A Little Thanksgiving Chuckle
November 24, 2004
Here’s a little Thanksgiving humor.
I’ll be slow on the uptake for a couple of days. Wishing everyone a wonderful holiday!
Liberal Racism
November 23, 2004
Confessions Of A Political Junkie notes liberal racism in a article in the New Republic. It seems that white conservative judges are acceptable to the author, Jeffrey Rosen, while minority conservatives are personna non grata.
Shades of Uncle Toms Cabin.
Sphere: Related ContentHillary the Christian Conservative
November 23, 2004
The Hoosier Parliament has discovered that Hillary thinks she is a Christian Conservative:
“Apparently Hillary still thinks we are rubes. She and Bill are trotting out their trusty old Triangulation Strategy again. Now she’s a southern Christian conservative.”
He quotes her here:
Crosswalk: “I always take time to worship God in as evangelical a way as is feasible, given time and location constraints. As you know, I consider myself an evangelical Christian, really a Christian conservative, if you want to know the truth, so it’s nice to be ‘home’ again in the South, which I really consider my quote-unquote home even though I live in New York most of the time. Well, Washington, D.C., most of the time, actually, but if I’m not there I’m in New York, of course, but always thinking about being here, in the South, where I shared so many wonderful evangelical. . . moments and . . . events.”
Hmmmm? Is Hillary planning on running for President? Naaaahhhhh!
UPDATE/REVISION
According to Blogs for Bush the above referenced comments were but merely a satire. Thanks Manish for the correction.
Got duped! Honing ediditorial skills as we speak. ;-)
Sphere: Related ContentIntelliseek’s BlogPulse
November 23, 2004
Go to Blog Pulse and check it out. it has some cool tools for checking out what’s happening in the blogsphere.
Sphere: Related ContentGallup: Most Americans Don’t Believe in Evolution
November 23, 2004
Despite the skewed headline of the survey (Third of Americans Say Evidence Has Supported Darwin’s Evolution Theory–I think mine is more to the point), the Gallup organization has found amazing evidence that a large majority of Americans don’t believe evolution to be a theory supported by scientific evidence.
Blog Pulse unfortunately doesn’t get it:
“I’ve gotta ask: is this a result of the so-called educational “gains” from No Child Left Behind? And should we add “ignorance” to the BlogPulse daily graph that charts the seven deadly sins?”
Hmmmmm! Maybe this is the attitude which keeps most scientists from making any attempt to review research in light of both creation and evolution. Not the most empirical method for finding truth. (Or for finding political truth, if I may digress for a moment!)
But let’s face it: there are plenty of facts to be found which support creation theory becuase there have been scientists who have undertaken to review the fact in light of the Genesis account. This is not a “slam dunk” for evolution theory.
Sphere: Related ContentRetro vs. Metro: Whacked Out
November 23, 2004
This and more commentary around the blogsphere today at Ouside the Beltway
Retro vs. Metro has lost it:
Beyond rumors of rigged voting machines, outright intimidation, and 30,000 other irregularities; beyond the DNCs curious inability to muster any outrage over similar GOP skullduggery in 2000; beyond mainstream medias apparent disinterest in either story, lies the awesome superiority of Bushs message, shamelessly tailored to the lowest common denominator within his already narrow, ignorant base. Had Kerry addressed his more educated, diverse and - most importantly - numerically superior constituency, the margin in Kerrys favor wouldve been so huge as to render wholesale vote theft impractical. And yes, we did tell you so: The Great Divide predicted this outcome quite clearly - should Democrats continue to tilt at the windmill of national unity. The Divide is permanent - but the good news is that Democrats can make it work for them…
Another example of how the left just doesn’t get it. Let’s look at some points:
- Republicans are generally more well informed than Democrats according to a recent survey
- No Democrat plan for change was presented. Period.
- The DNC has harped on the problems with the 2000 election results ad infinitum
- Lowest Common Denominator politics has no message and feeds only on fear. The politics which attempts to find the answers to the most difficult equations provides a plan. Kerry’s message “I served in Vietnam and received really cool medals for it” and “George Bush is a bad guy.” Bush’s message was clear: tax reform; responsible judges; private Social Security accounts; finish Iraq and the war on terror.
- The left’s assertion that 60 million people are ignorant voters is consistent with their general disdain for the “Red State” American.
- So, Kerry believes he is the one with the more educated, diverse constituency? This is the pompous, arrogant reason his message didn’t resonate with Americans. Education has made a tremendously positive difference in our history. But that is only because education was followed by industrious behavior. Give me industry over education every time the choice is limited to those two alone.
This last point reminds me of a news story I read in the Arizona Republic last year. It was July in Phoenix. This is the time of year when people in Phoenix flock to San Diego to avoid the heat. It was also the month that Mensa scheduled its annual nationwide meeting. The first line of the article read, “So what kind of geniuses schedule their conference in Arizona in July?” That statement sums up the Democrat gameplan for the 2004 election.
Sphere: Related ContentBringing It Back Into Perspective
November 22, 2004
Thanks to New Trommetter Times for keeping the reminder that politics is not the be-all and end-all. It is but a part of the sphere of life and personal responsibility.
“The kingdom of God will not arrive on Air Force One no matter how good the President’s character or great his ability. Don’t get me wrong: Elections are important; the law is a moral teacher. But all the laws and political victories will not help us if we lose the culture. Our job is the same no matter who is in office: that is, to make serious disciples and to bring Christian truth to bear in all of life.”
—Chuck Colson
He found this at The Federalist
Sphere: Related ContentDaschle Filibusters His Departure
November 22, 2004
Read this. You won’t believe it. The spin never stops.
Thanks Erick Erickson for posting this.
Sphere: Related ContentCongress Protects Insurers and Medical Providers from Conscientious Objection
November 22, 2004
The US House of Representatives added a provision in a $388 billion spending bill which will stop government agencies from causing harm to insurers and medical providers–including doctors’ groups and hospitals–who refuse to pay for or offer abortion services.
“This policy simply states that health care entities should not be forced to provide elective abortions, a practice to which a majority of health care providers object and which they will not perform as a matter of conscience,” said Rep. David Weldon, R-Fla., a doctor who sponsored the language. . . . “This provision is meant to protect health care entities from discrimination because they choose not to provide abortion services,” he said.
This is a welcome addition to recent efforts to restrict government promotion of abortion services. There is clearly much more to be done, and state and federal government agencies in many ways fund and promote abortion providers or front organizations which give abortion referrals. For many years, doctors have become increasingly frustrated with the abortion procedure. But medical facilities and abortion providers are making hundreds of millions of dollars every year in billings for abortion procedures.
Captain’s Quarters notes the struggle succintly here:
“In truth, pro-choice activists have become alarmed at the decline of abortion providers in the United States, calling it a crisis. Fewer and fewer doctors are willing to provide on-demand abortion; more doctors have become disillusioned with the casual abortions that now total more than 43 million since Roe v Wade. Democrats have paid lip service to making abortion ‘rare’, in Bill Clinton’s words, but the reality is that the vast majority of these 43 million dead fetuses were simply inconvenient, a matter of post-conception birth control rather than any health issue on the part of either the mother or the baby. “
LifeNews.com reports that Sens. Olympia Snowe, R-ME, and Barbara Boxer, R-CA, are complaining to the Senate leadership about including this provision in the bill when it reaches the Senate. but Sen. Ted Stevens, R-AK, who chairs the Senate Appropriations Committee is saying he will honor the request of House leaders to keep the provision in the sprending bill.
This highlights the reality that elections are not the end of the political process but the beginning. Once we elect representatives, they must be held accountable. The prize will go to the diligent. Will the diligent in 2005 and 2006 be those who voted in President Bush and expanded Republican majorities in Congress or will it be Kerry and his supporters who feel so slighted by the election results?
Millions Come from Arabs to Fuel Clinton Library
November 22, 2004
Hypocracy abounds! Millions of dollars from Arab countries and leaders were used to fund the Clinton Library.
The New York Sun: “President Clinton’s new $165 million library here was funded in part by gifts of $1 million or more each from the Saudi royal family and three Saudi businessmen.The governments of Dubai, Kuwait, and Qatar and the deputy prime minister of Lebanon all also appear to have donated $1 million or more for the archive and museum that opened last week.
Democrats spent much of the presidential campaign this year accusing President Bush of improperly close ties to Saudi Arabia. . . . Perhaps as a result, the Saudi donations to the Clinton library are raising some eyebrows. Mr. Unger said he suspects that the Saudi support may have something to do with a possible presidential bid by Senator Clinton in 2008.”
It’s interesting that Clinton’s endorsement of Kerry after open heart surgery focused generically on accusations that Bush spoke words of fear rather than hope to the American people. Clintons never specified whether those words centered around terrorism or economic issues. Could that have been purposeful in light of the revelations above?
Clinton did have a way of raising campaign money from non-US citizens. Is all this tied to a desire to obtain such funds for a 2008 run for Hillary. They don’t call him “Slick Willie” for nothing.
Captain’s Quarters has more.
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