National Republican Senatorial Committee gets serious about ousting Harry Reid with hard-hitting ads designed to show just how out of touch Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is with the suffering of Nevada families. I think it’ll be fairly effective:
What happens when you get caught up in one section of something and ignore the rest.
The October 19th debate between Christine O’Donnell and Chris Coons was a very telling difference between Christine O’Donnell and Chris Coons and explains very well why the liberal media is targeting Christine O’Donnell so heavily. To put it bluntly, she’s smarter than Chris Coons. The question of “separation of church and state” came up and appropriately Christine O’Donnell asked someone to point out where “separation of church and state” is within the Constitution. It isn’t. The phrase comes from a letter Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1802. Then Ms. O’Donnell challenged Chris Coons to name the 5 freedoms contained within the First Amendment. He could only come up with one. Now I was a teacher for only a shot time but when a student scored 20% on a test, it earned them a big fat F. Chris Coons is a Constitutional FAILURE.
Here are the 5 Freedoms Guaranteed by the First Ammendment:
1. Freedom to exercise your religion.
2. Freedom of speech.
3. Freedom of the press.
4. Freedom to peaceably assemble.
5. Freedom to petition the United States government for a redress of grievances.
It is critical you understand this because the phrase, “separation of church and state” is a RESTRICTION! IT IS NOT A FREEDOM! The only thing the First Amendment says about restricting religion is that CONGRESS cannot make a law respecting an establishment of religion. CONGRESS IS RESTRICTED FROM MAKING A LAW! THAT’S IT! NO OTHER THING AND NO ONE ELSE IS UNDER ANY RESTRICTION! A community is free to have a statue of Jesus, Mary, Buddha, Moon and Star, whatever they want and they are free to put it on public land and it has NOTHING to do with the First Amendment! Congress, the President, the Supreme Court can stop all business and have a 2 hour prayer session and it has NOTHING do to with the First Amendment because they are not making a law. Under the strict interpretation of the Constitution, a teacher is allowed to lead children in his or her classroom in a prayer and it is NOT restricted.
The problem is that gnostic elitists really, really want it to be because the thought of a higher power to which only Congress is restricted in its activity and no one else is, is very discomforting to them. The lesson of the Crusades is that if you can control the religion of a region (and gnosticism IS a religious dogma) you can strip away freedom.
This next election isn’t just an election for the Republican party, no matter how much they’d like to think it is. This is a referendum on the hearts and minds of those in power and Christine O’Donnell MUST be destroyed by the elitists now before she has a chance to show what she can do. In 2002, Barrack Obama was nothing but a no name Chicago machine politician and the elitists know this. They know how someone can rise to a position of great power very quickly in this country and Christine O’Donnell scares them. Be afraid elitists. Be very afraid. Not all of us have forgotten what’s in the Constitution.
Doug Giles masterfully sums up why Sunday morning at most churches is about as frustrating as anything you can think of that’s frustrating. You sit there week in, and week out and you know the pastor must know that the country is in turmoil, our money, our religious freedom, and even our physical well being are on the line and then another week goes by without a word on any topic of substance…
Doug Giles as composed a great list of The Top Ten Reasons Pastors Punt on Political Issues – Send a copy to your pastor.
More evidence that the Constitution is an impediment to the progressive agenda of an increasingly fringe left Democrat Party:
Here’s the problem. We have a lousy Supreme Court decision that has opened up the floodgates, and so we have to deal within the realm of constitutionality, and a lot of the campaign finance bills that we have passed have been declared unconstitutional by the security. I think the Constitution is wrong. I don’t think money is the same thing as human beings. I don’t think money equals free speech. I don’t think — I don’t think corporate — corporations should have the same equality, uh, as, uh, — as a — as a regular voter in this — in this — in this disctrict.
The Tea Party are us. The Democrats are the kooks and weirdos.
President Obama and other proponents of a “single payer” health care plan, or “public option” are already running Medicare into the ground. Why should we trust them?
http://www.nationalreview.com/critical-condition/47981/medicare-fraud-puts-insurance-profits-perspective/mark-hemingway
If the derivative doesn't fit, you must aquit!
I was watching a few bits of the Goldman Sachs hearings on CNBC and it cracks me up to see senators lecture the GS executives. That is akin to having a meth tweaker tell a crack head that drugs are bad for you and to not do them.
On an unrelated note, it was good to see Kudlow and Cramer duke it out on a panel. It has been a while since I have seen them go at it.
I'm coming Mary Jo!
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20100423/NEWS13/100429739
This is a heart warming story folks that I have to relate. We can’t always be political here. Sometimes we need to focus on what is good, sweet and uplifting. A 7th grade girl had just finished a drama class when she noticed a friend was choking on what later turned out to be a piece of gum. Choking, left untreated, leads to asphyxiation. This is like when a person is left under a senator’s car in the water and runs out of air, only when you are choking on a piece of gum you’re not alive for two hours, wondering why no one is helping you and wondering why a US senator has left you to die.
Now this 7th grade girl could have gotten drunk and not reported the choking incident until the next day. Amazingly this 7th grade girl chose as her role model SpongeBob rather than a US senator, and performed the Heimlich maneuver on her choking classmate, saving her life. No word yet if SpongeBobCare, which has a more successful record of saving lives that USSenatorCare, is covered under HealthCare reform.
Isn’t that a charming story? You see? Sometimes you can just focus on the good things in life without bringing partisanship into the picture.
This Sunday, April 25th, 2010 is “World Malaria Day”. Most Americans have little knowledge of, and virtually no experience with malaria which is a debilitating disease characterized by high fever and chills, muscle pain, and in some cases severe damage to heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and can even be deadly. The reason most Americans have little knowledge or experience with malaria is because we eradicated it in the United States using DDT.
In 1947 there were 15,000 reported cases of malaria in the United States. By 1950, there were 2,000 reported cases, and in 1951 malaria was considered eradicated in the U.S. You might be asking, “If malaria has been eradicated, why is there a ‘World Malaria Day’ at all?”
Though malaria has been considered eradicated in the U.S. since 1951, malaria still infects hundreds of millions of people, most of them children under the age of five in Africa. Over a million of them die from the disease. In fact, malaria kills a young child in Africa every 30 seconds. By the time most of you are done reading this, 10 children will be dead.
Ironically, the reason we have a “World Malaria Day” on Sunday, April 25th, 2010 is because we had an “Earth Day” on Thursday, April 22, 2010. Environmentalists have been allowed to spread misinformation and fear that stopped world-wide malaria eradication in its tracks for essentially no reason at all.
Malaria is a blood-borne disease caused by the bite of a mosquito infected with a parasite. Mosquito abatement programs are what eradicated the disease here in the United States. That is until one woman, Rachel Carson, wrote a book called, “Silent Spring”. In this book Carson called the primary agent of mosquito eradication in the United States, DDT, an “elixer of death”. Carson claimed, without the benefit of scientific evidence, that DDT would kill the bird population in the United States. She claimed DDT would eventually lead to “one in four people dying of cancer”.
Rachel Carson is considered the founder of the modern environmental movement, and she was 100% wrong in every single one of her major assertions (and virtually all her minor ones, too). In fact, there’s no body of evidence that DDT did any harm at all. It categorically does NOT cause cancer, and there’s no evidence that claims it would kill birds are true, either. In fact, just the opposite is true: the success of DDT was so great that DDT’s discoverer, Paul Herman Muller, earned a Nobel Prize and the National Academy of Sciences declared in 1970: “To only a few chemicals does man owe as great a debt as to DDT…DDT has prevented 500 million deaths due to malaria that would otherwise have been inevitable.”
Africa is making progress in the eradication of malaria, and it is due to the re-introduction of DDT. Recently the World Health Organization (WHO) announced support for the increased use of DDT to fight malaria. The WHO’s director of the Global Malaria Program, Dr. Arata Kochi, pleaded with people following in the footsteps of Rachel Carson, the modern-day environmentalists to “help save African babies as you are helping to save the environment” by supporting greater DDT use.
The WHO considers DDT’s public health risks to be almost non-existent. In fact, there is no scientific evidence that DDT poses ANY human health risks at all. The lack of its use, however, has had deadly consequences. I’m writing this because I know there are a lot of well-meaning people out there that think environmentalists “just want to help make the environment cleaner” which will benefit all of us with longer, healthier lives, but we all know where the road paved with good intentions leads. Africa is a living hell for hundreds of millions of people because a lot of well-meaning people who lived all or most of their lives with the benefits of DDT are getting in the way of malaria eradication in Africa.
Rather than hear and act upon the pleas of Dr. Kochi’s to help save African babies by advancing DDT use, environmentalists are actively seeking to block WHO policy on DDT. In particular, the Pesticide Action Network of North America (PANNA) and Beyond Pesticides are STILL spreading misinformation about DDT risks.
Ultimately, I’m conservative because liberalism kills.
No speeding tickets for me! I am going to take those f'ing satellites out.
In the past day or two I have been reading a few articles about the capability to issue a speeding ticket based on your speed taken from a satellite. Yeah, you read that right. A device from fricken space can give you a ticket!
I have great disdain for red light cameras, so when I read about this, I nearly went into cardiac arrest. This sort of stuff is truly unamerican.
If this shit comes to the USA, then I am going to have to go Blofeld on these things and find a way to take them out from space.
The pale blue dot.
Today is Earth Day! Since, I love the planet and it is my only home the following are the ways I celebrate this great day.
So, join me in celebrating this great and joyous day. After all, this place is our home!
Okay, for those of you take things seriously, the above ideas are not to be taken literally. We are all stewards of this 3rd rock from the Sun and should treat it as such.