Mailbox Vox: Abortion, the Dow, Mensa, more
As I've written before, I truly appreciate hearing from you - well, from most of you, anyhow. This Mailbox will be a regular weekend feature where I'll answer some of the many questions which I receive from you all. A special thanks for all the great blessings from the plethora of fervent pro-lifers who e-mailed this week.
I am assuming that you understand that the moment of life begins the moment our sinful nature does what the Holy Spirit through David defines as being at the moment of conception?
- Ed
I don't know when life begins, precisely, nor does anyone else. This is one reason why abortion must end, since no one is even capable of knowing that exact moment at the present time. I am sure, however, that it starts sometime before birth.
The truth is, it is hard to face the fact of murder or complicity in murder without a hard and cold heart. What is left is for America to decide is whether we will countenance murder and call it sympathy for the mother, or set a new paradigm making the issue of "abortion on demand" a question once again, and perhaps we can get the answer right this time.
- John the Marine
You can always trust a Marine to cut to the heart of the matter! We'd better get it right or, more to the point, President Bush's next Supreme Court nominees better get it right and trash those emanations and penumbras that sprang from the hallucinating hive-mind of the Supremes 30 years ago.
I came to a point in my life once where I thought abortion was the answer, as probably many others have done. Unfortunately, that is the decision that I made, and I am faced with that every single day of my life. A "Christian" would not remind others of their mistakes. It is so very easy to point your finger, isn't it? If we were all as "perfect and morally correct" as you seem to think you are, then the world would be a much better place!
- H.
It is not my intention to make those already conscious of what they have done to feel guilty, but to drive the truth of the abortion home to those who are either unrepentant, considering it, or are supporting it politically. I do not think I am perfect, especially since I am informed on a weekly basis by my readers, among others, that I am not. However, as Christians we not only have the right, but the responsibility to speak out when others go astray. See James for details.
If I'm to e-mail you in the future and remind you that the prediction (of Dow 1,500) was a failure, which might prompt you to reexamine some of the beliefs which led you to that conclusion, I need some kind of time frame for the prediction. É Do you have any faith at all in what you said?
- Steve the Taurophile
S&P 445 by Oct. 31, 2005. That precise enough for you? Here's a freebie - the Vikings won't win the Super Bowl that year.
So what did the U.S. 157th Regiment do with the captured Waffen SS guards?
- Richard
After the camp was surrendered, the outraged U.S. troops shot most of the SS and allowed the inmates to finish off the rest. Five hundred, twenty of the 560 Waffen-SS were killed; the regular Wehrmacht soldiers were mostly unharmed. Patton had no problem with it; I can't really say that I do either.
Regarding Mensa: Do not advertise it. I surely would not join that arrogant group, where the average reported IQ is depressingly low to claim such superiority. You are surely better than that.
- Bob
Don't worry, Bob, I've never even been to a meeting. Now, Mensa is not the only group for which I qualify, but it's the only IQ outfit with which everyone is familiar, and it serves to preempt leftist hate mailers from making one of their two arguments, which is that they are smarter than me. This leaves them only the moral superiority argument, which is always amusing to hear from a defender of moral relativism.
Great article. ... Informative stuff. How exactly do you think the "PPT" are propping up the equity markets? Is it mainly through money inflation? Where should one "abandon ship," as you put it? Go long in bonds? More gold?
- Jeffrey
A lot of you were curious about the markets in general, and what I recommended once the latest money pump hits diminishing returns and the down wave begins. I'd suggest unhedged gold stocks as the easiest way to ride the wave out, with pretty much any HUI index component such as GG, GFI, NEM or GLG being a good bet.
As for "Down with Madden," all I'm going to say is that it's not a disease, and I'm just fine!