For those of you in Africa, the Super Bowl (pro-American football championship match) is easily the biggest media and advertising event of the year in the US. Individual ads sell at about $100,000 per second and will have as many as 100,000,000 viewers. This ad was rejected by NBC, the network that shows the Super Bowl on television.
Month: January 2009
Obama and the Culture of Death?
Peter Dunn posted this quote from Miguel Guaniba in the American Thinker:
By Obama’s own reckoning, the heroic efforts of those who have bravely stood in defense of innocent human life in the womb — and long endured ridicule from the press for their dissenting views — have been reduced to nothing more than pointless efforts to engage in what is ultimately a “stale and fruitless debate”. The unimaginable grief and discord this issue has wrought upon countless lives and relationships at home and abroad have been reduced to nothing more than “petty grievances”. The devout religious convictions of those who have nurtured an abiding compassion and unwavering fidelity to the fundamental principle that every human life is endowed with inviolable dignity and inestimable worth by the creator of all life, barely rise to the status of “worn out dogmas”.
With the magic stroke of his executive pen, Obama has declared his intentions that no ground will be given and no prisoners spared.
Dunn’s posting was intended to show how Miguel Guanipa “eloquently critiques Obama statements about his rescinding of the Bush abortions funding policy,” saying that ”Obama is not the unifier that his campaign claimed.” It is not my role to decide whether the president is successful in unifying his country. Rather I seize the opportunity to reflect on an issue in American Christianity that is troubling to me, that is, an apparent confusion between church life and politics. I wonder if as a church we are mistaken regarding the nature and means of our combat when it comes to abortion.
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Double Standard AND Tax Evasion and Stealing (updated)
Obama and tax evaders:
It’s kind of funny and ironic that Obama’s secret revenue plan would be to appoint people who have failed to pay their taxes and then have them pay their outstanding bill. Funny because this would be, indeed, a way to help some rich people return what they have “stolen,” and ironic because that would mean that the non-payment of taxes is the reason for the economic/financial crisis and thus turn a problem into a solution.
I will respond to this in a new post as a opposed to the commentary section.
First, the approvals of Daschle and Geitner prove that there is a higher standard for Republicans than for Democrats. Linda Chavez was forced to withdraw her nomination for far less serious grounds which the media and the Democrats played to the hilt. The media even made numerous excuses for Geithner, because they feel it is their responsibility to support Obama’s presidency. They are after all the reason he is president.
Miscellany: Abortion, Global Warming Hits United Arab Emirates, and Tax Evasion (updated)
“Obama and The Culture of death” by Miguel Guanipa, eloquently critiques Obama statements about his rescinding of the Bush abortions funding policy: Obama is not the unifier that his campaign claimed:
By Obama’s own reckoning, the heroic efforts of those who have bravely stood in defense of innocent human life in the womb — and long endured ridicule from the press for their dissenting views — have been reduced to nothing more than pointless efforts to engage in what is ultimately a “stale and fruitless debate”. The unimaginable grief and discord this issue has wrought upon countless lives and relationships at home and abroad have been reduced to nothing more than “petty grievances”. The devout religious convictions of those who have nurtured an abiding compassion and unwavering fidelity to the fundamental principle that every human life is endowed with inviolable dignity and inestimable worth by the creator of all life, barely rise to the status of “worn out dogmas”.
With the magic stroke of his executive pen, Obama has declared his intentions that no ground will be given and no prisoners spared.
Global Warming
Some scientists have said it’s too late to save the planet from global warming (e.g., here and here). If so, shouldn’t we eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die?
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Banks vs. Golds
If you compare the price for Royal Bank (RY), Canada’s largest bank, against the price of Barrick Gold (ABX), Canada and the world’s largest gold mining company, over the last two years, I think the result is startling.
abx-vs-ry-2-years1 (Source: Yahoo Finance)
Starting about two years ago, I have as an investor/trader bought and sold alternatively ABX and RY. I sell the one when it’s high and sooner or later the other drops and I buy that. I’ve found that buy and hold, which I do with a part of my portfolio, has been an entirely unsuccessful strategy since I started investing about four years ago (see this article which confirms what I’m saying). However, my alternate buying and selling of RY and ABX has helped me to offset the losses that I’ve incurred in the buy and hold part of the portfolio.
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The Righteous Investor 