A church in eastern Kentucky has voted to not allow interracial couples to join the church or take part in its services.  They will, however, let them come to church for worship, which is might Christian of them.  The vote was 9 to 6, with most people in the congregation refusing to take part.  The author of the resolution claims that he’s not a racist.

Sparky, I think you need to get yourself a dictionary.  “Racist” tends to set somewhere between “Racecar” and “Recollect”.  I’d say that the act of not allowing a couple to become a part of your group based on the amount of melanin one of them carries around is pretty much textbook racism.

The “I’m not a racist, but I wouldn’t want my daughter to date an X” comment is probably one of the few types of overt racism I still hear.  To be honest, people who make that kind of comment find themselves out of my life and that of my family pretty quickly. 

I’m an overly protective father, to both my boys and my girls.  But I will find much better reasons to challenge those who want to date and/or marry my children than their skin color.  I’m going to judge potential boyfriends and girlfriends based on the content of their character, not the color of their skin.  If a young man treats my daughter well, doesn’t act like trash, and holds down a good job, it won’t matter to me where his ancestors came from. 

Now, if you have a problem with other races, or maybe an interracial couple makes you feel all squishy inside, I’m not going to waste my breath trying to convince you that you’re wrong.  I’ll do that by setting a good example.  But this church needs to remember this:  Christ didn’t come to save just the people who fit the mold.  His church and the salvation He offers is for everyone.  I’m not the most observant Christian around, but I’m pretty sure that excluding someone because you don’t approve of the person they love flies in the face of that offer.

I hope this church comes to its senses, is honest with itself about what a bad thing it is that they are doing, and reverses this decision.   The Lord’s table is no place for telling your brothers and sisters that they are not welcome.

A man was arrested at Boston’s Logan Airport after passengers on his flight reported that he was looking at child pornography while seated on the airplane.  No comment from the alleged hairball on the matter as yet.

I used to fly quite a bit, and I was ‘lucky’ enough to do it as things like laptops and such were coming into the mainstream.  It is amazing what people will watch or listen to on an airplane.  There’s nothing like being seated next to the guy who watches X-rated videos from Frankfurt to Dulles.  That had nothing on the flight with the screaming baby, let me tell you.   Then there’s the gangsta rap fan who listened to the latest version of “cuss and swear with a rhythm and talk about women as if they were disposable napkins” on his laptop speakers during a flight between Austin and Phoenix.   I feel embarrassed if someone can hear my music coming through my headset, and these people are watching porn, playing lude music, and sometimes a lot worse where everyone else can get an eyeful.

Usually being a big guy with a bad haircut worked in my favor.  Most of the time a polite “Can you knock that off before I knock it off for you?” stopped the bad behavior.   Yes, my people skills are legendary.

This dimwit alleged pedophile decided to indulge his sick kink while in the first class cabin of a trans-continental flight.  Imagine what it’s like at his house.   Hopefully he’s already been identified by the family as Uncle Badtouch and no-one goes over to his place for Thanksgiving.

Let’s hope the wheels of justice to a good job grinding him into sausage.

A constitutional law professor at Suffolk University Law School in Massachusetts has drawn fire for expressing his views that it is “shameful” for the university to promote sending CARE packages to deployed soldiers.

“I think it is shameful that it is perceived as legitimate to solicit in an academic institution for support for men and women who have gone overseas to kill other human beings,”

Fair enough.  A citizen has the right to hold any opinion or conviction he or she wants to, no matter how misguided or despicable.  Honestly, if the good professor truly believes that young American men and women join the military so that they can go over seas and kill people, well, I guess he can believe what he wants to believe.  And if he doesn’t want to contribute to the CARE package drive, or even wants to discourage others from participating, that’s also his right.  Far be it from me to force anyone to do anything against their convictions.


Just out of curiosity, I looked up Professor Avery’s profile at the university website.  When someone has such a low opinion about me and those like me, I try to understand how they came to that opinion.  Who knows, maybe he’s a combat vet who has seen too much horror and has swung way to the other side of the spectrum, or maybe he’s been the victim of brutality at the hands of some third world dictator, either of which would explain his opinion that military servicemembers are nothing but cold-blooded killers looking for a world tour of mayhem.


No, nothing here about military service, or working with the military.   Don’t see anything in his bio about being roughed up by Third World thugs either. 


Wow, he’s had quite a few jobs, but I suppose that would make him a well-rounded attorney and constitutional law professor.  You know, I think President Obama was a professor in constitutional law.  Wow, small world.  Lots of work for the ACLU, but I’ve held jobs I’m not proud of too, so who am I to cast aspersions on how this man earns his living?  A man’s got to eat, you know.


Has a few books listed here, and quite a few articles of his got published too.  Well, I’ve heard the term publish or perish, so maybe that’s it.  Seems to fall a bit left of center in his titles, but then again, it takes all kinds.


Hmmm, educated at Yale.  Not too shabby.  Lots of good people come out of the Ivy League.  You know, like President Kennedy and both Presidents Bush.  You remember those guys, don’t you professor?  Those were Ivy Leaguers who volunteered to join the military because they felt it was a good thing to do for their country.  


Did undergrad work at Moscow State University in 1968 and 1969.  Wow, this guys old enough to be my father.  You know, I’ve always thought that part of Idaho was beautiful.  Can’t begrudge him going to college there.


What?  Not Idaho?  What’s that?  U.S.S.R?


You’re kidding, right?  No?


So let me get this straight:  This jack-n-ape did his undergrad education at Moscow State University in the U.S.S.R. at the height of the Vietnam War, then came back and attended one of the finest and most sought after law schools in the world.  He’s held a succession of jobs through the years, including working as a counsel for an organization that believes in protecting civil liberties, just not all of the civil liberties.  He was strolling down the Arbat making googly eyes at all the pretty Comsomol Ladies Auxiliary candidates while my father was manning a 105mm howitzer at a firebase in Vietnam and he wants people to not send our troops overseas baby wipes and paperback novels because he thinks they’re nothing more than hired killers?


I’ve got some news for you professor.  While you were enjoying cheap vodka and all the Communist literature you could carry, your hosts were slaughtering innocent Czech civilians for no other reason than the fact that they were 23 years ahead of the Soviet Union in figuring out that Communism was a load of crap.  I’m not going to attack your stance on CARE packages too much.  Honestly, if I was deployed, I wouldn’t ask you to piss in my mouth if my teeth were on fire.  


But someone who fits the textbook definition of “useful idiot” ought to spend a little less time spouting the pseudo-pacifist dreck that was fed to the American left during the Vietnam era and more time doing a little introspection on whether or not everything he believes about people’s motivation to serve their country was absolute bullcrap thought up during an alcoholic haze in a dorm room a couple of miles from Red Square.

Recently, I took issue with the tripling of cost and multi-decade timeline for a fast rail project to connect the big cities in California.  I was aghast at the cost overruns before the first shovel of dirt had been dug.

Now I find that San Francisco, also known as Pyongyang on the Bay, has a much smaller project that costs more per yard than anything I’ve ever heard of. But I promise to discuss it rationally and calmly.

San Francisco is trying to dig a two mile subway tunnel.  The citizenry of San Fransisco approved the project in 2003, with an expected price tag of about $650 million.  That’s right, they expected it to cost over $300 million a mile to put in a new subway line.

Deep breath.  Remember, rational and calm

But now in 2011, eight years later, they’ve finally started digging, and they hope to start tunneling next year and be done by 2018 with an expected price tag of $1.6 billion.

Deep breath. Come on, DaddyBear, you can do this.

Most of that money is expected to come from the federal government, or as I like to call it, my taxes.

Deep breath.

OK, forget rational and calm.  Are you freaking kidding me?  These bluntskulls want to put a two mile subway tunnel into a city known for shaking itself to the ground and setting itself on fire, at a cost of billions of dollars and over a decade of time?  And you want me and the rest of the people in the country who pay taxes to foot the bill?  Have you all lost your ever loving, patchouli smelling, Prius driving minds?

Did something happen to the water in California over the past few decades?  Did they start using lead pipes to bring in water the way that Rome did, and this is the pathetic result?  Is this what you get when all the hippies at Haight-Ashbury take too much bad acid and then procreate?

You know, someday I hope to wake up and find that all the stupid people have pulled a lemming and walked into the surf all at once.  But it’s a forlorn hope.  The stupid people wouldn’t want to see me that happy.