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It happens every so often. Sometimes, it happens more often than others, but it always happens. Someone will look at a given controversy or situation, and then call for people to put aside their differences and work together to fixing whatever the problem is. Universally, this is hailed as a good thing. After all, who’s not in favor of “putting aside differences”? Well, me for one. Continue reading Putting aside differences? Those four words tend to cause quite a bit of controversy in this country, particularly when Government forces them to be uttered. In the latest case to come to my attention, the Marietta City Council is being asked to look at the oath they make their police officers swear to when being sworn in, which ends with the infamous four words “So Help Me God”. According to the Marietta Daily Journal,
There are a variety of reasons for objecting to swearing on a Bible or to God. B.J. Fletcher isn’t like anyone you’ve ever met. The Albany Herald described her as a “force of nature”, and I haven’t seen a single thing that would lead me to say they’re wrong. The few times I’ve met her lead me to a similar conclusion. Now, she’s challenging other business owners to take on more employees. She looked around and found that there was room to hire a few of the unemployed and has issued a challege for others to do the same. Obviously, Fletcher qualifies as one of those “real leaders” I’ve talked about, and she’d done it in a way that I can’t do anything but applaud. So I started this morning laying bare my soul on my FB page with the tragedy that really began my war with legalists within the Christian church (they were called Pharissees during the time of Christ, “legalists” now), and honestly that put me into a funk. There are reasons I don’t talk about that very much, with the primary one being that it is one of the deepest, darkest areas of my life. So I’m not going to dwell on it here. But that incident, which was the beginning of both my outright war with legalists as well as one of the key turning points in my life thus far, got me started thinking about beginnings. I saw that this post will be the 800th post on this site – in under 10 months. Here’s Ray McBerry’s newest commercial: State Senator John Wiles called me back yesterday, and we were able to speak for a few minutes about the controversy that erupted this week during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on SB 292. I’ve said about all I can on that particular topic without risking misquoting someone, so I’m not going to be discussing the events of that day here. Senator Wiles offered to write something up about his thoughts on those events, and I offered to publish anything he writes via the Publius account, so we’ll see if that actually happens. But during the conversation, Senator Wiles stated that he is one of the most ardent defenders of both the US and GA Constitutions. He said that he considers the oath he takes to defend both Constitutions every two years to be absolutely sacred, and that he does all he can to defend them both. We got to talking about things along these lines, and he brought up a really interesting point for me to ponder, which y’all get to read about now: Who else can defend us against the government but lawyers? Nathan Deal recently spoke to the Savannah Morning News, and Jason put up a post about it on PeachPundit.
Largely, I agree with Jason’s feelings on the matter – the tax increase is absolutely ludicrous, particularly in the current climate. I oppose ALL “sin taxes”, no matter the reason. I also call for the General Assembly to pass – and Governor Perdue to sign – either of the Zero Based Budgeting bills currently in the General Assembly. The Senate has already passed David Shafer’s SB 1, which I prefer, and the House has already passed Tom Graves’ HB 44, both of which largely do the same thing. Here are the last two questions I was able to get on video before my battery died in the middle of Ray McBerry’s answer for the second question. The Fifth question is in two parts again due to youtube’s strict 10 minute limit, and involves infrastructure spending: Part 1: My son had to memorize the Rights of Americans this week. In case you don’t know the basic rights of Americans, here is the list that he had to memorize. We, as a community, may well be screwed. It’s true. You see, we’ve got some serious problems in this town, and I’m curious about whether or not our supposed leaders understand them enough to actually do anything. And I wouldn’t be upset if these “leaders” were saying things like “hey, we’re just going to make the problem worse. Government always does, so we’re leaving it up to you.” God’s honest truth, I could respect that since that’s generally my opinion on government. Continue reading Sticking their head in the sand |
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