The Self-Portrait

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Thoughts for the Day

I received this (the paragraphs below) today when I opened my e-mail. My political philosophy is such that I agree with the statements. I think there are a substantial number of people who don't agree with the statements, and somehow we've elected them to be our representative in the Congress. If you are among those who agree with the statements below, please be sure to vote in the 2010 elections!

From the e-mail:

These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read. This is one paragraph that should be in every book in every school room in every city in every state in our great Union ... Our educators should make a lesson plan on this one statement and instill these words in the minds of all students.

1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is the beginning of the end of any nation..

5. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

Oscars

DON'T BOTHER WATCHING THE OSCARS ON MARCH 7th . . .
THE CHOSEN ONE HAS ALREADY WON IT FOR BEST ACTOR!

Sovereignty, Is Ours Endangered?

From the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy:

Sovereignty, though its meanings have varied across history, also has a core meaning, supreme authority within a territory. It is a modern notion of political authority. Historical variants can be understood along three dimensions -- the holder of sovereignty, the absoluteness of sovereignty, and the internal and external dimensions of sovereignty. The state is the political institution in which sovereignty is embodied. An assemblage of states forms a sovereign states system.

Could Public Displays of Christianity End with Italian Crucifix Ruling? Check out this article from Catholic Online. The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that the display of crucifixes in (Italian) public schools restricted religious freedoms. We in the United States are having our own problems keeping religion from being banned from the public square. If the European Court of Human Rights upholds this ruling, how long will it be before our own Supreme Court looks to the European Union for more guidance? The Supreme Court has already referenced foreign laws in some of its previous decisions. Our current President is a big fan of Internationalism. He's a big supporter of the UN. He favors increasing cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC). In the words of that great American, Earl Pitts, "Wake up America."

Sometimes, an extremist really is an extremist

What do you think Maj Hasan's motives were? Here's Jonah Goldberg's thoughts on the incident. LA Times Opinion Piece. My thoughts are: if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it might be, unless it is a politically incorrect to pick on feathered water fowl, A DUCK!

The Flying Imams Win and the rest of us lose....

Thanks to a Clinton appointed Federal Judge. Just click the title to read the article.