Wonderful Matters

Passions are getting very heated right now in the present civil war between the North and the South. Literally. About a week ago the Texas governor decided to erect his own "wall" to impede the flow of migrants pouring in at the southern border. The "wall" was pretty much razor wire and a prominent National Guard presence. A few days ago the US Supreme Court, by a 5-4 vote, decided to remand the case, if I'm not mistaken, which essentially leaves it open for the federal government to prevent the governor from doing what he did. The governor responded by doing it anyway. Now the president of the US has given the governor an ultimatum to remove the "wall," and intimating he may indeed federalize that state's law enforcement personnel at the border ordering them to stand down. Will the governor call his bluff, and will the president follow through on his threat which means, which means what?... It is getting hot and heavy with the civil war raging rig...

Today that expected Supreme Court ruling was finally announced. Roe  v. Wade was overturned. In a 5-4 ruling the states have now been awarded the decision about what they want to do with murdering pre-born children. Some will allow it, some won't. Many of the pre-born human beings are now condemned to death in those 20 or so states that will now strengthen their pro-abortion statutes. This means, really... The decision today is now worse for those pre-born children . A number of major companies have already announced that they will provide in some cases up to $4,000 in expenses for a woman and a companion to travel to a state that allows abortion if the state where she works does not. A number of other provisions are in place in the states prohibiting abortion that water down the real meaning of a real law that fully protects the life of a pre-born human in every instance from conception through pregnancy. So what difference does it make? All the squawking about it you'll hear ...

Equity sounds like such a splendid word. The Bible even speaks of God judging with equity, the exact word. The idea there, however, is that God shows no favoritism, His judgment is perfect, and yes, each individual will be held to account. The brutal truth rule there is, no one will escape that perfectly just judgment . Every one of us is guilty of the worst: lying, cheating, stealing, defrauding, murdering (even if you do so in your heart), and yes, sodomizing (which really just encompasses any sexual activity outside of a committed marriage between an adult man and adult woman). Equity to the System is something entirely different, entirely promoted as a delightfully wholesome enterprise but is actually a wickedly devastating social hellscape. The equity now ravaging everything in its path is that white, Christian, heterosexual males must be stripped of their propriety in some way and have it handed to anyone identified as certifiably disadvantaged because in the past there've be...

Yesterday Associate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away. She was 87 and in poor health. Known as "Notorious RBG," a sobriquet of reverence to those who considered her a largely successful champion of their freedoms. She was a true hero to those whose god is their feelings -- I've recently written a bit about that idea I term  the pathodicy . From a news program I happened to screenshot this image. It struck me as quite profound, for you see, RBG was certainly doing the work of Georgetown University, the preeminent institution for public policy implementation and arrangement. She didn't attend the school or have a position there, but the photograph demonstrates she was engaged with it in some way. You'd think in this instance she was providing grand judicial wisdom for all, but instead she was merely reflecting on what she herself was so proficiently taught. There it is, Georgetown law  -- I thought, hmm, I thought she was into making sure the la...

This isn't new, this stupidity. It's been happening through the ages. And it always kills people. One of my favorite movies is Men in Black , and in one scene Agent K explains to Agent J the way things are. He said "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals." Astounding wisdom in one, simple quote. Interesting how God wrote a whole book to tell us this. Agent K said it in a sentence. God loves us so much he told us over and over again so maybe we'd get it. Go ahead, read the Bible, I urge you to. You'll find that most of it is how dumb, panicky, and dangerous each of us is when we allow ourselves to get caught up in the herd. Right now with this coronavirus hysteria that herd is stampeding. Heaven forbid the stampede gets catastrophic. I'm not betting against it. I'm not because the coronavirus is relatively nothing. Oh yes we see all kinds of posts from people who think they're scientists but they're just parro...

After an extraordinarily tumultuous confirmation spectacle last week, conservatives cheered the final Senate approval of their darling Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh. Now we've got our conservative majority. Now we can get things we want done from the court. Not exactly. May I offer a hypothetical? You tell me what will happen as a result of this. A man comes to the court claiming to have standing -- it is quite just. His pregnant wife/girlfriend just had an abortion, and is making the case that she and her abortion doctor murdered the child on the grounds that, indeed, that object in the womb was a human being . To make it a bit harder for those on the left to object, let's say the man is African-American. Let's also say the aborted baby was a girl. An objection then risks compromising the left's obsession with exploiting minorities for the best virtue signaling. Here's the thing about that hypothetical. Do you really think it is that uncommon? ...

This morning in my devotional time I read from the eighth chapter of the book of Revelation. I was quite taken by the first part of that passage, when just after the seventh seal is opened there is a period of complete silence in heaven, and then an angel takes a censor full of incense and the prayers of the saints and releases them before God. Wow. I've been taking to saying quiet prayers any time I hear a siren wail. Somebody really needs God in that moment. I've considered never telling anyone I do that because I just want it to be about God ministering to them, that's all. It's about them and their healing and salvation. The only reason I do bring it up is because today, while I was puttering around the house as I usually do on a lazy Saturday, I heard that siren, said a brief prayer, but it kept getting louder with other sirens joining in. One of them became particular mournful, exceedingly so, like the sickest banshee you could ever hear. Makes sense. Th...

Just had to add a quick post about the brutal Supreme Court decisions today about same-sex marriage. They were brutal to the extent that millions of people will listen to what schnazzily robed legal scholars will proclaim about inherently moral issues, and arrange their moral behavior accordingly. But really, those decisions represent that which Cain's city will legitimately adjudicate, and that is only what a reprobate population will demand. It is what it is. One of the things it is is miles away from the Kingdom. The Kingdom: the place where mercy, forgiveness, grace, life, and authentic joy reign. It is the place containing the throne of the One who loves with His life, the One who sends ambassadors out to be His word to others. But yeah. Where are those people. After the Court's decisions today many will lament the brazen loss of sexual and marital integrity in society, but the fact is, that was gone when too many people refused to speak out boldly against homose...

Last night I caught the tail end of a PBS Newshour conversation between a gal representing the same-sex marriage proponents and a guy representing the traditional marriage proponents. What I caught was a verbal boxing match over the constitutionality and legality of the issue, and what struck me was how much the guy appealed to Obama as one who supported this claim or that claim they'd made, while the gal merely trumpeted all the same pap about certain lawful protections of one's supposed rights claims. Here were two eloquent ambassadors duking it out in the culture war, showcased on national television as if it was Friday Night Fights. Thing is, they both belong to the same team. They're both megaphone holders for the World System. In one corner was the guy, representing the Devout Romanists, eager to denounce same-sex marriage, but doing so from the ministry of condemnation. In the other corner was the gal, representing the Radical Selfists, talking up the idea that...

Robert Samuelson is one of the more respected commenters on financial things. While he does work for the World as a prominent speaker in the echo chamber, he does refuse to pull punches about the reality of things. I think because he's paid by Caesar a lot of this is designed to get people to keep looking to Caesar to try to solve things. In his latest piece , he says the economic models the world is working with today are, in his words, "collapsing, time-consuming, torturous, and possibly inconclusive" resulting in "frustration and fear." As always he pounds down the vital stats, and they are always frightening. One of the most controversial policy decisions made by the federal government was given the thumbs up by the Supreme Court this week, and that was universal health care. The idea -- now implemented as public policy -- is that taxpayers must be obligated to pay for everyone's health care needs. It is a classic example of the broken model at wor...

Right now I'm in the midst of industriously managing family affairs, teaching summer school, and trying to squeeze in assembling a decent home page piece for the next month's edition of my webzine. Most times all of this very much precludes me from blogging, but I have to get this down here, briefly (if I can!) I teach students U.S. Government at a high school. Part of their lessons involves immersing themselves in current events. This past two weeks we'd been mulling over two of the most publicized cases about which the Supreme Court has issued or will be issuing a ruling. It already announced its decision regarding the notoriously strict Arizona illegal immigration law. It had struck down some of it, kept some of it. So we talked about this and talked about that, in watching and listening to all that's said I'd been trying to make heads or tails of this part of it and that, I'd been seeing and hearing some people say this and some people say that... Unti...

Noted that the U.S. budget deficit hit the $1 trillion mark for the first time in history. And it is rising. Nothing much to point out except for the same old regarding the contrast between the World and the Kingdom that so few people seem to see. There they are, the top World ruler guys, at the behest of needy World inhabitants, continuing to spend money and banking on some point in the future when these needy souls (and their children and grandchildren, and hey, may as well add great grandchildren) will actually do enough to pay back what they're spending on today. I mean, really, it is such a mind-boggling number, a trillion, but these guys do it anyway. I just wonder, why not a quadrillion? Hey, after all, derivatives traders have already said the $250 trillion worth of assets in the world today is worth a quadrillion. Now there's a bit of a value assessment surplus. Why not a quintillion? Why not build everyone a bridge to wherever they like? Why not give everyone their ow...

Yesterday U.S. Supreme Court Justice David Souter announced he was retiring from the highest bench at the still sprite age of 69. It is notable what he once said about his work on the court, quote: "When the term of court starts, I undergo a sort of annual intellectual lobotomy and it lasts until the following summer, when I sort of cram what I can into the summertime." What? The delightful dances these guys do with THE LAW just aren't ever-so fun and wonderful? I love how people always boast "We're a nation of laws, not of men." But, um, isn't this a democracy ? Where the people have the power? Guh? Errp? Ooop? Yes, indeed, to actually try to sort all that out would require a lobotomy of sorts. If you've ever even looked at the volumes and volumes and volumes written through the ages about laws and the massively turgid attempts to get it right, you'd wonder why everyone in law or politics doesn't have a lobotomy. Or maybe they do? Souter sa...