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vine input so even people like rush limbaugh and bill o reilly are liberals they do not believe in conserving certain values because they are traditional but they argue for them on what they think is a purely rational basis further they think that anyone who is really rational will see the truth of their positions which is another of the myths of the enlightenment i e that their version of rationality is indeed universal rationality shared by all rational people to be sure there are in america different kinds of liberals there are left leaning liberals like al gore and bill clinton and i really can t put barack obama in this category and right leaning liberals like limbaugh and the gop and the tea partiers etc but they re all liberals and i m a conservative so if you want to argue with me at some point you ll have to dispute my claims that certain positions deserve the label christian in other words you ll have to argue that my positions are not christian rather than that they might be bad economic or foreign policy etc posted by chip at 2 40 pm 4 comments wednesday november 02 2011 the 99 recently i ve seen this pic posted several times on facebook i know those who have posted this believe that they are calling attention to the fact that here in america we are better off at least economically than are many other nations of the world no doubt about that also i think they are probably trying to say quit whining another sentiment with which i can agree at least in part here s the part that bugs me first of all reminding us that there are others in the world who suffer deeply does not change anything about our situation in the united states we ve still been duped cheated and otherwise mugged by the banking industry that created the housing bubble that burst and thus began this crisis and yes it is a crisis for many many of our fellow americans there are indeed many over 9 of us in america who are out of work and don t know how they re going to continue to provide life s basic needs for themselves and or their families is the top part of the photo merely a prophecy of what may become of those pictured in the bottom part second let s not forget that the crisis that began with american banks did not stay in america it quickly spread around the globe every geographical area of our globe except probably for the arctic and antarctic presumably has come under an economic downswing characterized in many places as a recession so if the top photo was taken recently then those folks are also suffering because of the world wide economic downturn in other words the 99 of the bottom photo are not separate from the 99 of the top photo those in the occupy movement are not whining because they don t want to work because they want a free ride or a handout they are protesting an unjust system that has been rigged against everyone who is not an insider to the kind of financial trading pirating that has characterized our banking industry so the starving people at the top and the occupy people at the bottom are all part of the 99 which in fact probably means that 99 needs to be expanded into 99 999999 or something like that as i walked into a pizza place a couple of weeks ago i heard a lady on her cellphone telling the person on the other end of her call that the protesters should quit whining and go get a second job can we please just admit that it s just not that easy for many people that there are real difficulties supporting a family in today s economy that jobs that pay enough to support a family just aren t that readily available that a second job for some is an impossibility until we can get them a decent first job certainly i can t speak for everyone who has turned out for one of the occupy protests but many of them seem to understand that this is not just an american issue that it is indeed global and that they are protesting not just for their own benefit but for the benefit of all those around the world who are suffering from economic disadvantage the system is broken and it needs to be fixed posted by chip at 2 52 pm 1 comment monday june 13 2011 obamacare good stuff from henry chu head of the la times london bureau on british reaction to the health care debate in both america and in great britain http www latimes com health la fg britain health care 20110613 0 1237142 story in short the british don t mind a little tinkering with their national health service but the idea of privatizing it is abhorrent to them and politicians are stumbling all over themselves in the rush to apologize for any comment that indicates they favor an american style health care system go figure in the final analysis obamacare will end up being a great compliment you heard it here first thanks to mike gipson for the link to the henry chu piece posted by chip at 1 27 pm 2 comments labels british health care national health service nhs obama obamacare friday april 08 2011 voodoo economics i m furious i m livid i ve been lied to flat out to my face by someone you would think you would be able to trust i took a look at some of the new budget proposal being leveraged by the republican party this week independent analysis a simple ap news story said clearly that the proposal would do several things among them get rid of the health care law and to privatize medicare and turn it into vouchers sounds suspicious to me just on the surface so i called my local congressional representative s office james lankford didn t get to talk with him go figure but i asked the voice on the phone if lankford supported the budget proposal the voice exuberantly answered in the affirmative and told me that lankford had been on the subcommittee that had approved the proposal to go to the full house hmmmph so as calmly as i could probably not all that much i told the voice that lankford needed to reconsider he asked why i told him that this proposal would cripple a lot of people that we need medicare and the health care bill the voice informed me that the proposal did not touch medicare that s a lie hogwash is the most polite term i can think of here i can think of many terms more descriptive and therefore more accurate he s lying don t take my word for it please don t check it out and check out this column in the ny times i know that horribly liberal publication yada yada yada by nobel prize winner for economics paul krugman notice where he gets his numbers for analysis of the republican budget proposal from the congressional budget office a non partisan office where did they get their numbers they were provided by the republicans so working with numbers provided by the republicans who proposed the budget what did they come up with huge deficits a bankrupt nation it s nothing but tax cuts for the rich and reduction in spending on programs that help those who need help the most this budget proposal is sinful it attempts to balance the budget on the backs of the poor and the elderly we are turning the nation of give me your tired and your poor into the nation of i ve got mine and i ll shoot the b who tries to take it from me i m sorry but that s just not like jesus wait i take that back i m not sorry for saying that he also lied to me about military spending somewhere between 48 and 54 of federal spending goes into the military just google for info but lankford s phone voice essentially told me i was crazy and i needed to check my figures and that entitlement programs make up most of the federal budgets bull of course i told him he needed to check his figures had a great affect on him i ll tell you what a snappy comeback well i ve checked around a little more there are a variety of estimates out there but all of them demonstrate that the military is our biggest expenditure and again i would challenge any christian to come up with logical support for that expense on biblical christian grounds it just can t be done we re supposed to love our enemies period for some odd reason i think that means don t kill them but even if christians do support the military does it have to be so large we are the only nation that has military bases outside of our own borders and we have almost 800 military bases world wide we are an empire a militaristic empire if we say nothing else here we must at least say that we could cut back a bit and then we d have the money to take care of those in our society who are unable to completely take care of themselves but the republican budget proposal won t do that it will take care of the wealthiest members of our society and cut out as much assistance to the lower strata as it can it s the budget of i ve got mine parting shot from the washington post no liberal source this time the report of the words of rajiv shah the administrator for the us agency for international development before congress this week shah said we estimate and i believe these are very conservative estimates that h r 1 would lead to 70 000 kids dying of that 70 000 30 000 would come from malaria control programs that would have to be scaled back specifically the other 40 000 is broken out as 24 000 who would die because of a lack of support for immunizations and other investments and 16 000 would be because of the lack of skilled attendants at birth the republican response came from rep jerry lewis r calif nearly every administration witness appearing before the appropriations committee has put forward nightmare scenarios and dire numbers to argue why we should not be reducing spending in any program republicans won t be drawn into a debate over what might happen based on speculations and hype so there s your compassionate conservatism for you is that like jesus really tell me it is just this kind of thing that made me repent of voting republican yes i did i voted for reagan may god have mercy posted by chip at 8 55 pm 4 comments labels jesus militarism military spending republican budget proposal us budget monday april 04 2011 it s ok to be jewish or whatever thanks to the blog of beach bum who s been following my blog here for a short time the life and times of a carolina parrothead i ve also run across the blog of karen van der zee called life in the expat lane haven t read much of it yet but what i ve read has been more than entertaining and even a bit enlightening she lives abroad and in some very strange places and she writes about her experiences she has written a book available in ebook format for 2 95 if i recall correctly yup just checked called you re moving where the first chapter it s ok to be jewish is available free and relates her experiences in her first few days living in the palestinian west bank town of ramallah where she discovers it s ok to be jewish which she s not a theme i ve touched on before on this blog and on facebook is that the muslim faith is not inherently violent and that all muslims are not terrorists etc and it s a topic on which people like to disagree with me well i think i have an advantage in this argument because i have some muslims who are friends in fact i ve made friends of muslims in various places around the world new york vienna austria the philippines the one on the train from poughkeepsie new york admitted to me in 1985 not only that he was muslim but it s even worse than that he said i m shiite and this was only a few years after the incident in iran during the jimmy carter administration the fellow in the philippines on an all night ferry from butuan to cebu drank his beer and confessed to me why he was a lousy muslim in part because he was drinking beer oh and i forgot the mention the guy apparently turkish we shared a train compartment with in europe who looked like sadaam hussein no kidding he gave chocolates to the kids nice guy we communicated a little in broken german well mine was broken and the pizza guy in vienna who wanted to practice his english yada yada yada a hebrew expression yada means i know in hebrew so thanks beach bum who has some really good post s of his own posted by chip at 5 40 pm 2 comments labels islam terrorism terrorists friday april 01 2011 intervention in libya just as i m nearly always unable to watch violent crime shows whether reality or merely fiction i ve been unable to pay attention to most of what is going on in libya violence is abhorrent to me i cannot stand to watch the newscasts that show bombs being dropped and so on knowing that we the us had just started a third war just pains me and it s not that i m incapable of violence unfortunately far from it i am committed to non violence but in part because i know the kind of hate that i feel from time to time but i don t like it i won t give you examples but you can take my word for it i am also committed to human freedom and i empathize with the folks in libya who have suffered repression for many years i want them to have something better no one should have to live in terror give peace o lord in all the world for only in you can we live in safety this is part of one of the prayers in the book of common prayer that i say almost daily people should be able to live in peace and safety because we are all children of god but though i empathize with the rebels in libya i cannot support the role the us is playing in that conflict i cannot support it because though we might regard gadhafi and his forces as our enemies we christians are called to love our enemies even and perhaps especially those who would like to kill us and may be actively trying to do so at some given moment think jesus here he didn t hate wow those who were beating him spitting on him insulting him pounding nails through his feet and forearms cramming a ring of thorns down on his scalp and so on and it wasn t just that he was the son of god a ploy we sometimes use to try to keep jesus sanitary and out of the way of any real temptation nope he faced temptations with exactly the same tools available to me and to you prayer fasting scripture he was tempted in every way just as we are which means he was tempted to hate those who hated him and insulted him and insulted his god tempted but he didn t do it he didn t hate them we cannot hate our enemies we must love them even gadhafi but so it has been argued if we didn t intervene gadhafi s forces would have overrun the rebels and made a quick end to the effort to secure their human rights we could not just do nothing intervention was the right thing to do this is the stereotypical argument against non violence non violence is simply equated with doing nothing or non intervention and those two alleged opposites are juxtaposed as if they were the only two possibilities that s simply a lack of imagination at best and at worst it is a lust for and trust in violence is it true that violence breeds violence doesn t history teach us that much can we really count on violence to change the world as if creating more violence would really constitute a change the dr phil question needs to be asked here so how s that working out for you so 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