This blog is not politically correct. Get over it. Lady Raven's Rantings

06 March 2009

Credenda Files - How to Lie With Facts and Odd Conclusions

'Cuz it's a great big stupid world
And we're feeling kinda queasy as it turns around
Great big stupid world
And we're never really sure if we're up or down
We're on a dirt clod out in space
Where it stops nobody knows
If Jesus came back today
They'd try to book him on the Oprah Winfrey show
'Cuz it's a great big stupid worldGreat big stupid world
- Randy Stonehill "Great Big Stupid World"

Well, I'm not sure if Obama is worse for the constitution than Bush, I'll have to wait and see, though I'm still not totally sure he's even a legal citizen and that has it's own problems. What I see happening though, in the future, is more of the same when it comes to the new world order and the trampling of national and state sovereignty. And it will be for our own good. Consider the following:

Bread is Dangerous

1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users.

2. Fully HALF of all children who grow up in bread-consuming households score below average on standardized tests.

3. In the 18th century, when virtually all bread was baked in the home, the average life expectancy was less than 50 years; infant mortality rates were unacceptably high; many women died in childbirth; and diseases such as typhoid, yellow fever, and influenza ravaged whole nations.

4. Most bread eaters are utterly unable to distinguish between significant scientific fact and meaningless statistical babbling.

5. Bread is associated with all the major diseases of the body and mind. The effects are obviously cumulative:
* 99.9% of all people who die from cancer have eaten bread.
* 100% of all soldiers have eaten bread.
* 96.9% of all Communist sympathizers have eaten bread.
* 99.7% of the people involved in air and auto accidents ate bread within 6 months preceding the accident.
* 93.1% of juvenile delinquents came from homes where bread is served frequently.

6. Evidence points to the long-term effects of bread eating: Of all people born before 1839 who later dined on bread, there has been a 100% mortality rate.

7. Bread is made from a substance called "dough." It has been proven that as little as a teaspoon of dough can be used to suffocate a lab rat. The average American eats more bread than that in one day!

8. Primitive tribal societies that have no bread exhibit a low incidence of cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, and osteoporosis.

9. Bread has been proven to be addictive. Subjects deprived of bread and being fed only water begged for bread after as little as two days.

10. Newborn babies can choke on bread.

11. Bread is often a "gateway" food item, leading the user to "harder" items such as butter, jelly, peanut butter, and even cold cuts.

12. Bread has been proven to absorb water. Since the human body is more than 90 percent water, it follows that eating bread could lead to your body being taken over by this absorptive food product, turning you into a soggy, gooey bread-pudding person.

13. Bread is baked at temperatures as high as 400 degrees Fahrenheit! That kind of heat can kill an adult in less than one minute.

14. Every piece of bread you eat brings you nearer to death.

In light of these frightening statistics, we propose the following bread restrictions:

1. No sale of bread to minors.
2. A nationwide "Just Say No To Toast" campaign, complete celebrity TV spots and bumper stickers.
3. A 300 percent federal tax on all bread to pay for all the societal ills we might associate with bread.
4. No animal or human images, nor any primary colors (which may appeal to children) may be used to promote bread usage.
5. The establishment of "Bread-free" zones around schools.

Seriously folks. Be careful what people with power think is in your best interest. Even if it sounds totally reasonable, it still might be as reasonable as a war against the evils of toast

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02 November 2008

Pro Patria Files - Interesting Interview

This election is historic, that's what we keep hearing. They say it's a choice between the first African American candidate, and the oldest candidate with the first female VP... Well their history is a little off. I remember a female VP candidate from a while back. And OBama is not the first African American to run either...Alan Keyes ran at least once. Frankly the choice in this election is rather awful if you think solely on two party lines.

However, this is a historic election, though. I believe this is the first time that there is a question about whether or not one of the candidates is constitutionally qualified to run. In order to be president, one must be a natural born citizen of the United States. There has been some question about whether or not Obama meets those qualifications. His mother was only 18 when she had Barak. If Obama was born outside of the US, then he is a citizen if the appropriate paperwork was filled out and whatnot, but he would not be a natural born citizen as she could not have been living inside of the United States for 5 years total after the age of 14, which is what would make her eligable to give birth to a natural born citizen on foreign soil.

The Obama camp has claimed that he was born in Hawaii. If so, he's fine. If not, not only is he a liar, but, more importantly, he's not eligable to be president in the first place.

I'm not a big fan of Washington and hold no special respect for the office of the President lately. However, I am a big fan of the US Constitution and I am not fond of the idea that the populace might be duped into voting someone into office who does not qualify simply to avoid the other likely alternative.

I do not know if the accusations are true, however that is the point. Nobody will settle the issue. There was a lawsuit brought on the issue. It was thrown out of court because, evidently, the common folk are not qualified to question the candidate's credentials. So it is on it's way to the Supreme Court. Well frankly, we should be able to question the credentials of anyone seeking the highest office in the land. And if we are LEGALLY able to do so, then someone needs to do so on our behalf.

Someone sent me this link, with an interview with the person who first brought the lawsuit to have Obama's birth certificate examined and certified because the birth certificate on the website bears no similarity to the one given to other citizens of Hawaii. Check it out and make up your own mind.

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28 October 2008

Graham Must Go

All our lives,
We've been waiting
For someone to call our leader.
All your lies,
I'm not believing,
Heaven shine a light down on me.
- Evanescence "The Only One"


I received this in an email from Restore the Republic. I'm gonna paste this as I received it:

We have a chance to make a difference in the future of our country and state on November 4th. One of the many offices that we should be voting for this Tuesday is our South Carolina Senator seat currently held by Lindsey Graham. There are many reasons why you may not vote to oust Graham, and I would like to address those reasons:

We can not have the democrats get 60 votes in the senate:

While many of you follow the philosophy that we must vote for a republican to prevent the democrats from having the majority to take full control of the senate, understand that 60 democrats would still have to vote to defeat a republican filibuster…something that is not likely as three of the last democrats to go into the senate are actually conservative Reagan democrats.

The person running against Graham, Bob Conley, is also a conservative Reagan democrat!

Graham will chair/sit on important committees:

No he will not!! He will be appointed by his mentor, John McCain, to his staff. Why do you think he has not been campaigning in SC? He knows that McCain will appoint him to a nice cushy job and he will not need to run for office anymore! That is why he has been following McCain everywhere like a sidekick.

Bob Conley will work tirelessly for the people of South Carolina and will stay on the job!

Graham has a good record in the senate:

No he does not!! He was named the "Worst Republican Senator" by American Spectator! On family issues, the conservative Eagle Forum gave him just a 44% rating in 2006. That same year he did terribly by the lights of the English First, which explains itself thusly: "Our goals are simple: Make English America's official language. Give every child the chance to learn English. Eliminate costly and ineffective multilingual policies." He received just a 25% rating from the group. "Graham doesn't seem to have any conservative vision," Viguerie said. "He doesn't seem to walk with conservatives. I'm not aware of any movement conservatives on his staff."

Bob Conley is a good conservative and will score high with Christian and conservative groups throughout his tenure as a SC senator.

Graham does what the people of SC want:

No he does not!! He sponsored the bill last summer that would have given amnesty to 20 million illegal aliens in the USA! He fought hard for this bill that would also qualify all of these illegals for Medicare and Social Security benefits! He did this even while the people of SC let him know this is not what they wanted. He also would give amnesty to all the illegals in gangs just for renouncing their gang! He has since sent out letters stating that he has learned his lesson…but if you read the letter carefully you will realize that all he is saying is that he will close the borders and then get amnesty for the illegals!

Bob Conley will close the borders and make sure that employers follow the law pertaining to illegal immigrants. When the illegals can not find a job, and cannot get amnesty, they will go back to Mexico on their own, without the government spending money to do so!

Graham believes in cutting government spending:

Wrong! He has inserted hundreds of millions of dollars in pork barrel spending into the bills he has voted for. John McCain has never sponsored pork barrel projects, yet his sidekick has spent millions in this wasteful spending. He has also consistently voted to increase government spending (recent $700 billion bailout program for example) over the six years he has been in office. He is part of the problem, not a solution!

Bob Conley is part of the solution. He does not believe in excess government spending and has come out against pork barrel spending and government programs such as the recent bailout program, which has not worked and is lining the pockets of bank executives.

If there are any other reasons to vote for Graham, please let me know! I am sure they will not be a valid reason once it is researched properly!

There are other valid reasons to vote for Bob Conley, as he has the following opposite views to Graham:

Bob Conley believes in the Constitution of the United States and will filter all votes through that document.

Bob Conley is against the free trade agreements that have shipped out jobs overseas.

Bob Conley will prohibit the importation of legal immigrants that take our high paying jobs.

Bob Conley supports the FairTax system for allocating money to the government, which will give the people the power, instead of the Washington Lobbyists.

Bob Conley is a good friend of mine and I vouch for his conservative and family values. Please elect a true patriot as senator of South Carolina on November 4th!


God Bless!

Patrick Richardson

--
Ilona Urban, Blakeley
SC Volunteer Coordinator, Restore the Republic
National Press Secretary, Restore the Republic
864-253-0330 (land line)

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02 August 2008

Novus Files - It Would Be Funny if it Weren't True

'Cuz it's a great big stupid world
And we're feeling kinda queasy as it turns around
Great big stupid world
And we're never really sure if we're up or down
We're on a dirt clod out in space
Where it stops nobody knows
If Jesus came back today
They'd try to book him on the Oprah Winfrey show
'Cuz it's a great big stupid world
Great big stupid world
- Randy Stonehill "Great Big Stupid World"

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Dont Die or Else...

The mayor of a village in southwest France has threatened residents with severe punishment if they die, because there is no room left in the overcrowded cemetery to bury them.

In an ordinance posted in the council offices, Mayor Gerard Lalanne told the 260 residents of the village of Sarpourenx that "all persons not having a plot in the cemetery and wishing to be buried in Sarpourenx are forbidden from dying in the parish."

It added: "Offenders will be severely punished."

- LR - I want to know how they will be punished. What exactly does one do to a dead guy?

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Recycling is a Real Pain

.......Mr Woodward, who uses a walking stick, had received a yellow tag before binmen boycotted him last Wednesday - but he couldn't read it because of his poor eyesight.

The bin was emptied two days later after the local paper became involved.

Norwich City Council said an officer would be visiting Mr Woodward to explain the system.

A spokesman added: "We can help residents move heavy bins on a regular basis if they are unable to do this. We are not able to sort rubbish for them."

Last month, bus driver Gareth Corkhill, 26, from Whitehaven in Cumbria, was given a criminal record and fined £210 because the amount of rubbish in his wheelie bin left the lid open by a few inches.

- LR - One would think that people could cut a really old guy a break, but that might mean people would have to work or something and this would be wrong

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I Never Liked the AP Anyway

They're gonna charge us to link to them, if you're a blogger,.


- LR - What, internet traffic is a bad thing since when? Or is this some sort of anti-blogism?


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Don't, it's embarrassing...

Do not sleep outdoors to save money at the Olympics. It is banned to "maintain public hygiene and the cultured image of cities".

Do not let the stifling summer heat tempt you into streaking, do not get drunk nor set off fireworks nor wave "insulting banners".

Anyone with mental illnesses or sexually transmitted diseases is banned. Smoking is not allowed at Olympic venues.

- LR - (and it just gets worse, can we say paranoiiiiddddd)

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The Eyebrows have it

Centennial High School has dropped its ban on eyebrow shaving -- except for one design known to represent a local gang -- Principal Mark Baier has announced in an apologetic e-mail to parents.

School leaders sent four students home last week for shaving lines in their eyebrows -- a trend popularized by rappers from Vanilla Ice to this year's hip-hop champ Soulja Boy.

Gresham police say members of Southside 13, a prominent gang in east Multnomah County, have co-opted the trend and are marking themselves by shaving one vertical line in one eyebrow and three in the other to represent the number 13.

Police told school leaders to be on the lookout for eyebrows with the 13 symbol, but Centennial officials banned all eyebrow designs.

"Let me say unequivocally that to our knowledge, none of these students is in a gang," Baier wrote in Monday's e-mail. "The fact they had shaved lines in their brows can be attributed to fashion and the 'cool' factor."

Baier said school administrators were trying to maintain a safe environment for students by banning all gang-related identifiers, but said the blanket reaction was "premature."

"In retrospect, there were several things we should have done differently," Baier said. "And over the past few days we've continued to dialog and examine our thinking and subsequent practice."

Baier said the rule may change in the future if information from law enforcement dictates.

"While I'm very disappointed we didn't get this right initially," Baier said, "we continued to think it through until we got something we could live with."

- LR - Kids know what a gang sign is, all you would have to do is ask. But then again, a youth at my son's school was told to take off a Krispy Kreme T-shirt. It was a gang logo. Ok, you have the MS 13, the bloods and the Krispy Kreme gang? What self respecting gang names itself after a donut shop?

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Oh No, He might Fall

Police refused to chase a thief who had stolen a moped because the youth was not wearing a helmet, the victim said yesterday.

Max Foster, 18, said officers told him they feared being sued if the thief fell off the moped and injured himself.

The thief escaped on the £1,200 moped, which was only insured third party. Mr Foster, of Coleford, Somerset, uses his Gilera 180cc to commute to work in Bath.

He was staying at a friend's house in Bath on Tuesday night when he was woken at 1.45am by the sound of his machine being ridden outside.

He saw three youths taking it in turns to ride without helmets, and he dialled 999.

Two officers from a police response unit arrived shortly after the trio sped away, but Mr Foster said they told him they could not go after them.

"They said they weren't allowed to follow the yobs because they were not wearing helmets and it was too dangerous," said Mr Foster. "They told me the force could be sued if the riders fell off mid-chase and hurt themselves.

- LR - There oughta be a law against stupid policemen and the crooks that sue them.

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Just the Trash, Ma'am

LOCAL council bin police wearing head lamps are prowling neighbourhoods in the middle of the night to check whether residents are recycling.

At least one contractor hired by the City of Monash in Melbourne has been threatened with the sack after peering into rubbish bins by torchlight and spooking elderly homeowners at 1am.

It is understood several other councils pay bin cops to hunt down rogue recyclers.

City of Monash spokeswoman Jodie Harrison confirmed a "rubbish auditor" had been warned to switch to more reasonable hours after "freaking out" residents.

Disturbed householders have discovered bin police kitted out with miners' hats and and inspecting garbage bins that are left by footpaths for collection.

Dozens of recycling and green waste bins are checked three times a week.

Residents flouting the rules have warning stickers placed on their bins and risk being slapped with a garbage collection ban.

- LR - Oh no, not the dreaded garbage collection ban? All because I forgot to recycle that soup can? This is a wee bit out in left field. Deep probing left field. Hey, while you guys are out there, can you get me some donuts?

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Dont Go In the Water

For nearly a quarter of a century, Lourdes Maxwell has celebrated the arrival of summer by putting a paddling pool in the garden.

This year, however, her two grandchildren and the children of her neighbours may have to find another way to cool off in the heat.

Miss Maxwell's local council has decided that the pool - which is only 2ft deep - needs a lifeguard.

The 47-year-old divorced mother of three has also been told she must have insurance before she can inflate the toy outside her house in Portsmouth.

- LR - At Least the United Nations hasn't decided that this waterway fell under the LOST agreement...oh crap, I spoke too soon....

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There are people out there in the world who want to control your lives. Some of them are stupid and they make great article material. Some of them are not stupid and rarely make the news, but that doesn't mean they dont plan to run your life, it just means you need to pay closer attention.

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14 July 2008

Dominatus Files - Post at "Screw the UN"

I posted an article at "Screw the UN" about the United Nations Resolution on Defamation of Religion. It's not what it might seem. Please read it.

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13 July 2008

What Is True Patriotism Mr McCain?

We are all living a lie
would you like to try?
In these halls of time
we are all giving in
for another day
We shall pass away
on the break of day
We're lost anyway
- Sirenia "On The Wane"
‘Patriotism is deeper than its symbolic expressions, than sentiments about place and kinship that move us to hold our hands over our hearts during the national anthem. It is putting the country first, before party or personal ambition, before anything.’
- John McCain on Patriotism



Before anything.

My father is a constitutionalist conservative republican. I, on the other hand, am a Constitutionalist Confederate Christian Libertarian. He likes Andrew Jackson, I like Thomas Jefferson and therefore we have some very interesting discussions. Yet, time and time again, I reflect back on the ideals he taught me as a child.

Before anything.

My Father is an Air Force veteran of the same war as John McCain. My father is a great man who has always stood for something. He has always believed in freedom, in the Constitution, in God, Family and the men and women of his country. We had a flag folded three cornered in the closet that we brought out for patriotic holidays. Nothing was ever allowed to be placed on top of it, except the family Bible. My father is a patriot, but John McCain's definition of patriotism would turn my father's stomach almost as much as it turns my own.

Before anything.

I have watched my father become disillusioned with the way the union has gone. He still does not want to see that the gravel on the path to destruction of a once great place were laid a very long time ago, but what he does see grieves him. He did not want to believe that our compatriots in uniform were sent overseas to bleed and die for a lie. He did not want to see the trampling of our liberties in the name of security.

Before anything.

He did not want to see the parallels between Rome's change from Republic to Empire and what has happened here in the USA. He did not want to believe it, but eventually he had to. He had to because of what he is down at the core. He always knew that our first loyalty is to God, then to the family, then to the community. Then it is to freedom and his fellow citizens. Then, as he said in the oath that he swore when he took up the uniform, to the Constitution that protected the rest of them. To my father, his country is many families with many local affiliations and state loyalties and fraternities and religions that somehow all manage to need each other to be free to be and live as they desire. It is never some nebulous concept of 'country' that demanded everyone think alike, submit to a one world government through the United Nations or run off to kill the enemy without questioning 'why' he is the enemy in the first place. It is never politics, hacks, and the big daddy state.

Before anything

In addition, even in its true definition, country never came before the value of liberty, the truth, what is moral, his family or his God. Because without them, his country had no real meaning as it really did not exist. It is not John McCain's definition by a long shot. I just wish there were more people like my father around who can see, albeit with grief, that the current state of the union is a disaster due to people who view patriotism the same way as John McCain.

Before anything.

I am heartened that there are people like my father, and like Mr Grigg who know the difference between true patriotism and the cult of country that gets passed off in its place. You may want to go read the blog he wrote on the topic recently. It is worth your time, even if you're not a constitutional confederate christian libertarian....

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12 July 2008

Credenda Files - The Lesser of Two Evils is Evil

It's the mystery of Inequity
Say it's the history of Inequity
Say it's the misery of Inequity
When it all...All falls down
I'm telling you all...
It all falls down



The lesser of two evils is still evil. I cannot repeat this often enough. Unfortunately, there is a large lump on my desk where my forehead hits repeatedly when I read of Evangelical Christians being politically stupid. Let us pretend for a second that the agenda of the Christian Right is God's agenda and...the USA is obligated as a 'Christian Nation' to follow that agenda. (I dont cosy with all of the presuppositions, but it is important that we all pretend for a second, ok?)

Ahem.

What is wrong with the following scenario?

At a gathering held on July 1, Phyllis Schlafly sums up the Christian Right's response to the choices available in the current election as such, 'The alternative is so bad we must support John McCain.' In other words, she does not like him or his policies, but she must support him. He must be the lesser of two evils.

Now, if one were to suppose that the agenda of the Christian Right is God's holy agenda, then naturally Obama's platform (if you can find all of it) is very evil, as it seems to be the exact opposite as far as I can tell. However, based on the issues, McCain's platform is little better. It seems that someone has lost sight of his or her reason for being.

Moreover, such antics are not necessary.

Instead of being pandered to by shady politicians who want to secure the vote of said believers, said believers should start withholding their support until a given statesman/woman demonstrates that they actually hold to the same beliefs as the Christian Right in the first place. Remember, this is supposedly God's agenda. One thing I do know about God is that He hates lying and deception. So, exactly how is the King of the Universe pleased when unsavy lobbyists allow a tainted politician to woo their vote and, even worse, their endorsement when anyone with half a brain can see that they will be left at the curb with last month's trash right after the election? Still, people representing the Michigan American Family Association, Focus on the Family and Vision American as well as Alveda King, Steven Strang and Mike Huckabee’s daughter, Sarah all nodded their little bobble heads as Mrs Schlafly spouted the abominable words. Everyone except the Christian Right can see that the Republican Party no longer (if it ever did) cares about the same issues the Christian Right embraces.

However, this sad state of affairs could be prevented by a dose of good sound logic. So let us start at the beginning, shall we?

Voting for someone indicates that you agree, at least mostly so.

Endorsing someone publicly means that you support him or her in most things.

Saying you agree with something when you dont is lying.
Lying is a sin

Therefore, if you don't agree with and cant support a candidate in most things then one should not or cannot vote for them. Period. If you do, it is the moral equivalent of lying. Fine, the ballot is secret, but lying in secret still is evil. In addition, lying in public is worse as you not only taint your own soul but you mislead others as well.

But, what happens in our system when the Christian Right throws their weight behind a candidate not linked to the two major parties? Well, they wont do so because they believe that most likely they will not win as the dark horse most likely will not win.

The reason, more bad logic.

It is a political version of the values clarification exercises I had to go through in High School. A person is presented with a situation where there are 10 people in a raft that will only stay afloat with eight. Then, they are told there are various ethnic groups and various types of handicaps and one person who is terminally ill on board. Then they are given a choice. Do you let everyone drown (oh, nobody can swim either) or...do you throw two people overboard? It is a false dilemma since there are more choices available. One is that everyone could hang on to the side of the raft and take turns sleeping inside it until they are rescued, but nobody was given the choice. But that choice exists, nonetheless, even though it was not presented.

The Christian Right has obligated itself to a false dilemma. Republican or Democrat. McCain or Obama. It seems someone told the world that voting a third party is 'throwing your vote away' and the world believed it. Think about this, it's not true if you truly understand what the vote actually means. It means your agreement, your assent, to the individual or issue you are voting for. No vote is a throw away, even if it is the only one.

Suppose there is a third party candidate that embraced the values of most people in the USA and spoke what most people in the USA wanted to hear. Suppose he had a proven record. Now, if MOST people in the USA voted for him, then what? He would win. Therefore, voting your conscience is not throwing your vote away. If everyone followed your lead, then the best man would win.

Suppose that there is a candidate, same as above. Only his views are not as popular, he will never win. It does not matter. Truth is truth, right is right, even if nobody other than me understands it. My moral obligation is to do right, regardless if I am the only woman in the union that does so. And, if everyone voted their unpopular conscience, the sheep of the world who seem to think that there are only two options would soon be enlightened that there are clearly many more than that.

There is also the option of a protest vote, voting for someone or something insipid (like Elmo, Scooby Do or Elvira) to make a point that you disagree and will no longer be taken for granted and displayed at conventions like a potted plant.

There is the option of publicly refusing to vote at all. A very large public display could be made outside of polling places (at the legal distance and without causing a disturbance) and on the air and in the blogosphere (heh, bloggers submarined a lawsuit from Diebold, why not try?) stating who is not voting and WHY. A count could be kept in some official place and those votes recorded and reported to the media as "McCain lost umpteen thousand votes in California, and a bisquillion around the rest of the US for disregarding the views of the Christian Right." The point would be made and perhaps, the Republicans will actually do as they say they will. Or, perhaps they will be invited to stand with a third party which would be made stronger by their numbers. At least the Christian Right would be empowered and not a puppet brought out to entertain the media every few years.

There are more options available which do not require the tainting of the conscience, all one has to do is be creative. Yet, the leaders of the Christian Right, all presumably imbued with all the creativity of the Holy Spirit, can only think of one that will leave them feeling the sorrow of a political morning after as they prostitute their votes in the public square. I think that is lamentable. I'd like to shake them to wake them, but bigger pundits than I have said this every so often and they never seem to take notice.

Personally, I am going to vote my conscience. I may not win, but I wont be a prostitute. And when I hear their weeping in the months to follow the election I will close my window and sigh. They brought the pain on themselves and until they repent of this destructive behaviour, there is nothing anyone can do to save them in this life.

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