The soldiers fight and the kings are heroes.
Hebrew proverb
It's Like Herbert Spencer Was Writing About Today's Democrat Statists
As it is, however, [the government advocates] seem to have read backwards the parable of the talents. Not to the agent of proved efficiency do they consign further duties, but to the negligent and blundering agent. Private enterprise has done much, and done it well. Private enterprise has cleared, drained, and fertilized the country, and built the towns; has excavated mines, laid out roads, dug canals, and embanked railways; has invented, and brought to perfection ploughs, looms, steam-engines, printing-presses, and machines innumerable; has built our ships, our vast manufactories, our docks; has established banks, insurance societies, and the newspaper press; has covered the sea with lines of steam-vessels, and the land with electric telegraphs. Private enterprise has brought agriculture, manufactures, and commerce to their present height, and is now developing them with increasing rapidity. Therefore, do not trust private enterprise. On the other hand, the State so fulfils its judicial function as to ruin many, delude others, and frighten away those who most need succor; its national defences are so extravagantly and yet inefficiently administered as to call forth almost daily complaint, expostulation, or ridicule; and as the nation's steward, it obtains from some of our vast public estates a minus revenue. Therefore, trust the State. Slight the good and faithful servant, and promote the unprofitable one from one talent to ten. - Herbert Spencer(HT Alberto Mingardi of EconLog)
Encyclical Quote
52. In Abraham’s journey towards the future city, the Letter to the Hebrews mentions the blessing which was passed on from fathers to sons (cf. Heb 11:20-21). The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family. I think first and foremost of the stable union of man and woman in marriage. This union is born of their love, as a sign and presence of God’s own love, and of the acknowledgment and acceptance of the goodness of sexual differentiation, whereby spouses can become one flesh (cf. Gen 2:24) and are enabled to give birth to a new life, a manifestation of the Creator’s goodness, wisdom and loving plan. Grounded in this love, a man and a woman can promise each other mutual love in a gesture which engages their entire lives and mirrors many features of faith. Promising love for ever is possible when we perceive a plan bigger than our own ideas and undertakings, a plan which sustains us and enables us to surrender our future entirely to the one we love. Faith also helps us to grasp in all its depth and richness the begetting of children, as a sign of the love of the Creator who entrusts us with the mystery of a new person. So it was that Sarah, by faith, became a mother, for she trusted in God’s fidelity to his promise (cf. Heb 11:11). -Pope Francis I, Lumen FideiHail, Satan?
In the second video, you hear the chants around the 5:15 mark. Apparently the pro-aborts were responding in the first video when pro-life activists in Austin, rallying in support of a proposed Texas state 20-week restriction on elective abortion, started singing 'Amazing Grace'.
The UK Church of Satan wants no part of the pro-aborts giving Satan a bad name:
Unfortunate to see Satan's name used in such a diabolical manner. Another example of what 'Satanism' doesn't represent. #HailSatanThe Free Dictionary defines 'diabolical' as 'of, concerning, or characteristic of the devil; satanic'. You can't make this stuff up.
There is a reason I'm bringing this incident up, and it isn't so much the contemptible nonsense of the pro-abort crowd. The mainstream media for decades have been trying to promote the propaganda that this is a Catholic/religious issue and an attempt of religious people to impose their views on others.
I've mentioned before in the blog that I had read the word 'abortion' as a kid and asked my mother what it meant. She gave me a very clinical definition. She didn't use judgmental language or hint at her own position on the issue. I remember being totally shocked women would even consider doing such a horrible thing. My response was "But, Mom, that's murder! What does the (Catholic) Church say about it? They have to be against it..." My response was based on the biological facts of preborn babies; the New Testament never mentions the practice; but in fact, other than nuances among the Jews over how serious a sin, abortion was not an acceptable practice in Israel during the time of Jesus, so the fact He does not address it in canonical texts is not surprising. Some of the earliest Christian writings (the Didache) were very explicit (and used the term 'murder') because abortion and infanticide were accepted Roman practices.
But in fact medical oaths since ancient non-Christian Greece explicitly rejected abortion. Secularprolife.org describes itself as comprised of "atheists, theists, and agnostics who are eager to save lives and fight the media portrayal of pro-lifers as "religious extremists.""In fact, sometimes I wince when I hear clerics being quoted or pro-lifers singing religious songs, because I think they're being played by the propagandists.
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Schiff basically points out that some employers have been laying off perm workers and instead hiring or redeploying part-timers: basically a wash in the marquee unemployment rate. He also points out yet another in a series of down months for manufacturing hiring. Obama's dubiously legal concession to delay the ObamaCare employer mandate for a year, i.e., after the mid-terms, is a totally political decision in an attempt to help Democrats in the mid-terms since the GOP would use related bad employment numbers as an election issue.
Government Subsidies Are Almost Always a Bad Idea
Art Carden is a contributor to EconLog.
Political Cartoon
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The Beatles, "Matchbox"
