Abortion: Are we doing the right thing?

In 1973 the United States Supreme Court decided that an unborn child is not a person.  Therefore, the fetus is not entitled to the rights guaranteed in the Constitution of the United States.  In their course of making this determination they refused to take up the question of human life.  That is:  Is the unborn child / fetus a human being or not?  They found themselves not up to the task of answering this question.  However, they did conceded that its answer would be the determining factor could it be ascertained.

So let me ask the pro-choice people of the year 2013, if the fetus is a human being, then is its life more important than the privacy of the woman whose body is inflicted by this parasite?  If the answer is yes, then should we not now, with the vast medical knowledge attained over the past 40 years, re-examine this question?  Perhaps we can answer it more surely than could the cowardly justices of 1973.  Perhaps we could all agree that while a pregnancy can be enormously inconvenient for the mother, if the unborn baby is a human life, then we are bound to respect the life of an innocent human being over the convenience of another.  Do you have the stomach to look at this issue anew with an open mind to medical and biological facts?

Entitlements: Parental Unit Smith and CEO Jones

Parental Unit Smith lives in the US and works at a department store and makes minimum wage getting an average of 39 hours per week and will continue there in this capacity for the foreseeable future.  This breaks out to less than $15,000 a year.  Parental Unit Smith lives in a single income home where there are two young children.  This money can’t cover the basic requirements of the household (food, shelter, transportation, healthcare).

CEO Jones lives in the US and is the Chief Executive Officer for a large reputable corporation.  CEO Jones has amassed a personal wealth that would last ten people ten lifetimes.  CEO Jones earns $10,000,000 per year.

Question:  Is Parental Unit Smith “entitled” to some of CEO Jones’ money?  We are not talking about CEO Jones giving Parental Unit Smith money out of the goodness of CEO’s heart.  We are not talking about what a good and moral society ought to do.  We are asking, “Does Parental Unit Smith have a “right” to some of CEO Jones’ money regardless of what CEO thinks and regardless of what society ought to do?  If so, how much and why?  Why isn’t CEO Jones entitled to the money?

Is it because a Smith entitlement “promotes the general welfare” of the country and a Jones entitlement does not?  I can see that a Smith entitlement might put the required basics in the hands of Smith’s family.  I can also see that a Jones entitlement might create a better job for Smith and so put the required basics in the hands of Smith’s family.  What can you see?

Pay More Get Less

Here is the concept.  Since the US has a 16+ trillion dollar debt and it would take 80+ years to pay it off running a record surplus of 200 million dollars each of those 80+ years, I propose the following.

Everyone must pay more to the government in taxes.  I mean everyone with income and on all income.  This would include but not be limited to wages, tips, capital gains, education benefits, and even unemployment and welfare payments.  Also, every will get less.  This would include but not be limited to national defense, subsidies, roads/bridges, and of course, all entitlements.

It is that simple.  You can’t cut your way out of this.  You can’t tax your way out of this.  We are going to, at some point, realize that we are going to have to pay more and expect less from it.  If we do it now, we could spend the next 100 years on a disciplined fiscal diet and come out on the other end debt free.  If we continue the gridlock of debate, name calling, and blaming the other side, then we will crash and crash hard.

These are the simple truths.  But don’t let me interrupt your sports contests and your internet games.  Continue to watch grown men act like children in the name of entertainment.  Please continue to split fruit or watch virtual angry birds or whatever the latest fad.

Insanity - doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

Obama, Reed, Pelosi, Boehner, McConnell, Cantor; what do we expect will happen?  They will raise taxes a bit, increase spending a lot and do nothing to pay down the debt.  It is up to us.  #PayMoreGetLess

Civil Rights Violation in Arizona

I have decided to take some action on behalf of the citizens of the state of Arizona.  I am contacting the United States Department of Justice via the e-mail hotline (SB1070@usdoj.gov) they have set up to report concerns with respect to civil rights violations.   There is also a phone number:  855-353-1010.

My concerns are as follows.  The federal government has failed to secure the southern border of the United States.  A direct and manifest result of this failure is a region of public land south of Phoenix Arizona where bands of foreign marauders have taken over the territory.  Signs to this effect posted by the US Bureau of Land Management admit that citizens of the United States are being bullied out of the use of this public land.

Therefore, it is required of the Department of Justice, by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, to secure injunctive relief against this discrimination in places of public accommodation.  In other words, order the Executive Branch to get off its butt and get down to southern Arizona and run these bums off that land and back to Mexico for good.  There exists no other legal option.

Israel's Borders

Consider President Obama’s latest proposal: Israel should return to the 1966 borders. How is this suggestion not arbitrary? I mean, could not the Prime Minister of Israel counter with this equally valid proposal: Israel should return to the 966 BC borders? In fact, the American Indian nations should take this opportunity to step up to the plate with their own proposal: North America should return to the 1566 borders. What is the difference between the “Six Day War” and any other war in which one side got its butt kicked by the other side?

holy Qur'an?

Can a Christian call the Qur’an Holy? He can only if he is ignorant or deceitful. When President Obama quoted (Cairo speech) form what he called the “Holy Qur’an” he showed his ignorance of the meaning of the word Holy in the spiritual sense or he contradicted himself. There can be no other explanation.
Christians believe, by definition, and repeat, by commission, that Jesus is God. Christians should know that when something is Holy it is spiritually perfect of God. The Qur’an states most specifically and more than once that Jesus is NOT God. Therefore, either Christians are wrong or the Qur’an is not Holy. This fact implies Obama is not a Christian (he says he is), Obama does not understand the meaning of the word Holy, or Obama is lying to the world; knowing full well that the Qur’an is NOT Holy.
In the love of Christ,
-Mel