Big Brother is watching the violent prolifers.

Well comrades, guess we'll be meeting in the reeducation camps. I'll be the tall fat guy with the sub service insignia tattooed on his right forearm. Bring your own shovel.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Documents LifeNews.com obtained today reveal the Obama administration partnered with leading pro-abortion organizations to host an FBI training seminar in August with the main focus of declaring as "violent" the free speech activities of pro-life Americans.

On August 25, 2010, the FBI and the United States Department of Justice co-sponsored a training seminar with Planned Parenthood, the National Abortion Federation and the Feminist Majority Foundation.

When information about the seminar, which took place at FBI headquarters in Portland, Oregon, reached pro-life advocates, they asked officials for permission to attend and were granted access to the seminar and the training materials.

FBI and Obama administration officials provided participants with an 84-page document entitled “Resource Guide: Violence Against Reproductive Health Care Providers" that contained print copies of Power Point presentations prepared by the Justice Department and an analysis of alleged pro-life "violence" prepared by the pro-abortion groups.

The so-called violence perpetrated by pro-life advocates mostly contained examples of constitutionally-protected free speech, including activities such as praying, providing women outside abortion centers with alternatives information, and peaceful protesting or picketing.

Matt Bowman, a top attorney at the Alliance Defense Fund, told LifeNews.com today that the cooperation between the Obama administration and pro-abortion organizations to target pro-life free speech should cause alarm.

"The information presented in the seminar raises serious concerns over the United States government’s treatment of nonviolent free speech activities as 'violence' subject to investigation and prosecution," he said.

"Abortionist organizations have long lobbied to use the law to silence free speech activities. But in this seminar the FBI and USDOJ included those views in their own training seminar materials," he added. "This raises serious concerns about the United States government investigating peaceful, legal free speech activity in efforts that are ostensibly aimed at violence."

The Obama administration documents, on page 39-41 specifically list the names of pro-life organizations and websites sponsored by peaceful nonviolent groups.

Some of the organizations named in the FBI/DOJ seminar materials include 40 Days for Life, the ACLJ, Concerned Women for America, National Right to Life, Priests for Life, and Students for Life of America.

Julie Abbate of USDOJ, who presented at the seminar, is the attorney who filed a federal lawsuit in August 2010 against a pro-life advocate solely for leafleting while, allegedly, one time, crossing a driveway in front of an abortion center.

"The lawsuit is further evidence that USDOJ is putting its resources into prosecuting peaceful activity on public sidewalks, rather than violence," Bowman said.

Looking at some of the examples of pro-life free speech pegged as violence, pages 5 and 20 discuss and tabulate “violence statistics” including “disruption,” but define “disruption” as including “picketing,” which accounts for almost 90% of all the incidents listed in the FBI, USDOJ materials.

An entire section of the document is devoted to laws that address non-violent picketing in residential locations, at pages 77-84, as do the FMF surveys relied on in “The History of Violence,” page 11.

“The History of Clinic Violence” includes “the use of huge anti-abortion posters” on college and university campuses, and it identifies “boycotts against abortion providers" as another example. It complains of “the ability to publish almost anything on the Internet,” and of free speech lawsuits. These are all summarized as “The landscape of violence and harassment aimed at abortion providers.”

On page 67, the Justice Department says prosecuting federal law includes “gathering evidence” on “Leaflets or pamphlets” that pro-life targets are distributing, and “Signs [the] suspect was carrying.”

The documents indicate Planned Parenthood "maintain[s] a database of names, photos, license plate etc. of anti-choice groups and individuals” and that they work “proactively” with local law enforcement.

Pages 18 and 19 summarize an FMF survey discussing “intimidation,” and includes the distribution of leaflets labeled “Pamphlets Targeting Staff,” and any “noise disturbance.” These would include leaflets that warn women that specific abortion practitioners have killed women in botched abortions. This free speech activity constitutes a significant percent of the survey activities labeled “intimidation.”

The joint Obama administration-pro-abortion FBI training seminar follows on the heels of the Department of Homeland Security engaging in several instances of tracking or monitoring pro-life advocates and concluding they represent a security threat.

Last year, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano included pro-lifers in a report on domestic terrorism.
In the document, the Department of Homeland Security warned law officials about a supposed rise in "rightwing extremist activity," saying the poor economy and presence of a black president could spark problems.

According to the Washington Times, a footnote attached to the nine-page report from the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis said the activities of pro-life advocates is included in "rightwing extremism in the United States.”

"It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," the warning said.

After that, in May 2009, details emerged about a terrorism dictionary the administration had put together in March. The Domestic Extremism Lexicon called pro-life advocates violent and claims they employ racist overtones in engaging in criminal actions.

In February 2010, DOHS admitted it conducted an improper threat assessment of pro-life advocates in Wisconsin before an expected rally last year in response to the University of Wisconsin Hospital board decided to allow abortions.

In February 2009, an Oklahoma man with a homemade pro-life sign on his vehicle was pulled over and harassed by police for allegedly making a threat against the president.

(End of story. My comments follow.)

It's a running joke amongst my parish prolife activists that we're all on someone's list somewhere. I've half believed it till now. After reading this I've no doubt, there was one clinic we prayed outside of where the owner's wife made a point of openly filming us on her cell phone. Whatever. I've thought for years that if I say or do something then I should be willing for it to be public knowledge.

The only caveat I have with the story above is the mention of an improper threat assessment of pro-life advocates in Wisconsin before an expected rally last year. In all fairness, that same assessment was done against a number of proabort groups also. However that's mighty small change in the big scheme of things. Evidently the proaborts have the Presidential ear and are taking all possible advantage of that.

This would all be insignificant if there weren't some fears regarding B.O. and his peacefully ending his Presidency in 2012. The man has hobnobbed and hung out with radicals for a good portion of his life. His attitude towards dictators who have seized power (e.g. Hugo Chavez) is ambivalent at best. IMO it's worth keeping in mind when the time comes to vote. I seriously believe we may need to vigorously exercise our 2nd Amendment rights then.

At one time I'd have thought of that as tin-foil hat thinking. Not so much nowadays.

So if you're prolife, be prepared to find your name is on a list somewhere. I just hope any pictures of me were taken from my right side, it's more photogenic.

Bakery in hot water over rainbow cupcakes...

Found this on www.foxnews.com via Lucianne.com:

Officials in Indianapolis are turning up the heat on a bakery that refused to take an order from a student group seeking rainbow-colored cupcakes for next month's National Coming Out Day.

A spokesman for Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard said city officials are conducting an inquiry into the bakery, Just Cookies, which declined to take the order last week from a diversity group at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), which ordered the cupcakes for Oct. 11.

"The city's position is, it's the city's market, it's a public place," mayoral spokesman Robert Vane told FoxNews.com. "There is no litmus test for buying services or products at the City Market."

Just Cookies owner Lilly Stockon defended her bakery's decision last week, first telling Fox 59 that the shop doesn't make cupcakes, and then telling a reporter that she didn't have sufficient materials to make the rainbow colors.

But her co-owner husband, David Stockton, said he had a different reason for refusing to take the order.

"I explained we're a family-run business, we have two young, impressionable daughters and we thought maybe it was best not to do that," he told Fox 59.

Enter the city officials.

"Whatever this gentleman's personal views are, it cannot interfere with the providing of a service or allowing someone to buy their goods," Vane said.

Calls to the bakery went unanswered on Wednesday. Attempts to reach members of the student group were unsuccessful, but a friend of the customer who placed the order questioned David Stockon's reasoning.

"I don't want to topple anybody at all," Rebecca Scherpelz told Fox 59. "I just think it's important we ask ourselves and Just Cookies asks themselves why they made the statement, why they're making these choices and how it's ultimately affecting their business and the community as a whole."

The controversy has prompted an Indianapolis radio station to hold a "Gay Cupcake Party" on Friday. As of early Wednesday, nearly 400 people had indicated that they planned to attend the event.

Vane, meanwhile, said city officials are working to determine whether the order was refused because the bakery couldn't provide the desired product or because something else was at play.

"It's the other proprietor stating his personal views, that's the problem, because that's not the image of the City Market and the image Mayor Ballard is trying to portray," Vane told FoxNews.com. "That's beyond the pale."

Stevi Stoesz, a spokeswoman for City Market, a nonprofit organization with a 13-member board of directors, said officials there found the bakery's alleged conduct inappropriate.

"As a public marketplace, we find it unacceptable, and this is very much an equal accommodations establishment," Stoesz told FoxNews.com. "We are working with the mayor's office and city [attorneys] to resolve the issue expediently."

Rea Carey, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, said the "truly unfortunate" incident should be investigated.

"Rainbow cupcakes are simply a tasty way to celebrate values of diversity and acceptance," Carey said in a statement to FoxNews.com. "That anyone would object to serving them is truly unfortunate. Acts of possible discrimination should always be taken seriously and investigated."

(End of story. My comments follow.)

Too bad the wife of the owner isn't as forthright and honest as her husband.

Aside from that, here is another example of homosexuals forcing outsiders to accept them. Thats flat wrong.

IMO the owners should have the freedom to refuse service to whoever they wish. That would include blacks, whites, Hispanics, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, left-handed green-eyed hermaphrodites, etc. It's their damned business, let them run it the way they want. Big Brother should butt out. If the owners are willing to risk the loss of customers from standing up for their beliefs, then so be it.

And if the fudgepackers and clamlickers want cupcakes so damned bad, let 'em fire up their own ovens and get to baking.

Our tax dollars at work...

Here's the story:

AUGUSTA, Maine, September 28, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The Maine Human Rights Commission (HRC) has ruled that a middle school unlawfully discriminated against a "transgender" sixth-grade boy by disallowing the child from entering a girls' bathroom and instead assigning him his own separate bathroom.

The matter concerned Orono Middle School's treatment of a child whose parents have insisted has a right to use a girl's bathroom, despite being biologically male, because of his chosen gender identity.

“In choosing to disallow [him] to use the girls’ bathroom facilities, the school was implicitly isolating and alienating her (sic) from other students,” the parents wrote, according to local reports. “We determined that we needed to modify our actions to do the best we could to ensure [our child’s] safety.”

The panel also ruled against Asa Adams Elementary School in Orono last year, when the same parents issued a similar complaint over the school's conduct while their child was in the fifth grade, in the 2007-08 school year.

The school contended that officials had adequately accommodated the child, by educating staff and students on the situation, giving the child his own bathroom and locker room, and even arranging frequent meetings with his parents. “For the most part, she (sic) appeared to be happy and involved in the school community,” officials wrote.

The parents also alleged that the school subjected the boy to a hostile environment due to harassment from other students, a claim rejected by the HRC panel. He has since been removed from the school district.

In a September 20 meeting, the panel announced they would wait until the election of a new state governor before issuing guidelines on how schools ought to accommodate "transgender" students.

(End of story. My comments follow.)

So much stupidity, so little time. Where to begin?

First: Just what responsible parent allows their child to determine they're "transgendered"? For the love of Mike, kids in their teens are confused about EVERYTHING. It's a time when a child needs direction, guidance and a firm grounding provided by Mom & Dad. Playing into the attention seeking fantasy that "she is a he" or vice versa does nothing for the child. On a side note, I'd love to find some study that determines how many of these "transgendered" adolescents become active homosexuals and how many simply outgrow their delusional thinking.

Second: Providing he/she/shim/it with their own bathroom & locker room facilities? What a grand waste of taxpayer money. If they're plumbed like a boy, they should go to the boy's facilities. Ditto for anyone that's born a girl in regards to the girl's restroom/locker room.

Third: Someone was able to argue this crap and be taken seriously? I think the Maine HRC must be some glorified workfare program whose members look for ways to justify their jobs. From the looks of things they must have to search pretty hard.

Fourth: Has anyone, anyone at all, tried to determine how the straight girls will be traumatized when little "Johnny/Joanna/Whatever" enters their restroom and drops trou? If the transgendered child's sensitivities are so fragile that using separate facilities constitutes hardship, wouldn't the other children's psyches possibly suffer from his mere presence in the loo? If this situation had arisen when I was that age I know I'd have suffered (if nothing else I'd have suffered a hernia from trying to stop laughing).

Finally: Notice how the wording of the complaint plays right into the fantasy of the child? Seems like all the adults are doing their best to perpetuate this crap. Look for lawsuits in the future as he/she/whatever tries to take their "date" to the prom, etc.

Honestly, I wonder if all common sense has left our society.

Crooks buy guns to use in safe (for them) enviornments...

WOW! That sounds like it took a brain surgeon to figure out. Or not.

A NY Times story tells of a recent study that finds criminals will obtain guns from states with lax gun laws to use in states with stricter gun laws. DUH!! No kidding?

Here's the story; http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/us/politics/27guns.html?_r=1

The takeaway quote for me was this: “A state’s gun laws are only as good as the weakest link in the national chain,” Professor Fox said. “A state with weaker gun laws becomes a supplier for states with stronger laws.”

He has it backwards. IMO the weakest link isn't the state that allows easy access to firearms. The weakest link is the state with the strictest gun laws.

Here's my solution to the problem: All states should allow for easily obtained firearms. Then the criminals won't be taking guns from a state where John Q. Public is likely to blow the crook's head off in the commission of a crime, to a state where calling 911 is touted as being the answer to hearing some creep breaking into your kid's bedroom.

Yes, there are nuts who shouldn't have firearms. Some of them are on the front lines of this debate avidly pushing for the right to buy cruise missiles for the back yard (that is an exaggeration, but not much of one).

However I'd rather have a chance to defend myself properly than have to wait and hope the idiot at the 911 call center properly prioritizes my call and the cops are close enough when needed.

Not all 911 operators are idiots, but it only takes one. The wife and I have had the pleasure (?) of dealing with that one.

My old man had a lot of faults but he DID leave me some good advice. One of his admonitions was, "Don't point a gun unless you plan to shoot it, don't shoot it unless you shoot to kill."

Thought for the day...

"Will this blow up in my face?"

That was the wife, wondering aloud if the new job that she'll apparently have in a couple of months will pan out.

Looking into her eyes, I told her, "There is an old saying that was uttered at the Alamo, thundered by the sailors of the English fleet as they sailed against the Spanish Armada, even rumored to have been a rallying cry for the Jews as they left Pharaoh's Egypt."

"No balls, no blue chips!"

Get rid of the Education Department...

Whenever I hear someone propose getting rid of this Department there always seems to be someone else who pipes up along the lines of, "So, you want us to go back to the days of when segregated schools?"

Well segregation sucked, no doubt of it. But having government generated lies & half truths forced onto our kids at our expense is no improvement.

Found this at www.cnsnews.com via Lucianne.com:

U.S. Education Secretary Vows to Make American Children 'Good Environmental Citizens'

By Nicholas Ballasy

U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan vowed on Tuesday that his department would work to make American children into "good environmental citizens" through federally subsidized school programs beginning as early as kindergarten that teach children about climate change and prepare them "to contribute to the workforce through green jobs."

“Right now, in the second decade of the 21st century, preparing our children to be good environmental citizens is some of the most important work any of us can do. It’s work that will serve future generations--and quite literally sustain our world,” Duncan said at the Education Department’s "Sustainability Education Summit: Citizenship and Pathways for a Green Economy."

“This week’s sustainability summit represents the first time that the Department is taking a taking a leadership role in the work of educating the next generation of green citizens and preparing them to contribute to the workforce through green jobs,” said Duncan. “President Obama has made clean, renewable energy a priority because, as he says, it’s the best way to 'truly transform our economy, to protect our security, and save our planet.'

“Educators have a central role in this. A well educated citizen knows that we must not act in this generation in ways that endanger the next,” said Duncan. “They teach students about how the climate is changing. They explain the science behind climate change and how we can change our daily practices to help save the planet. They have a role in preparing students for jobs in the green economy.”

“Historically," Duncan said, "the Department of Education hasn’t been doing enough to drive the sustainability movement, and today, I promise that we will be a committed partner in the national effort to build a more environmentally literate and responsible society."

"I want my department to help advance the sustainability movement through education," he said.

Duncan explained that the funding for this environmental education will come through a new initiative of the Department of Education called the "Blueprint for Reform."

"The president has proposed $265 million for this program in his fiscal 2011 budget," said Duncan. "These grants will support subjects such as the arts, foreign languages, history, and civics--all of which receive funding under current Education Department programs. Because we recognize the importance education plays in the sustainability movement, these grants also will support environmental education."

Duncan said that his department's "Blueprint for Reform" envisions environmental education being incorporated into so-called "STEM" classes ("science, technology, engineering and mathematics") for students as young as kindergarten.

"These projects have the prospect to build the science of sustainability into the curriculum, starting in kindergarten and extending until the students graduate high school," said Duncan.

(End of story. My comments follow.)

Environmentalism isn't a movement, it's a cult. Our schools are now officially committed towards it's promotion, funded by our tax dollars.

Unhealthy light bulbs mandated by the government...

Found this over at Sig94's blog.



Note to self; stock up on some more incandescent bulbs and check out shifting to halogen lights.

Hey B.O., ya forgot something!

One swallow does not a summer make. So when B.O. started citing "freedom of worship" instead of "freedom of religion" I didn't think too much of it. Many voices in the blogosphere noted that the former limited actions to within a structure at a specific time (Sunday Mass in a church, Saturday worship in a synagogue, etc.) but I figured the man is known to say the damndest things that'll hurt him. No big deal. Sure, he'd demonstrated the religious convictions of a turnip but that wouldn't mean he's decidedly against any referencing of God and His involvement with our nation.

But when you recite the preamble to the Declaration of Independence and you're a Constitutional lawyer it says something significant when the words, "...by their Creator..." are left out. Story found via Lucianne.com, here's a text of the speech. The reference to the Declaration is found toward the bottom of the sixth page: http://www.scribd.com/doc/37589908/President-Obama-s-remarks-at-Congressional-Hispanic-Caucus-Gala-2010

Wassamatter, did the teleprompter hiccup? Get a gas attack from all that arugula? Did Bush cause it? Maybe planning the family's next vacation has resulted in a lack of sleep?

Weird things...

Anyone know if you can be haunted by a pet?

I've had the damndest things happening, I'll be lying in bed and feel a cat pawing at the mattress. When I turn on the light, neither one of our furballs is in evidence.

Tonight the wife was off and still on her regular sleep schedule, that means she'll be up all night. So I'm nodding off and I feel that same sensation, really strong this time.

Since the cats are really attached to her I knew they weren't in the room, plus the door was shut so I wouldn't be kept awake by the lights in the living room where the wife is. So they couldn't go running off even if they had been mistakenly left with me.

I checked. Both our felines are asleep near her.

NOW as I write this I'm wide awake (go figure).

We had a tabby some years ago that was attached to me. He was really aggressive, we'd always figured him to be at least half feral. Anyway, when our oldest was born the cat turned on the wife twice. That did it. Since he was really wild when caged up (a fact we determined after having to leave him at an animal hospital overnight) I took him for a ride and left him off near an apartment complex. He'd have never survived a shelter. Bye bye kitty.

So, anyone have any thoughts on this one? I definitely felt the sensation I've described after waking up tonight, hell I thought the bed would shake if it got stronger.

Anyway, thanks for listening.

FWIW, the wife reminded me that we've had other mysterious things happen before. It occurred two weeks prior to having our parish priest bless the house. Since then until now, nothing.

It's tough being a special needs dad...

As evidenced in the following story. Found this via Lucianne.com at www.abcnews.go.com;

Authorities arrested a central Florida father Thursday after he boarded a school bus and reportedly threatened students who were allegedly bullying his daughter.

James Jones' raw and obscene rage was on caught on the school bus' security camera.

He was charged with disorderly conduct and disturbing a school function in Lake Mary, Fla.

The video is blurred but Jones' anger is clear.

"Everybody sit down. Everybody sit down," Jones said on the surveillance tape.

He then orders his 11-year-old daughter to point out her alleged tormentors. "Show me which one. Show me which one," he said.

Jones confronts the middle school students he says have been bullying his daughter who has cerebral palsy by taunting, hitting and even throwing condoms at her.

"I'm gonna (expletive) you up.&this is my daughter, and I will kill the (expletive) who fought her," Jones said.

Jones reportedly threatened not only the students but the bus driver as well.

"If anything happens to my daughter I'm going to (expletive) you up and everybody on this (expletive)," he said.

Before leaving, he dares them to call the police. "You call the police, call them. My brother's the damn deputy sheriff."

Parent Protecting his Daughter?

School officials contacted the law enforcement authorities and Jones was arrested.

Jones defended his actions after being released on bail. "My daughter is not going to be hazed and beat up and touched on like what they've done, ok," he said. Sadiki Alexander, Jones' attorney, said the father of two was simply trying to protect his child.

"This young lady has been bullied since the first day of school. This is a new school for her. It was an overwhelming experience. She's currently on suicide watch because of this matter. So we would just ask everyone to reserve judgment," Alexander said.

Police are also investigating the alleged bullies -- seventh grade students. They could face charges of their own.

(End of story. My comments follow.)

I sympathize with this father. When you have special needs kids one of life's facts is that you will never be able to protect them from all the shit they encounter due to their disabilities. Opportunities missed, problems overlooked can make you lose a lot of sleep and when you catch some shithead messing with your kid you go nuclear. Been there, done that, fortunately the police weren't involved.

This guy's anger got the best of him, he should have contacted advocates for special needs kids and had them in tow when he went to the school about this problem. If that had to happen some time after initially finding out about the abuse, then he or his wife should have taken over the chore of getting their daughter to school until the problem was resolved.

He easily could have had someone's ass.

I can't say I wouldn't do the same thing this man did. Under the right circumstances let me see either one of my two boys or their sister getting shit on while an adult (in this case the bus driver) ignores things and all concerned would know that "Daddy" is not happy.

The man deserves a break on this one. The video from the bus camera shows a type of bus like the ones I took to school. All the bus driver had to do on them was glance in his rear view mirror to make sure the little darlings were behaving. With the behavior mentioned in the article, how could he NOT know something was going on? The damned driver is at fault, he was the adult on the scene. Letting a crippled kid get shit on is unacceptable. What kind of man does that?

Please don't tell me about aggressive kids frightening the driver. My wife's friend is a bus driver, when she takes all 5'1" of her skinny ass on board SHE is in charge! So there is no excuse for the driver ignoring the shenanigans of his passengers to save his own ass.

I hope the dad gets off on this one and comes back to successfully sue the school. He's got the law on his side, the current federal statutes dictate that the school HAS to provide a safe learning environment for special needs kids. If that can't happen the district has to provide for alternatives such as private tutors.

Okay, I'm off the soap box.

Our government working against us...

Found this at The American Spectator (TAS) via Lucianne.com:

Leaked Memo: Department of Homeland Security Contemplates Amnesty By Executive Fiat

By W. James Antle, III on 9.16.10 @ 3:23PM

Remember the amnesty memos? The leaked documents that showed officials in the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency discussing an Obama administration end-run around Congress to implement an administrative amnesty for untold numbers of illegal immigrants? It turns out that USCIS wasn't alone.

TAS has obtained a draft of a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo that sources say eventually made it all the way up to Secretary Janet Napolitano talking about doing much the same thing -- except in much greater technical detail and with more attention to the political ramifications. The idea is that the first phase of a program to legalize illegal immigrants could be implemented by DHS even in the absence of "comprehensive immigration reform." Or, as the memo puts it, by "using administrative measures to sidestep the current state of Congressional gridlock and inertia."

The memo emphasizes registering, fingerprinting, and screening the illegal immigrant population ("excluding individuals who pose a security risk") but the administrative processes envisioned involve giving eligible illegal immigrants work permits and an interim process to "legalize those who qualify and intend to stay here." The memo does acknowledge Congress would have to act to extend permanent lawful residence.

"If going forward with a larger registration program is not possible," the document obtained by TAS says, "we could propose a narrowly-tailored registration program for individuals eligible for relief under the DREAM Act, AgJOBS, or other specifically designed subcategories." The DREAM Act and AgJOBS are pieces of legislation -- targeted amnesties -- that Congress has not voted to pass.

Most of this is consistent with the USCIS memos reported on earlier, except there is a lot more concern over how Congress will react: "The Secretary would face criticism that she is abdicating her charge to enforce the immigration laws. Internal complaints of this type from career DHS officers are likely and may also be used in the press to bolster the criticism."

Like with the USCIS memo, the administration is likely to argue that this just reflects internal deliberations rather than any official policy. And this document is a draft that could have been modified as it moved up the chain of command. More to follow.

(End of story. My comments follow.)

Somebody needs to remind the fools in DHS, USCIS, etc. that they WORK FOR THE PEOPLE! Making end runs around the law of the land is NOT what the hired help should be doing!

November of 2012 can't come soon enough.

Does politics eat your soul?

I'm wondering about that now after having read of the first debate between Christine O'Donnell and her opponent, Chris Coons.

Prior to this O'Donnell seemed to be a no-gray-areas-at-all believer in the Catholic faith.

Maybe that isn't true anymore. Here's the story: http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/senate-races/119345-odonnell-coons-face-off-in-first-debate-for-standing-room-crowd

The telltale portion of the article was, "...Coons reaffirmed his support for abortion rights, saying it should be "safe, legal and rare."

Calling it a difficult and emotional issue, O'Donnell recalled her personal history and her own conversion to a pro-life position.

O'Donnell did say she would support abortion in cases "where the life of the mother" was at risk."

Shit, another damned CINO trying to get to Washington. Next thing you know she'll be hailed as the new Teddy Kennedy. If that happens don't hitch any rides with her.

Next up: Legalizing beastiality

...after all, what man wouldn't want to "marry" his best friend?

UTAH, September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - The stars of a controversial new TLC television show are gearing up to help change America's idea of the family, encourage an end to what they call “discrimination” and promote legal acceptance of a new definition of marriage.

But this Utah family is not concerned about redefining marriage as between two men or two women, but as between one man and two, three, four, or more women.

"I just fell in love, and then I fell in love again, and then I fell in love again," says Kody Brown, a fundamentalist Mormon, in a sneak peek at the upcoming show. Brown considers himself to have three wives: Meri, Janelle, and Christine, and is planning to marry a fourth, Robyn, whose trials learning how to become a member of the "sister wives" appears to form the series' focal point.

"I knew it would be complicated, but I didn't know it would break my heart," said Robyn in the official season preview. But, she says in a later clip, "The wives, they work together as a team, and I want to be a part of that team." The first three women have borne Brown 12 children; Robyn will bring three more from a previous marriage.

While “Sister Wives” is the first reality TV show examining the life of a polygamous household, it was preceded in 2006 by HBO's ongoing drama "Big Love," which follows a Utah polygamist household of one man and three women.

The stars of the new series hope the show will be an opportunity to "come out of the closet" and promote their way of life: Kody Brown told the New York Daily News that "Part of our reason for 'coming out' is it's a story that needs to be told."

"By telling the story and not getting acceptance, necessarily, but lowering the prejudice, it helps all of society understand it," he said.

Brown also framed his trouble with the law as a violation of his "civil rights" in an interview with the Salt Lake Tribune last year. “In the past, polygamists have had to be secret due to the threat of indictment or expulsion from work. Our civil rights got thrown out a long time ago,” he said.

In an August interview with the Tribune, Bill Hayes, president of Figure 8 Films and co-executive producer of the show, called the husband and four women "very much a modern family." "They are open-minded. They are generally adorable,” said Hayes. "They have an unusual lifestyle, but for them, it was their lifestyle."

Proponents of polygamy, although essentially outlaws in North, have recently made headway in gaining acceptance of the practice as a legitimate form of marriage. In a 2007 episode, talk show host Oprah Winfrey invited members of polygamous households to advocate their way of life on her program.

"This is a big step for people to look in and say, 'You know what? Yes, [plural marriage] may not be my personal choice, but it is a choice,'" said a Maryland businessman identified only as Richard, who says he has three wives, on the show.

Valerie, a woman in another polygamous relationship, told Winfrey that "It can be hard when a wife goes out the door with your husband." "We have had jealousies and there have been those times and we can't sugarcoat it and say that, 'Oh, it's so perfect and we love it and we love everyone.' You know, we all have our hard times just like any other people," she said.

However, Valerie contended that polygamy ought to be decriminalized. "I feel like I should have the right to live this way when this is a world of such alternative lifestyles."

(End of story. My comments follow.)

Hey, remember when those of us who object to gay marriage said it would just open the door to polygamy and any other conceivable form of habitation?

Remember how so many of the "enlightened" pooh-poohed the notion?

Boy, this didn't take long!

And this is how a man behaves...

VANCOUVER, B.C., September 16, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A heroic split-second decision by a young husband and father in the moments before a severe car accident that ultimately took his life has made headlines across the continent.

Brian and Erin Wood were driving across Washington State to visit relatives Friday when a car, later found to contain drugs, swerved suddenly into oncoming traffic in front of the couple's car. Erin maintains that her husband made the quick decision to swerve the car to the right as he braked, thereby ensuring that he took the brunt of the impact, while saving her life and the life of her unborn child, the couple's first. A week after the crash, Erin says she is doing well physically and that the baby appears not to have suffered significant trauma.

"His first thought was for that baby and his wife, so I'm sure he did it without consciously realizing it," said Brian's mother Janice Wood.

An ABC TODAY show headline celebrated Woods' sacrifice for both his wife and his child in the womb, and featured an interview with Erin, who said that the sacrifice of her husband of 4 years was "not a surprise at all" to those who knew him.

"He was very excited for this baby, and always just incredibly loving towards me and putting me first, and just an amazing guy," she said. "I'm just glad that he's being remembered as someone who was willing to make that sacrifice."

The young mother also said she took comfort in taking care of her baby in the weeks leading up to her November 5 due date.

“It gives me some comfort just to focus on [the baby] and to focus on the joy that we’ll have once this baby is born,” she said on TODAY. “I’m just trying to draw a lot of strength right now knowing that [Brian] made that choice to save me and the baby, so I can’t waste that gift — and he wouldn’t want me to.”

"I'm trying to focus on what I need to do right now, which is eat and sleep and take my vitamins, and just do my job as a mom," she said.

“I really would give anything just to see Brian and hug him one more time,” she added, saying that she hopes people will learn from her husband’s sacrifice. “So if that just acts as a reminder to everyone to do that with people that they’re blessed to have in their lives, that’s my hope.”

(End of story. No commentary.)

ALWAYS check the facts...

A recent article at Pewsitter.com read,"French Bishop Nourrichard attends female ordination"

Having a Catholic bishop attend an "ordination" of female priests is slightly scandalous. So being curious I clinked on the hyperlink, which took me to a webpage in French. So I copied the story and went to babelfish for a translation (isn't modern technology grand?).

Turns out, the bishop in question attended an Anglican ordination of women priests. Maybe the case can be made he carries the spirit of ecumenism too far by going to another denomination's services, I don't know.

But it's a far cry from attending a renegade Catholic "ordination".

It pays to check things out.

FWIW, the webpage seems to be associated with the Pius X folk. Big surprise there (or not).

On wack job churches, fatherless families and general stupidity...

Here's the background story, taken from Breitbart.com:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A soft-spoken 14-year-old's nose piercing has landed her a suspension from school and forced her into the middle of a fight over her First Amendment right to exercise her religion.

Ariana Iacono says she just wants to be a normal teenager at Clayton High School, about 15 miles southeast of Raleigh. She has been suspended since last week because her nose ring violates the Johnston County school system's dress code.

"I think it's kind of stupid for them to kick me out of school for a nose piercing," she said. "It's in the First Amendment for me to have freedom of religion."

Iacono and her mother, Nikki, belong to the Church of Body Modification, a small group unfamiliar to rural North Carolina, but one with a clergy, a statement of beliefs and a formal process for accepting new members.

It's enough to draw the interest of the state chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, which has contacted school officials with concerns that the rights of the Iaconos are being violated by the suspension.

The Iaconos say the school system is ignoring its own dress code policy, which allows exemptions on religious grounds. The effect, Nikki Iacono, 32, says, is that Johnston County school officials are setting themselves up as judges of what constitutes a "real" religion.

"We pretty much flat-out asked them, what guidelines are you following? What do you need to establish a sincere religious belief?," she said. "We were told that if we were Hindu, or she were Muslim, it would be different."

On Tuesday, after her first suspension ended, Ariana went back to school with her mother—and her nose ring. She was suspended again, this time for five days. If she comes back to school on Sept. 21 with the nose stud, she'll face a 10-day suspension or referral to "alternative schooling," Nikki Iacono said.

A Johnston County schools spokeswoman declined to comment on the situation, saying it's against the law to publicly discuss a particular student's disciplinary matters.

Richard Ivey, the Iaconos' Raleigh-based minister in the church, believes it's a case of officials dismissing something unfamiliar.

"They're basically saying, because they don't agree and because they choose not to respect our beliefs, that it can't be a sincerely held religious belief," he said.

Ivey describes the church as a non-theistic faith that draws people who see tattoos, piercings and other physical alterations as ways of experiencing the divine.

"We don't worship the god of body modification or anything like that," he said. "Our spirituality comes from what we choose to do ourselves. Through body modification, we can change how we feel about ourselves and how we feel about the world."

The church claims roughly 3,500 members nationwide, having started about two years ago, after adopting the name of a similar group that had been dormant for several years.

Sally Gordon, a professor who focuses on Constitutional law and religious issues at the University of Pennsylvania, said schools have the right to issue neutral rules on dress as long as there's a good reason for it and it does not target a specific religion. But she said the school district could may run into a problem with its religious exemption.

The Johnston County schools dress code policy prohibits several types of facial jewelry but does allow officials to make accommodations for sincerely held religious beliefs.

"One of the remarkable things about religious freedom is that people have all kinds of beliefs that look to others as bizarre but make internal sense to them," Gordon said. "We really can only claim to be a country that respects religious liberty if we respect the variety of beliefs that exist in the country—both new and old."

The Iaconos have contacted the North Carolina ACLU chapter for help, and legal director Katy Parker says the school is on shaky ground.

"We do think she has a right to wear her nose ring," Parker said.

Students' free expression rights are limited at schools, but Parker believes a legal category known as a "hybrid right" overrules those curbs. Essentially, the Iaconos are arguing that Ariana's right to free expression and Nikki's right to raise her daughter as she wishes are being abridged.

In 1999, a federal court in North Carolina ruled that the Halifax County school system had violated such hybrid rights of Catherine Hicks and her great-grandson by forcing the boy to wear a school uniform.

Hicks' religious beliefs held that uniformity is linked to the anti-Christ, a belief Halifax schools rejected. But the court ruled in her favor, and ordered the school system to include a religious exemption in its dress code policy.

A similar situation to the Iaconos' went to the courts in 2002, when a woman was fired from her job at a Costco store over her eyebrow ring. The woman was also a member of the Church of Body Modification, but the courts eventually ruled that her religious beliefs did not require her to always wear her jewelry.

The ACLU, like the Iaconos and their minister, hope their issue can be resolved without going to court. In the meantime, Nikki and Ariana pick up schoolwork for her to do at home while her peers sit in class.

"I hope they're going to stop suspending me and clear some of these absences from my record," Ariana said. "I want to get into a good college."

(End of story. My comments follow)

First, I see no mention of a father or husband here. That feeds into a personal belief (NOT religiously based by the way) that fatherless families will exhibit all kinds of loony permissive behavior. A fourteen year old girl doesn't need a nose ring, no matter what the supposed religious connection. There are health risks involved with any body piercing or tattooing, those risks shouldn't be judged by a child nor should a child experience them. This is where fathers enter the picture, they are the protectors of the family. They're the ones who should say "NO!" to teenage insanity. Sorry ladies, but my experience has been that too often "Mom" has her head in the clouds or up her ass when it comes time to restrain the kiddos (Note: my wife doesn't suffer from that problem. She has quite a bit of common sense.) Motherless families also have significant problems, dads can be incredibly stupid also, but we don't see too many of those families in our present day culture.

Next, what the hell kind of ding-a-ling "church" is this? Experiencing the divine via tattoos and body piercings? If that's true I know several drunks who are positively god-like due to their well inked bodies. If only they could change water into beer. Give. Me. A. Break.

What a narcissistic, childish, frivolous world we live in. Someday reality will come crashing down and one hell of a lot of people will be very rudely awakened.

Is there nothing Texans can't deep fry?

Link here; http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/hunting/2010/09/texas-chef-successfully-deep-friesbeer

I mean, really.

Define "irony"

In the following story "irony" is the refusal by local political hacks to allow a celebration of our Constitution, due to the unpopular political beliefs of the celebrants.

(H/T to Lucianne.com)

(CNSNews.com) – Local officials in Ohio’s Andover Township have denied the use of their public square for a celebration of Constitution Day because of the “political affiliation” of its organizers.

Several residents of the small central Ohio town formed The Andover Tea Party in May 2010, and in that same month, they asked to use the square for a rally to commemorate Constitution Day, which celebrates the anniversary of the signing of the U.S. Constitution on September 17, 1787.

But on July 19, a trustee informed one of the tea party organizers, Margaret Slingluff, that they would not be allowed to hold the event, which would have included singers performing patriotic songs and public policy-related speakers, in the square. In an official letter dated Aug. 25, the trustee said the reason was “due to your group’s political affiliation.”

A nonpartisan law center in the state, the 1851 Center for Constitutional Law, has now filed a lawsuit in federal court on behalf of the Tea Party group, claiming their First Amendment rights are being violated.

“The first thing that you note is the extreme irony of the unconstitutional prohibition of the commemoration of the Constitution,” Executive Director Maurice Thompson, the lawyer of record on the case, told CNSNews.com of the incident.

“[A]nd the second thing that’s notable is either the extreme arrogance or ignorance of many local government officials. There’s so much focus on federal government, yet some of the worst actors are at the ground level,” Thompson said.

“The government’s action in this case, ironically, demonstrates the need for greater public understanding of Constitutional rights,” Thompson added in a written statement. “One way to do that is through commemoration of Constitution Day.”

According to their suit filed in U.S. District Court in northern Ohio, the group is seeking a temporary restraining order against the action of the Andover Township trustees.

In the complaint, Thompson writes, “It cannot be contested or doubted that the speech in which Plaintiffs seek to engage—honoring and discussing the fundamental law of this nation, i.e., the Constitution—is at the core of the speech protected by the First Amendment. And no venue could further reinforce such message as doing so in the center and heart of the community.

“In this case, the communicative nature of Plaintiffs’ proposed activities, as well as the selection of the venue for such speech, is indisputably protected by the First Amendment.”

Elaborating to CNSNews.com, Thompson explained that the trustees were citing a local resolution, Andover Township Resolution 06-104, that simply “prohibit[ed] any for-profit advertising or political signs on the Andover Square” and stated that “permission to use the square is made by the trustees on a case-by-case basis.

Based on that, Thompson said the problem was not so much that the group was conservative, but that the trustees believed celebrating the signing of the Constitution was a political event.

“It wasn’t necessarily that this group was disqualified because they’re a Tea Party group that may be considered of a particular political persuasion, but it really was more that the celebration of Constitution Day was considered by the trustees to be less like Memorial Day or Veterans’ Day or 4th of July and more like a political event for whatever reason,” he told CNSNews.com.

“The Constitution Day is a commemoration of the day the Constitution was implemented, and the 4th of July is simply the day the Declaration of Independence was authored—similarly it’s a legal document. So we consider it analogous and not really worthy of a legitimate sanction,” Thompson added.

Of course, the Constitution has a political philosophy and overtones, but it’s kind of a given that you subscribe to that.”

The judge on the case, Judge Donald Nugent, is expected to make a decision in time for the holiday on Sept. 17.

“We expect to get a restraining order before the 17th so that these citizens can have their commemoration and engage in this speech. It’s pretty—it’s a pretty straightforward First Amendment question. You can’t ban speech upon its content.

We feel pretty good about our chances here,” he said, “and we had a quick call with the judge this morning, and they—the judge told the township, ‘Look, you’re not in a very strong position here, so it’ll be in your interest to try to settle this matter,’ and they gave us 24 hours to do that. So, we expect the township to capitulate perhaps by (Wednesday) morning and enter into an agreement with us.”

Just in the past year, the township has allowed events on the public square including a Memorial Day Parade, “Christmas on the Square,” an Easter Egg Hunt, a charitable school supplies drive, and an annual Fall festival.

The trustees did not immediately return calls from CNSNews.com seeking to find out why they believed a Constitution Day rally did not belong among those.

“You know, the First Amendment is something that everybody knows enough about to make this an easy issue,” Thompson said. “These people again are either ill-intentioned or thoughtless, and we really don’t know which. Either is bad government.”

(Story ends here. My comments follow.)

Five gets you ten the local trustees voted for B.O. in 2008.

This is a prime example of why those who value our liberties need to be involved with ALL levels of government.

Our First Lady and our appetites...

First, who the hell elected this bimbo for anything except to be some rather dubious eye candy at state functions? I don't recall her name on the election ballot.

Next, just why should anyone listen to a self proclaimed crusader against obesity? Hey, those of us who are fat know it's not good. It places a strain on the back and knees (two items that always seem to go south as we get older), bad for the heart and makes the mumu a necessity for women and bib overalls the same for men. Got it. Being fat might be the result of prosperity but it looks like hell at the beach. Okay. Noted.

But I don't need the government acting like my mother. I've already got one of those. I need the government to help insure my basic freedoms and after that they should butt out.

It seems everyone wants to get in the act too, like lemmings playing "follow the leader" and with the same lack of thought. My three year old daughter's Catholic preschool sent a note home recently extolling the virtues of "healthy food choices". As I told the wife, they're helping me to remember why I liked public schools so much as a kid. Yeah, the public schools push it too, but nothing like their private counterparts.

Let's face it, the metabolism of your average child thrives on junk. They're kind of like the DeLorean that Michael J. Fox rode in "Back To The Future". Remember the closing scenes where Christopher Lloyd was dumping garbage into the "Mr. Fusion" device that mounted atop the engine? Next thing you knew, he fired that puppy up and they flew off into the future.

The metabolism of children is like that, slop that would solidify my arteries just fuels our three children into warp speed as they burn it all off at play. Try feeding them carrots, cauliflower and tofu and the little darlings go into revolt. By revolt I'm talking French-Revolution-complete-with-the-guillotine type revolt. The thought of my daughter as Madame Defarge is scary.

On a related note, one of the reasons I'd like to see New Jersey's Governor Christie nominated for President is he's as fat as a house. Smart, prolife, favors small government and his ass is three axe handles wide. Let's vote for someone who looks like us instead of these skinny assed liberal fools who would disappear if they turned sideways.

Seriously, my experience has been that fat blue collar workers are more often acquainted with hard work than thin yuppies. That experience translates into a greater likelihood of having common sense. Case in point, my oldest son (now 26 yrs. of age) lost a lot of his nonsensical attitudes once he had to work for his living. He still routinely parks his head up his ass, but things have improved since entering the work force.

So let's pack the First Lady off her fat fighting pulpit and send her back to the White House kitchen where she can make dinner time miserable for her family. She wasn't elected for squat and needs to be reminded of that before single handedly making double bacon cheeseburgers extinct.

Now excuse me, I've some cookies to bake for my kids. They really like the double chocolate truffles I made last week, the mint chocolate ice cream not so much.

Thin might be in, but fat is where it's at.

Delaware and the nation's future.

The GOP in Delaware is supposedly being ripped up by a battle between Christine O'Donnell and Mike Castle. O'Donnell is favored by Tea Party folk while Castle is a sweetheart of the state GOP machine. Because Delaware is heavily Democratic, it's felt that Castle's proabort, pro gun control views work in favor of the Republicans gaining Joe Biden's former seat.

It's felt a win for O'Donnell will mean no chance for Republican control of the Senate. So the smart money says Castle should be the choice.

Screw the smart money. The smart money folks were the ones who gave us McCain and other RINO's in the past few elections. It's led to the present situation where finding any real difference between the two political parties is difficult.

IMO the American voters need to stop doing the smart thing and start doing the right thing. Standing up for whats right shouldn't depend on polling numbers. Let your conscience be your guide and remember that you've got that stinking conscience for a reason.

Nine years.

The gutting of our military continues...

And here's the story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/10/us/10gays.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

This is a result of the way our values have been forced to change by the activist gays and their liberal fellow travelers. It's been decades since homosexuality has not been officially viewed as disordered behavior. Nowadays it's an accepted "lifestyle" and one not to be criticized or shunned. We're to defend it and "celebrate" it. Failure to do so implies you're a bigot, stand by to be bound in chains and cast into the outer darkness.

So as a mere lifestyle it can't be used as justification to bar someone from military service. Therefore it's entirely okey-dokey to have every drag queen and butch dyke lining up at the nearest recruiting station. No problem, right?

The line that really caught my attention was, "The rule, she wrote in an 86-page opinion, has a “direct and deleterious effect” on the armed services."

Yep, you can bet "Her Honor" really has a lot of experience with military personnel. Noted.

It's days like this I'm REALLY, REALLY glad to be retired and downright delirious we have the 2nd Amendment! At the rate we're going, the utilization of the last by the civilian populace will be inevitable.

More on the burning of the Koran...

WARNING: harsh language in parts of this post.



The idea of burning Korans seems to have caught fire (sorry, couldn't help myself there). The latest stories at The Drudge Report include these:
http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=13129871, http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2010/09/09/news/18local_09-09-10.txt, and let's not forget these assholes: http://www.ocala.com/article/20100909/ARTICLES/100909743/1412?Title=Westboro-Baptish-Church-to-burn-Qurans-if-Dove-doesn-t

In addition to this, after going back and forth about not burning a pile of Korans if the NYC Ground Zero Mosque would be moved, the initial culprit is now undecided about what he'll do tomorrow.

While this all happens, quite a few folks have weighed in on how it will inflame the passions of Muslims worldwide. The Vatican has come out against it. General Petraeus has spoken of how it might endanger the troops in Afghanistan & Iraq. Several leading Muslims have warned of impending disaster from it.

Right now I don't give a fat rat's ass. As a matter of fact, I am sick and tired of hearing how the followers of the Pedophile Prophet will react to this. Fuck 'em!

If they riot in some shit hole country then I'd say the government of that particular toilet should act accordingly. It's their problem. Period. Let them learn some self control.

If there's an added threat to our troops stationed overseas due to a few books on the barbie, give 'em all fully loaded firearms and permission to use accordingly.

As for the Islamist idiots in this nation, the followers of that cult who actually make up less than 2% of our population, they should grow a thicker skin. End of story.

Nobody gets their panties in a twist when some fuckwad dips a crucifix in his own piss. Christians are just supposed to suck up and take it. And Christianity is the religion cited for being SOOO violent. It supposedly helped unhinge Timothy McVeigh before he initiated the Oklahoma City Bombing. It's the religion known as being reactionary, the adherents are supposedly so homophobic, misogynistic, racist, anti intellectual, cultish, blahblahblah, on and on. But we're supposed to just sit down, shut up and quietly accept whatever insults come our way. Nobody breaks a sweat when a church or synagogue gets torched, no one wonders if the local Jews or Christians will erupt into mass violence. If they did then there would be calls for the outlawing of Christianity or Judaism because of it's violent tendencies.

Meanwhile, the "religion of peace" gets a pass when they riot over a few burned books. We have to "understand" them, show "empathy" for their long term suffering at the hands of the West and it's Zionist elements (love that one).

Give. Me. A. Break.

IMO the followers of the Pedophile Prophet should remove their collective head out of their 7th century ass and come on into the modern world.

Yes, the idiots who are burning the Koran are just that: IDIOTS! Yes, they're desecrating an item held as holy by many of the world. It's plain childish and despicable.

Tough shit. Deal with it.

Christians and Jews routinely have someone pissing in their holy water or on their menorah. Are we rioting? Has the Pope called on Catholics to kill Dan Brown for his "DaVinci Code"? When someone desecrates a Eucharistic Host is he strung up from the nearest church spire?

HELL NO!

So lets stop worrying about what the Islamonuts will do. Their hurt feelings don't mean diddle squat.

Fuck 'em!

How to keep B.O. & the boys in power.

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Haley Barbour is the latest potential Republican presidential candidate to suggest that social issues like abortion should be taken off the table while making the economy the main focus. Despite the fact that polls show Americans strongly oppose the pro-abortion health care law, Barbour says fiscal issues should take priority.

At a breakfast with reporters this morning sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor, the Mississippi governor said those who focus on social issues like abortion are taking the GOP off message this election cycle.

“Any issue that takes people’s eye off of unemployment, job creation, economic growth, taxes, spending, deficits, debts is taking your eye off the ball,” Barbour said, according to a Daily Caller report.

“But if somebody goes to campaign for governor candidate x, I would hope that somebody would stay focused on the issues that matter to the campaign: jobs, the economy, taxes, spending, debt, deficits,” Barbour continued. “You run down rabbit trails, you're wasting— you're using up valuable resources that could be used to talk to people about what they care about.”

He said his advice is primarily for candidates seeking election in November, even though polling data makes it clear that Republicans, the overwhelming majority of whom are pro-life, are much more enthused about voting than their largely pro-abortion Democratic counterparts.

Barbour was asked about the "truce" potential presidential candidate Mitch Daniels, the Indiana governor, called for on social issues that quickly got him in trouble with pro-life advocates.

Though Barbour is strongly pro-life and has signed pro-life legislation, he said he agreed with Daniels' sentiment, which Daniels partly walked back in a subsequent interview.

Barbour said a candidate's stance on abortion “ain’t going to change anybody’s vote this year."

During the breakfast, The Hill reports Barbour said he has not thought much about running for president and wouldn't make a decision until at least after the elections.

“I'm not giving serious thought to running for president until after the November election,” Barbour said, adding, “I expect this to be a very wide open nomination contest."

He has said he is aware that he may have limited appeal as a presidential candidate because he is seen as a southern conservative "bubba" who is overweight and possesses a heavy drawl accent.

But, if Barbour begins telling pro-life voters they need to take a back seat and that the issue of abortion won't determine how they vote, his potential campaign may be dead before it begins.

(End of story. My commentary follows.)

By discounting issues such as abortion, gay marriage, euthanasia and embryonic stem cell research, Republicans can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory this November. Ditto for 2012.

Sorry, I'll eat boiled ham hocks & beans regularly and not think twice about it if that diet is a direct result of electing a strong pro-life, conservative values, politician.

Steak? Prime rib? Hey it all looks the same when it passes out the other end. BFD.

Just how bad can this economy really be when our beloved First Lady is mounting a campaign against childhood obesity? I've seen really poor people in real Third World nations. Our "poor" don't even come close to their desperation.

But just watch as the GOP acts as clueless as their Democratic counterparts and start pandering to the cultural elites.

Defeat from the jaws of victory, yep. Clowns like this may make it happen yet.

On burning the Koran...

For whatever happens I blame the MSM.

They took a story that rightfully belonged on the back pages and gave it major coverage. So the thing has been blown out of all proportion to it's real importance.

That church in Gainsville? It has a congregation of about fifty regulars. Yet to listen to the talking heads you would think it's followers could fill St. Patrick's Cathedral in NYC until there was standing room only.

They're a splinter group. Nuts. Fools.

But with all the publicity, they're now faced with either looking stupid or lighting a match and possibly setting off a lot of those who follow the Pedophile Prophet. Remember the furor over the Danish cartoons of Mohammad? Remember what happened after the MSM carried a story about Korans being flushed down a toilet at Gitmo?

(Speaking as a man who always has to flush twice because of my POS water-saving toilet, I'd WANT a commode that I could flush a book down! YAH, BABY!!)

So now a good portion of the world is waiting to see what will happen on Saturday. My bet is they'll light a match. We'll all wait and see what a bunch of pinheaded fools will do.

Its really stupid. But if they don't go through with it, a good portion of the Islamofacists will feel the Great Satan has been tamed to the point where we fear their anger.

It reminds me of an old game we played aboard the boats. Basically one guy would dare another to do something (normally something dumb). The wording was always the same, i.e. "You don't have the hair on your ass to (fill in the blank here). "

Sometimes proving you had enough hair on your ass could be painful. But you didn't want to back down, word would travel fast that you'd lost your nerve. Yep, a stupid, testosterone fueled juvenile game. But it got a lot of traction back then.

IMO the airing of this story to the degree it has experienced now leaves that dumbshit pastor and his flock hearing a collective, "You don't have the hair on your ass to burn the Koran."

This could get damned interesting.

As I said, I fault the MSM for whatever the outcome of all of this is. Damn them, damn them to Hell. It should never have gotten the publicity it has.

A big fat homeless "WAH"!

Found this via Drudge at http://www.myfoxny.com/ :

CANVAS STAFF REPORTS - Unhappy meals have arrived at a McDonald's in San Francisco.

Homeless people who hang out at the nearby Golden Gate Park used to get 99-cent burgers at the McDonald's located at Haight and Stanyan streets in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.

But the eatery got rid of its Dollar Menu about a month ago. That move, which McDonald's called a simple business decision, means items on the menu are now too expensive for the people who spend much of their day hanging out on the sidewalk in front of the restaurant.

Items on the Dollar Menu now cost around $1.50.

"I eat less. I have to get more money," said 29-year-old Nicholas Newhart to The San Francisco Chronicle . He was not happy with the price increase and said, "If I don't have a dollar and I want food, I just end up going to a trash can."

Homelessness has been a problem in San Francisco for decades. Tension between business owners and homeless people who hang out on sidewalks in front of their stores and offices has prompted Mayor Gavin Newsom and some Haight Street merchants to support a ballot measure in November that would ban sitting or lying on public sidewalks, The Chronicle reported.

Some homeless people think the more expensive menu is the next logical step in the crackdown, though the move does not affect other McDonald's in the city.

"That means that the Dollar Menu is a hoax, a fraud, a phony," Blake Edwards told KGO-TV .

Franchise owner Natalie Gonzales said the speculation as to why she raised prices at her restaurant at Haight and Stanyan streets is "absolutely false."

"This was a business decision based on a number of contributing factors," she said.

Customer demand and other factors often lead to franchise owners changing the prices of certain menu items, said Julie Wenger, marketing director for McDonald's Pacific-Sierra Region.

(End of story. My commentary follows.)

Sorry, even in this economy I've no sympathy for the professionally homeless. If they're needing food & sustenance then they should hit a soup kitchen. The fact that they don't may be tied into a refusal to abide by the rules of such places. You know the type of draconian rules I'm talking about, e.g. no drugs, no booze, no sex on the premises. THOSE sort of ridiculous rules.

We have a bunch of professionally homeless folk here in the Dallas area. Some years back a local TV station surreptitiously followed one of them after he left his favorite spot for begging on a Friday afternoon. The guy went home, cleaned up and drove to Louisiana to enjoy the casinos there for the weekend. Monday morning came and he was back at work with his little home made sign asking for handouts. Bum!

That McDonald's' franchise should have cancelled their dollar menu years ago.

One further note, I'll start worrying about this economy when I stop seeing so many fat people. Don't tell me it's due to the inability of the overweight poor to purchase nutritious healthy food. I had one individual try that on me some time ago. Sorry Charlie, I'm very familiar with the price of groceries versus a take out from some ptomaine domain.

You want cheap? Cook it yourself. If you don't have time during the week due to job searching then make up a double shitpot of food on the weekend to last for several days. Speaking from past experience, it'll work just great. Lots of things to choose from too, my favorite was always boiled ham hocks and kidney beans, the wife's was (shudder) tuna casserole. Make a big batch and stick it in the fridge until needed.

Anyone looking for sympathy can find it in the dictionary, it's listed between shit and syphilis.

A job worth doing is worth doing well...

Found this via Creative Minority Report; Spanish priest strikes parishioner for blasphemy about some fool desecrating a Eucharistic Host at Mass in Spain.

The article describes the parishioner as "...very upset and unrepentant." IMO "Father" didn't get the job done if the idiot feels that way.

Next time call in "Uncle Guido" and have his legs broken, THAT will teach a valuable lesson.

If you're going to do something, do it right for crying out loud.

B.O. needs to grow a set...

It seems El Presidente doesn't like being unpopular. In a recent speech he whines about Republicans and the fact that, " They talk about me like a dog."

Good grief, get some spine man.

One of the things I simultaneously admired about G.W. Bush and was exasperated by was his silence in the face of the crap he was subjected to. That included but was not limited to: he was a warmonger, stupid, evil, manipulative, hated black people, pandered to the rich, hated poor people, etc.

He just kept quiet, turning the other cheek so his detractors could keep on poor mouthing him.

The present occupant of the Oval Office can be described by "wah".

I guess community organizers in the Chicago area never come under criticism. Can you say, "candy ass"?

Grisly "trophies"

Don't read the following if you just ate or have a weak stomach. I've warned ya!

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Abortion practitioners who have recently come under fire from state health departments for violating health and safety codes have an odd similarity. They both were found, after investigations of their abortion centers, to have kept the bodies of dead babies from abortions stored in jars.

As LifeNews.com reported last week, the Maryland medical licenses of George Shepard, Jr., of Delaware and Nicola I. Riley of Utah, were suspended.

They worked for abortion business owner Steven Chase Brigham who runs abortion centers in four states -- including Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

The Maryland Board of Physicians and Elkton, Maryland police compiled documents unveiling numerous problems and conducted a raid of his Maryland abortion facility. Authorities who raided Brigham's abortion center discovered the remains of 35 late-term aborted babies in jars.

As Matt Archbold, a National Catholic Register columnist, noted in a post today, "This would be a strange and horrible story if it had never happened before. But, just a few months ago, another abortionist, this one in Philadelphia, was discovered to be keeping aborted babies in jars."

In that case, officials investigating an abortion business in Philadelphia after a woman died from a botched legal abortion last November made a grisly discovery. The found dozens of apparently late-term unborn children who were killed in abortions as long as 30 years ago.

The "Shop of Horrors" case involves the West Philadelphia abortion center Women's Medical Society run by Kermit Gosnell.

State Licensing officials and DEA agents who searched the Women's Medical Society found the dozens of unborn children killed in abortions who were frozen for decades. CBS 3 indicates they are now determining whether or not they may have been victims of illegal late-term abortions.

Archbold says he believes the abortion practitioners have a fascination with death.

"I used to think that the abortion industry were simply capitalists who allowed their greed to override their humanity. I used to think that maybe it was just feminism run amok and that cooler heads would eventually prevail. I used to think that pro-lifers were simply up against the extreme of secularized logic," he wrote at NCR.

"Over the past few years though I've come to believe that it’s more than that. It’s worse than that. We're immersed in a culture with a death fetish. Our fascination with death is boundless," he adds. "Our culture increasingly sees humanity as the problem. We elevate animals in order to grant them human rights and increasingly view humans as animals."

It appears to Archbold that hate and evil are more frequently overcoming love and good.

But for him, "Hate has become so commonplace that it has lost its power to surprise me. Kindness now moves me more than hate. I have come to see love as the exception; kindness as counter cultural."

"No matter what, I think it’s time love made a comeback," he concludes.

(End of story. My commentary follows)

Is it so surprising that someone who completely denies the humanity of unborn babes would take their remains as "trophies" of his work?

Anyone who feels we aren't dead in our national soul might want to think about the implications of this story.

How's Your Labor Day?

This is how the troops spend theirs (H/T to Lucianne.com) ;

Update on "My Big Mouth"

Referring back to this post; http://agangershome.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-big-mouth.html

It's now the end of week two. The wife got the teachers involved, one of them we've known for two years. Kind of reminds me of some career enlisted men I've known, they'd been around forever, knew a hell of a lot more than the command, took no shit and looked out for their troops. She was the one that FINALLY determined our kids would be dropped off at our house every day at 2:45 unless we pitched a walleyed fit with Transportation.

Since the primo consideration is the welfare of my sons and the damned school is only a few blocks away, we checked if I could come by at 3:00 to pick the boys up in their classrooms and drive them home myself. No problem, it seems children who don't ride the bus for special needs kids have to hang out in class until 3:00 anyway.

If it seems confusing after all the fuss about 2:45 being too early for a drop off at home but 3:00 being no big deal, it involves the time needed to go pick up my daughter twice a week. That's a 14 mile drive, I normally get home at 2:30. Any slowdown in traffic for construction, a fender bender, etc. will screw things up. As I mentioned before, autistic kids thrive on routine and NOT having Mom or Dad waiting for them when they should will be a catastrophe.

So getting them myself at 3:00 is fine. Pitching that walleyed fit might feel good but wouldn't do anything for our children.

While the teachers were working on our behalf and dealing with a Transportation Department that reflexively states no buses are even on the road before 2:45, the numbskull bus driver continued to promise bringing the kids home at 3:15 but kept showing up at 2:45. That happened twice, the first time my wife had to chase after the bus to get our kids. The driver told her another child had failed to get on, thus the bus was early. Her whole attitude was, "Tough shit, deal with it."

The second time it happened I was sitting in my driveway, just waiting (Fool me once and shame on you. Fool me twice and shame on me). I just got the kids off the bus and walked away. The change involving my getting the boys on the following afternoon and doing that regularly was already set up. I didn't bother telling the driver, let her find out her own damned self.

Two mornings later as she took the boys, I was asked if I'd be picking them up on a regular basis. I just looked at her and said we hadn't decided yet. Her response was, "So how am I supposed to know?" She sounded rather put out.

At that point I leaned into the bus, looked her in the eyes and said, "At the start of this week you told my wife you'd be bringing our kids home at 3:15. She wound up chasing this bus down at 2:45. You didn't admit you'd been mistaken, apologize for being wrong, nothing. My wife just had to deal with it. Right now I have no desire to "deal" with you." Then I turned around and walked off.

Haven't spoken to her since. Doubt I'll be getting a Christmas card this year. Ho hum.

I could raise some shit with the Transportation Department regarding the whole affair. But right now I figure it would be pointless. I've managed to piss off the bus driver, that fool I told to get fucked is probably still hearing the echoes of it in her ears, I'll just live with that.

The important thing is that my boys are taken care of. It's all about them, not me or my wife. The rest of the world can go to hell. My family comes first.

Vigilantes?

When John & Joan Q. Public feel the authorities aren't responding properly to a problem, they'll take things into their own hands.

Thats a recurring thought I've had, today brought to the fore by this; http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100903/ap_on_re_us/us_tennessee_mosque

There have been other indicators that the American public is damned well fed up by inaction and spineless waffling regarding enemies within our borders. Another example would be the spate of recent attacks on Hispanics in Staten Island by local blacks who shout anti Mexican epithets. Since blacks are harder hit than whites when cheap labor is done "off the books" by illegal aliens, it makes sense the action would come from that quarter first.

That is just an example, there have been others. I didn't really jump on them because conspiracy theories are a dime a dozen, why add a baseless one of my own?

Some years ago I became interested in vigilantes, I think it was about the time the movie "Death Wish" came out. A lot of folk were fantasizing about that sort of thing then. The "Remo Williams" series of books was popular then also, if you haven't read them I'll just say they involve a government agent who kills anything that looks cross eyed at him, unless it's a good looking babe. Not exactly Shakespeare. The appetite for them wasn't hard to figure out. Crime was up all over the nation, the most outlandish stories surfaced of criminal's "rights" trumping the suffering of their victims (even worse than today, believe it or not). Life sucked for the law abiding.

Not too different from now. It's just we're not looking at the same sort of criminals as we were then. Now it's the Islamofacists who worship a Pedophile Prophet until almost like clockwork some jihadist goes and shoots up an Army base, a Jewish center, tries to blow up Times Square, wears exploding jockey shorts on an airliner. This is always accompanied by the hand wringing of our politicians who worry that there will be a backlash against innocent muslims. Noted.

Or if it isn't the Cultists of the Koran it's the illegal aliens. They're swarming into our prisons, flooding the ER's of local border state hospitals, sucking up every benny they can get for just breathing on the right side of the border. This is done while spending a fair amount of time trashing the USA because of perceived "racism". Again, our politicians do N-O-T-H-I-N-G at the Federal level except to punish local officials who want the damned laws enforced.

I briefly mentioned getting interested in the history of vigilantes. It seems one of the lasting traits of our nation is a willingness to act on our own when the need is perceived. I'd say that perception is here and all that's lacking is a spark to set it off. Just my opinion.

John & Joan Q. Public are getting mighty tired of it all. If some things don't change PDQ then stand by for a wave of vigilantism.

As for me, whenever it's necessary I'll be practicing a piece of military advice some say has existed since the time of the Roman Legions, i.e. "Keep your mouth shut, your eyes and ears open and don't volunteer anything".