Daschle keeps the string going

You know the news. Another guy in the boys club is surprised to find he owes more taxes. I guess they all agree with Leona Helmsley – taxes are for the little people. The back taxes(more than $128,000 in taxes over three years, along with $12,000 in interest and penalties), involved unreported consulting fees, questionable charitable contributions, and a car and driver provided by a private equity firm run by entrepreneur and longtime Democratic Party donor Leo J. Hindery Jr. And these guys are supposed to know how to legislate our lives? These moments are not helping Obama. These people are draining the energy of an administration that hoped to convince the American middle class they are on their side. People who don’t pay their taxes are not on our side.

A forgotten parallel between JFK and BHO

Obama Should Acknowledge His Roots
By WILLIAM MCGURN

Of the many parallels between Barack Obama and John F. Kennedy, one has eluded all coverage: Both attended Catholic school as children. In fact, while JFK may have been the Irish Catholic from Boston, he spent less time at the Canterbury School in Connecticut than did young Barry (as he was then called) at St. Francis of Assisi in Indonesia.

Another Obama appointee withdraws with tax problems

Here we go again! Does anyone pay their taxes? Click here. I am waiting for Daschle to withdraw. Should be a done deal.

Shutting Detroit Down

Here is a new song by John Rich of Big and Rich fame. The song begins somewhere around 2:45 into the video so you might want to skip ahead and get to the song. The ironies of our present financial crisis abound. Banks are coming to us for loans instead of the other way around (remember all those times of sitting across the desk from the high and mighty bankers when you really needed a loan and had to prove you had enough money, which if you had it would mean you wouldn’t need a loan?). The crooks who got us into this mess are the same ones who are making all the decisions about how to get us out of it. The guy running the Treasury can’t get his taxes straight and thinks his kids at summer camp qualifies as a deduction.  The President and VicePresident who are so concerned about the poor and left behind give to charity an amount far below the percentage even the poor give to charity. Chris Dodd who made so many decisions that forced banks to offer subprime loans himself got a sweetheart deal from a mortgage company he was supposed to be regulating. Tom Daschle owes more in unpaid taxes than most people make. The rich have to be taken care of before the poor – bottom line. And they want to run our lives!! The outrage songs are just beginning to crack through floorboards of the music industry.

Twenty Arguments for the Existence of God, per Peter Kreeft

PETER KREEFT & FR. RONALD TACELLI, SJ.
An effective rational argument for God’s existence can be an important first step in opening the mind to the possibility of faith — in clearing some of the roadblocks and rubble that prevent people from taking the idea of divine revelation seriously.
 
The Argument from Change
The Argument from Efficient Causality
The Argument from Time and Contingency
The Argument from Degrees of Perfection
The Design Argument
The Kalam Argument
The Argument from Contingency
The Argument from the World as an Interacting Whole
The Argument from Miracles
The Argument from Consciousness
The Argument from Truth
The Argument from the Origin of the Idea of God
The Ontological Argument
The Moral Argument
The Argument from Conscience
The Argument from Desire
The Argument from Aesthetic Experience
The Argument from Religious Experience
The Common Consent Argument
Pascal’s Wager 

Joe Biden botches Clinton’s swearing in

Justice Mark Roberts redux. This almost makes me believe in karma. Thanks for the gaffes, Joe. We are looking forward to years of laughs between our tears.

Today’s Quote 1/3/09

What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, ‘What does it matter so long as they are contented?’ We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven–a senile benevolence who, as they say, ‘like to see young people enjoying themselves’, and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of the day, “a good time was had by all’…I do not claim to be an exception: I should very much like to live in a universe which was governed on such lines. But since it is abundantly clear that I don’t, and since I have reason to believe, nevertheless, that God is Love, I conclude that my conception of love needs correction
–C. S. Lewis

The day the music died

So long Buddy Holly, Big Bopper and Richie Valens.