News of the Day

Maybe Los Angles can use the Marines that Bizerkly so hates to protect and defend highway drivers.
They couldn't do a worse job.

While I am not a conspiracy theoryist, this whole thing just doesn't feel right. It's just too convenient.


Riddle me this:
When is a film so dangerous that it should never be shown?
When it tells the truth people don't want to hear. Whatever happened to don't like it, don't watch it?

Gee, things are pretty much the same in Canada as they are in Tibet. Those Chinese folks are so tolerant and understanding of a peoples wish to remain a soverign country. The shoe was on the other foot during WWII when Japan was trying to annex China. One wonders why, if these Chinese protesters are so enamored with their ancestral homeland, aren't they living there? A refreshing perspective here.
Life is complex isn't it?

So the new anti Obama chant should be: Obama is a misspeakerhe'll make us weaker? I know it's not good but it's a start. Yeah, a bad one.

Right wing conspirator likes Hillary? Wow, he must really dislike good ol' John McCain. I feel his pain but not enough to trust any Clinton, any time, any where. Follow the bodies, folks that's al l have to say about that.

This was just a snippet of what one can find in the news today, along with the typical liberal claptrap that has become the usual fodder for the MSM.  Go out and have an awesome day, make right choices and remember while it's nice to be right, it always right to be nice .  Mater says so ; )

Hunting?

My husband has just lately become a hunter. For the last 28 years we've had children in our home, and yes I know guns and children are not mutually exclusive. For us though, because we weren't raised with them we didn't feel confident in our ability to keep 6 crumb crunchers out of the explosives. It was a good idea at the time.

Now most of the little darlings are gone and the ones that are left are older, responsible and obedient (mostly), so the idea of owning firearms is not as daunting. While I understand target practice and hunting game that one will eat or even for a trophy on the wall (not as much but some people are really interested in that kind of thing). I don't understand this.

The annual seal hunt is many things;
Slaughter
Murder
Extermination
Massacre
Torture

At least with most other animals there is some chance they might get away. One might be obliged to chase then down. What ever it is, it isn't hunting.

SEALS! Really, how fast do they run? Can they shoot laser beams from their eyes to protect themselves? Do the hunters bring recliners along so they can shoot at their ease? Are there different makes, weights and gauges for clubs? After all we don't want any marks on those baby seal pelts they won't be worth near as much.

I AM NOT a bleeding heart, but this whole thing makes no sense to me. Surely there is a more humane way to handle this? Some way to level the playing field, something more sporting. I guess it offends my sense of fair play. Deer have speed, birds have flight, cats have claws and seals have what again? Nothing. They can't fly, run, or even walk fast.

It just doesn't seem cricket.

Berkeley: A Different Dimention

If you have a heart condition do not watch this. If you blood pressure is high, please don't watch this. If you are tempted to grab your constitutionally guaranteed firearm and take out your aggression on hippies, do not watch this.

For the rest of you here it is.

The top of my head almost blew off. I wish I could think this is funny but it is so offensive, infuriating, and mind boggling that I can't appreciate the humor.

I am speechless and that is a real stretch for me.

Illegals. Not in Rhode Island

This drives me crazy. The governor of Rhode Island has signed into effect an order that requires state agencies and police step up the identification and removal of illegals.

//Immigrant advocate Juan Garcia feared Carcieri's proposals would drive a vulnerable community underground. He said illegal immigrants who are victims of crime will fear approaching police, and that children could suffer if parents lose their jobs.

"These people are not criminals," he said. "This is affecting the poor people."//

I'm sorry these people ARE criminals. They have broken the law coming and staying here not to mention every day they stay here, every time they partake of programs for citizens, send their children to school, use an emergency room et al they break the law. There is no other way to look at it. These people are criminals and they steal from every person in this country every day they are here.

I am NOT anti-immigrant. All of my ancestors were immigrants, many were not welcome when they came here, but they came legally, they became citizens, they assimilated. I'm anti- illegals, anti- criminal, and anti- we have to change our country for you.
If you want to speak spanish, go back where you came from.

Fox takes over the world?

Fox news is apparently positioned to TAKEOVER THE WORLD, according to a report from Moveon.org, seen of Michele Malkin.com. The Libs have almost all the other news outlets, newspapers, magazines ( with very few exceptions) and Conservatives have "Fox" which does it's level best to be balanced.

After all if Fox were the huge conservative hammer the left claims they are, Alan Coombs would be looking for a new job. They don't come much more libtastic than good ol' Alan. What's the real issue here? The real issue is the Moveon folks "can't handle the truth". They like Chelsea Clinton have a tenuous grasp of reality and they hate it when someone else hits them over the head with it.

They need to get over themselves and find something constructive to do.

Dems in Disarray

Sen. Bob Casey to endorse Obama, join bus tour...
Dean: Bickering Dems May Hurt Party...
Angry Pelosi stands firm on superdelegates...
Joe Klein: Give It To Gore...
Leahy says Clinton should drop out of race... (wouldn't load)


These are the headings over at Drudge report today. How many of these folks have any experience in successful presidental compaigning. Pelosi is a leader in her party but besides Leahy ,who I remember as being kind of flaky in a hippy sort of way, why do they feel they have a pertinant opinion?

Is it because Democrats always think their opinions matter or because they haven't seen their names in the paper for awhile and you know " the only bad publicity is no publicity at all".

Kind of makes you say, hummm.

Wright or wrong?

Wow! I really mean that, WOW!

So this is what one gets when one is successful at telling people what they want to hear. Well yes, I know that politicians make money that way, and celebrities, and some authors, and snake oil salesmen of every variety, but I always thought ministers were different.  I guess I was confused by the whole "it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." Or, "Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and
give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful: for he had great possessions."

Now I must say that I like my creature comforts. I don't want to live in a hovel and I don't believe religious persons should have to either. That said, I also don't think massive hypocrisy should be tolerated no matter where one finds it.

The real issue here is not the price of the house, or who owns it. It's not the 10 million dollar credit line that goes with it. The real issue here is the tenor of the vitriol spewed by this pastor at "black" and "white" members of the middle class. Those who want what apparently he is going to get. Well you might say he earned it, he deserves it. Well I don't see too many houses being given away to white people or blacks, no matter what there circumstances are. Even Habitat for Humanity doesn't simply give houses away. People have to WORK for them.

But some may say, some people have more advantages than others. That is always true. Life is not fair, yes you heard it hear first. It isn't what you start out with, it's more what you do with those things you do have, that will be a measure of your success. One could go to school at Harvard not get as good an education as you would get at your local technical college.

How can that be, you may ask? Your education (and just about everything else in life) depends entirely on the effort YOU put into it. The greatest teacher, most eloquent pastor, the greatest actor, writer, or politician can't just pour information into your head. You must participate or you gain nothing. So then, what is the difference between say an Andrew Carnegie and Joe O'Smucky? Drive I guess, willingness to do jobs others don't want to do, willingness to do what's necessary to advance yourself and the wisdom to realize things won't always go your way.

Any one in this country has the opportunity to be successful. No one is refused education, There are grants, loans and scholarships available to those willing to seek them. The only sure way to fail is to not make the effort, to wait for someone to give it to you because, you deserve it, you're entitled, you're the exception?

A very wise parent once counseled his son, "Forget yourself and go to work". Word to live by I think. Maybe then pastors and hate mongers like Wright won't be able to gull the masses. They will have to find other work, because their affinity for the message of Jesus Christ seems somewhat inconsistent.

Wright+Pitts = Tired

//Some of us are using this controversy to peddle a false equivalence, decrying Wright's perceived bigotry and pretending moral wounds on par with those inflicted by Imus, Richards, Gibson and Hardaway. And failing -- or refusing -- to understand that those wounds derive their hurtful power not simply from what was said, but from the fact that those same things have been said with impunity for years turning to centuries to justify denying that black people, Jewish people and gay people were people at all. A straight, white, Christian American male does not have access to the kind of pain that causes. For which he should be thankful.// Lenord Pitts

Mr Pitts is a black journalist. He writes opinion pieces. He writes these pieces with no apology for his lack of perspective. His view is not as an American, as a man or as a human being. His view is as an African American. Everything is seen through a lense of racism, bigotry, entitlement, disenfranchisement and moral superiority due to past injuries. He is one of the people who continually point out to me that the reason there are stereotypes is that there are always people whose behavior reinforces them.

Like Mr. Obama Pitts refused to distance himself from Obama's pastor the Rev. Wright. After all if the rest of us (translate white people) had been through what he had they'd be angry too. After all for centuries the white man has abused, wounded and murdered everyone they have come in contact with, so it's not surprising that Wright is so angry.

What a load of cow chips. Some white men abused others, including other white men or are Jews, Irish, Philipino, Polish, Russian, and other put upon groups not white enough. Abuse knows no boundaries, not color, not race, not ethnicity, nor socio-economic group. There are and will be abusers across the board. Some black men over the centuries which includes the raping and pillaging of Spain by the Moors have done their share of abusing others. I guess under the Pitts / Wright axiom that makes all black men responsible for the actions of those who either participated in said abuse, who enabled it or who simply lived their lives the best they could.

Today the prison population is disproportiionally minority, we have been told. According to the P&W axiom this must mean that all of the members of these minorities are criminals they just haven't been caught yet. Why should any of them be given the benefit of the doubt, all are guilty due to the actions of some. Sounds fair to me.

I have been dealing with this kind of attitude my entire life. When my people came over to this country they were met with signs saying "No Irish need apply". My mother grew up in a part of the city of her birth, affectionately (sarcasm alert), called Pig Town. Now there are apologist who maintain that it was called that because of the Railroad yards there but the Irish who lived in that area knew exactly why it was called that. There is no race, ethnic group, or religious organization that hasn't at sometime in history been the subject of some kind of bigotry. From the Ghettos of Warsaw, to the Dutch slave ships, to the genocide perpetuated on the Irish people over centuries, man's inhumanity to man is fearsome.

There comes a time however when people have got to stop pointing to past wrongs and look to the future. You can not build a stable future on a foundation of old misdeeds. The harping on past wrongs breeds resentment, by those who through nothing but an accident of birth are members of the "past perpetrators" group. They begin to understand that nothing will ever be good enough to expunge the past. They will always be held responsible for actions taken in the past by people who's connection to them is based on the color of their skin or the leaves on their family tree. Why then should they treat others as they would like to be treated, why should they judge others on their actions and words when they are judged by the color of their skin and their genealogy?

Seems to me this kind of behavior was exactly what Dr. Martin Luther King died to stamp out. I remember him saying it would be a great day when a man was judged by what was in his heart not by the color of his skin. Apparently the Misters Pitts and Wright don't agree with him. What a shame. I personally can't wait for that day, but then I'm not a member of an official victims group.

John Adams

Today as I was taking one of my children to a morning class at 5:30 the DJ's on one of the stations I listen to were discussing a new TV show or movie about John Adams. You know one of the founders of the country, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, a principle player in the movie 1776 about the same, ambassador to France and England and third POTUS.

One of the DJ's (I can't really tell them apart when they are talking serious) remarked that it was amazing how accomplished the men of that time were, how much they did in a day, what they learned in their lives, and how they used that knowledge. They then opined that television was the root of all evil. With the inception of TV and it's creeping, grasping, talking over of our lives people are too lazy, distracted, discouraged and disheartened to do much of anything. As I was pondering this it occurred to me that the computer or any hobby could be characterized in much the same way. We could be doing so much more by simply walking away from the computer, turning off the basketball game, soap opera or reality program. Maybe we could play one game of golf less, spend less time and money on ebay, or go to the gym one less hour.

What could we do with that extra time? Well, we could spend time with our loved ones, visit the sick or aged. We could volunteer time in the schools or at a charitable organization. We could give blood, write a letter (yes a real honest to goodness snail mail letter), take a class, learn something new or dejunk our lives.

I guess the real point is balance. As anyone who knows anything about John Adams knows his life was centered around birthing a nation. Even though he had a wonderful relationship with his wife (she was very supportive of his work) he was somewhat obsessive in his pursuit of his goals. He is probably not the best example of balance. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin my be better. They all took time out to do a variety of things.

The point is they DID them, instead of watching others do them. That is the main difference in their lives and ours. We are conditioned to WATCH not do. It is to our detriment.

Life is short, live it.