Blue Truck, Red State: Sir Keir Starmer

Showing posts with label Sir Keir Starmer. Show all posts

Monday, August 5, 2024

Starmer Has BALLS

How refreshing to see a Western leader who speaks plainly and acts decisively in a crisis:

The BBC provides a summary of this weekend's riots and the Government's response:

-----

Sunday, July 7, 2024

An alliance of left-wing parties has slapped down the far-right National Rally in France in today's legislative elections. This will complicate things for centrist President Emmanuel Macron, but when have French politics ever been easy?

Thank God the fascist threat is removed - for now.

This is an upset victory; last night all the pollsters were predicting a right-wing majority. But the left turned out en masse. A lesson for us in America. The bullies don't have to win, if we stick together.

The French election upset follows the victory of the Labour Party in last Thursday's UK election. Having accepted the King's invitation to form a government, Sir Keir Starmer is now off to a running start with his program of "National Renewal," after 14 years of endemic corruption, mismanagement, and gross incompetence by successive Tory governments.

-----

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu