Yearly Archives: 2012

Open letter to Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney on our pro-life views (Part 6)

August 30, 2012 – 2:42 am

A Christian Manifesto by Francis Schaeffer (Part 1)

To Mitt Romney, Box 149756, Boston, MA 02114-9756  From Everette Hatcher of www.thedailyhatch.org 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002

Did we forgive George Bush in 1988 for being pro-choice originally in 1980? We sure did. In fact, my former pastor, Adrian Rogers, had a chance to visit with Bush several times. He told him that the Religious Right did not have enough votes to get him elected on their own, but if he ever went against the pro-life view then they could definately derail his election bid.

Today I am writing you to remind you of the same thing. We in the pro-life movement are firmly behind you but we want to know some of the reasons are passionately pro-life.

Below is a summary of “A Christian Manifesto” which is a very important book written by Francis Schaeffer just a couple of years before his death in 1984.

A Christian Manifesto
by Dr. Francis A. Schaeffer

This address was delivered by the late Dr. Schaeffer in 1982 at the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It is based on one of his books, which bears the same title.

Christians, in the last 80 years or so, have only been seeing things as bits and pieces which have gradually begun to trouble them and others, instead of understanding that they are the natural outcome of a change from a Christian World View to a Humanistic one; things such as overpermissiveness, pornography, the problem of the public schools, the breakdown of the family, abortion, infanticide (the killing of newborn babies), increased emphasis upon the euthanasia of the old and many, many other things.

All of these things and many more are only the results. We may be troubled with the individual thing, but in reality we are missing the whole thing if we do not see each of these things and many more as only symptoms of the deeper problem. And that is the change in our society, a change in our country, a change in the Western world from a Judeo-Christian consensus to a Humanistic one. That is, instead of the final reality that exists being the infinite creator God; instead of that which is the basis of all reality being such a creator God, now largely, all else is seen as only material or energy which has existed forever in some form, shaped into its present complex form only by pure chance.

I want to say to you, those of you who are Christians or even if you are not a Christian and you are troubled about the direction that our society is going in, that we must not concentrate merely on the bits and pieces. But we must understand that all of these dilemmas come on the basis of moving from the Judeo-Christian world view — that the final reality is an infinite creator God — over into this other reality which is that the final reality is only energy or material in some mixture or form which has existed forever and which has taken its present shape by pure chance.

The word Humanism should be carefully defined. We should not just use it as a flag, or what younger people might call a “buzz” word. We must understand what we are talking about when we use the word Humanism. Humanism means that the man is the measure of all things. Man is the measure of all things. If this other final reality of material or energy shaped by pure chance is the final reality, it gives no meaning to life. It gives no value system. It gives no basis for law, and therefore, in this case, man must be the measure of all things. So, Humanism properly defined, in contrast, let us say, to the humanities or humanitarianism, (which is something entirely different and which Christians should be in favor of) being the measure of all things, comes naturally, mathematically, inevitably, certainly. If indeed the final reality is silent about these values, then man must generate them from himself.

So, Humanism is the absolute certain result, if we choose this other final reality and say that is what it is. You must realize that when we speak of man being the measure of all things under the Humanist label, the first thing is that man has only knowledge from himself. That he, being finite, limited, very faulty in his observation of many things, yet nevertheless, has no possible source of knowledge except what man, beginning from himself, can find out from his own observation. Specifically, in this view, there is no place for any knowledge from God.

But it is not only that man must start from himself in the area of knowledge and learning, but any value system must come arbitrarily from man himself by arbitrary choice. More frightening still, in our country, at our own moment of history, is the fact that any basis of law then becomes arbitrary — merely certain people making decisions as to what is for the good of society at the given moment.

Now this is the real reason for the breakdown in morals in our country. It’s the real reason for the breakdown in values in our country, and it is the reason that our Supreme Court now functions so thoroughly upon the fact of arbitrary law. They have no basis for law that is fixed, therefore, like the young person who decides to live hedonistically upon their own chosen arbitrary values, society is now doing the same thing legally. Certain few people come together and decide what they arbitrarily believe is for the good of society at the given moment, and that becomes law.

The world view that the final reality is only material or energy shaped by pure chance, inevitably, (that’s the next word I would bring to you ) mathematically — with mathematical certainty — brings forth all these other results which are in our country and in our society which have led to the breakdown in the country — in society — and which are its present sorrows. So, if you hold this other world view, you must realize that it is inevitable that we will come to the very sorrows of relativity and all these other things that are so represented in our country at this moment of history.

It should be noticed that this new dominant world view is a view which is exactly opposite from that of the founding fathers of this country. Now, not all the founding fathers were individually, personally, Christians. That certainly is true.

By Everette Hatcher III | Posted in Francis Schaeffer, Prolife | Comments (0)

Open letter to President Obama (Part 132)

August 30, 2012 – 12:57 am

President Obama c/o The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

I know that you receive 20,000 letters a day and that you actually read 10 of them every day. I really do respect you for trying to get a pulse on what is going on out here.

If you look at the first 150 years of our nation’s history you will find practically no welfare or assistance to the poor coming from the government. In fact, most of the help came from local churches. During the last few decades the government had created the welfare trap that robs people of responsibility to better themselves. Many in the welfare trap feel they are being treated like children.

With all that in mind I found this article below very helpful.

U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and Spending Cuts

Posted by Tad DeHaven

House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) are pushing back against criticism from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops over the GOP’s proposed cuts to domestic spending programs. They should.

The USCCB’s criticism comes at a time when it’s appropriately fighting the Obama administration’s mandate that Church-affiliated employers must provide health insurance that covers birth control. As a Catholic, it pains me that the bishops apparently do not recognize that a central government that is big and powerful enough to spend billions of other people’s dollars on housing, food, and health care programs, which the bishops support, is inevitably going to shove its tentacles into areas where they’re not wanted. In other words, if you play with fire, there’s a good chance you’re going to get burnt.

The bishops have now sent four letters to Congress that call on policymakers to “create a ‘circle of protection’ around poor and vulnerable people and programs that meet their basic needs and protect their lives and dignity.” Oh please. Even if it were the proper role of the federal government to fund such programs, the government’s efforts have been inefficient and often counterproductive. If anything, the massive federal welfare state that has sprung up over the past five decades has stripped countless Americans of their dignity by making them reliant on the cold hand of the bureaucrat.

Note this paragraph from a USCCB letter that argues against cuts to housing programs:

As bishops, we see firsthand the pain and suffering in our communities and in our parishes caused by homelessness and lack of affordable housing. The Catholic community is one of the largest private providers of housing services for the poor and vulnerable in the country. We shelter the homeless, develop affordable housing for families and people with disabilities, counsel families at risk of foreclosure, and provide housing and care for those at the end of life. At a time when the need for assistance from HUD programs is growing, cutting funds for them could cause thousands of individuals and families to lose their housing and worsen the hardship of thousands more in need of affordable housing. 

The responsibility for addressing such concerns properly belongs to the Church and other organizations that possess that “firsthand” view of the struggles many people face. I won’t get into a discussion on Catholic social teaching, but it’s impossible for me to imagine that the perpetual mess that is the Department of Housing & Urban Development comports with the principles of subsidiarity.

The Catholic Church could do a lot more for the poor if its parishioners were able to put more into the collection plate instead of rendering it unto Caesar. Thus, it’s pretty sad that the bishops see this as a “time when the need for assistance from HUD programs is growing” rather than a time for the Church to reassert its traditional role in taking care of those in need—a role that is hindered by the welfare state that the bishops embrace.

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Thank you so much for your time. I know how valuable it is. I also appreciate the fine family that you have and your commitment as a father and a husband.

Sincerely,

Everette Hatcher III, 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002, ph 501-920-5733, lowcostsqueegees@yahoo.com

By Everette Hatcher III | Posted in President Obama, spending out of control | Comments (0)

Dear Senator Pryor, why not pass the Balanced Budget Amendment? (“Thirsty Thursday”, Open letter to Senator Pryor)

August 30, 2012 – 12:17 am

Dear Senator Pryor,

Why not pass the Balanced  Budget Amendment? As you know that federal deficit is at all time high (1.6 trillion deficit with revenues of 2.2 trillion and spending at 3.8 trillion).

On my blog www.HaltingArkansasLiberalswithTruth.com I took you at your word and sent you over 100 emails with specific spending cut ideas. However, I did not see any of them in the recent debt deal that Congress adopted. Now I am trying another approach. Every week from now on I will send you an email explaining different reasons why we need the Balanced Budget Amendment. It will appear on my blog on “Thirsty Thursday” because the government is always thirsty for more money to spend.

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(CNSNews.com) – Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) will not vote for a balanced budget amendment proposal unless it includes a cap on federal spending. However, he is undecided whether the amendment absolutely must require a supermajority of Congress to approve a tax hike for him to support it.

“The most important element is the cap on spending,” Gohmert told CNSNews.com. “If there is no cap on spending, then the balanced budget amendment is a formula for ever- increasing spending and ever-increasing taxing that will just spiral upward and upward again. So there’s got to be included a cap on spending, and best if it’s related to a percentage of GDP. But, absolutely, if there is no cap on spending, I could not vote for it.”

The actual language of the balanced budget amendment that Congress will vote on before the end of the year has not yet been determined. However, many conservatives fear that Republican leaders may agree to vote on a stripped down amendment that requires Congress to balance the budget but does not cap spending as a percentage of GDP or require supermajorities to raise taxes. They fear that an amendment of that nature–which might win the backing of some incumbent congressional liberals–would become a constitutional lever for sustaining big government via ever-escalating federal taxation.

When the Republican-controlled-House approved the cut, cap and balance plan last on July 19 in 234-190 vote, it included a version of the balanced budget amendment to cap federal spending at 19.9 percent of GDP. The GOP originally sought to hold federal spending to 18 percent of GDP.

The version of the balanced budget amendment in the cut, cap and balance plan also required two-thirds majorities in both houses to approve a tax increase. The amendment also would have prohibited deficit spending unless there was a national security emergency or a supermajority of Congress voted for it. On July 22, the Senate voted 51-46 to approve a procedural motion that blocked substantive consideration of the cut, cap and balance bill in that body.

The debt-limit deal reached by President Barack Obama, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) requires that both houses of Congress give an up or down vote to a balanced budget amendment before the end of the year. However, it does not specify what the language of the amendment would be.

If two-thirds of Congress votes to approve a balanced budget amendment, it would then have to be ratified by 38 states, or three-fourths.

The House passed that debt-limit deal by a 269-161 vote on Aug. 1. Gohmert was one of 66 Republicans who voted against it.

“As far as the supermajority to raise taxes, that’s our preference, but the key element, the most important element is the cap on spending,” Gohmert said. “If there is no supermajority to raise taxes then I’d just have to look at it more closely to see what all was there to see if it was something I could vote for or not.”

Gohmert believes this is a winning issue for Republicans.

“Well, I think it’s like this: We either have a legitimate Balanced Budget Amendment pass with a cap on spending, or I really believe if it does not pass, you will see many of those who voted against it turned out both in the House and Senate in the next election,” Gohmert said. “So I think it’s an either/or. Either people vote for it and it passes, or we have a significant change in the people that are in the House and Senate that voted against it.”

By Everette Hatcher III | Posted in spending out of control | Comments (0)

Who deserved the 1978 national championship: USC or Bama?

August 29, 2012 – 6:51 am

John Robinson of USC should have an opinion, but no one asked him on August 27, 2012 when he spoke to the Little Rock Touchdown Club.

 Wikipedia reports USC’s results that year:

The 1978 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California in the 1978 NCAA Division I-A football season. Following the season, the Trojans were crowned national champions according to the Coaches Poll. While Alabama claimed the title because it had defeated top-ranked Penn State on the field, the Trojans pointed out that they had also only lost once and had beaten Alabama in the regular season.

Date Opponent# Rank# Site Result Attendance
September 9 Texas Tech* #9 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA W 17–9   50,321
September 16 at Oregon #8 Autzen Stadium • Eugene, OR W 37–10   31,000
September 23 vs. #1 Alabama* #7 Legion Field • Birmingham, AL W 24–14   77,313
September 29 Michigan State* #3 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA W 30–9   65,319
October 14 at Arizona State #2 Sun Devil Stadium • Tempe, AZ L 7–20   70,138
October 21 Oregon Statedagger #7 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA W 38–7   53,734
October 28 California #6 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA W 42–17   56,954
November 4 at Stanford #6 Stanford Stadium • Palo Alto, CA W 13–7   84,084
November 11 #19 Washington #5 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA W 28–10   54,071
November 18 at #14 UCLA #5 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA (Battle for the Victory Bell) W 17–10   90,387
November 25 #8 Notre Dame* #3 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum • Los Angeles, CA (Notre Dame – USC rivalry) W 27–25   84,256
December 2 at Hawaii* #3 Aloha Stadium • Honolulu, HI W 21–5   48,767
January 1 vs. #5 Michigan* #3 Rose Bowl • Pasadena, CA (1979 Rose Bowl) W 17–10   105,629
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll.

Alabama’ results according to Wikipedia:

The only blemish on Alabama’s record in 1978 was a loss to Southern California. Bama turned the ball over six times in that game.[23] The next week’s 51–28 victory over Vanderbilt started what became an all-time school record 28-game winning streak.

The 1979 Sugar Bowl against Penn State would go down as a classic.[13] Alabama scored in the second quarter, then Penn State answered in the third, then Alabama took a 14–7 lead on a touchdown set up by a 62-yard punt return. Penn State had a chance to tie in the fourth, but quarterback Chuck Fusina threw an interception into the Alabama end zone.[24] Then Alabama had a chance to put the game away, but fumbled the football back to Penn State at the Nittany Lion 19-yard-line with four minutes to go.[13] Penn State drove to a first and goal at the Alabama eight. On third and goal from the one, Fusina asked Bama linebacker Marty Lyons “What do you think we should do?”, and Lyons answered “You’d better pass.”[25] On third down, Penn State was stopped inches short of the goal line. On fourth down, Penn State was stopped again, Barry Krauss meeting Mike Guman and throwing him back for no gain. Alabama held on for a 14–7 victory. The Crimson Tide split the national championship, winning the AP poll while Southern California won the UPI Coaches’ poll. It was Alabama’s fifth wire service national championship.

Date Opponent# Rank# Site Result Attendance
September 2 #10 Nebraska* #1 Legion Field • Birmingham, AL W 20–3   77,023
September 16 at #11 Missouri* #1 Memorial Stadium • Columbia, MO W 38–20   73,655
September 23 #7 USC* #1 Legion Field • Birmingham, AL L 14–24   77,313
September 30 Vanderbilt #7 Bryant-Denny Stadium • Tuscaloosa, AL W 51–28   56,910
October 7 at Washington* #8 Husky Stadium • Seattle, WA W 20–17   60,975
October 14 Florida #7 Bryant-Denny Stadium • Tuscaloosa, AL W 23–12   60,210
October 21 at Tennessee #4 Neyland Stadium • Knoxville, TN (Third Saturday in October) W 30–17   85,436
October 28 Virginia Tech*dagger #3 Bryant-Denny Stadium • Tuscaloosa, AL W 35–0   60,210
November 4 Mississippi State #3 Legion Field • Birmingham, AL W 35–14   74,217
November 11 #10 LSU #3 Legion Field • Birmingham, AL W 31–10   76,831
December 2 vs. Auburn #2 Legion Field • Birmingham, AL (Iron Bowl) W 34–16   79,218
January 1, 1979 vs. #1 Penn State* #2 Louisiana Superdome • New Orleans, LA (Sugar Bowl) W 14–7   76,824
*Non-conference game. daggerHomecoming. #Rankings from AP Poll.

Alabama Football-1978 Poll Controversy

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Alabama Football-1978 Poll Controversy involving Alabama and Southern Cal

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USC’s John Robinson speaks at Little Rock Touchdown Club Part 4

August 29, 2012 – 6:45 am

USC vs. Tennessee 1980

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Hate that we lost, but I love watching games from this era. Fans were really into the games and it was a great game.
All video footage is copyright of the University of Tennessee, but legally reproduced here in conjunction with Fair Use laws.

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John Robinson actually coached a highschool team to be close to his grandkids:

John Robinson Gideon Rubin John Robinson has decided to coach high school football to be closer to his grandchildren.

SAN MARCOS, Calif. — The second of San Marcos High School’s two-a-days is set to start under a scorching, late-afternoon San Diego County sun, when John Robinson emerges from the “Blue Barn.”

He’s a bit more stooped and graying than you might remember, but, yes, it is that John Robinson, the man who took the Los Angeles Rams to two NFC Championships and who led USC to a shared national championship. Robinson, now 75 and out of football since 2004 after a stint at UNLV, calls a 600-square foot prefab shed his office.

Until now, Robinson had never coached high school ball. But earlier this year, he signed on as the defensive coordinator at San Marcos, where he can get back to the grass roots of coaching.

“We have everything we need [in the Blue Barn],” Robinson said. “They have computers and high-tech tools [in college and the NFL], but it’s the really the same thing. Eventually, it has to come up on a screen and somebody has to take a look at it and make a judgment on what they see and explain it [to the players].”

Robinson said he took the gig because he wanted to give back to the sports community in which his two grandsons, Johnny Jay and Tyson McWilliams, 13 and 9, are involved. They play youth basketball and Pop Warner football. Johnny Jay will be a San Marcos freshman next fall.

San Marcos, a perennially down program in one of the most competitive high school sports regions in the nation, isn’t the type of program where John Robinsons typically surface. Players acknowledge that college scout sightings at practice are a rarity, usually the result of a missed turn on San Marcos Boulevard.

But Robinson isn’t here for glamour and glitz.

“Within this field, this is no less important than what the Chargers are doing in practice five miles away,” he said. “It’s great fun. These are tough kids, and they want to be successful.”

During an intra-squad scrimmage, Robinson is animated as he pushes his players.

“Don’t slow down at the end,” he implored his players during a linebackers drill, “Finish it! It’s the last five yards that count!”

Although separated from them by as much as 60 years, Robinson is by all accounts in tune with today’s player, whose respect he commands like no other.

Defensive co-captain Connor Kuehnle credits Robinson with helping instill in him the discipline to stick to the script on a Cover 3 zone defense, fighting his own instinctive pull to chase after the slot receiver.

Just as important, he’s learned how to bark orders at teammates without sounding like he’s barking orders at teammates.

“It’s definitely changed the way I run the defense out there,” Kuehnle said. “Instead of just yelling at somebody because they did something wrong, now it’s ‘let’s do this and you’ll be fine.'”

And nobody ever, ever, argues with “Coach.”

“It helps if you don’t say anything,” defensive co-captain Noel Garcia said. Everything Robinson says “is final.”

For Robinson, whether he’s in the tech-savvy NFL or a shed in suburban San Diego, he believes his job is about building athletes.

“It really doesn’t matter if it’s Noel [Garcia] or Shawne Merriman or Ray Lewis,” he said. “If you get a person to develop a skill, it’s the same thing. You can find differences, but the essence is the same.”

Gideon Rubin is a freelance writer for Sports Media Exchange, a national freelance writing network.

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Who appointed Obama king? “We Can’t Wait” effort suggests he doesn’t have to wait for the throne to show up!!!

August 29, 2012 – 6:01 am

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We should reduce government’s influence on our lives and that can only be done if Washington gets spending under control and balances the budget and shrinks out debt without increasing taxes. I am upset that the “We Can’t Wait”  effort (started in early 2012) suggests that the office of President does not have to wait for the other branches of government to do their part in order for laws to be inacted. This is a power grab pure and simple and this effort doesn’t respect what our government is all about.

Matthew Spalding, Ph.D.

June 5, 2012 at 9:23 am

There’s no way to predict how the 2012 elections will turn out. But it will be a turning point in American history: Either our leaders will guide the country even further along the road to “progressivism” or they will begin a long, slow turn back toward the principles of the American Founding. To help our leaders make the correct choices, The Heritage Foundation is putting a marker down with a publication called Changing America’s Course that gives our political leaders recommendations on how to stay within the limits of the Constitution.

You’ve probably read Heritage’s financial proposal, Saving the American Dream, and our prescription for a Conservative foreign policy. Those ideas are crucial building blocks in our approach. But they are only parts of the larger crisis facing Americans today–the crisis of constitutional government–that Saving the American Dream deals with.

The United States is unique. Ours is a republic dedicated to the universal principles of human liberty: that all are fundamentally equal and equally endowed with unalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Our government exists to secure these God-given rights, deriving its just powers from the consent of the governed. Our Constitution limits the power of government under the rule of law, creating a vigorous framework for expanding economic opportunity, protecting national independence, and securing liberty and justice for all.

Today, though, the federal government has acquired an all but unquestioned dominance over virtually every area of American life. It acts without constitutional limits and is restricted only by expediency, political will, and (less and less) budget constraints.

The unlimited scope and depth of its rules means that the federal government increasingly regulates more and more of our most basic activities, from how much water is in our toilets to what kind of light bulbs we can buy. This is a government that is unlimited by any organizing principle, increasingly undemocratic and damaging to popular self-government.

For example, as part of his reelection campaign, Obama has launched an effort called “We Can’t Wait“ to highlight his actions independent of Congress. This is more than the usual politics of a president running for reelection against Congress. Obama’s idea seems to be that the president, charged with the execution of the laws, doesn’t have to wait for the lawmaking branch to make, amend or abolish the laws but that he can and should act on his own.

This violates the spirit–and potentially the letter–of the Constitution’s separation of the legislative and executive powers of Congress and the president.

For its part Congress has also failed to fulfill its constitutional duties. Under the current Democratic party leadership, it’s been more than three years since the U.S. Senate even passed a budget. And under Republican leadership in 2003, the House of Representatives unethically kept a voting window open for three hours (instead of the scheduled 15 minutes) so party leaders could twist arms, change minds and ram through Medicare Part D.

Even worse, Congress has fallen into the habit of legislating without regard to any limits on its powers. Although the Constitution vests legislative powers in Congress, the majority of “laws” are actually promulgated by agencies and bureaucracies in the guise of “regulations.” Recent examples include the massive Dodd-Frank financial regulation and, of course, ObamaCare.

As a result, key policy decisions which were previously the constitutional responsibility of elected legislators are delegated to executive branch administrators whose rules have the full force and effect of laws passed by Congress. Having passed massive, broadly written pieces of legislation with little serious deliberation, Congress is increasingly an administrative body overseeing a vast array of bureaucratic policymakers and rule-making bodies.

Changing America’s Course charts a constitutional path to a brighter future of opportunity and independence. If our political leaders follow its recommendations and begin confining themselves to the limited powers the Constitution gives them, America will once again be on the principled path to liberty, opportunity and constitutional self-government.

The first step is to reduce the size and scope of government and unleash the engines of economic productivity and the institutions of cultural renewal. Only then can we change America’s course, begin to get spending under control, balance the budget, and shrink our debt without increasing taxes.

Matthew Spalding, Ph.D., is Vice President, American Studies and Director, B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics B. Kenneth Simon Center for Principles and Politics at The Heritage Foundation.

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Open letter to President Obama (Part 131 B)

August 29, 2012 – 5:52 am

President Obama c/o The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

I know that you receive 20,000 letters a day and that you actually read 10 of them every day. I really do respect you for trying to get a pulse on what is going on out here.

We need to cut taxes and not raise them if we want the economy to grow. Sweden is a good example of that lately.

David Weinberger

May 11, 2012 at 10:00 am

Since the beginning of the recession, academics, authoritative international institutions, and most government officials pushed for massive stimulus spending. Sweden bucked the trend, focusing instead on slashing marginal tax rates and peeling government back. How did it fare?

The Spectator reports:

While most countries in Europeborrowed massively, Borg did not. Since becoming Sweden’s finance minister, his mission has been to pare back government. His ‘stimulus’ was a permanent tax cut. To critics, this was fiscal lunacy — the so-called ‘punk tax cutting’ agenda. Borg, on the other hand, thought lunacy meant repeating the economics of the 1970s and expecting a different result.

Three years on, it’s pretty clear who was right. ‘Look atSpain,Portugalor theUK, whose governments were arguing for large temporary stimulus,’ he says. ‘Well, we can see that very little of the stimulus went to the economy. But they are stuck with the debt.’ Tax-cuttingSweden, by contrast, had the fastest growth inEuropelast year, when it also celebrated the abolition of its deficit.

Too bad the U.S. decided against Sweden’s advice. Still, missing one opportunity doesn’t mean we have to miss another: Tax reform is calling.   

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Thank you so much for your time. I know how valuable it is. I also appreciate the fine family that you have and your commitment as a father and a husband.

Sincerely,

Everette Hatcher III, 13900 Cottontail Lane, Alexander, AR 72002, ph 501-920-5733, lowcostsqueegees@yahoo.com

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USC’s John Robinson speaks at Little Rock Touchdown Club Part 3

August 29, 2012 – 5:10 am

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I really enjoyed Robinson talk on 8-27-12.

Robinson talks past UA, USC matchups

Former football coach John Robinson was 3-2 in his career at Southern California and UNLV against the Arkansas Razorbacks.

JEFF HALPERN

Former football coach John Robinson was 3-2 in his career at Southern California and UNLV against the Arkansas Razorbacks.

By Jeff Halpern

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

LITTLE ROCK — Former Southern California Coach John Robinson faced the Arkansas Razorbacks five times in his coaching career and talked about four of those games Monday.

Robinson, 72, who was 3-2 against the Razorbacks in his career, was the guest speaker at the Little Rock Touchdown Club luncheon. He was an assistant to John McKay when the No. 8-ranked Trojans defeated the No. 4 Razorbacks 31-10 in the 1972 season opener at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock. A year later, No. 1-ranked USC defeated Arkansas 17-0 in Los Angeles. In 1974, the No. 5-ranked Trojans opened the season with a 22-7 loss to the No. 20 Razorbacks in Little Rock.

In 2000, when Robinson was the head coach at UNLV, his Rebels defeated the Razorbacks 31-14 in the2000 Las Vegas Bowl. A year later in the season opener in Little Rock, Arkansas won 14-10 on a 1-yard touchdown run by Cedric Cobbs with 18 seconds left.

“In 1972, I remember Arkansas had Joe Ferguson at quarterback and we had one of the best teams that USC ever had,” Robinson said.

That team averaged 39 points per game, never trailed in the second half and its closest victory was 30-21 over No. 15 Stanford. The 1972 Trojans defeated Ohio State 42-17 in the Rose Bowl.

Two years later, Robinson recalled Arkansas, “beating the hell out of us.” He said McKay was not happy and threatened to fire the coaching staff a number of times.

Robinson, who was in his second year at UNLV in 2000, recalls Arkansas “being a lot more focused on”its visit to Las Vegas. He said, “I recall [then-Arkansas Coach] Houston Nutt saying, we’re playing U-N-L-V,” with an emphasis that his team didn’t seem to be focused on the Rebels. That game allowed the Rebels to finish 8-5 while Arkansas, in its third season under Nutt, finished 6-6.

A year later, Robinson and the Rebels suffered heartbreak. UNLV led 10-7 with 1:53 left when Rebels punter Ryan McDonald bobbled a snap and was tackled at the UNLV 49. Arkansas’ Ryan Sorahan completed a 13-yard pass to George Wilson on fourth-and-10 and a 23-yard pass to Richard Smith to set up Cobbs’ run, on a night in which the Razorbacks used four quarterbacks – Zak Clark, Sorahan, Gerald Howard and Tarvaris Jackson – and totaled 114 yards.

“Our regular punter had an awful night and I put in a freshman and if he gets the ball off, then we win the game,” Robinson said. “I put him in and the snap hits him in the helmet.”

The Trojans and Razorbacks haven’t met since the 2005 and 2006 seasons when USC won 70-17 and 50-14, Robinson hopes the teams meet in the BCS national championship game in Miami.

“I know you guys have a good quarterback, but we feel we have the best one in the country in Matt Barkley,” Robinson said. “I know if that happens, then I can continue to wear the red shirt that I have on today and you guys would think I’m pulling for you.”

Sports, Pages 15 on 08/28/2012

 

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Francis Schaeffer’s film series “How should we then live?” (Final Choices) can be seen on the www.thedailyhatch.org

August 29, 2012 – 4:30 am

Francis and Edith Schaeffer January 1975
Huemoz sur Ollon at L’abri, Switzerland

America has some big choices to make and Francis Schaeffer does a great job of showing what the problems are and what choices we have. Below is a portion of this episode with links below to the complete episodes:

E P I S O D E 1 0

How Should We Then Live 10#1

FINAL CHOICES

I. Authoritarianism the Only Humanistic Social Option

One man or an elite giving authoritative arbitrary absolutes.

A. Society is sole absolute in absence of other absolutes.

B. But society has to be led by an elite: John Kenneth Galbraith, Robert Theobald.

C. Daniel Bell’s prophecy of technocratic elite.

D. Bell’s warning of cultural contradiction: no absolute ethic to accompany absolute power.

II. Nature of the New Authoritarianism

A. Do not think of the model of Hitler and Stalin.

B. Probably a manipulative, authoritarian elite.

III. Possible Forms of Manipulation

A. Review from Episode Six: Koestler—chemical agents; Krantz—birth control in world’s drinking supply; Clark—political leaders should take anti-aggression pills; Lee—psychological tests for public officials; Skinner—reinforcers to modify behavior.

B. Genetic condition: Francis Crick.

1. He advocates:

a) That some group of people is to decide who should be the parents of the next generation and who should be born.

b) That some group of people should determine what kind of people they want in the future and will set out genetically to make them.

2. Once Man is no longer seen as made in God’s image, there is no reason not to “tinker” with Man genetically.

C. The mass media.

1. TV conditions by selective editing. Illustration: simulated riot filmed in San Jose.

2. No collusion needed if views of elite and newsmakers coincide. Media not monolithic, but total control not needed to achieve manipulation.

IV Authoritarianism in Government. Illustration: United States

A. The dilemma of people who speak out for civil liberties but are also committed to the government’s having a responsibility to solve every problem.

B. Christian freedoms without Christian base produce chaos.

C. In the United States an authoritarian, manipulating government could come from the administrative (executive) side, the legislature, or from the courts functioning on variable, sociological law.

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Influences on Woody Allen’s pictures “Woody Wednesday”

August 29, 2012 – 1:56 am

Here is a great link on Woody Allen.

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Great website discusses the influences on Woody Allen:

kenny

about 3 years ago

In interview after interview, down through the decades Woody Allen has spoken repeatedly of his love of Ingmar Bergman and the influenece he’s had upon his films. While Interiors is clearly an homage to Bergman, Cries and Whispers in particular, to me his movies have been much more influenced by the films of Fellini. Stardust Memories is clearly a tip of the cap to 8 1/2, Celebrity to La Dolce Vita, Radio Days to Amarcord and Sweet And Lowdown to La Strada in that they both featured an emotionally crippled protagonist who realizes too late he’s fallen in love with a simple minded young woman.

Justin Biberkopf

about 3 years ago

Kenny, the La Strada connection is very perceptive. Sweet and Lowdown being less tragic, of course. But yes, I just rewatched Amarcord and was reminded of how much the whole structure of Radio Days borrows from it. Amarcord is such a dense text by comparison, though. At its funniest, I think it’s funnier than a lot of Allen’s movies, too. But then, Fellini is generally more of a comic director than Bergman, so that’s another connection with Woody.

kenny

about 3 years ago

Good points Justin. I was even tempted to compare Le notti di Cabiria to Mighty Aphrodite but decided their only real similarities is they both feature a prostitute as a main character.

Charulata

about 3 years ago

Also, the last scene of ‘Sweet and Lowdown’ seems to be a direct reference to the last scene of ‘La Strada’.

leah

about 3 years ago

Stardust memories is totally Woody’s 8 1/2. He said himself said in an interview, “I am not even half of the Fellini of 8 1/2”

Justin Biberkopf

about 3 years ago

Yes, the dream sequence that starts Stardust Memories is very Fellini-esque, with the sensuous woman and the party on the other train. Woody Allen isn’t half of Marcello Mastroinanni, either.

Jeff D

about 3 years ago

A few Woody Allen films are built around the conceit of a fake documentary (Zelig, Husbands and Wives, Sweet and Lowdown), a device that he may have gotten from Fellini (The Clowns, Roma, Intervista), although Bergman also uses this device at least once that I can think of: at the end of Hour of the Wolf. But Woody Allen’s borrowings aren’t limited to Fellini and Bergman. Manhattan Murder Mystery is basically Rear Window, for example.

kenny

about 3 years ago

That’s a great point Jeff D about the fake documentary device although Allen did also use it as early as 1969 with Take The Money and Run. Perhaps no director has used it as well as Fellini did with Roma.

Jeff D

about 3 years ago

Fellini also used it as early as 1969 in Director’s Notebook, which I believe was made for American television.

Jeff D

about 3 years ago

Another Woody Allen movie that bears comparison to a Fellini movie is Alice to Juliet of the Spirits.

stewart SFA Adams

about 3 years ago

Woody Allen adresses the camera in Annie Hall like several characters do in Amarcord

horace

about 3 years ago

I would think that Purple Rose of Cairo was inspired by The White Sheik, a movie I know Woody loves.

kenny

about 3 years ago

More good points and similarities than I was aware of.

hari

almost 3 years ago

Fellini seems to be the bigger influence primarily because of the fact that he was a lot more unneurotic, a lot less austere and not as rigorous as Bergman was. If u watch Fellini’s films there are always moments of quiet humor in them. Like in 81/2, u see Guido being sorrounded by his cast and crew asking him for directions, he sees a person coming ,quietly avoids talking to him by taking another guy in his fold and whispering in his ear, “I just called you, cos I did not want to talk to that guy”.. Also, Fellini’s films are soaked in a dream-like structure. Bergman’s films were probably born out of his own dreams, but they were then religiously fitted into a certain kind of worldly realism.
But then at the end of the day, I always watch Woody’s films to see the fun of it, to revel in the parody it brings with itself.
They should only be seen as approximations of something great that has been done before. To me, they are mere condensations..

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