A Dixie Carpetbagger

This isn’t the end.  The end was passed a long time ago.  This is simply the epilogue.  – Robb Allen

Please note: there is quite a bit more, after the break.  Just didn’t want to throw all this up onto the front page…

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O God, our help in ages past,

Our hope for years to come,

Our shelter from the stormy blast,

And our eternal home.

Under the shadow of Thy throne

Thy saints have dwelt secure;

Sufficient is Thine arm alone,

And our defense is sure.

Before the hills in order stood,

Or earth received her frame,

From everlasting Thou art God,

To endless years the same.

Thy Word commands our flesh to dust,

Return, ye sons of men:

All nations rose from earth at first,

And turn to earth again.

A thousand ages in Thy sight

Are like an evening gone;

Short as the watch that ends the night

Before the rising sun.

The busy tribes of flesh and blood,

With all their lives and cares,

Are carried downwards by the flood,

And lost in following years.

Time, like an ever rolling stream,

Bears all its sons away;

They fly, forgotten, as a dream

Dies at the opening day.

Like flowery fields the nations stand

Pleased with the morning light;

The flowers beneath the mower’s hand

Lie withering ere ‘tis night.

Our God, our help in ages past,

Our hope for years to come,

Be Thou our God while life shall last,

And our eternal home.

If I shut up heaven that there be no rain, or if I command the locusts to devour the land, or if I send pestilence among my people; If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.   (2 Chronicles 1:13-14, KJV)

Via the Scalawag, Judge Napolitano, the Cato Institute and Dr. Lott on the MacDonald case. 

Via Robb, a great Gura quote: “Justice Sotomayor, States may have grown accustomed to violating the rights of American citizens, but that does not bootstrap those violations into something that is constitutional”

Jay, Weer’d, Linoge and Miguel respond to Sebastian.  Miguel makes the point that: “McDonald is not just a “case” or an argument or a amicus curiae. Mr. McDonald is a human being which was denied the tools for defensing himself in a violent neighborhood.”

This is correct.  However, there are two quotes that lay out how I feel about this– “… as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise” (Luke 6:31– the “Golden Rule”) and “[y]our enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind; it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can [eliminate] him without hate — and quickly.”  (Bob Heinlein)

Put simply, the Bradys think that they’re right.  The pro-rights groups (and the majority of Americans) disagree.  We’ll win eventually, and people like this woman will become discredited and objects of scorn.

To lighten the mood, and play you out with music, Laurel’s take on the McDonald case.  Please secure your beverage…

O that old rugged cross, so despised by the world,
has a wondrous attraction for me;
for the dear Lamb of God left his glory above
to bear it to dark Calvary.

I’ve seen it in the lightning,
heard it in the thunder,
and felt it in the rain;
My LORD is near me all the time,
My LORD is near me all the time.

This post by Linoge kept tickling the back of my mind. I just figured out what it reminded me of.

O, the parallels! A man who was given his position and enjoys what those before him have built up getting a message… and not being able to understand it, but knowing that he needed to be afraid. One verse in particular makes me smile.

¹⁷Then Daniel answered and said before the king, Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give thy rewards to another; yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation.

Makes me want to dress up in the heigth of Babylonian fashion and make a trip to D. C. “This is the writing that has been written, Mr. President: TOO FAR, TOO FAR, FAILURE, ROLL BACK. “