Due to my travels and the general chaos in my life and work, I haven't been able to pay attention to the birds until recently. I have posted previously about the Pileated Woodpecker and Stellar's Jay.
We recently put up a bird feeder with four different types of bird food. It has wild bird seed mix, two different suet mixes and nectar for hummingbirds. In the past few days we have seen several different birds, but no hummingbirds.
In Maryland, Illinois, Connecticut, New York, New Mexico and others, for the commission of the most heinous crimes you are punished with free room and board for life.
Maryland lawmakers voted to repeal the death penalty following five other U.S. states that have ended capital punishment in the past six years.
The House of Delegates today passed a bill that would stop prosecutors from seeking to execute those convicted of murder, the only crime for which the state allows capital punishment. The measure passed the Senate earlier this month, and Democratic Governor Martin O’Malley plans to sign it, said Takirra Winfield, a spokeswoman.
Yes, a very, very few have been wrongfully convicted. So we should risk allowing some of these real monsters to be free? (And, yes, some will be.) I think not. and after they commit more of their heinous crimes most other people will not either. The experience of the 1970's show this.
If the Left™ should succeed in abolishing capital punishment in the United States their next move will be that a sentence of Life without Parole is unconstitutional and should be abolished. We have already heard whispers of this at protests.
Lastly, a punishment is not a deterrent if it is not used.
There are some disturbing things here and some emotional testimony.
Anyone who can watch this and still support abortion as something that shouldn't be restricted to only the most dire cases, such as the mother' impending death, is soulless. Still, it is important to see the whole thing.
In addition to the tragedies to the children and parents and families of abortion victims (yes, that includes the women who had the abortions) there is the evil of Planned Parenthood. You will be shocked at what they get away with.
If you support tax dollars going to Planned Parenthood, indeed if you support them in any way, you are a fool.
The annual anti-Christmas (and anti-Christian) noise from the atheist Left™ (the atheist Right generally respects the beliefs of others) present once again. I won't provide any links because only the non-sentient could fail to see it.
Anyway, why all of this anti-Christmas rage? Why cannot the atheist Left™ be satisfied to simply be non-believers?
I believe, however—and I could be wrong—that the reason some rage against the machine is that they hate God and love their sin, and bringing up Jesus in December is not the way they wanted to finish off the year. Indeed, Christ really rains on their parade … and they love their parade.
Christmas, if you really get down to the brass tacks of it, isn’t about reindeer, elves, iPhones or Lindsay Lohan punching a gypsy, but about mankind’s sin problem and what God did to remedy it by sending His Son.
I know the chief facet most people focus on regarding Christ’s birth has been the peace on earth and good will toward men stuff, but if you dig around in the gospels a tad you’ll quickly see that the “peace on earth” thing is an ancillary perk to the main reason the second person of the godhead donned an earth suit and decided to hang out with us dunderheads. The core cause that necessitated Jesus’ incarnation was our jacked up carnality. Yep, Hambone, it was our sin. There, I said it. Sin. Yours, mine and ours.
Transgression was the reason for the season.
His viewpoint is entirely orthodox and right. Go read it all.
I am a retired Navy Chief Petty Officer and a freelance performing 'cellist who brews his own beer. I am an Orthodox Christian. I am NOT a professional journalist, therefore nothing prevents me from writing what is true. I am now working as an Engineering Technician at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
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