Bradley may, or may not, let qualified teachers carry guns. OK with me--and I do have (split custody)kids in a TN school.
Where do gun massacres happen? In gun-free zones. Let Bradley put up a few signs saying "Our schools are NOT gun-free zones" and those schools will be safer from killers, tho perhaps not from accidents.
daytonsdarwin, Christian government may be the worst except for all the others--take an average, as I said! That Christians sin and goof is standard Christian doctrine, confirmed, obviously, by experience. That Atheism guarantees good government strikes me as, well, kinda dubious. There were those guys named Stalin, Mao... But Christianity offers love and power (Cross and Resurrection) in ways Atheism cannot even pretend to. If Iran's new guy can improve matters, power to him. (Whatever their constitution says, I'd suggest he might put the ayatollah's power to a referendum.) Follow Jesus; check Him out.
OK (for once). "Look! I send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the...day of the LORD, and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to the fathers..."--Malachi 4:5-6.
"Amazing grace: an easy tax:
Count ten and give God one..." video
http://voices.yahoo.com/video/tax-day-song-5375697.html?cat=9
Bringing an IRS gun to a protest knife fight--Bush met his IRS head once, Obama met his 157 times--is worse, but the underlying laws and laws and laws and laws are bad enough.
I notice our friendly neighborhood democratic Party apparatchik did not draw Libya and Egypt as loads on the man's back.
Mideast's problem? Lack of Christianity. Afghanistan was a mess because led by devout Muslims, the Taliban. Lots of Muslims don't make the trouble the Taliban makes, but few Muslims would deny the Taliban are devout Muslims. Iraq's Hussein was a practicing atheist in a turban, so to speak; same with Libya's Qaddafi and Egypt's Mubarak; same with Syria's Assad. Replacing Q&A with Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah may not improve.
Solution? Compare Christendom with Atheistic and Islamic countries, the US, badly short of Jesus as we fall, with North Korea and Saudi Arabia. Obviously we need something Jesus, the President of presidents, gives, something leaders who die with their own sins instead of dying for ours, and who stay dead for more than three days, cannot give. What love, to die for His enemies! What power, to rise up alive from the dead! Atheists who investigate the resurrection of King Jesus with an open mind tend to become known as Christians, e.g. Frank Morrison, Viggo Olson...
So as a condition for helping Syrian or other rebels, we should insist that they establish religious freedom, so that Muslims and others who choose to reject Islam and become Christians are free to do so and free to group with others for worship and good works. In Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, and Libya we failed to do this, and our brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus are suffering as a result, especially in Iraq and Egypt. I send a little help through www.barnabasaid.org; go thou and do likewise.
Shrink the government. What moved me to actually join the Libertarian Party was noticing that schools, parks, welfare, security, and everything else someone said government has to do are in fact already offered by private entities. We could shrink the local schools by paying students $5000 to leave, so for every 8 students who leave, every student left in the system gains a
dollar, once the laws are rewritten that way (so schools or systems keep something for students who save money by leaving.)
What filing cabinet costs $1400? But discretionary funds, if all spending is public and perhaps has to be looked at though not approved by someone else, I sort of like. At least it's accountable: "Lois Lerner" not "the IRS." (If I had that, I'd probably hire one or two more police officers with most of it and help churches meet small urgent needs with the rest.)
Osama's home was his castle? The WTC was a castle? The court that supervises these supervisors received 33,000 requests for surveillance and denied 11 of them?
b'48, the Russians warned us about the Boston bombers, and after claiming asylum here from Chechnya one of them went back and spent six months there. That should've enabled the NSA to stop them without keeping records of all our phone calling. As often, big government did no good. The wounded one wasn't found by the martial lawyers, either, but by a boat owner.
Our President's idea of politics is to win a knife fight by using a gun: an IRS gun. So however nice the NSA surveillance might be in theory--and theory does warn us that sooner or later some bad guy will be running the show--a guy who abuses his power like that cannot be trusted with what the NSA is doing. IF the NSA is squeaky clean and its work necessary, however, President Obama could offer to let the GOP run the NSA--he'll ask the Democrats to vote for whatever the GOP majority wants, and promise to sign it, and appoint whatever NSA administrator(s) the GOP asks for--and, hey, he'll be showing he's clean, he'll be getting done what the country needs done...baby crying. Good night.
The Gun Rack
Bradley may, or may not, let qualified teachers carry guns. OK with me--and I do have (split custody)kids in a TN school.
Where do gun massacres happen? In gun-free zones. Let Bradley put up a few signs saying "Our schools are NOT gun-free zones" and those schools will be safer from killers, tho perhaps not from accidents.
The Gun Rack
You'd prefer Chicago schools?
World's Policeman
daytonsdarwin, Christian government may be the worst except for all the others--take an average, as I said! That Christians sin and goof is standard Christian doctrine, confirmed, obviously, by experience. That Atheism guarantees good government strikes me as, well, kinda dubious. There were those guys named Stalin, Mao... But Christianity offers love and power (Cross and Resurrection) in ways Atheism cannot even pretend to. If Iran's new guy can improve matters, power to him. (Whatever their constitution says, I'd suggest he might put the ayatollah's power to a referendum.) Follow Jesus; check Him out.
Cook: Chop wood, change diapers
OK (for once). "Look! I send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the...day of the LORD, and he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children and the heart of the children to the fathers..."--Malachi 4:5-6.
The Monster
"Amazing grace: an easy tax: Count ten and give God one..." video http://voices.yahoo.com/video/tax-day-song-5375697.html?cat=9 Bringing an IRS gun to a protest knife fight--Bush met his IRS head once, Obama met his 157 times--is worse, but the underlying laws and laws and laws and laws are bad enough.
World's Policeman
I notice our friendly neighborhood democratic Party apparatchik did not draw Libya and Egypt as loads on the man's back.
Mideast's problem? Lack of Christianity. Afghanistan was a mess because led by devout Muslims, the Taliban. Lots of Muslims don't make the trouble the Taliban makes, but few Muslims would deny the Taliban are devout Muslims. Iraq's Hussein was a practicing atheist in a turban, so to speak; same with Libya's Qaddafi and Egypt's Mubarak; same with Syria's Assad. Replacing Q&A with Al-Qaeda and Hezbollah may not improve.
Solution? Compare Christendom with Atheistic and Islamic countries, the US, badly short of Jesus as we fall, with North Korea and Saudi Arabia. Obviously we need something Jesus, the President of presidents, gives, something leaders who die with their own sins instead of dying for ours, and who stay dead for more than three days, cannot give. What love, to die for His enemies! What power, to rise up alive from the dead! Atheists who investigate the resurrection of King Jesus with an open mind tend to become known as Christians, e.g. Frank Morrison, Viggo Olson...
So as a condition for helping Syrian or other rebels, we should insist that they establish religious freedom, so that Muslims and others who choose to reject Islam and become Christians are free to do so and free to group with others for worship and good works. In Afghanistan, Iraq, Egypt, and Libya we failed to do this, and our brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus are suffering as a result, especially in Iraq and Egypt. I send a little help through www.barnabasaid.org; go thou and do likewise.
Coppinger's budget misses the mark
Shrink the government. What moved me to actually join the Libertarian Party was noticing that schools, parks, welfare, security, and everything else someone said government has to do are in fact already offered by private entities. We could shrink the local schools by paying students $5000 to leave, so for every 8 students who leave, every student left in the system gains a dollar, once the laws are rewritten that way (so schools or systems keep something for students who save money by leaving.)
What filing cabinet costs $1400? But discretionary funds, if all spending is public and perhaps has to be looked at though not approved by someone else, I sort of like. At least it's accountable: "Lois Lerner" not "the IRS." (If I had that, I'd probably hire one or two more police officers with most of it and help churches meet small urgent needs with the rest.)
Pam's Points: Quick thoughts about the week's headlines
You let conservative express the truth; why not Morris Hill Baptist?
Drew's Views
Drew, do you denounce government's action in prosecuting beakers who refused to do wedding cakes for "gay" weddings?
Oldhickory, what do you think of Saudi Arabian society? Have you prayed that open Christian worship be allowed there?
The Castle
Ha.
Osama's home was his castle? The WTC was a castle? The court that supervises these supervisors received 33,000 requests for surveillance and denied 11 of them?
b'48, the Russians warned us about the Boston bombers, and after claiming asylum here from Chechnya one of them went back and spent six months there. That should've enabled the NSA to stop them without keeping records of all our phone calling. As often, big government did no good. The wounded one wasn't found by the martial lawyers, either, but by a boat owner.
Our President's idea of politics is to win a knife fight by using a gun: an IRS gun. So however nice the NSA surveillance might be in theory--and theory does warn us that sooner or later some bad guy will be running the show--a guy who abuses his power like that cannot be trusted with what the NSA is doing. IF the NSA is squeaky clean and its work necessary, however, President Obama could offer to let the GOP run the NSA--he'll ask the Democrats to vote for whatever the GOP majority wants, and promise to sign it, and appoint whatever NSA administrator(s) the GOP asks for--and, hey, he'll be showing he's clean, he'll be getting done what the country needs done...baby crying. Good night.