Peace! Be Still

a little Billy Collins for our own early November

Vermont, Early November

It was in between seasons,
after the thin twitter of late autumn
but before the icy authority of winter,

and I took in the scene from a porch,
a tableau of silo and weathervane
and a crowd of ferns on the edge of the woods--

nothing worth writing about really,
but it is too late to stop now
that the ferns and silo have been mentioned.

I drank my warm coffee
and took note of the disused tractor
and the lopsided sign to the cheese factory.

Not one of those mornings
that makes you want to seize the day,
not even enough glory to make you want

to grasp every other day
yet after staring for a while
at the plowed-under fields and the sky,

I turned back to the order of the kitchen
determined to seize firmly
the second Wednesday of every month that lay ahead.

Billy Collins

WHATTT????

The other day, an Obama-supporting teacher of mine, whom I will not name, told our class gleefully that "The days of capitalism are fast ending, and you know what comes next..."

Someone in our small class snorted a skeptical, "uh, socialism."

The teacher didn't respond, but looked at them with a nod and a smile, with a kind of x-induced euphoric gleam.

Whenever conservatives bring up Obama's undeniable socialist jargon and ties to frightening figures like Saul Alinsky, they are never able to refute it, and they don't even care enough to look into it. They say we're ridiculous and out of line for making rude, insane accusations, and that we are no better than that 'damned' Mccarthy. These days, our political allegiances are so iron bound and prideful, that the possibility that our presidential candidate may just plan to "redistribute the wealth" goes unexamined. When McCain's political ad about Obama's ties to political wack-job extremist Bill Ayers was shown in a class of mine, the ad's message as a credible possibility was not even discussed. Instead, my teacher, who is close friends with Bill Ayers, kept calling him "Billy," and reminisced about how great he was.

Andrew Abela, PhD. puts it very well:

Redistribution of wealth is, plain and simple, taking from those who have more and giving to those who have less. Or, in the words of Karl Marx: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need." The biggest problem with this approach is that once those on the receiving side become a large voting bloc, the temptation for government to keep increasing taxes on the rest to satisfy that bloc is almost irresistible, and so taxes just keep increasing. I lived in Canada for many years, so I know this first hand.

Vote against Senator Obama because he is not willing to do anything to save
the babies. And vote against him also because you'll be taking home less
money after tax in order to feed, clothe, house, and educate your own
babies.

When you meet the souls of the millions of dead babies in the next life, do
you think you will be able to face them and say to them that you did not use
your vote to try to help them, because you think that the day when abortion
will be illegal again in the US "may have passed us forever"?

a couple articles:

Obama says that he would bankrupt the coal industry if they try to open any new, clean burning energy plants.

And here is Biden's opinion.

WHAT?? Consider all the railroads, dock workers, etc., who depend directly on the coal industry. This man is the worst thing that could happen to this country. Keep storming heaven for tomorrow.

PLEASE! Pray for Tuesday, and the thousands and thousands of innocent lives at stake in this election!

controversial film regarding born-alive

An independent film maker recently shot a 25 minute short entitled "22 Weeks." Here is a link to a pretty sickening article about it.

Alejandro Monteverde, who directed Bella, called it "One of the most disturbing stories I've ever come across." There is an intense preview on the page of the article, and the link to the film's actual cite can be reached here. I'd advise viewer discretion because, to be frank, it's really upsetting. However, if you can handle it, it's the bleeding truth to the horrors of what our society does to the unborn, as well as the equally frightening ardency and secrecy with which those within the abortion business hide the reality of abortion's graphic cruelty. So if it serves to either convince you of the horrific inhumanity of some of our "choices", or to increase your devotion to prohibiting the slaughter of the unborn, then the movie is doing it's job.