Pages are Getting Touched Up

I’ve been pretty quiet today… a plumbing project, and working on the look of the site.
New BITSBIT is up, though

OK, Arnold Schwartzenegger’s no Reagan, but he’s preferable to the idiot in the Govenor’s mansion now.

And lookie lookie at the left’s reaction.  The same Democrats who pronounced him good Presidential timber a short time back… (Despite the fact he can’t legally run for the office… since when little things like constitutional laws ever stopped Democrats?)… are now pronouncing him the son of a Nazi, and so on. (as if anyone from Germany of his age doesn’t have a Nazi past, right?)

The Democrats are in panic mode, having begun to understand htat they’re going to lose. So, they will get even more Visceral than the ‘Nazi’ charge, though that will doubtless loom large over the next few weeks in the Democrat ‘Talking Points” memos. What will be most interesting is what kind of sludge they throw at Bustamante.

Or so he says.
Of course, he’ll lose, but this is going to be fun to watch. Mark this well; this will see the Democrats getting dirty with each other, and then with whoever the Republicans decide will replace Davis.

Big headline, huh?

Check the opening lines of the story.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa – Veteran black activist Al Sharpton contended Wednesday that the news media are dismissive of his presidential campaign because newsrooms are overwhelmingly white. “I think when you look at the lack of diversity in the newsrooms, when you look at the lack of diversity from the editors and those in power, then you see them as automatically dismissive of anything that is not like them, which is white males,” said Sharpton.

Hey, Al? Perhaps it’s not that you’re black, but that even blacks are embarrased to be around a documented fraud such as yourself.

Of course we expected this from this RaceWar Lord, anyway, but it’s a measure of how desperate he is for power, and the retention of it. He knew going in he wasn’t going to get any support even from most blacks… but now he can blame it not on himself but on racism… and, I guess tell himself he’s saved some face.

Bloody amazing.

Productivity Soars, Jobless Claims Drop

WASHINGTON – America’s business productivity soared in the second quarter of 2003 and new claims for unemployment benefits dropped to a six-month low last week, a double dose of good news as the economy tries to get back to full throttle

Full story

Yes, I know… the BIT is late again. I had to rebuild my system here again, which means the web pages have to be re-written, as well.
Not a big deal, but still…

Oh, my pics from the trip came in, today, as well. I’ll post them up as well.

Required reading from Mona Charen, who, as usual, hits it square on. She hits many of the same points I made in my comments about “Equality of what?” the other day. (Scroll down to read that one)

Speaking of not ever learning, Look at what Gore plans at NYU.

As I said before, watching these idiots self destruct is amazing… like watching a train wreck. They simply can’t stop themselves.
Does Gore not understand how seriously he marginalizes himself and the Democrats as a whole with this nonsense?

The theme of today is leftists self-destructing. This time, in Canada.

Canada.com, in a Leader-Post story, is reporting that Ted Bowen has resigned. You’d think the NDP will have learned. Apparently not.

Morons! Idiots!

See, the difference is, I can say that, not being a government functionary.
Their not learning that is doing humanity a service… as they remove themselves from government with their mouths, one by one.

Fritz Hollings won’t run again.
Or, so he’s saying on his website.

Funny how the vitriol pours out of this man once he understands he can simply be himself.

Says Hollings:

“An….the state and the country – your state, my state, our country – is headed in the wrong direction with respect to our finances. “

Of course you had nothing to do with it, right, Fritz What spending did YOU cut, Fritz?? Other than the Military, I mean.

Drudge is reporting, this morning, that John Kerry, just before he’s scheduled to give a speech at the AFO-CIO convention, was “revealed to have been “wined, dined and fundraised by the controversial Susie Tompkins Buell.”

Buell runs Esprit, a clothing company widely reported to be a sweatshop profiteer.

Drudge goes on to list the long and sordid history of Buell, and shows a rather interesting picture of Buell, and Kerry.
I think we can pretty much write off Mr Kerry in any Presidential bid.

I see the NY TIMES is complaining that the prison population is too high. It claims, particularly, that the prison population should not BE so high with crime so low.

Comment: DUUUUUHHHHHH….. Is the Times so far removed from reality, that they don’t understand there’s a direct link between having those who will commit crimes behind bars, thus preventing said criminal acts, and a lower rate of crime?

To the shock of aboslutely nobody, Grey-Out Davis and his fellow far-left-wing Democrats is now fighting against the Recall vote, saying it will ‘create chaos’. Doesn’t this just say it all?

Not only is Davis wiling to fight against the will of the people he swore he’d serve, but he blames the voters, not himself and his actions, for creating the problem.

–Altoona, PA–, 0730030927

This afternoon, I’m taking in the sights at Altoona PA’s famous HorseShoe Curve. I’ll be posting this to my weekly along with some pics of the place.

I’ve been reading Andrew Sullivan’s blog again this morning, and I’m shaking my head a bit.  What is it about homosexual activists, (of which Sullivan is unquestionably one) that when homosexuality is brought up, all the rules go out the window, in order to justify their chosen behavior?

Sullivan still claims to be Christian… (a Catholic, no less!)… and yet he still ignores the teachings of the Church on the subject of his chosen behavior. What he’s arguing against is no less than the teachings of the Bible itself. Gee, a real witness for your faith there, Andrew.

This is not a situation where he’s taken up an argument against a small band of current day religious renegades.  Time after time, in both the Bible and in documents and rulings from Rome which are of course based on the Bible itself, teachings against homosexuality have come up.  How then, can he, or anyone so willingly afflicted, claim to be Christian, much less a Catholic? The phrase “Cafateria Catholic” comes to mind… and it’s a sign of the times that the phrase hasn’t been used much of late, given our current situations.

If the intent here is to argue for the standing of homosexuality and it’s legal standing in the secular world that’s one thing, and can, I suppose, be argued on that ground.  Indeed, the biggest argument homosexuals seem to have these days is that we make our judgements based on religion, and thereby have no say in secular matters.  This fascile argument has been offered for deacades, but is easily defeated, by asking if religious values be completely removed from the calulations of secular values? Do we ignore concepts simply because a religion happens to agree with them? Shall we for example, discuss incest? Shall we discuss euthanasia? Shall we discuss prostitution? Shall we discuss Bigamy?  Shall we discuss making NAMBLA’s activities legal?

And isn’t it interesting that, as I’ve pointed out in this space previously, the Canadian government decided that simply posting Biblical quotes about homosexuality constitutes a ‘hate crime’? Seems that posting parts of the Bible stands a greater chance of angering the left than these other activities I’ve listed. Look at the reaction to Mel Gibson’s new movie, if you’d like a trend. It’s in the archives,and I may staple that bit to this one for my weekly.

I’ll say it again: Law and of government were invented by cultures so as to reinforce said cultures and to extend their reach and longevity. Therefore laws and government actions by definition, are ideally reflective of the values of the culture that gave said government and said laws, life.

This is not to suggest that laws cannot be immoral; that actions of government cannot run afoul of the values of the culture. They certainly can be. Example: Western society as a whole decided long before any of us were born that these were things to be avoided. As particuar example Abortion, had been outlawed in all the states of the union, for time out of mind based on these precepts of Western Civilization. These abortion laws were the first to go, with abortion advocates employing the argument that opposition to abortion is a religious view that should not to be “imposed” on society.  What they asked us to do is to have government not do it’s primary job, as listed above… the reinforcing of the culture and it’s values. If that’s the rather thin value set we’re to judge on, if we think that cultural values and laws can ever be fully seperated, are the rest of demise of the rest of these laws these far behind? If they are so seperated can the downfall of the west be far behind?

Those who tolerate everything, stand for nothing.
So, the question becomes: Do our cultural values stand for something, or not?

And thus we come back to the headline, here…. Equality of WHAT?
Consider that the concept of “Equality” and for that matter, the concept of “Freedom”, is utterly meaningless outside of the cultural construct.

All the ‘secular’ arguments aside, however, a whole new front is opened, with homosexuals attacking Chruch policy and teachings ostensibly from *within* the church and some church fathers agreeing with them.  How, in the face of the teachings of the Chruch, can one take up such a pro-homosexual argument, and call one’s self a member of that body? This is nothing less than an attack from within the Church.  The enemy within, after all, is always the most destructive. Apparently the only ones who understand this are the ones doing the attacking.

Again, I say louder….Those who tolerate everything, stand for nothing.
So, the question now becomes: Do the teachings of the church stand for something, or do they not?

–Back home in Rochester, NY–

Back just now, and catching up a bit on things. Going through some of the auto captures I set up a few weeks back, I see I haven’t missed too much.
I’ll be posting a new column in the morning. Already written, just too damn tired to post it at the moment.