Right As Usual

This is absurd. No, it's beyond absurd. It's inhumane. First off, the Gitmo group, as a whole, are less likely to be exposed to H1N1 than pregnant women and children. So, how come they get immunized first? Is this what we can expect from the National Health Care? If so, count me out.

There has been much discussion about France on the web. France is an epicenter of Muslim activity in Europe. Jihad Watch has a poignant essay about the decline of France: And then you learn what Jacques Chirac -- who now has a Muslim grandchild himself -- and Dominique de Villepin, do not wish you to learn. For if you did, you might be very angry. You discover that 1 out of every 3 babies born in France today is a Muslim baby. And that means, in 20 years, one of every three 20-year-olds in France will be a Muslim twenty-year-old. And that means, twenty years after that, at present rates of reproduction, France will have a majority Muslim population. Where shall we hide the statues from Marly-le-roi? And the Venus de Milo? And what about all those paintings of animated life -- all those portraits in the Louvre, and the Grand Palais, and the Musée Guimet down there in linden-lined Aix, and everywhere else in art-filled artful France, mère des arts, des armes, et des loix -- that are a...

There was a time, that Obama seemed unstoppable. There was a moment, when Obama seemed to poised to quickly pass his "100 Days" legislation. This is now. Neither are proving to be true. Why? Victor Davis Hanson has the answers.

One thing that many Obama supporters don't realize is the extent of his ties to undemocratic organizations - that is, organizations that have a political agenda and a goal for the future of America, that is designed to fundamentally change the fabric and structure of our country. Many such organizations clothe their underlying purposes with vague, bland talk about "helping poor and working-class people". HOW they plan to help them is clouded in secrecy. Big Government has a breakdown of that entanglement for one such supporter - the Working Families Party. Why are those ties important? An important point needs to be made here. President Barack Obama and the Working Families Party are Democratic Socialists. This is not meant as a judgment. It is simply a fact which the politicians involved with the Working Families Party group should be made to own. As I have written previously, this is not some kind of neo “Red Hunt”. Not only is that not the point, there is nothing ...

For some reason, this really made me laugh: The reason the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marines bicker amongst themselves is that they don't speak the same language. For instance, take the simple phrase "secure the building" The Army will post guards around the place. The Navy will turn out the lights and lock the doors. The Marines will kill everybody inside and set up a headquarters The Air Force will take out a 5 year lease with an option to buy. Probably because there's an underlying truth to it.

I found this site where you can make your own captions for photos. I made this one:

According to Michelle Malkin , The Mrs. is afraid of SC - South Carolina, that is. This is predicated on the recent criticism of her (personally, in one case), and her husband's policies. We're expected to acknowledge that a few rude, crude outbursts are comparable to Dallas in 1963 (where, BTW, most of the city warmly welcomed JFK). Uh, no. We here in SC have our share of crazies - as what state does not? However, we have generally limit our protests to words. Unlike her home town, which saw political rioting that trashed the city in 1968, and currently has a violence level that staggers the imagination. Don't see her refusing to go home for the weekend on account of her "fears". She's just being petty.

From Eternity Road We know from experience that socialism is a process of general impoverishment; it needs infusions of life from capitalist societies to forestall collapse. I've been thinking about money lately; how to get enough for my retirement, what is "enough", and such. I'm lucky; both my husband and I are in professions (teaching science) that are in short supply, at least in some areas of the country. There simply aren't sufficient Physics/Chemistry teachers (plus Math, in his case) to fill all available positions. No Child Left Behind has been a blessing to us, personally, as it requires that certified teachers must be used in schools receiving federal money (almost all of them). There has been a frenzy to recruit such teachers in some states, leading to such (to us) fun situations as getting signing bonuses - just like the Major Leaguers. I'm personally not that big a fan of stockpiling money, in ANY place. The downward spiral of much of my inve...

Found on Notoriously Conservative: If a conservative doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one. If a liberal doesn't like guns, he doesn't want anyone to have one. If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat. If a liberal is a vegetarian, he wants to ban all meat products for everyone. If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to stand up to his enemy. If a liberal sees a foreign threat, he wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good. There's more at the link.

I just put the RSS feed for this blog in my list, and I'm glad I did. What he says about "Mistaken Faiths" is spot-on.

I read this story about VA Board of Elections with disbelief. The Virginia State Board of Elections argued in their most recent filing that they have no legal obligation to send out military absentee ballots in a timely manner. Restated, the State of Virginia has argued in a federal court filing that they can legally send out absentee ballots to active duty soldiers the day before an election. Restated again, theDemocratic Chairwoman of the Virginia State Board of Election (appointed by the Democratic National Committee Chair Tim Kaine, in his capacity as Virginia Governor) Jean Cunningham just claimed a legal basis for massively raising the barrier to voting for soldiers at war. Warning: the link that follows gives access to some heavy-duty legalese; but, briefly stated, it supports the linked post in the title. I'm going to have to put the Military Voting Rights Project on Facebook on the front burner. Otherwise, jacka$$e$ like this can run roughshod over the GI voting rights.

I was just getting ready for work, when my husband heard that Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize. "No way!" I said, and promptly Googled (tm) it. Yeah. Read it here: It awarded the prize to Obama less than nine months into his presidency. Despite setting out an ambitious international agenda, he has yet to score any breakthrough on the Middle East or Iran's nuclear programme, and faces difficult choices on the conduct of the war in Afghanistan. Last month Obama chaired a historic meeting of the United Nations Security Council, which unanimously approved a U.S.-drafted resolution calling on nuclear weapons states to scrap their arsenals. Obama is the third senior U.S. Democrat to win the prize this decade after former Vice President Al Gore won in 2007 along with the U.N. climate panel and Jimmy Carter in 2002. The prize worth 10 million Swedish crowns ($1.4 million) will be handed over in Oslo on Dec. 10. Wonder how much of that will end up in ACORN's hands. Probab...

I'm having a hard time believing that Obama is so inept. Now he's installing "art" whose only virtue is that the "artist" is Black. Read this story for the details.

So now we are to beg relief from the O'Messiah? I found this video on Curmudgeonly & Skeptical . Can the forced enrollment into the Obama Youth be far behind? For those who think that comment is WAY over-the-top, I urge them to actually read some Hitler-era (and Stalin-era, which was the same time) reports. Initially, it all seemed harmless, if a bit worshipful. All the kids joined the Hitler Youth and the Red Pioneers. They were just like Boy Scouts, coupled with songs about Our Wonderful Leader. Later, attendance at the youth groups wasn't so voluntary. Schools cooperated in forcing all youth to join. So, you can begin to see why some are uneasy with the schools' eager recruitment of children into singing The Leader's Praises (the quasi-deified phrases should trigger alarms, as well). This is just 1 aspect of the Age of Obama that many are viewing with suspicion. Ask yourself, if Bush had had groups writing praise-songs to him, and made singing them a pa...

Looks very dark - a lot of ink must have been used. I shudder to think of the pain. This design, although not its placement, have a practical use - when the inevitable spiderweb varicose veins start showing up, it will camouflage the aging. The page where I found this is very pro-tattoo in women. A sample of that feeling: Anyone and everyone are getting them, as there no longer is a “type” to get tattoos. Unfortunately, employers still have a say about the acceptability of tattoos if it is in their dress code. They can say no to visible tattoos as long as they are consistent across the board about it. If you have tattoos that can be covered up, you do have a better chance of being hired in corporate America. Tattoos should not affect your hiring status any more than your color, weight, race or anything else except your ability to do the job. To me, the difference is that your color, weight (to a certain extent), race, etc. are not deliberately chosen. Having chosen a symbol (i.e., t...

This is incroyable (to use the French word). Don't stop before the end, for a list of the moral nincompoops that defend child molestation.

If you don't already read Big Government, add it to your RSS feed. It's jam-packed with information about how the leftist organizations are conspiring to steal money from the rest of us. They're the ones that first aired that video of the ACORN sting - where 2 filmmakers posed as a pimp and his "lady", and recorded ACORN employees assisting and abetting that supposed criminal enterprise (which involved prostitution of teens). No moral objections, just "we're here to help". Right now, there's more investigative reporting of the intertwined connections between ACORN and the Working Families Party, SEIU, and other groups that are trying to pick the American taxpayer's pocket under the guise of helping the poor. They aren't even trying to provide the services they promised, they are just grabbing the money and running. It's a classic operation of a criminal enterprise.