Nary an Original Thought

While the Elect in D.C. decide whether or not to give a lot of your money to the *dying* auto makers, the folks at Investors Business Daily remind us that the “UAW spent more than $11 million in the last election cycle to elect Democrats. They’re owed.” The most recent bailout/restructuring plan would make Congress the “uber-manager” of the Big Three, “telling them how to become profitable again” without liquidating the union.

Think it’ll work? “[A]re we supposed to believe that the same Congress responsible for next year’s estimated $1 trillion deficit can profitably run a market-sensitive company like a car manufacturer?” Probably not.

Keep a close eye on the folks participating in this “new era” of politics. When 60% of Americans are opposed to a government bailout, one would have to think that these legislators are being motivated by something other than “the will of the people.” I’ll give you one guess what that motive might be…

There’s an article over at Slashdot about the mysterious absence of acorns across the country this year. Nobody really knows what’s going on, but one commenter suggested that squirrels may have lost everything after having placed their acorn crop in highly leveraged investment vehicles. The Media have picked up on the story, noting the hardship the squirrel community is facing has led many to take second jobs. Some even believe that Congress will need to step in with a bailout package before the end of the year, before things get worse. Barney Frank has gone as far as suggesting that Congress set up a fund to finance the deployment of an army of blind sows, pointing out that they are known for their ability to find acorns every once in a while.

Catholic bishops may respect Obama as the president, but that doesn’t mean that they’re willing to sit idly by while Obama works to “support and expand abortion rights” (that’s a euphemism if I’ve ever seen one). Some quotes from their meeting in Baltimore yesterday:

“This is not a matter of political compromise or a matter of finding some way of common ground, it’s a matter of absolutes.” – Bishop Daniel Conlon of Steubenville, Ohio

“Any one of us here would consider it a privilege to die tomorrow–die tomorrow!–to bring about the end of abortion.” – Auxiliary Bishop Robert Hermann of St. Louis

“If Catholic hospitals were required by federal law to perform abortions, we’d have to close our hospitals.” – Bishops Thomas Paprocki of Chicago

I’ll be the first to tell you the Catholics get a lot of things wrong, even centrally important doctrinal things. But at least they are standing up to “the greatest social evil of our day – abortion. Our people voted to overlook a little thing like the slaughter of the unborn, because of other considerations like economic prosperity, climate change and the desire to have all the other nations in the world like us again.” (source)

Regrettably, it seems that many Christians were more concerned about their carbon footprint than the blood on their hands from the present-day holocaust that continues to rage on in our nation.

Partial Birth Abortion is never necessary to protect the mother’s health. Let me repeat that. Medically, there is never a situation that a Partial Birth Abortion would be necessary to protect a woman’s health.

From The Continuum:

If a pregnancy ought to be terminated in a late term, there is no reason why the baby has to die. For several years doctors have been able to induce early labor and birth without killing the child. Hospitals have a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) for premature births. Partial Birth Abortion is a procedure that comes after such an induced early labor, only the baby is not placed in a NICU. Instead, scissors are inserted into the back of the helpless child’s head, and a tube sucks out the brain. This is what the pro-abortion people call a “medical procedure.”

Inasmuch as there is no medical reason to kill the baby instead of making use of a NICU, it is painfully obvious that the only reason for Partial Birth Abortion is to complete a contract killing. There is never a medical reason to kill the child. (emphasis mine)

This makes sense. If the baby has already been delivered, except for the top of its head, how could it possibly be “medically necessary” to end the procedure with the death of the child instead of completing the delivery and sending the child off to the NICU and, ultimately, parents who will love him? Instead, the doctor becomes a hitman and “takes care of” the problem.

Say what you want, but I would suggest that Partial Birth Abortion is more satanic than anything you’ve ever seen in some Halloween movie involving candles and a pentagram. What else could we call the intentional destruction of image-bearers by hands and instruments that were intended to preserve life, if not satanic? Isn’t this exactly what the Murderer has been up to since the Garden? And now we’ve elected, as a nation, a leader who believes that his role as the Executive Officer of this country involves protecting, and even subsidizing, this wicked, detestable act, under the guise of wanting to “protect life.”

I’ve done a lot of thinking since the election about my perspective on and analysis of Barack Obama as the next president of the United States. I’ll post more on this soon, but for now I’ll just say I plan on praying for him and respecting the office that he holds. God put him there for a reason. Let us not grieve as those who have no hope, and so on. I get it. What I refuse to do, however, is to pretend that he is anything but a wicked, evil man who wishes (and has even promised) to expand the culture of death that has gripped our country to the point where we stab children in the skull with scissors and call it “protecting the life of the mother”.

HT: Touchstone Magazine

I have frequently reminded Nary an Original Thought readers of the sovereignty of God, in all circumstances. This morning I’m wondering if someone would return the favor….

Somehow the death of roughly 4 million babies during the reign of Obama the Merciless fits into God’s eternal plan. I’m having trouble understanding how.

Did you hear that clanging metal sound followed by the whoosh of fighter jets flying over head, with synthesized punching sounds in the background? That can only mean one thing…

The election results coverage is revved up. Get your free cup of coffee from Starbucks and settle in for a long and entertaining night!

Keep this in mind when you vote tomorrow:

10 If you faint in the day of adversity,
your strength is small.
11 Rescue those who are being taken away to death;
hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter.
12 If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,”
does not he who weighs the heart perceive it?
Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it,
and will he not repay man according to his work?

- Proverbs 24:10-13

Don’t think that God will be fooled by the excuse that you had other “social injustices” in mind when you voted for Obama. A vote for the most pro-abortion candidate to ever run for the presidency is not just a failure to rescue those who are being taken away to death. It is outright participation in their murder.

The funniest line I’ve read in awhile about The ObaMessiah himself: “When it comes to the economy, Obama can see the Soviet Union from his house.”

From the comments of a post on the Hot Air blog.

Which would you rather have: an extra $284 added to your tax refund, or a job? If you’re an average American (say, a plumber), that is the difference between Obama’s tax plan and McCain’s.

The NY Times, in an articled entitled For Incomes Below $100,000, a Better Tax Break in Obama’s Plan, reports:

The median household income nationwide is $50,233, according to the Census Bureau. The Tax Policy Center found that, for married couples with incomes of $50,000, two children and both parents working, income taxes would be cut by $284 more under Mr. Obama’s plan — by $1,005, compared with $721 under Mr. McCain’s plan.

Deloitte also examined such a couple and found similar benefits; a $700 cut under Mr. McCain’s plan and $1,000 under Mr. Obama’s.

To finance this tax cut, Obama would “raise the tax rate for single households with incomes of $200,000 or more and for families with incomes over $250,000. He would also raise taxes on capital gains and dividends.” Yeah, sock it to those greedy so-and-sos, right?

Well, if you don’t fit into that $200k per year crowd, you probably work for someone who does. They earn:”(Yes, that’s right. Most of them work very hard for the money they earn.)”: enough money to enjoy some of the finer things in life, some of which are probably out of your reach at this point. But, at some point they realize that they could earn even more money (thereby enjoying even finer things and in greater quantities) if they hired a few people and grew their business. This is what’s known as capital investment–or, in liberal terms, building an empire on the backs of the poor–where wealth and resources are invested in order to generate even more wealth and resources. So, your employer invests $50,000 into your salary in order to produce $55,000 worth of goods and services. Everyone wins. You make your mortgage payment, and your boss has an extra five grand for his trouble.

Obama, who is one of these greedy so-and-sos, likes to tell you that these greedy so-and-sos have way too much money. So, here’s the deal. If you give him what he wants (i.e. a position where he has the authority to take their wealth away from them), he’ll give you what you want (i.e. other people’s stuff). Think of it like prostitution, only dirtier. He gets the power, you get the money (about $300 or so), and the rich people pick up the tab.

Yes! I’ll take that deal. I mean, who couldn’t use an extra $300? What could go wrong? Besides those rich guys have more than they need, anyway.

Well, when the someone you work for realizes that the extra revenue created by keeping you on the payroll will be negated by the extra taxes they will pay on it, suddenly keeping you employed doesn’t seem like such a good investment after all. Maybe he’ll just spend that $50,000 now instead of trying to turn it into $55k over the next 12 months. I hear Vail is pretty. So, your boss enjoys a nice ski weekend this winter while you look for a new job. Oh, but good luck with that because nobody else is hiring, either, because Obama’s tax increases will have this same effect on a national (international?) scale.

Do the math. Obama’s plan doesn’t make sense, no matter how envious you are of what the Jonses have. McCain is no Reagan, but at least he hasn’t promised to spread the wealth around, until there isn’t any left, in the name of “fairness”.

My dad sent me this the other day. It would probably be funny, except that kids trick or treating tonight will be the same ones who end up footing the bill for an out of control social security system, ever-expanding welfare rolls, socialized health care, and environmental anti-boogeyman efforts. Enjoy the free candy, kids, ‘cuz you’ll be paying for it later.