…or so they say.
Proverbs 13:5 The righteous hates falsehood, but the wicked brings shame and disgrace.
Proverbs 21:6 The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor and a snare of death.
Not that our brave leaders ever lie or anything.
Just a reminder of what was 65 years ago and what will be again.
I read the executive order that implemented Arizona’s new anti-illegals law before. Now I’ve read the law itself. (Every law should be this short and easy to understand!!!) Same deal. There are only two parts of this law that I find objectionable: 13-1509 G. 1. regarding drugs and weapons and 23-214 regarding e-verify. I don’t think possession of a drug or a weapon should be illegal, and I don’t think the government has any business requiring employers to verify anything. I think you should be able to hire people completely anonymously if you want.
So what are the real objections? I don’t get it. Please explain. If they are reasonable, I’m open to changing my mind.
I’ve read the text of the executive order that implements Arizona’s SB1070, and I really don’t understand the objections. Unless there are some secret codes embedded that only Arizonians are equipped to comprehend, it’s just simple common sense. As a matter of policy, so-called “illegal aliens” in the United States are usually treated far better than they deserve. Millions of foreigners crossing a national boundary against the wishes of that nation and it’s citizens, stealing resources, and generally acting like violent criminals would normally be called an invasion. Lots of gunfire from the locals and their government’s representatives wouldn’t be unexpected. The invaders should be grateful that all we’re doing is arresting people and sending them back to Mexico.
Update July 21, 2010: Fred Reed has some very common sense thoughts on immigration policy.
Update July 22, 2010: I was somewhat mistaken. I thought this law was only being implemented via executive order. It is not. You can read the actual laws at KEYTLaw. My conclusions are unchanged. This law is quite reasonable and appropriate.
While you are able.
Good job, SCOTUS.
The Supreme Court has ruled that the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution protects an individual right to own and use firearms, at least in their own homes. That’s definitely a step in the right direction.
In addition to Stevens, Justice Stephen Breyer wrote a dissent that was joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor.
“The Framers did not write the Second Amendment in order to protect a private right of armed self-defense,” Breyer wrote. “There has been, and is, no consensus that the right is, or was, fundamental,” he said. “No broader constitutional interest or principle supports legal treatment of that right as fundamental. To the contrary, broader constitutional concerns of an institutional nature argue strongly against that treatment.”
“Justices” Breyer, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor are either complete imbeciles or bald-faced liars. There is no reasonable alternative. Either way they have no business judging anything.
And “hikers” were “arrested” by Iranians somewhere near the Iraq-Iran border. Seriously? Someone, somewhere finds something shocking about this? If you, as an American of European descent, went hiking on the Iraq-Iran border (or pretty much anywhere else between Israel and India), I’d be more surprised if you were not detained by the local authorities or pretenders.
Is it too late to change my voter registration???
Just kidding!
I would love to vote for Alvin Greene, though, just to say I did.
I would be very interested in hearing some realistic solutions to the problems in Israel and in the Middle East in general. I haven’t heard any good ones yet.
Can’t we all just get along? Umm, no. Israel is completely surrounded by governments (and peoples) who have sworn to kill them all–men, women, and children. They can’t simply forgive and forget. They can’t turn their backs or relax even for a moment. And the Palestinians, whoever they were, whatever their origins, have been hopelessly ghettoized for so long that large segments of their population are no longer capable of living productively with others.
Israel should give the Palestinians their own country. The Palestinians are led by thugs who themselves are pawns for the neighboring Arab states that want nothing more than to kill all Jews. Every attempt at giving the Palestinians more autonomy has been doomed by political maneuvering and insane (literally!) violence against Israel. Even if Hamas and company could all be buried in a deep, mass grave, the Palestinians don’t have a great pool of leaders waiting to take over.
The Jews should give up and go home. And where would that be if not the home of their ancestors? It would make as much sense to suggest that any Cherokee who have found their way to Georgia be sent back home to Oklahoma. Even if we ignored the continuous presence of Jews and other Israelites in the Land for more than three thousand years, at the very least, they have the same right of conquest as every other people. The Coosa were driven out by the Cherokee who were driven out by the English who might soon be driven out by someone else. It’s the way the world has always worked.
The Palestinians should all move to friendlier Arab countries to be with their own kind. Again, what countries would that be? Nobody wants them. Jordan, Egypt, and Syria don’t want them. In fact, they would much rather the Palestinians stay in Israel as a destabilizing force. They are pawns without a single real friend in the world, some willingly but most probably ignorantly. They have nowhere else to go. Maybe those non-Israelis who want the Palestinians to leave Israel could volunteer their suburban homes to house a family or two or three?
There are no clear good guys in that mess, and there are far too many bad guys. The only clear thing in my mind is that the land of Israel, especially that land between the Jordan and the Mediterranean, is a special place to God. He entrusted it to Israel once, and although he removed them from it for a time, he promised to give it back to them. The ultimate title to the land has already been established. It is not on the negotiating table.
I thought it might be fun to see how far we’ve come since Daniel Amos sang this song in the early 80s. I was wrong. This was a depressing exercise. We have lots of gadgets, but Taylor was right that “some things never change”.
“(It’s the Eighties, So Where’s Our) Rocket Packs”
from the album Vox Humana
Words and Music by Terry Taylor
©1984 Twitchen Vibes Music (ASCAP)
It’s the eighties
It’s the eighties so where’s our rocket packs?
It’s the eighties so where’s our rocket packs?
Go anywhere, we strap them on our backs
1. (It’s the eighties so where’s our rocket packs?)
I thought by now I’d walk the moon
And ride a car without no tires
And have a robot run the vacuum
And date a girl made out of wires
No thing’s don’t change that much, do they?
We are still out of touch, by now we should discover
Just how to love each other, like Klattus’ robot man
Your looks have killed again
2. (It’s the eighties so where’s our rocket packs?)
I thought by now we’d live in space
And eat a pill instead of dinner
And wear a gas mask on our face
A President of female gender
Though progress marches on, (new day)
Our troubles will grow strong
And my expectancies, become my fantasies
You turn my blood to sand, the earth stands still again
My hopes are running low
things moving much too slow
No space men up above
And we’re still so very far from love
3. (It’s the eighties so where’s our rocket packs?)
I thought by now we’d build a dome
Around the world, control the weather
In every house, a picture phone; communicate a little better
But some things never change (replay!)
You are still acting strange
No way that I can see, this way we will be free
La la la la la la,la la la la la 7,6,5,4,3,2,1 Lift off!
(It’s the eighties so where’s our rocket packs?)
Repeat 1, 2, 3
(It’s the eighties)
I’ve been looking over websites for Messianic congregations in Texas over the last few days. Many of them are affiliated with national or international Messianic organizations. Most of those are headed by people who refuse to be associated with one or more of the others. It seems to be the same story in every reformation: schism. I refuse to be a part of it. Accountability is good. Division is not. Let me repeat something I’ve said before:
If you worship the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and if you recognize that your only hope for salvation from the eternal consequences of your sin lies in repenting from it and placing yourself at his mercy, trusting in him to forgive you and to make a way for you to be reunited with him, then I call you a brother in Messiah. I don’t care what label you claim. I don’t care what label anyone else puts on you. I don’t care what scriptures you read or what you call your place of worship or even if you have a place of worship.
God knows you. God claims you as his own. Who are we to disagree?
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