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The Weblog at The View from the Core - Tuesday, January 04, 2005
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Four Thousand! This is the 4,000th entry in The Blog from the Core. Thanks, Faithful Reader, for your continuing support. :-) Lane Core Jr. CIW P Tue. 01/04/05 07:19:01 PM |
Catholic Carnival XI At CowPi Journal this week. Your Humble, Faithful Blogster has an entry in this week's Carnival. Lane Core Jr. CIW P Tue. 01/04/05 07:07:01 PM |
O the Sweetness of It Finally, an error we can rejoice over. (Thanks, Kathryn Jean.) Lane Core Jr. CIW P Tue. 01/04/05 05:52:14 PM |
"You Might Be A Liberal If ..." A column by Ed Lynch at the Roanoke Times, Dec. 30, 2004 (first ellipsis in original): .... You might be a liberal if … You think that if someone is getting richer, someone, somewhere, must be getting poorer. You think that protestors outside nuclear power plants are dedicated activists, but protestors outside abortion clinics are dangerous zealots interfering with a legal activity. You believe that more federal regulations will make your life better. You believe that even though the top 20 percent of taxpayers pay 80 percent of income taxes, that the rich are not paying their “fair share.” You think that Rush Limbaugh’s listeners are mindless “dittoheads,” but you have never doubted anything that you heard from Michael Moore. You believe in global warming today just as firmly as you believed in global cooling back in the 1970s. You believe that the network news is a better indicator of what “real” news is than talk radio, Internet news sites, and blogs. You believe that there was never, ever a problem with biased news coverage until Fox News went on the air.... Lane Core Jr. CIW P Tue. 01/04/05 05:41:46 PM |
Iraqi Indicts The Left Naseer Flayih Hasan writes at FrontPage, yesterday: Before the last war, we Iraqis spent decades cut off from the outside world. Not only did the Baathist regime prevent us from traveling during the Iran-Iraq conflict and the period of the sanctions, but they punished anyone possessing satellite television. And of course, internet access was strictly limited. Because of our isolation, most of us had little idea or sense about life beyond our borders. We did believe, however, that democracy and human rights were important factors in Western civilization. So it came as a shock to us when millions of people began demonstrating across the world against America’s build-up to the invasion of our country. We supposed the protests were by people who had no idea about the terrible atrocities that the regime had inflicted upon us for decades. We assumed that once they learned what had happened in Iraq, they would change their minds, or modify their opposition to the war. My first clue that this would not happen was a few weeks after Baghdad fell. I had befriended a French reporter who had begun to realize that the situation in Iraq was not how the international media or the so-called “peace camp” described it. I noticed, however, that whenever he tried to voice his doubts to colleagues, they argued that he was wrong. Soon afterwards, I met a Dutch woman on Mutinabi Street, where booksellers lay out their wares on Friday morning. I asked her how long she’d been in Iraq and, through a translator, she answered, “Three months.” “So you were here during the war?” “Yes!” she said. “To see the crimes of the Americans!” I was stunned. After a moment, I replied, “What about the crimes of the regime? It killed millions of Iraqis. Do you know that if the regime was still in power, the conversation we’re having now would result in our torture or death?” Her face turned red and she angrily responded, “Soon will come the day that the Americans will do worse.” She then went on to accuse me of not knowing what the true facts were in Iraq — and that she could see the situation better than me!... (Thanks, Hindrocket.) Lane Core Jr. CIW P Tue. 01/04/05 07:28:32 AM |
Adoption Law Madness? Or, the fruition of an old plan? Asking the wrong questions. Jennifer Roback Morse writes at C-LOG, Sunday: Overturning an adoption placement that has been in place since the child's birth simply can't be in the child's interest. Yet that is what a Florida judge seems about to do. Actually the adoption wasn't finalized because the birth father demanded custody of the child after it was born. Although I am usually an advocate of father's rights, and involvment, this case just seems wrong to me. The birth parents were not married. The birth mother made an adoption plan for her child, that the judge wanted to overturn. Why does the desire of an unmarried father take precedence over the well-being of a three-year-old child?... Hopkins (the birth mother) and the boy's father, Steven A. White Jr., never married, and she didn't learn she was pregnant until she sought medical treatment for injuries suffered when she was assaulted in the residence they shared, court documents show. Hopkins supported the Scotts' adoption of Evan until it appeared the court might grant White's request for custody. So now, the little boy is leaving the adoptive parents who have cared for him literally since birth, to go live with his birth mother and her new husband. He will also have court ordered visits with his birth father. In other words, the court is removing this child from a stable, two-parent, married couple family (which we know gives kids the best overall life chances) and placing him into a family which is at best, a stepparent family (the birth mom and her husband), and at worst a contentious shared custody/visitation situation, (which we know is one of the most difficult environments for kids.) This case makes no sense to me.... I would suggest to Morse that it makes no sense to her because she's asking the wrong questions. These, I think, are the questions she's asking: what is best for the child? what is right? what is just? Come on, Jennifer! I think it would make a lot more sense to her were she to ask these questions: is not the family the bedrock unit of society? do we not want the American nation to become weaker and weaker until it finally collapses? would not the degradation of the family facilitate America's downfall? how can we weaken and injure the family? what decision in this specific case would be one step further along that path? Those can be the real questions being answered, Faithful Reader, even if nobody is asking them out loud even if nobody is aware that they're being asked silently. Indeed, these questions could have been asked and answered long, long ago, setting in motion a series of cascading events leading us to where we already have gotten no? Lane Core Jr. CIW P Tue. 01/04/05 07:08:07 AM |
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