Forget About It

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Missions/Default.aspx?id=1501414

An Iranian Christian, Youcef Nadarkhani was arrested and sits in jail because he is a Christian. He did not want his son to read the Quran in school and that started the investigation that could end with him receiving the death penalty for failure to convert to Islam. Iran is an Islamic nation and it is illegal to convert to Christ or to encourage others to convert to Christ, subject to the death penalty.

The best weapon we have against radical Islam is the Word of the Lord. Muslims know it is called the Sword of the Lord for a reason. God’s true and lively word is a powerful tool against the enemies of Christ. Radical Islam seeks to use worldly power, cruelty, and death to intimidate people into conversion of Islam. It is the only method they have of taking and keeping other nations.

In Christianity we send missionaries who convince people to come to Christ. They use the Bible, and often do good works, as Mother Teresa has done. Helping the sick, orphans, feeding the hungry are traditional methods of bringing people to Christ in the last two centuries. In Radical Islam they use the fear of death to maintain control because they know in the free market of ideas; they lose; that’s the view from the Hysterical Right Wing.

Christian Persecution

http://www.gopusa.com/news/2011/12/14/atheist-messages-displace-ca-park-nativity-scenes/?subscriber=1

For decades the City of Santa Monica has permitted churches to place Nativity scenes in parks. This year a group of atheists asked for permission to use the spaces. Rather than allow a fair and open use of the space, giving each group who requested a space one space, they came up with a lottery system that allowed each group up to three spaces.

Atheists took all but two of 21 spaces, but then they only used three of them. Clearly their intention was to censor the free speech of the Christian groups. Each group should have been accommodated and given one space. If there were more groups than spaces then there should have been a lottery where each group got a chance for one space.

Any group that did not use their space by a specific time should have lost their space to the next group in line. As usual the liberals, who love free speech, but hate it when conservatives talk religion, came up with a plan for a tiny number of people to force their anti-Christian views on the majority of the population. So now instead of displays showing love, redemption and forgiveness and hope, we have photos of Satan and photos that mock Jesus Christ. Remember, liberals are the ones who are fair and inclusive, unless you are a Christian; that’s the view from the Hysterical Right Wing.

Japanese Fighter

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/japan-to-pick-lockheeds-f-35-as-new-stealth-fighter/2011/12/13/gIQAbuYUrO_story.html

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It appears that Japan is set to buy the Lockheed martin F-35 fighter plane as it’s new manned aircraft, they intend to buy about forty of them. It is a pretty sad day when forty aircraft are considered a big purchase. As far back as World War Two a single aircraft carrier carried almost a hundred planes.

Forty aircraft to defend all of Japan seems a pitiful amount, still I am glad they are buying American aircraft. The US needs to sell more high technology aircraft to our allies. This is always a good way to keep American jobs and standardize our equipment with those that we will be working with in the event of a major war.

Now that Japan is buying them we should work on selling them to South Korea and Taiwan. The Communist Chinese won’t like that, but we don’t like it when they conduct cyber attacks against our military and civilian industry. Perhaps this would be a good way to express our displeasure; that’s the view from the Hysterical Right Wing.

Why Be Good?

Devon Corneal: Keeping the Faith

A couple has been raising their son without religion. The woman claims in her article she wants her son to be “good.” If you don’t worship a god, how can you have a standard for good? Her moral teaching has been that that he should share his toys and give money to a charity that provides farm animals to Third World people.

What is it that makes this good? Perhaps as a secularist he should want these Third World people to starve so we don’t overpopulate the planet. Perhaps they should not eat meat or keep animals as farm stock since animals have the same moral standing in an atheist world as humans? Why bother to share his toys with others when he derives no ethical or practical benefit?

The mother wants the child to be exposed to a system of “fairness, service, generosity, and taking care of others.” Why? If God has not mandated this, then why not eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow we die? Is this not the work of Mother Teresa and other Christian charities carry out every day in the world? Providing hope to the hopeless, food to the hungry has long been a Christian tradition. This is an example of why our society is dying; we are failing to pass on our values to our children because we don’t believe in them any longer; that’s the view from the Hysterical Right Wing.

Score

What Insurers Could Do With Your 'Social Media Score' - DailyFinance

Insurance companies are checking your out on Facebook. They want to get to know you better, find out about your lifestyle and what you do with your time. Do you enjoy going out for a couple beers after work with friends? Did you have a great time on the slopes this weekend, skiing in the mountains, or did you go scuba diving instead? Does that photo of you show a cigarette in your hands?

Risky behaviors as documented in your social media score could mean higher insurance premiums for you. Your social media score is a tally of all the dangerous things you show yourself doing on social media. So if Facebook shows you are an accountant by day but a lion tamer by night, you might have a higher social media score than an accountant who works out at the gym.

While I think private companies generally should be able to charge what they want, I think insurance should strive to make a profit on the aggregate, not on each individual policy. Everyone has risk factors and I suspect they often balance out in the end. The race car driver may get killed in a race, but is probably safer on the freeway than the other drivers. The lion tamer may be at risk at work from lion attack, but safer from robbery than a bank clerk or taxi cab driver. The guy who swims in the ocean may avoid a heart attack, but not a shark attack. It all evens out in the end and that’s what insurance is supposed to do, spread out the risk over a large group of people, that’s the view from the Hysterical Right Wing

Constitution

http://www.newswithviews.com/Anghis/roger195.htm

When the Congress was first assembled in 1789 and until 1815 they were only paid $6 per day, and that was only when they were in session. Now they make $170,000 a year or more. I think they need a pay cut. The average household income is only about $50,000 per year.

I think the Congress should only be paid the average household income. That would provide them with an incentive to increase the pay for everyone I also think they should have the Social Security System as their only retirement fund. Eliminate their special retirement. Why should they have a lavish retirement after only one term in office when the rest of us have to work to age 67 to retire with a fraction of what we were making when we were working?

Too many in our government are out of touch with the regular people. They have a sense of entitlement that says they can do anything; they can have great perks, huge incomes and jobs for life. One way to cut out some of these problems is to cut their pay and benefits. It used to be that serving in the Congress was a privilege; you left your private sector business, went to serve for a term or two and then returned home to live under the same laws as the rest of us live under. Now they serve for life and exempt themselves from all the laws the rest of us have to deal with. We need to take back our government; that’s the view from the Hysterical Right Wing.

Old Time Religion, New Time Technology

Churches Adopt Technology To Reach Out To Congregants

When Jesus walked the Earth he spoke to us and his disciples eventually wrote down what he told them. Eventually, someone used a new technology to print His words. Eventually the Word was preached, first on radio, then on television. Then the printing press with moveable type was utilized to print those immortal words. Now the Word of God is on the Internet and on computers. It just seems like a good idea to move forward spreading the Gospel with new technologies as they become available.

As we have moved into the electronic age, the church as done a poor job of reaching the world with the message of Jesus. There should be a constant barrage of radio, television and movies sponsored by Christians that reach out not only to their flocks, but to the world as well. These messages could be commercially sponsored, and make money and become self supporting, just like secular radio, TV and movies. Religious movies have always done well at the box office from the silent Ben Hur toThe Passion of the Christ.

Since Hollywood won’t make these shows anymore, Christians should be forming companies to make these kinds of movies. We already have the greatest collection of stories in the Bible. We simply need to make mass market shows that will bring that message to the people. Christians need to embrace technology, just as we always have done; that’s the view from the Hysterical Right Wing.