All you people who have been drawing welfare for years because, you claim, you can't find a job -- there are jobs available. Farmers in Alabama can't find people to harvest their crops since they got rid of the illegals.
Potato farmer Keith Smith said American workers show up late, work slower, and are ready to call it a day after lunch. He said many of them quit after a single day. Yes, the hours are long and the pay isn't high and the work is hard. But it's a job.
We need to provide a way for those on welfare to take these jobs, and if they refuse to work, cut off their handouts. Getting illegals off our payrolls and getting lazy Americans off their heinies is the best way to cut government spending and boost our economy.
"Illegal-immigration law leaves farmers in lurch." The Dallas Morning News; October 21, 2011; p. 6A.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Poor Mason
I saw one of the saddest things I've read in a long time in a recent editorial section of The Dallas Morning News.
Mason Crumpacker is a very cute 9-year-old girl. She was the subject of a Q&A feature. Mason had attended an atheist convention, and it was this that brought her to the attention of editorial writer Tod Robberson.
Mason has been brainwashed by her parents into believing she is a "free-thinker" when it is obvious she is anything but that. At the convention, she asked Christopher Hitchens for his recommendation on what books she should read. Hitchens is a champion of the New Atheism movement, and the author of a book entitled God is Not Great. Mason says he is a brilliant man, but when asked if there was anything he had said or written that she disagreed with, she said, "I haven't read Christopher Hitchens. I'm 9." How can little Mason think that Hitchens is a brilliant man if she doesn't even know what he has written? Mommy and Daddy told her what to think - that's how.
When asked why she went to the convention, little Mason didn't say, "Because Mommy and Daddy dragged me here." She said she wanted to "boost her intellectual curiosity." But, Mason, as you say, you're only 9. You should be concerned about friends and sleepovers and Barbies and bicycles and Harry Potter and Disney films when you're not in school or doing homework.
Mason says the Bible doesn't make sense -- what proof is there that Adam and Eve existed? I wonder if she, herself, has studied the Bible as much as she has Hitchens' works? Yet she does believe in evolution. She thinks it makes sense that a group of "microscopic cells [she doesn't say what proves where the microscopic cells came from], formatted into bigger cells, which created the first fish, who slowly evolved into lizards . . ." and so on. Oh yeah, Mason, I can see how that makes much more sense than that a Creator God made the cells and fish and lizards and all the other things on the earth. When Mason finished her rote lesson in evolution, she turned to her parents and asked how she did. It's quite obvious that Mason didn't develop this mindset by her own free-thinking.
Mason says that people are entitled to their own beliefs. She says she is a Pastafarian -- that she believes there is a flying spaghetti monster. I don't know if she was trying to be clever and cute or if that's something she really believes. Mason says that children can learn right from wrong without religion because they have their parents to guide them along the way. "And if their parents were raised right, they could have an open mind, have fun and be safe." But what if the parents weren't "raised right"? What if all the children have parents like Mason's? What if the parents are wrong about what's right?
My prayer is that Mason will evolve into a true free thinker and learn the truth that will make her free indeed.
"Posing the big questions." The Dallas Morning News; October 30, 2011; p. 5P.
Mason Crumpacker is a very cute 9-year-old girl. She was the subject of a Q&A feature. Mason had attended an atheist convention, and it was this that brought her to the attention of editorial writer Tod Robberson.
Mason has been brainwashed by her parents into believing she is a "free-thinker" when it is obvious she is anything but that. At the convention, she asked Christopher Hitchens for his recommendation on what books she should read. Hitchens is a champion of the New Atheism movement, and the author of a book entitled God is Not Great. Mason says he is a brilliant man, but when asked if there was anything he had said or written that she disagreed with, she said, "I haven't read Christopher Hitchens. I'm 9." How can little Mason think that Hitchens is a brilliant man if she doesn't even know what he has written? Mommy and Daddy told her what to think - that's how.
When asked why she went to the convention, little Mason didn't say, "Because Mommy and Daddy dragged me here." She said she wanted to "boost her intellectual curiosity." But, Mason, as you say, you're only 9. You should be concerned about friends and sleepovers and Barbies and bicycles and Harry Potter and Disney films when you're not in school or doing homework.
Mason says the Bible doesn't make sense -- what proof is there that Adam and Eve existed? I wonder if she, herself, has studied the Bible as much as she has Hitchens' works? Yet she does believe in evolution. She thinks it makes sense that a group of "microscopic cells [she doesn't say what proves where the microscopic cells came from], formatted into bigger cells, which created the first fish, who slowly evolved into lizards . . ." and so on. Oh yeah, Mason, I can see how that makes much more sense than that a Creator God made the cells and fish and lizards and all the other things on the earth. When Mason finished her rote lesson in evolution, she turned to her parents and asked how she did. It's quite obvious that Mason didn't develop this mindset by her own free-thinking.
Mason says that people are entitled to their own beliefs. She says she is a Pastafarian -- that she believes there is a flying spaghetti monster. I don't know if she was trying to be clever and cute or if that's something she really believes. Mason says that children can learn right from wrong without religion because they have their parents to guide them along the way. "And if their parents were raised right, they could have an open mind, have fun and be safe." But what if the parents weren't "raised right"? What if all the children have parents like Mason's? What if the parents are wrong about what's right?
My prayer is that Mason will evolve into a true free thinker and learn the truth that will make her free indeed.
"Posing the big questions." The Dallas Morning News; October 30, 2011; p. 5P.
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Let's Fix It
Lynn Wolfe of Plano says that the new voter ID laws are not designed to fix a problem. She says they're designed to fix elections. Hmmmm - maybe Lynn has forgotten that ACORN registered the entire Dallas Cowboys starting line-up to vote in Nevada. Maybe Lynn has forgotten that dead people registered to vote from beyond the grave in Chicago and other places. Or that in Philadelphia, at least 1,500 fraudulent registrations were filed. Or that some people who registered, strange as it seems, didn't spell their own names correctly.
And let's face it -- anyone who doesn't have some form of picture ID in today's society is a little suspicious anyway.
It seems to me that Lynn really doesn't mind fixed elections as long as it's the Democrats who have the fix in.
"Voter ID law's impact." The Dallas Morning News; October 31, 2011; p. 10A.
And let's face it -- anyone who doesn't have some form of picture ID in today's society is a little suspicious anyway.
It seems to me that Lynn really doesn't mind fixed elections as long as it's the Democrats who have the fix in.
"Voter ID law's impact." The Dallas Morning News; October 31, 2011; p. 10A.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Astonishing Stupidity
Tim Fisk of Richardson thinks the Republican candidates for the Presidential nomination are too harsh on illegal aliens. He wonders "when was the last time any of them exercised the bedrock American virtue of self-reliance and mowed their own lawns?"
I fail to see what one has to do with the other, but there is certainly nothing wrong with paying someone else to do one's chores as long as he's in this country legally. I wonder if Tim exercised the bedrock American virtue of self-reliance and built his own car? I wonder if Tim exercises the bedrock American virtue of self-reliance and repairs his own air conditioning? I wonder if Tim exercised the bedrock American virtue of self-reliance and built his own house brick by brick? I wonder if Tim exercises the bedrock virtue of self-reliance and cans the food he grows in his garden and butchers the cows and pigs and chickens he raises?
The only other response I can think of for Tim is "astonishing stupidity!"
"Any do-it-yourselfers?" The Dallas Morning News; October 23, 2011; p. 3P.
I fail to see what one has to do with the other, but there is certainly nothing wrong with paying someone else to do one's chores as long as he's in this country legally. I wonder if Tim exercised the bedrock American virtue of self-reliance and built his own car? I wonder if Tim exercises the bedrock American virtue of self-reliance and repairs his own air conditioning? I wonder if Tim exercised the bedrock American virtue of self-reliance and built his own house brick by brick? I wonder if Tim exercises the bedrock virtue of self-reliance and cans the food he grows in his garden and butchers the cows and pigs and chickens he raises?
The only other response I can think of for Tim is "astonishing stupidity!"
"Any do-it-yourselfers?" The Dallas Morning News; October 23, 2011; p. 3P.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
So Many Bible Scholars
Sam Madden says that he doesn't see where "Jesus would have harsh words for a Mormon, Buddhist, Muslim, etc., as long as they were actually living their life by God's commandments."
My goodness, Sam, what Bible are you reading?
How about this: "Depart from me ye that work iniquity, for I never knew you"?
How about this: "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves"?
How about this: "For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ"?
Or this: "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction"?
How about this: "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved"?
How about this: "For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast"?
So, Sam, the upshot is that if a religion claims any way to heaven other than faith in Jesus Christ, it is a false religion, and it behooves us to call it what it is, just as Jesus and his apostles did.
"Jesus harsh on actions only." The Dallas Morning News; October 23, 2011; p. 2P.
My goodness, Sam, what Bible are you reading?
How about this: "Depart from me ye that work iniquity, for I never knew you"?
How about this: "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves"?
How about this: "For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ"?
Or this: "But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction"?
How about this: "Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved"?
How about this: "For by grace are ye saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast"?
So, Sam, the upshot is that if a religion claims any way to heaven other than faith in Jesus Christ, it is a false religion, and it behooves us to call it what it is, just as Jesus and his apostles did.
"Jesus harsh on actions only." The Dallas Morning News; October 23, 2011; p. 2P.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Unclear on the Concept
Obama has come up with another "more of the same" plan to help people who owe more on their homes than they're worth.
Economists say that some people could save perhaps as much as $3000 a year under the plan. But they're pessimistic about the plan working as a spur to the economy. They say that homeowners who are eligible and who choose to refinance through the government program could opt to sock away their savings or pay down debt rather than spend.
Imagine something so irresponsible as digging yourself out of debt rather than digging your hole deeper!
"Obama unveils refinance changes." The Dallas Morning News; October 25, 2011; p. 1A.
Economists say that some people could save perhaps as much as $3000 a year under the plan. But they're pessimistic about the plan working as a spur to the economy. They say that homeowners who are eligible and who choose to refinance through the government program could opt to sock away their savings or pay down debt rather than spend.
Imagine something so irresponsible as digging yourself out of debt rather than digging your hole deeper!
"Obama unveils refinance changes." The Dallas Morning News; October 25, 2011; p. 1A.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Unreasonable? I don't think so.
Florida has a new law requiring welfare applicants to pass a drug test before receiving benefits, but a federal judge has blocked it. She says it violates the Constitutional ban on unreasonable search and seizure. I don't think so.
If any suit needs to be filed here, it needs to be on behalf of the taxpayers who are having their wages unreasonably seized and given to others. Luis Lebron is the 35-year-old single father who filed the lawsuit. He should be grateful that the state is willing to consider giving an able-bodied adult man a handout. Instead, he ungratefully takes that "you owe it to me" attitude so prevalent today and refuses something as simple as giving a urine sample. Well, Luis, if you don't want to give the sample, that's your privilege, and it's the privilege of the taxpayers to refuse to support your lazy lifestyle.
Unfortunately, I foresee that Luis will win his case.
"Florida drug test rule for welfare blocked." The Dallas Morning News; October 25, 2011; p. 4A.
If any suit needs to be filed here, it needs to be on behalf of the taxpayers who are having their wages unreasonably seized and given to others. Luis Lebron is the 35-year-old single father who filed the lawsuit. He should be grateful that the state is willing to consider giving an able-bodied adult man a handout. Instead, he ungratefully takes that "you owe it to me" attitude so prevalent today and refuses something as simple as giving a urine sample. Well, Luis, if you don't want to give the sample, that's your privilege, and it's the privilege of the taxpayers to refuse to support your lazy lifestyle.
Unfortunately, I foresee that Luis will win his case.
"Florida drug test rule for welfare blocked." The Dallas Morning News; October 25, 2011; p. 4A.
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