Soccer Mom: Unplugged

Brucy Braley, Dem contender for a coveted house seat in Iowa's first district has cancelled a campaign event with John Kerry in response to Kerry's being, well, a dumba$$.

Michelle Malkin has posted some great letters from outraged military folks and their families.  This is an excerpt from the funniest one:

"You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well."

If you don’t, you may get lost in Vietnam and think you're in Cambodia during Christmas on a super-secret CIA-evil-Republician mission.

ROTFLMBO!  I'm no political weather vane by any stretch of the imagination but I think this story has legs.  It could impact the election if it gets enough play.  I only say this because my husband, a fairly apolitical person, nearly came unglued when he saw the soundbite tonight over dinner.  I can't remember the last time I saw that vein bulge next to his left eye...  He's really mad.  In his own words, "the last thing I expect is, after the effers send us to war, for them to tell us we were stupid for going!  These people [Kerry and co.] don't deserve to be protected. And this guy wanted to be our commander in chief?  He's not worthy of the sacrifices that our youth are making for this country." 

Gotta go calm the spouse -he's still muttering about this from the kitchen ("...he's a traitorous bastard...")  Yep.  I'd say the fallout from this revelation into the liberal mind could drive patriotic conservatives to the polls. 

 

 

 

A macabre Halloween day report caught my eye but after reading it I am wondering less about the dead than the living in Idaho...

COEUR d'ALENE, Idaho  —  Authorities in Coeur d'Alene said some teenagers out for a Halloween scare got a lot more fright than they bargained for.

According to Kootenai County sheriff's detectives, the group had been at a Halloween party Friday night when they noticed a house under construction. They thought it would be scary, so they went in.

They told investigators that when they saw what looked like one or more bags hanging from the rafters of the basement, they shot some B-B guns and threw hunks of wood at it.

Then they left and came back with a flashlight to discover it was the body of a man who had hanged himself.

When they went back to the party, nobody believed them, so they got someone to go back to the house with them. When they arrived the owner, 65-year-old Norman Giddings, met them with a machete and told them to get down on the ground while he summoned authorities.

Deputies said it's not likely charges will be filed.

So these young people go to a Halloween party with a loaded BB gun?  For kicks they go into a house that's under construction and shoot up the place?  Then upon returning to the scene of their, uh, youthful vandalism, they are pinned to the ground by a machete wielding senior citizen???  Is there something in the water up there? 

Welcome to Idaho: Be afraid.  Be very, very afraid!

Halloween joke of the day:

A cabbie picks up a Nun. She gets into the cab, and notices that the VERY handsome cab driver won't stop staring at her.  She asks him why he is staring.  He replies "I have a question to ask you but I don't want to offend you" 
 
She answers, "My son, you cannot offend me.  When you're as old as I am and have been a nun as long as I have,  you get a chance to see and hear just about everything.  I'm sure that there's nothing you could say or ask that I would find offensive. 
 
"Well, I've always had a fantasy to have a nun kiss me."  
 
She responds,  "Well, let's see what we can do about that:  #1, you have to be single and #2, you must be Catholic."  
 
The cab driver is very excited and  says,  "Yes, I'm single and Catholic!  

"OK" the nun says. "Pull into the next alley."  
 
The nun fulfills his fantasy with a kiss that would make an experienced hooker blush. 
 
But when they get back on the road, the cab driver starts crying. 
 
"My dear child," said the nun, why are you crying?" 
 
"Forgive me but I've sinned.  I lied and I must confess, I'm married and I'm Jewish." 
 
The nun says,  "That's OK. My name is Kevin and I'm going to a Halloween Party." 

John Kerry.  The face of American liberalism.  And here he is suggesting that American troops are uneducated victims rather than patriotic volunteers.  What an ass.

There's no denying that many go into the services for the benefits and the money.  But unlike John Kerry, who apparently only sees the Daily Kos side of military service, many enlist because they see doing so as the responsibility of good citizenship.  You know, in contrast to taking tax payer funded six digit salaries and not bothering to show up for Senate votes or roll calls.  Let's not forget that all officers have college degrees, most of them have multiple degrees.  Enlistees are earning degrees as well with mini campuses all over the world on military posts set up with night classes and flexible schedules specifically to accomodate them.

The divide between patriotic conservatives and liberal snobs who see military service as little more than a prison sentence just cracked wide open with this poignant little reminder of the paternalistic condescension of the Democratic party's poster boy. 

No time for commentary tonight,  family plans this evening...  But I did want to leave this with you.  Click the link and watch the news footage to see exactly what we're up against in the war against anti-American, antiwar activists at home.

(Just a reminder:  We are all antiwar to some degree - some of us just recognize the horrible reality that on occasion it is the only real option.)

Follow the rabbit here

I wasn't going to comment on the Rush Limbaugh witch hunting that is the rage in liberal circles this week because some of the best and brightest of the conservative bloggers have it all covered.  But then my brother called.  This is my oldest brother, who reads my blog but never comments ;-) And after he made a passing reference to Rush, I couldn't resist.

You see it was my brother who introduced me to Rush Limbaugh.  It was in the early days of the {cough} "Excellence in broadcasting" network and while I absolutely adored spending afternoons with my brother,  I hated being a captive audience for this self-important blowhard on the radio.  My brother was a fan.  I was anything but.  It wasn't that I disagreed with Rush - the obnoxious egotism of his on-air persona was just so off-putting.

Age and experience have given me the ability to sift through the fluff and see the value of Rush's work.  These days, if I get through with school in time to catch the last half hour of his radio show, I consider it a real treat. And so here goes... my short analysis of the Limbaugh-Fox affair.

To sum up: Rush quoted MJF, who acknowledged that he plays up symptoms of his disease for effect.  These were Fox's own words.  A fact that the MSM is ignoring.  Rush speculated that Fox had done the same thing for the filming of the political ad at the center of this contraversy.  The MSM and Fox have reacted as if Limbaugh pushed a senile old lady off a cliff and are trying to use this latest row as leverage in getting Limbaugh off the air.  He has been publicly excoriated by political moderates such as Whoopi Goldberg and Barbara Walters. [yeah - that was sarcasm]

Here's my simple but accurate analysis: If the Democrats and media/hollywood types had any evidence whatsoever that EMBRYONIC stem cells could be used for cures, they'd be holding it up like a smoking gun.  Unfortunately, they have none.  In fact, the use of EMBRYONIC stem cells has yielded, as yet, no results except for giving some of the human test subjects tumors.

Fox has every right to make a comercial and exploit his illness for political gain.  Appealing to emotions is a time tested advertising tactic.  But his words and ideas, as is the case with everything we sell on t.v., are subject to fraud alerts. Rush was well within reasonable limits to be skeptical of Fox.

Fox accuses Talent (R-MO) and other GOPers in other states of outlawing stem cell research.  Not true.  They don't want EMBRYONIC stem cell research on new lines. Anyone who bothered watching Bush when he first outlined his (and his party's) position on this issue, already knows this.  Existing EMBRYONIC lines are fair game as are ADULT stem cells, the only stem cells that have as yet yielded any positive results. 

This only leaves two options for explaining Fox's posiion: he is being purposefully deceptive or he is woefully uneducated. It is deceptive to blur the lines between adult and EMBRYONIC stem cell research.  It is deceptive to claim future results based on a relatively new area of discovery.  Fox's claims are the medical equivalent of a rain dance and Rush is well within the bounds to call him on it.

I would say shame on Fox and his apologists but the DNC is expert at making people believe that the GOP is a party without compassion - and they've never shown any remorse for selling that lie before.

 

 

It was just a few days ago that the BBC acknowledged it's anti-Americanism and left-leaning bias.  Today a BBC article headlining on Drudge report shows just how far gone the BBC really is. A BBC reporter is traveling with and reporting on the Taliban in Afghanistan.  These men, mostly raised in Pakistan and educated in fundamentalist Madrassas describe how they blend in with the local population.

Anyway, read the article and let me know what you think about a BBC reporter taking notes while his countrymen are target practice for his dinnermates.

That's the headline anyway.  In Monday's Raleigh News and Observer, there was a story below the fold on the front page about Johnston county teacher Rebecca Withrow who was charged earlier this month with having sex with an 11 year old student. The article takes a somewhat dismissive stance toward the case, apparently because 90% of charges nationally involve male teachers.  Crediting Mary Kay Letournea and Debra LaFave with drawing added attention to what the figures say is a relatively rare phenomena.

"Only 4% of educators who were investigated for sexual misconduct were females" according to a US Department of Education 2004 report.  Students tell another story.  They say "43% of inappropriate behavior came from female teachers."  All very interesting statistics.  But when it really comes down to it - does the gender of the predator matter?  The real question is - are our children safe?

The same 2004 report by educators about educators offers startling insight that ought to rattle even the most complacent parents. "researchers found that nearly 10% of students are targets of sexual suggestions or contact by teachers at some point in their school career."  Yes. You read that correctly.  A conservative illustration, because buses can hold more than 50 children, would be to say that out of every 2 busloads of children, 10 children will be a victim or propositioned in some way by an adult educator before he/she leaves the public school system.  Let me ask you mom and dad, how many busloads of kids come to your child's school?  10? 20? The odds it will be your child are 1 in 10.  Most suburban elementary schools have 300 children.  That's 30 victims - an entire 2nd grade class. 

My guess is that children are more likely to be propositioned as they get older. But that's just a guess.  Middle schools typically hold about 750 to 800 children.  That's 80.  High schools hold 1500. 150 students of those are targets according to the Department of Education's own admission.

Our children. In the crosshairs.

The NY Daily News is reporting on the settlement of a case against the MTA.

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority agreed to allow riders to use MTA rest rooms "consistent with their gender expression," the Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund announced yesterday.

The group filed a complaint against the MTA on behalf of a 70-year-old telephone repair technician who was arrested for using the women's room at Grand Central Terminal.

The technician, who is assigned to the terminal by Verizon, was born Henry McGuinness but now goes by Helena Stone.

Here are my questions:

Who's going to keep the predators from pretending to be one gender or the other?

How do you verify a person is actually transgendered and not just a perv or a peeping tom?

For that matter, who's going to stop me if I swear I feel like a man, and I go into the mens' room just to keep my sons safe?

Family rights activists ought to be complaining.  Not about this decision per se, but about the fact that we have no safe way to protect our young children in public restrooms.  There seems to be an understood age (or size) at which little boys are no longer welcome in the ladies room.  If, as a mother of young boys, you haven't encountered this yet, you will.  I say size because I have one son who is abnormally big for his age.  He is about 4'2" at 5 years old.  There ought to be family restrooms or single toilet restrooms everywhere so that parents can take their children to the "potty" without having to explain cross dressing or the transgendered and without the fear that lurking in the restroom you've just sent your children into alone is someone with indecent motives.

 

You'll think I'm joking.  But sadly, I'm not.  Today's Daily Mail has an article about sex toys for kids.  You can buy your daughter a pole dancing kit or a deck of cards for your son with pornographic pictures on them.  The kit which, due to contraversy with family groups, has been pulled from toy shelves, will still be sold in the fitness section of Tesco stores.  Nevermind that the product's intent is made clear by the tagline emblazened on it's cheap pink plastic packaging "unleash the sex kitten inside."  What the hell kind of world is this when not only will some sicko come up with the idea for this product, aimed at grade school girls, but a group of businessmen sitting around a boardroom table will agree to fund production.  The pedophilic tendencies continue as marketers conclude that stocking and selling the merchandise is AOK.  It took a 33 year old mother of 2 young girls to stand up to the wave of indecency. 

Meet Karen Gallimore: Culture Warrior.

Many of you will have seen this over at Michelle Malkin's blog this morning but I just can't resist writing a few lines about it.  Notice the fundamental difference in these men on the stage and how they respond to the heckler.

Michelle describes it like this:

"Democrat Ned Lamont sits on his hands.

Independent Joe Lieberman pouts.

Moderator George Stephanopoulos wheedles.

Republican Alan Schlesinger shows 'em all how it's done."

Of course, I could generalize but... aw, what the hell.  Democrat stands by idly watching - after all everyone deserves to speak (especially if they are radical leftists) and who are we to defend another.  Independent/Democrat Lieberman tries to take the reigns but still comes off weak kneed.  Journalist tries to reason with the debate hijacker - after all words will solve every problem, right? The Republican sees the situation for what it is: an irrational disruption that is hindering the democratic process of all those participating in the debate.  He steps up and defends an opponent - because that is just what we do.

Remember this...

And this...

...we were just playing a friendly game of cops and robbers!"  Perhaps that'll be the defense for this couple who today denied kidnapping their own daughter, driving her out of state and attemtping to force her to have an abortion.

Zuckerman's last ad featuring Madeleine Albright as the subserient pacifier of tyrants and terrorists has made the rounds.  Here's the follow-up.

The GOP refused to run with the first ad and if they have any sense, given the lack of fiscal conservatism this Congress and administration has shown, they won't run with this one either.  Still, it is funny.  In a sad, all too true sort of way.

And ad is being released in Missouri to counter the Michael J. Fox endorsement of McCaskill and stem cell research.  I was wondering when someone was going to point out that the science using EMBRYONIC stem cells has yielded nothing.  Some scientists are convinced that it never will...  This is a complicated issue and I'm convinced that there is a middle ground that doesn't include paying for progeny or ignoring the possible benefits. 

Anyhow, here's the other side of the argument.

Newsmax regularly forwards emails from its sponsors.  Generally, they are solicitations but that doesn't preclude them from containing valuable information. This one hit my inbox just a minute ago... [text is copied directly from the email]

Young teen girls having hush-hush abortions...

Bill O'Reilly, Patricia Heaton, Ben Stein, Tom McClintock,
Dr. Laura and Laura Ingraham say, "Fight for your parental rights."

A Critical Message from
Don Sebastiani
Winemaker and former California State Assemblyman

You'll find this hard to believe, but in California and some other states, a parent can answer the telephone and hear these words:

"Your 13-year-old child died earlier today
while having an abortion at Planned Parenthood.
We need you to come in and identify her body."

Imagine how shocked you would be if, as a parent, you received that call. You wouldn't even be able to sue Planned Parenthood, because in California they are allowed by law to perform hush-hush abortions without notifying parents of minor girls.

That's right - in California, parents currently do not have a right to know if their 13-year-old child goes to have an abortion. Hard to believe, I know.

Let me introduce myself. I'm Don Sebastiani, Winemaker and former California State Assemblyman, and we desperately need your help with the YES on 85 campaign. Proposition 85 is The Parents' Right to Know and Child Protection initiative.

Just 14 days from today, California voters will vote on Proposition 85.

I'm sending you this time critical message today because Prop. 85 MUST PASS.

That's because Prop. 85 would require an abortionist to notify in writing a parent or guardian at least 48 hours before performing an abortion on a minor girl.

If YES on 85 wins, it will restore parents' rights, protect our children and end hush-hush abortions on minor girls.

And based on the success of similar parental notification initiatives in other states, we know that a victory for YES on 85 will greatly reduce teen pregnancies and abortions in California.

Tom McClintock, California State Senator Tom McClintock strongly supports YES on 85: "Your 16-year-old daughter cannot use a tanning bed or get her ears pierced without your written consent. But she can undergo a surgical abortion without you even being notified. Proposition 85 restores your right to know what is happening to your own child. Please join me and vote YES on 85."

California's Legislative Analyst Office wrote that:

"Based on studies of other states with parental involvement laws, we estimate that the reduction in abortions to minors in California could be up to 25 percent..."

This would save an estimated 5,000 to 10,000 moms, babies and families from abortion each year in California.

Saving that many lives from abortion would be equivalent to opening 100 pro-life pregnancy centers.

This is tremendous! We can pass Prop 85, but we need your help.

Remember, 12, 13 and 14 year-old girls are able to get abortions behind their parents' backs in California. It's mind-boggling. This must be stopped.

Consider this. Although a girl occasionally dies from "legitimate" abortion, complications such as excessive bleeding and permanent sterility are much more common.

If your child had to be rushed to a hospital emergency room because of complications from an undisclosed abortion, guess who'd be on the hook for the hospital bill?

You might be surprised to know you'd be stuck paying that bill - not the abortionist.

This is more than unfair. It's intolerable. It's unconscionable. It's outrageous.

And remember, this kind of tragedy can strike any family - even the best of families. That's because many of the girls who have these types of abortions were molested or seduced by an adult predator. And those predators are everywhere.

Thousands of adult predators are forcing minor girls to undergo abortions, while parents think their children are in school or at the mall.

That's why Prop 85 must pass and why we so desperately need your help today!

Bill O'Reilly, TV News Commentator Bill O'Reilly Supports Parental Rights: "There are politicians who don't want parents to know their little girls are having an abortion. But parents have a right to know what their children are doing. That's a fundamental parental right in this country."

A study of 46,000 pregnant minors in California
found that 71 percent were impregnated by men
with an average age of 22.6 years old.

And California's abortion policy lets these statutory criminals get off scot-free! Thank God, we have the chance to end these horrors. Prop 85 will help stop the exploitation of thousands of girls every year!

Abortionists conspire to let statutory rapists get away with their crimes

I'll tell you more about that later - including undeniable and shocking proof of Planned Parenthood's complicity in doing abortions to cover up crimes!

And I'm sure you feel the same way I do. My blood boils when I think about how the abortionists keep parents in the dark about their child's abortion.

But Planned Parenthood - the largest chain of abortion centers in America - is spending unheard of sums to defeat Proposition 85 because hush-hush abortions are good for their business.

Unfortunately, Planned Parenthood is outspending us in this critical battle, literally a cultural war, over parents' rights and underage teen abortions.

We can't surrender this crucial battle because of shortness of funds .

Abortionists are outspending us

If the abortionists outspend us during the campaign, they may beat us at the polls. And that's why I'm sending you this time critical appeal for an emergency donation just two weeks from Election Day. I'm appealing to you for a generous gift to help us fight Planned Parenthood and pass Proposition 85.

And I need your help TODAY because the election is just 14 days away. Please forward this time critical message to everyone on your e-mail list.

Your gift will be put to immediate use to beat the abortionists and pass Proposition 85.

Patricia Heaton Patricia Heaton Supports Parental Notification: "As a parent, I can't think of anything more important than the welfare of our children. Those of us in California are all too aware of horror stories of sexual predators: older men who prey on our children. It is our responsibility to stop deviants like these who would pressure a young girl into [an abortion] to cover up crimes like statutory rape. Sexual predators will no longer be able to hide and continue their crimes. And parents will not lose their daughters to abortion complications."

Abortionists turn purple with rage

Make no mistake: Planned Parenthood HATES Proposition 85 with a passion. The idea that parents should be notified before a minor child has an abortion makes abortionists turn purple with rage. It makes them so angry, steam comes out their ears.

That's because abortion is big business. Planned Parenthood and other abortionists will surrender huge sums if Prop 85 passes. But if Prop 85 goes down, the abortionists will pop champagne corks in celebration. It's that simple.

Planned Parenthood is working around the clock to fight Prop. 85. They recently enlisted Hillary Clinton to record a "No on 85" message to call into 250,000 homes.

This is your chance to tell Planned Parenthood and Hillary to take a hike.

Tell them: "No more hush-hush abortions on minor girls!"

Please join the YES on 85 team and help us defeat Planned Parenthood and other abortionists. Are you ready to help make sure that we defeat the abortionists? I hope and pray you'll join our team. Please prayerfully consider this time critical message and rush an emergency gift to help us pass Proposition 85 on November 7th.

There is no limit to how much you can give. But we certainly welcome gifts of all sizes.

Your generous gift to YES on 85 will help pay for critical "GET OUT THE VOTE" printing and mailings in the final days before the election. It will help with calls to registered voters, email reminders to large e-lists, to run YES on 85 radio ads, for distribution of DVDs with powerful YES on 85 videos, distribution of yard signs, critical web site updates including new endorsements (some audio and video endorsements) that need to be added to the official YES on 85 web site each day.

A $10,000 gift would be a tremendous blessing that will help us reach thousands of voters with our time critical YES on 85 message. Please consider giving a large gift like this. A gift of $5,000 or $1,000 would work miracles (and help put the fear of God in the abortionists). Would a gift in that range be possible?

Or, please consider making a gift of $500, $250, or $100. A gift in that range would make a big, big difference. But if that gift amount isn't possible, please try to send a gift of $75, $50, or $35. Please send whatever you can.

Ben Stein Ben Stein Supports Parental Notification: "Current California law allows an underage girl to receive an abortion, a potentially life-threatening procedure, without her parents ever knowing. This just doesn't make sense. All parents have the right to know if their child is receiving a major medical procedure."

Planned Parenthood Caught on Tape
Shocking tapes expose hush-hush abortion policies

Earlier I promised to give you undeniable and shocking proof of Planned Parenthood's complicity in using abortion to cover up crimes. I'm going to give you that information. It's another reason why the YES on 85 campaign is so crucial.

You see, Planned Parenthood abortionists have been caught on tape offering to help a 13-year-old girl and her 22-year-old "boyfriend" cover up his crime.

Let me give you some quotations from actual Planned Parenthood employees, which were captured on audiotape:

• "If you come in with your older boyfriend, we're not going to say you can't be with him"
• "Your parents will not know about anything"
• "If they find out that he's 22, he can go to jail"
• "We're not the police, hon"
• "As long as you're 12 years and older"
• "We don't have to tell your parents anything"
• "In the state of California, the parents have no right"

This small sampling of quotations is typical of what we found on the extensive "undercover" audiotapes which Life Dynamics recorded when they called more than 90 California abortion centers, most of them operated by Planned Parenthood. It proves their complicity.

You see, in California, intercourse with a minor is a criminal offense, especially if the perpetrator is an adult. Yet these shocking tapes expose Planned Parenthood and other abortion centers not only of hiding crimes - but also of denying parents' the right to know about "medical procedures" that can kill, maim, or cause permanent mental injury to their children.

I can still hardly believe so many of the abortion centers told the caller posing as a 13-year-old girl that her parents did not need to know and it was no problem for her 22-year-old boyfriend to bring her in for a hush-hush abortion.

It's outrageous - even for abortionists to stoop so low!

That's why I'm asking for your immediate help to put a stop to Planned Parenthood's conspiracy!

Dr. Laura Schlessinger Dr. Laura Schlessinger Supports Parental Notification: "Parents - without your knowledge, a teacher, a neighbor, an older boyfriend, a sexual predator can legally take your daughter for a secret abortion. That's wrong. Parents have a right to know."

Please help me blow the whistle on Planned Parenthood

In one tragic case, which is fairly typical, an adult soccer coach in his early 20s seduced a 13-year-old soccer player and got her pregnant. He forced her to go to the local Planned Parenthood, where he paid for her abortion.

And Planned Parenthood even obliged the soccer coach after the abortion by giving his 13-year-old victim an injection of Depo Provera - a powerful birth control drug - so he could continue committing this criminal act! Planned Parenthood kept everything under wraps.

The truth about this soccer coach's outrageous abuse of this teen girl came out when a conscientious teacher learned of if and blew the whistle.

Well, I'm blowing the whistle and asking for your immediate help to put a stop to Planned Parenthood's conspiracy and to help us pass Proposition 85.

Let me remind you of perhaps the biggest reason why you should rush a big gift to help pass Proposition 85. If Proposition 85 wins, the number of abortions on minors will immediately drop like a stone, and so will teen pregnancies. Guaranteed. That's because many other states have observed a big drop in teen abortions and pregnancies after passing similar parental notification laws.

It's only common sense. Teens are more likely to engage in reckless conduct if they know they can have an abortion to "cover their tracks."

Based on patterns in other states that have passed parental notification laws, we can expect a drop of 5,000 to 10,000 abortions in California following the passage of Proposition 85. And we can expect to see a big drop in out-of-wedlock teen pregnancies as well.

This is HUGE!

Thousands of lives and souls will be saved. Think of the headaches and heartaches that will be avoided.

Planned Parenthood loathes and dreads Proposition 85. It would cut deep into their lucrative abortion business. Make no mistake: Planned Parenthood doesn't care about the girls - only the almighty dollar. If Planned Parenthood cared about the girls, they'd report statutory rapists to the authorities. But that's unheard of.

Planned Parenthood hopes you'll ignore this appeal.

Please don't do that. Please rush your gift to help us pass Proposition 85. The vote will take place in a matter of days, but there's still time to reach more voters with our time critical YES on 85 message.

Simply use the hyperlink below!

https://www.capitaldynamics.com/yeson85/index.htm
 

Laura Ingraham Laura Ingraham Supports Parental Notification: "In California, a minor child must have a parents' permission to take an aspirin in school, or to have her ears pierced, or to go on a field trip. But a girl as young as 12 years old can obtain a surgical abortion without any parental consent or notification. So please vote yes... that requires parents of girls under 18 years of age to be notified at least 48 hours before their daughter is allowed to have an abortion."

Your gift will help us make history in California.

Please forward this time critical message to everyone on your e-mail list. And please donate as generously as you possibly can. Your sacrifice will be a tremendous blessing at this critical hour. It's literally a matter of life and death for vulnerable girls and their babies. And remember: parents' most basic rights are at stake.

Yours for Parental Rights,

Don Sebastiani
Winemaker,
Former California State Assemblyman, and
Supporter of YES on 85

P.S. Planned Parenthood's conspiracy to keep the knowledge of minors' abortions from parents must end. Proposition 85 would require abortionists to notify a parent or guardian 48 hours before performing an abortion on a minor girl. Planned Parenthood is desperately working to defeat Proposition 85 and they are currently outspending us. That's why we need your help. We can beat the abortionists, but time is running out. Please give the largest gift you can possibly send - possibly the widow's mite, but please send something - to save girls and their babies from hush-hush abortions. Please make a sacrifice today and rush your gift right by the fastest possible method. Thank you, and God bless you!

Once again, you can help us end this atrocity once and for all by using the hyperlink below!

https://www.capitaldynamics.com/yeson85/index.htm

Relax, Michael this one is tongue in cheek... ;-)

Shocking news coming out of Minnesota today indicates that while heterosexual woman are "tuned" into pictures of naked men, homosexual women tend to go where the action is, regardless of gender.

Thanks to this news blurb, I've started calling my husband on his cell rather than his office phone.  Hey, it's got to be easier than trying to remember that darn pill...

On the political front:

Apparently, Harold Ford Jr. feels the need to clarify on his social life...

and DNC chair Howard Dean explains why he won't debate the always well-spoken and controlled Ken Mehlman.       

Uh... yeah... that's it... ROTFLMBO ;-)

This morning I had the dubious privilege of listening to Day1, a radio program out of Atlanta that touts itself as "the voice of the Protestant church" bringing " inspiring sermons from America's finest mainline Protestant preachers".  Unfortunately, my listening experience was more of a political rally than a spiritual one.

Today's guest preacher, The Rev. Dr. Robin Meyers, of Oklahoma preaches an unabashedly liberal form of Christianity.  The pre and post sermon interview referenced Bush, American policy, and Meyers' fears that Oklahomans are too far right leaning.  The Reverend likened American fundamentalists to Timothy McVeigh.  Hypocritically, Meyers sandwiched a comment about the dangers of blurring religion and politics between his lines of partisan rhetoric. 

Dr. Meyers accuses many Christians (we can be sure he means the socially conservative, politically right leaning variety)  of exhibiting a lack of empathetic moral imagination.  Meyers believes we cannot imagine what it is like to suffer under the title "the axis of evil" or lose a child to the evil and oppressive American military machine.  Perhaps Meyers is correct.  I'll admit my preference is to face down real, rather than imagined, problems.

Permit me the luxury of providing an example. 

As Saddam Hussein rose to power, he was forced, as is the burden of the tyrant, to instill fear in his people.  A program called (if memory serves) "My Iraq" that aired Friday night recounted an event that even my limited imagination could grasp and it filled me with empathy.  In a brutal form of housecleaning, Hussein and his henchmen violently removed threats to their power including anyone who supported political opponents.  In one such instance, the armed minions of Saddam entered a house and forced a man to his knees at gunpoint.  They demanded to know his political affiliation. 'I support no one in particular.  I'm just trying to be a good Mulsim.' was his response.  Again and again they demanded his 'confession' of being a subversive.  When he refused to admit guilt, they stripped his newborn child from the arms of his wife and threw the child into the stone wall of the house. The blood and brains of their infant splattered all over their faces, the sobbing father still refused to confess, and was killed.

Dr. Meyers,  I ask you, why is your Christian responsibility to to this widow and her orphaned children impeded by your moral imagination.  It is wonderful that you can imagine being gay and you can sympathize with the horrible infringement of not being allowed to marry.  Now can you close your eyes and see the horrific remains of a shattered newborn cranium.  Can you see that some things must be stopped and that there is not a luncheon over which you can convince men bent on evil to repent and turn away from such depravity?  Can you imagine, Dr.?  Can you?

Can you imagine your grandmother aborting your mother?  Can you imagine the impact of a world without Mozart, Einstein, Ghandi, Mother Theresa? 

In fairness, Dr. Meyers and his congregation work serving meals and reaching out to locals in need.  Those are worthwhile endeavors on which we can agree.  They address actual, not imaginary, problems.  But the naivete of believing that Christianity can only be selectively applied to feel good circumstances belies a simplistic faith.  Discipleship requires doing the hard thing as well as the warm and fuzzy one.

Finally, Juan Williams and I agree on something.  Whoda thunk it?

Juan's book Enough reiterates many of the things I saw as young woman raised in a predominantly poor, largely black community.  Many American blacks have failed to prosper in great measure to willingness to hitch their wagons to victimology peddlers and cultural movements that undermine prosperity and stability.  Like steel workers convinced that union bosses have their best interests at heart (eye roll) many folks have been steamrolled by those who claim to speak for them.  Juan Williams is angry about it.  So am I, Juan, so am I.

Publisher's Weekly gives a synopsis:

When Bill Cosby addressed a 50th-anniversary celebration of Brown v. Board of Education, he created a major controversy with seemingly inoffensive counsel ("begin with getting a high school education, not having children until one is twenty-one and married, working hard at any job, and being good parents"). Building from Cosby's speech, NPR/Fox journalist Williams offers his ballast to Cosby's position. Williams starts with the question, "Why are so many black Americans, people born inside the gates of American opportunity, still living as if they were locked out from all America has to offer?" His answers include the debacle of big-city politics under self-serving black politicians; reparations as "a divisive dead-end idea"; the parlous state of city schools "under the alliance between the civil rights leaders and the teachers' unions"; and the transformation of rap from "its willingness to confront establishment and stereotypes" to "America's late-night masturbatory fantasy." A sense of the erosion of "the high moral standing of civil rights" underlies Cosby's anguish and Williams's anger. Politically interested readers of a mildly conservative bent will find this book sheer dynamite. (Aug.)
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WaPo gives slanted analysis (because the WaPos can't admit that progressive ideals have failed American blacks).  Read it at Amazon ;-)

Predictably the Left is railing Mr. Williams, a stalwart supporter of virtually all things liberal, for daring to step out of line and state anything other than the "Fault always lies with Whitey" talking points.  They are calling him the left's Ann Coulter.  And no,  that isn't a compliment...

Okay.  I'll say it.  This new GOP web ad is over the top.  Not because it is untrue.  But because most Americans have no idea who we're up against.  In spite of themselves, most Americans don't believe that otherwise sane people would blow themselves into a million pieces just because they hate us that much.  Most Americans are convinced that we can talk this out.  That we can make policy adjustments or make some sort of political payoff that will end the IEDs and put a stop to the beheadings.

It's the optimistic spirit of Americans.  Even in an age darkened by feigned cynicism such as ours, Americans are optimistic enough to believe that the enemy is us - and thereby we can control it.  Americans don't know true pessimism.  Less than 10% of Americans know what it's like to go to bed hungry. Most complain because they have too much to eat.  For all of our media imposed fears, most Americans really aren't afraid to go out alone. Or after dark.  We're shocked by the stories of young coeds murdered after drinking alone in a bar in the wee hours.  Shocked because thousands more coeds are doing it all the time and then returning to the dorms to sleep it off.  We don't know the fear that comes from seeing a bus disintegrate in front of us and a cloud of pink mist fill the air as what used to be flesh lands all around. 

We have a million people in military uniforms and 300 million Americans.  You do the math.  How many people do you think really comprehend the threat?

My prediction is that this ad will backfire because people don't want to believe we're at war.  Many want to pretend it's politics.  Others want to believe the threat is small and confined.  No one wants to believe the danger is real.

About Halloween.  I need to vent.  Tonight I had to run out for candy because we have a school party tomorrow with the other homeschooling families in our area.  It's that time of year again.  The time when we teach our children that begging is its own reward.  I'm no Halloween scrooge but I do believe that somebody needs to lay down some basic ground rules for this holiday.

1- No manners, no candy. One year I actually heard two little boys in my neighborhood planning to take the whole bowl off my porch while I was standing hidden from view just inside the doorway.  The conspiratorial tones in eleven year old Billy and Austin's voices made it clear they knew they were about to do something wrong but they were going to do it anyway.  So I stepped out from the shadow, scared the you-know-what out of them and gave them a lecture on honesty.  Then I kicked their prepubescent butts off my porch without so much as a tootsie roll.  (That's conservative parenting in action...)

2- There is an age limit.  Very few people are cute in costumes after say 12 and while some teenagers can carry it off, no adults are able to.  At our last duty station, we lived in officer housing and the off post community would flock to our neighborhood because they figured we were going to load them up on Hersheys.  No problem.  I don't care where the kids come from and I do give out the good stuff.  But I have issues with a man older than I am walking up to my door with no costume and his $80 Reebok hoodie turned up for me to throw candy into.  What the hell am I handing out here, checks and cheese?  Give me a frigging break.  My husband puts long hours in to earn his money and I'll be darned if I'm dropping 50-75 bucks on chocolate to give it to a man who clearly can afford to get all of his clothes at Foot Locker.  If you're that desperate for candy, shop at Wal-Mart with the rest of America.  No lie, this guy and several others showed up on my porch every year we were in New York.  They usually said nothing - not even a comedic trick or treat, not thank you. Nothing.  They usually just glared at me over the lollipops they were already sucking on with a smirk and a hand out.  It was a candy raping - a goodwill violation.

3- If your baby is in the car sleeping, then he/she is clearly too young for Halloween.  Nothing is more annoying than a parent coming up on my porch and asking for candy for a child that is usually too young to eat it anyway.  That's not trick or treating, that's pimping your one year old.  Get a job.

I'm hoping to have a better experience in my new neighborhood.  Everyone here seems to have a grasp on what's appropriate and what's not.  The last four years in New York definitely left me with a bad taste and even more loathing of the American welfare state.  We can't even enjoy a children's holiday without people turning it into a moochfest.  That's what entitlement has done for low income New Yorkers.  And that's what socialist policies are doing to America generally - breeding lazy beggars who feel entitled to hand outs, not only to meet their needs but to fulfil their whims.  Sick. Sick. Sick.

Some are even going overseas for a free ride.

Dick Morris was on Fox recently discussing the possibility of DNC witchhunting if the Dems take the Congress.  In an effort to make his point, he referred to the Clinton years and the damage done by an overzealous GOP led Congress determined to hold slick Willy accountable.  Clinton, he says was uderstandably distracted.  Sorry, Dick, that just doesn't fly.

Here's why:

Presdient Bush, for good or ill, has watched his poll number go practically negative even with his own base but has never wavered in his dedication to the ideals he stated from the outset of his presidency.  If Bill Clinton was distracted by the Lewinsky affair, then it was because he was more in tune with his political weather vane than with his moral compass.  He was more interested in being the head of the DNC than the head of State.  I may not like everything that Dubya proposes but I have serious admiration for a man who is bound by his beliefs rather than by the responses to a loaded questionairre in the Washington Post.

If the Dems win big in November, and they just might, they will only lose in the long term by raising the spectres of Salem.  And, you know what Dick, I think even they are smart enough to know that.

A Californian Republican senatorial candidate is being accused of trying to intimidate Hispanics.  According to AP reports, 14,000 Democratic voters received a letter in the mail warning about the legal ramifications of voter fraud. 

From the AP report:

State and federal officials were investigating the letter, which was written in Spanish and mailed to an estimated 14,000 Democratic voters in central Orange County. It warns, "You are advised that if your residence in this country is illegal or you are an immigrant, voting in a federal election is a crime that could result in jail time."

Immigrants who are adult naturalized citizens are eligible to vote.

Personally, I only see one problem with the letter.  Someone left out the word illegal in front of immigrant.  If you're a legal voter, this would go right into your junk mail pile. 

The candidate under fire, Tan. D Nguyen, an immigrant himself, has made illegal immigration a huge part of his platform, and, for the record, denies any involvement with the letter which was send out under the altered heading of an anti-illegal immigration group. 

Local GOP leaders are rushing to condemn the letter and the AP characterizes it as "threatening Hispanic voters with arrest".  Other than the omission of the word illegal in the instance I already mentioned, this is a message that should be going out.  Most Americans are worried about turning national policy over to the UN.  How would they feel about handing the reigns to California over to Guadalajara?

The AP refers to a 1988 case when, in the same county, one GOP candidate placed hired security guards at voting sites where Hispanic voters were the primary demographic.  The candidate paid his debt to political correctness in the amount of $400,000, settling a civil rights violation lawsuit of alleged intimidation. 

Again, I ask, if you are a citizen, legally registered to vote,  what are you worried about? No rentacop or letter is going to stop me.  I'd be waving hello to the 'officers' and encouraging them to vote for my candidates ;-)  I think all voters ought to be checked with reasonable scrutiny.  But then I'm one of those people who demands that cashier's check my photo ID before swiping my bank card... and since my dad spent the first 30 of his voting years as a registered Dem simply because the registrar in his Atlanta district said, "Son, you're a democrat",  I'm not inclined to find fault with a mere reminder that in this country, we only allow citizens to vote. Get over it.  And if you're legal, voice your complaint on your ballot.

Hard to believe that when FDR promised a chicken in every pot he intended to put it there by dressing single mothers in olive drab.  According to Dave Gibson at Capitol Hill Coffee House, that is precisely what has happened.  The American military has turned into a halfway house for single mothers looking for a way up and out. On some points, I agree with Gibson's assertions, on others, though I believe he is ill-informed.  Here's what Dave writes:

With ever-expanding enlistment bonuses and recruiters tempting potential recruits with promises of college tuition, the military is attracting large numbers of single mothers. With few prospects available to under-educated single moms within the private sector, more women are now enlisting in this man’s army. While the Army struggles to make up for last year’s low recruitment numbers, they are offering more incentives while signing up people who cannot perform front line duty.


20 year old Army Spec. Esmerelda Leon told the Tyler Morning Telegraph that joining the Army is a great idea for single moms or “for anyone that has kids and is struggling.” The unwed mom went on to say: “It’s stability. The Army helps you out a lot and it makes you so much more independent.”


While Leon’s story is not uncommon, the U.S. Central Command will not release the number of women who have been forced to leave the Iraqi theater of war. They will only release general numbers. Undoubtedly, the specific number of female soldiers in Iraq who have become pregnant while on duty would prove to be very high and extremely embarrassing to the politically correct Pentagon.

Soldiers, whatever their gender, are still required to perform.  While it's true that pregnant women are sent out of combat, it's also true that the single welfare mothers that Gibson suggests are filling the ranks (and there are many) are required to have a family action plan.  They are required to have a written plan with emergency contact numbers, names and addresses of the people who will be guardians or caregivers of their children.  You can be booted from service for not having this plan.  It is not optional.

As for using a pregnancy to get out of combat - I won't speculate on those numbers because as Gibson points out, we don't have them.  What I can speak to as a woman who has spent more time in military treatment facilities (OB clinics/wards particularly) than about 99% of the American population (that's 6 pregnancies, people), my experience has not led me to concur.  One of the ultrasound techs who saw me regularly through two complicated pregnancies confided that most young african American enlisted females were coming in for repeated abortions rather than keeping their babies.  Some have had more abortions than I've had conceptions - and that's insane. 

During fiscal year 2002, the U.S. Navy placed 12.3 percent of their ship-based female sailors on shore duty after they became pregnant. According to the Navy’s own statistics, nearly 20 percent of female sailors become pregnant annually. One-third of those women never marry during their pregnancy. Unlike the U.S. welfare system, the Navy does not require unwed mothers to identify the father before monetary benefits are released.


Navy policy on pregnant sailors is the following: If the sailor is aboard a deployed ship, she is automatically sent home upon report of the pregnancy. At 20 weeks, the sailor is granted permission to live off base if requested and receives a housing allowance. Upon the child’s birth, the sailor is granted 45 days of fully-paid maternity leave. Of course, day care, medical benefits, and higher pay is given as well.

It's true.  Some benefits of having a child in the military are good.  However, Gibson mischaracterizes others.  Anyone can live off post and the housing allowance is standard job compensation.  That's for males and females who wear the uniform, pregnant or not.  Day care? I've never heard of that as a bennie other than the availability of on post day care centers but you sign up on a waiting list and you pay based on your rank.  It's not a freebie.  Most people can't even get into the CDC (child development center) and put their children in day cares off post.  Medical bennies aren't freebies, either.  Insurance is deducated from your pay.  And yes your pay goes up a little (very little) when you have dependents.  But that, again is true for men who are married and/or fathers.

Another thing Gisbon fails to account for when sharing the figures from ONE ship is that certain ships and certain units are women heavy.  For example, one battalion my husband was in was a construction engineering bttn.  Lots of female soldiers and officers.  Other units that were more combat specific had no women.  Obviously, the data from the latter units would be radically different from what Gibson found.

There are problems with the military system.  I'm not an apologist by any stretch and frankly, I'd be happier if women were not allowed in many more positions in the military. I just think Dave Gibson is picking the wrong battle here and entering that battle unarmed with many of the facts.

Gotta put down my virtual newspaper and get to more important things this morning but I thought I'd share what I read over breakfast:

Ann Coulter assesses Lynne Stewart and military tribunals.  Ironically, David Corn asks today 'Where's the proof that Dems would let terrorists walk?'  He should read Ann Coulter.

Tony Blankley responds the the suggestion that the evangelicals are backing away from the polls and calls for conservatives and values voters not to abandon the GOP in yesterday's article, "No thanks, We're Stupid."

And finally, others are seeing what I've been predicting... the slimy campaign to sully Senators by revealing their sexual escapades (or Mike Roger's fantasies about their sex lives with other men) is going to drive the conservative base even further to the right. Mike, the self-proclaimed gay-outer and his fan club at Daily Kos are rejoicing gleefully in "the list" and hoping to out any GOPer within firing range.  Dem Kristen Powers writes " There are few things as painful to watch as far left people trying to understand how religious conservatives think."  She's right.  Rogers believes that disgust will drive evangelicals away.  Nope.  The one thing that unites Christian people - especially fundamentalists is a belief in REDEMPTION.  It will be easier for them to forgive a sexual deviant than a merciless hypocrite liek Rogers who takes on the satanic role of destroying lives.  Mary Katherine Ham addresses the topic with some great links from her home at townhall.

Alrighty, time to turn into a school teacher, gotta run...

okay - one last comment:  This is why I can't support Dems.  You want to talk about hypocrisy... This is a group that demands tolerance of killing half born babies (you remember that lovely procedure when they bust through the skull of a child who is being born alive and scramble his brains as if they were making an omelet - quick reminder... omelets are made from UNFERTILIZED eggs) but revels in the outing a a guy who says he's not even gay.  Oh yeah, and MIke Rogers promises video to follow - you know, film at eleven - all that to the cheerful cries of the sick political junkies at Democratic Underground and Daily Kos.

Today the blogosphere waves goodbye to one of the most popular conservative bloggers.  Rightwingsparkle is walking away from her desktop.  She has decided to abandon the virtual world for something more tangible.  Her voice will be missed.

Something RWS posted just last week really encapsulates how I feel about politics in America lately.

Many who read this blog might think that I admire Republican politicians. I do not. I admire no politicians. I believe that by the time a person, Republican or Democrat, gets to Congress or the Presidency, he has sold out so many times there is very little left to admire.

I believe in Republicans for one reason and one reason only. This. The Republican platform. It is a mission statement really. You see, I believe in the mission, not the man. We voters have the power to push a politician to vote in a way that leads our country in the direction we wish it to go. And that is the only power we have. But it is of vital importance. This is how the Republican platform of 2004 begins:

Ronald Reagan

He believed that bigotry and prejudice were the worst things a person could be guilty of.
He believed in the Golden Rule and in the power of prayer.
He believed that America was not just a place in the world, but the hope for the world.
As Ronald Wilson Reagan goes his way, we are left with a joyful hope he shared.
May God bless Ronald Reagan and the country he loved.

Many on the left here should read through the platform, I think you might be surprised at the depth of compassion...

Like other ideologies I have built my life around, I don't do so because the adherents are perfect or even admirable.  I do so because the ideology is good.  Take RWS' suggestion and read the platform.

Before I attack about foru loads of laundry and a kitchen floor, I just had  to post this link that I followed from LGF.

Terror has no Religion is a website sponsoring ads in print and television that are now playing throughout the middle east.  The ads are tough to watch.  One shows the suffering of a woman who has lost her family to terrorism and the other shows in slow motion detail (though without Hollywood style gore) the anatomy of a suicide bombing.  It makes you appreciate what people are going through every day in other countries.  And why Israel responds with such ferocity to terrorist attacks.

As a Christian, I believe that Jesus Christ gave His life so that others might live.  Giving your life to take the lives of others is the diametrical opposite.  If He is God's son then suicide bombers are acting on orders from his adversary.  Just my opinion...

Out and about today during a "field trip", I got a chance to hear a few minutes of the Rush Limbaugh show.  Rush was expressing some consternation over a particular blogger's posts opining that conservatives should just stay home from the polls to teach the GOP a lesson.  Rush's argument was that punishing the GOP only gets the Dems seats and that's cutting off our noses to spite our face, so to speak.  Why elect people we know are not in agreement with conservative principles because we don't like 25% or 30% of what the current administration/congress is doing? 

What I found most interesting about the whole monologue had nothing to do with the upcoming elections. Rush kept reiterating to bloggers that they are not movers and shakers behind events in Washington or within the ranks of the media.  Bloggers, he contends are less influential than we think.  Certainly that is true for one soccer mom I know ;-) But it begs the question: If bloggers aren't influential, then why does he care what one blogger writes in two short posts? 

There's no doubt that bloggers are breaking down the ivory tower that has surrounded the media.  The Reuters photoshopping scandals are evidence of that.  Whether our elected representatives read blogs or not is a source of much speculation.  Though, if memory serves, John Kerry blogs on Daily Kos. 

Senators and Congressmen may not be surfing the web but their staffers certainly know the value of the internet as a medium.  Both parties have blogs and the GOP has it's own server so that partisans can blog from a party sponsored site.  They're hosting online teleconferences and using the internet daily to get out mailings to registered voters - you should see the junkmail in my inbox.  So somebody recognizes the value of this virtual political rally, even if Rush doesn't.

Rush made it clear that he was trying to unite conservatives rather than let the full force of the voting block be divided by egotistical members (bloggers and non-bloggers alike).  And I agree with him.  While neither party is giving me what I want entirely, I'll take something over nothing.  In the mean time, Rush needs a reality check.  And any politician who isn't reading blogs needs to wise up.  The most outspoken supporters and critics of both parties are speaking out in cyberspace and those are the people who hand out pamphlets, write letters to the editor, register voters, and go door to door.  This is hard core politics at its best.  Any nationally known conservative would score big points if he acknowledged reading Michelle Malkin, Little Green Footballs and other popular right minded blogsites.

Vernon Robinson and Brad Miller faced off yesterday and the topic, predictably if you're at all familiar with the campaign, was Miller's "San Francisco values".

During the debate, Robinson complained that Miller was one of 129 co- sponsors of a bill that would have allowed homosexuals to bring their partners to the United States.

After the debate, Miller acknowledged supporting the bill and said the measure would have produced "a form of a civil union. It is a limited, modest, legal recognition of a long-term relationship so we aren't forcing gays to be in temporary, casual relationships."

You read that right.  Refusal to grant residency to gay partners of Americans is "forcing" gays to be promiscuous (temporary, casual relationships).  You know, because they just can't help but have sex with whoemever, whenever... I wonder if the common law heteros have that problem?  You know the ones who don't marry but live in committed relationships... they just go around like dogs in heat, too?

Sounds a little like gay bashing to me. 

 

 

Breitbart reports on a study about internet addiction:

US full of Internet addicts: study

The United States could be rife with Internet addicts as clinically ill as alcoholics, an unprecedented study released suggested.  (They call it internet addiction. I call it building virtual relationships or at times, virtual therapy. To-may-tos, to-mah-toes ;-)

It always amazes me that many Americans on the far left characterize our soldiers as baby killers.  If they only knew.  While a small percentage of idiots manage to get into the services (to be expected since 1/4 of our population is retarded) most are just like the soldiers seen in this video. 

Some people will find it offensive or despicable to see little children playing alongside armored vehicles and engaged in playful interaction with armed soldiers.   But I don't.  I've helped my children climb on Iraqi and American tanks.  They've been inside an apache and they've stood in the cloud of dust left by blackhawks taking off within feet of them.  They've picnicked in the shadow of A10s flying overhead and they've heard the deafening and window rattling sound of weapons fire in the night.  They've seen their father jump from an airplane and have played pretend in old uniforms and kevlar vests.  What makes these sights and sounds welcome instead of dreaded?  The fact that the men and women in uniform are pereceived as protectors rather than aggressive enemies.

When you watch this video, ask yourself if the children seem afraid of our soldiers?  Are they running toward or away from the tanks and APCs?  Are these the acts of the oppressed or the liberated?

De Opresso liber...

**************Update:  The video owner is not allowing youtube fans to embed this clip.  Click here to see it at youtube.**********

 

 

An article in the UK's Sun Online reveals the catastrophic mix of loose immigration policy combined with overindulgent welfare handouts. 

Now even Yanks claim UK asylum

Britain is seen as such a soft touch that poor people from countries such as America are even coming here now.

A couple of years ago I met two black guys from the States who were over here because they thought they could get a better standard of living.

One was from Ohio and the other from Kansas. They claimed asylum because they said they were racially discriminated against at home.

But they freely admitted they were here for the free healthcare and accommodation. It is an absolute joke.

They could have been here for up to five years before their application was processed.

Who bears the burden for the freeloaders? It's not just the rich, as some would have you believe, though they definitely bear a disproportionate percentage of the caretaking costs.  Middle class workers, who are honest and hard working are being taken to the cleaners by unscrupulous moochers who live for government (tax payer funded) freebies.  Even though Americans have been able to largely avoid this kind of laziness epidemic, don't be fooled into thinking that it couldn't happen here.

About 12 years ago, my hometown newspaper featured a series of articles about the conditions in the local housing projects.  I remember feeling shock at the pictures of some of the well manicured, expensively dressed inhabitants. Geez. They have more disposable cash than I do, I thought.  The clincher was when a young girl, 18 or so, was describing her circumstance.  She said that the apartment was fine but living in such close quarters was an adjustment and somewhat annoying because she would frequently awaken in the middle of the night when the neighbors car alarm would sound "Step away from the Viper".  She complained that it was disturbing for her baby.

Did you catch that?  Step away from the Viper... Who the hell owns a viper and lives in the projects?

By the way, the Sun article indicates that only half of British immigrants are legit - the other 50% are climbing aboard for the free ride.

Stop the ACLU has a great post explaining why the ideological and agenda driven ACLU should lose tax exempt status. This writeup exposes one of the fundamental doctrines of the ACLU - to strip churches of tax exempt status and force religion to the sidelines of American culture.  This is a must-read that reveals the partisan nature of the so-called "non-profit, tax exempt charitable" organization.

Cao has an interesting piece up scrutinizing the Military Commissions Act of 2006 - with particular respect of course, to the case of Jack Idema, political prisoner being held in Afghanistan. 

Not that I think sanctions ever really work, but Justadog has a post up over at Where's Your Brain called "Japan has the right idea" about that nation's independent thinking and refusal to allow the UN to speak for Japanese national security.

And