Thankfully, I own the keys to this car.

And the beautiful part of having your own blog is that you can say whatever you want to say whenever you want to say it. Nobody pulls your plug, nobody rants and raves on your Facebook page, nobody calls your mommy (well, they might but she’s largely given up on me in this regard,) and nobody can make me shut up.

And I just spared you, with my delete key, from a very special rant.

I accept Paypal donations. I’ll give more thought to the post before inflicting it upon you.

In the meantime, here’s a picture of a dog.

 

My boy, Edzell

Chris Tomlin.

This post is simple. We went to see Chris Tomlin on Sunday night. If you’ve never been, go. It’s three hours of the best worship you’ll have in years. Kari Jobe was also amazinglyfantisticalwonderful. Not a word, but it applies.

I also wanted to experiment with the new camera on the new phone. It worked very well. I apologize for the sideways photo (editing skills a bit lacking, eh?) and the blurry photos that lead it off. For some reason the autofocus picked up on something in between me and the stage, leaving almost everything else a bit blurry.Photo show below the fold.   Continue reading

3801 Lancaster.

Yesterday I did a post about Kermit Gosnell. I’m going to stay with that topic for another day and then I’ll move on to Boston in the very near future.

This film is graphic. It is well done. I will not accept comments on this or yesterday’s posts. Please pray for all involved. And throw some prayers toward  the people of Boston and the runners and their families.

I’d like to thank God for sparing my friend Bob who ran the race on Monday and was 1 block from the finish line when the blast went off.

 

 

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Wishing I was…

I’m wishing I was in Haiti right now with the people from Healing Haiti. With all the depraved evil in our country right now the thought of working the water truck, annointing the sick, caring for the orphans, and breaking bread with my Christian brothers and sisters appeals greatly to my soul.

The wave of loneliness that crashed over me tonight when I saw a Facebook post about the current mission team in Port au-Prince was about 4 stories tall. I so wanted to be at that table with my wife and my friends in Haiti.

But I’m here. And I’m working on a few pieces for the next few days that I think you find infuriating and enjoyable.

Just a quick note about Boston – whether it was a dirtbag from the Middle East, or a dirtbag from Southie, they are still terrorists. And should be hunted down like the rats they are – without mercy. If I read one more thing anywhere about how “they have a right to be mad at us…” in defense of the kinds of cowards that blow up marathon runners, I’m quite likely to unleash one of my world-class vitriol dumps. So far I’ve managed to restrain myself on that bent.

For those of you who have not personally experienced terrorism, and that’s most of you, it’s a manifestation of Satan in this world. I’ve personally missed being blown up at least once by just hours. I missed getting detonated in Naples when they bombed the U.S.O. club just a few hours after I’d left. On at least one other occasion a bomb went off in a location I’d just left in Spain (But the internet date doesn’t match my recollection of when it happened – long time ago.) It’s pretty personal when that happens. I have a good friend who lost his wife to a terrorist bombing in Germany during the Cold War. All these years later he’s still got an open wound that isn’t quite healed.

My point is – George Bush isn’t responsible. The groups that do these bombings are responsible. There is no excuse for targeting civilians. More to come on Boston, but it didn’t surprise me in the least. This is a nation of soft targets. My only surprise is that we haven’t seen more of this in the past ten years. Perhaps it has started. I know that my hyper-vigilance will not be lowered any time soon.

What are you doing to be alert to terrorism? Have you prepared your family? Is your house ready for no power/no water? Are you able to contact the authorities if you see something? And, most importantly, will you run away from or towards the sounds of gunfire?

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Dachau isn’t just one place anymore.

I’m willing to bet that the vast majority of the people reading this blog today have never heard of Kermit Gosnell. That’s not very surprising. Matter of fact, if I wasn’t a complete maniac for the Internet and my daily filling of blogs (I read about 20 every day, most news oriented) I’d never have heard of it in my local media. Or the national media. With the exception of Fox News.

Before you have a little meltdown about Fox, let’s keep in mind that it’s a private business that competes in the marketplace. I like Fox. They’re not always on point but they provide welcome relief from the “drive-by media” as Rush Limbaugh calls it on his show. And Fox often presents stories that simply will not see the light of day on other networks. Like, oh… Benghazi. Yup, seven months without a straight answer from the administration on that one and only Fox talks about it anymore. But I digress.

Kermit Gosnell worked in the building below:

Daucha’s Philadelphia branch.

This building is the modern equivalent of Dachau. I know that some of you cringed when you read that, but true is true is true. In this building he is alleged to have performed multiple late-term abortions. In my neighborhood we call those murders. Evidently the prosecutor in Philadelphia does as well, because 7 counts of homicide are on the table here. And what a table it is, was, and always will be in our memories. You see, Kermit kept trophies – feet to be precise – from his victims. He finished murdering these infants by severing their spinal cords with scissors. Babies that were clearly alive. Babies that in many cases would have made it outside the womb without any heroic measures. But you haven’t heard about this because it doesn’t fit the agenda of the liberal press.

In most of America, thankfully not the corner where my soul resides, abortion is not safe, infrequent, nor morally acceptable. Because it’s legal (based on a Constitutional right that doesn’t appear in the Constitution) people throw up their hands and say, “Nothing can be done.” This has lead to over 40,000,000 abortions since Roe V. Wade in our country. And in instances like the one where Kermit (and I don’t mean the frog) held his daily performances out of the public eye, it leads to the most hideous kind of murder that one can imagine.

Since this case has emerged in the media (the blogosphere and the media of the Christian community – ’cause it’s not going to be on page 1 of the Star & Tribune) other workers in other abortion mills are starting to come out of the woodwork with stories of late-term abortions in their facilities. And I don’t mean just one or two. But you’ll have to search the Internet for that on your own – again, it’s not in the media you probably rely on for your news.  Just for fun, zoom on over to your local news outlet and search for Kermit Gosnell. Bet the pickings are pretty sparse.

Perhaps today you could take a minute to pray for the souls of the murdered children. And then take some time to pray for their mothers. At least one study shows that many women who have had an abortion are deeply conflicted by the event decades later. And since I’m a rank sinner saved by Grace, I’m all in favor of according the same to other sinners. And some prayer.

Finally, spend a few minutes praying for the souls of those performing abortions and working in those clinics today. They need to have that same Grace. I hope that they will see the light on this and leave that work. It’s not health care, it’s death. Nobody is getting healthy in the entire process except some wallets. The women suffer, the babies die, and many of the people working there hate what they do deep down. And if they don’t, perhaps some prayer will soften that shell and reach out to their souls. For they are in jeopardy.

I’ll save a few of you the trouble of commenting on the post and do it myself:

“That’s easy for you to say, you’ll never get pregnant and you’ll never understand the position of an unwed 15 year old girl who’s carrying a child.” But then again, I was a 15 year old boy and I avoided getting any 15 year old girls pregnant, so I know a bit about self control and moral values. And using abortion as a birth control method isn’t on the list of approved tools in my opinion.

I’m pro-life. Please don’t bother to send me the quote from the nun who says that people like me are actually pro-birth versus pro-life because I won’t pony up the money to take care of the non-aborted child until it turns 18. See item one in my comments on my own post. Let’s start with not killing babies and take it from there.

“I’m an horrible white male who doesn’t understand the situation in the inner city.” Really? I live in the inner city. I see, having looked at the numbers, that abortion overwhelmingly impacts black babies. Margaret Sanger would approve. They aren’t building a whole lot of abortion clinics in the tonier suburbs when I last checked. How this is ignored is quite literally beyond me.

Planned Parenthood isn’t like this guy. They provide critical women’s health services.” Yup. When you go in for your appointment they will gladly refer you for a mammogram. Or a cervical check. Or almost any other health concern. But they’re there for abortions. All of the other functions they perform are secondary to that one single item. When they talk to you about planning part of that planning includes abortion. The next mammogram they do in one of their clinics will be the first. That’s the simple truth. And so if you’re donating money to them through the United Way, or the Combined Federal Campaign, you’re supporting abortion. Just marking your donation “Please use for sex education programs only” or what ever other designation you attach just means that you support that program and they can use all of someone else’s donation to perform abortions. The whole “single pot of money” theory of accounting. That’s the one they use in the real world.

That got a bit ranty. But stockpiling dead children on shelves in glass jars sort of upsets me. Leaving children to die when you botch the abortion bothers me even more. And, as I said in a post a while ago, it’s just an arbitrary age limit that makes any of this legal. Why hang our hat on the second trimester of pregnancy, and not 4 year olds? They certainly can’t fend for themselves. They aren’t viable outside the womb without somebody spending all sorts of time and money on them. They’d never make it on their own, they don’t know much, they don’t have fully developed sense of self or morality – you see how utterly horrid that concept is? And yet a baby in the womb is fair game because it hasn’t emerged yet.

You see, Dachau isn’t just one place anymore – it’s got a branch office in your area.

I’m not good with that. I never will be good with that in any way, shape, or form. If that makes me a fanatic I’ll gladly accept that accolade. Thanks in advance. (I guess I’ve added another check mark on the federal check list of zealotry with this one.)

Does it surprise you that you hadn’t heard of this horror?  What else are you missing by using the drive-by media as your main source?  Isn’t it about time you branch out and read some “outlier” sources to get a hint of the other news that you’re being denied?

 

 

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