Pro Rege Papers

Joe Lieberman, the recently reelected Senator from Connecticut, was forced to run as an Independent after he lost the Democratic Primary to radical Ned Lamont in August. He is a moderate Democrat, and had the gall to actually admit that the war in Iraq is winnable. He was isolated and reviled by many Democrats for this, and establishment Democrats cast their support for the radical Ned Lamont. Radical bloggers on the left put him in blackface and railed at him, while composing post after post in adulation of Ned Lamont. (Wait a second, who are the people who keep on rambling about bipartisanship?) But Lieberman won, and now Democrats are forced to depend upon him to support their tottering 51-49 majority in the Senate. Joe Lieberman has refused to eliminate the option of becoming another Republican like John McCain. If he did switch, that would put the balance of the Senate into a tie, with Vice President Dick Cheney as the tiebreaker.

So, we have Joe Lieberman who is a moderate and sometimes votes Republican as the keystone that holds the Democratic Senate majority together. This could be interesting.

WORLD Magazine has a quotable on this.

On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln sent out a proclamation that a day in November should be set aside for thanks to God for the blessings that He had given to this country. It is hard to believe that Pres. Lincoln could be thankful in a time of gruesome civil war, but he pointed out that the country was bestowed with many blessings. They had abundant crops and plentiful industrial production that had kept the country afloat during battle. No enemies had attacked them at this time of weakness, either. This example of thankfulness shows us that we always have something to be grateful to God for, no matter what our situation.

Anyone who watches TV at all during Thanksgiving will hear the commentators remarking that we should be thankful. But the pressing question presents itself, “To whom are we thankful?” Many people today are thankful to themselves for their blessings, and attribute their prosperity to their own flesh. But are we really responsible for good weather? Are we really the cause of our good friends and family? Are we really the source of our good position or pay at work? No. All of those things are beyond man’s control, and in the hands of God. God upholds all things by his providence in his “holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all his creatures, and all their actions.” (Shorter Catechism, Q. 11) Everything that comes about, good or bad, is the result of God’s work in creation. He is the One we are to be thankful to.

Abraham Lincoln and many other leaders in our nation’s history recognized this. Mr. Lincoln said in his proclamation, “no mortal hand hath worked out these great things.” We have a country with some of the greatest natural resources in the world, we have the highest per capita GDP of any nation, we don’t have foreign invaders at our borders or in our towns, we have a system of government that keeps us free from tyranny, we have many, many gifts that only the hand of God can give a country. We need to bend on our knees before the all-powerful God and thank Him for the blessings that he has given us.

(Psalm 100:4-5)

Some of the material for this article was taken from an editorial in World Magazine.

Here’s the Quote of the Month for November, 2006

My own conviction is strongly that if we break down this sense of responsibility of individual generosity to individual and mutual self-help in the country in times of national difficulty, and if we start appropriations of this character we have not only impaired something infinitely valuable in the life of the American people but have struck at the roots of self-government. Once this has happened it is not the cost of a few score million but we are faced with the abyss of reliance in future upon Government charity in some form or another.

Herbert Hoover, 1934.

I just downloaded Firefox 2.0, and it is really cool. It reads parts of this page a tiny bit better, and has other new features, along with a slick new look. Of course, you use about 10 million add-ons with Firefox, including one that I use that shows me the weather forecast on the bottom status bar.

If you haven’t yet tried out Firefox, do so and enjoy. I love it. Internet Explorer is just sludge that reads many pages the wrong way, including this one. For those of you who aren’t going stay up with the times, I am working on fixing the appearance on IE.

Many people say that God isn’t fair because people die or don’t get saved. They say that a good God would not do that to them, since they are fairly good people. They repeat an old phrase that goes something like this, from C.S. Lewis in the Great Divorce:

I always done my best, and I never done nothing wrong. And what I don’t see is why I should be put below…you. … I only want my rights.

In reality though, this is proud thinking that doesn’t acknowledge God for who He is, and man for what we are.

We are sinners who have broken God’s Law that He laid down from the beginning of time. Since He created us, we are bound to obey His law, but we have rebelled against Him. Every person has sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. The penalty for this is everlasting condemnation and punishment in Hell, since God cannot stand anyone who is not as holy as He is. That’s a defining aspect of perfect holiness: you cannot stand any sin.

Therefore, we deserve to go to Hell for our sin. That punishment is fair. That punishment is just. The fact that God elects some of us to be saved and go to heaven is by His grace. It is not our right to be saved; it is our right to suffer forever for our disobedience to God.

Let’s think about this for a moment. The Milky Way Galaxy is hundreds of thousands of light years in diameter. The closest galaxy is Andromeda Galaxy, which is 2.5 million light years away. There are millions of these galaxies in the universe, made up of millions of stars that are hundreds of times bigger than our sun, which itself is 1.3 million times as large as the earth. The earth is of course huger than we can even get a grip of ourselves. So why do we, these puny little creatures living on a tiny planet in a humongous universe, think that we can tell God what is and isn’t fair?

That’s something to think about.

World Net Daily interviewed several terrorist leaders this past week, and their comments to WND are insightful in terms who is on which side in the War on Terrorism. World Net Daily interviewed Jihad Jaara, Muhammad Saadi, Abu Abdullah, an Abu Ayman; all leaders of terrorist groups such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and others. They said that they hoped America would vote for the Democrats in the upcoming election, because of that party’s now well-known stance on pulling out of Iraq. This would insure victory for the “resistance” in Iraq (and global jihad), according to the terrorists, apparently trying to draw some type of parallel between the coalition occupation of Iraq and the Nazi occupation of Europe during the ‘40s. They mocked certain Democrats, such as House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who think that as soon as the United States pulls out, the insurgency will stop fighting and everything will become peaceful again.

Leading Democrats in office are not answering any calls from the press that are asking for an explanation or comment on the terrorists’ remarks.

But the terrorists and political pundits obviously don’t know United States government too well. Even if the Democrats win Congress, they wouldn’t be able to just order a withdrawal from Iraq on the spot. Those orders have to come from the White House.

Radical Muslims protested yesterday in Iraq at the killing of innocent civilians in an air strike against a terror suspect. Apparently they don’t have a problem with strapping up their young girls with bombs and sending them off to murder innocent Israelis on a bus (killing themselves in the act as well). But when a few innocent Iraqi Muslim civilians accidentally die in an air strike that aimed for a terrorist (who was probably being harbored in the area), they are up in arms protesting with all their might and calling it a war crime (as if they had any sense of international law themselves). That’s just another case of hypocrisy in an irrational religion.

John Kerry made some remarks that I’m sure you’re all aware of, further proving his disloyalty to America, and improving the chances of a Democratic loss on November 7. If you didn’t catch the news, he said that if you don’t do well in school, you end up “stuck” in Iraq. He implied that all or most of our soldiers are uneducated hobos who have nothing else to do because they’re so stupid. He obviously doesn’t realize the fact of the voluntary nature of our military today, along with fact that some people are designed for military career, and have made that choice because they want to serve their country. Kerry, of course, made the fake apology of “I’m sorry that some of you were offended;” and excused his remarks as a “misunderstood joke”. Question: Why does Trent Lott get sacked for making a positive statement at a person’s funeral, but John Kerry gets off free when he insults the entire military service in front of a crowd of bright young students?

America has a clear choice on Tuesday: They can vote for a party that is praised by terrorists and hypocritical fanatics, or they can vote for a party that is constantly vilified by those terrorists and takes its patriotism seriously. Make your choice carefully.

For some reason right now, the template for the main page isn’t working. I have no idea how or why this happened, but I’m working on it.

UPDATE: The template is back online. Temporary glitch there that is fixed now. Sorry for any inconvenience this might have caused you.

I always wanted to say that phrase.

I also made some design changes with the calendar font and bars before each post. If you have any suggestions, feel free to let me know.

UPDATE: Nevermind. Internet Explorer reads the page wrong. Firefox, Opera, and practically every other browser reads the page correctly, but IE puts the posts way down after the sidebar. I hate IE. Everyone, switch to Firefox please.