Obama is out speechifying again today after last night's State of the Union address. Because we haven't heard him enough to fully comprehend his wonderfulness. He's so convinced of his persuasive abilities that if the American people are opposed to his ideas, clearly he just hasn't communicated enough about it.
He's so over-exposed that I think Americans have just tuned him out -- for good.
Among the stuff that made my brain bleed last night, after the petty attacks on his predecessor and the Supreme Court (the most un-presidential address I've ever seen), was the whopper about lobbyists being banned from policy positions. How dumb does he think we are? I guess if he is convinced that the media isn't going to expose him, he can say whatever he wants.
Hello emperor? You're naked!
Erick at RedState lists the former lobbyists currently in policy decisions.
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Time to milk the churches
This just in...
There has been a bill introduced into the Kansas Legislature that will repeal the sales tax exemption for churches. The exemption has been in place for 11 years and has saved churches approx. $18 million dollars per year. That is a total of approx $200 million that churches were able to use in their ministries to our communities the last 11 years.
The Kansas budget shortage has legislators looking for revenue and “churches are not that well organized and usually don’t put up much resistance” according to a former State Senator.
“The legislators do not want to go after exemptions that education/elderly/colleges/disabled presently have because those groups all fight back and have full time lobbyist.”
Therefore the church sales tax exemption money is low hanging fruit to them and in 2-3 weeks they will be acting on this.
Kansas City has a church ready to break ground on a $2 million dollar first building---if this legislation passes the cost to build this building just went up approx. $160,000.00.
Churches may differ on doctrine, but this is a cause that should unite them. Can they do it?
For additional information or to give additional input, please contact:
Tim Boyd
KNCSB Director of Communications
785-228-6800
tboyd@kncsb.org
There has been a bill introduced into the Kansas Legislature that will repeal the sales tax exemption for churches. The exemption has been in place for 11 years and has saved churches approx. $18 million dollars per year. That is a total of approx $200 million that churches were able to use in their ministries to our communities the last 11 years.
The Kansas budget shortage has legislators looking for revenue and “churches are not that well organized and usually don’t put up much resistance” according to a former State Senator.
“The legislators do not want to go after exemptions that education/elderly/colleges/disabled presently have because those groups all fight back and have full time lobbyist.”
Therefore the church sales tax exemption money is low hanging fruit to them and in 2-3 weeks they will be acting on this.
Kansas City has a church ready to break ground on a $2 million dollar first building---if this legislation passes the cost to build this building just went up approx. $160,000.00.
Churches may differ on doctrine, but this is a cause that should unite them. Can they do it?
For additional information or to give additional input, please contact:
Tim Boyd
KNCSB Director of Communications
785-228-6800
tboyd@kncsb.org
Personhood
I like this point made by Cal Thomas in his column today:
"The ruling came the week of the annual March for Life, which draws thousands to Washington to mark that same court's 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. The march has become not so much a protest as an affirmation of the value of all human life. What makes the ruling and the march ironic is that the 1973 court, in essence, downgraded a human fetus to the level of nonperson, while the modern court has invested "personhood" in corporations. Does anyone else see a contradiction or at least a moral inconsistency in these two rulings?"
Saturday, January 23, 2010
37 years of Roe v Wade
Marchers walked through the streets of Topeka and many cities around the country to express their ongoing dismay over abortion rights in America.
I was conceived out of wedlock by two college students and put up for adoption in late '66. My mother had the "right" to kill me, but she chose to give me life and put me up for adoption. I was then adopted by a wonderful Christian couple who raised me as their own.
I'm alive. I'm breathing. I contribute to society. I have parented children. I am an employer. I'm a husband.
And none of that could have been possible if she chose instead to have an abortion. The result would have been the same as if someone went into the hospital nursery and smothered me with a pillow.
Is there any other way to look at it?
Friday, January 22, 2010
The pursuit of rewards
Sent to me from a friend...
In the movie Cool Runnings the Jamaican bobsled team is so desperate to win an Olympic medal, they're convinced none of their efforts matter if they end up without it. All the learning, joy, and growth they'd devoted themselves to are forgotten next to a piece of metal on a ribbon. Their coach is a four-hundred-pound man who won an Olympic medal bobsledding twenty years earlier and had been a complete loser ever since. He tells them, "If you're not enough before the gold medal, you're not enough with it."
Jesus talked a lot about rewards. But the pursuit of rewards can hurt us when we go after them for the wrong reason.A trophy is not the achievement itself - it's not the learning we gained, the muscles we've trained, or the courage we've developed. It's just a symbol of achievement. It's an external validation of our worth.
At best,the trophies in the showcase are little reminders, something to make us grateful for the past and keep us motivated for the future. At its worst, the trophy case becomes a shrine, a tool to prop up a false image of ourselves. Trophies bring momentary pleasure that can be addicting, but the pleasure always wears off. In the book of Revelation we see twenty-four leaders "lay their crowns before the throne and say: 'You are worthy, our Lord and God.'" (Revelation 4:10-11) When you give all the glory to God, your accomplishments bring joy, but when you try to take the credit for yourself your trophies tarnish, fade and become a burden.
Look at Enoch: his ultimate trophy was "that he pleased God."
In the movie Cool Runnings the Jamaican bobsled team is so desperate to win an Olympic medal, they're convinced none of their efforts matter if they end up without it. All the learning, joy, and growth they'd devoted themselves to are forgotten next to a piece of metal on a ribbon. Their coach is a four-hundred-pound man who won an Olympic medal bobsledding twenty years earlier and had been a complete loser ever since. He tells them, "If you're not enough before the gold medal, you're not enough with it."
Jesus talked a lot about rewards. But the pursuit of rewards can hurt us when we go after them for the wrong reason.A trophy is not the achievement itself - it's not the learning we gained, the muscles we've trained, or the courage we've developed. It's just a symbol of achievement. It's an external validation of our worth.
At best,the trophies in the showcase are little reminders, something to make us grateful for the past and keep us motivated for the future. At its worst, the trophy case becomes a shrine, a tool to prop up a false image of ourselves. Trophies bring momentary pleasure that can be addicting, but the pleasure always wears off. In the book of Revelation we see twenty-four leaders "lay their crowns before the throne and say: 'You are worthy, our Lord and God.'" (Revelation 4:10-11) When you give all the glory to God, your accomplishments bring joy, but when you try to take the credit for yourself your trophies tarnish, fade and become a burden.
Look at Enoch: his ultimate trophy was "that he pleased God."
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
It's KLINE...again!
Just to show you the price you'll pay for being a public pro-life official who had the temerity to take legal action and investigate the illegal activities of the abortion industry, today's headline screams "Kline accused of ethics violations."
They just won't leave that guy alone. He's been out of office for how long? They also continually go after Kline's right hand man, Eric Rucker. Now this is a man I personally know and hold in the highest regard. This is just a witch hunt so that no one in the future will ever dare to be another Phill Kline and take on the abortion industry.
Now Kline may have been zealous and enthusiastic -- but if you earnestly believe that babies close to full term are being slaughtered, I would hope you'd be zealous about stopping it! And if a clinic performing such "services" are not following standard health clinic laws, why wouldn't the chief law enforcement officer of the state pursue legal action and investigation against it?
Because most in the higher echelon of legal society hold abortion rights to be sacrosanct -- completely untouchable. If you dare go there, they will fry you to the point that no one will ever, EVER try that again.
Best wishes to Kline and Rucker. It seems that no amount of time between them and their time in office will free them from persecution from the abortion zealots in the state judicial system.
They just won't leave that guy alone. He's been out of office for how long? They also continually go after Kline's right hand man, Eric Rucker. Now this is a man I personally know and hold in the highest regard. This is just a witch hunt so that no one in the future will ever dare to be another Phill Kline and take on the abortion industry.
Now Kline may have been zealous and enthusiastic -- but if you earnestly believe that babies close to full term are being slaughtered, I would hope you'd be zealous about stopping it! And if a clinic performing such "services" are not following standard health clinic laws, why wouldn't the chief law enforcement officer of the state pursue legal action and investigation against it?
Because most in the higher echelon of legal society hold abortion rights to be sacrosanct -- completely untouchable. If you dare go there, they will fry you to the point that no one will ever, EVER try that again.
Best wishes to Kline and Rucker. It seems that no amount of time between them and their time in office will free them from persecution from the abortion zealots in the state judicial system.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Our Pizza Sucks
I just watched Dominos Pizza's new video in which they admit how bad their pizza sucks. The crust is like cardboard and the sauce is like ketchup. Duh. We all knew that! But good for them for fessing up to it.
I feel bad for the chefs in the video, especially the guy who says he's been doing this for 20+ years. Seriously? You've been making pizzas for over 20 years and it took focus groups to tell you your product sucks? What kind of chef are you?
I love pizza first and politics second, so it's a good segue into whether or not the Republicans should do the same thing. "Hey, we've sucked and we know it. We spent like drunken Democrats. We didn't provide proper oversight to the financial sector. We dished out more pork than IHOP. But here's our new recipe...the new Republican recipe loaded with strong national defense, conservative spending and tax cuts that will truly stimulate the economy."
People like transparency and honesty. Dominos picked up on that and took the brave step to fess up to their crappy product with a promise to do better. It's time for the Republicans to do the same.
I feel bad for the chefs in the video, especially the guy who says he's been doing this for 20+ years. Seriously? You've been making pizzas for over 20 years and it took focus groups to tell you your product sucks? What kind of chef are you?
I love pizza first and politics second, so it's a good segue into whether or not the Republicans should do the same thing. "Hey, we've sucked and we know it. We spent like drunken Democrats. We didn't provide proper oversight to the financial sector. We dished out more pork than IHOP. But here's our new recipe...the new Republican recipe loaded with strong national defense, conservative spending and tax cuts that will truly stimulate the economy."
People like transparency and honesty. Dominos picked up on that and took the brave step to fess up to their crappy product with a promise to do better. It's time for the Republicans to do the same.
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