Couldn’t Help But Notice (122907)
Michael Yon: “When nobody is shooting, it means that you are winning.”
Yon also relays a thank-you letter — from a soldier, specifically LTC Jim Crider, the commander of the 1-4 CAV soldiers based at FOB Falcon. He’s thanking us “for the honor of fighting for and representing the United States of America. ….. I am stronger, more driven, and humbled all at the same time.” Fair enough. The debt we owe Mr. Crider is one that can never be repaid.
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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has converted to Catholicism.
Memo to impatient prolifers and profamily advocates who want an instant “I was wrong, I am sorry” for Blair’s support of abortion rights and other anti-family measures while he was in public life:
- The operative term is FORMER Prime Minister.
- Forgiveness, penance, repentance, and the visibility of his (yes) required renunciation of his previous public views and actions, are between him, his confessor, and God.
- God, and Tony Blair, assuming he’s attempting to follow God’s will, don’t operate on your instant-gratification timeline.
I’ll be the first to rip Mr. Blair if he acts like Massachusetts CINOs (Catholics In Name Only) John Kerry and Ted Kennedy and plays the “I don’t personally believe in it, but I can’t condenm it” tune. But a little patience is in order, people.
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Favorite headline of the week (link may require subscription): “No recession in ‘08, says Bear analyst.” That would be an analyst from Bear Stearns.
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Mark Steyn (HT Instapundit), on his being hauled before the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal over some of the content in “America Alone” (background here):
I want the constitutionality of this process overturned, so that Canadians are free to reach the same judgments about my writing as Americans and Britons and Australians and it stands or falls in the marketplace of ideas. The notion that a Norwegian imam can make a statement in Norway but if a Canadian magazine quotes that statement in Canada it’s a “hate crime” should be deeply shaming to all Canadians.
Exactly. And to repeat a question from December 18 (scroll to “Pain Dealer” item) — Where in the bleep is Stephen Harper in all of this?
For every item published or broadcast about the religion of ‘peace’ or ’submission’ being unfairly targeted there is a corresponding item demonstrating a sinister account not the least of which are connections to terrorist events. There is no shortage surrounding any issue, including those involving Islam or Muslims suggesting they are victims and pointing to their chosen villains. Logic would dictate that like most groups of people not all Muslims are bad nor are they all good. There PR problem would be an excessive body of evidence demonstrating that far too many Muslims intend to eliminate all Infidels and that does not necessarily exclude other Muslims. Steyn’s situation may help find a solution. As I write this, in the background the radio features an interview with a Lesbian, progressive, atheist. This is not the world of my birth or maybe it just hadn’t come to my town yet.
Comment by Stanford Matthews — December 29, 2007 @ 10:50 am