Current Events: November 2008 Archives

Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death

People killed a man to get in to Wal-Mart...Wal-Mart?

I can guarantee this is not how Our Lord wanted his birthday celebrated.

Another black pro-lifer's reaction

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From Jill Stanek:

Reading your article brought back most of what I felt after the election. I have never felt so hopeless and depressed. I cried harder than I have since losing my earthly father and hero, Pop, 4 years ago.

Every time I had even a slight thought about Obama, my eyes welled and I'd find myself on my knees crying out to God. The whole thing really had me going for at almost 3 days, I couldn't shake the feeling of doom for millions of babies... America... the world!

I didn't watch the news. I didn't want to talk to people, not even my husband. I was glad my pro-life (Democrat) son who came home to work and vote McCain/Palin was tied up working on his laptop. I didn't want to put on a happy face for him either....

I couldn't eat! The day after the election I stayed balled up in bed for half the day, which is very unusual for me. I'm usually up at 5am every day, 6am on weekends. I was so terribly sad.

I finally got up and with great panic started searching my Bible for Scripture and I prayed and prayed, face down on the floor. With every prayer and Bible reading I became strengthened, but just a little bit at a time.

Still shaken, I started calling my best and closest pro-life friends. First on my list was Alveda King [pro-life leader and niece of Dr. Martin Luther King]. While she also admitted to a deep sadness, she reminded me we must not limit God. Others I called had similar things to say and offering Scripture.

If we believe God is who He says He is, then we must also believes He knows who Barack is and what is at stake in an Obama presidency.

GOD has comforted me, mended my heart and strengthened me. I thank my LORD and SAVIOR for such loving sisters and brothers in CHRIST.

And I thank you, Jill. Reading the article this morning reminded me again that we have a big fight ahead of us, but we serve a big God - the BIGGEST!

I am happy God has chosen us to serve in this fight, this great mission.

The first part I so can relate to. As for the second, other people's hope brings me hope. What else is there?

Yesiree, we are more "united" than ever

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Feel the love. There are so many meeting of the minds taking place:

I asked her about our own PP center near historic Fisk University. This particularly infuriated her for some reason and led the pastor to get involved by raising "reparations" and the cruelty of America's heritage. I am now clearer on what is meant by "spreading the wealth."

Pro-active stuff

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American Papist has the details about how the election of a black president might inspire us to elect a black pope.

Yesterday I wanted to hide. Today I want to slit my throat.

I have to say, some of the comments are awesome:

I am so bloody sick and tired of EVERYTHING going by what shade of skin folks have....

Seriously, WHY?!?! I don't dislike Obama 'cus he's black, I dislike him because he's socialistic and won't defend babies.
I don't love B16 because he's German, I love him because he's a good Pope.
Foxfier

I am glad when not everyone in the world has gone nuts.

Good-bye, I'm Leaving

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I have read from many people that we, all of us, democrats, republicans, pro-lifers and pro-choicers alike should rejoice because at least now we have a black president. Yet, all I want to do, as I described to friends, is take my bed to some foreign country, move it there and hide under it.

I have been trying to formulate a blog post about race in this election, but decided against it as it is a tricky subject. People who do not think that often about race might not get what I am trying to convey, especially in the midst of my jumbled pregnancy-brained writings. So I decided against it on a few occasions for fear I might word something wrong, not get my point across and end insulting everyone. But now that I have back-up, here's the gist of it: I found myself personally hurt beyond a level I thought was possible as the presidential should not be so personal because many black people boldly stated that they were voting for a black president simply because he is black. Wow. this is not a racial victory, all it is is a litmus test to bring to the forefront how racially ill and divided we are.

Before I say something truly stupid (again, words escape my pregnancy mind), LaShawn Barber stated everything I have been feeling much better than I could:

I read quite a few music and book author blogs, and most of the bloggers are Obama-supporting liberals. I can almost see them patting themselves on the back as they try to convince themselves race means nothing to them and that Obama’s presidency signals the beginning a new era of diversity, tolerance, blah, blah, blah. But they’ve got it twisted. Voting for Obama because he represents some post-racial ideal is to inject race into the equation...

...It the end, it doesn’t matter why white people voted for Obama. He’s the leader of the free world now (shudder). Who I am to interfere with their “I voted for a black man because I don’t care about race” back-patting?

Steele asks what Obama’s election means to blacks. Well, I doubt it will do anything to decrease illegitimacy among blacks (70 percent; as high as 80 percent in some urban areas), or decrease child killing, or strengthen families and communities, or much of anything. It’s a proud moment for many blacks, to be sure, but having a black man in the White House will not motivate black Americans to wait until marriage to have babies, to stop killing their babies (and at three times the rate of white women), or to stop uttering the word racism whenever they don’t get their way...

...As long as families (the foundation of society) are in shambles, conditions won’t improve much. But with Obama in office, white liberals can feel good about themselves and blacks can feel proud, fatherless children and dead babies be damned.

Jeff Miller Sums It Up Quite Well

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In his in his Mandatory post-election rant. I am glad I am not alone.

Facebook people, let's pray for Barack Obama's conversion.

Now That I Ranted

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I propose we all pray for our new president and vice president. He will needs God's grace to make the right decisions, and we can only benefit if he does.

In the meantime, if anyone wants to do a "Convert Obama Novena" with me, I'm game. Maybe ask for the Intercession of the Holy Innocents? St. Paul?

Update: Totally missed Peony's post.Just having my coffee now.

So now what?

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Well, without using a calculator, everyone believed Obama when he claimed to pull magic money out his ass to right our nations economic wrongs.

And now I'm afraid.

I'm afraid of the wide scale genocide and ethnic cleansing that will stepped up because of FOCA. I'm afraid for those of us who do not believe in abortion, what it would mean. Increased abortion means increased devalue of life. Increased "sex ed", increased pressure for everyone to contracept. Increased valuing a child only on a dollar sign basis.

I'm afraid of some stupid plan to turn Iraq into Vietnam just to prove a point. I am afraid of what is going to happen to our boys over there while the president and congress enact some stupid policy along the lines of Murtha's slow bleed, or something else that will make Americans helplessly sit by and watch and think "you can't do that!"

I am going to stop now before I start spewing my crazy conspiracy theories. When Clinton won, I just kind of shrugged my shoulders and said "Oh well, maybe he will do something about health care like he said." This time, I am genuinely afraid.

We need to up our prayers. And we need to pray for our Church leaders so they continue what they started in this campaign to be the voice of right and sanity in the times we will be coming up against.


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