Word watch
"It is what is," used twice in the same breath by otherwise competent NPR reporter Steve Inskeep during an interview with LG's (Bucky) fave Barney Frank. "It is what is" ain't.
What it is is a riot
Or several. Riots persist in various parts of London, after a police shooting under what are reported as murky circumstances. The police are reportedly having to simply watch while looters ply their trade. I never have understood this, whether in London or Los Angeles. Does Britain not have an army? Do those soldiers not have tear gas and rifles?
Reports also inform us that looters are breaking into occupied homes, robbing the residents and sometimes setting the homes on fire. Disarmed citizens are standing guard with pots and pans. Methinks looters would not have such easy pickings here in WS, thanks to the Second Amendment.
A prayer for judgment
The Forsyth County Commissioners have voted to appeal the Federal Court decision banning sectarian prayer before, and take the issue to the USSC. A third-party outfit is paying for this, which raises some questions right there, but the bigger question is whether we should be wasting time and money, regardless of who's money it is, on this showboating.
I emphatically think we should not. This is probably the first time I have ever agreed with the otherwise appalling Walter Marshall, (mind you, I agree with his vote, not with his usual hard-left race-hustiling comments). This appeal is throwing good money after bad. The dough could be donated where it will do some good: Samaritan Ministry, Rescue Mission, Salvatiion Army, et al. That would be real Christian activity. This legal case is simply cheerleading for the Almighty and His Son, no better than the rantings and fatwas of ayatollahs over slights to Allah. The Trinity need no such cheerleading, can't say for Allah.
Private prayer is perfectly fine, can be done anytime before and after county meetings, and even during the meeting, silently. These cheerleaders should remember what JC said about the Pharisees and praying in the streets.
What it is is a riot after an excuse from a murky incident that became an opportunity for the usual opportunists. Britain has sunk much farther and faster than America in cultural rot. Decades of corrupt political classes, weak courts, run amuck political correctness and generations of welfarism have produced a dysfunctional society that is on the streets of not just London but other cities as well. Entitled, coddled and over indulged generations of citizens are now having to face the same economic austerity we in America are approaching if we don't stop our ways. Britain as well as much of Europe has been through the whole "protect the public's welfare" mess, right down to the super regulatory state which, naturally, included the "soak the rich" taxation step. They have come to the end of what was all they have known since the end of WW2 when they dumped Churchill for Clement the Socialist. They also have no 2nd Amendment for the law abiding and the police force is a product of the just described State.
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone know how the cost of appealing to the Supreme Court works if the SC does not hear the case? I assume there will be lawyers' fees involved for the prep work, but anything outside of that? I have some doubts that the private fund set up to pay whatever fees and fines incurred by the county for losing its case each time has enough money. It has to be well into six figures.
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