Greetings

Allay your fears, dear readers, I have returned.

I found this link on Drudge. The last line especially caught my eye. Sweden repealed bestiality prohibitions at the same time laws against homosexual sex were repealed.

Infanticide and Abortion

Surprise, there's a bit of a link between the two. Babies are being killed in their first week of extra-womb life at tremendously increased rates in the last thirty years.

I'll have more to say on this a little later (gotta run for now), as I saw a really horrible speech by the woman in charge of NARAL a few days ago.

Kudos, Mr. Miller

US Senator Zell Miller, a Democrat from Georgia, has decided to campaign for President George Bush during his re-election campaign. Democrats, of course, are irate.

It's too bad they're too shortsighted to remember the great defection of Senator Jim Jeffords, a betrayal they welcomed with open arms.

It wasn't the betrayal of the Democratic Party that was the trouble. Jeffords's decision upset the balance in the Senate and gave the Democrats control. His action single-handedly overturned the will of the people of his state. He could have just begun to vote for bills a Democrat would favor; instead he took a step further and changed the agenda of the entire body. Why not just come clean and run as a Democrat so the people can decide if that's the man they want representing their state, and if that's the sort of composition the Senate needs.

I suspect Miller is the sort of man too mature to do something like that. Now he's simply campaigning for Bush. He has not undemocratically changed the political climate. He is playing by the rules, and I think it's because he respects his fellow Georgians.

Interesting how Jeffords's turn to the Democratic Party displayed a contempt for the people of his state, while Miller's decision did the opposite. I know the Republican Party isn't exactly the party of freedom and responsibility anymore, but still...

Greetings

Well, I've returned from an extended break. I hope all had a very Merry Christmas, and that all will have a blessed new year.

Perhaps I'm just being paranoid about creeping paganism but I could have sworn that I saw more "Happy Kwanza" messages on TV than I did "Merry Christmas" messages. Very disconcerting, really.

I read _The Da Vince Code_ and saw _The Return of the King_, two things I've been itching to blog about.

First a quick rant about Howard Dean:

I saw a bit of the speech he gave at a Democratic Party banquet in Iowa this weekend. He said something about not having the power to fix everyone's problems, that that was a lie presidential candidates liked to state to collect votes. He asserted that the true power to fix the world's problems lie with the people.

Now for a second I thought Dean was actually going to say something I agree with. Instead, the intensity in his voice rose, his eyes turned beady, and he showed just how little he and other Democrats think of people. People can fix their problems by voting for candidates that support universal healthcare, by voting for candidates that support a woman's "right to choose," etc. In short, people assert their power and responsibility by voting for others to take care of their problems?

What? This is so typical of so many people nowadays. Everything is political. You can live in the most despicable, statist distopia but as long as you retain the sacred right to vote you are truly free. Honestly, does a man who gets taxed to death, is unable to choose who he associates with, and can't truly speak his mind free just because he casts a vote every four years? Yes, I'm being a little extreme but even in America, as free as these United States are compared to most of the rest of the nations on the earth, the limitations and regulations men take for granted would shock even a moderate man living a century ago.