There’s falling off the wagon…

and then there’s having the wheels, axle, sideboards, and every nut and bolt exploding with the full insane fury of a fragmentation mine going off underneath it.

Enter one “honourable” Representative to the Washington State Legislature, a Mr. Richard Curtis, (R) - La Center.

Yes, folks… yet another GOP politician trades a night of forbidden pleasure with a boy toy for his career, his marriage, and whatever shred of respect he might have been able to claim the morning after. And of course, no sooner does it happen, than every left-leaning paper and blog is trafficking in the mire generated by this unfortunate man’s fall. Indeed, in an election year, one fully expects the Dems to haul out the over-under shotgun loaded with double-aught malice and feed on the open-season of finding fault with anything remotely to the right of Hillary Clinton.

The grand prize for them, of course, being Legislators who can’t keep their pants zippered up… and all the more if they had anything to do with trying to impeach or censure Bubba for his tomcatting around with a certain (female) intern a decade or so back ago.

Just going off of the pictures circulating the MSM at the moment, the likely soon to be divorced and non-re-electable Mr. Curtis, (R-La Center), otherwise would appears to be a respectable citizen-leader and man of principles. This same man, who voted favourably on family values issues and kept a pocket New Testament handy for explaining what he stood for, found himself hoisted on his own petard.

Jeremiah 17:9 teaches us “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (KJV)

Of course, the Lord clearly knows what evil lurks in each of our hearts, according to verse 10 following after the above: “I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.” (Jer. 17:10, KJV)

With this in mind, I will try to avoid judging this man for what he did, but only to point out nobody is safe from what happens if we let down our spiritual guard (I’m speaking to any of y’all saved Christians who happen onto this post) and entertain sin - especially sexual sin.

Various folks like Dan Savage (gay columnist who dredged up a lot of the sordid details behind Mr. Curtis’s erm, incident) will chalk this up as another failure for the conservative Right, after a rash of congressional page-molesters, bathroom stall toe-tappers, and sporting-house frequenters… and and yet also equivocate on how we all should just give up and give in to our basic sexual orientation. Or as another blogger suggests, he was simply on the “down-low”, and there just happened to be a preponderance of readily available young gays who could use a few C-notes, for lack of the effort involved in courting and maintaining a mistress.

No matter how you excuse it, giving in to any sexual sin is opening the door to far more degrading and vile acts. For all we know now, Mr. Curtis might have begun simply by lusting in his heart after women other than his wife. Then comes the porn, the internet, and anonymous hookups with whoever fits his bill.

And by way of his devilish dalliances, he met up with young master Joey “Cody” Castagna… a not-unattractive but perhaps a tad thuggish-looking young man with a growing rap sheet and snarled history of minor crimes and even a background as a gay pornographic actor. Notwithstanding a conviction for extortion of rep. Curtis… his rap sheet stands to get even longer, and Castagna faces possible prison time.

Moreover, both of them may well face eternal judgment (not specifically and only for this incident, but rather, and especially in Castagna’s case… for rejecting Jesus Christ). Again, I cannot say by only a few news media articles and some blogs what their spiritual status is… but looking at the fruit borne in both of these men’s lives, they might just want seek what God has to say about it.

This I have to say to you other GOP senators, congressmen, and other legislators: (all of you who stop here daily to read my humble wittle blog, of course)

Keep it zipped up and stowed away, and save it for your wives. And no, I am not going to tell you to find a sporting house somewhere discreet. Stop sinning against your own flesh, and against your families!

“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.”
(1 Corinthians 6:18, KJV)

“Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.”
(1 Corinthians 7:2, KJV)

If you claim to stand on the Holy Bible as your authority… if you vote regularly against extending special privileges to the LGBT lobby, and vote for protecting the God-given family unit… then I exhort you to repent of your sexual infidelities, and make peace with your spouses, and submit therefore to the ordinances of God.

Please. control. yourselves.

If you cannot do that, then please do not re-run for election next term around… or do us a favour, and step down from office.

Better yet: Check in with Jesus and see if you are truly in the faith. Don’t think that you are above stumbling, for sin can creep in and strike when you are least ready for it.

“Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?”
(2 Corinthinans 13:5, KJV)

Another turnip item… erm, another item turns up on CNN online tonight, involving an alleged “hate crime” - a gay basher who may try to use as a defense that he himself might be gay. Or straight. Or bisexual… who knows, this poor dumb kid just might be anywhere on the Kinsey map.

Story here. (again, I’m feeling lazy tonight, so I’ll bid you to read the story for the details).

No doubt, this wants to be the successor to the insanity plea, although according to the article, the NY State prosecution seems to be looking at the hate crime definition to exclude the perpetrator’s (potential) membership in a protected class or group of people (pretty much anyone who is not a straight white Christian male)… but simply that the targeted person was a member of a protected class.

The way I see it in the Bible, Jesus tells us that if we look at our neighbor and call him “Raca” (Aramaic: “Worthless, good-for-nothing fool!”) it is the same as murder. Pretty high standard, and it shows us Jesus’s regard for murderous and hateful thinking. Moreover, in the book of James, chapter 3, Jesus warns us about the dangers of letting our tongues go unchecked. Often words rashly spoken flame quickly into anger, and anger equally unyoked leads to actions rasher still.

From a Christian standpoint, I think that setting up special classes of people who are “protected” from critical speech or actions against them is both foolish and unnecessary. Any crime against their person, or slanderous words reflect a certain level of hate for the person (regardless of their political identity).

It is a hallmark of Democrat politics that demands that everyone be shoe-horned into specific pigeonholes of gender, race, sexual preference, and nationality, and age, whereby everyone is somehow a victim, and we ultimately spend more time checking our identity politics card every time someone looks at us funny.

Why not rather follow Jesus’s Golden Rule of “do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and then silently shred and burn these “race cards” and other identity politics cards that have managed to fetter us down into a worried, politically correct frame of mind.

Isn’t it better to be Biblically correct after everything is said and done?

Nope, I’m not making this up, especially as gruesome as this is. And sadly enough, it adds to an already unpleasant read of the ordinary leftist propaganda bleated out by CNN. Unfortunately, this is far, far worse, as it touches the life of a defenseless, innocent child.

I’m all for showing mercy as the good Lord commands… but this sort of depravity must be punished with the swift and severe punishment it deserves. The person (and I hesistate to even call him that) pictured to the right allegedly videotaped the scene of his rape of a young toddler is one Chester Arthur Stiles, age 37.

I’d rather not go into the gory details, you can read it at CNN’s site.

While this man may yet find forgiveness in Christ, and I pray he does, by God’s grace - he SHOULD face no less than the death penalty for this heinous crime.

Intended as a jab against Google for its ongoing censorship of things to the left of the George Soros party line…

Enjoy!

http://www.goolag.com/search.tla?Google+Censorship

This is a wee bit old news by now. But this past Tuesday (9 Oct.), there was an “Economic Debate” for the GOP candidates hosted in Dearborn, MI - (as broadcast on MSNBC) 9pm ET, originally rec. at 4pm ET.

Instead of the original dragged out play-by-play I had planned, I’ll sum it up with my observations thus far on the top three candidates. This post will be long enough as it is.

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Figured I’d take a break from the otherwise depressing news coming out of the rest of the world, and turn to the mundane yet still entertaining wealth of energy contained in the form of my 13-month old son Leo.

Recently, he has taken to walking (and even running a bit, although the short spurts he manages might not qualify as a true run yet) in the space of three weeks. Which of course means that nothing within his reach (110cm or nearly 4 feet off the floor) is safe from his curious, shredding hands. Leo is tall for his age, standing about 79cm (about 31in), - and fast too: he can clear off anything on my desktop short of the laptops and the monitor if I step out of my den to fresh my coffee. Oh, and need I mention that he is figuring out how to move things (such as tipping the giant Lego tower over on its side) to extend his reach?

Naturally, this makes me momentarily regret having been a tad greedy and getting the nicer, bigger desk at our last trip down to IKEA (”well, I need the space more than you, and besides, I have the fax and printer taking up space too…”) whilst Mrs. Seeker has had to contend with her smaller, but slightly taller and out of reach (for now) computer desk.

Leo’s favourite television show is SHIMAJIRŌ, which is sort of a Japanese version of “Barney the Dinosaur”, a TV show for kids starring the eponymous tiger cub. When he gets to be very cranky (such as the 40 or so minutes before supper, or near his nap time), the dozen or so episodes we have acquired through either friends, yards sales of returning Japanese expatriates, or bought on eBay seem to do the trick.

We keep a tape a SHIMAJIRŌ videocassette in the VCR (which is about its sole redeeming value these days) in the living room, for quick anti-crankiness deployment. And now, he has learned how to start and stop the VCR player as well as turn on the TV (although this may be more the convergence of the TV being on whilst he is poking around with the VCR). What a way to surprise me while I sit here surfing the web and half-watching Hardball on MSNBC.

And a good way to spend time with my little boy before putting him to bed.

I was looking over at the Real Clear Politics site earlier, watching their compilation of the recent (as of 4. Oct.) polls showing Rudi G. with an average 27.2% of respondents, ahead about 7% of Fred Thompson in second place with 20.2%, and farther down the list, another one I’m keeping my eyes on, Mike Huckabee (if nothing else, as a potential VP pick for Fred). The RCP average of the polls shows a slight downward trend for Fred, which is likely rooted in the gaffes and seemingly poor expression of that unique blend of acting and quick thinking needed to do well on camera. I begin to worry, and pray, that he does much better on the upcoming MSNBC (*cough*) coverage of the GOP candidates’ debate in Dearborn, MI on 9. October (9pm ET)…
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So there is much criticism in the MSM over Fred! these days. Every time one hears about Fred in the news, it is a scathing litany of commentary about how “unprepared” and “lazy” he is.

I have to wonder now… this raft of doom and gloom focusing on his apparent gaffes and “lackadaisical” mannerisms — much it polished to a glaring sheen by pundits controlled by the ultra-leftist, defeatist mainstream media (MSM) - wouldn’t it have already managed to have sunk Fred’s fledgling campaign back down to the ranks of a Brownback or a Huckabee?

Don’t get me wrong here - Mike Huckabee is nearly 99% on board with what I’d like to see in a Presidential candidate; but he has about a snowball’s chance in an a Death Valley’s July of making the nomination. And with a ponderous name like “Huckabee”, it simply lacks the thunderous weight of a “Thompson” or the monosyllabic down to earth simplicity of a “Fred!”. With Fred’s second/nearly tied place with cross-dressing dysfunctional family man Rudy Guliani, and Fred’s 85% convergence with my wishes for the next man to sit in the Oval Office, Fred! is the horse I’ll back.

Given all the MSM’s propagandizing against the Fred!… one would think that Fred would have fallen behind, left in the dust kicked up by all the other Republic contenders and (probable) no-names. Funny thing that, with the Rasmussen polls showing Fred tying with Rudy G., or even ahead of him by a percentage point (statistically insignificant, I know).

Other polls, such as the one on Real Clear Politics show him six or seven percentage points behind Rudy G. — again, not a great big difference. Rudy G. (or Fred) are neck and neck, and currently, there is no clear front-runner as Hitlary Hillary Clinton leads the pack of Dhimmicrats Democratic contenders.

Now as far as I am concerned, Fred is the best bet. Granted, he lacks as far as identifying with the “evangelicals” (which in my opinion, may actually be a good thing)… but I wouldn’t seeing him make some statement affirming some support of socially conservative positions. At least, as a matter of his personal opinion, even if he goes on to qualify that in light of his strict constructionist ideas of leaving certain decisions (such as abortion issues, observance of religious practices or ideas in public schools, and gay marriage) to be decided by the many states’ legislatures.

Although my personal views on those two issues are quite conservative - I can accept his ideas to leave such decisions to the states; I can agree that the Federal courts (including but not limited to the SCOTUS and the various district courts) should not have to adjudicate on issues not within the scope of the Federal Government.

By this measure, a mostly red state with a high concentration of Christians or “evangelicals” could more conveniently pass legislation barring gay marriage or legislation that requires parental consent for female minors seeking abortions, or limits upon when an abortion can be performed (such as first trimester only, or only by special exceptions such as rape and incest).

Accordingly, a coastal blue state with a surfeit of atheists and liberals would likely legislate gay marriages and strict gun ownership controls without less worry about a “reactionary judge” ruining their day.

But I really would like to see Fred study up on the relevant issues he will likely have to give an answer to in each of the states he tours through. Saying things like “Well, I really haven’t followed the Schiavo case enough to give a knowledgeable answer” (or words to that effect) during his time in Florida really did not score points, even when not using the leftist MSM yardstick.

I mean, if you are going to play both ends against the middle with touchy issues, Fred should have his speech writers come up with something that can give a much more graceful non-answer than that. And on some issues, you shouldn’t be afraid to veer to the right if the neutral answer is going to earn you scorn on both sides.

Let’s hope and pray that Fred (and even more so, his speech writers) can pick up the slack, lest Rudy G. (ugh!) pick up a lead from which he can’t hope to surpass.