By Chad on 1/24/2010
I just read an interesting reflection on the religious overtones of the tragic earthquake in Haiti and the rather evil-sounding pronouncement by Pat Robertson on the “causes.” It got me thinking about the presence of God in the midst of this kind of disaster, and I felt like sharing. This verse sums up a lot of my thoughts:
In the day of prosperity be happy,
But in the day of adversity consider —
God has made the one as well as the other
So that man will not discover anything that will be after him.
I have seen everything during my lifetime of futility; there is a righteous man who perishes in his righteousness and there is a wicked man who prolongs his life in his wickedness.
— Ecclesiastes 7:14-16
Continue reading “God and Haiti”
Posted in Religion
By Chad on 12/21/2009
Yes, it’s a shit sandwich compared to the filet mignon we might have had in a perfect world, but it is much better than the status quo. It will give coverage to millions of currently-uninsured people, get a handle on out-of-control Medicare cost growth, stop the most egregious abuses of the insurance companies (by eliminating denial and recision of coverage), and do so in a way that is deficit-neutral.
Continue reading “Pass the Health Reform Bill”
Posted in Politics | Tagged 538, Harry Reid, health care, Lieberman, Medicare, Nate Silver, Obama, Paul Krugman, U.S. Senate
By Chad on 5/8/2009
…and I don’t know whether to despise him or move him to #1 on my all-time heroes list.
Note: don’t read any further if you haven’t seen Star Trek yet!
Continue reading “J.J. Abrams is an Evil Genius”
Posted in Movies | Tagged Alex Kurtzman, Enterprise, J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci, Star Trek
By Chad on 11/5/2008
I’m giddy with excitement over our new President-Elect, but some of my friends on Facebook are really bumming me out. I’m sure some of them actually think we’re in the End Times now that Obama was won. I truly do sympathize – I am Pro-Life, and I do care about ending abortion. But a political party has to be about more than just paying lip service to an important issue to command my allegiance – and it should be obvious by now that I am not alone. The Democratic majority in the House of Representatives was already larger than that of the so-called “Republican Revolution” in 1994, and it grew by 25 or more seats tonight. In the Senate, Democrats are going to be just 2 votes shy of a filibuster-proof majority. U.S. voters have thoroughly repudiated the Republican way of governing, and the GOP is going to have to adjust if they want to have any chance of a comeback in 2 or 4 years.
So, in the spirit of bipartisanship, I am going to offer my genuine assessment of what the Republican Party needs to do to become relevant in the center of American politics again.
Continue reading “How The Republican Party Can Regain Power”
Posted in Politics | Tagged Bush, education, global warming, lunatic fringe, McCain, Obama, Politics, republicans, Science, talk radio, William F. Buckley
By Chad on 10/28/2008
I’m sick and tired of being accused by every knee-jerk “conservative” that we Obama supporters are only voting for him because he’s black, or because we like socialism, or because we just want “change,” but we don’t care what that change entails. Get this straight: we know exactly what kind of change we are voting for, and it is nothing more or less than the same progressive principles that have served our country well for over a century.
Continue reading “Why I’m Voting For Obama”
Posted in Politics | Tagged Bush, change, diplomacy, economy, health care, Iran, McCain, Obama, Russia
By Chad on 10/12/2008
You know, I don’t care if the President is the smartest guy in the room. I don’t even care if he (or she) is in the top 5. But he damn sure needs to be smart enough to hire smart people, and he sure as hell needs to be smart enough to understand what they tell him!
We’ve already had 8 years of a President who doesn’t give a shit about hiring smart, qualified people, or about paying attention to their advice when he accidentally does hire one. When John McCain says that he doesn’t really know very much about economics, that scares the bejezus out of me. And the thought of having a person a heartbeat away from the presidency whose grasp of the English language is tenuous at best actually causes me to lose sleep.
Say what you will about Obama, but there is no denying that he is a smart, smart man. What’s so bad about that?
Posted in Politics | Tagged elitism, McCain, Obama, Palin, Politics
By Chad on 9/8/2008
I’m a liberal and proud of it.
Posted in Politics | Tagged Liberal
By Chad on 9/4/2008
I usually try to not get to worked up by The Daily Show. I watch it to laugh. But sometimes they do too good a job of pointing out what bald-faced liars Republican operatives are, that it makes my blood boil. Watch September 3’s episode, and watch what how completely full of shit Karl Rove, Bill O’Reilly*, Sean Hannity* and Dick Morris are. I can’t even list the bullshit they spout. Just watch the show. If that doesn’t convince you that these fuckers need to be thrown out of Washington with all possible haste, I don’t know what else to say.
*Yes, I meant to imply that Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity are Republican operatives. When they abandon any pretense of journalistic detachment, they deserve to be called what they are: craven party hacks.
Posted in Politics | Tagged Bill O'Reilly, Daily Show, Dick Morris, Jon Stewart, Karl Rove, republicans, Sean Hannity
