de Tocqueville and Some Random Thoughts on a Sunday Evening

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.
Alexis de Tocqueville

I certainly hope de Tocqueville wasn’t Nostradamus, because, boy howdy, has Congress discovered what bribing the public can do for their political careers. It can get you an audience with that Nobel Laureate George Clooney, or a fireside chat with acclaimed economist Susan Sarandon. Oh and it can make you a career politician, which makes you an enemy of the true spirit of this great land. The Founding Fathers didn’t set this whole thing up just to make it a playground for otherwise unemployable miscreants, misfits, and misanthropes, lawyers in other words.

I don’t mean to continue to bash Republicans, people might think I’m a closet liberal, but Ted Stevens was a perfect example of this bribery phenomenon. The Alaskan people just love ol’ Ted. He brought home the bacon. Now that his charges have been dropped, well, they want him back. He’s everything that’s wrong with the GOP, yet the otherwise conservative state of Alaska has a blind spot for Ted. The charges being dropped doesn’t make Ted innocent, but it doesn’t matter to Alaska. They want their baby back, baby back, baby back ribs..pork ribs that is, back! 

Here’s hoping Alaskans don’t get their wish on this one. I love Sarah. Teddy boy…not so much.

 

Pittsburgh Gunman Kills 3 Police Officers

It seems some psycho gunned down 3 police officers in Pittsburgh, PA. I am terribly sorry for the officers and families. All I can offer are prayers for them, the families, and friends. I wanted to be a police officer, but never did it. I am hoping my daughter becomes one. She wants to be a forensic chemist.

I don’t want to politicize this incident, but I have to point out that the first reports of this murder spree made it sound like this whole thing started over this psychos fear of Obama taking away his right to own guns.

Here’s a link to an earlier in the day report.

 Gunman Loved His Guns In Case You Missed It

The more recent article is the one at the top of this post. It says the reason officers were called to the house, was over a domestic dispute between the mom and her psycho son. The earlier in the day report doesn’t mention the dispute, presumably because no one knew yet, just why officers had gone there. That didn’t stop reporters, however, from finding friends that testified about this psycho’s love for his guns and his apprehensions that Obama wanted to take them.

The suggestion is that the reason this psycho killed the officers was to protect his radical gun rights, and thereby implying all gun owners might do the same. This type of report is straight out of the liberal reporter handbook. Start with your conclusion, and then work the facts in to finish with your conclusion. Better yet, don’t use facts, just find people willing to say what you want them to say to get to your conclusion.

Once more my deepest sympathies to those brave men and their families. The officers names are:  Paul Sciullo III, Stephen Mayhle, and Eric Kelly. I won’t name the psycho on here.

 

 

Kim Fires a Missile and the UN Yawns

 

Is there anything more useless in the world, than the United Nations? Obviously, the answer is no, nothing is more useless than the UN.

Oh, did I mention North Korea fired a long range missile? It’s no big deal to me, thanks to Ronald Reagan we can intercept that clunker as long as we keep up our missile defenses.

Wait, Obama wants to cease that nasty missile defense shield and let the UN handle evil Il. The UN, that last great bastion of murmurs, consultations, more murmurs, and vetoes has came to a split decision. The usual suspects, China and Russia, will veto any hard sanctions put on the North Koreans. There’s a shocker! (Does anyone outside of the Potomac really believe Russia is an ally?)

So the UN will sit around, murmur to each other, and twiddle their thumbs, oh and ask for more money from that evil country the USA. Outside of that, they aren’t good for a bloody thing. Worse, they cost money and have cost American lives in the past.

Obama had better not let that missile defense shield go by the wayside. One thing we can predict with fair certainty is a lot of the world envies America, and as time goes by more and more of them will have nuclear weapons, and the missiles to launch them. Another certainty is the UN will not do diddly to stop it.

 

 

Abortion Is a Blessing, So Says...

 

The Rev. Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, the new Dean of the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Words fail me, but that won’t stop me from finding a few for this…person.

She goes on to call abortionists saints and heroes. Obviously, she wouldn’t feel that way if she had been aborted herself. In fact, if everyone that wants abortion legal had been aborted, this country would be 100% Pro-Life. That’s a fact.

I tend toward the libertarian side, but I don’t agree with abortion being legal. I believe it’s murder plain and simple. Unless a miscarriage happens, its certain that a person will be born from a pregnancy. So for me, it doesn’t matter what stage of pregnancy a woman is in, abortion is killing an innocent human being. The reason most Americans are for abortion staying legal, is because they can see the women and young girls that have unwanted pregnancies. They hear their sad stories. We don’t have to see those babies in the womb. We don’t talk to them, or hear their side of the story. They can’t tell us how they want a chance to live and breathe, just like their moms.

This debate is hashed out ad nauseum, so now that I’ve said my piece and where I stand, I want to move on to what I actually wanted to talk about in regard to this woman’s ravings. It brings me back to where this all started, de Tocqueville.

"the religious atmosphere of the country was the first thing that struck me on arrival in the United States."

Alexis de Tocqueville

de Tocqueville was enamored with our religious fervor and saw it as a great asset for a democracy. In fact, it was a necessity in his mind. Today, as church pews become more and more empty, and church leaders utter nonsense like this person, how are we to survive as a nation?

The truth is, I’m not sure, but I have faith, faith in God through Jesus Christ, and faith in this country despite all that it’s going through and will go through. Thank God for Christianity and for the United States. We may be all that stands between the USA and oblivion, and by proxy the world and oblivion, if de Tocqueville is Nostradamus after all.

 

Cheers!