PHILOSOPHY: There are absolute standards about human behavior.

Thursday, October 15, 2026

https://tuckercarlson.com/live-show-october-7-2026

Charlie Kirk Was Right About October 7th. Dave Smith on This Generation’s 9/11.
The Tucker Carlson Show
•Premiered 5 days ago•95 mins
<< EDITOR ADDED DATE 2026-10-14>>

FROM BEHIND THE “tuckercarlson.com” PAYWALL?

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Tucker [00:00:00] Today is October 7th, 2026. It’s the third anniversary of the most horrifying, certainly the most widely publicized attack on mainland Israel in its history. Three years ago today, of course you remember, forces of Hamas, the militant group, also the, at the time, government of Gaza, the Israeli-controlled, semi-technically independent area south of Israel, taken by the Israeli government in 1967 and run ever since.

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The idea that it is okay to murder innocents. Well, it’s of course not okay. Morally, it is always wrong, always and everywhere. But it is also a guarantee of your own destruction. Because what you do to others will be done to you. This is not simply a religious precept. It’s of course a Christian idea. It’s an Eastern idea, often called karma. It’s very close to a physics principle. It is just always true. You will be treated as you treat others. And so if you murder innocents, you can look forward to a very tough future in which people you care about are murdered despite the fact they are innocent. And so wise nations don’t behave this way. They also calculate threats on a realistic basis. They don’t become hysterical, they don’t go insane. They understand that, yes, it’s a dangerous world, but not everyone wants to kill you. And your entire gross domestic product does not have to be taken up with preparing for some war or other. And if it is, you will guarantee having that war or either. These are obvious things that wise people understand. That, of course, you need to be prepared. And of course it’s true to some extent that… You know, strength is a good defense. You want to deter opportunistic attacks on your nation.

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How about a war on the people who are putting fentanyl into our society? How bout a war in behalf of the hundred thousand people or seventy thousand last year died of drug ODs? Why don’t you fight a real war against the people that are killing our citizens? But instead you’re lecturing us about our bad attitudes about a foreign country and you’re going to go community to community on some kind of tour that we’re paying for. To tell us that we’re the problem, our bad attitudes are the problem? It’s hard even to talk about this without using obscenity. You wanna use obscenities in response. No government official has a right to tell you what attitude you can have, ever, in a free country. You can have any attitude you want and come to any conclusion that you want. What you can’t do is commit violence against other people, and you shouldn’t. And you should oppose the use of violence against innocents, always, including the use violence by Israel. Against the Palestinians, including the use of violence by the United States government, the Trump administration, against fishermen off the coast of Venezuela, against girls going to school outside Tehran. That is wrong. It’s wrong when it happens here. It’s right when it happen there. It will always be wrong.

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And that’s why we have absolute standards about human behavior that apply to every person, regardless of whether he is Christian, Muslim, Jew, or Buddhist, regardless of he was black, white, or Asian. Those standards remain in place always, they are immutable. People didn’t think them up, God laid them down. And we have one job, which is to obey them and to judge others by those standards, regardless of how much money they have or how much they’ve given to Donald Trump or whether they’re friends with Attorney General Todd or not. And on the basis of those standards, what happened to Israel on October 7th is wrong. It’s immoral, it’s disgusting. And what Israel did in response to what happened to Israel October 7 is also wrong, disgusting and indefensible. And that will always be true. And calling it hate does not change the fundamental truth of that. But failing to acknowledge those absolute standards will destroy this country. And we hope that we get back to universal standards soon. 

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While many of the things Tucker has said, I’m not so sure that are “absolute truths”.

BUT, (and there is always a BIG butt), I believe he is right that somehow someway sometime  somewhere — around the globe — humans developed certain “moral principles” for the thriving of the species.  Eventually, everything devolves back to the principles of individual liberty.  However they came to be.  And like the “Law of Gravity”, they are as immutable as any physics principle.

What’s right and moral is the guiding principle.

Any politician or bureaucrat who advocates policies that would or do break those “laws” deserves our scorn.

Dona Nobis Pacem

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BIGOTRY: Boston bureaucrat practices religious discrimination

Monday, January 24, 2022

https://www.breitbart.com/faith/2022/01/20/exclusive-kobach-supreme-court-appears-ready-to-protect-a-christian-flag-in-boston-case/

Exclusive–Kobach: Supreme Court Appears Ready to Protect a Christian Flag in Boston Case
KRIS W. KOBACH
20 Jan 2022

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On Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments concerning the City of Boston’s refusal to allow a private organization to fly a Christian flag on a flagpole next to City Hall that was routinely made available to any private organization that applied to do so.  The case is Shurtleff v. City of Boston.

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The conservative Justices seemed likely to rule against the City.  Justice Gorsuch pointed out that the City was “treat[ing] religious viewpoints the equivalent of offensive or inappropriate ones.”  Justice Thomas reacted to the City of Boston’s claim that it was celebrating diversity by allowing other nations’ flags to fly by pointing out, “it would seem to me that Christians in Boston would be a part of that diversity calculus.”

Even Justice Kagan suggested that “this was a mistake” by the Boston bureaucrat who denied the application.  She wondered why the City had not settled the case with the plaintiffs.

These and other statements suggest that the Court isn’t buying Boston’s arguments.  Hopefully that proves to be true when the Supreme Court’s decision is issued.  For too long, too many government bureaucrats have been hostile to Christianity and its symbols.  A victory in this case for the plaintiffs would do much to reverse that trend.

Kris W. Kobach served as the Secretary of State of Kansas during 2011-2019.  Prior to that, he was a professor of constitutional law at the University of Missouri—Kansas City School of Law during 1996-2011.  An expert in immigration law and policy, he was also an informal adviser to President Trump.  He is currently General Counsel of the Alliance for Free Citizens.  His website is www.kriskobach.com. 

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While I have no real problem with SCOTUS smacking down the Boston bureaucrats, I wonder why the flag pole is there at all.

It serves no legitimate public purpose other than making work for the politicians and bureaucrats.

Also, I don’t think Churches should fly the Gooferment’s flag EVER.

In the old days, “the Church” was a power that kept the King in check.  Today, it’s like a rubber stamp for the Gooferment.

We need more protection from the tyranny of the Big Deep State and its politicians and bureaucrats.

Argh!

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FUN: NOT! But, I couldn’t think of a better category

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

http://musingsofafemalecollegestudent.blogspot.com/2012/03/break-up-story.html?showComment=1331720096027#c8170342234057661725

Monday, March 12, 2012
The Break-Up Story

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Sometimes, I get tired of love stories. So here’s the story of how my ex and I broke up.It was Saturday, March 12th, 2011, and I remember because it was the first official day of Spring break. I was a sophomore in college at that time, and I had just begun a recovery process that was going to take about a year to come to fruition.

I was recovering from over 4 months of ulcers and IBS, which played a part in me getting panic disorder a few weeks after I started the spring semester. It had gotten to a point where I had to go on medication, and a week after I started taking meds was Valentine’s Day. My ex and I were in a long distance relationship, so he sent me a card in the mail saying how he would support me during this hard time, and how he would be there for me.

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Wonder how I’d have felt if I’d lost my soul mate. Kinda like a feel now. I’m sure that a God who’s all good would not let that happen (i.e., you never meet that soul mate).

“You can’t be afraid. It’s not right to be afraid. It’s as if you don’t trust the Lord with our lives. I’m not a big Bible Banger, but it seems rude to joggle God’s elbow. Like a little kid, who has no concept of what is happening.” — character “John” in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 2 Page 206

“My love, were it in my power, I would sadly grant thee this boon. But, we have to continue to follow His Plan for us. Let’s go forth and speak no more of this. Who ever is last will be last. It will be His choice; not ours. We’re but humble custodians of His temple on earth. It’s not our place to trump His plan. Whatever that plan be, know that I will be with you to my last breath.” — character “John” in CHURCH 10●19●62 Volume 2 Page 399

My soul mate passed on about a year ago. So, I can somewhat empathize with what your feeling.

All I can say is, that like I’m doing, is to pick up your burden — if I was a better Catholic, I’d say “cross” — and move on.

Not easy. I use a lot of music by Taylor Swift — stop laugh at a poor fat old white guy injineer — which I find strangely empathetic to my life.

Hope I made you laugh!

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