Reflections From a Murky Pond

An American Divorce

Some marriages go the distance and others fall apart, sometimes even within the 1st year. Most often the failures are the result of the parties not entering into the relationship for the right reasons.

It Was A Case Of Irreconcilable Differences

There are a lot of reasons why this relationship failed, but with one partner Hoping to Change the other from the outset, it was a foregone conclusion that it wouldn't last long. I'm just not looking forward to the custody battle with each side wanting to not get custody of Congress. :P

Early Emigrants?

Will Caterpillar, Inc. be the first of major manufacturing corporations to emigrate from the United States in the wake of ObamaCare? Or will they just layoff a significant fraction of their employees and cut salaries as much as possible in order to accommodate ObamaCare's negative impact on their already weakened bottom line?

Caterpillar Feels The Crushing Weight Of Obama's Agenda

Caterpillar will, if ObamaCare is made the law of the land, be faced with significant increases to their labor costs in the form of increased mandatory health insurance benefits and increased Medicare taxes - amongst other new or increased taxes. This would make them vulnerable to their foreign competition such as Japan's Komatsu.

Myths Of Leftist Unity

There is this ongoing myth in American politics and society. It's called the Democratic Coalition - a supposed army of Left-of-Center activists, agitators, and politicians unified under the banner of the Democratic Party in their purpose to destroy Conservatism and reshape America into a new nation adhering to a Liberal / Progressive ideology. Sadly for these Leftists - but happily for America and Americans - this is a myth, a falsity based upon willful ignorance and delusion. There is no unity of purpose within the ranks of the Liberals.

A Gentle Reminder

Both as individuals and as societies we seem very concerned with ourselves and our importance. Each crisis is of horrific magnitude because it impacts us and the world we've created with our perceptions and imagining to surround us. At times it is beneficial to be given a reminder - hopefully a gentle one - that much of this is illusory, and what isn't, is likely transitory. The universe will continue its stately precession to oblivion long after we and everyone we ever loved or hated has long since died and been forgotten.

Dead Congress Walking

The Liberals trying to rule Congress and spread their version of Statism across America are set to commit "suicide by electorate." Few of them will survive the 2010 Congressional mid-term elections because of how they've willfully chosen to ignore and disrespect we, the People on the matter of healthcare reform. They should be assured that no American will miss them or mourn their passing from power - or life.

Awaiting The Rapture

The Rapture is an eschatological event during which Jesus Christ returns to Earth for His Church and believers and takes them up to Heaven where they will rejoin their dead and live forever in their resurrected bodies beside their Lord. So very many Christians, especially the Evangelical sects, believe that we are in the End Days and that the Rapture will soon come about. They await being lifted up into Heaven by their Lord, Jesus with anticipation and joy. What if they're waiting in vain? Not because they were wrong in their beliefs and that the Rapture would never happen, but because it had already happened and they weren't number among the tiny handful of people on Earth who weren't so steeped in sin as to be disqualified and doomed to eternal damnation.

The Slaughter Solution

So what can President Obama and Nancy Pelosi do when they're hell-bent on having the US Federal Government effectively takeover 16% of the American economy - i.e., the healthcare provisioning industry - and they just don't have the votes in the House of Representatives needed to do so? They can try to change the rules!

Is A Man a Man?

Is a man and man, possessed of and by a similar nature and drives to his fellows, irrespective of his race, ethnicity, or creed? Are all peoples essential equal at a fundamental level in that they all have similar aspirations and have both base and sublime desires that resemble those of all other peoples? Many Americans claim to believe that the answer to all these questions is yes, all men are equal. But, if this is case, one would be forced to accept the bad along with good. Whether it is merely people's belief that all men are inherently equal or a fact of Natural Law that they are, in fact, equal in both propensity for nobility and for ignominy then one should expect roughly similar results and responses any stimulus that is applied to a group people, irrespective of their race, ethnicity, or creed. That being the case, why do so many people in America believe that "domestic aid" programs will achieve any better results than the bulk of both private (NGO) and governmental foreign aid programs have achieved in the many decades of their existence?

Al Gore’s New Clothes

Al Gore and his cult of Warmists may be in denial, but that doesn't change the fact their day has largely ended and they are well on the way along the downward spiral of relevancy that will either leave them as footnotes in history, like the 1970s Global Cooling believers, or as something akin to PETA, a mockery and an embarrassment.

Society Is Absolute

Back on Friday, April 24th, 2009, I made a post, A Moral Atheist, which detailed my view that an atheist, while perfectly capable of being ethical, cannot be moral since an atheist inherently lacks an absolute sense of- or source for morality. The post generated - and continues to generate - some discussion and debate. One of the prevailing arguments that atheists could, in fact, be moral was that morality can stem from a culture and/or society instead of from a Divine source. This is certainly a seductive argument; who, after all, doesn't think their society is source of what is Right and Good? There is a serious problem with that belief though as the philosopher and theologian, Francis A. Schaeffer so very eloquently pointed out:

Here is one simple but profound rule: If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.
-- Francis A. Schaeffer How Should We Then Live? p. 224

Think on that for a moment for it is certainly true.