The Audacity of Obama!

The week after Obama informed small business owners that they weren't any smarter and didn't work any harder than anybody else and that they didn't build their businesses, somebody else did, he hosted the national champion Baylor Lady Bears at the White House.

He said he could not be prouder of them. I don't know why. They didn't get that championship. Somebody else did that for them. He said they worked hard throughout the summer. I imagine the other teams worked hard throughout the summer, too. He said they earned their reputation. No they didn't. Somebody else gave that to them. They had a good coach, they got scholarships, they went to school on roads built by the government, they flew on planes regulated by the FAA, they ate food inspected by the USDA. They didn't do anything except accept the accolades. 

At least, if Obama is consistent in his philosophy, that's the case.

"Obama lauds Lady Bears." The Dallas Morning News; July 19, 2012; p. 6C.

Where is the tolerance?

By now, you've all heard about the brouhaha over the perfectly legitimate and true remarks made by the CEO of Chick-fil-a. He has been vilified; banned from Chicago, San Francisco, Washington DC, and Boston (all later retracted when the mayors realized they could get themselves in trouble); and threatened with kiss-in demonstrations and boycotts. What did he say that was so awful? Merely that he believed in biblical values and the biblical definition of marriage and that God's judgment will fall on us for blatantly disobeying His word. You would think the poor man had said, "Let's round up all the queers and burn them at the stake!"

I would like to know where the tolerance is. Can this man not have an opinion and a belief system different from the liberals? Does he forfeit his right to free speech because he is politically incorrect? 

Then we have the CEO of Amazon.com. Jeff Besoz is donating $2.5 million to keep same-sex unions legal in Washington. He joins his counterparts at Microsoft, Starbucks, and Nike in doing so. Why is there no outrage over that? Could it be that Christians are more tolerant than gays? Marc Solomon is a gay rights advocate in New York. He says, "When you have some of the mainstays of corporate leadership stand up, that's important. It sends a powerful message about where our society is right now." So it's OK if the gay people do it, but not OK if the Christians do it?  


The ever-wise Michelle Pitcher, a senior at Coppell High School, weighed in. She said she saw the headline about Chick-fil-a on a Yahoo page. The headline quoted Mr. Cathey (the Chick-fil-a CEO) when he said that gay marriage invited God's wrath. That's very true, by the way. Anyway, the enlightened Michelle said she knew "this was going to be bad. I clicked it anyway. Maybe there had been some slip of the tongue; a rogue executive had accidentally spouted his personal views in a public forum."


God's Word is bad? It was so awful it must have been a slip of the tongue? He accidentally said it? Michelle says she will be eating a lot less chicken from now on. I commend you, Michelle, for your tolerance of people whose views differ from yours. Would that we were all as enlightened and tolerant as you. Incidentally, it's OK that you won't be eating as much of that delicious Chick-fil-a chicken, because I plan to "eat mor chikkin."

"CEO backs gay marriage effort." The Dallas Morning News; July 28, 2012; p. 8A.

Would you like a little cheese with that whine?

Everybody has a hand out. The State of Texas reduced the amount budgeted for student financial aid -- the kind that doesn't have to be repaid.

According to the newspaper, "Some students eligible for TEXAS Grants end up going to a local community college if they can't afford a four-year university or taking on heavy work schedules to support themselves." I'm not sure why that's bad, but Dr. Tom Melecki, director of UT student financial services, said his office aims to help students avoid either of those options.

It seems to me that today's kids are a bit soft. I went to a community college, and Mr. Essie May and I both had heavy work schedules when we were in school. These kids with their hands out need to understand that other people have to work heavy schedules and sacrifice to grease those palms. What's fair about that?

"Load gets heavier for students after cuts." The Dallas Morning News; July 6, 2012; p. 1A.

Cruel and Unusual

Does a prison cell without central air conditioning constitute cruel and unusual punishment? A pending lawsuit against the State of Texas claims that it does. My goodness! If it does, I was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment my entire childhood and for several years in my adult life. The funny thing is, I didn't even know it!

Sandy Edwards of Coppell agrees that it is cruel and unusual. She falls back on the old WWJD philosophy. I'm not sure she really knows what Jesus would do, but she sums up by saying, "I would prefer a world in which people tried to live by Christ's words . . ."

Well, Sandy, so would I. If we had such a world, we wouldn't even need prisons at all, because all those murders and rapists and druge dealers and gang member in  there would never have committed the crimes that put them there. They are the ones not living by Christ's words, so why don't you go preach to them?

"A call for compassion." The Dallas Morning News; July 10, 2012; p. 10A.

The burden of proof has shifted.

Probably every American knows the phrase "Innocent until proven guilty." In any trial, the jury must assume the defendant is innocent until the plaintiff/prosecution proves he committed the tort/crime. But that seems to have shifted with the Obama justice department.

The Justice Department has deemed Texas' voter ID law discriminatory. It says the burden is on the state to prove that it is not. Shouldn't the burden be on the Justice Department to prove that it is? 

You can get married.

Homosexuals Beau Chandler and Mark Jiminez handcuffed themselves together at the Dallas County Records Building when they were refused a marriage license. After this publicity stunt, Jiminez said, "We live in a land where we're all supposed to be created equal, and by them denying us our marriage, we are not created equal."

Sure you are, Mark. You have the same rights to marry as every other man in Texas does. And, by the way, we may be created equal, but that doesn't mean we stay that way. Some of us try to live a moral life, and some of you flaunt your perversion.

"Gay couple denied marriage license, refuse to leave building." The Dallas Morning News; July 6, 2012; p. 7B.

Poor Jimmy the Greek

Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson of Dallas says he believes that slave descendants are superior athletes. "I believe there is a superior athletic gene in us," he told the British Daily Mail. 

Poor Jimmy the Greek was crucified for similar comments 25 years ago. Why is there no outcry now? Isn't that sentiment just as racist now as it was then?

"Johnson: Descendants of slaves have advantage." The Dallas Morning News; July 6, 2012; p. 3C.