Good Stuff From Pres. Bush

Bush drives the left insane and he makes conservatives angry. We think he isn't conservative enough and the left thinks he is way too far right. But it's nice sometimes to remember why we voted for him. He is a man of principle. From The American Enterprise Institute, first on the culture of life and stem cell research:

THE PRESIDENT: Well, I told the American people I believe in a culture of life. I believe a healthy society is one that protects the most vulnerable among us. And clearly, the most vulnerable among us are those who aren't born yet. Obviously, abortion is a very controversial subject, and it's one that creates a lot of emotions.

I try to diffuse the emotions by saying, look, good people disagree on the issue, I understand that. But throughout my presidency, I have tried to help advance the culture of life. And one of the really classic tensions between the culture of life is that with science. And it's -- Leon Kass instructed me throughout this process that tensions existed for a long time, and will continue to exist.

And the fundamental question with stem cells is, do you destroy life to save life? And it's a difficult issue for a lot of people. I came down on the side that there are other opportunities available to save lives other than the destruction of life. And secondly, I was concerned about using taxpayers' money that would end up destroying life. There's a lot of people in our country that don't want their money spent for that purpose.

I developed a policy which I thought sounded rational. And that is there have been some stem cells lines already developed, embryonic stem cell lines developed prior to this decision, therefore we should go forward with research on them -- but from that point forward, no destruction of life with federal money. Since then, adult skin cells have been used to develop the equivalent of embryonic stem cells. And so science has advanced, and at the same time, we were able to stake a claim for the culture of life. It was a very emotional issue. And that's what happens when you confront controversial topics.

And I believe the President should have a core set of beliefs and stand on those beliefs.

And you may not agree with his immigration stance, but he is right on the money on this, and we Republicans would do well to pay attention:

I'm a little concerned about the tone of the immigration debate, labeling our party as "anti"-people. It's one thing to say they want the border enforced, and I understand that. But if a group of people think that a political party is against them, it doesn't matter what else you stand for. And the tone, in my judgment, at times got to be "anti." At one point in our history we had too many Jewish people and too many Italians. I don't know if you remember that. And it was -- I'm just confident people were saying, I can't believe this is the America that I came to live in where I'm "anti" -- people are "anti"-me.

And so we're going to have to work, like, with the Latino vote to say, we care about you, we hear you, and we share your values -- faith and family, small businesses, military vets or, you know, disproportionate -- more Latinos serve as a percentage of their -- of population in the military than any other group, if I'm not mistaken.

A Good Afternoon in Baghdad

From The Zen Traveler:

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We returned to the Baghdad Ballet School to deliver some gifts that were generously donated by a similar school in Mobile, Alabama. It was a great afternoon and I got a chance to interact with a lot of the kids. I laughed because the only English that they could speak was to sing the "ABC song" and count to ten, which they did relentlessly. I taught the boys how to do an "Obama-style fist-bump", as well as thumb wrestle. American culture is good for a lot of things. I walked away smiling. It was a good afternoon in Baghdad.

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Sweet.

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via Mudville

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One more little personal insight from over there. From The Gun Line:

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A few days ago, I escorted a working party of young Iraqis who were day laborers… They were all young, and they reminded me so much of any typical American teenager, trying to get through life, chatting away about girls, and sports, and the latest fashions… I felt very encouraged that these young fellows would be the ones to wake up and realize how full of potential their futures are. They will be the ones to take charge of their communities, and decide that they would not allow themselves to be manipulated by religion, by politics, by other countries… “We Won’t Get Fooled Again…” by The Who seems appropriate right now… Perhaps it will happen. I hope it does…

We’ll see if I’m as optimistic at the end of the tour as I am now, but, right now, I am where I need to be, doing what I need to be doing…

I’m happy to be here.

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He's right, you know. It is that young generation that will decide. A future that is different from the past.

Shoe drama continues...

Yeah, the guy who threw the shoes at Bush is having a bit of an attack of conscience:

Majid confirmed to Fox News that Muntadhar al-Zeidi has asked the Iraqi president for a pardon, and expressed "regret and sorrow" for his behavior.
"It is too late to now to regret the big and ugly act that I perpetrated," al-Zeidi wrote, according to Majid.

Hey, at least he is admitting it was a big and ugly act.

A Christmas Wish

One of the founders of Smart Girl Politics has a sad and tender request:

Many of you may remember my dear friend, Chris Garman, who lost her battle with breast cancer 2 years ago. When she was first diagnosed with breast cancer, she was pregnant with her third child. Her doctors didn't think Chris would live through her pregnancy without treatment, so they took a chance & gave her chemo while shewas pregnant. Chris survived her pregnancy & had a beautiful, healthy little girl named Hannah Faith.

Chris died when Hannah was three.

Hannah is now five, and this breaks my heart all over again, but In October, Hannah has been diagnosed with glioblastoma multiforme, a rare and incurable brain tumor. She was given about 12 weeks to live. She was going to be the flower girl in a wedding in May, but was diagnosed a week after she was asked.

Right now she has lost most of her motor skills. She is confined to bed and cannot really do anything or play with the gifts she is getting from
people, but she LOVES getting cards - she has gotten so many from people she does not know and jus t loves to have grandma read about the people who send them and see their pictures and is so proud of all her cards. Her room is just filled with cards.

When asked what she wants for Christmas she said she wants to see how many Christmas cards she can get. Many people have passed this wish along to their churches, prayer groups, friends and family. There are school groupswhere children are making her cards. People are including pictures so she can see who it is that is sending her the card.

If you would like to help with her wish, please send her a card at:

Hannah Garman
704 Orchard Rd
Lititz, PA 17543

Sometimes in the rush and materialism of the season, we forget how blessed we are. So send an extra card, go hug your children and tell them you love them. Life is but a whisper. Listen closely to it and relish it.

Not the Change They Were Expecting

*See update at bottom of post.

Why is the gay community so upset that Pastor Rick Warren set to speak at Obama's inauguration? It might have something to do with this letter he sent out in support of Prop 8:

"For 5,000 years, EVERY culture and EVERY religion -- not just Christianity -- has defined marriage as a contract between men and women. There is no reason to change the universal, historical definition of marriage to appease 2% of our population. This is one issue that both Democrats and Republicans can agree on. Both Barack Obama and John McCain have publicly opposed the redefinition of marriage to include so-called 'gay marriage.' Even some gay leaders, like Al Rantel of KABC oppose watering down the definition of marriage...Of course, my longtime opposition is well known. This is not a political issue, it is a moral issue that God has spoken clearly about. There is no doubt where we should stand on this issue...This will be a close contest, maybe even decided by a few thousand votes. I urge you to VOTE YES on Proposition 8 -- to preserve the biblical definition of marriage. Don't forget to vote!"

Now, one might point out that Obama has always said he was against gay marriage, so what's the surprise?

The surprise is that the liberal and gay community thought he was just saying that to get elected. The Democrats have always had a "wink, wink" thing with their Presidential candidates. They may denounce the "religious right," but have no problem with the Clintons, Pelosi, and Obama talking about God and faith. Why? Because they know they don't mean it. It's that simple. Their attitude always has been, "Say what you need to to get elected and be perceived as moderate, but we know you are on our side."

It seems Obama is disappointing the liberals over and over and he hasn't even taken office yet:

Millions of us stood up and shouted, handed out fliers, talked to our neighbors, donated hard-earned money, and drove people to the polls for Change. We screamed, hugged, kissed, and cried when we learned Change had come to America. We knew Change wouldn't come overnight, that it would take time, but we were excited that we had elected a man who was open to Change, who said he wanted to consider real people's needs while in the Oval Office. We eagerly awaited the first hints of Change, as the president-elect's transition developed.

And now, we have reason to worry that Change is not coming to America after all.

A politician being a politician. Did they really expect unicorns and rainbows? Seriously?

What has Obama done so far that has them riled? His appointments:

...there's Hillary Clinton herself, our soon-to-be secretary of state, who voted to authorize the invasion of Iraq, who has been called "a hawk among hawks," who pointed approvingly at humanitarian interventionist actions like the one her husband initiated in Kosovo in 1999. Obama's team of advisors includes several other returnees from the Clinton administration, such as Michele Flournoy, Susan Rice (recently named US ambassador to the UN), Richard Holbrooke, Anthony Lake, and Madeleine Albright, all of whom have been neoliberal hawks to one degree or other.

While a return to Clinton-era foreign relations is a certainly a change from destructive Bush-era policies, it is not Change writ large. Not to mention the fact that another segment of Obama's national-security squad is rounded out by center-righties with firm Bush-era roots, such as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who will stay on as a holdover from the Bush administration, and national-security advisor-designate Jim Jones, a former advisor to John McCain.

More:

On the economy, as well, Obama has made some critical missteps. It's not just that Lawrence Summers, Obama's pick for head of the incoming White House National Economic Council, is a Clinton-era economist who oversaw the same policies that got us into the financial mess we're in today (or that his record on gender equality is iffy-at-best). Two of Obama's largest policy backpedals have been economic.

First, he adopted a more cautious stance on rolling back tax cuts for people making more than $250,000 a year — rather than taking the bold step of repealing those, he now says he'll just let them expire as scheduled at the end of 2010. Then, citing the sharp decrease in oil prices from this summer's record levels, he shelved his plan to tax oil-company windfall profits.

While anything that slows the "progression" of the "the progressives," we should not get our hopes up. Obama's past (such as we know) is very far left, which is why the far left loved him so much. From abortion rights to gun control he has voted to the extreme. But what Obama always understood is that we live in a time of perception. Obama desperately wants to be perceived as someone who brings us together.

I think that Obama will soon discover that being President in this day and time requires more than the image of being a leader. It will take actual leading. Leading does not mean that decisions will be popular.

As I see Obama now, my biggest worry isn't about appointments or even promoting and implementing leftist ideas. My biggest worry is that he will discover that he is in way over his head and bad decisions will come from that.

While Obama making leftists mad may make conservatives feel a bit better, it doesn't overcome his inexperience and his basic belief that government can solve our problems.

Obama has been showered with love and affection from his supporters and from the press for over 2 years now. It will be interesting to see how he handles the criticisms that comes with simply being a leader.

*Update: Whoa, RWN has the reaction to Pastor Warren from the netroots. I think they are a bit upset. I love how anyone who disagrees with them is "a preacher of hate." It's such a joke. You can like or dislike Rick Warren (I'm not particularly fond of him) and you can agree or disagree with him, but no reasonable person could call anything he says or does hateful. It's absurd. Being against gay marriage doesn't make you a hater. It makes you one who disagrees. That's it. Over the top rhetoric diminishs any point one is trying to make. The netroots should keep that in mind.

Who's running for RNC Chair?

Politico has the guide:

Mike Duncan– As the current committee chair, Duncan knows the party’s insiders better than anyone else in the running. And while his present term in office has left Republicans with mixed feelings – his prolific fundraising doesn’t quite make up, in some leaders’ minds, for the GOP’s devastating November losses – he’s ended on a strong note thanks to Saxby Chambliss’s victory in the Georgia Senate runoff and the GOP’s two House wins in Louisiana.

Most of all, Duncan is benefiting from a divided field of opponents who haven’t developed a consistent critique of his leadership and against whom he could quickly become an unobjectionable consensus candidate.

“If there was a movement that could push Duncan out, I think it would be identifiable at this point,” said one Republican strategist who expects Duncan to be reelected. “I just do not get the feeling that there is going to be some great change.”

Saul Anuzis— Among the field of candidates seeking to become the anti-Duncan, Anuzis stands out for his energetic campaigning and his emphasis on technology. The Michigan GOP chair announced his bid on Twitter and has been hammering away at the theme of tactical innovation. Multiple Republicans noted Anuzis’s big, colorful personality – he rides a Harley-Davidson and sports a goatee as an asset in a race where candidates are struggling to distinguish themselves from an ideologically homogenous field.

Anuzis has also rolled out more public endorsements than any other candidate, drawing heavily on support from blue states like New Jersey and Connecticut and shaping a perception that his candidacy is picking up steam.

“If I had to assign momentum in what has been a very, very sleepy race, I’d assign it to Anuzis,” said another Republican strategist.

Anuzis’s weakness? Michigan has been very tough ground for the GOP in recent cycles, and the support he’s receiving from Republicans back home may not be quite enough to kick voters’ suspicion that he just hasn’t delivered the wins an RNC chair needs.

Michael Steele—Steele, a former state party chair who served as Maryland’s lieutenant governor before losing a Senate race in 2006 to then-Rep. Ben Cardin (D-Md.), is essentially tied in second place with Anuzis. Steele announced his candidacy on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity and Colmes” to great fanfare, touting his skills as a political communicator at a time when Republicans lack a high-profile leaders on the national stage.

Steele’s campaign hasn’t gone quite the way he expected it to, according to some Republicans, who believe Steele expected his star power to carry him farther than it has in a race in which many RNC members would prefer to elect one of their own.

And though he’s consistently reaffirmed his commitment to conservative social positions, his association with the moderate Republican Leadership Council has some RNC members uneasy.

“I don’t think there’s any question that he is personally pro-life. I think the only question is how he views the role of social conservatives within the party,” said James Bopp Jr., the influential social conservative who serves as national committeeman for Indiana.

But despite these hiccups, Steele seems destined to make it to the finish line with the clout to make it through multiple ballots. And if he can edge out Anuzis on the first vote he could give Duncan a run for his money.

Katon Dawson– Running a little behind his fellow challengers, but still mounting an energetic and serious campaign, is South Carolina Republican Party Chair Katon Dawson. With a better win-loss record than Anuzis and a closer rapport with RNC members than Steele or Blackwell, Dawson could ride a wave of conservative and Southern support into the late stages of balloting – particularly if the Blackwell-Benkiser gambit falls flat.

The Palmetto State Republican is billing his campaign as a vehicle for outside-the-Beltway competence and emphasizing the need to return control over the RNC to successful state-level leaders – a message that’s certainly in tune with the mood on the committee.

Dawson’s major obstacle is, in a word, Southernness. At a moment when some are labeling the GOP a regional party, Dawson may not look (and sound) like the change the GOP needs. And his critics are only too eager to hype up a damaging story that Dawson belonged to an all-white country club as recently as last summer.

Ken Blackwell– The former Cincinnati mayor and Ohio secretary of state entered the RNC campaign late – on December 5 – and has lagged behind the other contenders. While his candidacy hasn’t exactly caught fire, it got a potentially significant boost this week in the shape of his partnership with Benkiser, who could help Blackwell appeal to the significant social conservative bloc on the committee.

Blackwell has also moved forward with a series of moves that appear designed to capture the RNC’s fiscal conservative vote, receiving the endorsements of publisher Steve Forbes and Club for Growth head Pat Toomey. Endorsements don’t necessarily pack much of a punch in an internal election like this one, but every little bit helps.

Like Steele, however, Blackwell’s not a member of the RNC and he still faces skepticism about both his qualifications and his viability. The Ohioan still has some catching up to do in this race and a running mate alone won’t do the trick.

“He’s a very plausible candidate,” said one member of the RNC, who cautioned: “He’s neither fish nor fowl. He’s not a figure with national prominence and he’s not a figure with experience keeping the trains running on time.”

Chip Saltsman– A former chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party and campaign manager to Mike Huckabee, Saltsman has more to gain than any other candidate from a protracted, multi-ballot knife fight for the chairmanship. The 40-year-old has been running a vigorous race against more established candidates, though he’s had to distance himself from the Huckabee campaign in a race where no one wants to support a stalking horse for 2012.

Saltsman knows he’s an underdog, but as a student of GOP politics he also knows that once an RNC race gets past the first or second ballot, all bets are off. If Saltsman can become a second- or third-choice candidate for a significant number of RNC members, and survive the first ballot, he could try and follow the Jim Nicholson path to victory. Yet even if he is unsuccessful, he’s established himself as a name to be taken very seriously in years to come.

I lean toward Michael Steele, but really only because I heard him speak at the Americans for Prosperity conference in Austin and I was very impressed.

Without Palin...

...who would even want to go to NBC.com?

ComScore says that traffic to the joint venture between News Corp.’s (NWS) Fox and GE’s (GE) NBC fell 10.8 percent from October to November, dropping from 5.3 million unique visitors to 4.8 million...
This makes plenty of sense: Hulu was one of two places were you could (legally) see the “Saturday Night Live” Sarah Palin clips, which were huge sensations. The other one, NBC.com, dropped a whopping 50 percent–from 14.1 million to 7.2 million, comScore says.

via Mary Katharine Ham

Just keeping the love in his heart

What does a Governor do who has been caught on tape cussing and selling Obama's Senate seat? The world is against you and your hair has become a SNL joke. What do you do?

You run.

Not away. At least we don't think so.......

I think I'd buy a treadmill.

Time Magazine and Their Obama LoveFest

From the Weekly Standard blog:

NBC's First Read did some counting and discovered that Barack Obama, Time's person of the year, appeared on 27 percent of the magazine's covers in 2008. If you include mentions of Obama's name along with his face, the figure shoots up to 48 percent.

That and $650 million dollars. I don't know how we ever imagined we had a chance.

Gitmo Lawyers

Here is an excellent piece on how "chic" it is to be a lawyer for Guantanamo detainees. The most prestigious law firms want this on their resume:

Last year, at a dinner at Washington's Ritz-Carlton hotel, the National Legal Aide Defender Association bestowed its "Beacon of Justice Award" on 50 law firms for their pro bono work on behalf of the detainees.
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These firms in turn are joined by law professors from Stanford, Yale and Northwestern right on down to Fordham.

Did you get that? 50 law firms. Not lawyers, law firms. Literally hundreds lawyers are involved. And then they pat themselves on the back, giving each other awards at fancy high priced award dinners for their pro bono work. It's enough to make one want to hurl a shoe.

So let's look at the other side. Let's look at the lawyers working on behalf of the government to keep us safe. 60 or so Justice Department lawyers are handling the bulk of the legal load of 200 Gitmo detainees filing for habeas corpus in federal district courts. But as the article points out, no big time law firms are offering their service pro bono to help them keep us safe. No, it's much more PC and honorable somehow to help those accused of being a danger to America.

The imbalance was illustrated by a scene last week at the federal courthouse building in Washington, D.C. There Judge Thomas Hogan was to consider rules governing the habeas corpus petitions of the detainees. That meant half a dozen Justice Department lawyers waiting in a room packed wall-to-wall with high-priced partners -- many backed up by legions of associates, outside legal experts, human-rights centers, and concerned law students.

Isn't this a perfect example of why we hate lawyers so much?

The bottom line? "dozens of the world's most dangerous men now have their own legal Dream Teams."

h/t BigDog

8 months in jail for...adultery

Can you imagine that here? We would have to open all our sports arenas to hold on the "convicts."

Believe it or not this happened in a non-Muslim country. This was South Korea and one of it's best known actresses was given a suspended prison sentence of eight months for adultery.

Oh dear...

RuPaul dressed as both Obama and Michelle to promote his/her? new show "RuPaul's Drag Race." Yes, it's all about dressing in drag. This photo just makes me laugh.

via Fox

I'm offended

Blind man's guide dog barred from restaurant for Offending Muslims.

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Many dogs are trained to help the disabled, sniff out drugs, and rescue us. But most of them simply love us unconditionally.

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I'm offended by anyone who is offended by dogs. If there is anything on this earth more awesome than dogs, I am not aware of it.

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h/t Dan Collins

Envirofascists

I don't think many Americans are aware of the extreme tactics used against men and women of science who dare to question man made global warming.


The Lone Star Times has a partial list of what these people have had to go through. It will stun you.

The AP recently put out this hysterical article on global warming quoting Stanford University biologist Terry Root, "We are out of time. Things are going extinct."


Here is some reactions to that article.

American Daily has more:

Over 650 international scientists are out of the closet and articulating their dissent over the folly of man-made global warming bull excrement.

Here is a link to the Intro and full Senate report.

My chronic criticisms (of over a decade) are insignificant. However, others (far more credentialed and knowledgeable) are finally being heard.·

“It is a blatant lie put forth in the media that makes it seem there is only a fringe of scientists who don’t buy into anthropogenic global warming.” - U.S Government Atmospheric Scientist Stanley B. Goldenberg of the Hurricane Research Division of NOAA.

“Warming fears are the worst scientific scandal in the history…When people come to know what the truth is; they will feel deceived by science and scientists.” - UN IPCC Japanese Scientist Dr. Kiminori Itoh, an award-winning PhD environmental physical chemist.

Nobel Prize Winner for Physics, Ivar Giaever, says,“…Global warming has become a new religion.”
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Frankly, the problem (which most pols are scared spitless to admit is a problem) is the same challenge scientists now face. Atmospheric physicists James A. Peden, formerly of the Space Research and Coordination Center in Pittsburgh, noted, “Many [scientists] are now searching for a way to back out quietly (from promoting warming fears), without having their professional careers ruined.”

To me that last point is the one that boggles the mind. It has come to the point that if you are a scientist or researcher and don't agree with the man made global warming crowd, then you are threatened and ruined in your career. Unbelievable.

This just seems typical of the left to me. You either agree with us or we will make you agree with us.

If we can't have frank discussions within the science community over things such as this, then we are doomed to ever really learn from our environment or ourselves. When political agendas censor any dissent or disagreement, then we have lost the ability to effectively examine this world in a true scientific way.

Top Time Editor Quits to Become Biden's Press Secretary

As Newsbusters points out, is this really a job change?

And if you had any doubt that the MSM is in the pocket of Democrats, take a look at those who have simply shifted jobs a bit this year:

CNN reporter Aneesh Raman who signed with the Obama campaign in September

ABC reporter Linda Douglass who in May signed up as an Obama strategist and spokesman

Former "Dateline" anchor Jane Pauley who toured the country campaigning on Obama's behalf

ABC News anchor Carole Simpson who teamed up the Hillary Clinton campaign during the Democratic primaries

CNN reporter Andrea Koppel who signed up with a left-wing PR firm in February

Kate Albright-Hanna, a producer with CNN who crafted web video strategy for Obama while working at the network

That's funny right there....

Blago's hair inspiration? Clearly "Simpsons pre-Kent Brochman anchor Scott Christian."


via Gawker

via GOC

Unions used to not suck....

...but now they do. It's that simple.

Michael J. Totten in Iraq

Riveting reading. Seriously. Go.

SHOEGATE!

Enough already. Do they have to show that clip on the news over and over and over and over? The news is reporting what the crazy journalist said (also over and over), but not what happened afterward. No surprise there.

Like the fact that the Iraqi press corp apologized and said that he did not represent Iraqis. Like the fact that the other journalists in the room took off their shoes and beat the guy with them. Like the fact that this guy used to end his broadcasts for Al-Baghdadia television with "Live from occupied Baghdad." I suppose in a free Iraq they have their own Keith Olberman.

No, all that most Americans will hear is what the crazy guy said in insulting the President.

I will say after watching the tape, the secret service should be ashamed. Slow does not begin to describe their reaction.

*Adding this regarding the journalist:

His colleagues in the Baghdad office of Al-Baghdadia said Zaidi had long been planning to throw shoes at Bush if ever he got the chance.

"Muntazer detested America. He detested the US soldiers, he detested Bush," said one on condition of anonymity.

Hating America and our soldiers and the left gleefully delights in this. They just cannot see that by disrespecting our President, the journalist disrepected America. They never disappoint that way.

Blagojevich? Pretty much crazy

I figured as much:

Blagojevich, 52, rarely turns up for work at his official state office in Chicago, former employees say, is unapologetically late to almost everything, and can treat employees with disdain, cursing and erupting in fury for failings as mundane as neglecting to have at hand at all times his preferred black Paul Mitchell hairbrush. He calls the brush "the football," an allusion to the "nuclear football," or the bomb codes never to be out of reach of a president.
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Many who know the governor well say that as Blagojevich's famed fund-raising capability has shrunk in recent months and as his legal bills have mounted after years of federal investigation, he seems to have transformed from what Fritchey considered callous into something closer to panicked or delusional.
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Blagojevich, incredulous prosecutors say, still spoke in his recorded conversations in the past six weeks of the possibility of remaking his political future and running for president, perhaps in 2016.

That aspiration was nothing new.

At points in early 2004, Blagojevich was scheduled to appear with Senator John Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee, at a community center in Evanston and a junior high school in Quincy. Blagojevich seemed confident, said two former employees, who refused to be named out of concern that their comments could jeopardize their current work, that he would soon be selected as Kerry's running mate (a notion an aide to Kerry's campaign says was never under consideration). At the time, there seemed only one problem: Blagojevich was uncertain he wanted to be a No. 2.
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Behind the scenes, though, members of Blagojevich's staff saw a different man: one who was deeply concerned about his appearance (particularly his signature black hair, which he ignored suggestions to change) and who usually worked from his home or his North Side campaign office and could often be seen, mid- or late-morning, making a six-mile run trailed by his security team.

"God forbid you make a mistake," said one longtime former employee. In December 2003, the employee recalled, Blagojevich flew into a rage because he thought he was late for a holiday tree-lighting ceremony in Springfield, and his two young daughters — who were visiting with Santa Claus in the parlor of the Governor's Mansion — did not have their shoes on yet. "You're trying to sabotage my career!" the employee recalled Blagojevich screaming at staff members, as he charged into the parlor. "You're the worst!"

Bush in Baghdad

Don Suber makes the best point in his recent article, "Bush In Baghdad." Bush's trip to Baghdad reminds us that 24 million people were liberated in Iraq. Liberated from the kind of horror we Americans only see in slasher movies. But the press ignores this fact. The point Suber makes so perfectly is that the left loves to talk about how we should "do something" about the genocide in Darfur. What was a happening in Iraq was the same sort of evil and Bush...did something.

The left thought Iraq would be another Vietnam. I hate to say this, but I believe it, they wanted it to be another Vietnam. They wanted us to fail. For purely political reasons. The MSM went along with them. Reporting every day when things were going badly. But when things turned around and the surge was an obvious success, the press essentially stopped reporting on Iraq. Obama and the left stopped talking about Iraq. Success was not what they wanted so they refuse to acknowledge it, even now.

Suber ends with this:

Bush is in Iraq for the 4th time. A military victory has been achieved. A political one has as well as the Iraqi Parliament has done something our Congress has not: Agreed on an energy policy.

We removed one of the bloodiest dictators on Earth, a man who invaded Iran and Kuwait and who paid terrorists to terrorize Israel. We did what Bill Clinton wanted to do in Bosnia: Liberate a people.

Back on The Bus

Warner Todd Huston at Publius' Forum has a great article on how those "thrown under the bus" during the Obama campaign have apparently been dragged out from under it, dusted off, and quietly allowed back on. The media has nothing to say on the matter, as I'm sure they wouldn't have if a Republican had done the same.

Here are a few examples:

William Ayers. "Since the election, for instance, terrorist William Ayers has since come out and confirmed that he and Obama were closer than Obama claimed during the campaign — and Obama has not contradicted that statement. Back in the bus for Ayers."

Robert Malley. "Robert Malley has been given a new life with Obama after having been chucked under the bus for campaign appearances. Malley came under fire during the campaign when it was discovered he was an Obama foreign policy adviser. The reason that Malley was looked upon askance was because of his past stated support and close relationships with the terror group Hamas. Malley “voluntarily” quit the Obama campaign when his ties to Hamas became an issue. Back then he was under the bus. However, just after the election, Malley seems to have been sent to the Middle East by Barack Obama as his envoy to Syria and Egypt. So, Malley was hauled back into the bus."

Susan Power. "In March of ‘08, Samantha Power “voluntarily” quit the Obama campaign over an off-the-cuff remark she made to a British journalist. She called Hillary Clinton a “monster” over how she was carrying on her campaign in comparison to the purportedly clean way her candidate was operating his. The comment gave the supposedly clean Obama campaign a black eye of sorts. (Video of Power’s “resignation“)
So, off she went after embarrassing the candidate."

But that was then. NOW she is back on Obama’s team as if nothing ever happened.

As the Associated Press reports:

State Department officials said Friday that Samantha Power is among foreign policy experts the president-elect’s office selected to help the incoming administration prepare for Clinton’s anticipated nomination as secretary of state.

Obama is hoping no one will notice his gestures during the campaign were nothing more than that..gestures to get elected. He meant none of them. And no one will notice because the media won't report them.

h/t BigDog

Excuse the language....

But it's pretty funny.

via GOC

Crist Wedding Photos.

I find weddings just delicious. Here are some pictures of Gov. Crist wedding. There were a few protestors, gays and socialists. But only about 30 and they were peaceful.

Five Years Ago Today We Said Goodbye...

.....to a brutal evil dictator, Saddam Hussein. The left still insists we were wrong. But this is what we rid the world of:

In 1988 Saddam began exterminating the Kurdish people living in Northern Iraq. Using chemical weapons of Sarin, mustard gas and nerve agents, he killed at least 50,000 people and some say as many as 100,000 people. Many of them women and children. We have since found the mass graves of these women and children.

He directed mass executions of tens of thousands of civilians, imprisoning tens of thousand of women, children and elderly after destroying their villages, schools, mosques and farms.

In 1991 he once again committed wholesale massacres on the Kurds and Shi'ites. Deaths then were estimated from 20,000 to 100,000 for the Kurds and 60,ooo to 130,000 for Shi'ites. He directed forces to kill thousands of unarmed civilians by firing indiscriminately into residential areas; executing young people on the streets, in homes, and in hospitals. They rounded up suspects, especially young men, during house-to-house searches, and arresting them without charge, sometimes shooting them en masse and used helicopters to attack unarmed civilians as they fled the cities.

In 1994 Saddam established severe penalties for criminal offenses such as amputation. He established numerous torture centers that included hooks for hanging people by the hands for beatings and devices for electric shock.

The left, who will howl all day about the United States waterboarding 3 people for information, still insist that Saddam should have been left alone. I suppose the true horror of torture, amputation, and whole scale murders on women and children aren't enough to bother the left. They make jokes about how we didn't find the WMD. I'm thinking that the women and children who died of nerve gas and the like would, if they could, assure us of the danger to the world of Saddam having such weapons. He hated us with a passion and anyone who doesn't think he would have shared what he had to hurt us is only fooling themselves.

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In addition to ridding the world of Saddam and his insane sons, we decimated Al Qaeda, captured the planners of 9-11, killed the leadership and established a Democracy in the Middle East where none thought possible.

Putting all that aside, forgetting that Saddam refused to let UN officials check for WMD's and ignored 14 UN resolutions, let's just be thankful that a man who committed such horrors on innocent people is gone.

Hundreds of thousands of innocent people were tortured, imprisoned, and executed by this evil man. But no more. No more.

Politics aside, I think we can all agree that a world without Saddam Hussein is a much much better world, and we have the might of the United States of America military to thank for it.

via Ace

Things are not looking good for Jesse Jackson Jr.

At all.

At least this will have spared us "Sen. Jesse Jackson Jr."

Also, it looks like Rham Emanuel is feeling a bit overwrought.

From TimesOnline:

Mr Emanuel skipped Mr Obama's press conference, which he typically attends. Cornered by a Chicago Sun-Times reporter at a concert at his children's school, he refused to comment.

"I'm not going to say a word to you," Emanuel said. "I'm going to do this with my children. Don't do that. I'm a father. I have two kids. I'm not going to do it."

Asked, "Can't you do both?" Mr Emanuel replied, "I'm not as capable as you. I'm going to be a father. I'm allowed to be a father."

You just know he is wracking his brain trying to remember exactly what he said in those taped conversations with Gov. Blagojevich.

"This isn't the Rahm Emanuel I knew"

It's just a matter of time.

Will this stuff never end?

I may be sick.


NAPLES (Reuters) – President-elect Barack Obama and his wife Michelle are appearing in Italian nativity scenes this year, alongside the baby Jesus and wise men, according to Naples craftsmen selling figurines in the run-up to Christmas.

It reminds me of the saying, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall."

via Michelle

Bailout Failed!

I can't believe it.

Michelle has all the details at the link.

Here is the roll call.

CNN says.... "the White House will likely be forced to tap the Wall Street bailout to lend them money."

Pres. Bush and Democrats fighting Republicans on this. It's a strange strange world.

Oh Sweet Jesus...

And I mean that.

Asked to define sin, Barack Obama replied that sin is "being out of alignment with my values." Statements such as this have caused many people to wonder whether Obama has a God complex or is hopelessly arrogant.

I'm betting on the latter.

Arrogant with no understanding of sin. Seeing that he sat in Rev. Wright's church for 20 years, I can understand that.

Pro-life Power Baby!

UNITED NATIONS -- On the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Dec. 10, petitions for and against declaring abortion as a "universal right" were presented to U.N. members.

Pro-Choice presents 651 names, Pro-Life 367,000.

Sweet.

Gays cannot get a break lately

What they want is not going to happen in Illinois either, now that the Governor is umm...busy.

It's the same everywhere

The government tries something, but fails. The government's answer when it fails? Spend more money on it!

In October, the Australian Government launched a $8 million Australian Youth Forum as a way for young people to voice their opinions.

The first issue was about bullying. It's been up two months and out of the 2 million young people in Australia....40 of them have posted a comment.

The answer? What the government's answer always is. "The Opposition's youth spokeswoman, Sophie Mirabella, says the poor response is evidence money needs to be spent on practical measures as well."

The Gay War on Businesses

NoMobVeto.org, part of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, placed an ad in the New York Times speaking out against the religious bigotry of the Prop. 8 gay activists. It was signed by notables such as Nathan J. Diament Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, Rich CizikNational Association of Evangelicals, and Martin Luther King's niece, Dr. Alveda C. King Civil rights activist.

It reads in part:

We’re a disagreeable lot. We differ about a great many important things. Most, but not all of us, are religious believers. We likewise differ on important moral and legal questions, including the wisdom and justice of California’s Proposition 8, banning same-sex marriage.
Nevertheless we’re united in this: The violence and intimidation being directed against the LDS or “Mormon” church, and other religious organizations—and even against individual believers—simply because they supported Proposition 8 is an outrage that must stop.
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Religious groups can’t claim some sort of special immunity from criticism. Nevertheless, there’s a world of difference between legitimate political give-and-take and violent attempts to cow your opponents into submission. Violence and intimidation are always wrong, whether the victims are believers, gay people, or anyone else.
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It is perfectly appropriate as well that all voices be heard. That is a basic point of democracy: The proper response to free speech you disagree with is your own free speech in reply, not attempting to coerce your opponents into silence.
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Let’s be clear: even the crudest anti-religious propaganda isn’t illegal, and may not constitutionally be outlawed. But it’s nevertheless wrong. It has no place in civilized society.

The entire ad is here.

The activist gay community has only hurt it's cause by resorting to intimidation and threats to those individuals and businesses that disagreed with gay marriage California.

Take for example Marjorie Christoffersen, co- manager of a popular eatery in Hollywood called El Coyote's. When the gay activists discovered that she had contributed $100 to support Prop. 8, protests began at her restaurant.

Marjorie Christoffersen is a Mormon and known for her kindness. When one of her gay employee's partner died from AIDS, Marjorie paid for his mother to fly out for his funeral.

Christoffersen met privately with 60 LA LGBT activists after the protests started and expressed regret in her decision to donate $100 to the “Yes on Prop 8″ campaign. She insisted that the donation had been personal and because of her faith and had nothing to do with the restaurant. It seemed clear she didn't want the employees of the restaurant to suffer because of her. She said to them, “I’m sick of heart that I’ve offended anyone in the gay community. I have had, and do have family, friends, and people I work with of course who are gay…and you are treasured people to me.” She went on to say, "Over the years Coyote has financially supported many charities and thousands of dollars most particularly have been given to the gay interests and charities. The restaurant does not support any political group.” She then became too emotional to continue. She has since resigned from El Coyotes'.

The openly-gay restaurant manager Billy Schoeppner, announced that El Coyote would make two $5,000 contributions, each to the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Center and the Lambda Legal Defense Fund.

All this has not been enough for the gay activists though. They felt there wasn't an "outright apology."

See how this works? While it clear that Mrs. Christoffersen cares for her employees, including and especially it's gay members, she still felt that gay marriage is wrong. But she is not allowed to believe that. Not according to the gay activists of Prop. 8. Her business, which employs gay and straight alike, also must suffer. Such is the way of intimidation of these activists.

These types of protests are happening all over California. I blogged before how gay activists are posting names of all those who gave money to support Pro. 8 and encouraging all to boycott their businesses.

This gives you some idea of why this New York Times Ad was necessary.

This is the activists response. The ad is critical of some in the religious community, but doesn't address the unacceptable behavior of the gay activists. Maybe because there is no justification for it.

Fight On

The House passed the Bailout last night.

Here are the Republicans that voted for it. Remember them come election time:

Barton (TX)
Buyer (IN)
Camp (MI)
Capito (WV)
Castle (DE)
Ehlers (MI)
Emerson (MO)
English (PA)
Frelinghuysen (NJ)
Hoekstra (MI)
Hunter (CA)
Knollenberg (MI)
LaHood (IL)
LaTourette (OH)
Lewis (KY)
Manzullo (IL)
McCotter (MI)
McCrery (LA)
McHugh (NY)
Miller (MI)
Tim Murphy (PA)
Porter (NV)
Ramstad (MN)
Regula (OH)
Rogers (MI)
Ryan (WI)
Smith (NJ)
Souder (IN)
Upton (MI)
Walsh (NY)
Young (AK)

The fight goes to the Senate now. Let's see if the Republicans there can remember why they are Republican.

via Michelle

Yes, we get excited over this....

Have you ever seen such pathetic snowmen? Heh. Hey, we never see snow so it's pretty exciting!

The Hypocrisy of The Democrats

One thing I never thought I would do is ever agree with Dee Dee Myers on anything. But I do agree with her on this. I just think it laughable that it comes from her.

She is coming down hard on Jon Favreau, Barack Obama’s 27-year-old speechwriter, because of a photo that appeared which shows him with his hand groping the breast of a cardboard cutout of Hillary Clinton. See here. He is the one on the left.

It is unacceptable in my opinion. Of course pictures of this kind floated all over the net and even on TV of Sarah Palin with no response from feminists like Myers, but they always withhold their outrage on anything done to a conservative woman. More on that later.

Myers says that Favreau is not some college kid. He is playing in the big leagues now and should behave appropriately. Who is she kidding? She worked for the man who paved the way for all men who are Democrats to excuse themselves from any crass or inappropriate behavior toward women......Bill Clinton. Myers writes that Favreau's behavior " It’s an act of deliberate humiliation. Of disempowerment. Of denigration." What did she think Bill Clinton's acts were? Humiliation doesn't even begin to describe what Hillary went through during the whole Lewinsky scandal. And I can think of no more disempowering act than a subordinate getting down on her knees to pleasure her boss. So Myer's outrage seems a bit too little, too late.

Favrea was but a teenager during Clinton's Presidency. I'm sure he heard or read all the salacious details of Bill and Monica. He learned that it was fine to cheat on your wife with a young woman not much older than your own daughter. Even if you are President. He learned that Democrats will stand behind you in your humiliation of your wife and lying to the American people about it. He learned that as long as the woman is into it, you can use her and your power for your own pleasure.

Given that, Myer's outrage doesn't hold much water with me.

It isn't surprising that it would be a Hillary cut out that Favrea would grope and then laugh. Her husband taught him that it was fine to humiliate her.

It is also ironic that Myers would write this for a magazine, Vanity Fair, whose cover has Tina Fey, dressed in a skimpy outfit with an American flag flying behind her, with the caption "A New American Sweetheart." Right. I suppose they feel we owe a debt of gratitude to Tina Fey for saving us from Sarah Palin. I suppose they use that as a way to justify the fact that Tina Fey portrayed a Governor and an intelligent, accomplished woman like Palin, as a bumbling beauty queen hick. They don't even see how they are a part of the reason women are denigrated and disrespected.

Democrats like Myers and the writers and editors of Vanity Fair are swimming in a sea of hypocrisy.

Let Them Die

Have you missed this during all the hulabaloo over Obama's senate seat?

The accused terrorists -- led by the avowed ringleader of the 2001 strikes -- told a military tribunal this week at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, they want to plead guilty. At least two have said they seek martyrdom by being put to death by the U.S.

I'm betting most Americans don't even know we have the one who orchestrated 9-11 at Gitmo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. If you would like to read his list of evil misdeeds, including directing the bombing of a hotel frequented by Israelis in Mombassa, Kenya, read Andy McCarthy's write up here.

Interestingly, they offered their "confessions" on Nov. 4th, the day Obama was elected. I'm sure there is some twisted reasoning there. It seems they are determined to go dancing to their 42 virgins in their make believe heaven, and when we ask "Why would they do that?" I agree with McCarthy. Who cares why? They are a threat to society, to the world. They have the blackest of hearts. Let them die.

Bailout Update!

First and foremost, call you reps! 202-224-3121.

via Michelle

The latest:

Democratic leaders toned down their prediction that Congress would approve a $15 billion automaker bailout within 48 hours, as Republican objections proved difficult to resolve.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Senate is unlikely to vote on the measure tonight and warned that lawmakers may have to stay in session over the weekend if objections are raised to voting earlier.

“Everyone should understand we’re going to work until we complete this,” Reid said.

Congressional action is likely the only chance for the aid General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC say they need to survive. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke ruled out central bank lending to automakers and suggested options including bankruptcy reorganization.

GM and Chrysler say they need at least $14 billion in combined aid to keep from running out of cash by early next year. Ford Motor Co., which would be eligible to apply for the loans, said again yesterday it doesn’t expect to. GM and Ford shares fell.

Some Democrats said support for the bailout in is in question. “It’s not a sure thing by any means,” said Michigan Representative Sander Levin, a Democrat.

Let's make sure it's NOT a sure thing.

Who can stop the Big 3 Bailout?

Maybe one Republican Senator?

Illinois Governor Rod R. Blagojevich Arrested

It's on Federal Corruption charges.

It's quite juicy because it's all about Obama's Senate seat. Basically Blagojevich wanted something valuable from the Obama people for appointing who they wished to his Senate seat (money or a appointment).

If found guilty and serves time, I believe this would be the 4th Illinois Governor to do so.

Remember that squeaky clean Obama came from this political system.

If you were watching the news yesterday you saw Gov. Blagojevich telling Bank of America that their business was through in his state because it had pulled the line of credit from a Chicago factory that had laid-off workers. Oh, he was so passionate for the people!

I'm betting Bank of America is having a good laugh today.

Notice in the story where Blagojevich is the working man's hero, the fact that he is a Democrat is in the second sentence of the Reuter's story, but in today's story of his arrest, you don't learn he is a Democrat until the very last paragraph of a 2 page story.

Isn't that just the way it always is?

Oh yes, in a FBI recorded conversation the Governor called Obama a "m*therf**ker." You gotta love a man of the people. They are so sincere and honest.

Update: It looks like Gov. Blagojevich's wife Patty is just as classy.

No Worries!

Said the spider to the fly.

Great Idea!

Let's make human-animal embryos for research purposes!

What could possibly go wrong?!

Merry Christmas!

Too funny.

"Guilty But Insane." Lets Make It Happen

On Thursday the Houston Chronicle reported the tragedy of Kristen Dewald:

In the early hours of the next morning, Sept. 7, she telephoned police to say her 33-year-old husband was dead.

She told investigators she stabbed him in the chest with a large butcher knife as he slept.

On Wednesday, Kristen Dewald admitted to the killing. Three psychiatrists determined she was legally insane during that time, a valid defense that annulled the need for a trial.

The 39-year-old former nursing student was found not guilty of murder by reason of insanity in state District Judge George Godwin's court.

She will be moved to a mental health facility within the Texas Department of Criminal Justice system where she will be evaluated annually for "future dangerousness," her attorney, George Parnham, said.

If it is determined that she is no longer a danger to the community, Dewald could be released, but will always be subject to rules and orders of the court.

If you are wondering what that means, it means that Kristen Dewald, an admitted cold blooded murderer, could be released to freedom in as little as 3 years.

"Guilty by Reason of Insanity" in Texas doles out this slap on the wrist type of punishment. It's time for the law to change and *Tracy Wells is trying to do just that.

6 1/2 years ago Tracy's sister was 25 years old when she was stabbed to death by her boyfriend Michael Allen Montgomery. *Susan was trying to break up with him and a week later he killed her. He turned himself in and tried the "Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity" defense. Through the diligence of Tracy providing evidence and witnesses, he got 60 years with 30 years possible parole.

Tracy suffered from major Post Traumatic stress after the trial. She got help with behavioral Therapy. She also made it her mission to make sure other murderers in Texas do not get away with murder or attempted murder with a "Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity" plea.

Attempted murderers like Nathan Dale Campbell who stabbed his girlfriend's eye's out with a steak knife, but she lived. Campbell received "Not Guilty by reason of insanity" and was in the mental institution for 5 years. Usually, these perpetrators get out in 3, however Nathan assaulted someone in the mental institute and that got him 2 more years. To add insult to injury, upon release he moved close to his victim and the victims mother. They were forced to move out of Texas. According to Tracy, Nathan Dale Campbell was seen working at local eatery in Houston a year ago.

Murderers like Kenneth Pierott, who beat his handicapped sister to death with a dumbell got "Not guilty by reason of insanity." He served 3 years in the mental institution. When he got out he moved in with his girlfriend and they had a child together. The girlfriend had a 5 year old from another marriage. One day he smothered to death that 5 year old in the oven. He put the child in the oven, turned the knob to broil and went to bed. The oven’s pilot light had malfunctioned, so instead of being baked to death, the child asphyxiated. For that murder he got a prosecution, but if he would have been in jail from the first murder, that child would be alive today.

These are just a few examples, and one might argue that they are a small percentage of the guilty, but to the victims and their families it is no small thing. They wanted justice and did not receive it. They have to live every day knowing a convicted murderer of their loved one roams free.

Tracy got busy 4 years ago. She felt at the very least victims should be informed with the defendants in their case are released. Her representative would not respond to her letters so she spoke with a friend of the Mayor's Crime Victims Services and was able to get some attention. Proper wording was crafted for a bill called HB 291 for the Texas legislature and it was passed in 2005. The bill requires notification of a victim upon the discharge or release into the community of outpatient care of certain defendants found not guilty by reason of insanity. It is now law thanks to Tracy and "Justice for All."

Tracy isn't done yet and this effort may be the most important of all. She tells me that initially "Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity" was meant for homeless vandalism, like breaking a store window or something of that nature. Those people don't need to crowd our jail system. Lawyers for murderer's saw this as a loophole, so to speak, for their clients. She feels that is why we need a "Guilty but insane" sentence, so victims can be assured that that the sentence will fit the crime.

Tracy feels that the fact that the accused is afflicted with some mental ailment and did not know the nature of his act and that the act was wrong should not eliminate guilt. It is only with the fact of intent to commit a crime that a jury need concern itself. The imposing of a sentence should not prevent the remanding of the murderer to a hospital for the criminal insane and, if cured, he should serve the remainder of his unexpired term among sane convicts .

Right now Tracy is trying to get a committment from a Senator to see if he will or will not carry it. It doesn't have a bill number yet. I, for one, would like to see this one go through.

*Names have been changed to protect the innocent. The guilty are on their own.

Ewww...No one likes the Kennedys

Except for Caroline. This is funny because it's so true. Keep in mind this is from Gawker Magazine, New York based and liberal. But they don't mind mocking their own: (emphasis mine)

Supposedly, Governor Paterson is going to appoint Caroline Kennedy to serve the remainder of Hillary Clinton's Senate term. Caroline Kennedy is basically the only Kennedy left who everyone likes.We like her, don't you? The lady Kennedys have historically been much more tolerable than the men Kennedys of course, and now all we have left of them anyway are smug RFK Jr and sad old Ted and some drunk kids and, uh, Patrick Kennedy. So Caroline: the Kennedy it's still cool to like! Unless you're Hillary Clinton.

According to Fredric Dicker, Paterson is actually not leaning toward appointing Kennedy, because she is "quiet and non-assertive," and a New York Senator needs to be a huge d*ck all the time, like Chuck Schumer.

Also, well, there is this little problem:

"Why would she want to see that seat go to someone who essentially double-crossed her?" the source said, noting the Kennedy family's endorsement of Obama in the primary. "It's a nightmare scenario for her."

Yes! Clinton/Kennedy bitchery! The primaries will never, ever end!

The Schumer line just cracked me up! Could that not be any more true?

Have you ever wondered why you have never heard about Caroline Kennedy's children ever getting into trouble? It's not because they haven't. Read the whole thing and find out how Caroline is just better at covering those things up.

It never ends...

A Dutch gay group said Monday it has planned a "Pink Christmas" festival for the first time in Amsterdam, featuring a manger stall with two Josephs and two Marys.

Other attractions in the 10-day festival include parties, an open-air market, gay-themed films, an ice skating rink and religious services on Dec. 25.

Does it even occur to them how highly offensive this is to Christians? This kind of thing only widens the divide between what we can agree on. Anyone want to bet on how long until someone sets up a similar pink Christmas here? I mean, why not? You cannot offend any other group without outrage from the media, unless it's Christian, of course.

It got me to thinking, what if a religious group or church put on a "musical" like "Prop. 8 The Musical" mocking the gay lifestyle and exaggerating sterotypes of gays. I'm sure the media would treat it just as they have "Prop 8 The Musical," right? Right.

via NRO

Say hello to my leetle friend...

A Smith and Wesson hammerless 38 special.

Some things I learned about Texas laws. Can you believe that you can actually carry a loaded weapon in your car without a CHL? Anyone who legally purchases a gun can. I couldn't believe how easy it was to purchase a weapon either. I filled out a form, which didn't require a SS number. The guy then called FBI and obviously they typed in my name and received a flashing "*PERFECT CITIZEN*" on their screen..;-) It took all of 5 minutes and I had bought my first gun (I have a 45, but I won that).

Now before you gun affectionados tell me I'm holding it wrong ect.... I am going to take lessons in Jan. and get my CHL.

See what Obama has done? He has taken a pro-gun control Republican who never liked guns at all and made me a gun owner, gun rights, and gun carrying anti-gun control chick.

And judging from the buiness at the store, I'm not alone.

*btw, Follow me on Twitter!!

The Culture of Death...

...continues.

via Ace

The Pelosi Congress: Before and After

Pretty instructive. Behold what happens when Democrats control Congress.

via Cao's blog

Gay group says it will crash Florida's Governor Crist wedding next month

From Towleroad:

The Suncoast News reports: "The group Impact-Florida has called on its members to gather in pink T-shirts outside First United Methodist Church of St. Petersburg on Dec.12 to "congratulate" Crist and Rome while their wedding takes place inside. The demonstration will continue outside the wedding reception at the Renaissance Vinoy Resort in downtown St. Petersburg. 'After the positive congratulatory observance, there will be a candlelight vigil close to the [Vinoy] in downtown St. Pete to mourn the loss of gays right to get married,'

Mocking Christians and disrupting people's personal events will not gain you any proponents, I can promise you that.

Conservative Tweeters! Listen Up!

Want to know who to follow on Twitter?

Here are the top conservative tweeters. (I think I am around 138, it changes with the number of twitters following you).

Of course you should be following ME!

I really only recently starting getting into twitter and it's very addictive. I love it now. It's a great way to be on top of news breaking and to message with conservative friends.

It's such a strange world. Your e-mail lets you know when someone is following you, so one day I see that G. Gordon Liddy is following me and click on his profile thinking that it was just someone using that name..and it was really him! Crazy. Yesterday I noticed that Tag Romney (one of Mitt's sons) was following me.

This is why you gotta love twitter.

If you don't know what twitter is, here is a great newbie guide.

And you thought Obama and the unicorn thing was a joke.

Dan Lacey, is the artist of “The Barack Obama Victory Unicorn." He sold these to the crowd outside the Excel Energy Center in St. Paul Minnesota at the convention apparently. I suppose if one is riding a unicorn, being naked is imperative.

via boing boing

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