A public record of some of my thoughts. Feel free to comment, but don't expect me to respond.
While sipping some of Pigweed’s homemade apple pie moonshine, the boys review a few recent media stories, including why Tucker Carlson left Fox News.
P&C also spend a couple of minutes on the Bud Light fiasco, and then Pigweed springs a hard question on Crowhill.
I saw a tweet where someone asked why the administration continues to tell outrageous lies. E.g., that the border is secure.
A simplistic answer is that the media won’t call them on their lies, but that’s not true. Conservative media will point out the lies.
So why do they do it? Because their base — the people they need on their side to stay in power — don’t listen to or believe conservative media.
Fox News can call out Joe Biden’s lies all day long and it doesn’t matter to the Biden administration, because their people don’t listen to Fox News.
This has been going on for decades, and it gets worse every cycle. Until the media starts to value truth over consolidating their hold on their base, the government will continue to lie to us, trusting that the captive media will do their bidding.
Resumes including ‘they/them’ pronouns are more likely to be overlooked, new report finds
Of course they are. It’s a warning sign of trouble to come.
Why?
I saw this online.
My sources are telling me: Tucker was all set to go live tonight. He probably had plans to talk about the lawsuit and clear his name. Producers were prepping guests and slots of Monday’s show. Corporate nixed the idea and Tucker up and quit!
Or … has Carlson gone too far, with speeches like this?
I like the speech. This was my favorite part.
Maybe we should all just take ten minutes a day to say a prayer about it. [“It” being moral corruption in society.] I’m serious. Like, why not? And I’m saying that to you, not as some kind of evangelist, I’m literally saying that to you as an Episcopalian. The Samaritans of our time. I’m coming to you from the most humble and lowly theological position you can. I’m literally an Episcopalian. Okay? And even I have concluded it might be worth taking just ten minutes our of your busy schedule to say a prayer for the future, and I hope you will.
He’s slandering the Samaritans by comparing them to the Episcopalians, but ….
I am more and more convinced that we have three possible futures.
I can’t see any other possible future based on the mess we’re in.
Today I saw a statistic that 40 percent of teens who “come out” (as LGBT+&SGF or whatever) are thrown out of their homes. I doubt that number (97.3% of internet statistics are lies), but I’m sure some percentage of kids are kicked out when they “come out.”
What are we to make of the phenomenon? Should a kid ever get thrown out of his house? And in what situations?
I recently heard an interview with Dennis Prager in which he criticized the notion of “unconditional love.” He says a lot of Christian callers to his radio show promote the idea, but he maintains it’s not biblical and makes no sense.
Hmm. Here’s how I would evaluate the question.
First, we have to make a distinction between (1) unconditional love in the sense that you always want the best for someone, and (2) having no conditions on a relationship — like remaining under Dad’s roof no matter what you do. That is clearly stupid. There has to be a point at which even a beloved son is kicked out.
Second, we have to make a distinction between chosen and unchosen behaviors. For example, if we assume (as seems to be the case) that homosexuality is not a choice, there’s a big difference between kicking a kid out because he’s gay and kicking him out because he keeps bringing his boyfriends home.
It seems some people believe that accepting homosexuality requires accepting anything that homosexuals do, which is ridiculous. Accepting heterosexuality does not mean that you allow your daughter to bring all her boyfriends home.
Third, we have pretty much lost the idea that a family is allowed to have standards. There seems to be an assumption that parents are to love their children unconditionally, by which people mean that they have to put up with just about whatever they do — short of repeatedly trying to burn the house down, or something like that.
Parents can have standards, and they can say “if you want to live under my roof, you’ll do _____.”
Within limits, of course. And there’s the rub. How far do the limits go? What can parents insist on?
The point of the statistic was to make us feel bad for these poor, homeless kids, as if they are victims of an intolerant society.
I’m sure some are and some aren’t.
Perhaps some were kicked out simply for being gay, while others were kicked out for outrageous behavior.