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Allen focuses on jobs - Kaine would rather play hooky

And by "play hooky," I really mean "play the race card."

Let's get a little background, here. Last week, Virginia and West Virginia got the news that quite a few coal mines - which are a big part of our economies - were going to be idled, causing the loss of around 1200 jobs. George Allen realizes how critical these jobs are to Virginia, its economy, and its citizens, and is pointing out Kaine's ties to people and agencies which are hostile to fossil fuels.

Kaine, of course, has little to stand on, as you see in this article from this Washington Post (certainly no friend of sound energy policies) article, which attempts to puff Kaine up by listing his support for alternative energy:

On the campaign trail, Kaine also boasts of having adopted the state’s first comprehensive energy plan, which sought to achieve a balance between coal, nuclear, natural gas, wind and biofuels. He reminds people that as governor, he kept an open mind on the possibility of drilling for oil off Virginia’s shore.

Kaine said he understands the historical importance of coal and its future potential as technology reduces its impact on the planet. But he is also a believer in green energy that can produce jobs such as those at a General Electric plant in Salem where 700 workers build components for wind turbines and solar arrays.

“A third of new power in this country since 2007 that’s come online has been wind power,” Kaine said during a visit to Bristol’s Rhythm & Roots Reunion music festival this month.

Yeah. I really love the line about "[keeping] an open mind on the possibility of drilling for oil off Virginia's shore." Keeping an open mind is very effective in creating new jobs, opening up new areas for energy production, and moving Virginia forward as an energy-producing state (yeah, yeah, "Commonwealth," I know). Really, it is!

Funny how nothing actually happened to meet those goals... Plus, at the moment, alternative energy is quite dependant on fossil fuels - both to make various pieces-parts as well as to, you know, provide the POWER to make and assemble those parts - and is also, comparatively speaking, far more expensive than fossil fuels.

Truth to tell, folks, I would totally LOVE to get my power from solar, wind, and geothermal energy, but right now the technologies are too expensive, too inefficient, and too far out of the average person's reach for a real changeover in the next twenty years or so. Keep up the research, keep up the development, absolutely - but at this time, alternative energy powering our economy in any meaningful way is a pipe dream for people suckered in by enviro-idiots (why, hello, Solyndra!)

Anyway, so George Allen is focusing on jobs ("It's the economy, stupid!"), reining in DC's insane spending, and getting this country back on track to being the economic powerhouse we naturally should be... And Tim Kaine wants to talk alternative energies and...

... "Macaca"?!!

 Well, his AFL-CIO attack dogs want to, anyway:

Workers' Voice is putting $54,000 into web ads hitting Allen in Northern Virginia over a range of race-related controversies. One ad says Allen "hung a Confederate flag in his living room," another that he "voted against MLK Day" and another that he "kept a noose in his law office." One ad just says "Macaca."

A Workers' Voice official said the ads will focus on voters in Northern Virginia and Richmond, both union members and non-union members, and particularly African-American and Latino voters.

Democratic Senate candidate Tim Kaine and his campaign have not attacked Allen in these terms -- at least not yet. But there's no question that the Democratic strategy for winning the Virginia Senate race involves casting Allen as a throwback to an earlier, more conservative and less diverse Virginia, and racking up support among women and the minority voters who have become increasingly influential in Virginia politics.

Seriously, guys? Y'all are union people; one would think that you would be concerned that your brothers in the coal mining industry were losing jobs and asking Kaine what his jobs plan is.

That reminds me - hey, Tim Kaine, what *IS* your jobs plan?

*crickets*

How about your plan to reduce government spending and invasive regulation?

*crickets*

Ah. Well, let's make this a little easier. How about your plan to promote solid debate about issues?

*crickets*

Yeah. Thought so.

Of course, Kaine does have to support and follow his Bestest Buddy, doesn't he?

Of course, that might not be such a good thing; Kaine is on record as saying that there might be more important things to focus on than jobs.

Like this?

Additional reading:

• Washington DC-based partisan group blast Kaine on coal (nice, unbiased headling, don't you think?)
• Tim Kaine's union allies ignore jobs, focus on race card in Virginia Senate
• Dems go for the race card; Allen (and everyone else) talks coal jobs, energy independence
• Virginia Black Consevative Forum calls on Tim Kaine to repudiate ads attacking George Allen as racist

 

Conservative Virginia bloggers demand revocation of Laura Vozella's press credentials to the RNC

The Honorable Pat Mullins
Chairman
Republican Party of Virginia
115 East Grace Street
Richmond, Virginia 23219

Dear Chairman Mullins,

On August 20th, 2012 the Washington Post launched a scurrilous, yet sadly typical, attack on Republican U.S. Senate nominee George Allen.

While Allen had made a statement repudiating Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Todd Akin's remarks, the Washington Post's Laura Vozzella chose to take the opportunity to attack Allen by linking him to a vote for a judicial appointment -- a connection so bizarre, it could only have come from a DSCC opposition research book, not to mention far beyond the scope of her article.

Vozzella has a long history of bashing conservatives, so naturally the Washington Post is a perfect home for her.

What strikes the bloggers and readers of the Jeffersoniad as bizarre is this: why would the Republican Party of Virginia grant this vitriolic and anti-conservative "reporter" with credentials at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida?

Bloggers have long been up front and critical about the difference between real journalism that presents perspectives and the sort of op-ed reporting the Washington Post has long engaged in against Virginia conservatives -- particularly George Allen.

Therefore, the members of the Jeffersoniad Blog Alliance demand the Republican Party of Virginia immediately revoke Laura Vozzella's credentials for the 2012 RNC Convention in Tampa, Florida as an example and a warning that while journalism will be respected, copy-and-paste hatchet jobs courtesy of the Kaine/DSCC machine can no longer be treated as journalism and is unworthy of such respect.

Regards,

Jim Hoeft
Bearing Drift

Jim Riley
Virginia Virtucon

Tom White
Virginia RIGHT!

D.J. McGuire
The Right-Wing Liberal

Trent A. Barton
Virginia Virtucon

David Shepherd
Virginia Gentleman

Lynn Mitchell
SWAC Girl

Brian Kirwin
Bearing Drift

Jeanine Martin
Virginia Virtucon

Dean Settle
The Bulletproof Monk

Kat Wilton
Cathouse Chat

Michael Fletcher
The Write Side Of My Brain

Brian Schoeneman
Bearing Drift

Krystle Weeks
Crystal Clear Conservative

Shaun Kenney
ShaunKenney.com

Steve Thomas
Virginia Virtucon

Terrence Boulden
Virginia Virtucon

 

references:

Bearing Drift - "WaPo's Laura Vozella Sure Knows How to Slant the News"

Washington Post - "George Allen criticizes Akin for ‘legitimate rape’ comments; voted to confirm judge who once held similar view"

Just because I would LOVE to see their heads explode

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Because if you oppose THAT, then you're either a racist or a sexist - or both!

Let's see if the Liberal-Progressive-Nutcases are willing to subject themselves to the rules they themselves set up in 2008... My prediction? It'll be a very coooooooooold day in Hell...

State of the Union is tonight?

Yeah, well, who really cares? It's just going to be more of teh One™ puffing himself up, blaming GWB and the Republicans for all our woes, saying that if we spend even more we'll finally dig ourselves out of this recession, encouraging us to tighten our belts and sacrifice while he and Michelle-My-Belle swan off to wherever at taxpayers' expense, and calling for a bipartisanship that he honors only in the breech.

Why should I bother to tune in for such vacuous, self-involved idiocy?

Thanks, I'm gonna get a good night's sleep instead.

Fluvanna County Board of Supervisors: Constitutional Illiterates?

My dear friend Shaun Kenney, who is a member of the Fluvanna BOS, was the sole dissenting vote - 

The owner of The Fluco Blog, a Fluvanna County-based news site, has filed a lawsuit over an ordinance limiting the use of the official Fluvanna County seal.

Bryan Rothamel is accusing the county of violating the First and 14th Amendments by adopting the ordinance, which allows use of the seal only with permission from the Board of Supervisors. Under the county code, a violation of the ordinance is a Class 1 misdemeanor, which carries a maximum sentence of 12 months in jail and/or a fine of up to $2,500. [link]

It seems that Mr. Rothamel irritated the BOS with one of his blog posts criticizing their actions (I'm not sure which post yet, but here's a link to the Board of Supervisors category), and they have retaliated in a truly petty and childlike manner - 

The motion for the ordinance was adopted 4-1 after a Sept. 15 public hearing during which Rothamel asked about fair use of the seal during news reporting, according to the meeting minutes. Shaun V. Kenney, the vice chairman of the board, voted against the ordinance. He said that he thinks the ordinance was a “remedial action” against the blogger for writing something that a supervisor didn’t agree with.

“This seems like a simple First Amendment, slam dunk, common sense situation,” Kenney said. “I’m still appalled, with all of the other issues facing us in Fluvanna County, that somehow we chose to focus on this.”

Hey, Fluvanna BOS members? I'm going to join up in support of Fluco Blog's First Amendment rights and imitate my blog-brother JR Hoeft at Bearing Drift:

First Amendment rights: NOT just for governmental toadies!

"The Traveler's Blues"

This is a parody cover done by my dear friend, Kender - he's a very talented poet and comic, so you really SHOULD listen *grinz*

Travelers blues 2

Are they hypocritical? Or just willfully blind? Or simply... stupid?

The liberal love affair with Islam is perplexing.  While liberals tend to hate traditional Christianity for its more socially conservative worldview, they insist on vigorously defending Islam and its adherents.  From Jon Stewart’s moralizing, to Joy Behar and Whoopi Goldberg’s outrage at Bill O’Reilly, to President Obama’s recent droning about the “spirit of tolerance” in the Indonesian Constitution (in spite of Indonesia’s laws prohibiting speech offensive to Islam), we are forever sermonized that there is a gulf between Islamist extremism and the “vast majority” of normal Muslims, whom we would apparently love to have as neighbors and run into at Whole Foods.

via dailycaller.com

As they say, "Read the WHOLE thing." Very well done article that points out many of the similarities between Islam and Christianity that liberals refuse to acknowledge. It ALSO highlights some very important differences - and not to Islam's credit.

Well worth the read!

UPDATE: My friend Beth Cleaver (who used to blog at BamaPachyderm) recommended these two books on the topic: Unholy Alliance: Radical Islam And the American Left and United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror. They both look like very informative reads, and I'm considering getting them on my Kindle...

Michelle Obama thinks being First Lady is 'hell', says Carla Bruni | Mail Online

Michelle Obama thinks being America’s First Lady is ‘hell’, Carla Bruni reveals today in a wildly indiscreet book.

Miss Bruni divulges that Mrs Obama replied when asked about her position as the U.S. president’s wife: ‘Don’t ask! It’s hell. I can’t stand it!’

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That's OK, Michellemabelle. God willing, in just about two years, y'all will be packing up to leave.

Then perhaps we can get someone worthy to live in the Peoples' House...

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SUCK IT UP, and quit with the sour grapes, Republicans! (UPDATED)

UPDATE: Make sure you scroll to the end for the link to Kevin McCullough's piece at FoxNews!

You know, I'm already getting very tired of the sour grapes of establishment Republicans (yeah, I mean you!) on last night's Delaware primary results. Folks, the NRSC and NRCC et al. have been ignoring their base for YEARS - and now they're going to take their ball and sulk home like they did with Scozzafava? Seems to me to be an indication they don't want to listen to their base - and will continue to descend into penury and irrelevance.

Perhaps if these committees LISTENED to their base and LISTENED to the Tea Party people demanding fiscal restraint, transparency, and less government interference and then SOUGHT OUT good candidates, we wouldn't be in this predicament.

Will O'Donnell win in November? I don't know - but if the Republican Party organizations don't grow up and grit their teeth and SUPPORT her (you know, kinda like a lot of the BASE did for McCain because he selected PALIN as his running mate), the odds go even further down. It seems to me that too many Republicans would rather be defeated by the Democrats' candidate than TRY to get the Republican candidate elected.

This sort of attitude simply reeks with the elitist snobbery I despise in my own party (except, of course, I don't really consider myself a Republican anymore...). You know what I'm "hearing" in this? "Well, we believe in the people and we want to have limited government and get out of the way of the people and the country belongs to the people - except when the people are morons and don't like the candidate we have chosen for those ignorant, unwashed ignoramuses."

Like I said - "sour grapes."

Suck it up, Republicans. Get behind the candidate chosen by the people and TRY TO **blinking** WIN for once!

(And thanks to Jerry Fuhrman for his post which encouraged me to state MY thoughts on the matter - 'cause I'm very fed up with certain people-who-would-know-who-they-are-but-don't-read-me-anyway-but-that's-life*shrug*)

UPDATES: More good stuff at

• the Washington Examiner
• Don Surber
• Instapundit
• Conservatives4Palin (and won't that link make a few heads explode?)
• Michelle Malkin (I know she's in the Zemanta links blow - read the post!)
• Captain Ed at Hot Air ("Grow up, shut up, and get to work." AMEN!)

Ed quotes Kevin McCullough at FoxNews, and I simply MUST quote him also:

For far too many years conservatives within the Republican party have been lectured to time and again by party officials, talk show hosts, syndicated columnists, et al that conservatives had to perform their wifely duties as it related to voting for the choices left for them in general elections. For conservatives these have been bitter pills to swallow for the liberal republicans have far too often been far too similar to the liberal democrats they opposed to generate any real excitement about the distinction of their candidacy.

In election cycle after election cycle conservatives in northeastern states and along the Atlantic coast have had fingers wagged in our faces and been told to accept the fact that reelecting and putting up with candidates like Mike Castle in Delaware was somehow better than electing a Democrat. But after we'd sent them back to Washington we would watch as those same Republicans, the Susan Collins, the Olympia Snowes, the Arlen Specters of the world would proceed to vote for programs and spending that a Democrat would have voted for anyway.

[...]

... if "establishment" candidates are willing to give anything more than lip service to the party they wished to represent, then they should be willing to roll up their sleeves and do the hard work of campaigning for someone they disagree with on issues. And they should do so remembering they are in it for the greater good.

The problem, at least on the GOP side of the equation, is that so many "establishment candidates" did not/do not wish to hold to the platform of their party. There is a platform adopted by the party for specific reasons. It gets re-drafted every presidential election cycle. And in the GOP it has been candidates who did not hold to the ideas of lower taxes, pro-life, pro-marriage, gun ownership rights, and strong national security that have been causing the problems for Republicans nationally. And for the same length of time, conscientious conservatives have been told to grin and bear it.

We were told that in the end having a majority with an (R) after their name was the best thing of all.
Well I see no reason why that statement can't hold true when a genuine Republican conservative wins a primary.

Amen, amen, and AMEN!

 

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This is yet another reason why I am a HUGE Ford Fan

(... besides the fact that I still completely adore my 2003 Ford Explorer...)

General Motors plans an initial public offering as soon as today -- a first step in the government's effort to sell its ownership stake to private investors. The IPO comes on the heels of a much publicized plant tour by President Obama, who'll certainly hail the stock sale as proof he made a smart decision by bailing out the automaker with billions of taxpayer dollars.

But, to us, the IPO will be proof of something else: a White House that purposefully trampled the legal rights of investors -- many of whom, like us, are small savers -- to benefit its political supporters. Rather than a model of success and foresight, the GM episode is a model of corruption and cronyism.

Read the whole thing.

Our Founders would be apoplectic over this governmental interference into the private sector, and they would be completely appalled at the way their descendants have fled from the principles of liberty and personal responsibility.

Chris Matthews is an idiot - and probably a closet racist, too!

MSNBC host Chris Matthews is under fire for commenting on air that President Obama has done so much to heal racial divides that "I forgot he was black" as he watched Obama's first State of the Union address Wednesday night.

Matthews, who appeared on the cable network shortly after the speech, said of the president:

"I was trying to think about who he was tonight. And uh, it's interesting. He is post-racial, by all appearances. You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour....

"I was watching, I said, 'wait a minute!' He's an African-American guy in front of a bunch of other white people and there he is president of the United States and we've completely forgotten that tonight -- completely forgotten it!"

via www.foxnews.com

I mean, really!!! Only someone to whom skin color is an actual issue would bring this up.

I don't care if Obama is orange with pink stripes and green polka-dots - I still despise his big government, socialist policies. I would despise them if he were a dedicated white supremacist, or an Asian immigrant, or an Hispanic "undocumented worker," or a woman, or the average "guy on the street." I don't care WHO puts forth these policies - I think they (the policies) are wrong, and should be abhorrent to any true American.

Chris Mathews - like most loony liberals - is still too concerned (and falsely so) with skin color, and cannot seem to separate a minor genetic issue with the content of someone's character or the intelligence of their policies.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Gee. Wonder where that quote came from?

But, no. Chris Matthews, like the rest of the hypocritical liberal left, cannot let a healing wound HEAL. He and his ilk keep picking at the scab - and if they have their way, eventually that wound won't heal. Instead, it will develop into a scar that nothing will erase - and it will be the fault of people like Chris Matthews.

Obama's policies (the DemonRATIC party's policies!) are crap, and they're going to bankrupt and ruin this country while putting its citizens in danger and releasing our sovereign rights to foreign powers. All tha has NOTHING to do with skin color!

Matthew's condemnation is just. God willing, this will be the straw that breaks the camel's back and forces him off the air in ignominious disgrace.

Creigh Deeds: Listen to the world's smallest violin playing "My Heart Bleeds For You"

Seated behind a modest desk in the two-room law office he occupies next to Genia's Beauty Salon on Main Street in downtown Hot Springs, Deeds didn't refer to McDonnell by name during an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. It's an indication, perhaps, that devoting years of your life to a dream that doesn't come true warrants a longer recovery period.

"I'm surviving, doing the best I can," he said. "I mean, what choice do I have, right? You got to keep going. You just have to keep moving."

In the weeks after the election, Deeds, 52, hasn't spent a night outside his home in rural Bath County. Public appearances have been rare -- a couple of visits to Charlottesville, a Christmas shopping trip to Roanoke, a drive to attend a funeral.

Instead, Deeds has set to work rebuilding the life he left behind when he became a candidate -- resurrecting a dormant law practice, repairing fences on the family farm, getting a cranky stove to provide warmth on a winter's day in the Allegheny Mountains.

"The toll on my family . . . there are things I'll never get back and that hurts a whole lot," he said. "A lot of personal stuff that I'm just not going to go into.

"Going forward, I've got a responsibility to represent people in the state Senate and rebuild a life that I had, that I have left," he said. "There's still a lot of figuring out to do. I've got to get back to basics.

via www2.timesdispatch.com

Oh, just cry me a freakin' river!

Deeds, you ran an unfocused, disjointed and bumbling campaign that avoided real debate about any pertinent issue. Your responsibility, your proven lack of leadership and charisma.

Step up to the plate, own it, and quit whining...

Oh, wait - that's what DemonRATs do. Well, I guess we can start the count down timer for how long it takes you to pack up your toys and go home in a sulk, or to start throwing fits on the senate floor when you can't get your way.

Good lord, man, how old are you?! Man up and grow a pair!

Can't make an intelligent, reasoned argument for the health care reform debacle? That's OK - just sex it up!

(Via my Cotillion sister, Greta)

Oh, yeah, right! Women have no brains, so they have to use sex and flirting to get others to do what they want. There's no need for point-by-point discussion and rebuttal, all you need to do is ignore the opposing view and lie to anyone who holds it.

Rock the Vote should be ashamed - and where the heck are the feminists? Shouldn't they be up in arms in outrage over the sexism running rampant through this video?

The Senate goes for the pragmatic solution rather than a truly practical one

With a self-imposed Christmas deadline at stake, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid engineered a last-minute compromise in the health care debate that has won the support of the lone Democratic holdout and clinched the required 60 votes to pass a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. health care system.

via www.foxnews.com

And thus puts America further in debt, places more restrictions on businesses, and penalizes health insurance companies.

It's pragmatic because it "works" right now, but it's not practical because it provides no REAL solutions. As I said, this places America further in debt - a debt our children and grand children and GREAT-grand children will be paying.

It's extremely short-sighted and selfish, but then that doesn't surprise me when it comes from a DemonRATic Congress.

More worthy quotes from the article:

"The best thing government could do to ensure more Americans have access to health care insurance is to institute reforms that would rein in costs and make health care more affordable," said McCain, who lost last year's presidential race to Obama. "Regrettably, there's nothing in this legislation that effectively addresses the problem."

(Yep. Like tort reform, multistate regulations, and so on...)

In an article she wrote in Saturday's Washington Post, Vicki Kennedy, the widow of Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, said that while the Senate bill is imperfect, it would achieve many of the goals her husband fought for over four decades.

"I humbly ask his colleagues to finish the work of his life, the work of generations, to allow the vote to go forward and to pass health care reform now. As Ted always said, when it's finally done, the people will wonder what took so long," she said.

(It's for TEDDY! Oh, just freakin' gag me! That's not a rational, logical, intelligent argument; it's solely an appeal to emotion, and we should not be making and passing laws on the basis of pure emotion!)

The compromise package Reid released Saturday puts new limits on insurance company  profits.The measure would require insurers in the individual market to spend 80 percent of premiums on medical care. The requirement for group policies would be 85 percent.

(Big business is is Teh Eeeeee-Vuhl™!!!! It must be stopped! Never mind the money it pumps into the economy via jobs and insurance payments... Look for reduced coverage, company layoffs, and refused new enrollments.)

I refer my readers to Zombietime's excellent article on why rank-and-file America hates universal health care:

What I don’t like about the very concept of universal health care is that it compels me to become my brother’s keeper and insert myself into the moral decisions of his life. I’d rather grant each person maximum freedom. I’d prefer to let people make whatever choices they want, however stupid or dangerous I may deem those choices to be. Just so long as you take responsibility for your actions, and you reap the consequences and pay for them yourself — hey, be as foolish or hedonistic or selfish or thoughtless as you like. Not my business.

But if the bill for your foolishness shows up in the form of higher taxes on me, then I unwillingly start to care what you do. And, trust me on this, you don’t want me turning my heartless judgmental eye on your foolish lifestyle. Because I’d have no qualms criticizing half the stuff you do.

Make sure you read the whole thing, 'cause Congress sure won't. Or, even if they did, they'd ignore it...

Just another example of "religious" behavior and the fallenness of man

As the owner of several energy-efficient light bulbs and a recycled umbrella, I'm familiar with the critiques of "ethical consumption." In some cases, it's not clear that ostensibly green products are better for the environment. There's also the risk that these lifestyle choices will make us complacent, sapping the drive to call senators and chain ourselves to coal plants. Tweaking your shopping list, the argument goes, is at best woefully insufficient and maybe even counterproductive.

But new research by Nina Mazar and Chen-Bo Zhong at the University of Toronto levels an even graver charge: that virtuous shopping can actually lead to immoral behavior. In their study (described in a paper now in press at Psychological Science), subjects who made simulated eco-friendly purchases ended up less likely to exhibit altruism in a laboratory game and more likely to cheat and steal.

via www.slate.com

See, the thing is, this is really a form of legalism. People mentally get on board a mindset that makes them "good," and so they don't have to extend that "goodness" to all aspects of their lives.

Just like the Pharisees of Jesus' day, these people take on an outer righteousness which has nothing to do with their actual character or spiritual maturity. I can understand this; after all, following a set of rules can be very easy, and you don't have to think too much or really examine yourself to see if you're a "good" person.

True character and true spiritual maturity are much harder. One must always question motives and actions, and be held up to a higher standard. For the Christian, that standard is Jesus - and we know we never can attain that standard of perfection in word, thought or deed while we are here on earth.

Thank God that Jesus didn't just come to show us the standard! He also died and rose again to clothe us in His righteous perfection and to empower us to be conformed to His image. One day, we will be in Heaven with Him, we will see Him face to face, and we will finally be perfected and forever freed from legalism, self-righteousness, and pharisaic actions. We will shine forth with His glory... and finally be able to get it absolutely right!

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.(Romans 8:22-25, ESV)

May God grant that we soon see our hope and faith revealed in full!

Obama: Blaspheming God by his actions (UPDATED)

White House Senior Adviser David Axelrod suggested Sunday that President Obama will intervene to make sure a controversial amendment restricting federal funding for abortion coverage is stripped from final health care reform legislation. 

In doing so, the president would be heeding the call of abortion rights supporters like Planned Parenthood that have called the White House their "strongest weapon" in keeping such restrictions out of the bill. 

via www.foxnews.com

Hardly surprising; Obama is arguably the most radical pro-abortion President we've ever had. Plus, he certainly didn't hide his views while in the Illinois Senate where he refused to support legislation protecting the lives of newborns whose mothers' had just tried to kill them. No, Obama wouldn't even agree that these children should be offered any medical care or comfort during the too-short time they lived after birth. It says a lot about a person - all bad - who doesn't care if helpless children are tossed into a trash bin and finish their tragically short lives struggling to survive without aid or succor.

Well, Mr. President, God sees all this, and He is not amused. Rather, I daresay He is nauseated by your cavalier claims to being a Christian. How dare you claim the Name of Christ and yet refuse to come to the rescue of these most innocent of victims?! You hate the fact that a legally tried and convicted murderer would be put to death for his crimes, yet you cannot guard the right to life that belongs to our weakest and most vulnerable citizens.

Shame on you Mr. President! You cannot claim to follow Christ without being a defender of these children. You cannot claim His name without passionately and firmly supporting life. You cannot claim His name and then blaspheme Him by supporting the murder of our children.

God is not mocked; He will repay. And it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of an angry God.

UPDATE: For an overview, please go over to Gateway Pundit, who has some excellent  links about Obama's anti-life stance.

And so the anti-Constitutionality of Kelo ends in futility anyway

The Hartford Courant reports:

Pfizer Inc. will shut down its massive New London research and development headquarters and transfer most of the 1,400 people working there to Groton, the pharmaceutical giant said Monday....

Pfizer is now deciding what to do with its giant New London offices, and will consider selling it, leasing it and other options, a company spokeswoman said.

Scott Bullock, Kelo's co-counsel in the case, told me: "This shows the folly of these redevelopment projects that use massive taxpayer subsidies and other forms of corporate welfare and abuse eminent domain."

via www.washingtonexaminer.com

All that illegal and unconstitutional legalese, and these people ended up losing their houses for nothing anyway. Kelo vs. New London was a terrible miscarriage of justice, and it looks like true justice will prevail, with New London getting its comeuppance.

The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they do grind exceedingly fine.

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"So much for 'peaceful coexistance'"

On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.

There may be those who feel threatened by my words and would even recommend they not be uttered. To those individuals I say step aside because now is not the time for cowardice. Our Country has become so paralyzed by political correctness that we have allowed a vile and determined enemy to breach what should be the safest place in America, an Army post.

We have become so politically correct that our media is more concerned about the stress of the shooter, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The misplaced benevolence intending to portray him as a victim is despicable. The fact that there are some who have now created an entire new classification called; “pre-virtual vicarious Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)” is unconscionable.

via www.redcounty.com

This is what liberals and lazy citizens have made our country.

We are too enamored of our own comfort and deceptive peace that we will not face the threat of Islam; we will not call it what it is, we refuse to fight against it. Instead, we lay down and show our bellies, and sympathize with the evil murderer rather than the true victims.

God help us!

"Claiming to be wise, they became fools...."

President Barack Obama won the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for "his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the Norwegian Nobel Committee said, citing his outreach to the Muslim world and attempts to curb nuclear proliferation.

The stunning choice made Obama the third sitting U.S. president to win the Nobel Peace Prize and shocked Nobel observers because Obama took office less than two weeks before the Feb. 1 nomination deadline. Obama's name had been mentioned in speculation before the award but many Nobel watchers believed it was too early to award the president.

via www.foxnews.com

... without further comment....

If you want more, go read

• Rick Sincere - "Is lutefisk hallucinogenic?"
• The Write Side of My Brain
• Crystal Clear Conservative
• Wizbang (here and here as well)

And I'm sure there'll be more.

UPDATE: Yep -

• Fear an Iarthair- " In one of the most mind-boggling, coffee-spewing, curse-inducing moments of computer face-time I have ever experienced, I saw the headline on Drudge, 'Obama Wins Nobel Peace Prize.'"
• Legal Insurrection
• Riehl World View
• Fausta
• Gateway Pundit "Un-be-liev-a-bull!"
• Michelle Malkin
• Hot Air (particularly awesome for their round up of links)
• Red State "He's becoming Jimmy Carter faster than Jimmy Carter did!"
• Times Online - "Absurd decision makes mockery of Nobel Peace Prize" (Um, didn't that already happen when it was awarded to Yassir Arafat?)

Whoopi Goldberg doesn't have the moral sense of a Frenchman

The French director Luc Besson refused to sign the petition calling for Polanski's release.

He said: "I have a lot of affection for him, he is a man that I like very much but nobody should be above the law. I don't know the details of this case, but I think that when you don't show up for trial, you are taking a risk."

via www.telegraph.co.uk

A 45 year old man plies a 13 year old girl with champagne and quaaludes, rapes and sodomizes her, tries to get her to keep it a secret from her mother, and then flees the country before the trial when it looks like he might actually be convicted.

Take a look at the transcript over at the Smoking Gun.

And Whoopi thinks it's not "rape-rape." Oh, really?! Well, then, what the hell is it?

Well, she knows she tossed the shan into the fit, because she's apparently trying some damage control:

Whoopi wanted to clarify the comment and make it clear that she was talking about the legal charge against Polanski at the time.

No, Whoop, you said something that displayed an incredible, insensitive, ignorant, and idiotic lack of character.

Even a Frenchman knew better.

Andrew Klavan ROCKS the HOUSE with "Are You A Racist?"

via www.youtube.com

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

I love it when people make excellent points with biting humor... Andrew Klavan is quickly becoming one of my favorite PJTV hosts (no one could ever surpass Bill Whittle, of course *grinz*)

Watch the whole thing...

Oh, the hypocrisy!

Seen on the road this morning while taking the Darling Munchkin to school: a car with license plates "SS LBRTY".... and a brand, new "Obama" sticker on the bumper...

[headdesk]

Ma'am, this word "liberty" - I do not think it means what you think it means...

I believe that Glenn Beck is a happily married man...

via gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

... and also quite definitely heterosexual. I don't believe he'd ever be so desperate to even contemplate reciprocating your *ahem* "interest."

But, then again, typical behavior for your average (if you can call sub-standard "average") looney leftie... After all, his brain is made of mush: An articulate and well reasoned argument is beyond his meager talents, so he simply must resort to ad hominem.

Congressman Perriello: Answer the question "Yes" or "No"

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But he can't answer the question directly. All he can do is hem and haw and toss in red herrings. This is NOT what I want in my elected officials! When you are asked a simple, direct question, you need to give a simple direct answer and NOT babble on about the party line!

Congressman Perriello: If the Health Care Bill is passed, will you pledge to enroll yourself and your family in it? Yes or no?

Because if YOU are not willing to submit yourself to the same restraints and conditions you're willing to impose on your constituents, then you cannot, in good conscience, vote in favor of this bill!!!!

Man up, Perriello. Do the right thing and vote against the bill.

Mike Ramirez: SLAM DUNK!

Click to embiggen, or go over to Mike Ramirez' page and view the political cartoon from 23Jun09:

A devastating - and accurate - critique.

(kittipurrs to Jerry)

Sarah Palin's class and grace emphasize the petty depravity of Letterman

I am so glad that I never watched Letterman! If I had years of this bitter, unfunny drivel cluttering up my brain, I'm sure that I would be a brain-dead liberal, too.

Here is Gov. Palin's gracious and self-effacing response to Letterman's arrogant slander:

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Classy, classy lady! It would be an honor to shake her hand. Letterman, of course, would get the disdainful cold shoulder, which is more than a cad like him deserves.

David Letterman: hypocrite, sexist, mysogynist and pervert.

I won't go into detail. Many other people have provided plenty of coverage about the twisted, vicious "humor" of this despicable cretin.

I think that Gov. Sarah Palin says it best:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin took a second swipe at David Letterman on Wednesday, calling the CBS “Late Show” host’s jokes about one of her daughters “disgusting” and “sexually perverted.”

In an e-mailed statement, the Republican governor said: “Laughter incited by sexually perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl is not only disgusting, but it reminds us some Hollywood/N.Y. entertainers have a long way to go in understanding what the rest of America understands— that acceptance of inappropriate sexual comments about an underage girl, who could be anyone's daughter, contributes to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by older men who use and abuse others.”

Will Letterman be censured? Nope. Certainly not by the feel-good protest warriors of leftist "feminists" or "child advocates."

He'll get a pass because he's one of their own, and one day in the future if a conservative makes a mild crack about the teenage hijinx Obama's teenage daughters might have gotten into, the whole sanctimonious and hypocritical left will have a mass case of the vapors.

Dear LORD, sometimes I hate - completely despise - what occasionally passes for humor and political discourse in this country...

Good stuff for a Thursday read

I've been neglecting CHC for a couple of days (although I have gotten a lot done around the house!), so I thought I'd put up a few links that have caught my interest...

Mike Reagan sums up my position on the murder of Tiller

Like others in the pro-life community, I found Tiller’s profession abhorrent and believed it appropriate to protest and criticize his actions. I am deeply ashamed that we live in a society that has legalized the destruction of innocent human life.

Yet no matter how fervent my objections to Tiller’s actions, my very pro-life beliefs spur me to denounce his killer, as well.

Indeed, I mourn for Tiller and his grieving family. As Dr.Martin Luther King reminded us, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

Teh One appears to have feet of clay - at least for some gay activists

Gay rights campaigners, most of them Democrats who supported Obama in November, have begun to voice their public frustration with Obama’s inaction, small jokes at their community’s expense and deafening silence on what they see as the signal civil rights issue of this era.

His most important campaign promises repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and the military ban on openly gay and lesbian service-members have not been fulfilled.

And the news, which emerged quietly earlier this year, that he’d supported same-sex marriage back in 1996, then changed his mind, especially rankles. As mainstream Democratic politicians such as Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) move to support same-sex marriage, gay rights advocates say that the barrier-breaking president looks increasingly odd for opposing what they see as full equality.

Tiananmen Square, twenty years later... I hope and pray that "Tank" Man is alive and well, and maybe that this generation of Chinese can continue the fight for freedom...

Tank Man — his identity has never been determined — shot to worldwide fame that day for stopping those tanks, hours after they had brutally crushed student-led protests on Beijing's Tiananmen Square. Hundreds — possibly thousands — died in the early-hours protest on June 4, 1989, an event that still remains a forbidden topic in Communist-governed China.

Pictures of Tank Man's courageous efforts and other information about the crackdown are still officially censored in China. But now, 20 years on, modern technology and the wide reach of social networking sites like Facebook are providing curious students with the information they were previously denied.

Is it really OK for Iran to have nuclear missiles, while at the same time the US CAN'T have nuclear power? Gotta love the hypocrisy....

Iran says it's developing nuclear power to generate electricity while it waits for the 12th Imam and the apocalypse to arrive. To hasten the process, however, it is using its nuclear knowledge to amass fissile material necessary to build a bomb. It's developing missiles to deliver that bomb, presumably somewhere in the heart of downtown Tel Aviv.

Our new administration is trying to talk them out of it, and the Iranians are quite willing to drag out the conversation as long as it takes to develop their nuclear weapon and the means to deliver it.

Some people positively parade their ignorance - "Baptism = Waterboarding"

An ancient Christian religious ritual is apparently comparable to a controversial interrogation technique, according to Joy Behar of ABC’s “The View.” On June 3, the hosts of “The View” were discussing the new reality show, “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out Of Here,” where pampered “celebrities” are placed in a jungle in Costa Rica. “Hills” reality television star Spencer Pratt was baptized on the show and “The View” featured a clip from his baptism in a river.

Behar, of course, had to add in her usual quip. “Isn’t it like water boarding- when they dump your head under there like that?” Fellow host Elisabeth Hasselbeck quickly replied with, “no.”

Did President Obama get dissed? *snicker*

Oh, and this is SOOOOO cool: Dawn of the Personal Computer. The Commodore Pet and the C64 bring back so many fond memories!

Cause LOLcats are just teh best!

(see more Lolcats and funny pictures)

Upcoming stuff that looks really cool: Google Wave (in the works) and Google Squared (live beta). And, since we're linking TechCrunch, I must say that their new CrunchPad looks very "DO WANT"-worthy!

As for me, yesterday was busy. I took out the trash - and this is pretty much normal procedure when living in the country and the nearest trash collection is three miles away (no, we don't have a garbage service out this far!) (oh, and click to embiggen!)

And I got my first produce out of my garden! Well, I have been getting strawberries already, but these lovely - and spicy! - radishes were from seed:

 

And, I've got a couple pictures of my brilliant and adorable daughter that I dug up the other day. Here she is at about two years old (is she the cutest, or what??)

And here she is, Ms I-So-Cool Kid, at about 9 years old...

 

My beautiful baby - who's growing up... *sigh*

Oh! And I've got a picture of a turtle I took the other day. He was crossing our driveway, and it's a good thing I was going slowly (for me), or I would have run right over him!

Finally, our pool has been open for a good three weeks already. This summer looks like it will be wonderful; not too dry and not too hot. So, that's all I have for now, and I really need to get caught up in my Bible reading [swats self]!

A "pivot"... That's the new word for "broke a promise," right?

How about as an alternate for "has no moral foundation, much less any principles"?

Brian Kirwin at Bearing Drift alerted me to the newest bit of idiocy from President Obama (and you do not KNOW how much more difficult it is getting to NOT use some of the disrespectful and rude nicknames I have for Obama....)

President Obama, in a pivot from a campaign promise, told Democratic senators Tuesday that he is willing to consider taxing employer-sponsored health benefits to help pay for a broad expansion of coverage.

Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., said Obama expressed a willingness to consider changing the existing tax exclusion. The decision probably would anger liberal supporters such as labor unions, but such a tax change would raise enormous sums of money as Congress and the White House struggle to find the estimated $1.2 trillion needed to pay for an overhaul of health care over the next decade.

Yeah, that's the completely unbiased and totally non-partisan Seattle Slimes oops Times.

A "pivot."

You know, if the tone-deaf and too-comfortable-on-their-asses... persons... in Washington DC would actually STOP SPENDING MONEY WE DON'T HAVE... Ah, no... why bother? The sheeple want their free money, and so the government will write more and more bad checks while trying to extort more "revenue" out of the pockets of those of us who actually work and produce goods and services...

Socialism looms close on the horizon, and the destruction of this wonderful country cannot be far behind.

I will give the Seattle Times some props, though - here's the last sentence in their article:

Nevertheless, the issue represents treacherous politics for Obama, given his attacks on Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., who advocated a similar approach during the campaign. [emph. mine]

Cooper Levy-Baker: Portrait of a leftist libtard

Here's his 15 seconds of brainless burbling, and here is LindaSoG's reasoned refutation of his "charges" against Chrissie.

I'm going to reprint here the comment I left at Chrissie's blog on Linda's post:

I can't believe that anyone would be so cruel to Chrissie! I have never met her in person, but she is the sweetest, kindest and most generous lady in the world!

When I was down in Orlando for my Mom's second knee replacement surgery, Crissie tracked me down just so she could offer me encouragement and prayer. She was insistent that if I needed ANYTHING, I was to call her and she'd do whatever she could to help out.

I cannot imagine any leftist turd having such a generosity of spirit paired with a loving and humble attitude, and this idiot, Cooper, does nothing to change my mind.

Chrissie, I'm sending lots of hugs and prayer, and if you need ANYTHING, it would be my honor and joy to return the wonderful kindness you gave to me!

Love and hugz, my friend; don't let the turkeys get you down. After all, as my Mom might say, "Consider the source!" ;-)

This is yet another example of how the left is all for free speech - so long as you agree with them. They cannot tolerate anyone breaking out of the stereotypes or changing for the better without becoming a victim dependent on government handouts.  God forbid you should be a minority woman and a conservative (like Michelle Malkin, who has had to move because a libtard published her home address) or a gay conservative (they'll out you, you know - they have no respect for your privacy if you don't toe their line), or a black conservative (don't you know you're an Uncle Tom if you stray off the liberal plantation?)

Stay strong, Chrissie - you've got lots of friends who love you and respect you.

Including me.

Introducing the Rangel Rule

IRS Penalties and Interest Eliminated for All U.S. Taxpayers under new “Rangel Rule” Legislation

Works for me - sauce for the goose, and all that...

(Kittipurrs to Gateway Pundit)