seems to believe that it's possible that all religions are equal, even when the two that she professes to practice are mutually contradictory.
The only way that all religions can be equally valid, is if they are all equally false. Ann Holmes Redding obviously believes that Christianity and Islam are equally valid, despite fundamental differences in the basic doctrines of the two religions. It is plain that she either believes in neither religion, or that she is willfully attempting to corrupt one of them.
Ann Holmes Redding is a false priest, and her teachings are blasphemous. Which of her two "faiths" is she blaspheming? You decide.
Cross posted at NW Bloggers
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Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst - 061907
Published Tue, Jun 19 2007 12:26 PM
Technorati Tags: Immigration
Low protest turnouts, a bad thing?
100% Preventable!
Do deportations keep us safe?
We investigate in this weeks Blogs For Borders Video Blogburst.Have conservatives learned nothing?
Published Tue, Jun 19 2007 8:49 AM
Technorati Tags: Elections, Immigration, Conservatives, Republicans
As conservative outrage against the illegal-alien-amnesty-act of 2007 continues unabated I'm noticing a disturbing trend. I'm seeing more and more calls to cut funding from the GOP. I have to ask, did we learn nothing at all in 2006?
Consider for a moment a few facts. In national elections the chances of someone outside the two major political parties winning is pretty slim. Sure Joe Lieberman did it in his Senate race, but he had the big advantage of being the incumbent and having name recognition. Consider him to be the exception that proves the rule.
Of the two major political parties, the most conservative by far is the Republican party. Finding a truly conservative member of the Democratic party is harder than finding a needle in a haystack. When a Democrat speaks of the mainstream, they almost invariably are talking left of center. When a Democrat talks of bipartisanship they invariably mean that conservative Republicans must abandon their principles and "move toward the center", a move that can only be to the left.
The Democratic party never "moves to the center". The Democratic party seldom, if ever, works in a bipartisan way with Republicans by adopting conservative principles.
I'm well aware of the fact that the Republican party has a large number of liberal and "so-called" moderate members. I'm well aware of the fact that many incumbent Republican legislators seem more interested in pleasing the press, and by extension the left than in standing up for conservative values. Even so, I see no Democratic legislators that you could call "mavericks". They're all liberal, and none would stand up for conservative values.
Not even Joe Lieberman. Sure, he's a hawk when it comes to the war on terror. Not all Democrats are so poisoned by "Bush Derangement Syndrome" that they'll compromise national security just to get back at a Republican administration. But they're all liberals when it comes to domestic policy.
In November of 2006, conservative voters demonstrated their pique with the Republican party's intransigence. The Republican controlled Congress turned out one of the worst possible big-government sessions. Big government entitlement programs expanded at a rate never seen under Republican control.
The Democratic party machine saw an opportunity and they took it. They ran young candidates on a "conservative" platform and took away seats from more "liberal" Republicans. The result was the loss of both houses of Congress by the Republicans.
I said then that while conservative voters seemed to think it was a good idea to teach the Republican party a lesson that we were all going to get schooled. It didn't take to long to prove me right. From the moment the Democrats took power they stepped up their campaign to lose the war on terror. All of the new "conservative" Democrats soon were taught to toe the party line.
For conservatives, nothing good has come of our fit of pique last November. Cutting off funding for the GOP in the middle of a national campaign in another fit of pique won't do us much good either. It's a sad state of affairs that we must choose the lesser of two evils when we go to the polls, but conservative politics has been facing that choice for over 150 years.
Every time we try to teach politicians a lesson it has resulted in a bigger leftward slide. Don't you think it's time we started fielding true conservative candidates? Maybe we should start paying more attention in the primaries. Maybe we should vote our incumbent Republican legislators out at primary time, rather than waiting for the general election to do it.
Instead of cutting off funding to the party, maybe we should donate to conservative Republican candidates. If we can find any.
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Tuesday
Published Tue, Jun 19 2007 12:03 AM
Technorati Tags: Entertainment, Drag Racing, Corruption, Courts, Open Trackbacks
Well, another three-day weekend come and gone. It's back to work again. You know what they say about the best laid plans of mice don't you?
Well, a few events have taken place that have disturbed me a bit, and a few that simply seem right somehow.
A sample of the disturbing: Six people were killed and 23 more were injured by a fishtailing dragster on Saturday. They were standing in the crowd by the side of an unprotected three lane highway at the Cars for Kids show in Selmer Tennessee. Troy Chritchley lost control of his dragster during a burnout contest on city streets.
Let's face it folks: Racing is a dangerous activity. Both for the drivers and for the spectators. Every time I go to the track to race I sign a waiver acknowledging that fact. People can and have been killed even in the grandstands watching races.
This event should have never been allowed to take place. I'm a motorsports fan, and I would have loved watching the burnout contest myself, but I've always wondered at how much disregard for safety there is at some events. There were no guard rails, and no restraints to keep the crowd out of danger. People even disregarded the police instructions to keep back and were injured because of it.
An example of something that just seems right: Mike Nifong was disbarred Saturday. On Monday he send a resignation letter to the Governor of North Carolina and to Judge Hudson indicating he would step down as District Attorney on July 13. The Judge decided that that's not soon enough.
As part of the suspension, Hudson said he would order the sheriff on Tuesday to prevent Nifong from carrying out any duties of the district attorney.
There's no place in the legal system for an attorney who deliberately lies, and withholds exculpatory evidence, all for political and personal gain. When a man of such evil character and intent is given the power to choose who will and won't be prosecuted, how can anyone, guilty or innocent be safe from the heavy hand of the law?
This linkfest is for the 19th of June, 2007.
If you have something interesting you'd like to share, feel free to link it here and leave a trackback.
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