…except for the outlets that manage to get her on.
Let’s face it, most of the MSM and the magazines that are attacking her are hemorrhaging readers and/or viewers. They will hit Palin they will make fun of Palin but they know that she is a breadwinner for them, and they also know that every moment that they cover Sarah Palin is a moment that they don’t have to cover this president and the best thing for their side (yes they have a side) is to avoid covering this president.
The media is going to be pretty much unwatchable all week.
As Rush has said, the left will tell us who they fear, and they are screaming it loudly. Watching Morning Joe today it is also not a coincidence that apparently the two of the favorite republicans of this show are apparently hit hard in this book.
Lets be blunt: Any Republican that thinks the advice of the media is worth taking for their benefit is an idiot and the concept that they will consult an editor of the Nation for this says much more about Morning Joe than it does about Sarah Palin.
First his assertion that problems can’t get solved unless the US and China agrees. This is a foolish statement, that suggests that we have to get Chinese approval or corporation on any move we want to make. Really dumb statement.
Now if we can get them to help on things fine but to suggest that without them we can’t solve problems is just nonsense.
Secondly he is talking about the freedom of the internet and how a totally free internet is a plus, he explained that an uncensored internet forces him to hear opinions that he might not agree with. Considering his administration’s full scales attacks on Fox News and Rush Limbaugh his statement is a real joke.
I swear to God this guy doesn’t believe that videotape, google or youtube exist.
We are rapidly reaching the point were it isn’t worth listening to what he has to say since rational people will assume he will be speaking idiocy.
Remember we did this to ourselves, the government we deserve.
The episode was pretty good but had one large plot hole that you could drive a truck through.
The first issue is the problem itself. It is a problem he has faced before and it is very strange that he doesn’t remember what he was once told.
One could argue that the hole is due to the Doctor’s hubris as he gets beyond himself. He has been in this position before but recognized it for what it was, but of course that was in the days of Tom Baker, truly his finest era and he hadn’t suffered the traumas that affected both his 9th incarnation and his current self. Thus he skips the obvious solution (as per the Marian Conspiracy) and it leads to issues as he passes on his fatalism to another.
As you can see I’m doing my best to avoid spoilers, the episode is first rate television and likely leads to what happens in those last two episodes.
Although the plotting is great and you will appreciate this episode I think I will be very happy if the 11th doctor becomes once again a happier traveler.
…one the show is done and the proxy is set up it’s off to the BBC site to see it.
Countdown to the 11th doctor is in progress. Matt Smith will have a tough act to follow but lucky for him he is also getting the best writer from the series.
…when an American president would be bowing to a foreign king.
Then again I never thought I’d see the day when we would abandon our allies, excuse our foes, treat terrorists better than POW’s, ignoring dissidents and embracing the worst players on the international stage.
That doesn’t even go near the domestic agenda.
No wonder Castro and Carter are practically wetting themselves.
…because on Tuesday I went to pick up my car from John after some minor repairs (yes Apple customer service pays!)and noticed something odd across the street.
Fitchburg’s only x-rated video store sits across the street between Parrot Pizza and Dippin’ Donuts (they are just about the only non-auto business in that area) and it blared out two huge signs on the side. One said “under new management” and the other announced that the porn star Belladonna would be appearing live.
As Fitchburg’s last video store closed this year and with the amount of free porn available on the net the idea that someone decided to buy the place was odd enough but the idea that a nationally known porn actress would be there was even odder.
Morning Joe is reporting that the Attorney General is reporting that the 9/11 mastermind is going to be moved to NYC and tried in a civilian court.
Lets forgetting that discovery is going to really hurt intelligence and compromise agents and tactics this is going to have an incredible effect on the battlefield.
Terrorists taken on the battlefield will of course assume and demand lawyers. People who are not even entitled to Geneva protections will get the protections of US law and the best lawyers that our liberal friends will can provide, and trust me they will proudly provide them.
There is a message to our troops, kill them, kill them all and don’t bother to take them alive because you might end up being deposed. If I’m a commander in the field I take the gloves off, I don’t worry about taking anybody alive, I don’t risk my troops for anything now, and I just hit hard, with any weapon I am allowed. If there are non-combatants in the area I don’t worry about it.
This is a policy that is going to cost American lives and the decision of this administration is one they should be ashamed of, if it had any shame.
I guess the decision to do this right after Ft. Hood is the hope of burying all the bad news at once. I guess they decided that the Ft. Hood attack wasn’t a big enough win for Al-Qaeda so they decided to give them another one.
Update: At the News conference he ducks the question. He is a disgrace to this office.
Never forget people, we as a nation did this to ourselves, it is our fault and we will pay for this in blood.
Update 2: Memeorandum doesn’t have it yet, somebody besides me must be writing about it somewhere.
What do we get from having the 9/11 plotters tried in criminal court in New York City? Well, we get to have the city painted as a big, bright target for terrorist action during the entirety of the trial. Thanks to press coverage, which should be an order of magnitude more obsessive than the OJ Simpson trial in LA fourteen years ago, jihadists will come out of the woodwork to make a big international splash, or more likely a boom. We also give KSM and his cohorts a big, juicy media platform for their bile. That was one of their motivations for conducting the attack in the first place, and we finally get to deliver it to them.
I wonder if we will also get a Lynne Stewart ready to pass on info to his friends on the other side. Actually she is out now isn’t she, or if not will be by the time of the trial, she can work for the defense team.
“Money from our loyal donors should not be used for this purpose,” Chairman Michael Steele said in a statement. “I don’t know why this policy existed in the past, but it will not exist under my administration. Consider this issue settled.”
Steele has told the committee’s director of administration to opt out of coverage for elective abortion in the policy it uses from Cigna.
Federal Election Commission Records show the RNC purchases its insurance from Cigna, and two sales agents for the company said that the RNC’s policy covers elective abortion.
Ironically I’ll wager that any person who wanted an abortion at the RNC likely didn’t know it was there. This is why you always read the stuff you get. I’m sure this will be changed as conservative reaction is rightly negative, but there is a very interesting post at Macsmind:
First, I sell insurance for Cigna. It’s not true. There is NO opt out if you don’t want “elective abortion coverage”, the plan is what it is and contains what it contains. It’s a “universal coverage”. The issue is whether or not you would use it.
We know that only liberals do.
Secondly those anonymous employees – who could be fired for even discussing the specifics of any plan, and I will find out who they are, don’t know what they are talking about.
Most insurance plans have some type of “elective abortion” coverage when the mother’s life is in danger, except for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida – which covers NO abortions for any reason. By the way it’s the plan most Democrats carry in South Florida.
One could not expect the RNC to offer no insurance at all, and having such insurance isn’t any indication of disqualification of position on abortion. I’m against breast implants but my plans pays for one.
Now that’s a question of fact, is there a rider you can get to exclude this coverage or not? He actually works for the company selling insurance so I presume he would know. That needs to be discovered. I’ll have to keep an eye on his blog.
If I’m Michael Steele I say that this demonstrates what happens if you don’t “read the bill”. Joe Scarborough just said he is dying to interview Steele, when asked if I was Steele I’d say the following:
“Well Joe that’s right and there is egg on our face for not reading the policy. It’s a great example of what happens when you don’t read a legal document carefully. Imagine how many times that is going to repeated if a health care bill passes that nobody has actually read? How many Americans are going to expect one thing but not find another because their elective representatives didn’t decide to read a 1000 plus page bill that they passed.”
Kennedy said he was “not going to dignify with an answer” Tobin’s assertions that he could not be a good Catholic and support abortion rights, adding that he found it “very disconcerting” that Tobin won’t agree to keep discussions of his faith private, the Providence Journal reported Wednesday.
What makes Kennedy think he’s Catholic? “Your baptism as an infant? Your family ties? Your cultural heritage?”
Being Catholic involves much more, he said, including acceptance of essential church teachings on matters of faith and morals, belonging to a parish community, weekly attendance at Mass and regular reception of the sacraments.
And support for abortion rights is not in the same category of those who struggle with sins of anger, pride, greed, impurity or dishonesty and then fail, the bishop declared.
“Your rejection of the Church’s teaching on abortion falls into a different category — it’s a deliberate and obstinate act of the will, a conscious decision that you’ve reaffirmed on many occasions.
“Sorry, you can’t chalk it up to ‘an imperfect humanity.’ Your position is unacceptable to the Church and scandalous to many of our members. It absolutely diminishes your communion with the church….
“I write these words not to embarrass you or to judge the state of your conscience or soul. That’s ultimately between you and God.
“But your description of your relationship with the Church is now a matter of public record and it needs to be challenged. I invite you, as your bishop and brother in Christ, to enter into a sincere process of discernment, conversion and repentance. It’s not too late to repair your relationship with the church, redeem your public image and emerge as an authentic ‘profile in courage,’ especially by defending the sanctity of human life for all people, including unborn children.”
Kennedy might not recognize it but he is much luckier than Ted. He has a bishop who is willing to call him out publicly in an attempt to save his soul. The Bishop knows that he will be be pilloried nationally because of it, yet the soul of this man was a prize worth fighting for. Tobin his a profile in courage. It looks like we can’t say the same about Kennedy.
If Kennedy wants to profess himself as a Catholic Pol then he needs to get himself right with the church. If he doesn’t want to I’m sure the media will celebrate him as they did Ted and he will be respected by them for the rest of his life…
Glenn Reynolds notes this is foolish but it is not unexpected. The blogger escaped from Communist Cuba:
Ave Maria is my second “ promised land.” When my family and I freed ourselves from the grip of the Communists in Cuba and arrived in the promised land of the United States, we left behind years of persecution, political imprisonment, executions, and hunger. But most of all we left behind the inhuman practice of silencing dissent— silencing our ability to speak the truth of the injustices we suffered. Free speech, and the ability to express dissent is what separates civilized societies from uncivilized ones. It is what my father was imprisoned for — and many members of my family gave up their lives for, as devout Roman Catholics.
Her Full Critique is in four parts the other threearehere.
America’s oldest Catholic newspaper, The Wanderer, assigned me to cover Ave Maria. Of the articles I have written for The Wanderer, only four have been about Ave Maria University. Yet, the University, of which Nick Healy is the President, banned me from Tom Golisano’s press conference on November 5th, and from the entire campus– allegedly for being disruptive at a public meeting held by the town’s Stewardship Committee. Stewardship Committee meetings have nothing to do with Ave Maria University.
The hubris and lack of credibility in that excuse of President Healy is evident.
Ave Maria University’s heavy handedness in not only banning me from the press conference, but also from the entire campus with County Sheriff deputies, shows how frightened they are of conservative and pro-life Catholics learning who “Tom” Golisano is—a man who ran for governor three times on a pro-choice platform and gave $1 million last year for Barack Obama’s coronation in Denver.
For our friends in the Cafeteria two quick quotes:
Let’s begin with Luke 9:26
Whoever is ashamed of me and of my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.
And finish with 2 Timothy 2:12
if we persevere we shall also reign with him. But if we deny him he will deny us.
The Lure of the world is a dangerous thing lets pray Ave Maria decides to resist it.
Now a recanvassing in the 11-county district shows that Owens’ lead has narrowed to 3,026 votes over Hoffman, 66,698 to 63,672, according to the latest unofficial results from the state Board of Elections.
In Oswego County, where Hoffman was reported to lead by only 500 votes with 93 percent of the vote counted election night, inspectors found Hoffman actually won by 1,748 votes — 12,748 to 11,000.
The new vote totals mean the race will be decided by absentee ballots, of which about 10,200 were distributed, said John Conklin, communications director for the state Board of Elections.
Under a new law in New York that extended deadlines, military and overseas ballots received by this coming Monday (and postmarked by Nov. 2) will be counted. Standard absentee ballots had to be returned this past Monday.
Conklin said the state sent a letter to the House Clerk last week explaining that no winner had been determined in the 23rd District, and therefore the state had not certified the election. But the letter noted that Owens still led by about 3,000 votes, and that the special election was not contested — two factors that legally allowed House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to swear in Owens on Friday.
You mean initial reports might have been incorrect?
It would be an interesting sight if the result changes, we will shortly see. If so the media are going to have their heads spinning.
Former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura secretly visited Fort Hood last night and spent “considerable time” consoling those who were wounded in Thursday’s shooting spree, Fox News has learned.
The Bushes entered and departed the sprawling military facility in secret, having told the base commander they did not want press coverage of their visit, a source told Fox News.
The couple was described as “deeply concerned” about military families on Fort Hood after Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly opened fire on soldiers and civilians, killing 13 and wounding 38.
The Bushes, who have a 1,600-acre property known as Prairie Chapel Ranch less than 30 miles from Fort Hood in central Texas, spent between one and two hours visiting the wounded and their families.
The reaction from our side was not unexpected but Hillbuzz’s reaction was a revelation to them:
As we will always be grateful for what George and Laura Bush did this week, with no media attention, when they very quietly went to Ft. Hood and met personally with the families of the victims of this terrorist attack.
FOR HOURS.
The Bushes went and met privately with these families for HOURS, hugging them, holding them, comforting them
and even more impressive than the act was the contrast:
They didn’t have to head to Ft. Hood. That was not their responsibility.
The Obamas should have done that.
But didn’t.
Wouldn’t.
Thank goodness George W. is still on his watch, with wonderful Laura at his side.
You might recall that the same George W. Bush met with the families of the dead soldiers without any fanfare, the media lost interest in casualties and caskets, until the president brought an entourage of media to his “surprise” visit and of course a complaint media is trying to protect him.
As anyone who has read this blog for any length of time knows one thing that drives me crazy are “Cafeteria Catholics” people who proclaim Catholicism but then act directly against it’s precepts. I’ve pointed out the voluntary nature of Catholicism and people’s ability find another denomination if they don’t care for it.
Well the acolytes of liberalism have finally reached a line they would not cross. Some principled liberals have noted for a while that this administration really has no principles.
But now the great sacraments of modern liberalism have been defiled so action must be taken:
The bloggers have published a comprehensive list of reasons and say the money should “pause” to the organization until promises are kept: “We are not calling for a boycott of donations to the DNC. We are simply calling for a pause until the party follows through on its campaign promise to repeal DADT and DOMA, and pass ENDA. The party will get the same donations it would have gotten, when the promises are kept. The Democrats could choose to make good on their promise today. And by doing so, they will only further motivate the Democratic base to again turn out for the next election, a decidedly good thing.”
“LGBT Americans, our families, and our friends kept our promise at the ballot box, we now expect President Obama to keep his in the White House,” they wrote. In addition to Hamsher, cosponsors include the liberal blog Daily Kos, writer and editor Dan Savage and radio host Michelangelo Signorile.
The boycott will be lifted, Aravosis and Sudbay write, when legislation is signed enacting the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, repealing Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell and repealing the Defense of Marriage Act. During the presidential campaign, Mr. Obama pledged action on all these issues but has not pressed them since entering office.
I think the freeze in fundraising is a great idea. I also think the problem with the gay rights agenda in Congress has more to do with the political system than the particularly spineless nature of most Democratic representatives.
Oh it’s a freeze a Pause, what is it 90 days same as cash?
And then there is abortion and it looks like some members of the house are making a line in the sand:
The Stupak-Pitts amendment to H.R. 3962, The Affordable Healthcare for America Act, represents an unprecedented and unacceptable restriction on women’s ability to access the full range of reproductive health services to which they are lawfully entitled. We will not vote for a conference report that contains language that restricts women’s right to choose any further than current law.
That’s unequivocal, with no wiggle room. The Washington Post reported this morning that Rep. Diana DeGette had collected 40 signatures vowing a No vote, without noting the language of their vow or how this would be communicated.
Now we know — at least 41 House Dems are writing directly to Pelosi, telling her that they will not vote for anything “that contains language that restricts women’s right to choose any further than current law.”
Yes we know 41 house dems are so unequivocal about their opposition that they are unwilling to release their names publicly.
These people consider pro-life and pro-marriage democrats “Cafeteria Democrats” unworthy of the true faith.
What these people don’t realize is the democratic party unlike the Catholic church and modern liberalism is not a religion. It has positions but not sacraments. But apparently some don’t see it that way.
As a republican I am encouraged, I guess they didn’t learn as much as I thought.
I still say we should consider 4 parties, Two conservative (fiscal & social) and two liberal (fiscal & social) it would be interesting to see what the composition of a congress of these parties would be.
This year I went to the annual meeting of the Alumni association of my High school. I drove my mother there who went to the same school 40 years before me. Her class was the class of 1942. Just about every boy in that class served in the military and quite a few never made it back.
Because of the lateness of my birth I was surrounded by people who served. My Father Served in the Pacific for 4 years, My Mother’s brother served in Patton’s Army and won the silver Star under fire My Father’s oldest brother didn’t make it home till 47′ due to injury. My uncles and their friends served and when I went places with my father everyone he hung around with served.
Next to the entrance of my church is the Italian American Veterans monument dedicated to the men of the parish who didn’t make it back.
If you walk through Fitchburg you will find about a dozen scattered stones on various sidewalks. Each one has a small 4″ x 2″ plaque on top with the name of a WWI vet who didn’t come back. I’ve always presumed they were in front of or near the neighborhoods where they lived.
Like other towns the primary park in town has a huge monument to those who served in the Union Army. I would go up to that monument and read the name and wonder about those guys who would stand there in a line shoulder to shoulder while people were shooting at them.
There are other monuments. A smaller one commemorates those who served in the Spanish American War and in the Phillipino insurrection 100 years ago. Monuments have gone up for WWII vets and Vietnam vets.
But back to my mother, at a recent Knight of Columbus meeting I sat next to a classmate of her’s and he told me of his time in the Army from 42-45. Because of his fluent Italian his primary duty was that of a translator. I listened to every word…
…I can’t get those words from my class. I graduated in 1981 in a class of about 382, I’m not aware of any person in my class who served (if anyone has I’d love to know Update:There was one: Valerie Jackson) although plenty of my teachers did.
I mentioned the new monuments, other than they day those new monuments were put up and during the small veterans day & memorial day ceremonies I’ve never seen a person looking at any of them. At the veterans day ceremonies other than soldiers and boy scouts there are no young people there.
Fort Devens is a few towns away but is half the size it was and until recently was largely forgotten around here. The Military was once a big presence around here, now the footprint is very small.
But there are glimmers. Two men from our town died serving in the war on terror. If I walk down to Romano’s Market on Saturday’s Josh is usually working in his father’s shop. I’ve watched him grow up. He used to go to my comic book store at the head of his little brothers and sisters back in the 80’s. He is a teacher two towns over. He is also a Captain in the reserves who served both at Gitmo and a year in Iraq. He is likely the only exposure that the students he teaches history in public school have to a veteran who served or an active duty reservist. They sit on his every word.
Today all over the country, particularly around here you can find people who don’t know a vet, who never met someone who served except for maybe a very old man.
I never served, I was the fat boy who went to college I knew what I wanted to do with myself and I did it, but unlike the rest of my generation I had the reminders around me and the fact that I’ve never served has always weighed heavily on me.
Three years ago my youngest had a new friend in 8th grade who came to his birthday party. His father was a soldier who was briefly stationed in my area. We became friends and after his transfer out of the area in July we have kept in touch.
My association with him had two effects, the lesser of the pair was that I who rarely take more than a half dozen drinks in a year drank more in those two years than I had the rest of my life, he was a connoisseur of beers and had all different types.
The primary effect was I attended many veterans events and met more people who served in those two years than I had in decades. I found that the military is still alive and well and is a family that takes care of its own. At his farewell dinner I had the honor of sitting with a colonel, a decorated WWII vet and a Vietnam vet who got 3 purple hearts in under six months, (no it wasn’t John Kerry, when I brought up that similarity I got a look from his wife that is still cutting through me when I think about it.) It reminded me of my youth when I was surrounded by heroes and didn’t realize it.
“Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.” Boswell: “Lord Mansfield does not.” Johnson: “Sir, if Lord Mansfield were in a company of General Officers and Admirals who have been in service, he would shrink; he’d wish to creep under the table.”
I didn’t shrink but I felt the way a man feels when his work is being done by someone else, and that is I believe more than any other reason why Veterans Day and Memorial day have basically become retail holidays.
When we see a serving soldier we are reminded that there are a small group of men and women who are doing our work for us. They are part of a community that if you are not a part of it you may not understand.
This has been the price of the all volunteer army that was born in the desperate attempts of college students to avoid service in the 60’s. For decades our popular culture looked down upon these men, our movies have and still paint them as “broken”. Even after Sept 11th our popular culture still never caught up with the average man who recognized that maybe just maybe there is something more to the soldier than someone who is looking to pay for college.
C.S. Lewis once wrote that a man in sin will avoid signs of God because it reminds him of his current state. I think a similar thing has happened to Veterans Day and Memorial Day. We don’t want to think about it, we don’t bother to attend. It is safer to simply shop, because if we look at Veterans Day and Memorial Day for who they honor and what they do we look at ourselves and remember what we have not done.
Today there will be a Mass honoring Vets at my church. I suspect it will be sparsely attended. Later today there will be a ceremony honoring veterans at the local senior center. The fact that it is at the SENIOR CENTER says it all.
A country that is unwilling to remember those who protect it will rapidly become less worth protecting.
The eleven-eleven project hopes to change this, to remind people that Veterans Day and Memorial Day are sacred days to honor those who have made the relatively easy lives we live possible. From the site:
The objective of the Eleven Eleven Campaign is simple: to get 11 million Americans to donate $11 to support America’s Veterans.
To reach that objective, we’ve made it easy to give back to our Veterans. Americans can text the word “VETS” to 85944 to donate $10 to America’s Veterans – your $10 donation will be matched with $1 from Beyond Tribute. Or you can give online here.
The money will go to support veterans but if you are in a situation where money is tight there are little things you can do. Today is Veterans day. There is likely some sort of ceremony in your town. GO THERE. See the people there, give that couple of hours. Find out about your neighbors who served.
If you have kids take go with them to a monument and read the names, if they have a school project have them pick a name from a local monument and do a report on him. Where did he serve? How did he die? Why did your town decide what he did was important enough to put his name on the public square forever and why don’t people think so anymore?
I asked my friend who is still serving what can a person like me who never served do for someone like him who has twenty years of time and wounds in his leg from his service? He said just to be there and remember.
And as Col George Connell once said, even if we don’t honor them or remember them they will still serve and protect us.
It’s a small price, are we willing to pay it?
And if we are not what does that say about us?
Update: Forgot to include this video about the campaign:
This will stay on top, I’ll be out today.
Update 2: My wife reminds me that there is one from our class who served. Let me give a shout out to Valerie Jackson, the one who served.
“I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill,” Obama said. “And we’re not looking to change what is the principle that has been in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not used to subsidize abortions.”
Saying the bill cannot change the status quo regarding the ban on federally funded abortions, the president said, “There are strong feelings on both sides” about an amendment passed Saturday and added to the legislation, “and what that tells me is that there needs to be some more work before we get to the point where we’re not changing the status quo.”
Fr. Jenkins of Notre Dame who was just extended there could not be reached for comment, but you can contact him here.
Today I ran into the wife of a fellow I haven’t seen for decades, like me he is a computer guy and is currently employed as same.
As we talked I found we have a lot in common, same amount of kids, both with a son newly in college all pretty much the same.
I forget how but the conversation came up but somehow the conversation came to wireless security and I almost fell out of my chair.
He keeps a wide open wireless network with no security at all
. He operates under the theory that if someone wants to break in they will.
This man is a computer professional, he has been doing this work for over two decades. He also does plenty of financial stuff online.
If I wasn’t so bald already I’d be tearing out my hair. He should know better, how can he NOT know better and even worse as a computer expert how many other people has he said this too.
Sometime I wonder why I even bother, so let me say it one more time.
USE PROPER WIRELESS SECURITY WHEN SETTING UP A HOME NETWORK!
If you don’t then the resulting problems you will have will be your own.
If you are outraged over this article and you claim Christianity, then you’d better re-open your bible and head to your local confessor because you don’t get it.
You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what recompense will you have? Do not the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet your brothers only, what is unusual about that? Do not the pagans do the same? So be perfect, just as your heavenly Father is perfect.
These are the rules, they are not easy. Major Malik Nadal Hasan is an Islamic killer, praying for him is counter-intuitive, but that’s how the game is played. As long as he is alive his soul is winnable and EVERY soul is worth winning. Let repeat an important fact:
there is nothing more pleasing to God and more frustrating to Satan than to pull a soul ANY SOUL that is “so going to hell” out of the fire.
And lets have a reminder concerning of the text of an important prayer:
Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as in heaven. Give us today our daily bread and forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors; and do not subject us to the final test, but deliver us from the evil one. Matt 6:9-13
That and the two verses that follow are the bottom line. Direct words of Christ, non-optional.
Listen Christianity isn’t easy, it is counter intuitive to man in so many ways, if it wasn’t we wouldn’t struggle sin but as is usually true in life that the best things require the most effort.
And believe me praying for this guy requires effort.
