flight log

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3 day trip. Night in Yabus at SIM base with friends was a good time!

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last week’s tweets

• back home. 3100 miles of south sudan covered in 4 days. a little tired! #
• Lunch at java with my boy! Cant beat it #
• "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive." -CS Lewis #

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my last words on health care

It has now been a day since the 11th hour promise by President Obama to issue an executive order restricting the use of funds on abortions (an odd maneuver that both pro- and anti-abortion proponents agree will do nothing) tilted seven embattled Democratic Congressmen to vote in favor of a radical intervention of the federal government in health care. Obviously, if you read this blog at all, you know what I think about this bill and its cost/benefit ratio.

However, what’s done is done. Unless the frantic, last-ditch effort of some state’s attorney generals gain any traction, America will see what happens when you give power to people, full of promises, who believe at a fundamental level that they can care for you better that you can. I don’t mean that to sound as crass as it may sound, but that is the rub. ‘Yes, we can!’ wasn’t speaking of a ‘we’ that involved us, it was a ‘we’ that involved a particular inner circle of folks who trust their own intelligence, morality and discernment enough to believe that they are capable of decreeing what is best for America, regardless of what Americans ask of them.

So, how does one move on, after such a display of myopic disregard by our own leaders? Let me suggest a few things: read more

a day in the life (pt2)