Author: Romeocat

I just sent this to Sen. Warner‘s office:

Senator, have you read about this pledge?

If the United States Senate passes a resolution, non-binding or otherwise, that criticizes the commitment of additional troops to Iraq that General Petraeus has asked for and that the president has pledged, and if the Senate does so after the testimony of General Petraeus on January 23 that such a resolution will be an encouragement to the enemy, I will not contribute to any Republican senator who voted for the resolution. Further, if any Republican senator who votes for such a resolution is a candidate for re-election in 2008, I will not contribute to the National Republican Senatorial Committee unless the Chairman of that Committee, Senator Ensign, commits in writing that none of the funds of the NRSC will go to support the re-election of any senator supporting the non-binding resolution.

I’ve signed it.

Should you support such a resolution, please be aware that I *will* remember, and I *will* do what I can to see that you are not re-elected. If you vote in favor of such a cowardly and despicable resolution, you are effectively spitting in the face of our brave troops, and giving aid and comfort to our enemy.

As a conservative Republican, I am disgusted with my party in general for falling away from the founding principles of our party. I abhor the pandering and the kowtowing to the enemies of America and the slavish adherence to political correctness. Please find a moral compass AND a spine, and stand for these principals with honor and courage.

Sincerely,
Kat
www.CatHouseChat.com

Admittedly, I am simply a small fry – a concerned citizen. Nevertheless, I am voicing my opinion. If enough of America voices their outrage at such cowardly and dastardly “resolutions,” perhaps our so-called “leaders” will actually remember who they work for…

(Crossposted from CatHouse Chat)

(Over at CatHouse Chat, I’m blogging my resolution to read my Bible every day, and try to post on it at least four days a week. Here is today’s entry – I hope you find it edifying!)

Hey-ho! I’m actually starting this before noon (barely – it’ll be AFTER noon before it’s finished, LOL), but I am determined to keep up with my resolution!

So, for today’s readings from the MacArthur Daily Bible, we have Genesis 37 and 38, Psalm 9:11-20, Proverbs 3:31-35, and Matthew 13:1-30.

As you see from the title, the Parable of the Wheat and the Tares jumped out at me:

Another parable He put forth to them, saying: “The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field; but while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat and went his way. But when the grain had sprouted and produced a crop, then the tares also appeared. So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest, and at the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, “First gather together the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them, but gather the wheat into my barn.'”

Have you ever heard the phrase, “Just because you’re in a garage, doesn’t mean you’re a car”? If you have, I bet it was in the context of discussing what a “real” Christian is.

Continue reading “The Wheat and the Tares”

This morning while driving the Darling Munchkin to school, I had my iPod playing, and an old song by Styx, from their Grand Illusion album, started playing… and I was taken back to when I wasn’t much older than ten (I was 14), and Styx was one of my favorite groups!

I remember having the radio on all the time. I remember stacking six albums on my record player, and turning it on low as I went to sleep. I remember going to the record store and flipping through album after album, looking for Manfred Mann’s the Roaring Silence so I could have “Blinded by the Light” in my collection.

I remember not worrying about seatbelts. I remember going trick-or-treating in my neighborhood and not even needing to worry about being kidnapped. I remember riding my bike to and from the club pool, and sneaking in after dark (after I had my license) to go skinny-dipping. I remember walking from my school to the Avenue (after school – I was a good girl, LOL), and being picked up by one of my teachers and given a lift.

I remember paying $1.95 for a nice, thick paperback novel. I remember Daddy bringing home a calculator that added, subtracted, divided and multiplied, and had one memory… And was the size of a typewriter. Hey, I remember typewriters!

As I talked to the Munchkin about all this, I realized all the things she’s growing up with that I had no clue were coming: computers, the Internet, cable TV, stalkers, terrorism…

And I told her that I now understood (yeah, just NOW) how much my parents worried about me as I was growing up – their childhoods were very different from mine, too. Just as I look back on all the freedoms I had that I don’t dare give to the Munchkin today, they must have looked at all the changes that happened in their lifetimes and been deeply concerned about my welfare.

The Munchkin’s fenced areas are now both narrower and broader than my restrictions were. The Beloved Husband and I want our child to grow up secure but aware, confident but careful, and loved but disciplined. Today, I got smacked in the face (again) with how hard that is.

Don’t worry, Mom and Dad. We’ll take care of your favorite (only!) granddaughter. We’ll watch over her, love her, guide and teach her to the best of our ability. God willing, in twenty or thirty years, she’ll be talking to her own children and remember our conversation this morning… And will have the same fierce, protective desire to love, cherish and guide her children into the future as her parents did before her.

(Crossposted from CatHouse Chat)

You absolutely *must* go on over to the Evangelical Outpost and read what Joe has posted about pre-marital adultery –

My recycling bin is a symbol of the obligation I feel I owe future generations. Unfortunately, I have no such token to give my wife that shows the obligation I owed her. Instead, I had only a string of sexual sins that showed that before we met I treated the concept of “soul mate” as a useful fiction. I offer this confession to young people who have not yet lost one of the most valuable gifts God gives man: the ability to give oneself completely to the person you love. If you want to show true love to your future spouse, then start now by keeping the Seventh Commandment.

Read the whole thing!

And, you should have bookmarked EO, and be reading every day!

(Crossposted from CatHouse Chat)

First and foremost… GO SIGN THE PETITION!!!! Thank you!

I’m sure our readers are already well aware of the news out of Afghanistan about a man, Abdul Rahman, who is on trial for his life for converting to Christianity. Doug from Below the Beltway, asks “And these are the people we helped liberate?” and quotes a VOA News article:

On Thursday the prosecution told the court Rahman has rejected numerous offers to embrace Islam.

Prosecuting attorney Abdul Wasi told the judge that the punishment should fit the crime.

He says Rahman is a traitor to Islam and is like a cancer inside Afghanistan. Under Islamic law and under the Afghan constitution, he says, the defendant should be executed.

Excuse me, but how is this substantially different from the restrictions and tyranny of the Taliban?

ABC News (on page two) quotes the judge who is apparently presiding over this case –

The post-Taliban constitution recognizes Islam as Afghanistan’s religion, and decrees that Islam’s Sharia law applies when a case is not covered by specific legislation. The prosecutor says under Sharia law, Abdul Rahman must die.

The judge, however, holds hopes for a solution.

“We will ask him if he has changed his mind about being a Christian,” Mawlazezadah says. “If he has, we will forgive him, because Islam is a religion of tolerance.”

This is not tolerance, this is INTOLERANCE. So much for the so-called “Religion of Peace”! I can just imagine the outcry and rage of everyone if we swapped religions: if this man were on trial for his life because he converted to Islam from Christianity, and if the judge then called Christianity a “religion of tolerance.” Pfft! Hypocrites!

Over the weekend, Michelle Malkin noted that this story is not getting much media attention, even from our Christian President, and posted the charges Rahman is facing:

“Yes that’s true, a man has converted to Christianity. He’s being tried in one of our courts,” Supreme Court judge Ansarullah Mawlavizada said, adding that his trial began early last week.

He said the man could face the death penalty if he refused to revert to Islam as Sharia law proposes capital punishment for any Muslim who converts to another religion. Afghanistan’s constitution states: “No law can be contrary to the sacred religion of Islam.”

Barbaric. Absolutely barbaric! This is not freedom, this is not liberty, this is not tolerance!

Michelle followed up yesterday, giving ABC due credit for reporting on the story, and also posting the addresses for the Embassy of Afghanistan and the State Department. I would strongly urge that we all follow her suggestion and write, politely but passionately, to express our deep concern and revulsion for this perversion of “justice”:

Write the embassy of Afghanistan:

Ambassador Said T. Jawad
Embassy of Afghanistan
2341 Wyoming Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
info@embassyofafghanistan.org

Contact the State Department:

U.S. Department of State
2201 C Street NW
Washington, DC 20520
Main Switchboard:
202-647-4000

Following those addresses, she adds much more information, so you ought to go over and read what she has posted.

(Crossposted at CatHouse Chat)

Earlier this week, I heard a few snippets of a sermon on Ephesians 2, and it’s really been sticking in my mind. Story of my life, of course: I can’t remember who it was who was preaching. My local station is WRVL-FM – Victory FM, broadcast by Liberty University. However, since I also have XM in the car (and that’s where I listen to the radio the most), it could also have been their Family Talk Radio station.

No biggie.

But what the pastor was talking about regarding Ephesians 2 was the huge and transformational difference between who we were before salvation, and who we are now after salvation. It’s been going around and around in my mind, and showing me, yet again, how wonderful, gracious and awe-inspiring God’s love is!

Continue reading “Sunday Thoughts”

Because I am the sick, twisted, and bizarre person God has made me (THANK You, Lord, LOLOL), I have promised a quilt to David and his Lady Wife.

I requested a general color preference, and David’s Lady granted that she likes sage green and creams, with other accents, and so I offer – through God’s rich grace and Providence – a kit I bought two years ago (Oh, yeah, yet another chance to reduve my “stash” — so I can buy MOREMOREMORE!).

David, here are the colors – and make sure your Lady isn’t completely nauseated by them, OK?

Continue reading “Oh, David…”

My –our – beloved blog-brother, GM Roper, is fighting cancer. He was diagnosed just a couple weeks ago, went through surgery this past Monday, and is currently in recovery. He’s a tough, determined, and optimistic man, he has a very loving and supportive family, and he’s going to look this tumor in the eye and fight it to his victory.

I am blessed to be associated with him, both in the Wide Awakes, and in the South Park Republicans. He is an encouragement to me, a reasoned voice in the blogosphere, and a beloved brother.

I’ve been in the process of making a quilt for him and his Lady Wife, in part because my finances are a bit strained right now, but mostly because it’s a way I can send real, physical hugs to a gentleman of honor, grace and intelligence who I admire greatly.

And so, to my friends and readers, I’d like to make a very rare – but earnest – bleg. GM has some very substantial medical bills, and any assistance you could give would be very much appreciated. Would you do me the favor of going to his site and clicking on his PayPal button and making a donation? It\’s on his right margin, just a little bit down from the top, with a Visa/MasterCard button displayed on it.

GM is an honorable man, honest and forthright, and encourages civil and reasoned discussion. I love him dearly, even though I’ve never met him face to face. He is fighting this cancer with determination and optimism, and it would be a blessing to him for us all to show our support in some way. Financial support right now might be the most practical method, but if you can’t, please stop by and let him know your best wishes and prayers are with him and his family.

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This is a repost of Romeocat’s post that was lost in the blogage blackout this weekend here at twc. Just let me add a small word: I have been searching for the words to say something along these lines, and when R’Cat e-d to say she’d like to, I knew the right “voice” had answered the need. GM’s a really great guy. Lend him your prayers on top of any other support you may be able to offer. –mnmus

PSA-ed at Don Surber’s, The Conservative Cat and Committees of Correspondence.