Changing Direction

***Boy, there are days when we really need to re-think our positions on different issues and about different people. I've been so disappointed by some who I thought had a good head on their shoulders and really had something to offer, then I see then come to the defense of the overpaid, integrity-challenged athletes who all of a sudden are offended by our National Anthem. Just came on them all at once, you see, just like the people who are destroying confederate statues that have been present for decades. All of a sudden they're offended by them. It's a pathetic grab for attention, and in some cases, an excuse for thugs to act like what they are. We are not teaching respect to our young people. Love of country has gone by the wayside. "Do what is right for you" is the mantra now. What a selfish ideology.

I came across this story in American Thinker about a rabid liberal who took the time to really think about what she believed and followed, and didn't like what she saw. In this first excerpt, she's talking about how they always just had the big picture in mind - what did their actions look like to the public? How would it help them politically? No mention of if what they were doing actually did any good.

Back in 1975, after Hillary Rodham had followed Bill Clinton to Arkansas, she helped create the state's first rape crisis hotline. She had her eye on the big picture. What was Hillary like in her one-on-one encounters?
Hillary served as the attorney to a 41-year-old, one of two men accused of raping a 12-year-old girl. The girl, a virgin before the assault, was in a coma for five days afterward. She was injured so badly she was told she'd never have children. In 2014, she is 52 years old, and she has never had children, nor has she married. She reports that she was afraid of men after the rape.
A taped interview with Clinton has recently emerged; on it Clinton makes clear that she thought her client was guilty, and she chuckles when reporting that she was able to set him free.  In a recent interview, the victim said that Hillary Clinton "took me through Hell" and "lied like a dog." "I think she wants to be a role model… but I don’t think she’s a role model at all," the woman said. "If she had have been, she would have helped me at the time, being a 12-year-old girl who was raped by two guys."
Hillary had her eye on the all-caps resume bullet point: FOUNDS RAPE HOTLINE.

 Next is their hypocrisy. They swear they're for the "little guy," that they want to build people up and help them to have better lives, but none of their policies accomplish that. Doesn't matter, because their "intentions are good." 

Leftists freely label poor whites as "redneck," "white trash," "trailer trash," and "hillbilly." At the same time that leftists toss around these racist and classist slurs, they are so sanctimonious they forbid anyone to pronounce the N word when reading Mark Twain aloud. President Bill Clinton's advisor James Carville succinctly summed up leftist contempt for poor whites in his memorable quote, "Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find."

Let a Republican say something like that (you won't), and you would hear howls of dismay from the Left. Yet their policies have destroyed the black family (and many white families too, of course) and kept them under the thumb of welfare, and all purposefully. If they ever get out from under their thumb and make better lives for themselves, they'll find out they don't need Democrats and their handouts.

There is a lot more good stuff in this article, take the time to read it.

 ***Stories of heroism. These will warm your heart, and you'll probably learn a thing or two.

Not a single engineer made it off the Titanic. When the ship struck the iceberg, the engineers knew they had a duty to keep the ship working and afloatas long as they could. They kept the power on, prevented explosions in the engine room, and kept water from overflowing as long as they could so that others could escape.

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During the 28 month long Siege of Leningrad in WWII, 9 Soviet scientists died of starvation while protecting the world's largest seed bank. Them and a group of other scientists all banded together to protect the seeds as they were unable to evacuate them in time. They refused to eat what they saw as the future of their country and of nature.

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The monument is dedicated to the firemen who put out the fires of Chernobyl. They knew that what they were doing would likely kill them. One man, who originally claimed they didn't know that the Chernobyl meltdown flames were radioactive, said 20 years later that, "Of course we knew! If we'd followed regulations, we would never have gone near the reactor. But it was a moral obligation – our duty. We were like kamikaze." These men sacrificed themselves as heroes to prevent the meltdown from being any worse than it already was.

Several more at the link.

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The Cross
In evil long I took delight,
Unawed by shame or fear,
Till a new object struck my sight,
And stopped my wild career.
I saw One hanging on a tree,
In agonies and blood;
He fixed His languid eyes on me,
As near His cross I stood.
Sure never till my latest breath,
Shall I forget that look!
It seemed to charge me with His death,
Though not a word He spoke.
A second look He gave, which said,
"I freely all forgive;
This blood is for thy ransom paid;
I die that thou mayest live."
Thus while His death my sin displays
In all its blackest hue,
Such is the mystery of grace,
It seals my pardon too!

 —John Newton

***A child asked his father, "How were people born?" So his father said, "Adam and Eve made babies, then their babies became adults and made babies, and so on." The child then went to his mother, asked her the same question and she told him, "We were monkeys then we evolved to become like we are now." The child ran back to his father and said, "You lied to me!" His father replied, "No, your mom was talking about her side of the family."

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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. -- C. S. Lewis

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. C. S. Lewis
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