I was using StumbleUpon about an hour ago to search specifically for sites tagged with the words “Christianity” and “apologetics.” One of the sites it took me to was the home page of a Christian forum. There I saw a thread titled “Switched to Pro-Choice Based on the Bible.” It was written by a self-proclaimed Christian (obviously, or else why look to the Bible for affirmation of her beliefs?) who said she used to be pro-life. Her “Biblical” reason for her new pro-abortion stance can be read at the previous link, but her argument was essentially that the Biblical verses used by anti-abortionists to support their stance do not actually affirm their stance. In other words, she believes that because they use faulty logic, her logic is necessarily solid. I don’t need to explain the faulty logic in this reasoning, do I?
     Here was my response:

     We don’t need a Scriptural basis for making most of our decisions in life. For example, the Bible never tells us not to kick babies. Does that then mean it’s okay to kick babies? The logic on which you base your pro-abortion stance is the exact same logic that would make someone conclude, “Nope, the Bible says nothin’ about kickin’ babies, so let’s have a baby-kickin’ party!” The Bible does not explicitly, maybe not even implicitly, say abortion is right or wrong, but that does not in any way mean that abortion is automatically right.
     Three important questions for the Christian to consider:

     1) Who allows the grass to grow and our hearts to beat and all the other natural occurrences in the world to happen?
     2) Then who allowed the mother’s egg to be successfully fertilized with the man’s sperm?
     3) Who created an entirely new set of DNA in the fetus?
     4) Who put the fetus in the womb?

     The answer to all of these questions, if you’re a Christian, is God.
     More questions:
     Who are we to dare correct what God has done and remove that fetus, ending the life that God specifically created?
     Who creates life–God or humans? The Christian says God.
     And the most important question, I think, is this: Would Jesus say, “Sure, go ahead, avoid your responsibility and just kill the defenseless human child inside you that my Father in Heaven specifically formed inside of you and already has a plan worked out for his or her entire future. It’s okay, I don’t care, and my Father in Heaven wouldn’t mind one bit either.”
     Would Jesus really say that? Would he support undoing God’s will? Even an atheist understands Jesus, the historical figure, would never approve of abortion. The difference is that an atheist doesn’t care because he doesn’t believe, whereas a Christian does care that Jesus wouldn’t approve, and therefore a true Christian would not support abortion (though of course there are many non-religious arguments against abortion as well).
     You cannot be a Christian and support anything that Jesus would object to, plain and simple. Sure, you may believe Jesus is your Savior and that he is God, but that’s only one half of Christianity. Any serial killer can believe that stuff. But these beliefs are meaningless unless you actually walk the walk of Christianity, or at least genuinely strive to. And we should never try to rationalize our evil behavior by searching desperately in the Bible for vague statements that, when stretched, could be taken as showing approval for obviously heinous evils.

     I think there is something much deeper involved here, though. There is much to be said about this issue of someone taking something that they previously believed to be immoral, and then, after finding nothing in the Bible explicitly stating it is immoral, deciding to go all out and turn it into a political issue which she now supports. It seems very odd to me, that line of logic. It’s as if she wished abortion were moral just for the sole purpose of endorsing the pro-choice movement. Usually it’s the other way around: first someone has a pro-choice stance, and then he or she will try to come up with arguments for why it is moral. Her train of thought, if not psychotic, is definitely unintelligent.

     I went to the same elementary school with this black kid.  We were in 4th grade together.  He found me on Facebook a few months ago and added me.  Back in 4th grade, he used to be really nice, but very quiet and shy.  Now…well…see for yourself:

     Let me try to translate:

     “I’ve got some things on my mind, things that happened to me the other night.  I’m going to keep it one-hundred percent.  How the heck am I a snitch?  Why do you think I’m working with the FBI when you were the one being phony and taking a very long time with my man’s cash?  All you had to say was that you didn’t have it.  Right.  It’s not my fault you were taking too long.  Why, if it wasn’t for me, you black person, you wouldn’t be alive.  And I called you my black person!  What the heck?  Let me give you some lyrics: “Who is real and who is fake?  These are the kind of black people I hate.”  There are some really fake black people in [this city].  You tried to flip this garbage on me?  You got me in a real pickle!  Things are going to change when I come back.  The fact that I’m small doesn’t mean anything.  Get the heck out of here with that.  And you said, “I thought it was [your] money.  That’s why I took it and cut off my phone.”  Dang, it’s like that, black person?  You could have informed me of any problems you had with me.  Then things would not have had to happen like this.  But you want to be sneaky and do this type of stuff to me and make me look very bad in front of my black person?  I don’t like black people making me look bad, and you clearly did that in front of a couple of black people.  I’m done with this phony baloney!  I’m glad I’m leaving this cranky woman!  Phony butt Virginia!”

     Gosh.  Even with the translation I still have a hard time figuring out what the heck he’s trying to say.

Why do I wake up each morning?  I’ll tell you why.  Because you never know when you will hear the glorious news that a fast-food restaurant has finally combined a pizza with a cheeseburger and christened it The Pizza Burger.  Thank you, Burger King.

Details at Neatorama.

     I created a WordPress blog earlier today, a strictly political one.  I didn’t like that my Xanga was beginning to have all this serious political stuff in it when I originally wanted my Xanga to be humorous and tell ridiculous stories and stuff.  So I decided to make a blog specifically for politics.  If I want to say something political, it goes on my new blog.  Other stuff goes here on Xanga.
     Here’s a link to the new site:

     I hope you guys check it out!

     There is a group on Facebook called “I Bet We Can Find 1,000,000+ People on Facebook Who Disapprove of the Health Care Bill.”  On the discussion board, some tool named Jeff Helgerson, addressing another member of the group, said this:

     “Rachael, how is forcing them to buy car insurance or pay taxes to support schools different?”

     And some stupid black guy named William James, who supports the bill, said this:

     “The constitution is a lame arguement [sic] when it comes to helping your fellow american [sic]. If you honestly think that you are somehow being threatened by this, MOVE TO MEXICO….”

     Addressing both these morons, I said this:

     “Jeff Helgerson, you dolt. Spewing censored-media talking points. You don’t have to buy car insurance! If you don’t drive a car, you don’t have to buy insurance!
     However, if you don’t want health insurance, you STILL have to pay for it!
     Also, the reason we by car insurance is to protect the OTHER person in the accident. If I crash into someone and I don’t have insurance, THEY get stuck with the bill. But that’s unfair, because it’s not their fault. So that car insurance argument is not analogous to the health insurance mandate. Analogies need to be analogous.
     William James, you moron. If YOU don’t like the Constitution, YOU go the hell to Mexico! Don’t go selfishly changing this country just so you don’t have to get off your ass and work for the things you want.
     Everybody who supported this stands right alongside the government as it rapes us true Americans. You’ll all realize soon what absolute, naive fool you are. The only reason you support Soviet-style health care is because you don’t know what the hell it is, thanks to your censored mainstream media and our Controller in Chief.”

     Someone I know from my Tuesday-night Bible studies–let’s call her Mary–wrote on her Facebook page, “President Obama is coming to GMU!!!!”  (GMU, George Mason University, is a local college here.)  I commented under what she wrote, “Why is this a good thing?”  Other people commented as well.  One person, knowing that Mary is a strong Christian, was rightfully surprised that she would make such an ecstatic exclamation about Our Lord and Savior Obama, and asked, “You’re a liberal?”  Someone else chimed in: “Guys, they prefer to be called ‘progressives’ now.  Didn’t you know that?  It got too easy to say ‘liberal’ with a negative connotation.”  And finally, Mary herself added to the thread of comments: “I didn’t know going to see what the positive aspects of the new health care idea was going to be seen as being ‘liberal’ or ‘progressive.’  I just thought it was part of being ‘well-informed.’”  Well, since she argued back, I continued on:
     ME: “Listening to Obama will make you ill-informed, not well informed, haha. The Congressional Budget Office even says Obama’s numbers are gravely incorrect. Obama has been caught one to [sic] many times lying about this bill–proven lies. To listen to him is to fill your head with lies. And even if there are a few good things in the bill, it doesn’t make up for all the evil in it, and all the communism in it. Like, you know, lowering our health care system to that of European countries, and Canada. Canada’s own Prime Minister a few weeks ago fled Canada and came to the U.S. to have heart surgery. ‘Cause, you know, Canada’s health care system is good enough for his citizens, but not good enough for him. He wanted top-of-the-line care, so he came to America. Just like everybody else does in every other country. Also, if this bill passes, Obama will have officially become a dictator: According to this bill, all Americans will be forced to buy the government’s insurance whether they want to use it or not; they will be forced to buy a product that they don’t want (dictatorship). And if they refuse to buy the insurance, they get a hefty fine from the government (dictatorship). If they refuse to pay the fine (I most certainly would refuse), they get thrown into prison (dictatorship). The government is saying, ‘Buy our product, or else go to prison.’ Also, I’m surprised you support this, being a Christian. The bill federally funds abortion. That means you, [Mary], will be paying for other people’s irresponsible behavior; that means you will be paying to kill babies. A Christian cannot support this and still claim to be a Christian. And a Christian can’t support Obeyme–er, Obama–for all his past and present attacks on Christianity.”
     And here comes some random guy named Hunter to protect Mary from the facts I gave her (crappy punctuation included just as he had it in his comment):
     HUNTER: “First of all, the representatives are the ones that are making the laws not Obama. The representatives are elected by their constituents to make laws pertaining to you and I (although I will give it to you that it is definitely a one sided vote that is taking place). Secondly, please don’t try to make [Mary] feel guilty and do some introspection of your own; your tax dollars are going toward plenty of killing already in all of the wars that we are fighting which is probably fair to assume that you support. Thirdly, is this the cold war? McCarthyism? And finally, if you are using the word to as a synonym of also, it has two o’s.”
     Before I copy/paste my incredible reply to him, I have to first say “thank you” to Hunter for providing me the opportunity to rip him a new *sshole; God knows I love doing it:
     ME: “Whoa, whoa, whoa, Hunter. Hold on one darn second. Are you saying that the word ‘too,’ when meaning ‘also,’ has two o’s in it? Are you serious?! Daggone! Good thing you told me, man, ’cause if you had made the normal assumption that it was just a typo, you’d have been so dead wrong. Hey, did you know ‘Cold War’ should be capitalized? You did? Okay, then it was probably just a typo when you failed to capitalize it in your comment. But don’t worry, I won’t pick on you for it.
     “Now, onto things that actually matter:
     “First, I’m not trying to make anybody feel guilty for supporting something so evil. I’m just stating facts. If the facts are unpleasant and/or inconvenient to face, I’m not gonna do what the mainstream media does by censoring those facts. And if someone feels guilty for supporting this evil, that’s their problem, not mine.
     “Second, Obama had a large hand in writing the bill. And if he didn’t–though he did–it doesn’t mean he doesn’t approve of the bill; because he most definitely does. Otherwise he wouldn’t have bribed congressmen with taxpayer money for their vote; he wouldn’t have shut Republicans out of the process by writing the bill behind locked doors with Democrats only, not allowing one Republican to have a say in the writing of the bill.
     “Third, the current bill fixes none of the problems in our system, which, despite its flaws, is still the best. There are only a few things wrong with our system, and this bill doesn’t address a single one of them. It’s a power grab. As some famous socialist in history once said (though I forget who it was), ‘Once you have control of the people’s health care, you have them in your back pocket.’
     “Fourth: You know what? You’re right. My tax dollars go towards lots of killing and other bad things. So the fact that we’re adding another evil to the list–infanticide–is unimportant. I’m glad you helped me see the light: as long as we spend money on one evil thing, it’s okay to spend money on two evil things.
     “Fifth: What about McCarthyism? Joe McCarthy was right, for one thing. But what does this have to do with a Marxist health care bill that adds to our deficit, cuts Medicare, takes away our right to choose our own doctors and our own treatments, putting that decision into the hands of government bureaucrats instead, and allows the government to imprison us if we don’t buy their product?”
    
     I mean, come on, people.  Am I good, or am I good?  When he addressed my typo and I addressed it right back?  Ooh-hooo!  I love it.  I applaud myself, I really do. 
     Now, if Hunter comments back, I’ll be sure to post it, followed by my response, here.

     From the increasingly stretched lips of our Speaker of the House of Congress, Mrs. Satan, also known as Nancy Pelosi:

“We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”

     The bill she’s referring to is of course the health-care-takeover bill that President Obeyme and his fellow Marxists have been trying to force upon us for about a year now.
     The question I have for any Democrat voters reading this is this: Do you support this idea that we have to sign a bill into law before allowing us to know what’s in it?  Is there a Democrat voter out there who can admit that this is pure corruption?

     NASA’s Constellation program–a program aimed at putting Americans back on the Moon within the next ten years–is being forced to shut down because of Barack Obeyme’s budget for them. This will kill anywhere from 1,500 to 1,700 jobs on top of the millions of jobs already killed since this president took office, a huge blow to our economy.
     Florida Congressman Bill Posey says only Congress has legal authority in such matters, not the president. “[This] administration’s unilateral decision to cancel contracts associated with the Constellation program, absent [of] Congressional consent, is a direct violation of the law and of Congressional intent,” he says. He is also correct.
     But of course, breaking the law is not an impeachable offense for Obeyme. Obeyme gets do-over after do-over after do-over. He doesn’t get the same punishments as us little people do when we break the law. Obeyme is above the law. The president no longer works for Americans now that we’re controlled by a socialist regime, you see; America works for the president. Welcome to the USSR.
     On top of this, Obeyme’s 2011 budget plan will send $4 billion (yes, billion with a b) to ACORN. ACORN, the community organization group with whom Obeyme has had heavy involvement, and which runs prostitution rings of underage, illegal-immigrant prostitutes! What? Why?! Why, President Obeyme, are you making us taxpayers provide for the running of underage, illegal-immigrant prostitution rings? Maybe one of the reasons you don’t have money for NASA, el presidente, is because you’re throwing billions to corrupt organizations!
      While we scrap NASA funding in the name of paying instead for underage prostitution, China and India further advance their space programs. Can you believe that? Losing to communist China in the name of advancing prostitution.
      Anyway, because of Obeyme’s unlawful interference in this issue, NASA might be able to file a quo warranto against him. (A quo warranto is a written order that requires the person to whom it is directed–Obeyme, in this case–to show what authority he has for exercising some right or power he claims to hold.) Because NASA employees’ personal lives will be directly damaged by Obeyme’s actions (due to their job loss), it seems that they would have reasonable standing to do this. Let’s just hope they have the courage to take on the Marxist in Chief.

     Barack Obeyme to reporters last Tuesday said, “I don’t know if anybody noticed that, for the first time this year, you saw more people getting health care from government than you did from the private sector; not because of anything we did, but because more and more people are losing their health care from their employers.  It’s becoming unaffordable.”
     Okay, Barack Obeyme, let’s look at the numbers, shall we?
     According to a Gallup poll done just this past January, the percentage of Americans who are on a government health-care plan is about 24.6%, and the percentage of Americans who get private health care is about 46.8%. Nearly twice as many people have private health care than government-run health care.
     So where does Obeyme get these little “facts” of his?  Reporters in the room asked him this question, but Obeyme wouldn’t say where.  Ahh, so transparent, this president. A transparent liar, that is.
     And everybody who watches the mainstream media just gobbles this stuff up and takes the president at his word.  Any libs who saw Obeyme say this stuff on TV said, “Yep, he’s right, he’s absolutely right!”  But as the numbers prove, Obeyme is leading his followers right into the dark, and because he won’t verify these wild claims he regularly makes, it’s clear he’s misleading them there deliberately.