U. N. Declares Castro a "World Hero of Solidarity..."

...and refuses to recognize Honduras' recent democratic elections issuing an ultimatum to restore dictator to power.

Read the article by Michelle Malkin!

michellemalkin.com

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)