Government Favoritism In Our Schools - Mar 30

True, high school is still 3 years away for my eldest daughter, but as a mom I want to be prepared. Most of her friends will graduate grade 8 and start grade 9 in a huge (and poorly rated) secular high school. They'll be taught the theory of evolution as fact. They'll be taught how to put a condom on, how to protect yourself from STDs, how having a homosexual relationship is okay and even acceptable forms of birth control. As a matter of fact, those kids will be taught every form of birth control with one exception: Abstinence. Apparently it's unrealistic. Young Christian teens will have to wade through all kinds of unbelievers in hopes of finding someone to date who loves the Lord like they do. This is why secular school is NOT an option for me.

Catholic School. There's one close by. I can only assume they will not be exposed to so much in their Health classes, and it is paid for by the government..... but we aren't Roman Catholic. I called the school and was amazed to learn that not all the students were Catholic. Turns out they didn't need to be. "Great!" I thought as I hung up the phone, "Kind of defeats the purpose of Catholic school." Since the government decided to give the Catholic school board public funding, their numbers have gone up dramatically. Parents with troubled teens seem to think that 'A good Catholic school will straighten them out.' Okay, so now Catholic school is out too.

Homeschooling? Well I'll be honest, that's about as far as that idea went.

Last choice: Christian school. I called the principal. Nice guy who loves God and teaches abstinence as the only acceptable form of birth control. The school was full of Christian kids, Christian teachers and a Christian principal. It offered a good group of kids for my girls to interact with. I hung up the phone and smiled to myself. "At last, a choice I could live with." That was until I looked up the fees on the internet. Long story short, I'm looking at around $12, 000.00 a year to send my daughter to a Christian high school.

Here's my beef: Why are Catholic schools paid for by the government and not Christian ones? Are they really so different? Where does the issue of equality fit into all this? My taxes go to the two schools that don't represent my beliefs, and then I have to pay to a third school (Christian) on top of all the taxes in order to find one that does.

I guess the irony of it all is that if the government DID pay for the Christian high school, it wouldn't be full of exclusively Christian kids. It would be very much like the Catholic schools have become.

I can only assume that this is yet another example of government favoritism.

Unsportsmanlike Conduct - Mar 26

It must be the silly season already. There can be no other explanation for what I'm seeing out there. I mean, I have so many examples that I don't even know where to begin! So in no particular order here are some individuals who have earned my ridicule and contempt:

This may be slightly off topic but I'm going to go ahead with it anyways. What the hell, it's my blog, right? Y'know, there are a few people out there who really grate on my nerves. Not just merely annoying or a nuisance, the mere sight of them makes you want to put a fist right through your TV. NHL Commisioner Gary Bettman is one of those people. So smug and smarmy, so slick and insincere that you want to rip your own arm off just so you can hit him over the head with it. In other words, it's a special kind of hatred reserved for a select few. So what's gotten a burr under my saddle you ask? In a word, it's fighting in the NHL. Here's my take on this: I love hockey. I love its toughness, its scrappiness and the emotions it brings out in its fans. What I fail to understand is why do guys like Wade Belak (Toronto Maple Leafs), Cam Janssen (New Jersey Devils), the recently suspended Chris Simon (New York Islanders) and Donald Brashear (Washington Capitals) still have a job in the NHL? I'm sorry, but I think the NHL has dropped the ball on this. My main point (and I do have one) is that there should be no place on any NHL team for a guy that plays only two or three shifts a game, has more penalty minutes than ice time and contributes nothing offensively to his team. If you can't skate, pass, shoot or score an occasional goal in today's NHL you have no business being out on the ice. Period. Look, if a guy wants to drop the gloves on occasion then so be it. However, if he can't play sound defensive hockey and maybe score 10-15 goals a season (or 25 points or higher), then fuhgeddaboutit. This to me sounds eminently reasonable. Do the knuckle-dragging Neanderthals at the NHL understand this? Noooo, of course not. Actually, I think Neanderthals were probably kinder and better looking than Donald Brashear but that is beside the point. Guys like Colin Campbell and Ron MacLean understand what's at stake here. But not Gary. No sir, because he is just so much smarter than you and I. Nothing but contempt for the fans collective intelligience he has. After all, he is a lawyer. Oooooh! What tripe. What nonsense.

Another loser that's gotten my attention is Aussie turncoat David Hicks who was seen openly and freely fighting for the Taliban in Afghanistan. I wonder if David can play hockey for Gary? Ah, maybe not. Sorry, no sympathy for this one. You make your bed, you lie in it.

OK, so here's another one that shares the same spotlight as Mr. Bettman and that's 'America's Sweetheart', Katie Couric. She's another one that's also superficial and mean-spirited. You know Katie wouldn't even hesitate to stab you in the back if it meant a career advancement. Here's an excerpt from this article on her mindless fawning over Al Gore to show you what I mean:

For her part, Dr. Couric sort of showed her lack of objectivity when she opined that a special session of congress should be convened to evict George W. Bush and install Al Gore as president.
Calling for Al Gore to be sworn in by April 22, 2007, which is also Earth Day, placed an additional strain on Couric's vanishing credibility.

Please note that Katie Couric is not an accredited doctor. That's just part of the satirical nature of the article.

Here's another group that would fit right in with Gary and Katie and that's the Liberal Party of Canada. Positively reeking of insincerity over their superfluous support of our troops, they play mind games as Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor makes a legitimate gaffe in the House of Commons. Fortunately, Stephen Harper is not a man that rattles easily. Actually, he sees right through them and isn't afraid to call their bluff. To give you an example, in the recent federal budget both the Grits and the NDP knew that the budget had enough votes to pass because of the Bloc's support of the gov't. So they play this ridiculous game of saying, "Well we can't endorse this budget because it doesn't give enough to blah, blah, blah ....." knowing full well the budget was a done deal. Listen, only a moron takes seriously the claims these guys make. Another full-out assault on Canadian's intelligience in other words.

What is going on with the Holy Land nowadays? The madness is spreading I tell you. Why else would a woman strap on live crocodiles while trying to cross from the Gaza Strip to Egypt? When I think of stupidity in Israel is usually think of Ehud Olmert or one of Condi's breathless announcements of some meaningless 'peace' proposal but this one takes the cake.

Speaking of Israel, did you know that Hooters is opening a restaurant in Tel Aviv? Gosh, what could go wrong with that? I mean doesn't Hamas and its murderous militias have enough reason to kill Jews and other assorted fat and bloated tourists? Pure nuttiness.

Lastly, here's an article on why it's good to believe in a God who cares for us. Man, I just couldn't be an atheist. Looks too much like hard work to me.

Johnny Cash

Intolerance - Mar 24

There is no doubt in my mind as to the general breakdown of etiquette in our society today. Rational debate is an impossibility and political correctness reigns supreme. And who do you think gets the 'short end of the stick' as it were? Those of the Christian faith and those who uphold conservatism (often one and the same). Let's face it, we are the new Jews in 2007. Take the example of Ruth Malhotra, an Indian Christian conservative facing death threats at Georgia Tech. This is what so called civil debate has come to. I mean just think about the supreme irony of the whole situation. In the name of (one-sided) 'tolerance', those who dispute the PC version of facts and reality must be forcefully suppressed. Utter fascists the lot of them.

It goes beyond anti-Christian sentiment as well. I'm sorry, but I'm not a big fan of radical feminism's disdain of men and marriage either. In radical feminist orthodoxy, gender is considered a 'social construct'. That is that how women think, talk and act is strictly determined by a patriarchial system of dominance. So it's all the fault of mean-spirited men in other words. Now the Biblical view (along with psychology, biology and neuroscience) is that men and women are fundamentally 'hard-wired' a certain way. Understand that this is very important, especially when it comes to marriage and raising kids. Feminism is purely antagonistic to the idea that the husband be the head of the family. A cowed husband who does not take the lead (or is not allowed to take the lead) in disciplining the children has shown to be a disaster. By all means the woman should take part in the discipline of her kids. However, doing so in a fashion that emasculates the husband does create out-of-control children who become out-of-control adults. It therefore goes without saying that these adults who are the product of this dysfunctional marriage make lousy leaders, be it in the secular, religious or political arena. It is one thing for an unmarried and childless 20 year-old female to believe in radical feminism's claims. But when that 20 year-old gets married and starts having children, the paradigm does change (Of course it does. How could it not?). The idea of gender as a social construct has left many an angry and unhappy child and failed (or failing) marriages in its wake. Anyways, that's my two cents. Feel free to leave a comment or e-mail me directly with all your lovely hate mail if you so desire. Just remember, it's my blog and I reserve the right to get in the last word. So there.

Of course you cannot mention intolerance without including that 'Religion of Peace', right? As I've ascertained countless times before, Islam is something that is unreformable. So long as the Prophet Mohammed is seen as the 'golden standard' of Islamic conduct and the Koran as the immutable word of Allah (who is not the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob) then any attempt to morph Islam into something more agreeable is destined to fail. If I'm wrong on this then so be it. But I don't think so. In Canada, Farzana Hassan and Tarek Fatah of the Muslim Canadian Congress have been given death threats over their attempts to re-interpret Islam. In the Land Down Under, Tom Zreika of the Lebanese Muslim Association is also being intimidated after calling for Aussie Muslims to integrate themselves into Australian society. See what I mean? It is impossible for a moderate Muslim to refute Islamic terrorists under Islamic jurisprudence without deconstructing the Koran, Hadith and/or the Sunna. Pray for the safety of these three people and that they may come see the light of salvation through Jesus Christ.

Let's put a capper on this line of thought. You are not a 'racist' or an 'Islamophobe' if you don't trust Islam's peaceful claims! It's OK to dislike Islam! Nor are you being defeatist if you think that this whole 'Light Unto The Muslim Nations' is destined to be a colossal failure. A free, educated, literate and politically sophisticated workforce will never take place under Islam. This is the case in Iraq as it is in Afghanistan. Why the gloomy outlook? It is because of Islam's disdain of all that is touched and nurtured by infidels (meaning you and me). Nothing will change so long as the hatred remains within Islam's teachings. The heart of the matter has always been the heart of man, a point that Mr. Bush and Mr. Harper consistently miss in their foreign policy assessments.

I think that's it for this post. I'll have some more stuff later on so do check back regularly. I've also included two new links for your pleasure: Andrew Whitehead's Anti-CAIR blog and Revelation Outline. Do visit Anti-CAIR and sign up for his e-mails as I've done. Revelation Outline gives a concise description of all of twenty-two chapters in this mysterious last book of the Bible. A must-have link if you want to study Bible prophecy.

All for Him,
Johnny Cash

An Inconvenient Al Gore - Mar 20

Of course Al Gore is making it up as he goes along. Does that surprise you? Gosh, a politician who lies to gain the advantage. What is the world coming to? Watch this YouTube video (runs 75 minutes) on the Great Global Warming Swindle. It will open your eyes. And before you ask, yes I did see Al's movie. Tragically it's ninety minutes of my life that I'll never get back.

Enjoy the video,
Johnny Cash