It was a prudent decision.
A young police chief who fled a violent Mexican border town is now seeking asylum in the United States, FoxNews.com has learned.
Marisol Valles-Garcia, 20, made international headlines last year when she accepted the post as top law enforcement official of Praxedis G. Guerrero in October. The town had been without a police chief since her predecessor was shot to death in July 2009.
Hopefully, since Homeland Security and the Democrats of the House and Senate don't think there's a problem on the border, and refuse to take the steps necessary to enforce it, INS will grant this request.
OS posts this, and hopes his readers pass it along, because this young lady's story will be an embarrassment to both the US and Mexican governments. Without sufficient sunlight trained upon her situation, they could put her through the tortures of the damned, before they quietly dump back over the border to be murdered.
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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Work, Work, Work, Work/Love, Love, Love, Love
Quickly, got much work to do today, so can't sit around and chew the fat.
But this is really a fabulous article posted at Acton Institute.
Enjoy, share, and tell yoh' friends how you found it.
But this is really a fabulous article posted at Acton Institute.
Enjoy, share, and tell yoh' friends how you found it.
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Work As If It Mattered: Jordan Ballor At Acton Institute
These thoughts are not about a burning issue of the hour, but do merit reading.
In the meantime, OS is working against several deadlines this week, deeply grateful for his life, work, and family. But he does look longingly at the perfect golf weather as he plows through the next stack of ThingsThatSimplyCannotBeDelayed.
In the meantime, OS is working against several deadlines this week, deeply grateful for his life, work, and family. But he does look longingly at the perfect golf weather as he plows through the next stack of ThingsThatSimplyCannotBeDelayed.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Thoughts On Labor Day From The Acton Institute
In celebration of Labor Day, thoughts from the Acton Institute on the meaning of our labor.
...God has also given our work a spiritual meaning. The Apostle Paul exhorts us in this way: “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.” That is, we are accountable to God for the opportunities he gives us to be productive, as well as for the energy and talents that we apply in our work. The first great commandment is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” We are to love God in all we do. This includes that portion of our day which we spend at work. We are, quite simply, to show our love of God in our work.
That final sentence--a revolutionary idea in our day. What if, what if, what if we were able to embrace the idea in our culture? The old term often used is 'vocation', or 'calling'.
OS knows people who live this idea out, in several different professions. They are genuinely happy, and their work shines and endures. One in particular, now a semi-retired restaurant owner, comes to memory. One hot August evening, twenty years ago, he made and exhausted and stressed Mr. and Mrs. OS welcome, the final customers of his evening, and became a lifelong friend. His hospitality changed our lives, and his good influence reaches around the world. Many of his happiest moments were spent with that long apron on, moving table to table to table in his establishment, serving up home-cooking, greeting everyone by name, asking about every cousin and in-law. He understood what his work was, and still does, by the way, at a more modest pace. He'll never 'retire', and OS suspects he'll be buried in that apron. Love of God, love of neighbor, a joyful life. A vocation. A calling.
And, to state much the same idea from another point of view, Jimmy Buffett offers us a song:
Happy Labor Day.
...God has also given our work a spiritual meaning. The Apostle Paul exhorts us in this way: “Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.” That is, we are accountable to God for the opportunities he gives us to be productive, as well as for the energy and talents that we apply in our work. The first great commandment is to “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” We are to love God in all we do. This includes that portion of our day which we spend at work. We are, quite simply, to show our love of God in our work.
That final sentence--a revolutionary idea in our day. What if, what if, what if we were able to embrace the idea in our culture? The old term often used is 'vocation', or 'calling'.
OS knows people who live this idea out, in several different professions. They are genuinely happy, and their work shines and endures. One in particular, now a semi-retired restaurant owner, comes to memory. One hot August evening, twenty years ago, he made and exhausted and stressed Mr. and Mrs. OS welcome, the final customers of his evening, and became a lifelong friend. His hospitality changed our lives, and his good influence reaches around the world. Many of his happiest moments were spent with that long apron on, moving table to table to table in his establishment, serving up home-cooking, greeting everyone by name, asking about every cousin and in-law. He understood what his work was, and still does, by the way, at a more modest pace. He'll never 'retire', and OS suspects he'll be buried in that apron. Love of God, love of neighbor, a joyful life. A vocation. A calling.
And, to state much the same idea from another point of view, Jimmy Buffett offers us a song:
Happy Labor Day.
Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Alexis De Tocqueville, 1840: Organized, Peaceful, Gentle Enslavement
Following upon OS's previous post, and with a large and grateful bow in the direction of the Acton Institute, the words of de Tocqueville, published in 1840:
Thus, the ruling power, having taken each citizen one by one into its powerful grasp and having molded him to its own liking, spreads its arms over the whole of society, covering the surface of social life with a network of petty, complicated, detailed, and uniform rules through which even the most original minds and the most energetic of spirits cannot reach the light in order to rise above the crowd. It does not break men’s wills but it does soften, bend, and control them; rarely does it force men to act but it constantly opposes what actions they perform; it does not destroy the start of anything but it stands in its way; it does not tyrannize but it inhibits, represses, drains, snuffs out, dulls so much effort that finally it reduces each nation to nothing more than a flock of timid and hardworking animals with the government as shepherd.
I have always believed that this type of organized, gentle, and peaceful enslavement just described could link up more easily than imagined with some of the external forms of freedom and that it would not be impossible for it to take hold in the very shadow of the sovereignty of this people.
Does this sound familiar?
Thus, the ruling power, having taken each citizen one by one into its powerful grasp and having molded him to its own liking, spreads its arms over the whole of society, covering the surface of social life with a network of petty, complicated, detailed, and uniform rules through which even the most original minds and the most energetic of spirits cannot reach the light in order to rise above the crowd. It does not break men’s wills but it does soften, bend, and control them; rarely does it force men to act but it constantly opposes what actions they perform; it does not destroy the start of anything but it stands in its way; it does not tyrannize but it inhibits, represses, drains, snuffs out, dulls so much effort that finally it reduces each nation to nothing more than a flock of timid and hardworking animals with the government as shepherd.
I have always believed that this type of organized, gentle, and peaceful enslavement just described could link up more easily than imagined with some of the external forms of freedom and that it would not be impossible for it to take hold in the very shadow of the sovereignty of this people.
Does this sound familiar?
Sunday, May 2, 2010
A Book To Acquire: Last Exit To Utopia
The rain continues to pour, so there actually a bit of time to read today--first time in over a week.
From the Acton Institute, an entertaining book review of John-Francois Revel's
Last Exit To Utopia
Revel can certainly write:
We had long been accustomed to the disasters of socialism, since it had never managed to produce anything but disasters anywhere. What had now become obvious was that it could not produce anything else. A liberating truth had emerged: Marxism had suffered from defective DNA all along.
Somebody, please, ring up the White House, and share the news with them...
From the Acton Institute, an entertaining book review of John-Francois Revel's
Last Exit To Utopia
Revel can certainly write:
We had long been accustomed to the disasters of socialism, since it had never managed to produce anything but disasters anywhere. What had now become obvious was that it could not produce anything else. A liberating truth had emerged: Marxism had suffered from defective DNA all along.
Somebody, please, ring up the White House, and share the news with them...
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Food For Thought From The Acton Institute
OS has spent a little time, not enough, in the erudite pages of the Acton Institute.
It's a think tank with a peculiar purpose:
The Mission of the Acton Institute is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.
The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty is named after the great English historian, Lord John Acton (1834-1902). He is best known for his famous remark: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Inspired by his work on the relation between liberty and morality, the Acton Institute seeks to articulate a vision of society that is both free and virtuous, the end of which is human flourishing. To clarify this relationship, the Institute holds seminars and publishes various books, monographs, periodicals, and articles.
A free and virtuous society--now that's worth spending our energies on.
Acton Institute becomes a GreenShoots nominee, and their feed is posted on your right.
It's a think tank with a peculiar purpose:
The Mission of the Acton Institute is to promote a free and virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by religious principles.
The Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty is named after the great English historian, Lord John Acton (1834-1902). He is best known for his famous remark: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Inspired by his work on the relation between liberty and morality, the Acton Institute seeks to articulate a vision of society that is both free and virtuous, the end of which is human flourishing. To clarify this relationship, the Institute holds seminars and publishes various books, monographs, periodicals, and articles.
A free and virtuous society--now that's worth spending our energies on.
Acton Institute becomes a GreenShoots nominee, and their feed is posted on your right.
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