816 Somerset Place

Engine engine number nine speeding down Chicago line - if the train should jump the tracks - do you want your money back? Y-e-s spells "yes" and you are not it!

Bubblegums bubblegums in a dish - how many bubblegums do you wish? T-h-r-e-e spells "three" and you are not it!

Kick The Can anyone?

How do you measure a candidate?

Our government is really not a democracy. It is, as I first read Francis Schaeffer describe it, an elective autocracy. In congressional or presidential elections, we are not voting on single issues like health care, education, or abortion - we are voting for people. These people will go to Washington as autocrats - beholden to no one. Therefore, it is our responsibility as voters to do our level best to discern what is the character of the candidate - to know the candidate's baseline for truth, his philosophy of governance, and his worldview. These men and women are going to make hundreds of decisions on our behalf, representing us. This being the case, it's absurd then to vote for a candidate who declares that his public opinion is different than his private one - for power is then ceded to pollsters. Candidates should declare for the voter what his convictions are and we may then vote for the one whose worldview best represents our own. But what of these candidates whose only conviction is to suppress their own conscience in the pursuit of faithfully ascertaining what is the majority opinion of their constituency and voting in kind? Enough! I'm particularly weary of these Catholic and Protestant Christian candidates who abhor abortion in their hearts but who claim that duty demands they vote to extend it.

"When statesmen forsake their private conscience for the sake of their public duty, they lead their country by a very short route to chaos." ~ Sir Thomas More

With Vertical Address

Teach me to scorn the senses' sway,
While still to thee I tend:
In all I do be thou the Way,
In all be thou the End.
- George Herbert

Swiftie Me! (or: This Blog is on the Rims for Real)

Once again - I'll supply you with some Tom Swifties to warm you up and then leave you with one or two to try and solve for yourself. Be ye either annoyed or mildly amused - either way this electronic enterprise has hit the skids.

"I'm one of the Beatles," said Ringo affably.
"I hate nouns and adjectives," said Tom proverbially.
"This sea-spray will ruin all the metal-work," said Tom mistrustfully.
"The Young Conservatives are throwing a party," said Tom meritoriously.

My everlasting love and affection for those who can complete these two:

"We'll never harvest all this hay," said Tom. . . .
"I shall get the barber-shop singers," said Tom . . .

Lapidary

"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you:
but it you really make them think, they'll hate you."
~ Don Marquis

moonroof musings

Pulling up behind a Toyota stopped at the light at Wrightsboro and Kissingbower last night I noticed it had a Georgia specialty plate supporting animal welfare. The plate has the profiles of a dog and a cat kissing each other in a scene splashed in pastels. Affixed to the rear window was the iconic pro-choice circular sticker declaring "keep abortion legal". I suspect that those who are proponents of animal rights are abrogating their authority to avoid hypocrisy in their campaign to be free of God's authority.