Quote of the Day

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.

-William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008)

A Vote For Sarah Palin

To read this article in its entirety visit http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/?p=1161

by Suann Therese Maier

"... I will vote for Sarah Palin because I don’t need the Democratic platform’s belated affirmation of motherhood. Thanks, but I already know that motherhood is good, several times over. Moreover, the party’s rediscovery of motherhood seems rather cynical in the current news cycle, while Democratic-friendly bloggers and media types bash Palin about her daughter’s pregnancy and her own busy schedule while bringing up children. How can a real sympathy for motherhood come from the same people who wrote a platform that hardens the party’s addiction to a phony right to kill the unborn?...
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she has guts. We’ve never met, but I suspect I know something about her life, and so do a great many other women. I know what it means to have a son with Down syndrome. I know what it means to talk a good line about religious faith and then be asked to prove it. I know what it means to have a daughter pregnant and unmarried.
In fact, while we’re on the subject, I also know what it means to have two grandchildren born out of wedlock, a son struggling with alcohol, two grandchildren with serious disabilities, putting myself through graduate school while simultaneously caring for a husband and children and teaching full time—and a whole lot more. This is the stuff of real human love; this is the raw material of family life. And those who think that Palin’s beliefs and family struggles are funny or worth jeering at, simply reveal the venality of their own hearts.
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she is intelligent, tenacious and talented. Nobody made her rise easy, and no one is making it easy now. And—is it only moms who notice this?—unlike Senator Biden, she does seem to act consistently on her beliefs about the sanctity of life, at considerable personal cost.
I will vote for Sarah Palin because she doesn’t come from Washington or New York or Chicago or anywhere else the political and media aristoi like to hang out. In fact, I especially like the idea that the state she governs actually produces something—like some of the oil that powers the hair dryers and klieg lights at MSNBC...
... Finally, I will vote for Sarah Palin, not because I’ve left the Democratic party of my youth and young adulthood, but because that party has left me. In fact, it no longer exists. And no amount of elegant speaking, exciting choreography, and moral alibis will bring it back.
That’s the real tragedy of this election."

Quote of the Day

I see America, not in the setting sun of a black night of despair ahead of us, I see America in the crimson light of a rising sun fresh from the burning, creative hand of God. I see great days ahead, great days possible to men and women of will and vision.

Carl Sandburg (1878-1967)

The Last Hope from the Last Frontier

America, you have your hope. America, here is your warrior. America, here is your conservative. America here is your Vice President!

Yes, it's the biggest thing to come from our biggest state since oil, it's Alaska's Republican governor, Sarah Palin!!!!!

Quote of the Day

In the beginning the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

-Douglas Adams

Obama Flubs the Presidential Test

Biden? Was Robert Byrd too trendy?

By Jonah Goldberg

Vice president. Who among us can contain their excitement?

Not me. I can’t wait to hear more from the man for whom brevity is a Rubicon he will not cross. Ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you something about Joe Biden, as Joe Biden himself might say: Joe is the guy who will tell the hard truths, say the unsaid things — literally, not just figuratively — to ensure that he has gone the extra oratory mile in service to this great cause, America, for which he will give not merely his last breaths but an unknowable number of breaths in service of the country he loves, never once tiring or being distracted by the grammatical ballast of the period, the wedge issue of the paragraph break or the thud of his audiences’ heads soporifically smacking the tables in front of them. No, never let it be said that Joe won’t say what needs to be said, not only when it needs to be said but the other times as well, again and again and, ladies and gentlemen, again.

One can only hope the perpetual motion machine that is Biden’s mouth will, like a million monkeys banging on typewriters, eventually stumble on a plausible explanation for why Obama picked Biden, of all people.

It’s a leaden cliche to note that the choice of a running mate is the first “presidential” decision a candidate makes. What, then, does it say that Obama’s first such decision contradicts the alleged promise of his presidency?

In his career-making speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, Obama ridiculed “the pundits” who “like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states; red states for Republicans, blue states for Democrats.” But when it came time to act “presidential,” Obama passed on several short-list VP candidates from red states — the governors of Virginia, Kansas, and Iowa — in favor of the senator from deep-blue Delaware.

Over the last two years, Obama’s campaign has gone further, investing a great deal in this idea of Obama as a post-partisan candidate who transcends all of these silly categories. Quoting the candidate, the official Republicans for Obama Web site proclaims: “For the first time in a long time, we have the chance to build a new majority of not just Democrats, but Independents and Republicans who’ve lost faith in their Washington leaders but want to believe again — who desperately want something new.”

And to feed that bottomless yearning for the new, Obama picked a Democrat who was first elected to the U.S. Senate when Obama was 11 years old and Richard Nixon was still popular. When Biden — already a seasoned pol — first ran for president, Duran Duran was still thought of as the cutting edge of music. What happened? Was Robert Byrd too trendy?

And what about all that jibber-jabber about post-partisanship? When Obama, the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate, according to the 2007 vote scoring done by National Journal, picks the third-most-liberal senator, does that count as reaching across the aisle?

to continue reading this article go to
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY5MWIzNGIzNjRiNjlkYjlhMzI1OWY0OWRiOGFlMWI=&w=MQ==

It’s Smarmy and Smirky ‘08!

"The only thing between Joe Biden and the vice presidency is his mouth."

--Michelle Malkin

Read about the most embarrassing new move by Barack Obama and the socialists!... oops, i meant to say democrats... or did I?

Long time no postage

Well as you can all tell from the last post which was dated for may, Jake and I have been extremely busy. Actually we have been really lazy and probably just forgot about the blog for awhile. Unfortunately i have no idea where Jake is although i can guess that he is either in Alaska or Ohio(His Fatherland). Because of Jake's absence i have temporarily taken over his job of posting random crap that comes into his mind. I must say that most of the crap is good and sweet ; however, completely random. So for those of you who actually read this and because you read this have no life whatsoever i have left you with a cool little story i heard about while working down at the Latah Bistro. Many of you might already have heard this story but then again many of you probably haven't. So for those of you that have not heard about the Greyhound Bus Mutilation please use this link and enjoy the story. *WARNING, VERY DISTURBING* Thank you and goodnight. http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2008/07/31/man-decapited-beheaded-aboard-greyhound-bus-canada/
Please read all the way down to the bottom so you get the full story and all of the "juicy" details. (that wasn't funny! don't laugh!)

"Lest We Forget"

"We Cannot Indulge Ourselves in the Luxury of Self-Pity"

Take this, Barack Whinobama!

"Adversity, in one form or another, is the universal experience of man. It is the common lot of all … to experience misfortune, suffering, sickness, or other adversities. Ofttimes our work is arduous and unnecessarily demanding. Our faith is tried in various ways—sometimes unjustly tried, it seems. At times it seems that even God is punishing us and ours. One of the things that makes all this so hard to bear is that we ourselves appear to be chosen for this affliction while others presumably escape these adversities...But we cannot indulge ourselves the luxury of self-pity"

-Marion George Romney

Quote of the Day

"Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind -- a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it."

-Eden Phillpotts, A Shadow Passes

On Mending and Ending Things

More from one of the greatest conservative Christian minds in history.

by G.K. Chesterton
Illustrated London News, December 23, 1905

A certain politician (whom I would not discuss here on any account) once said of a certain institution (which wild horses shall not induce me to name) that "It must be mended or ended." Few people who use this useful phrase about reform notice the important thing about it. The important thing about it is that the two methods described here are not similar but opposite; between mending and ending that is not a difference of degree but of vital antagonism of kind. Mending is based upon the idea that the original nature of a thing is good; ending is based upon the idea that the original nature of a thing is bad or at least, has lost all power of being good.

If I "mend" an armchair it is because I want an armchair. I mend the armchair because I wish to restore it to a state of more complete armchairishness. My objection to the armchair in its unmended state is that its defects prevent it from being in the fullest sense an armchair at all. If (let us say) the back has come off and three of the legs have disappeared, I realize, in looking at it, not merely that it presents a sense of general irregularity to the eye; I realize that in such and such respects it does definitely fall short of the Divine and Archetypal Armchair, which, as Plato would have pointed out, exists in heaven.

But it is possible that I might possess among my drawing room furniture some object, let us say a rack or a thumbscrew, of which the nature and raison d'être was repellent to my moral feelings. If my thumbscrew fell into slight disrepair, I should not mend it at all; because the more I mended my thumbscrew the more thumbscrewy it would be. If my private rack were out of order, I should be in no way disturbed; for my private code of ethics prevents me from racking anyone, and the more it was out of order the less likely it would be that any casual passer-by could get racked on it.

In short, a thing is either bad or good in its original aims and functions. If it is good, we are in favor of mending it; and because we are in favor of mending it, we are necessarily opposed to ending it. If it is bad, we are in favor of ending it; and because we are in favor of ending it, we ought to fly into a passion at the mere thought of mending it. It is the question of this fundamental alternative, the right or wrong of the primary idea, which we have to settle in the case of receiving money for charity from members of dubious or disputed trades, from a publican or a pirate.

This is an extremely good example of the fact I have often enunciated, the fact that there is nothing so really practical and urgent as ideal philosophy. If being a publican is a bad thing in its nature, the quickest way of getting a good settlement is to punish the man for being a publican, to suppress him like a smuggler, to treat the man who administers beer like a man who administers poison. But if being a publican is a good thing in itself, the quickest way of getting a good publican is to admire the man because he is a publican, to follow him in great crowds, and crown him with laurel because he is a publican. It is a practical course to destroy a thing; but the only other practical course is to idealize it. A respected despot may sometimes be good; but a despicable despot must always be despicable. If you are going to end an innkeeper, it can be done quite easily with a hatchet. But if you are going to mend an innkeeper, you must do it tenderly, you must do it reverently. You must nail an extra arm or leg on his person, keeping always before you the Platonic image of the perfect innkeeper, to whose shape you seek to restore him.

So I would deal with the seller of whiskey or of battleships, whose contributions to charity were spurned for conscience' sake by Mr. Bernard Shaw's latest dramatic creation. Certainly Major Barbara's rejection of the alms cannot rationally be imitated unless we suppress the trades. If we think these tradesmen wrong, it is absurd merely to refuse their contributions to charities. To do so amounts merely to this: that we tolerate them all the time they are doing evil, and only begin to insult them when they begin to do good.

Buckethead Update

The Buckethead concert was awesome!!! Buckethead is the man!!!

Quote of the Day

"I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself."

-St. Thomas More

How Is It Possible to Believe in God?

by William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008)

Morning Edition, May 23, 2005 ·

I've always liked the exchange featuring the excited young Darwinian at the end of the 19th century. He said grandly to the elderly scholar, "How is it possible to believe in God?" The imperishable answer was, "I find it easier to believe in God than to believe that Hamlet was deduced from the molecular structure of a mutton chop."

That rhetorical bullet has everything -- wit and profundity. It has more than once reminded me that skepticism about life and nature is most often expressed by those who take it for granted that belief is an indulgence of the superstitious -- indeed their opiate, to quote a historical cosmologist most profoundly dead. Granted, that to look up at the stars comes close to compelling disbelief -- how can such a chance arrangement be other than an elaboration -- near infinite -- of natural impulses? Yes, on the other hand, who is to say that the arrangement of the stars is more easily traceable to nature, than to nature's molder? What is the greater miracle: the raising of the dead man in Lazarus, or the mere existence of the man who died and of the witnesses who swore to his revival?

The skeptics get away with fixing the odds against the believer, mostly by pointing to phenomena which are only explainable -- you see? -- by the belief that there was a cause for them, always deducible. But how can one deduce the cause of Hamlet? Or of St. Matthew's Passion? What is the cause of inspiration?

This I believe: that it is intellectually easier to credit a divine intelligence than to submit dumbly to felicitous congeries about nature. As a child, I was struck by the short story. It told of a man at a bar who boasted of his rootlessness, derisively dismissing the jingoistic patrons to his left and to his right. But later in the evening, one man speaks an animadversion on a little principality in the Balkans and is met with the clenched fist of the man without a country, who would not endure this insult to the place where he was born.

So I believe that it is as likely that there should be a man without a country, as a world without a creator.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4656595

Movie Line of the Day

I recently re-watched the movie, Chisum, and heard this great line.

James Pepper: You know, there's an old saying, Miss Sally. There's no law west of Dodge and no God west of the Pecos. Right, Mr. Chisum?

John Wayne: Wrong, Mr. Pepper. Because no matter where people go, sooner or later there's the law. And sooner or later they find God's already been there.

Quote of the Day

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

-Tacitus

LBJ Vietnam Speech

One of my friends recited part of this for school. (ya, Trev, that's you!)

It's the best speech by a Democrat I've ever heard. Every person who opposes American involvement in Iraq or intervention in general should read this speech by Lyndon Johnson.

http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/650407.asp

Quote of the Day

"Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad."

-Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

It's Washington’s Birthday, Not Presidents’ Day

I found this article on the National Review. The link is at the bottom.

Why the Republic should go back to publicly celebrating the American Cincinnatus.

By Gleaves Whitney

People ask why a few of us presidential junkies would like to see Presidents’ Day changed back to Washington’s Birthday. The technical explanation has to do with a misguided law called HR 15951 that was passed in 1968 to make federal holidays less complicated. The real answer is simply this: George Washington is our greatest president, and too few American children know why.

George Washington earned the respect even of his former enemy, King George III, by doing something exceedingly rare in history: When he had the chance to increase personal power, he decreased it — not once, not twice, but repeatedly.

During the American Revolution, Washington put service before self. His personal example was his greatest gift to the nation. It has often been said that the “Father of our country” was less eloquent than Jefferson; less educated than Madison; less experienced than Franklin; less talented than Hamilton. Yet all these leaders looked to Washington to lead them because they trusted him with power. He didn’t need power.

Washington knew that the bold American experiment in self government under the rule of law could survive only if leaders exercised self-restraint and accepted institutional limits on executive power. He believed that leading virtuously was more important than anything he could write or say. This is why Washington has been compared to two great republicans of Ancient Rome — Cincinnatus, who traded his sword for a plow, and Cato the Younger, who died defending the republic against the tyranny of Julius Caesar.

Consider all the times that Washington put service before self.

In 1775, when he accepted command of the Continental Army, he promised Congress that he would resign his commission when the war was over. Once the British withdrew, he was true to his word, and surrendered command of an army fiercely loyal to him. In a moving scene before Congress on December 23, 1783 (then assembled in Annapolis, Maryland), Washington pledged loyalty to the civilian government he had served. He thereby established the principle that our nation’s military would always be under civilian rule.

Earlier in the 1780s, Washington had been approached twice by army officers who promised their support if he decided to seize civilian power. In one famous incident in 1782, Col. Lewis Nicola wrote a letter urging Washington to overthrow Congress and become America’s king. The commanding general scolded Nicola the very same day.

In 1783, Washington caught wind of officers wanting to stage a coup d’état against Congress. The so-called Newburgh Conspirators were frustrated that Congress was not paying them what had been promised when the nation desperately needed their sacrifice. Washington would not be moved — that die would not be cast. On the Ides of March, he called the men together and sternly reprimanded them for losing faith in the idea of America. The new nation had a chance to succeed only if its leaders and military adhered to the rule of law.

When King George III heard that Washington would resign his commission to a powerless Congress, he told the painter Benjamin West: “If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world.”

Washington returned home to Mount Vernon in December 1783. Like Cincinnatus, he put down his sword and took up his plow, making him the most trusted man in America. Delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 selected him to be their president, knowing he would not abuse his position to aggrandize himself. And a grateful nation unanimously elected him president of the United States in 1789 and again in 1792, because they knew he would devote all his energies to serving the new nation.

Washington, when convinced that he had done all he could to help the country, retired after two terms as president. True to principle, he relinquished the power that was his for the taking. It was an example of selfless leadership that inspires Americans and the world to this day. Why don’t more American children know that?

— Gleaves Whitney is director of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Mzg3YjRjY2NlODFkNzA5NDg3ZDQ5NTJjZjA1MzE2NjA=

Quote of the Day

"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals."

-Malcolm X

The Drums

I wrote this poem for American Lit class as an immitation of the first three stanzas of Edgar Allan Poe's The Bells.
It is mostly unreadable and the last two stanzas were written during a Diet Coke induced, semi-conscious trance from around 11:00 pm to 12:30 in the morning the day before it was due. The last stanza sounds like a bad Beatles song. For the original Poe poem, visit http://www.online-literature.com/poe/575/
Enjoy.

I
Feel the beating of the drums--
Battle drums!
How much pain and dying with their pounding rhythm comes!
Hear the tapping, tapping, tapping,
To the marching of the few!
All the battle flags are flapping
And the fates are softly laughing
At this ghastly game they view;
While they thud, thud, thud
Men lay dying in the mud
To the bitter salutation that so powerfully comes
From the drums, drums, drums, drums,
Drums, drums, drums, --
From the tapping and the rapping on the drums.

II
Feel the solemn fun’ral drums,
Deathly drums!
How much pain and mourning with their ghostly rhythm comes!
Through the ghoulish fog of morn’
How they sing their song forlorn! –
From the melancholy strokes
In cold accord,
Such a passion it unyokes
In the guilty coffin-bearer who uncloaks
The fallen lord!
Oh, from out those low anthems,
Such a life of bravery into heaven welcomes!
How it hums
And becomes
A sinking dirge which benumbs
And silently succumbs
To the looming, deeply booming
Fun’ral drums, drums. drums, --
Oh, the drums, drums, drums, drums,
Drums, drums, drums,
To the greeting of the beating of the drums!

III
Feel the proud victory drums --
Parade drums!
How much pride and glory with their joyful rhythm comes!
Through the homeland’s golden streets,
How they march to lively beats,
Singing songs of battles won,
Of plunders gained a ton,
Ne’er defeat!
In a clamorous revealing of the nature of the choir,
In a vibrant exhaltation of the birthplace of the choir,
Singing higher, higher, higher,
With a deep and burning fire,
Now the crowd is moving faster
To the booming of the pastor
Through the streets of a war-torn land.
Oh, the drums, drums, drums!
Never minding of the sums
Of the dead!
How they sing of life and death,
And now how the sons of Seth
Are so dancing on the homeland’s golden streets!
And the people clearly see
By the clanging
And the banging
That they can be now set free;
And the people surely know
From the rapping
And the tapping,
That their vict’ry’s now secure
Through the dying and the crying now comes life, say the drums--
Say the drums,--
Say the drums, drums, drums, drums,
Drums, drums, drums--
Spoke the fates so softly laughing through the drums!

Elegy in a Country Churchyard

The men that worked for England
They have their graves at home:
And bees and birds of England
About the cross can roam.

But they that fought for England,
Following a falling star,
Alas, alas for England
They have their graves afar.

And they that rule in England,
In stately conclave met,
Alas, alas for England,
They have no graves as yet.

- G.K. Chesterton

The Sun Also Sets

By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted Thursday, February 07, 2008 4:20 PM PT

Climate Change: Not every scientist is part of Al Gore's mythical "consensus." Scientists worried about a new ice age seek funding to better observe something bigger than your SUV — the sun.

Back in 1991, before Al Gore first shouted that the Earth was in the balance, the Danish Meteorological Institute released a study using data that went back centuries that showed that global temperatures closely tracked solar cycles.To many, those data were convincing. Now, Canadian scientists are seeking additional funding for more and better "eyes" with which to observe our sun, which has a bigger impact on Earth's climate than all the tailpipes and smokestacks on our planet combined. And they're worried about global cooling, not warming.Kenneth Tapping, a solar researcher and project director for Canada's National Research Council, is among those looking at the sun for evidence of an increase in sunspot activity. Solar activity fluctuates in an 11-year cycle. But so far in this cycle, the sun has been disturbingly quiet. The lack of increased activity could signal the beginning of what is known as a Maunder Minimum, an event which occurs every couple of centuries and can last as long as a century. Such an event occurred in the 17th century. The observation of sunspots showed extraordinarily low levels of magnetism on the sun, with little or no 11-year cycle. This solar hibernation corresponded with a period of bitter cold that began around 1650 and lasted, with intermittent spikes of warming, until 1715. Frigid winters and cold summers during that period led to massive crop failures, famine and death in Northern Europe.Tapping reports no change in the sun's magnetic field so far this cycle and warns that if the sun remains quiet for another year or two, it may indicate a repeat of that period of drastic cooling of the Earth, bringing massive snowfall and severe weather to the Northern Hemisphere. Tapping oversees the operation of a 60-year-old radio telescope that he calls a "stethoscope for the sun." But he and his colleagues need better equipment.In Canada, where radio-telescopic monitoring of the sun has been conducted since the end of World War II, a new instrument, the next-generation solar flux monitor, could measure the sun's emissions more rapidly and accurately.As we have noted many times, perhaps the biggest impact on the Earth's climate over time has been the sun.For instance, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Solar Research in Germany report the sun has been burning more brightly over the last 60 years, accounting for the 1 degree Celsius increase in Earth's temperature over the last 100 years.R. Timothy Patterson, professor of geology and director of the Ottawa-Carleton Geoscience Center of Canada's Carleton University, says that "CO2 variations show little correlation with our planet's climate on long, medium and even short time scales."Rather, he says, "I and the first-class scientists I work with are consistently finding excellent correlations between the regular fluctuations of the sun and earthly climate. This is not surprising. The sun and the stars are the ultimate source of energy on this planet."Patterson, sharing Tapping's concern, says: "Solar scientists predict that, by 2020, the sun will be starting into its weakest Schwabe cycle of the past two centuries, likely leading to unusually cool conditions on Earth.""Solar activity has overpowered any effect that CO2 has had before, and it most likely will again," Patterson says. "If we were to have even a medium-sized solar minimum, we could be looking at a lot more bad effects than 'global warming' would have had."In 2005, Russian astronomer Khabibullo Abdusamatov made some waves — and not a few enemies in the global warming "community" — by predicting that the sun would reach a peak of activity about three years from now, to be accompanied by "dramatic changes" in temperatures.
A Hoover Institution Study a few years back examined historical data and came to a similar conclusion."The effects of solar activity and volcanoes are impossible to miss. Temperatures fluctuated exactly as expected, and the pattern was so clear that, statistically, the odds of the correlation existing by chance were one in 100," according to Hoover fellow Bruce Berkowitz. The study says that "try as we might, we simply could not find any relationship between industrial activity, energy consumption and changes in global temperatures." The study concludes that if you shut down all the world's power plants and factories, "there would not be much effect on temperatures." But if the sun shuts down, we've got a problem. It is the sun, not the Earth, that's hanging in the balance.

All The Presidents' Hairs

Really expensiven toupees? A scrapbook containing samples of the first 12 presidents' luscious locks will be displayed at a Philedelphia museum.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330229,00.html

Quote of the Day

"If this be treason, make the most of it!"
-Patrick Henry

Super Bowl XLII and Feb. Poll Results

Well, people, the New York Giants won. The New England Patriots lost. There's not much more too say. There will be no joy in Foxboro tonight; however the rest of America, the middle class, the heart and soul of America, the proponents of liberty and freedom, are rejoicing at the greatest upset of this generation. The true patriots have won.

NY: 17
NE: 14

But this should not have been a suprise, because the score was perfectly predicted by none other than the readers of this blog!!! So here are the results to prove it.

February Poll #1:

"Who will win Super Bowl XLII?"

1. 50%- The Giants by less than 10. (3 votes)
2. 33%- The Patriots by more than 10. (2 votes)
3. 16%- The Patriots by less than 10. (1 vote)
4. 0%- The Giants by more tan 10. (0 votes) geeze, a little faith, people?!

So, my blog now officially determines the future. Beware my magical powers.

Long may the Manning Dynasty thrive!!! and long may the 1972 Dolphins remain unmatched!!!

Albino Moose?

My Grandma sent me this picture, but she didn't know where it was taken.

Wierd.

Finals Update!

Well, folks, I wasn’t all wrong, but in case you didn’t get the memo we will only have finals for the subjects we choose. We will be given our current scores in all our classes on Monday, which will be a review day, and bring them home to our parents so they can decide which finals we need to take. They’ll sign something saying which ones we’re not taking, then we’ll take that to school.
So here’s the schedule:

Tuesday: Bible :P
Wednesday: Lit, Physics
Thursday: Science, Rhetoric
Friday: Trig, Espanol

Attention Oaksters!

I just heard from I reliable source that finals have been canceled for all secondary. I'm pretty sure my information is correct, but don't sue me if it's not. Let the celebrations begin!!!

Possible Blog wars?

Does this seem like a good idea to you?
"We are excited to announce that Blogger is now available in three more languages: Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian!"

Guns for Kids!

West Virginia weighing gun lessons for schoolchildren.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=080201141120.x8hzrof7&show_article=1

Quote of the Day

"Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?"

-Patrick Henry

Buckethead is Coming to Town!!!

Buckethead is coming to the service station on March 19, tickets are $18 in advance.

Go to this link and scroll down to near the bottom.

http://theservicestation.org/concerts.php

January's Poll Results

Who is Jake?

#1. The wierdest person I know: 50% (2 votes)
#2. The coolest person I know: 25% (1vote)
The nerdiest person I know: 25% (1 vote)
#3. The ugliest person I know: 0% (0 votes)

Berkeley vs. Those who defend her freedom

Some things just tick me off. People treat or troops like they were criminals. :-(

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/30/blood-boiler-berkeley-vs-the-troops/

Quote of the Day III

"The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks. "

-Douglas Adams (1952-2001)

John McCain: a true American Hero... and a Liar

Liar, liar, mouth for hire. Oh, yes that's John McCain, a big, hairy mole on the face of the Republican party. Explore his many qualities with the Queen of Sting, Ann Coulter.



GOP TO EDWARDS: HOW MUCH FOR THAT CONCESSION SPEECH?January 30, 2008The Democrats are trying to give away an election they should win in a walk by nominating someone with real problems -- like, for example, a first-term senator with a 100 percent rating from Americans for Democratic Action and whose middle name is "Hussein." But we won't let them. The bright side of the Florida debacle is that I no longer fear Hillary Clinton. (I mean in terms of her becoming president -- on a personal level, she's still a little creepy.) I'd rather deal with President Hillary than with President McCain. With Hillary, we'll get the same ruinous liberal policies with none of the responsibility. Also, McCain lies a lot, which is really more a specialty of the Democrats. Recently, McCain responded to Mitt Romney's statement that he understood the economy based on his many years in the private sector by claiming Romney had said a military career is not a "real job." McCain's neurotic boast that he is the only Republican who supported the surge is beginning to sound as insane as Bill Clinton's claim to being the "first black president" -- although less insulting to blacks. As with the Clintons, you find yourself looking up such tedious facts as this, which ran a week after Bush announced the surge: "On the morning of Bush's address, Romney endorsed a troop surge." -- The National Journal, Jan. 13, 2007 And yet for the 4 billionth time, at the Jan. 5, 2008, Republican debate, McCain bragged about his own raw courage in supporting the surge despite (apocryphal) Republican attacks, saying: "I said at the time that Gen. Petraeus and his strategy must be employed, and I was criticized by Republicans at that time. And that was a low point, but I stuck to it. I didn't change." A review of contemporaneous news stories about the surge clearly demonstrates that the only Republicans who were so much as "skeptical" of the surge consisted of a few oddball liberal Republicans such as Sens. Gordon Smith, Norm Coleman and Olympia Snowe. They certainly weren't attacking McCain, their standard-bearer in liberal Republicanism. But even if they were, it was a "low point" for McCain being "criticized" by the likes of Olympia Snowe? In point of fact, McCain didn't even stand up to the milquetoasts. In April 2007, when Democrats in the Senate passed a bill funding the troops but also requiring a rapid withdrawal, "moderate" Republicans Smith and Chuck Hagel voted with the Democrats. McCain and Lindsey Graham skipped the vote. But like the Democrats, McCain thinks if he simply says something over and over again, he can make people believe it's true. Thus again at the South Carolina debate on Jan. 10, McCain was proclaiming that he was "the only one on this stage" who supported the surge. Since he would deny it about two minutes later, here is exactly what Mr. Straight Talk said about the surge: "I supported that; I argued for it. I'm the only one on this stage that did. And I condemn the Rumsfeld strategy before that." The next question went to Giuliani and -- amid great flattery -- Giuliani noted that he also supported Bush's surge "the night of the president's speech." Mr. Straight Talk contradicted Giuliani, saying: "Not at the time." Again, Giuliani said: "The night of the president's speech, I was on television. I supported the surge. I've supported it throughout." To which McCain finally said he didn't mean that he was "the only one on this stage" who supported the surge. So by "the only one on this stage," McCain really meant, "one of several people on this stage." OK, great. Now tell us your definition of the word "is," Senator. I know Republicans have been trained not to go prostrate at Ivy League degrees, but do we have to admire stupidity? Mr. Straight Talk also announced at that same debate: "One of the reasons why I won in New Hampshire is because I went there and told them the truth." That and the fact that Democrats were allowed to vote in the Republican primary. Even in the Florida primary, allegedly limited to Republicans, McCain lost among Republicans. (Seventeen percent of the Republican primary voters in Florida called themselves "Independents.") That helps, but why would any Republican vote for McCain? At least under President Hillary, Republicans in Congress would know that they're supposed to fight back. When President McCain proposes the same ideas -- tax hikes, liberal judges and Social Security for illegals -- Republicans in Congress will support "our" president -- just as they supported, if only briefly, Bush's great ideas on amnesty and Harriet Miers. You need little flags like that for Republicans since, as we know from the recent unpleasantness in Florida, Republicans are unalterably stupid. Republicans who vote for McCain are trying to be cute, like the Democrats were four years ago by voting for the "pragmatic" candidate, Vietnam vet John Kerry. This will turn out to be precisely as clever a gambit as nominating Kerry was, the brilliance of which was revealed on Election Day 2004.

http://www.anncoulter.com/

Quote of the Day 2

"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. "

-Frank Zappa

Goodbye: Margaret Truman Daniel

Only Child of President Truman Dies at 83 1/29/2008

Margaret Truman Daniel spent her life as a singer, commentator, and novelist. She was born to Bess W. and Harry S. Truman, who later became president, on February 17, 1924. In 1942 she married editor Clifton Daniel. She died Tuesday of complications following an infection.

http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/467047.html

This Day in History: Assassinations!

First and Only Execution of an English King 1/30/1649



Off with his head! King Charles I is beheaded for treason by order of Parliament and England is put under the authority of Oliver Cromwell's protectorate.



186 years later...



First Assassination Attempt on a U. S. President 1/30/1835



Lady Luck misfires (twice) Richard Lawrence, an unemployed house painter, approached Andrew Jackson as he left a congressional funeral held in the House chamber of the Capitol building and shot at him, but his gun misfired. A furious 67-year-old Jackson confronted his attacker, clubbing Lawrence several times with his walking cane. During the scuffle, Lawrence managed to pull out a second loaded pistol and pulled the trigger, but it also misfired. Jackson’s aides then wrestled Lawrence away from the president, leaving Jackson unharmed but angry and, as it turned out, paranoid.



and another 113 years roll past...



Ghandi Assassinated 1/30/1948

Poor pacifist. Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi was murdered in New Delhi at 78.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=Article&id=4721
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&displayDate=1/30&categoryId=presidential
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&displayDate=1/30&categoryId=crime

Freedom of Choice: the other side

If this bill goes through, doctors will be able to choose not to murder unborn babies. Wow, who woulda' thought.

http://www.thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=19241248&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dept_id=618959&rfi=6

Freedom in Education

Freedom of choice? Should parents have the right to choose which school their children attend? Should they be able to move thier kids from a dysfunctional school to one with a better reputation? I say yes, but you do the math for yourself.

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9118

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"I am president now, and tired of being kicked around."

-President William Howard Taft

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Kansas enters the Union. 1/29/1861

Oh, Yipee. We can take today to thank Kansas for 2 staples of the American Experience:

Dwight Eisenhower and corn.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&displayDate=1/29&categoryId=civil

Edgar Allen Poe publishes The Raven 1/29/1845

Knocking on my chamber door. Pretty cool, not his best. kinda repetitive. Kinda repetitve.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&displayDate=1/29&categoryId=literary

President William McKinley is born!!! 1/29/1843

Who?! Born in Niles, OH, McKinley fought bravely in the civil war, served in congress, and the engulfed America in the Spanish-American War. Oh, and most importantly, he enabled his vice, Theodore Roosevelt to become one of the most productive presidents in American history by, you guessed it, being assasinated. It may sound macabre, but that's probably because it is.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&displayDate=1/29&categoryId=presidential

Do you have $20,000 burning a hole in your pocket? If so, consider buying a Donk.



http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,326474,00.html