The Blue Angels

The Blue Angels fly over Zion National Park in Utah, one of my favorite places. Via http://www.strategypage.com/military_photos/20120319194730.aspx

How about 20 million mph winds?

I guess I won't complain the next time we have 30 or 40 mph winds. These winds go in all directions at once. Read all about them here: http://spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com/2012/03/nasas-chandra-finds-fastest-wind-from.html

Mr. Holder, why did you conceal evidence from Congress?

Since I posted once today positively about Eric Holder trying to do something about gun violence in 1995 in Washington D.C., I guess now it is time to balance the postings. Dick Morris writes today about Holder withholding information from Congress regarding letting go a criminal gun-runner. There is one obvious error in the Morris report, where he cited a date as May 19, 2012, when I think he meant to write March 19, 2012. Anyway, here is the Morris report, with a call for Holder's impeachment: http://dickmorris.rallycongress.com/6417/holder-concealed-evidence-gunrunners-release/

Democrats' war on women

Terror drama in France

I just heard on NPR(!) that the French are in a stand off with the killer who has been terrorizing that country for several days. He was found to be affiliated with AlQaeda, not a "right-wing extremist" as the media had assumed. He is holed up in an apartment building.

A controversial video

Judging by the comments on Breitbart.com and other blogs, many people are upset about this video of then U.S. Attorney Eric Holder speaking in Washington D.C. in 1995, which the Breitbart folks discovered and exposed. However, speaking as the father of two boys, I appreciate the fact that he was  trying to do something to counteract the glorification of gun violence in video games, t.v., and movies, which has only gotten worse in the 17 years since he gave this speech. What do you think? I am not a fan of Eric Holder, and I believe he should be held accountable for the Fast and Furious fiasco, but let's make some effort to be fair, shall we not?

Ballot power

Via http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2012/03/lucky-punk.html

Mysterious government purchases?

A blogger wants to know why The Department of Homeland Security has just ordered 450 million rounds of .40 caliber ammuniton. The military does not use .40 caliber. Do you suppose they will donate them to local shooting ranges so citizens could become proficient? No? Who is the perceived enemy?
Read more here: http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2012/03/now-thats-hefty-number.html

Where can you go to build the American dream?

China is providing jobs for foreign architects. One company expects to build 50,000 skyscrapers there in the next two decades, the equivalent of ten New Yorks! Fueled by rising prosperity and the largest rural-to-urban shift in history — some 300 million Chinese became city dwellers over the past two decades — the boom has utterly transformed the eastern seaboard around Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. The fastest growth now is taking place deep in the country’s interior or on its outer edges in cities little known in the West: Harbin, Changsha, Chengdu and dozens of others."

Via  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/magazine/architects-in-china-building-the-american-dream.html?_r=1&ref=magazine

How do the Islamists keep on expanding their power?

 Paul Marshall and Nina Shea have written a book entitled  Silenced: How Apostasy and Blasphemy Codes Are Choking Freedom Worldwide.

“Our survey shows that in Muslim-majority countries and areas, restrictions on freedom of religion and expression, based on prohibitions of blasphemy, apostasy, and ‘insulting Islam,’ are pervasive, thwart freedom, and cause suffering to millions of people.”

"Who will stand up, under these circumstances, to block the militants in their forward march? Absolute majorities of people in one country after another may well look upon the champions of a totalitarian Islam with disdain and horror. But the majorities have every reason to keep their feelings to themselves; and people who keep their feelings to themselves tend not to know, after a while, what their feelings are. Anyway, majorities sometimes do side with the radicals, as we have been learning, which leaves the whole responsibility for putting up a resistance in the hands of some very lonely minorities…"

Read a comprehensive review here:  http://www.tnr.com/article/books/magazine/101716/islam-blasphemy-freedom-speech?passthru=NWQzMTQ2ODhhNmI4NzdiZTQwZGJmMzhjOTdlM2RjYmE

Divided he wins

Via http://sigmundcarlandalfred.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/united-we-stand/

Indeed

Via http://sigmundcarlandalfred.wordpress.com/2012/03/20/afghan-infrastructure/

Tebow to New York, New Orleans to the cemetery

Tim Tebow has been traded to the New York Jets. The Broncos also gave the Jets a 7th round draft choice. The Jets gave the Broncos two draft choices, a 4th and a 6th round. I still have not heard any comments from Tim Tebow, so I don't know if the rumor is true that he said, "I like Apples; the first book of the Bible mentions them!" (Tebow's last tweet was on February 26. When he does tweet, Twitter may break!)

With Tebow in New York, he may become an even bigger national celebrity.

Also today in the NFL, the New Orleans Saints got body-slammed with penalties by Commissioner Roger Goodell, who suspended the coach, general manager, defensive coordinator (who is now with the St. Louis Rams), and two second round draft picks.

 

Harvesting the Moon’s abundant supply of edible cheese.

Scott Ott brings us the news of the week: Mitt downsizes the United States, Obama guzzles gas to tout new green energy, North Korea fights famine, and the Red Bull creator dies:

Because we don't speak out!

Here is a powerful video of a Muslim who speaks out against the Islamofascist threat:

Watch live streaming video from ideacity at livestream.com

via http://rossputin.com/blog/index.php/tarek-fatah-on-islam-and

Peyton Manning/Tim Tebow

The Peyton Manning/Tim Tebow stories are huge here in Colorado. I have been disappointed to experience the hateful words coming from a lot of Tebow fans, many of whom are very bitter. I will be very surprised if Tebow himself shows any bitterness. He seems above that. I have not yet heard of any utterances from him.

Manning is also a class guy, from what I am hearing. He does a lot of philanthropic work. I think his phone call to talk with Mr. Tripuca about wearing number 18 is another example of class. Here is the video of his press conference today.

Race and rhetoric

Thomas Sowell has a new post explaining that there is a huge difference between rhetoric and results, when it comes to racial progress or lack thereof. Read more here, but it is not a pretty picture: http://rightwingnews.com/column-2/race-and-rhetoric/

Massive earthquake in Mexico

Gateway Pundit is reporting that a massive 7.6 earthquake has struck south of Mexico City. He has a map here: http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/03/7-9-earthquake-in-mexico-city/

Get out of Afghanistan. Yesterday!

Andrew McCarthy writes that we should get out of Afghanistan. Yesterday! Read more here: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/293733/worse-powder-keg-andrew-c-mccarthy

Newt gets under Obama's skin

Despite trailing Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in delegates, Newt Gingrich has been successful in getting under the skin of Barack Obama: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/03/20/why-is-president-obama-so-rattled-by-newt-gingrich/

Let's be clear about Obama's energy policies

Candidate Obama in 2008: if gas prices are less than $4.00 per gallon, changing to a green energy economy becomes a lower priority with the voters: http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2012/03/18/flashback-obama-lamented-falling-gas-prices-in-december-2008/

Where the real war on women is occurring

Jeff Goldstein links to a story and picture about a school in Afghanistan that reveals where the real war on women is occurring in the world: http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=38511

"An organized terror attack!"

Mark Stevens, CEO of a business which advertises on The Rush Limbaugh radio program, says he has been the victim of an organized terror attack from the left. Is he going to quit advertising? No, he is going to "double and triple down," meaning that he is going to increase his advertising by double or triple. We need to support this man, and we need to wake up and realize how the left plays.
via Protein Wisdom

Voter fraud in America

This video by a man named O'Keefe, who collaborated with Andrew Breitbart on the Planned Parenthood expose, shows how easy it is for dead people to vote in Vermont without showing I.D., but one cannot be served at a bar, or check into a room at a hotel in the same state without I.D.

"Who do they think they are fooling?"

Charles Krauthammer nails it: "High gasoline prices are a major political problem for Obama. They are not just a pain at the pump, however. They are a constant reminder of three years of a rigid, fatuous, fantasy-driven energy policy that has rendered us scandalously dependent and excessively vulnerable."
Read the whole thing here:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/obamas-oil-flimflam/2012/03/15/gIQA7x77ES_story.html

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

via http://neoneocon.com/2012/03/17/happy-st-patricks-day-2/

Ten spots in the world with the longest human longevity

NeoNeocon links to a piece in Yahoo Finance that informs us where are the ten spots in the world with the longest human longevity. Starting with number ten Italy, the list goes like this: Australia, Hong Kong, Guernsey, Andorra, San Marino, Singapore, Japan, Macau, and, way ahead of everyone else, Monaco, with a life span of 89.6 years! The United States ranks 50th.
Read the theories as to why each is doing well here:  http://finance.yahoo.com/news/top-10-hotspots-human-longevity-165933132.html

The cat and mouse game

Okay, let's play cat and mouse. Obama is the cat. The rest of us are the mice. This is what we can accomplish in November.
Photo via http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/16/real-life-tom-and-jerry/

Black is White and three sure things of life

I found a new blog on the right that has some great writing. It is new to me, anyway. I don't know how long it has been around. Go read this excellent post on Sandra Fluke's lying testimony: http://threesurethingsoflife.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/when-your-only-tool-is-selective-moral-outrage/

Wrong!

Why am I not surprised that the chairwoman of the Democrat Party in Lake County Florida defaced the American flag with a picture of their Messiah? It has been flying for a couple of months and nobody said anything?
Read more here: http://www.newsmax.com/US/obama-american-flag-veterans/2012/03/14/id/432541?s=al&promo_code=E6CA-1

"Your antidote to the obsolete media"

Stacy's is the place for election coverage

Where in the blogosphere can you find the best election coverage? For my money it is Stacy McCain at The Other McCain. http://theothermccain.com/2012/03/13/gop-primary-results-hq-mississippi-alabama-hawaii-tonight/

Killing golden eagles

Last June, the Los Angeles Times reported that about 70 golden eagles are being killed per year by the wind turbines at Altamont Pass, about 20 miles east of Oakland, Calif. A 2008 study funded by the Alameda County Community Development Agency estimated that about 2,400 raptors, including burrowing owls, American kestrels, and red-tailed hawks—as well as about 7,500 other birds, nearly all of which are protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act—are being killed every year by the turbines at Altamont. There have been no prosecutions. Of course not! The Obama administration is funding the windfarms!

Life's a beach

The New York Daily News reports that George Soros is offering $250,000 to his former girlfriend's cousin to get her to drop her $50 million lawsuit against Soros. In the lawsuit, the girlfriend claims that Soros choked and slapped her and threw a lamp, cutting her foot.

The Chinese cyber threat

China has developed highly sophisticated cyber warfare capabilities that would be used to cripple computer networks of the U.S. military in the event of a conflict with China. Read more here: http://freebeacon.com/the-coming-china-cyberwar/

Green energy

The U.S. Navy is spending $26.75 per gallon for biofuels! Read more here: http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=29047

It doesn't have to be bombs

Why not use the power of the internet to give Iranians the freedom and power to challenge the Mullahs? Hillary Clinton's State Department is sitting on funds that would enable that to happen. Why? Fear of freaking out China! Read more here: http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/opinion/world-can-use-power-of-the-internet-to-destabilize-iran-s-regime-1.417458

The federal takeover of education

Has there been a takeover of education by the federal government? George Will shows how Obama is attempting it. Read more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-federal-takeover-of-education/2011/09/30/gIQAdKYBBL_story.html

No right to wear the cross?

British government "ministers" will argue in a case before the European Court of Human Rights that because it is not a “requirement” of the Christian faith, employers can ban the wearing of the cross and sack workers who insist on doing so. Two British women have filed the case in an attempt to establish their right to display the cross.
Read more here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/9136191/Christians-have-no-right-to-wear-cross-at-work-says-Government.html

Get out of Afghanistan?

Laura Ingraham is blogging about Afghanistan. She says Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul are saying we should get out. I knew that was Paul's position, but I did not know it was Newt's. Anyway, I agree.
Read more here: http://www.lauraingraham.com/blog?categoryID=6#a=1&year=2012&month=2&action=blogArchive&destinationpage=%2Fpg%2Fjsp%2Fcommunity%2Fblog%2Fbloginclude.jsp&categoryID=5&categoryID=6&categoryID=9&categoryID=10

Hair loss, and "It makes ya stupid"

Innominatus is having some fun with CFL light bulbs. Read the whole thing here: http://innominatus87.blogspot.com/2012/03/barry-heavy-metal.html#comment-form

"They prefer the devil they know..."

"Wherever Arab tyrants have been overthrown—Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen, etc.—it is Islamists filling the power-vacuums. Just ask Syria's Christian minorities, who prefer the dictator Assad remain in power—who prefer the devil they know to the ancient demon their forefathers knew.
Read more here:  http://www.raymondibrahim.com/11322/syria-christians-fate

Refuse government money?

"But I can understand the outrage among the bishops. Here they’ve been, for the most part, good liberal lefties, supportive of President Obama and other progressives. How can he be so insensitive to their needs? Catholic healthcare is a damn big business, and they thought they were buying indulgences from such rules. They should have recognized that one cannot appease such a beast; their experience with Catholic Charities having to get out of the adoption business because of requirements to allow adoption by gay couples should have informed them."

The author of these words then goes on to make a suggestion to the Catholic bishops as to how their problem can be solved:  http://jadedhaven.wordpress.com/2012/03/02/the-pragmatic-beauty-of-a-rational-mind/

Ron Paul don't need no stinkin security

Via http://jadedhaven.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/ron-paul/

When a man gives his wife a chainsaw...

"My first balky lesson took place on our ancient, deformed pear tree. A plant that I despise beyond reason. It stands Oz warped against the night sky, ugly with its witch finger twigs waving over my boy’s bedrooms, offering up bitter, fallen fruit that tempt the dogs into flagrant states of explosive diarrhea.
I truly hate this foul tree.

The first cut felt almost soft, like running your fingertips over the rough edge of raw cut silk, so much easier than the sticky hack-bow I’ve manhandled into compliance over the past ten years.
Twenty minutes later, confidence found, I was ripping through the backyard like a tiny, euphoric lumberjack.

This chainsaw is pure magic, an absolute wonder of mechanical engineering. Our tree canopy will be lucky to see a stray branch swaying within my new-found reach.
Much love for the man who gives me such strange and perfectly suited gifts."

Read more here:  http://jadedhaven.wordpress.com/2012/03/04/strange-gifts/

Are you "treatable?"

A real live shrink answers ten questions about treatment of people with various diagnoses. White elephants in the room, shooting ducks in a barrel, fantasizing; all of these and more are covered. Then, there is this: "Only in an American university can a person become an expert on sex while never having participated." Read more here: http://ironshrink.com/2012/02/ten-questions-ten-answers-sort-of/

Banned ad

A British furniture retailer was banned Wednesday from using an ad that claimed its prices were “Sofa King low.”
UK advertising watchdog the Advertising Standards Agency (ASA) upheld complaints that the advertisement for The Sofa King store in Northampton, central England, was “offensive and unsuitable for general display.”

Via  http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=124114

Rebuilding the America We Love

The Sebelius dictate still stands

"The core of the issue was individual liberty and the desire of the Obama Administration to be free of the constraints of the Constitution."
 

"The dictate of the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services that is an affront to the First Amendment and an assault on individual liberty still stands.

Conservatives may yet succeed in forcing the Obama SuperPac to give back or give to charity the million dollars they got from Bill Maher. And if they do it will be a win for the cause of civility and at least for a while there might actually be less of a double standard.

But as long as the HHS edict that started it all still stands we are all less free. That is something about which we should be very much less than civil."

Read more here:  http://nomayo.mu.nu/rush_brietbart

"Blame deflection isn't leadership"

"And that’s why both Carter and Obama came to seem so tired, dull, repetitive, scolding, inept and irrelevant."

 “You can’t castigate the American people,” his vice president, Walter Mondale, told Carter, “or they will turn you off once and for all.”

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/obamalaise_1MVxkFhreLzcohyi8RGRqJ#ixzz1ovStxs3t

How Obama is purposely preventing North American crude oil from reaching the American economy

If this does not make your blood boil, I don't know what does:

The news wires are reporting that President Obama actively lobbied Senate Democrats to defeat the Keystone pipeline yesterday. The effect of blocking the Keystone XL Pipeline is to defer 700,000 barrels of oil per day. And as I reported at The Weekly Standard recently, the president’s policy of choking off oil production under federal leases will prevent another 1 million barrels of oil per day this year, and even more next year.

Obama will soon be personally responsible for preventing some 2 million barrels per day of possible North American crude oil production from reaching the American economy. The U.S. currently produces only about 6 million barrels of domestic crude oil, so that would be more than a 30 percent increase in domestic production. 

Read more here: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/293008/how-obama-choking-us-oil-production-mario-loyola

Write to be read.

Do you like to write? Here are twenty-five things you should know about word choice: http://terribleminds.com/ramble/2012/03/06/25-things-you-should-know-about-word-choice/

Excerpt:
"Write to be read. Choose words that have flavor but do not overwhelm, that reach out instead of pushing back, that sound right to the ear and carry with them a kind of rhythm. Write with confidence, not with arrogance. Don’t be afraid to play with words. But be sure to let the reader play with you."

"You want it? You pay for it!"

Jeffro at The Poor Farm has written the best rant I have yet read on the subject of Ms. Fluke's testimony and the media's misrepresentation of the issues: http://crazedpw.blogspot.com/2012/02/im-sick-of-it.html

"Business trip, or pleasure?"

A man boarded an airplane and took his seat. As he settled in, he glanced up and saw the most beautiful woman boarding the plane. He soon realized she was heading straight towards his seat .. As fate would have it, she took the seat right beside his.

Eager to strike up a conversation he blurted out, "Business trip or pleasure?"

She turned, smiled and said, "Business. I'm going to the Annual Nymphomaniacs of America Convention in  Boston"

He swallowed hard. Here was the most gorgeous woman he had ever seen sitting next to him, and she was going to a meeting of nymphomaniacs.

Struggling to maintain his composure, he calmly asked, "What's your business role at this convention?"

"Lecturer," she responded. "I use information that I have learned from my personal experiences to debunk some of the popular myths about sexuality."

"Really?" he said. "And what kind of myths are there?"

"Well," she explained, "one popular myth is that African-American men are the most well-endowed of all men, when in fact it is the Native American Indian who is most likely to possess that trait.

Another popular myth is that Frenchmen are the best lovers, when actually it is men of Jewish descent who are the best.

I have also discovered that the lover with absolutely the best stamina is the Southern Redneck."

Suddenly the woman became a little uncomfortable and blushed. "I'm sorry," she said, "I shouldn't really be discussing all of this with you. I don't even know your name.."



"Tonto," the man said, "Tonto Goldstein, but my friends call me Bubba."


via Jeffro at The Poor Farm: http://crazedpw.blogspot.com/2012/02/nymphomaniac-convention.html#more

What to do about OmniRomney and Roseanne Barr?

Roseanne Barr running for President on the Green Tea ticket? Don't worry, Obama has covered that base. But wait, what about OmniRomney?  http://innominatus87.blogspot.com/2012/02/award-time-barry-dire-campaign-issues.html

No golf for Obama today

Innominatus has an absolutely brilliant satire piece. Obama wants to go golfing, but encounters difficulties that his sidekick Joe Biden and friend Hugo Chavez cannot even help him solve: http://innominatus87.blogspot.com/2012/03/barry-spendy-gasoline.html

Bad timing, Broncos

Denver Broncos CEO John Elway yesterday took Peyton Manning on a tour of the practice facility. Of course, a photo of them made the front page of the Denver Post. Unfortunately, there was another story on the front page about two Broncos who will miss the first six games of the 2012 season because they have been caught using banned substances ("performance enhancing drugs"). A third Bronco was also caught, and will miss the first four games of the season.

It is a good bet that Peyton Manning is looking to play for a team that is a Super Bowl contender, stocked with solid people on both offense and defense. Bad timing, Broncos.

Sentenced to die in Pakistan for telling the Truth

Gates of Vienna blog brings us this information about the woman in the photo above. Asia Bibi, a Christian wife and mother in Pakistan, was arrested by police on June 19, 2009 and charged with blasphemy after she engaged in a religious discussion with co-workers. Many of the local women, including Asia, worked on the farm of Muslim landowner Muhammad Idrees. Her family was one of only three Christian families in a village of more than 1,500 families. During their work, many of the Muslim women had pressured Asia to renounce Christianity and accept Islam.

On June 19, 2009 there was an intense discussion among the women about their faith. The Muslim women told Asia about Islam, and, according to VOM sources, Asia responded by telling the Muslim women that Jesus is alive. “Our Christ sacrificed His life on the cross for our sins…Our Christ is alive.” She told them. Upon hearing this response, the Muslim women became angry and began to beat Asia. Then some men took her and locked her in a room. They announced from mosque loudspeakers that she would be punished by having her face blackened and being paraded through the village on a donkey.

Local Christians informed the police, who took Asia into protective custody before the Muslims could carry out their plan. Christians urged the police not to file blasphemy charges, but the police claimed they had to go forward because of pressure from local Muslim leaders.

After a lengthy trial, on Nov. 8, 2010, Asia Bibi was sentenced to death by a judge. The judge also fined Asia $1,190 (U.S.) and told her she had seven days to appeal the decision. Her attorneys filed the appeal promptly, and now wait for the Lahore High Court to rule. If the appeal is rejected, Asia would be the first woman to be lawfully executed under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. She remains in prison, waiting to hear the high court’s ruling.

On Jan. 4, 2011 the governor of Punjab province, where Asia lives, was assassinated by a member of his security team. Though a Muslim, Salmaan Taseer had spoken out repeatedly in favor of a pardon for Asia Bibi and for a reexamination of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws. Governor Taseer also met with Asia in prison. On March 2, 2011, Shahbaz Bhatti, the only Christian member of Pakistan’s cabinet and another person who had spoken out on behalf of Asia Bibi, was also assassinated for his support of her.

The Voice of the Martyrs has supported Asia Bibi and her family since the time of her arrest. In July, 2011, VOM launched www.CallForMercy.com in an effort to gather 1,000,000 signatures from around the world asking for Asia’s release. When they’ve reached a million signatures, the petition will be brought to the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, D.C.

Go here to read more and click on the site that is collecting signatures: http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2012/03/call-for-mercy.html

Pushing away voters?

The NAACP is next week taking a complaint to the U.N. Human Rights Council over voter identification laws, which have already been passed in several states. "It was in 1947 that W.E.B. Dubois delivered his speech and appealed to the world at the U.N.," NAACP president Benjamin Todd Jealous said Thursday. "Now, like then, the principal concern is voting rights. The past year more states in this country have passed more laws pushing more voters out of the ballot box than any point since Jim Crow."

Does any reader of this blog get this? I sure don't.

Read more here: http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/03/09/naacp_takes_us_to_un_human_rights_council_over_voting_laws

Sir, are you a liar?

Have you ever wished just for a moment you were a reporter getting to ask questions of the President of the United States? This blogger had that wish, and this is what he would ask: http://floppingaces.net/2012/03/09/obama-mocks-reporter-with-lies-left-wing-press-swallows-it-whole-reader-post/

Hoping nobody will find out

via Boinky at http://fkclinic.blogspot.com/

Escaping China's one-child policy

From http://fkclinic.blogspot.com/:
According to official statistics, 95,337 babies were born in Hong Kong in 2011 and as much as 40% of babies’ parents are birth tourists from Mainland China. Some people in Hong Kong are not happy about that. According to the Hong Kong Basic Law, the mini-constitution in Hong Kong, children born to parents of Chinese origin can enjoy right of abode and full citizenship even though neither of the parents is a local resident. As a result, a large number of mainland Chinese pregnant women travel to Hong Kong to give birth so as to escape from the one-child policy and pave the future for their offspring.

One family's tornado experience

When a tornado slammed into their home this Indiana mom shielded her children with her body, and lost her legs, her lung was punctured, and the family lost its house. The little boy in the photo ran to get help from neighbors, saving his mother's life, just as she had saved his. Read more here and watch video http://abcnews.go.com/US/hero-mom-stephanie-decker-recounts-saving-kids-tornado/story?id=15854664#.T1qz8XldDz4
via http://fkclinic.blogspot.com/

Justice? or Forgiveness and Reconciliation?

Nancy Reyes, a physician who worked in Africa, writes about how Africa's system of justice is closer to the New Testament ways of forgiveness and reconciliation than is America's system of justice: http://www.bloggernews.net/127846

Get fracked!

Nancy Reyes posts about the abundance of natural gas, and the fracking possibilities. China is aggressively pursuing a stake, even here in eastern Colorado! Read more here: http://www.bloggernews.net/127838

Crony capitalism, or crony socialism?

One more time today from Dr. Sanity: "In short, when you have perfected crony capitalism to the point that the Obama Administration has, you have really instituted perfect crony socialism and are well on your way to national socialism or some other redistributive utopian fantasy."
Read more here: www.drsanity.blogspot.com

"Desperation of the elite media"

One more reason why I support Newt Gingrich

Will appeasement work this time?

Dr. Sanity writes about Obama, Israel, and Iran. Here is one quote from her: "Frankly, waiting for Iran to see reason, is like waiting for the paranoid psychotic patient who refuses to take his medications to come to the realization that they are delusional and accept the help that is offered. IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN."
Read more here:  http://www.drsanity.blogspot.com/

Better ideas, or better people?

Last night I was talking with my son Jonathan. He told me that a boy in his class at school is an "extreme liberal. He thinks he is better than everyone!" Then, today I was reading a post by Dr. Sanity in which she said, "Conservatives believe they have better ideas. Leftists believe they are better people." 
More from Dr. Sanity:  This is the same psychological maneuver that allows people to claim they are champions of free speech, as they diligently work to silence anyone with views that differ from their own. Inevitably, it leads to complete intellectual and moral bankruptcy. Where once they stood for freedom; they now enable dictatorships and apologize for tyrants. Where once they sought to bring justice to the world; they now defend horrific acts of mass murder and enslavement. Where once they rightly demanded equal opportunity, they have embraced all kinds of racial quotas and discriminatory practices and demand equality of outcome. Where once they sought to empower the weak; they are now instrumental in maintaining and expanding their victimhood.

After all, how can you be a “champion of the oppressed” unless you maintain and nurture an oppressed class that will always require your services to help them?
There is much more here:  http://www.drsanity.blogspot.com/

Netanyahu gives Obama a gift

Jews are now celebrating the holiday of Purim. How did I know that? Because I read this at the hogewash blog: "Prime Minister Netanyahu gave President Obama a gift during his visit yesterday. It was a copy of the Book of Esther, the biblical story of how the Jews defended themselves from a genocidal attack from a group of Persians. That victory is celebrated in the holiday of Purim which begins this year tomorrow evening at sunset."
Read more here:  http://hogewash.com/2012/03/06/chag-semeach-purim/

Birth of new stars

"Many of the diamond-like icy blue stars are among the most massive stars known. Some are 100 times more massive than our sun. These huge stars are destined to explode like a string of firecrackers when they become supernovas in a few million years." Read more about them here: http://hogewash.com/2012/03/08/a-star-is-born/

"The best ideas often come at inconvenient times"

Got some extra cash? How about purchasing the naming rights to restrooms? That is what Boulder, Colorado venture capitalist Brad Feld is doing. For instance, he has a plaque outside the Colorado University Alliance of Technology, Learning, and Society building which reads "The best ideas often come at inconvenient times - don't ever close your mind to them." It only cost him a donation of  $25,000. He has three other restroom plaques at the same price, and the possibilities would seem to be endless. What does he get out of it? A chance to donate money and to have some fun! Read more here: http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_20135365/restroom-sponsor-real-go-getter

$11 million grant helps two people!

Ace of Spades links to this article in The Detroit News in which an audit showed that an $11 million grant to Detroit to clothe job seekers resulted in only two job-seekers getting the help: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120307/METRO01/203070333/Audit-Part-11M-grant-Detroit-job-seekers-only-aided-2?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

President Obama: Do his actions warrant impeachment?

Former Congressman Tom Tancredo explains why the House of Representatives should hold hearings to see if President Obama's actions should result in his impeachment: http://noisyroom.net/blog/2012/03/08/memo-to-congress-impeach-probe-needed-now/

"Preemptive Surrender"

The Right Scoop has a video (found by the Breitbart crew) of Thomas Sowell being interviewed on CSPAN about former Harvard Professor Derrick Bell, Sowell talks about how universities surrender to the totalitarian practices of left wind ideologues. Watch it here:http://www.therightscoop.com/1990-thomas-sowell-explains-derrick-bell/

Obama says "oil is a fuel of the past"

This week President Obama said that "oil is a fuel of the past." This blogger says the opposite is true:

"Oil and gas are, in fact, the critical fuels of the future.  It is and will remain the lifeblood of our economy for decades.  An administration that doesn’t realize that and works to curtail it deserves to be shown the door at the earliest possible opportunity.  If you think gas prices are high now, remember that without the increase in oil production on state and private land, it would be higher than it is now.
Unicorns and moon-ponies (or pond scum) won’t fuel the economy.  Oil will.  And an “all of the above” strategy should obviously include massive increases in oil production on federal lands.  Don’t let this guy get away with his false claims and destructive energy policy.  Help show him the door, November."

Read more here:  http://www.qando.net/?p=12619

Individual liberty and personal responsibility

Dan Riehl reminds us not to lose sight of what is important to those of us on the right: individual liberty and personal responsibility. Read more here: http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2012/03/understanding-derrick-bell-and-why-we-shouldnt-mock-him.html

Cancer warning labels

A new California law requires companies to put a cancer warning on their products when they contain carcinogens. Coke and Pepsi are among the companies scrambling to try to avoid having to put the cancer warning on their products. This article, however, reminds us that Coke and Pepsi will still contain enough sugar and empty calories to cause damage to our bodies: http://now.msn.com/now/0308-coke-pepsi-caramel-coloring.aspx

"One lightning every 10-20 seconds"

A photographer took photos of lightning strikes on the Greek island of Ikaria, near Turkey. Read more here: http://www.sott.net/articles/show/242581-Zap-Amazing-Lightning-Photo-Captured

Just one more reason Rush Limbaugh is so valuable

Today was another example of Rush Limbaugh's importance. He devoted a lot of time today to a discussion of clear findings that the one thing heart attack victims have in common is inflammation, not high cholesterol. Rush links to a piece by heart surgeon Dr. Dwight Lundell. Here are some quotes from Dr. Lundell.

"The injury and inflammation in our blood vessels is caused by the low fat diet recommended for years by mainstream medicine."

"What are the biggest culprits of chronic inflammation? Quite simply, they are the overload of simple, highly processed carbohydrates (sugar, flour and all the products made from them) and the excess consumption of omega-6 vegetable oils like soybean, corn and sunflower that are found in many processed foods."

"There is but one answer to quieting inflammation, and that is returning to foods closer to their natural state. To build muscle, eat more protein. Choose carbohydrates that are very complex such as colorful fruits and vegetables. Cut down on or eliminate inflammation- causing omega-6 fats like corn and soybean oil and the processed foods that are made from them.

One tablespoon of corn oil contains 7,280 mg of omega-6; soybean contains 6,940 mg. Instead, use olive oil or butter from grass-fed beef.

Animal fats contain less than 20% omega-6 and are much less likely to cause inflammation than the supposedly healthy oils labelled polyunsaturated. Forget the "science" that has been drummed into your head for decades. The science that saturated fat alone causes heart disease is non-existent. The science that saturated fat raises blood cholesterol is also very weak. Since we now know that cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease, the concern about saturated fat is even more absurd today.

The cholesterol theory led to the no-fat, low-fat recommendations that in turn created the very foods now causing an epidemic of inflammation. Mainstream medicine made a terrible mistake when it advised people to avoid saturated fat in favor of foods high in omega-6 fats. We now have an epidemic of arterial inflammation leading to heart disease and other silent killers.

What you can do is choose whole foods your grandmother served and not those your mom turned to as grocery store aisles filled with manufactured foods. By eliminating inflammatory foods and adding essential nutrients from fresh unprocessed food, you will reverse years of damage in your arteries and throughout your body from consuming the typical American diet."

Read more here:  http://www.sott.net/articles/show/242516-Heart-Surgeon-Speaks-Out-On-What-Really-Causes-Heart-Disease
Read what Rush had to say here: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2012/03/08/quick_hits_page

"Santorum has the best chance to win in 2012?"

DaTechGuy is someone I read when I want to read an analysis of events. His analysis of Super Tuesday is that Rick Santorum would do better against Obama in November. Read more here: http://datechguyblog.com/2012/03/07/yesterday-demonstrates-why-rick-santorum-not-mitt-romney-should-be-the-gop-nominee/

"Relocation Centers"

Coyote Blog links to a website called Twisted Sifter, which shows us some Ansel Adams photos of the "Manzanar War Relocation Center," one of ten camps where 110,000 Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. Manzanar sits at the foot of the Sierra-Nevada mountain range in California. "Relocation Center" must surely rank as one of the most significant twentieth century euphemism! Readmore here: http://twistedsifter.com/2012/02/ansel-adams-life-on-japanese-internment-camp/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Twistedsifter+%28TwistedSifter+%29

You now must have government permission to reincarnate!

That's right. China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission! Read more here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/08/22/china-bans-reincarnation-_n_61444.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=2687353,b=facebook

Sarah Palin voted for Gingrich yesterday

Sarah Palin voted in Alaska yesterday for Newt Gingrich. Read more here: http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/palin-gingrich-alaska-caucuses/2012/03/07/id/431692?s=al&promo_code=E579-1

Rush is the man

Many people are upset or disappointed that Rush Limbaugh chose to apologize to Ms. Fluke. I was fortunate to be able to listen to the first hour of Rush's program today. He reiterated his apology in a  most sincere and humble way. He showed us what it means to be a man. He said he realized he had stooped to the level of his opponents, who will never apologize for their vile statements. He asserted that his apology was not about fear of losing more advertisers. He told us, for example, that he had turned down advertising from General Motors, because he knew he would be criticizing the bailed-out former titan of the auto industry. Like Andrew Breitbart and Saul Alinsky, Rush is a fighter who has no peer. If we lost him, well, I don't even want to think about it.

So?

One of the best posts I have come across in remembrance of Andrew Breitbart was posted by Bob Belvedere at Camp of the Saints. I love this photo. Bob links to many other bloggers and to cartoonist Chris Muir. Read the whole thing here: http://thecampofthesaints.org/2012/03/03/so-remembering-andrew-breitbart/

The vetting begins

Andrew Breitbart's colleagues at Big Government have written the first of many pieces they promise between now and November 6 to vet not only "Baracka" (as he was known in Chicago) Obama, but also his rivals for the Presidency. They begin with "a story that should swing the first hammer against the glass wall the mainstream media has built around Barack Obama."
 http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/04/obama-alinsky-love-song

Thanks to Bob Belvedere at Camp of the Saints for letting us know about this post. 

I will post something later about this. There is a good reason Saul Alinsky was a hero to many in Chicago. Read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.  

Update: Like Andrew Breitbart, Saul Alinsky was a man who wanted to right wrongs. Both men were larger than life in the way they impacted others. Alinsky didn't like the way the poor were treated by America's institutions, such as law enforcement and education. Breitbart didn't like the way the media slanted things to favor the left. Both men courageously and purposely courted conflict. Both knew that if they could get under the skins of their opponents, their opponents would reveal their true colors. That has certainly been apparent since the untimely death of Mr. Breitbart.

However, if your goal is to defeat President Obama, there is a record to examine. Dissect it! Show how he has proven that he is not the man for this job. Show what he has done and what he has not done that he should have done.

Attending an event in Chicago when he was a state senator is not part of Obama's record as President.

"Slutgate"

Pamela Geller does not mince words.
"A 30-year-old poses as a 23-year-old, chooses a Catholic University to attend at $65,000 per year, and cannot afford ALL the birth control pills she needs... so she wants the US taxpayers to pay for her rampant sexual activity. By all accounts she is banging it five times a day. She sounds more like a prostitute to me. She must have an gyno bill to choke a horse (pun intended). Calling this whore a slut was a softball."

"Obama calls her and tells Sandra Slut Fluke that her parents should be so proud of her.
He's a pimp.
Did he call the sole survivor of the Fogel family massacre?
He is morally bankrupt."

"As for Rush calling a spade a spade, or in this case, a slut a slut, advertiser Carbonite is playing selective outrage. Contact Carbonite here and demand that they drop their ads from Ed Schultz's program.
Is This Why Carbonite Dumped Rush But Not Ed Schultz?

The Right Sphere, March 4, 2012 3:06 pm

A lot of folks have been asking why Carbonite would choose to pull its ads from Rush Limbaugh’s show for referring to activist Sandra Fluke as a “slut” but they still advertise on Ed Schultz’s show after he referred to Laura Ingraham the same way. I wonder if the fact that Carbonite’s CEO, David Friend, is an Obama donor has anything to do with it?" From Open Secrets
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2012/03/contact-carbonite-drop-ed-schultz.html

"His enemies are our enemies!"

I wholeheartedly agree with this post at The Other McCain: "On the one hand, we do not wish to endorse misconduct, but to throw Rush Limbaugh under the bus for a few insulting words? At a time when his enemies (who are also our enemies) are trying to destroy him? We need to re-focus our attention, and remember that old Air Force saying: When you’re taking flak, it’s because you’re over the target."
Read more here:http://theothermccain.com/2012/03/05/facts-from-which-they-wish-to-distract/

Do we dare refuse to treat the Muslim religion as the "Officially sanctified state religion of America?"

Ace writes: "My point is this: To what extent have we played into and exacerbated this absurd Muslim psychopathy over the Koran?

And to what extent would it be defeated if we simply stopped playing into it, and actually routinized the destruction of Korans (or other shows of disrespect, or, more accurately, "refusing to treat the Muslim religion as the officially sanctified state religion of America")?

To what extent are we encouraging these little spells by playing along with them? By treating the Koran as scared, most of the time, to what extent are we writing our own tragic ending when some stupid book gets burned?

Isn't it dangerous to feed the delusions of the deluded? Isn't the right course of action to insist on a more grounded view of reality?

Shouldn't we set the default, routine, expected mode of behavior as "we are not a Muslim nation and furthermore are forbidden by the Constitution from treating one religion as sacrosanct"?
Sort of: "Get used to it, this is the way it is, and stop acting like monkeys."

Read more here:  http://ace.mu.nu/archives/327175.php

Is it accurate to call a whore a slut?

Eric at Classical Values says it is not only inaccurate, it may be downright disrespectful. He explains here: http://classicalvalues.com/2012/03/are-values-no-longer-allowed-to-have-value/

Will Boehner be a "gutless sissy boy?"

Hey, John Boehner, how about a subpoena of Sandra Fluke? One blogger called a pharmacist near the Georgetown campus and found birth control pills there cost $9 per month, not the $1000 per year claimed by Ms. Fluke. That is what they cost at the store where I work, also: $9 per month. Robert Stacy McCain has a must-read post on the subject here: http://theothermccain.com/2012/03/04/since-we-cant-call-sandra-fluke-a-slut-would-lying-liberal-bitch-be-ok/

Join Al Qaeda!

The latest cartoon by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Ramiriez

via http://cfif.org/v/freedom_line_blog/13258/ramirez-cartoon-gitmo-unveils-744000-soccer-field-for-inmates/

More from those who appreciated Andrew Breitbart

More sentiments are being expressed by those who knew Andrew Breitbart. Here is one from his staff at the Big Government blog: "Andrew lived boldly, so that we more timid souls would dare to live freely and fully, and fight for the fragile liberty he showed us how to love."
Read more here: http://biggovernment.com/lsolov/2012/03/01/draft/

"Andrew always took the path of waving the red cloth in front of the bull of the MSM and the left and they always charged."
Read more here:  http://www.riehlworldview.com/carnivorous_conservative/2012/03/andrew-breitbart-loves-today.html

"Andrew is irreplaceable, but we would serve his memory well to aspire to more freedom of thought and more freedom of action.
I’ve often wondered where to go with this blog.  I now know.
Read more here:  http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/03/a-personal-note-on-the-death-of-andrew-breitbart/

"This lion of a man roared his outrage and stormed about looking for hypocrisy and arrogance to destroy.
He demanded ethical behavior from the media, and called them on their perfidy. He refused to accept the status quo and set about creating the country he knew we were supposed to be.
Read more here:  http://classicalvalues.com/2012/03/the-death-of-a-titan/

"If he were here, he’d be retweeting all the insane tweets from the Left rejoicing over his death. Even in death, he succeeds in exposing the hate-filled intolerance of the tolerance poseurs."
Read more here: http://michellemalkin.com/2012/03/01/devastating-andrew-breitbart-r-i-p/

 "Retweet all the nasty stuff they say — it’s what Andrew would have wanted. He liked to expose these people for who they were, rather than who they pretended to be. He continues to do that even in death."
Glenn Reynolds at http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/138157/

Rush Limbaugh tells us about Andrew Breitbart

Rush, I am glad you are one who still has fun.

Judge Scalia: "have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity"

Catholicism is in the news these days, thanks to Obama's attempts to make religious institutions pay for abortifacients and other birth control measures. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was in Denver yesterday speaking to a group of Catholics. He noted that we need to have the courage to have our wisdom regarded as stupidity by society's sophisticates. "The 75-year-old Scalia said that today one can believe in a creator and the teachings of Jesus without being the brunt of too much ridicule, but that to hold traditional Christian beliefs that Jesus is God and He physically rose from the grave is to be derided as simple-minded by those considered leading intellectuals."

Did you know that six of the nine Supreme Court Justices are Catholic? That number includes all five who sometimes vote together in support of conservative principles: Kennedy, Roberts, Thomas, Scalia and Alito. We can thank George W. Bush for Roberts, Alito, and Scalia, and his father for Thomas. We have Ronald Reagan to thank for Justice Kennedy. The other Catholic, Sonia Sotomayor, appointed by Obama, joins three Jewish Justices in the solidly liberal voting bloc.

In Washington, Scalia said, the pundits and media couldn't believe in a miracle performed under their noses.
"My point is not that reason and intellect need to be laid aside," Scalia said. "A faith without a rational basis should be laid aside as false. ... What is irrational is to reject a priori the possibility of miracles in general and the resurrection of Jesus Christ in particular."

Read more here:  http://www.denverpost.com/recommended/ci_20095806

Rush Limbaugh apologizes

Why did Rush Limbaugh apologize to Ms. Fluke? Well, it might have something to do with the fact that he has so far lost seven advertisers: Quicken Loans, mattress retailers Sleep Train and Sleep Number, software maker Citrix Systems Inc., online data backup service provider Carbonite, ProFlowers, and online legal document services company LegalZoom. DON'T BUY THESE PRODUCTS!

Marijuana: the new blockbuster drug?

Read more here about this emerging industry (medial marijuana) here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42237531/ns/business-small_business/t/medical-marijuana-becoming-blockbuster-drug/#.T1PnOHldDz4

Pandering by Obama and Santorum

Vincent Carroll writes today in the Denver Post that two politicians, Obama and Santorum, are pandering to the "working class," and both are missing the mark. Obama tells the working class that their enemy is the corporate elite and rich Republicans, while Santorum tells them that their enemy is the "latte-sipping gentry who expect their children to go to college." Bedrock values of faith and family are no longer so prevalent in the working class, and, ironically, are more likely to be present in, say, a college community, than in a working class neighborhood.  Read more here: http://www.denverpost.com/carroll/ci_20083089

Freedom wasn't free

Freedom Summer by Bruce Watkins, ends on an optimistic note. It chronicles the struggles of black Mississippians and civil rights volunteers who came to Mississippi in 1963 and 1964 to help with voter registration, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers' shacks. Despite the murders, the burning of black churches, the constant intimidation, by the time the book was published in 2010, enough progress had been made that Mississippi now leads all other states in the number of blacks holding public office! The book follows the lives of key players in the movement, describing what they experienced in the 1960s, and what happened to them and others in later years. The photo above is of Fannie Lou Hamer.

"Very toxic to aquatic organisms"

There is something new in the world of cigarettes! Young people are especially curious about the new high-tech sounding activity. Being the children of the internet age, they wonder if this might be for them: electronic cigarettes!  At the store where I work there is an advertising poster of a guy relaxing in a chair smoking a Mistic electronic cigarette. The caption says in all capital letters "WHAT ALL HAVE YOU MIST?" Get it? Mistic...MIST?

However, as a public service to my readers, I have squinted my eyes to read the small print on a pack of Mistics. Here is what it says: "Not for use by children, women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, or persons at risk for heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes, or taking medication for depression or asthma.

Mystic products are not a smoking cessation product, and have not been tested as such. This product has not been evaluated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or any other international health or regulatory agency. Mystic products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any condition, disorder, disease, or physical or mental condition.

Mystic products contain nicotine, a chemical known to the state of California to cause birth defects or other reproductive harm. Nicotine is addictive and habit-forming, and it is very toxic by inhalation, in contact with the skin, or, if swallowed, danger of serious damage to health by prolonged exposure if swallowed, irritating to eyes and skin; may cause sensitization by skin contact; may cause harm to the unborn child, vapors may cause drowsiness or dizziness; very toxic; very toxic to aquatic organisms; may cause long term adverse effects in the aquatic environment, ingestion of the non-vaporized concentrated ingredients in the cartridges can be poisonous. After contact with skin wash immediately with plenty of water, and seek medical advice; in case of accident, or if you feel unwell, seek medical advice (show the label when possible). This material and its container must be disposed of in a safe way; use appropriate containment to avoid environmental contamination. KEEP OUT OF REACH OF CHILDREN: choking and ingestion hazard."

How is that for a primer on the use of commas and semi-colons? And, oh, by the way, maybe it is a good thing, after all, that you have missed Mistics!

Living life with purpose

This blogger writes about two men who had similar affluent liberal Jewish upbringings, but then found real purpose in their lives: Theodor Herzl and Andrew Breitbart.

Via  http://www.bookwormroom.com/2012/03/01/andrew-breitbart-theodor-herzl-and-the-dream-that-will-not-die/

Sliding down a hill of cultural decay

"I suggest that this is merely more of the feminist mantra that women ought to be able to do whatever women desire to do as to sex and its consequences.  And if this means engaging in sex while having others pay to prevent pregnancy or killing the offspring that results, so be it, and a pox on anyone who would dare question the morality of such behavior.

We've slid down the cultural decay hill a pretty long ways when those who question the logic, the character and the decency of women desiring to have sex while demanding others pay to prevent them from becoming pregnant are seen to to be the problem."

via  http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2012/03/some-serious-fluke-y-stuff-going-on-out-there.html

More from the same blogger:  "The culture that sees religion as a roadblock to their agenda is at war with the culture that sees religion as key to society's sustainment and nourishment."

Read more here: http://www.brutallyhonest.org/brutally_honest/2012/03/i-dont-know-if-well-get-anywhere-with-the-executive-branch.html

End racial preferences; substitute class preferences?

Liberal columnist Froma Harrop wants the Supreme Court to end racial preferences. Instead, she wants class preferences. Read more here: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/02/28/racial_preferences_in_college_admissions_time_to_go_113272.html

Semantics, Obama-style

Consider these two policies:

A. An employer is required to provide its employees health insurance that covers birth control.

B. An employer is required to provide its employees health insurance.  The health insurance company is required to cover birth control.

I can understand someone endorsing both A and B, and I can understand someone rejecting both A and B.  But I cannot understand someone rejecting A and embracing B, because they are effectively the same policy.  Ultimately, all insurance costs are passed on to the purchaser, so I cannot see how policy B is different in any way from policy A, other than using slightly different words to describe it.

Yet it seems that the White House yesterday switched from A to B, and that change is being viewed by some as a significant accommodation to those who objected to policy A.  The whole thing leaves me scratching my head.

via  http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/

Abbott and Costello explain unemployment

This is how Abbott and Costello might explain unemployment:

 COSTELLO: I want to talk about the unemployment rate in America.

ABBOTT: Good "subject". Terrible "times". It's about 9%.

COSTELLO: That many people are out of work?

ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.

COSTELLO: You just said 9%.

ABBOTT: 9% Unemployed.

COSTELLO: Right 9% out of work.

ABBOTT: No, that's 16%.

COSTELLO: Okay, so it's 16% unemployed.

ABBOTT: No, that's 9%...

COSTELLO: WAIT A MINUTE. Is it 9% or 16%?

ABBOTT: 9% are unemployed. 16% are out of work.

COSTELLO: If you are out of work you are unemployed.

ABBOTT: No, you can't count the "Out of Work" as the unemployed.  You have to look for work to be unemployed.

COSTELLO: But ... they are out of work!

ABBOTT: No, you miss my point.

COSTELLO: What point?

ABBOTT: Someone who doesn't look for work, can't be counted with those who look for work. It wouldn't be fair.

COSTELLO: To who?

ABBOTT: The unemployed.

COSTELLO: But they are ALL out of work.

ABBOTT: No, the unemployed are actively looking for work...Those who are out of work stopped looking. They gave up. And, if you give up, you are no longer in the ranks of the unemployed.

COSTELLO: So if you're off the unemployment roles, that would count as less unemployment?

ABBOTT: Unemployment would go down. Absolutely!

COSTELLO: The unemployment just goes down because you don't look for work?

ABBOTT: Absolutely it goes down. That's how you get to 9%. Otherwise it would be 16%.  You don't want to read about 16% unemployment do ya?

COSTELLO: That would be frightening.

ABBOTT: Absolutely.

COSTELLO: Wait, I got a question for you. That means they're two ways to bring down the unemployment number?

ABBOTT: Two ways is correct.

COSTELLO: Unemployment can go down if someone gets a job?

ABBOTT: Correct.

COSTELLO: And unemployment can also go down if you stop looking for a job?

ABBOTT: Bingo.

COSTELLO: So there are two ways to bring unemployment down, and the easier of the two is to just stop looking for work.

ABBOTT: Now you're thinking like an economist.

COSTELLO: I don't even know what the hell I just said!

via  http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2012/02/abbott-and-costello-explain.html

Bobby Jindal's "full court press" on education

To use a March Madness basketball metaphor, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is using a "full court press" to try to improve education results there. Read more here: http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/bobby-jindal-takes-education-reform-and-takes-teachers-unions_633003.html

Romney the true conservative in the race?

Mona Charen implies Romney is the true conservative in the GOP race. Read more here: http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/292419/who-s-true-conservative-mona-charen?pg=2

Santorum blew it

As Super Tuesday approaches, Charles Krauthammer summarizes the GOP race without mentioning Gingrich or Paul. Rather, it is about Santorum's "unforced errors," Romney's money, and Romney's luck. Read more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/romneys-luck/2012/03/01/gIQAodiZlR_story.html

"I know God was with them"

Was it murder?

The left is mocking us now because we are wondering if Andrew Breitbart's death yesterday was murder. I cannot think of anyone who was more of a threat to the left than was Andrew.
The left mocks: http://now.msn.com/now/0301-breitbart-conspiracies.aspx

Update: The left, those champions of tolerance and diversity, celebrates the death of Breitbart:  http://conservativehideout.com/2012/03/02/leftists-celebrate-breitbarts-death/

Compassion, joy, and thanking God

The death of Andrew Breitbart this morning at age 43 reminds us how precious our time here on Earth really is. We have lost a fighter for truth, who made significant contributions for the betterment of our lives.

I ask myself, what have I learned about living? Three things: One, the action I most enjoy is compassion. Two, the emotion I most enjoy is joy. I give Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor credit for teaching me how to go to my right hemisphere of my brain to learn to practice those actions and emotions. Her book My Stroke of Insight, therefore, has been the most important book I have read in recent years. A blog called A Holy Experience, written by Ann Voskamp, has taught me the importance of the third principle: being thankful to God for every blessing in my life, and expressing that thankfulness all day long every day. When I give myself my needed rest every day, and not waste my time going down other dead-end roads, these three things become easier and easier to experience and express.

Update: Wouldn't you know it? After writing this yesterday morning, I went out and had a very difficult day: car problems, handling difficult people, left brain running negative loops over and over! I had to laugh, but could barely do it. Living with compassion and joy and thankfulness is a choice; or, rather, many choices made all day long. I hope I do better today!

High energy prices: just what Obama wanted!

How do we get the word out to voters? This video is a start:

Slick Willie speaks out in favor of the Keystone Pipeline

The Keystone Pipeline, rejected by Obama, has the approval of Bill Clinton, who is related to the Secretary of State, who must approve the pipeline, before it goes to the President!