Just a random blog on Compassion

I read something today that I always figured but never had any proof of. I know many conservative people who donate a lot of their time and money to charitable causes and I hear a lot of liberals preach about compassion and civic duty but who as a group is really the compassionate ones. Just to clarify I do not consider taxes contributing nor do I consider volunteering time or money to political organizations charitable. Back to my point Arthur C Brooks, a Syracuse University professor did a study and then published his findings in the book "Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism." Here are a few of his key findings:

“-- Although liberal families' incomes average 6 percent higher than those of conservative families, conservative-headed households give, on average, 30 percent more to charity than the average liberal-headed household ($1,600 per year vs. $1,227).

-- Conservatives also donate more time and give more blood.

-- Residents of the states that voted for John Kerry in 2004 gave smaller percentages of their incomes to charity than did residents of states that voted for George Bush.

-- Bush carried 24 of the 25 states where charitable giving was above average.

-- In the 10 reddest states, in which Bush got more than 60 percent majorities, the average percentage of personal income donated to charity was 3.5. Residents of the bluest states, which gave Bush less than 40 percent, donated just 1.9 percent.

-- People who reject the idea that "government has a responsibility to reduce income inequality" give an average of four times more than people who accept that proposition.”

Unlike many who are blessed with the gift of gab and flowery speech he does not use a lot of vague generalities and hyperbole to prove his point he actually has the numbers.

Then just to add to this when the Obama’s released their tax papers it was revealed in their early years earning incomes exceeding $240,000 all they could part with in the way of monetary charitable donations was a measly $1000. My first year out of college my cash charitable donations were at least that amount and I made only 1/6 what they did. I’m tired of hearing hypocrite liberals preach about compassion and using government to redistribute other people’s money.

Racism

I have to say something; I will not divulge any of the details that elicited these feelings because they were told to me in confidence.

I hate racism! I hate racism! I hate racism!!!

I try really hard not to ever have feelings of hatred towards anyone, I may really hate the way a person acts or what he/she does but I truly try to not to hate the person. But racism sometimes just makes me furious… I have trouble coming up with the correct words to accurately describe my feelings. We’re all human beings we're all created by the same God and have the same value in his eyes. And if you don’t believe in a god then we’re all just meat sacks and we're all going to become fertilizer when we die none more valuable than the other. I’m not going to recite the cultural diversity of my friends I have no need to justify myself I don’t judge people on things such as skin color, language or nationality.

One of the most disappointing things to me is to find out that someone I know is racist and when I hear of someone I know being treated poorly based on nothing more than race it is hard to describe the feelings I have.

It is OK to disagree with people philosophically, politically, morally or even religiously these are honest, reasonable and perhaps even intelligent reasons to disagree with or even separate yourself from another person or social group. But when a kind sincere person approaches another in friendship and is turned away simply because of a difference in race that is inexcusable.

I can’t even begin to discuss race based violence, I can’t compose the words.

Think about it.

Here are just a few things to think about.


550 tons of Yellow Cake Uranium was found in Iraq but this was never released to the press till yesterday 7/6/2008 because it was feared release of this news would hurt diplomatic relations with the Countries involved or incite the terrorist plots to hinder the uranium's removal. So you mean to tell me that all that time people were dragging Bush through the mud with accusations of no WMD's he risked his credibility and reputation just to keep those involved in the removal efforts safe and to preserve diplomatic relations with other countries... Bastard how dare he.


The concept of idle oils field is a fallacy, to put it simply the oil companies have to lease the land from the government before they can explore. Once they've leased the land they have to continue paying on it, whether or not they actually find any oil, till the lease is up. So these supposed "Idol Oil Fields" in fact either never even had oil at all or the resources required to harvest it makes it financially unreasonable. If you want to know more go to http://www.relocalize.net/the_idle_oil_field_fallacy


Since the Dem's took congress gas prises have risen over 70%... Coincidentally Congresses approval rating is only 9% and 52% say Congress is doing a poor job. Hum!!!


To date Barack Hussein Obama has received some quite prestigious endorsements.

• Hamas
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
• Hugo Chávez
• Fidel Castro
• North Korean News Agency
• Kim Jong Ill