Barrac, Another four years of Bush?

During the election Obama Obama was fond of linking McCain to Bush. He wanted to imply that to elect McCain would be to continue the Bush economic plans. The fact is that there is every indication that not only will Obama continue the Bush economic plans, at least the one he seemed to follow that on his last term, but that he will continue to take us further left.

The fact is that fiscally, aside from the tax cuts, Bush was no conservative. Not once did Bush veto a single spending plan. Obama promises the same. The only deviation from Bush that Obama promises is that everyone who pays taxes will get a tax increase. Yes everyone, not just those making over $250.000. When the Bush tax cuts expire in 2010 all will get a tax increase. The poor will also get a tax increase in the form of higher prices for goods and services.

Where do we go from here

Conservative underground, Conservative in the wilderness, the loyal resistance. These and many other terms have been used to describe the position of the conservative movement after the Barak Obama's victory in these recent election. It was not only Barak Obama's victory it is also an increase in the majority in both houses of congress including an almost filibuster proof majority in the Senate. This majority may yet prove to be filibuster proof if the partisan democrats decide to change the rules. Add to this a second legislative branch with a growing activist judiciary, which will potentially grow with more activist judges being nominated by the president and approved by the congress.

So given this seemingly insurmountable situation where to we go from here;

First: lets not loose perspective, we have seen this before in 1976 and 1992. Conservatism has returned as strong as ever. Reagan was able to advance conservatism with a democratic congress. 

Second: Support the new president. He did win and like it or not he is the president of our nation. We can support him when he is right and when his policies advance our beliefs and oppose him when it does not. We have more access to media than conservatives did in 1980 and even 1992 when the only conservative voice was Rush Limbaugh. Today we have and entire medium with right wing radio. We also have a more unbiased news outlet in Fox news, as we have the Internet with such sites as Drudge and the blogosphere. The fact is we do not know what type of president Obama will be. He has proven to be capable of dumping his radical associations when politically expedient.

Third; Begin supporting and encouraging the conservative bright Spots. Sarah Palin drew as many Large crowds as did Obama. We must as a movement encourage her to not go back to Alaska and stay there. There are others such as Bobby Jindal, Michelle Bachman etc. Newt Gingrich is a different issue. I love him and would support him if he ran but I think he best serves the movement as an Ideas and policy adviser. I would love to see him in charge of the RNC.

Fourth; Run for office. Our movement cannot take over government unless we have candidates willing and able to run for political office. Sara Palin began running for PTA and as a mayor of a small town.

Fifth; Educate the next generation. Many of our children go to public schools. We must understand that the schools are run by left wing activists. It is our jobs as parents to counter that. If we are able we should either home school our children, send them to private schools, and if not possible we must be aware what is being taught our children in public schools and be prepared to counter it. This means we must educate ourselves and prepare arguments and evidence to counter the potential brain washing of our kids. It is possible that public school kids with this background of left wing education and right wing counter arguments from home will in the future become the next Newt Gingrich's or Even Reagan's, capable of debating the left on their turf.

sixth; Pray. Our movement is righteous and even divinely driven, it cannot hope to advance unless we keep God in the mix.

So lets regroup and begin fighting back.

Coservatism did not loose, Republicans did.

First let me begin by congratulating Obama for running a great campaign, deceitful but great. Our side on the other hand ran a terrible campaign. John McCain is a war hero and for that is deserving admiration but he is not a right wing conservative. He knew that, he also knew that he was loosing the campaign so he choose Sarah Palin as is running mate to shore up the conservative base.

Unfortunately McCain had terrible odds. For one he was the standard bearer of the party whose president was wildly unpopular (due in no small part to terribly biased and irresponsible media reporting) President. The economy is bad shape and his party is getting the blame (due in no small part to terribly biased and irresponsible media reporting) even though the housing crisis the fault of the party that won and that is not even debatable. 

The fact is that conservatism was not on the ticket in this election, not was leftist socialism for that matter since Obama did a great job of hidding his real views with the help a biased and irresponsible media who added to his 600 million dollars in capaigning by providing free campaign adds in the form of decetful and irresponsible reporting.  even then Obama only received about 7 percent of the electorate.

It is my hope that on the enxt eelction there is a clear articulate conservative on the ticket who will both articulate right wing positions as well as not be afraid of calling his opponent a liar when it is warranted.

I haven't posted in a long time, but this warrants a post

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmFhYzIzMGQ1Y2FlMTA4N2M1N2VmZWUzM2Y4ZmNmYmI=

Just read this article and watch this;

I think I need not say anything else

Is There enough room in washington for two Messiahs?

This Article, quotes speaker Pelosi as trying to save the planet, thus ascribing to her a Mesianic Mission. But correct me if I am wrong. Isn't Obama the true Messiah? Is there room in Wahsington for Two? We already know that there is no rom for two bee queens, which is partly what cost Hillary her Nomination.

Humana Vitae

I have a little remiss in not blogging on this most important of modern encyclicals. The reality is that Paul VI proved that prophets did not disappear after St. John the Baptist. Virtually everything he predicted in this encyclical has come to pass in regards to the value of human life. The use of artificial birth has given rise to abortion, euthanasia and other methods of killing humans for convenience sake. By introducing a mindset into the procreative act that I refuse to allow this act to be open to life the natural progression is to terminate any pregnancies that result from a malfunctioning artificial method. It is also a natural progression that if human life can be either prevented or terminated for the sake of convenience then it can be terminated for a pair of shoes or because one belongs to the wrong gang. All of these crimes have gone on the rise since artificial birth control methods have gone into wide spread use.

It should be noted that the church is not opposed to all means of avoiding pregnancies, only to those that are artificial and thus interfere with natural methods and therefore natural law. The church has always allowed for responsible spacing of children using natural means. A couple is free to engage in intimate acts anytime they so desire, they are not obliged to engage in marital relations only when it is known that the woman is fertile. A couple is free to not engage in this relation when the woman is fertile thus avoiding pregnancy in this manner. By using nature one is open to Gods will since it is Gods will that women not be fertile at all times.

Some have accused Catholic teaching in regards to artificial contraception and marital relations as being responsible for the spread of Aids and for fostering poverty in third world nations. As usual the fact prove the opposite. The fact is that the one nation in Africa that is teaching sexual abstinence outside of Marriage is the one nation that has had a drop in the Incidences of AIDS see article here. It is also true that of all the methods of spacing children natural family planning or NFP as the churches teaching is often referred to is the one that is free of change and thus most accessible to the poor. NFP does not promote promiscuity and thus protects the integrity of marriage and the dignity of the human person both male and female. None of this will be reported in the left wing secular media of course, nor will international organisations such as the UN who actively promotes both artifician contraception and abortion.

In short Paul VI has been proven right and the media is not only hidding this but ridiculing Humanae Vitae as beeing absurd, behind the times and even opposed to human nature (since according to them it is human nature to be, sex animals, unless you are member of NARAL or NOW in which case men beeing sex animals equals rape in all cases) when in reality church teaching promotes Natural Law and thus true human nature and dignity.

One can read the Encyclical here, and see how truly loving and dignifying it is.

Who to believe?

The Obama Campaign says this

The Pentagon says This.

Considering that people such as the president and Mcain are known to have visited the wounded troops without the need for photographers and media following to document their love for the the troops for a campaign photo op. I think this simply shows that Obama only cares for the troops and anything else for that matter only if it helps his political ends. I wonder if this thinking carries over to the Leave it to Beaver family he present to the world.

And the prophesies come true

I think I may join the movement, see article.

What to do in the face of Evil

Following on the same thinking of my brothers post here, I found this column. The fact is that not enough good men have stood up to evil, especially not during the last century when we saw the two holocausts of the Jews in Europe and of abortion world wide. It seems that we are content to leave it alone as long as we are not affected. The problem is that even if it does not affect us directly, no one live in a vacuum and the repercussions of evil will affect us like the proverbial rock in a pond, that even after the ripples from throwing it are gone is still in the pond ever so slightly affecting everything from the water level of the pond to its very chemistry.

As the proverb goes "When they came after the Jews I did nothing because I am not Jew, when they came after the blacks I did nothing for I am not black, when they came after the Catholics I did nothing, I am not Catholic, When they came after me there was no one left to defend me". Will you be the one left alone when evil has done it's work on those around you?

It's a good thing the media is not biased!!!!!

I wonder, where are the leftist environmentalists on this one?

The environmentlist left are all over man made global warming in a never ending effort to turn us into North Korea. But leave it to them to conveniently ignore a genuine man made ecological disaster in the name of sex without consequences, see article here. Again the hypocracy of the left never ceases to astound me.

If you don't agree he will kick your b--!

I think Chuck Norris has a point here

Interesting Info in Global Warming

GlobalWarming.org

Roy Spencer Phd.

I wonder what the headlines would say if Atlanta has sued Islam?

Article, as of the time of this posting even Drudge has not posted a link to this. Of course the resolution was passed two years ago and the headline then was not the resolution but the Catholic group suing the City of San Francisco being sued.

It will take 5-10 years for oil pricess to be affected by drilling, right?

Obama Likes to say that even if we start driling now it won't make a difference for another 5-10 years, here is an example of his brilliance. This of course demonstrates a total lack of understanding of the futures market and of capitalism in general, (you capitalism that economic system that makes us the economic power that we are and the socialist left wants to destroy). All it took was for bush to lift the executive moratorium on offshore drilling and this happens . This is how the futures market works. It normally takes a few months for the effect of the futures market to affect prices at the pump, but that is a far cry from the 5-10 years the opposers of drilling claim. Imagine if Congress were to follow suit.

The opposers of drilling site environmental concerns, but Katrina shows us that even a hurricane plowing though the thousands of Oil rigs in the Gulg do not cause environmental disaster so that arguments does not work.

Drill here, Drill now Pay Less and let the free market use the energy we have now to develop the energy of the future as is already happening, see here. This is a private individual using his own money to develop alternatives isn't the free marker great...

You Can't Drill There...There's Oil There!

I think the article speaks for itself. Click on post title to acess article

Interesting site

http://www.catholicunderground.com/podcast/. I am adding it to my links

Flip flopping like a fish out of water

Baptism

A couple of weeks back I posted a blog on the sacraments with the intention of expounding on each individual sacrament on a latter day. Given the deep theological nature of these type of posts I prefer to do them on the few weekends when my schedule is relatively light and can give them their due justice, both mentally as in regards to supporting documentation.

The initial blog on Sacraments can be found here.

Today I will begin with the sacrament of baptism. This is the logical beginning, since without this sacrament a Christian cannot participate in any other sacrament and is indeed concidered outside of the fold of the Christian faith.

Baptism is the first of the three sacraments of initiation. It is the sacrament that makes one a Christian, it cleanses us of original sin. Indeed without baptism one is outside of the spiritual jurisdiction of the church and without it one cannot even be married in a sacramental fashion.

Jesus stated Clearly the need for baptism when he made this very declarative statement to Nicodemus in John 3:4-5 after which he proceeds to Baptize with his disciples in verse 22.

The need for baptism stems from what is known as original sin. Which is the Sin of Adam that is inherited by humans from the moment of conception. (Whether this is just that all men should be subject to the sin of another man is the subject for another post, suffice it to say that people suffer the consequences of others sins constantly as evidenced by the numerous mass graves world wide created at the hands of evil men such as Saddam Hussein and others) The main purpose of baptism is to cleanse us of this original sin and infuse us with the life of Grace that can come only though the Holy Spirit of God. See Acts 2:38-39. God uses the natural element of Water which signifies cleansing to actually cleanse us of original Sin. In the scene of Acts 2 cited 3000+ people accepted Jesus and were baptized. Catholicism knows of no other means of making salvation accessible other than though baptism. This does not mean that non-baptized people cannot be saved. It simply means that those non-baptized that are saved are being saved though means other than the ordinary means instituted by Jesus. Like any King, God is at liberty to circumvent his edicts, the Church as his loyal subject is not.

All Christian faiths practice baptism, though not all have the same view of it. Some have the Catholic notion of it's necessity and salvific effect others see it as merely a symbol and a response of obedience and nothing more with no salvific effect.

One aspect of baptism that is often maligned by non-Catholics is the practice of infant baptism. The common non-Catholic refrain is that Children are not capable of making a decision for Christ thus making the baptism invalid. They will often re-baptize adult Catholics that convert to their churches on the notion that only adults can make that commitment. Traditional Christianity has always practiced infant baptism. The truth is that since no other provision was revealed for Salvation it was seen as imperative that even children be baptized so as to ensure their entrance into glory. Note in the above passage from acts that Peter says "...for the promise is for you and your Children" and it states that all present were baptized, no exceptions were made for adults. Consider the historical context of of early Christianity. Christianity is born of Judaism and carried many Jewish notions and beliefs. Indeed Jesus was a Jew and he founded his Church as a perfection of that old covenant revelation. In Judaism the means of becoming a Jew was though Circumcision and the law dictated that infants should be circumcised on the eighth day of they birth. Note, Jews did not wait until the child reached an age of accountability to be circumcised. to be sure converts to Judaism were circumcised as adults as are adults converts to Catholicism. Paul makes the connection of circumcision to baptism here. In Scripture we see entire Household being baptized (Acts 16:27-33, and 1Cor 1:16).

As can be seen Baptism is the most important of Sacraments, because without no other sacrament is accessible even the most precious Eucharist. Baptism cleanses us of Original sin and start us in the life of Grace. It is is also vital in that no other means of attaining salvation was revealed and thus no other means is known.

Further reading on baptism can be found in the Catechism, and New Advent

Farewell Tony Snow

This Blog post is not easy for me. I feel the death of Tony Snow almost like that of a Friend. Though I never knew him personally, his personality was such that even from a distant medium such as the Radio he made you feel as though you were having an intelligent conversation with a great man.

I recall him as being my favorite substitute host for Rush Limbaugh, before he went to work for Fox. While I dislike the term compassionate conservatism as the oxymoron that it is, if anyone embodied such a description it was Tony. His duty to country had him leaving a well paying job at Fox to serve the thankless job of White House press secretary. This job for Tony was something like Daniel being thrust in the Lions Den and like Daniel Tony was able to temporarily tame the contentious press and somehow got the message of the presidents policies across to a nation hungry for information about a war not properly reported on by the press. I never heard him being rude with a caller and found his demeanor refreshing and one that I will sorely miss.

Everything he did he did with a smile and with a sense of optimism that was contagious and genuine. He was just a good man and it showed even to those of us that never met him.

I also think he would have a great president. Perhaps his intercession from above will prove as useful as his contribution to the political discourse on this side of eternity.

Rest in peace and know you will be sorely missed.