Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne, Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown, Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
For the next two weeks posting here will be spotty. I will be on holiday with my wife in Maine.
As a good amount of this time will be spent at family, I will likely have time to find internet access, so I’m pretty confident that I’ll be posting periodically.
I am taking a good number of books with me. I hope to catch up on some of my reading. As such I will likely have a good amount to say.
Pray that we will have traveling mercies and that God will grant us refreshment and invigoration.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/02/uselections2008.republicans20085?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselection2008/johnmccain/2667214/John-McCains-running-mate-Sarah-Palin-was-in-Alaskan-independence-party.html
Note to self…
It is illegal to stab people for being stupid.
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Given some comments I’ve been receiving I guess I better explain why I find this button so funny.
I can assure that the humor I see in it is not born of arrogance. I, more than anybody, am more than aware of my intellectual limitations.
The reason I find it so apt and funny is merely because I see the 100 year project of dumbing down the population via the Government schools to have been eminently successful. I have had school teachers, with a straight face, tell me that “I don’t teach morality in public schools because I can’t force my morality on somebody else,” completely oblivious to the fact that by teaching teen age sex education classes they are at that point forcing somebody else’s morality on those children. I’ve had professional business personal unable to follow the simplest of syllogism crafted to instruct them how to increase productivity. I’ve spoken to Congressman about the pro-life issues hearing them insist that they who reside in the place where life is incubated is “not life.” I’ve read statistics regarding how few people actually finish a book during their lifetime. Then, there is the reality of how we’ve adjusted the standardized tests downward in order that people can score higher though, in fact, being more stupid. If a person of such completely average intelligence as myself can see all this stupidity then we have become a stupid people.
I wish it weren’t true. I wish it didn’t need to be said. But it is what it is. We are (and I include myself) a stupid people — and like any other addiction, I suppose the first step to curing the addiction is to admit the problem.
Classical Agitprop
What are we to expect next?
45 second Commercials trying to convince us that McCain wants to protect our borders and limit imperial overreach?
Or maybe commercials trying to convince us that the two parties are really quite different?
Or best of all…
Maybe somebody will be so shameless as to make a commercial trying to sell us on the idea that ministers have enough intelligence to make us take what they say or recommend seriously?
It is all so embarrassing.
Sometimes Thomas Fleming comes across as a grumpy old man who is guilty of playing the hermit who slams his door against the cultural night bidding all within ear shot, “to hell with the whole thing.” However in this piece Fleming does a masterful job of summarizing where we are at in our American moment.
Often times people will visit here and not understand the whole ethnic dynamic that I sometimes explore. This article will help you understand.
Soon, I will offer more of my thoughts on the whole subject.