Moral Relativism and Hollywood

I've posted a video below of a perfect example of moral relativism. Moral relativism is the world view that right and wrong are not objective, but rather subjective depending on your point of view. As I've written in the past, the most popular slogan of the moral relativist these days when talking about terrorism is "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter". You see how it works? Murder isn't always wrong, it just depends on your perspective.

Maybe you've read in the news lately how Hollywood film maker Roman Polanski was arrested in Switzerland and is awaiting extradition to the US. in 1977 Polanski plead guilty to the charges of statutory rape and sodomy of a 13 year old girl. Polanski brought the girl to his home where he drugged her by giving her a Quaalude and some campaign and then had sex with her including sodomizing her. He plead guilty to this. BUT, before he was sentenced he fled the country and has been living abroad ever since. I won't go into all of the attempts by the US to get him back, but finally he was arrested and is now in Switzerland awaiting extradition. Good, right?

Well you would never know it if you paid attention to Hollywood. The LA Times front page story never mentions he plead guilty to the charge, but rather states over and over how he was only "accused" of the crime. Other film makes and movie types can now be seen wearing "Free Polanski" tags on their shirts. The most disgusting of conversations came from the mouth of Whoopi Goldberg, and upon hearing it made me write this article.

I am dumbfounded at how we think! When will this stop? Listen to Ms. Goldberg try and assert the argument that, well, it's not "rape-rape". WHAT!!? Also listen to how she says, that in many other countries young girls are not looked upon in the same way we do here and times are changing. If I were in that audience I would have exploded!!

Did God Create Evil?

It's hard to see at the end of the video, but it reads:

Religion is knowledge too.

In Memory: USS Conolly DD-979

I served aboard the USS Conolly DD-979, a Spruance class destroyer, from 1983-1985. She was sunk in a training exercise this past April 2009.

This picture was taken in 1984 after a complete overhaul at Bath Iron Works in Portland Maine. I was on board when this picture was taken.

I first came aboard while the ship was at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as a 2nd class Electronics Warfare Technician. She was my second ship to serve aboard. It was the height of the cold war and being in the Navy at that time was exciting. Us against the USSR, the high seas, playing cat and mouse. I was promoted to 1st class while on board.

Even though all of 1984 was spent in the ship yards, I made numerous deployments most notably circumnavigating South America, West Africa, 2 Med cruises (that's the Mediterranean for you land lubbers), Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf. On the Connoly I navigated the Panama canal and the Suez canal. I crossed the equator just west of Ecuador and once again crossed the equator at 0.00 and 0.00 off of the west coast of Africa.

If I were able to be board her today I would know my way around as if I never left her. She was good ship and I'm saddened at her end.

Ida Had Her 15 Minutes

I wrote two articles this past spring about the events that unfolded over the finding of THE missing link. A lemur like fossil known as 'Ida' was heralded in the media as the find that all of the Darwinian scientists have been looking for that link early mammals to humans. Magazines and newspapers ran it and showed all of the high-fiving going on. Wow.

Paleontologists claimed that this fossil equated to finding the holy grail. Ida so concretely upheld Darwinian evolution they named the species "Darwinius".

I'll dispense with a lot of my own commentary because today I read in Scientific American an article called Weak Link: Fossil Darwinius has It's 15 Minutes. I have to hand it to Kate Wong who wrote the article and Scientific American for printing it, even if it's only online. I'm not sure if they will place it in their magazine; I stopped subscribing to Scientific American in 1990.

Ms. Wong does a great job in this article. Even though Ms. Wong is clearly an evolutionist I applaud her calling out what is wrong with the supposed finding and the hype that followed. It worries me when scientists are not concerned with determining the truth of their findings, but rather used this as an opportunity to make money off of it even if they had to lie about the find.

Life is short - Have an affair

Unbelievable.

A new website called AshleyMadison.com is a dating website that targets married people looking to have an affair. As a matter of fact the title of this article "Life is short. Have an affair" is their tag line!

There is a great piece written in the National Review online by Kathryn Jean Lopez and it's well worth the time to read it in it's entirety. Here is an ad for this fine dating service.



The world we live in continues to sink and it will get worse so long as we let it. My blogging is not enough to stop it (go figure!), so I am compelled to do more. Nothing violent, no. But, more on that later.

9/11: Honoring Salvatore Gitto

For me to try and put into words an honorary for a man I didn't know, was a bit daunting. I am doing this because I came across a project called Project 2996. It's a project whereby bloggers offer to write about a 9/11 victim. There were 2,996 victims of evil that day.

I am honored to write about Salvatore Gitto. Sal, as he was known, was husband to wife Angela, and father to two sons, Stephen, and Gregory. He was 44 years old on 9/11/2001. Sal worked for the same company my brother worked for at that time, Marsh & McLennan.

Everything I've read about Sal speaks to his dedication to and love of his family. He himself was a pilot and enjoyed the thrill and beauty of flying. His tribute in the New York Times was titled "Spirit in the Sky". Reading through the many other memorial pages I read about the type of friend he was, from classmates and neighbors.They all speak of a fun loving man, one who enjoyed others and made them feel loved through his acts of kindness and his joyful spirit. I invite you to read some of these because my words cannot compare to those who knew him.

I pray for Angela, Stephen and Gregory Gitto. That God will give them peace and that His love will transcend the pain of their loss and the anger they must feel towards those responsible. The LORD says that vengeance is His. Give us the strength to trust in Your Word O God.

For 9/11 - Updated: Link to WaPo Article

I pray for peace in the lives of those who've lost loved ones, but the world keeps rolling on.

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world." John 16:33

I came across this article today in the Washington Post; well worth the read. 9/11 As a Lesson, Not A Memory

Kiss my Cheeks!

This kind of stuff makes me so mad I want to spit. Once again, it is a complete violation of the 1st amendment. I'll let you decide, but what right does the state have to make decisions like this? None; none whatsoever.

A New Hampshire court ordered a home-schooled Christian girl to attend a public school this week after a judge criticized the "rigidity" of her mother's religious views and said the 10-year-old needed to consider other worldviews as she matures.

A JUDGE? Making the decision that a child needs to consider other worldviews??!! This is crap. It is obvious this judge is using the power of the bench to dissuade someone from being a Christian. This is becoming more and more common. Christians are easy targets, so screw the Constitution.

Read the story here from the Washington Times.

The judge's finding says the course load, except for the Bible study, is similar to what public students get and the mother’s home schooling has “more than kept up with the academic requirements of the [local] school system”. The child also takes supplemental public school classes in art, Spanish, theater and physical education and is involved in extracurricular sports such as gymnastics, horseback riding, softball and basketball. (emphasis mine).

I hope this goes to the Supreme Court.

More Steps Forward Regarding Dinosaur Soft Tissue

I've written a few articles on the astonishing discoveries made by scientists recently where soft tissue is being found in dinosaur fossils. I've stated that that there is no way soft tissue can survive tens of millions of years and remain what would be classified as soft.

Now a peer review of these discoveries by the Royal Society of Biological Sciences has published a very interesting take on the situation called Preservation of Key Biomolecules In The Fossil Record: Current Knowledge And Future Challenges. It's a short abstract, but in case it's a bit dry, let me translate:

We think there might be something fundamentally wrong with laboratory data on biochemical decay rates, or something.

OK. Good. Now where do we go from here? And we're walking; we're walking....

If You Don't Have Something Good To Say, Then ...

I was surprised to find out that Time magazine is concerned because the Pope has been silent regarding the death of Senator Edward Kennedy.

I can only hope it's because of the late Senator's voting record on Abortion:

• Voted NO on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance program).
• Voted NO on prohibiting minors crossing state lines for abortion.
• Voted YES on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines.
• Voted NO on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions.
• Voted NO on criminal penalty for harming unborn fetus during other crime.
• Voted NO on banning partial birth abortions except for maternal life.
• Voted NO on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions.
• Voted NO on banning partial birth abortions.
• Voted NO on banning human cloning.
• Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record.

Forget the Pope; I'd be worried about having to explain that position to God.