This is par for the course for atheists: Take a practice that harms no one and try to suppress it because it might force them to confront the fact that some Americans believe in God.
The head of an atheist group that has filed a lawsuit against prayer at Barack Obama’s presidential inauguration says the government is picking a winner between “believers” and “those who don’t believe” and subjecting atheists and agnostics to someone else’s religious beliefs.
Let me take a moment and note that watching someone pray is not subjecting them to religious beliefs as much as it is allowing them to practice their beliefs, which is supposed to be a part of our freedoms. The person who should make the call is the guy getting sworn in, who wants the prayer, no one else.
No one can force an atheist to pray, and you would think that decency and respect would suggest that the atheists might just be quiet.
But no.
Dan Barker, co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has joined with Michael Newdow, who fought to have the words “under God” removed from the Pledge of Allegiance, in a federal lawsuit seeking to enjoin the Presidential Inaugural Committee from sponsoring prayers at the official inauguration.
It seems that ousted US Rep Cynthia “checkpoint” McKinney wasn’t satisfied with losing her bid for the presidency (green party), she has decided to take her loony show on the road….err sorta.
Move over, Hanoi Jane Fonda. Jihad Cindy McKinney is sailing to Gaza to deliver medical supplies to Hamas.
Is it a one-way ticket? We can only hope. Via the AJC:
Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney is a high-profile member of a boatload of activists that set sail Monday from Cyprus to deliver medicine to war-torn Gaza.
McKinney, who ran as the Green Party candidate for president, sees the voyage as a humanitarian mission, said her father, former Georgia state Rep. Billy McKinney.
“Her mother did not want her to go,” he said, referring to concerns at home for her safety. “But I think that certain people have missions in life and you can’t deter them.”
Warning, this is the real deal. This is a video of some sadistic evil bastard patiently driving his car up to some school kids, and murdering them. Via Hot Air
Via Roggio, supplying the grim details. The car approaches in the distance; the kids are walking along the wall in the lower right of the frame. Watch as he very patiently weaves his way through barriers to get to them. I wonder if he saw them as a target of opportunity or if this was part of the new “no girls allowed” policy. Yahoo News has photos of the aftermath if you can stomach them.
I’m not sure where this fits in the catalog of horrific Taliban child abuse. There’s an awful lot to choose from.
This terrorist (the likes of whom people like Michael Moore call freedom fighters) took his fight to 14 kids, and freed them from this life, and from their families, for nothing. They were apparently some kind of threat which warranted their execution while walking to school, but you see if you can figure out what that threat was.
Michelle Malkin has a terrific commentary up comparing the media’s reactions to Obama’s rippling physique and rigorous gym routines with comments made about Bush recently, which were hardly as glowing.
Chris Matthews won the Media Research Center’s quote of the year with his Obamedia-topping Leg O’ Thrill and Tingle remark. But Matthews only took first honors because Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow waited until Christmas to file his tribute to Obama’s sun-kissed pectorals. Have they no shame? No, they do not.
The gushing reminded me of a blog post I did three years ago on how Bush-deranged journalist Jonathan Chait reacted to President Bush’s workout regimen. It’s the subject of my syndicated column today. More liberal double standards: It’s just how they roll.
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Ah, the perks of media affection. On Christmas Day, the Washington Post delivered a front-page paean to Barack Obama’s workout habits. The 1,233-word ode to O’s physical fitness read more like a Harlequin romance novel than an A-1 news article.
Essentially, this editorial elevates abortion to an essential medical service, and dismisses any notion that doctors, nurses or hospitals have the right to not perform them, all as a part of the Bush conspiracy to Undermine a ”women’s reproductive rights and access to health care”.
A Parting Shot at Women’s Rights
Undermining women’s reproductive rights and access to health care has been a pervasive theme of the outgoing administration. On his first full day in office, President Bush imposed the “global gag rule,” which prohibits taxpayer dollars from going to international family-planning groups that perform abortions using their own funds or that advocate for safe abortion laws.
Which there is nothing wrong with. Why should US tax dollars fund abortions overseas? Yes, Roe Wade made it a right here, but the same people who are crying out that we cannot force this right on other nations, regardless of their own cultures and laws, are the same ones who decry our meddling in other countries.
I guess not all meddling is bad. I am all for promoting public health to the Nations that need it, but that should be done by privately funded groups.
I was going to pen a much more detailed, thoughtful expose on why Christmas is important, but I will instead steal a page from Sister Toldjah’s book, and like her, repost this classic explanation:
I was going to write a big fancy message tonight for Christmas, but I think that video says it best.
Wherever you are tonight, say thanks for your blessings, whether they be big or small. This year I have felt particularly blessed, and have wondered why God would choose to bless me in the way he has, as I don’t always feel like I’m always the best Christian I can be. But a wise man recently told me that God knows a believer’s heart, and rewards that person with blessings, in part, based on whether or not that person’s heart is in the right place - blessings of love and/or prosperity (and not just of the money kind). And sometimes those blessings aren’t obvious ones, but they are there all the same.
Not living in Seattle proper, I didn’t give this much thought. I went to Seattle Saturday night, and in a front wheel drive car without chains, I was able to get around just fine using some common sense driving skills, like slow down, no sudden starts, brake gradually etc. Sure, some of the hills were closed, but we did managed to go up Cherry between 3rd and 4th successfully (it was a one way street going up so we had no choice, really), then down Columbia from 4th back to 3rd.
The roads were awful, and the snow was coming down hard, Yet we made it home to the foothills without issue. The freeway was moderately scary. But not impassable.
But apparently there is a lurking issue here that I was unaware of, and that is Seattle’s strategy on snow control. They are deliberately allowing the snow to pack the roads, and they are not using the time test combinations of salt and deicer to clear the most dangerous areas. Just some sand for the high traffic areas and occasional deicer. And behind it is Seattle’s legendary Eco-Nit Wit mentality.
I have a large pile of issues where I disagree with our President, and I make no secret of those.
But when it comes to him performing the (in my opinion) most important aspect of his office, that of Commander in Chief, he has never let me down in my expectations, and this Washington Times article demonstrates clearly why I feel that way.
Bush, Cheney comforted troops privately
For much of the past seven years, President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have waged a clandestine operation inside the White House. It has involved thousands of military personnel, private presidential letters and meetings that were kept off their public calendars or sometimes left the news media in the dark.
Their mission: to comfort the families of soldiers who died fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and to lift the spirits of those wounded in the service of their country.
More proof that our politicians are living in a dream world of do as we say, now as we do.
Admittedly, the pay raise was an automatic one, and relatively small, but as a gesture of contrition to the Americans who really are suffering, they should have voluntarily voted to freeze their pay.
It is the least they can do since the present crisis is as much their fault as it is any CEO anywhere….
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