Thursday, May 08, 2008

Some Things To Think About

Someone has to blow the cobwebs off of this site for crying out loud, so here's some fun trivia:

Consider:

The Democrats are complaining about how long the war is taking, but...

It took less time to take Iraq than it took Janet Reno to take the Branch Davidian compound. That was a 51-day operation.

We've been looking for evidence for chemical weapons in Iraq for less time than it took Hillary Clinton to find the Rose Law Firm billing records.

It took less time for the 3rd Infantry Division and the Marines to destroy the Medina Republican Guard than it took Ted Kennedy to call the police after his Oldsmobile sank at Chappaquiddick.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

For The Nerd Who Has Everything

Not for the faint of constitution.

Really.

Click on Read More if you want to.

Heh.

I Had A Good Laugh Today

As always, brought to you by Jackie and Dunlop from RedStateUpdate, via HotAir:

Click here for the video (warning, redneck language).

I say we keep the slogan!

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

[crickets chirping]

Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Precisely

I am going to order my McCain poster, but I am looking for the one with Uncle Sam saying, "Shut up and vote McCain." Does anyone know where I can get that yard sign? Anyway, Sowell hits the nail on the head:

Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.

Monday, April 07, 2008

Well Said

The persistent weakness of American liberalism is its fixation with rights and procedures at any cost to efficiency and common sense.

You should read Jonathan Chait's entire piece here, but I thought that line summed up things rather well.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

Seeing As How A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words…

Friday, April 04, 2008

I am back as a new HOMEOWNER!

I got the house and have been moving for the last week! I love it!

Welfare…It’ ain’t just for poor folks anymore!

(I received the following email yesterday from a good friend, and the title of this post is pasted from his email subject line.)

Check it out! They now have federal welfare programs to assist poor investment banks so that they don't have to be accountable for their overly speculative and ill-advised financial moves. It sure is easier making money in the "free market" knowing that if you make bad decisions, the government will be there to bail you out. I highly doubt relief for individual homeowners will be as forthcoming or bountiful as this (not that it should be...)

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080403/ap_on_bi_ge/congress_bear_stearns

MY FAVORITE PARTS

"After an uproar over the terms of the sale, the share price was boosted to around $10 and JP Morgan agreed to assume the risks for the first $1 billion in losses that might occur, lowering the Fed's potential risk to $29 billion.
Comment: "Oh, just 29 billion...much better!....And thankfully its the "fed" taking the potential risk and not the taxpayers...Oh wait...same thing!"

In his testimony Wednesday, Bernanke said he did not believe the central bank would lose money on the deal and said it could make money. He said he did not consider the transaction a bailout because of the losses sustained by Bear Stearns shareholders."

-- Uh, he did not consider the transaction a bailout because of the losses sustained by Bear Stearns shareholders...."...That's like me saying "I don't consider my station wagon a station wagon my wife's car is a two door sedan"....And in regards to the Bernanke's comment that "the central bank could make money"....Yes...they could...they also could not...In other words, they took over the RISK of Bear Sterns poor decision making.

Saturday, March 29, 2008

Finally, A Good Role Model For Girls

Forget Britney and Jamie Lynn Spears. Forget Paris Hilton. Forget Lindsey Lohan.

There is finally a good celebrity role model for girls.

She sings. She acts. She has the hottest kids' show on the Disney Channel. She is even cleaner than Hilary Duff.

Unlike Britney, Jamie Lynn, Paris and Lindsey, this real role model has something that steers her away from the troubles associated with stardom.

That something is her Christian faith.

During an interview with FOXNews reporter Hollie McKay, the starlet said, "I think it’s my faith that keeps me grounded, especially because I’m a Christ follower for sure. Live like Christ and he’ll live in you, and that’s what I want to do."
[Quote Source]

During an interview with Today's Christian magazine, the starlet said, "Faith is a big part of my life. I recently read a book titled Girl Talk With God about a teen girl's conversations with God, and I feel that I'm here in Hollywood because of faith and God's will." [Quote Source]

On March 29, 2008 during the 2008 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, after receiving one of the awards, the starlet gave a brief thank-you speech which she began by declaring her Christian faith to her millions of fans. In doing so, she let millions of pre-teens know that it was okay to be a Christian.

When she was born, this good role model for girls was named "Destiny Hope". To her millions of fans, she is known as . . .

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Do You Want To Know Why John McCain Won The GOP Primaries?

This might have had something to do with it.

Argue with McCain over Campaign Finanace Reform and Illegal Immigration all you want, but he's rock-solid on national security.

Early & Vocal Support for the Surge = GOP primary votes.

That’ll Leave A Mark

Col. David Hunt, who was there in Tulza trying to take care of Hilalry's security, points out just how insulting her lie about the snipers is to the troops.

Put a fork in her, she's done.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The Web Belongs to Conservatives

Check out this list from Nielson of the top 30 online news sites. With the exception of the Daily Kos - conservative or conservative leaning organizations dominate, beating out even main stream (left wing) franchises known primarily for their offline publications.

Brand or channel; sessions per person; unique audience (000)
1. drudgereport.com; 19.9; 3,445
2. Daily Kos^; 8.9; 1,204
3. Fox News Digital Network; 8.3; 10,177 [does this include the Wall Street Journal?]
4. CNN Digital Network; 7.9; 37,181
5. AOL News; 7.7; 21,119
6. Yahoo! News; 7.4; 35,274
7. MSNBC Digital Network; 6.4; 34,013
8. ksl.com^; 6.0; 796
9. Breitbart.com; 5.3; 2,674
10. Google News; 5.3; 12,050
11. Gannett Newspapers and Newspaper Division; 5.1; 13,998
12. NYTimes.com; 4.9; 18,975
13. Netscape; 4.8; 2,709
14. Townhall.com; 4.7; 1,152
15. Media General Newspapers; 4.6; 1,761
16. GTGI Network 4.5; 1,345
17. Star Tribune; 4.3; 2,108
18. TWC News Websites; 4.1; 840
19. NewsMax.com; 4.0; 4,054
20. Zwire^; 3.9; 1,089
21. Cox Newspapers; 3.9; 5,197
22. washingtonpost.com; 3.8; 10,441
23. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3.8; 1,259
24. The Buffalo News^; 3.7; 502
25. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; 3.6; 1,472
26. MediaNews Group Newspapers; 3.5; 5,850
27. USATODAY.com; 3.5; 10,571
28. WorldNow 3.5; 10,588
29. IB Websites; 3.4; 7,565
30. St. Louis Post Dispatch^; 3.4; 1,022

Now you have to be blitzed to see that Newsmax and TownHall.com beat out USA Today and the Washington Post (which is actually affiliated with MSNBC.com - so I don't know why they counted it separately, but they did). I asked if FNC included the WSJ, but now that I noticed the Post was not included with MSNBC.com, I simply think the WSJ has less hits because the whole online newpaper except the columns are for pay only.

But just look at this list again. I highlighted breitbart.com, even though it runs straight AP and Reuters stories, the founder, Andrew Breitbart, is a Drudge collaborator and a known conservative (libertarian)..

Sunday, March 23, 2008

Happy Easter!

On Paul's Great Sadness for Israel and the Jews

Romans 9

God's Sovereign Choice

I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit— I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race, 4the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.

It is not as though God's word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham's children. On the contrary, "It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned."In other words, it is not the natural children who are God's children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham's offspring. 9For this was how the promise was stated: "At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son."

Not only that, but Rebekah's children had one and the same father, our father Isaac. Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God's purpose in election might stand: not by works but by him who calls—she was told, "The older will serve the younger." Just as it is written: "Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated."

What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses,

"I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion."

It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth." Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

One of you will say to me: "Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?" But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?' "Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?

What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?

As he says in Hosea:

"I will call them 'my people' who are not my people;
and I will call her 'my loved one' who is not my loved one," and,
"It will happen that in the very place where it was said to them,
'You are not my people,'
they will be called 'sons of the living God.' "

Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

"Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,
only the remnant will be saved.
For the Lord will carry out
his sentence on earth with speed and finality."

It is just as Isaiah said previously:

"Unless the Lord Almighty
had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
we would have been like Gomorrah."

Israel's Unbelief

What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; but Israel, who pursued a law of righteousness, has not attained it. Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the "stumbling stone." As it is written:

"See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes men to stumble
and a rock that makes them fall,
and the one who trusts in him will never be put to shame."

Friday, March 21, 2008

I Am Absolutely Certain…

...that the media coverage of the mishandling of Senator Obama's passport information will be handled in exactly the same way the media handled the Clintons illegally misappropriating hundreds of FBI files.

HA!