The decision to disallow the promotion of firemen because of a lack of blacks getting to the standard was made my the current nominee of the Chicago Black Sock puppet to the Supreme Court…

The Supreme Court today narrowly ruled in favor of white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., who said they were denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision by Judge Sonia Sotomayor and others that had come to play a large role in the consideration of her nomination for the high court.

The city had thrown out the results of a promotion test because no African Americans and only two Hispanics would have qualified for promotions. It said it feared a lawsuit from minorities under federal laws that said such “disparate impacts” on test results could be used to show discrimination.

In effect, the court was deciding when avoiding potential discrimination against one group amounted to actual discrimination against another.

The court’s conservative majority said in a 5 to 4 vote that is what happened in New Haven.

“Fear of litigation alone cannot justify an employer’s reliance on race to the detriment of individuals who passed the examinations and qualified for promotions,” wrote Justice Anthony M. Kennedy.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wrote for the liberals on the court and said the decision knocks the pegs from Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.

She read her dissent from the bench for emphasis. “Congress endeavored to promote equal opportunity in fact, and not simply in form,” she said. “The damage today’s decision does to that objective is untold.”

via High Court Rules for White Firefighters in Discrimination Suit.

Um Ruth, who said that he wanted his daughters judged by the quality of their character rather than the colour of their skin?

And the civil rights act is not an amendment to the Constitution. There is no justification for discrimination when there are objective tests.

Reverse racism is the current version of the Jim Crow laws. Maori party please take note.

Todayy’s devotion is around enduring in what is right and repending of what is evil.

Psalm 51

10 Hide your face from my sins,

and blot out all my iniquities.

Create in me a clean heart, O God,

and put a new and right spirit within me.

11 Do not cast me away from your presence,

and do not take your holy spirit from me.

12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation,

and sustain in me a willing spirit.

13 Then I will teach transgressors your ways,

and sinners will return to you.

16 For you have no delight in sacrifice;

if I were to give a burnt-offering, you would not be pleased.

17 The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit;

a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Luke 21

16You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers, by relatives and friends; and they will put some of you to death.

17You will be hated by all because of my name.

18But not a hair of your head will perish.

19By your endurance you will gain your souls.

via PC(USA) – Devotions.

We are not expected to be faithful, for we cannot be faithful. We are not expected to be pefect, for we are human. We are expected to strive to do good. We are expectted to Love our God. We are expected not to abandon him, regadless of the pressure. Mnay have died to keep this. I pray this generation is spared this trial, but there are martys every year in the Caliphate.

May whe all have a clean heart and the spirit of God, for holiness exalts a peaple.

Alcohol affects the GABA receptor. Unlike the other GABAergic cleases — barbituates and diazepams — it is an inefficient anaesthetic, and a metabolic poison.

But like them, if you take enough you will stop breathing. There is a reason for the rituals around alcohol and other traditional ways of getting stoned. They minimise the harm from the active substance.

This does not.

A 13-year-old boy airlifted to hospital in a coma after drinking three-quarters of a bottle of vodka bought for him by an adult could easily have died, a judge said this week.

In Nelson District Court, Judge Richard Russell fined 22-year-old Lance Seymour Sowerby, of Motueka, after he pleaded guilty to buying alcohol to supply to a minor, the Nelson Mail reported.

Sowerby was at a Motueka liquor store in January when the boy asked him to buy alcohol for him and a friend, police prosecutor Sergeant Chris Stringer said.

Sowerby bought a bottle of vodka and the boy drank three-quarters of it.

He lapsed into a coma and was flown by rescue helicopter to Nelson Hospital, where he made a full recovery.

via Vodka buyer fined $750 after boy in coma – National – NZ Herald News.

Read the whole article and then buy all his books. Now. Throw some Tolkien in if you haven’t already read it…

Redeemer holds high moral standards, but Keller puts all 10 commandments under the first one—to have no other gods. Preaching about idolatry—the sin of putting something or someone else in the place of God—enables Keller to communicate with relativists, who would respond to Christian moral standards by saying, “That’s just your opinion.”

“When you say the ultimate sin is to put things in the place of God,” Keller says, “you take that argument away. You find that they say, ‘Hmm, I don’t know if there is a God.’ When I describe sin in such a way that people wish there were a God, I’m making progress.”

Redeemer doesn’t participate in culture wars. It aims to focus on Jesus, and on the incredible good news that God is not, in fact, the worst taskmaster in the world but the one who died for us.

via How Tim Keller Found Manhattan | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction.

via xkcd – A Webcomic – Voynich Manuscript.