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An infectious diseases expert says:

1. having swine flu is preferable to having “regular” flu
2. wouldn’t give the “dangerous” swine flu shot to his kids

More confirmation of my own suspicion that, while potentially dangerous, H1N1 is as much about power grabbing and hysteria as it is about genuine public safety. (Although claims are that some 3500 have died worldwide, the majority have been folks who had serious underlying conditions. Seems to me if that’s a “pandemic,” there are a lot of pandemics around.)

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If the fourth century were the twenty-first century….

The Rainbow Health Coalition knows that the homosexual lifestyle is self-destructive. We know that it knows because it keys upon the evidence.

But the solution to the problem is to demand more funding to deal with health issues which “disproportionately affect” the homosexual community. It is due to homophobia that Canada is not spending untold additional dollars to defuse the effects, not of heredity or environment, but of a lifestyle.

The path of destruction is clear, including homosexual men with a life expectancy 20 years less than heterosexual men. Suicide, drugs, alcoholism, depression, and cancer (oddly enough, including anal cancer)… these are the fault of others, sez the Coalition.

I grieve for homosexuals, but trying to deal with the symptoms rather than the root issue never works.

I’ve been wanting to do a video for this pro-life song for some time, and now I’ve got something up on YouTube…

Lookin’ Away on YouTube

Unfortunately, I don’t really have any real video resources, so it’s just a series of still images patched together in Windows MovieMaker, but hopefully it’s worth a look and (mostly) listen. If anyone out there has a bit of cinematographer (sp?) in them and wouldn’t mind a freebie project, I’d be happy to toss the audio your way….

Last you heard, I was reading Novak’s Spirit of Democratic Capitalism, Bahnsen’s Homosexuality, and Woods, A Politically Incorrect Guide to American History. Presently I’m deep into the following:

1. Thomas Sowell, Marxism. I’m about halfway through this. Sowell here bypasses 20th century Communism and expounds and summarizes the actual thought of Marx and Engels – rather interesting, as it turns out to be quite different from later “Marxism,” although certainly flawed in its own right. (Sowell does not critique throughout; he leaves that to the end.) Interestingly, the result seems to be that the Western democracies really are becoming genuinely Marxist in many respects.
2. Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics. Yes, I’m reading two books by Sowell simultaneously. I’m roughly 65% of the way through this one, I think. It’s a very substantial hardcover textbook, but it’s not nearly as tough sledding as you might think. The examples are usually real historical ones, and the thorough use of statistics nonetheless doesn’t bog the book down. An absolute must if you want to understand how interference in the market ends up destroying wealth, not just for the few at the top, but for all.
3. Patrick Buchanan, Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War. I’m about three quarters through this fascinating (albeit sometimes repetitive) read. Without excusing Hitler whatsoever, Buchanan convincing shows how the Western nations, and Great Britain in particular stumbled into two wars devastating in effect – through bad judgment. If you regard Winston Churchill as a great upright statesman who saved the West, this book may well change your mind….

Dutch court orders Wilders to be prosecuted for inciting hatred – for reporting real events, statements and teachings of Muslims.

Desert Yahweh, and He will turn you over to blindness.

As in same old buying favours with money. Clinton’s foreign affairs record was horrible, and now the USA gets Hillary as Secretary of State?

Of course, I’m presently reading The Case Against Barack Obama, and Freddoso makes a compelling case that Obama has a long history of working hand-in-hand with the corrupt Machine of Chicagoland. So why not have more of the same nationally? He’s not a reformer (at least, not in any sense having to do with fighting corruption); that’s already been proven.

Well, I didn’t manage to sleep a wink last night. After two or three times in bed, I pretty much gave up at around 5 a.m. and got up – listened to music until it was really “get-up” time. It was actually good; I had some opportunity to worship the Lord in the still of night.

Anyway, several hours before that, I wrote another piece for Change in the Wind. Working in part from Romans 13, “The Supremacy of God and the Rule of Law” shows how the prologue to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms offers the foundation for true liberty.

There are now five articles on site, as well as a growing list of links and blog posts. Check it out.

Please see today’s post at Change in the Wind, which includes a link to the online consultation form at the Canadian Department of Finance, as well as an outline of how I responded to the survey.

Yes, a Christmas Day launch (of sorts – my official launch took place rather late in the evening).

http://www.changeinthewind.ca

For various reasons, I have recently had occasion to start thinking about matters related to sociopolitical issues.

On a couple earlier occasions in my life, first as a late teen (when I actually contemplated going to university to major in Political Science) and then later when I was in my Reconstructionist period, politics were very high on my interest list. But when, for exegetical/biblical-theological reasons, I moved away from Reconstructionism/theonomy about a decade or so ago, I largely stepped away from those concerns.  I suppose part of that was due to the fact that, upon moving away from a directly theonomic approach, I wasn’t entirely sure how to think about politics.

I certainly do not claim now to have all the answers, but this new site is aimed at becoming an educational/discussion resource to help Canadian (in particular) Christians work through what we should be aiming for on a sociopolitical level,  as well as to help stimulate ideas for how we can serve our country on a less directly political level.

The site features four main sections: (1) Articles section dealing with various matters of principle, policy, values, etc; (2) Special features section for focusing on current events; (3) Categorized links library to help Christians find valuable articles etc around the web, as well as other web sites; and (4) a blog for keeping up conversation and commenting on current events or whatever. I am hoping to draft a few more contributors, as well.

At this point, the articles section has four articles available, dealing with foundational matters as well as economics and a summary piece on marriage/family/sexuality. There are a couple of substantive posts on the blog, and the links library has a modest beginning. As of yet, there are no special features on current events.

Anyway, do check it out, and pass on the news.

…scientists actually studied and approved the U.N. report on “climate change” without dissent?

Er… seven?

Apparently, the U.N. claim that 2,500 scientists were on board with their report is beyond misleading. That number simply refers to those asked to review the report.

Of which… 62 did so. Huh?

And most of those had “serious concerns”!

Granted, of those 55 with “serious concerns,” we’re sure that most are probably on board with the general notion of human-caused global warming.

Still, it’s hard to conceive of this as a “consensus,” given that overwhelming numbers are calling not only the U.N. report per se, but the whole notion, into question. The Herald notes that 68% of Canadian scientists surveyed disagree with the notion that the issue of human-caused global warming is “settled” (and that’s not based on a miniscule sampling – 51,000 scientists were surveyed). Add that to the 31,000 U.S. scientists who have signed the Petition Project… well, you get the picture.

Merry Christmas, everyone. Jesus is still King of the world.

“The proportion of Ugandans infected with HIV plunged from 21% in 1991 to 6% in 2002.
But international AIDS experts who came to Uganda said we were wrong to try to limit people’s sexual freedom. Worse, they had the financial power to force their casual-sex agendas upon us.” And now, “as fidelity and abstinence have been subverted,
Uganda’s HIV rates have begun to tick back up.”
– Rev. Sam L Ruteikara, co-chair of Uganda’s National AIDS-Prevention Committee

… to provide Obama’s invocation should pay attention to the fact that Joseph Lowery is giving the benediction. Lowery, a United Methodist “minister” is an open advocate of gay “marriage.”

One can hope and pray, of course, that Warren will use the occasion prophetically, rather than simply allow himself to be used… but that remains to be seen, does it not?

…and causes near-riots.

… but $1000 per month for families with one stay-at-home parent??

Sorry, people, we need to get out of the trough. We’re already far too socialistic as it is.

Is it costly to have only one career in a home? Of course it is. Doing the right thing always costs something, and if we really believe that having one parent at home is better than the alternative, we need to be prepared to face that cost.

How about deflation? Fractional reserve banking?

Perhaps this essay will help.