Who's The Monkey Now?

Once upon a time a man appeared in a village and announced to the villagers that he would buy monkeys for $10 each.

The villagers, seeing that there were many monkeys around, went out to the forest and started catching them..

The man bought thousands at $10 and, as supply started to diminish, the villagers stopped their effort. He next announced that he would now buy monkeys at $20 each. This renewed the efforts of the villagers and they started catching monkeys again.

Soon the supply diminished even further and people started going back to their farms. The offer increased to $25 each and the supply of monkeys became so scarce it was an effort to even find a monkey, let alone catch it!

The man now announced that he would buy monkeys at $50 each! However, since he had to go to the city on some business, his assistant would buy on his behalf. In the absence of the man, the assistant told the villagers: "Look at all these monkeys in the big cage that the man has already collected. I will sell them to you at $35 and when the man returns from the city, you can sell them to him for $50 each."

The villagers rounded up all their savings and bought all the monkeys for 700 billion dollars.

They never saw the man or his assistant again, only lots and lots of monkeys!

Now you have a better understanding of how the WALL STREET BAILOUT PLAN WILL WORK !!!!

It doesn't get much clearer than this................

The Best Notable Quotables of 2008 The 21st Annual Awards for the Year's Worst Reporting

Oh, these are something else...
http://www.mediaresearch.org/notablequotables/bestof/2008/

On Liberty

"No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffusd and virtue is preservd. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauchd in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders." --Samuel Adams

Set your clocks forward...

One second
A Leap Second, to be exact.

you may think it's easy, think again:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1074965&cid=26256391

Wiki Leapsecond
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second

Monsters vs Aliens

They just keep getting better.

How Offensive!

Merry Christmas Jews: Hamas pounds Israel in biggest rocket barrage since 'cease fire'.

Israel Hit by Biggest Gaza Rocket Barrage Since Cease-Fire
In Islam, cease fire translates: "Time to reload".
General Franks was right when he said regarding such Islamofacists, "They will have to be crushed".
Not talked to, appeased, or reasoned with. Not even the Obamessiah will be able to charm these animals who routinely murder innocent women and children. Not to mention their own wives and daughters.

Merry Christmas from Hamas, practitioners of the 'religion of peace'.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081224/wl_afp/mideastconflictgaza_081224215711
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081224/wl_afp/mideastconflictgaza_081224215711

Update: After a few days of warnings by Olmert, the IDF is finally given power to respond.
Suddenly, to everyone's non-surprise, Israel becomes the focus of all meida attention because they have finally gone after Hamas. Hundreds of so-called journalists cut 'n paste the Al Jazeera propaganda from Palestine to showcase Israel's warmongering intolerance.

Where were all the reports when over six thousand missiles have been launched at Israel?
SIX THOUSAND is the conservative report and could go much higher.
This has been going on for over three years!

Murdering Islamo-fascists get free passes and Israel gets the blame.

World's first online symphony

This has to be one of the most outside-the-box ideas to date.
Download the music for your instrument.
Practice.
Practice.
Practice.
Play.
Become famous.

How to beat your children at computer games

With extra time on your hands, parents, it is time to destroy your children's false sense of technical superiority over you.

This is an important teaching moment.

Remember, what advantage gained by youth and speed can be easily overcome by experience and treachery.

Things You Shouldn't Know:How To Beat Your Children At Computer Games

Earth now cooling!

What is AlGore going to do now? I noticed that Nickelodeon has jumped on the global warming bandwagon with their 'Carbon Monsters' and around the world children have been encouraged to turn their parents in for ecological crimes.

Scientists, real ones that is, have been saying all along that it is sunspots activity that determines climate change. Otherwise, why would every planet in the solar system have corresponding trends with the earths?

Despite rising carbon dioxide levels, the Earth has actually been cooling -- not warming -- since 1998, when the warming trend peaked in conjunction with heightened sunspot activity.

It appears that 2008, the National Climatic Data Center now says, will go down as the coldest year in a decade.

So, what will the hack politicians, junk scientists, and watermelons (green on the outside, red inside) all have to say about this? "This just proves how serious this is", huh?

Read State of Fear by Michael Crichton. He has been predicting what these slimy, money grubbing, hacks will do next years ago.

The Smallest Room in Heaven

I dreamed that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, "This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received."

I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world.

Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section.

The angel then said to me, "This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them. "I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery to Earth.

Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. "This is the Acknowledgment Section," my angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed "How is it that there is no work going on here?" I asked.

"So sad," the angel sighed. "After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments ."

"How does one acknowledge God's blessings?" I asked.

"Simple," the angel answered. Just say, "Thank you, Lord."

"What blessings should they acknowledge?"  I asked.

"If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than 75% of this world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy ."

"And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the world who has that opportunity."

"If you woke up this morning with more health than illness ... you are more blessed than the many who will not even survive this day ."

"If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation ... you are ahead of 700 million people in the world."

"If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in the world! ."

"If your parents are still alive and still married ...you are very rare ."

"If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you're unique to all those in doubt and despair."

Of all the billions and billions of God's children that have stood upon this earth you are among the tiniest of minorities who have ever lived.

Whatever race you hail from, living here at this time makes you very blessed.

When was the last time you just said, "Thanks, Lord".

Design Coding - Rap?

Okay I really, really, hate rap. But this is informative and funny.
Hint: FF to about a minute into the 'song'.

How to Peel Hard-Boiled Eggs without Peeling

Gnarly.
Saw it on Amazon

More Media Limbo

Bristol Palin's boyfriend's mom arrested in drug case

The MSM -> CNN just can't leave Palin alone. While Blogo and countless scandals swirl around Chicago and now DC, count on our diligent press to still be hiding in the dumpsters of Alaska.
Bush derangement syndrome is turned into an epidemic.
Thankfully, all the catawalling of the last eight years will mysteriously end while the Obamessiah calms the climate and brings peace to the world, (using virtually the same policies that Bush did).
Branding. It's all about branding nowdays.

Guilt by distant association.

Acting as if they did nothing wrong...

Technology once again blazing the way for innovations that will be banned

Carbon Nanotube Loudspeaker

Pretty cool idea; the nanotubes are woven into a super thin fabric that is rapidly heated and cooled, thus causing sound to be emitted much like a little modulated thunderclap. This fabric can be stretched into a picture frame, or into a cylinder, or clothing.
How would you like your coat to be a loudspeaker? How would you like every teenager in 20 years to wear their favorite, most abrasive, sound.
As Andy McCasky says, "You have been warned".

Ronald Reagan - Yes We Can

All of us are NeoCon

Are you smarter than a politician?

Chances are very much in your favor:

All survey respondents were asked whether they have ever engaged in any of 13 different political and civic activities. These included, for example, registering to vote, signing a petition, contacting a public official, publishing a letter to the editor, and whether they have ever been elected to a government office.

Among the 2,508 respondents, 164 say they have been elected to a government office at least once. This sub-sample of officeholders yields a startling result: elected officials score lower than the general public. Those who have held elective office earn an average score of 44% on the civic literacy test, which is five percentage points lower than the average score of 49% for those who have never been elected. It would be most interesting to explore whether this statistically significant result is maintained across larger samples of elected officials.

The elected officeholders come from the ranks of Democrats (40%), Republicans (31%), Independents (21%), and those who say they belong to no party or indicate no affiliation (8%). None were asked to specify what office they held, so the proportion in which they held local, state, or federal positions is unknown.

Not all officeholders do poorly, of course. Some elected officials rank among the highest scorers. But the failure rate on the test among those who have won public office is higher (74%) than among those who have not (71%). Officeholders scored lower on all sub-themes of the test: political history, cultural institutions, foreign relations, and market economy.

In each of the following areas, for example, officeholders do more poorly than non-officeholders:

• Seventy-nine percent of those who have been elected to government office do not know the Bill of Rights expressly prohibits establishing an official religion for the U.S.
• Thirty percent do not know that "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" are the inalienable rights referred to in the Declaration of Independence.
• Twenty-seven percent cannot name even one right or freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment.
• Forty-three percent do not know what the Electoral College does. One in five thinks it either "trains those aspiring for higher political office" or "was established to supervise the first televised presidential debates."
• Fifty-four percent do not know the Constitution gives Congress the power to declare war. Thirty-nine percent think that power belongs to the president, and 10% think it belongs to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
• Only 32% can properly define the free enterprise system, and only 41% can identify business profit as "revenue minus expenses."

Read the full breakdown of what should humiliate every politician in America:

Elected Officials Score Lower than the General Public

Take the quiz

Atheism Explained: Makes perfect sense now that you explained it.

Looks like Dawkins, Hitchens, and Algore were right after all. I'm sleeping in Sunday.

Final Prop8 Stats Prove Prop8 is a Winner On Both Sides

From what the homosexual lobby has said, through violence and shrill rhetoric, you'd think that Prop8 was a stolen agenda by religious right wing crazies.

Far from the truth. It turns out that Prop8 was not only popular on both sides of the aisle, but overwhelmingly so.

Here are the final stats that place Prop8 as more popular than Schwarzenegger, Feinstein, and Boxer, let alone Kerry and Obama.

From ProtectMarriage.com

The official Statement of the Vote has been released by the Secretary of State. Proposition 8 passed by a margin of 52.3% to 47.7%. We won by a margin of 600,000 votes: 7,001,084 to 6,401,483.  To provide some context for this vote:

• Prop. 8 received 2,150,000 MORE votes than did Arnold Schwarzenegger when he was reelected in 2006
• Prop. 8 received nearly 2 million MORE votes than Dianne Feinstein did when she was reelected to the US Senate in 2006
• Prop. 8 received 250,000 MORE votes than did John Kerry when he carried California in 2004
• Prop. 8 received 45,000 MORE votes than did Barbara Boxer in her landslide reelection to the U.S. Senate in 2004 
• Prop. 8 passed with approximately the same percentage of the vote that Barack Obama received nationally

Finally, read this: An ugly attack on Mormons

Obama's School Choice

Actually, I applaud Obama for refusing to send his children into the meat grinder known as public schooling (or government warehousing). Where good sense ends and mendacity begins is where almost all of our public officials on the left insist that our educational system is, in Krusty's words: "It's not just good, It's good enough!"

Christmas "Too Big To Fail", Santa Asks For Bailout

Satire: Is Christmas Too Big to Fail? 12/10/2008

WSJ's Daniel Henninger on the upcoming winter Wonder Land bailout.

Palestinian Children TV at its Best

Mmm... The bunny wants to eat all them jews up!

Bush ducks flying shoes

Bush ducks flying shoes

An Iraqi reporter called U.S. President George W. Bush a 'dog' in Arabic and threw his shoes at him during a news conference in Baghdad

Media is all over it..

British Muslims Fear Repercussions Over Tomorrow’s Train Bombing

WHO'S VULNERABLE? is Marc Steyn's latest poke at "The Religion of Peace" and how liberal apologists are willing to attribute non-random acts of violence to freak occurrences or somehow America's fault.
Of course, nobody ever explores the consistency that such events take place. That's too much work.

Hmm. Greater Bombay forms one of the world's five biggest cities. It has a population of nearly 20 million. But only one Jewish center, located in a building that gives no external clue as to the bounty waiting therein. An "accidental hostage scene" that one of the "practitioners" just happened to stumble upon? "I must be the luckiest jihadist in town. What are the odds?"

In Steyn's article, he points out that Jews in India were either targeted, or this was the greatest instance of happenstance known to man.

At the Chabad House, the murdered Jews were described in almost all the Western media as "ultra-Orthodox," "ultra-" in this instance being less a term of theological precision than a generalized code for "strange, weird people, nothing against them personally, but they probably shouldn't have been over there in the first place." Are they stranger or weirder than their killers? Two "inflamed moderates" entered the Chabad House, shouted "Allahu Akbar!," tortured the Jews and murdered them, including the young Rabbi's pregnant wife. Their two-year-old child escaped because of a quick-witted (non-Jewish) nanny who hid in a closet and then, risking being mown down by machine-gun fire, ran with him to safety.

And, with typical media cynicism, these were those ultra-Orthodox Jews, deserving of good jihad style cleansing.  Finally, Steyn points out how places like the Times ignore salient facts when they don't conform with their PC world view.

The Times was being silly in suggesting this was just an "accidental" hostage opportunity — and not just because, when Muslim terrorists capture Jews, it's not a hostage situation, it's a mass murder-in-waiting. The sole surviving "militant" revealed that the Jewish center had been targeted a year in advance.

It is tragic to see hordes of Islamo-fascists running amok in this world. Worse that the truth is being withheld from the world by idiots.
Then there's that jackass, Deepak Blames America
Word, Deepak: more enemas, less lecturing. Your new age mumbo-jumbo is just wamed over paganism mingled with psycho-babble.

Secularism vs Religion

Grandstanding at Christmas, the Korihorites give Washington a black eye.

Christmas / Winder Solstice sign put in the rotunda of the Washington State Capitol:

At this season of the Winter Solstice may reason prevail.
There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell.
There is only our natural world.
Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds.

The Freedom From Religion Foundation has been all over the US attacking our religious institutions. Just like Korihor...

The reason the Book of Mormon speaks to this American people is to make aware of the tricks the deceivers will pull. It is important that people read all of Alma 30 to get the full meaning of a Secularist's attack on God, why and how.

Starting with priestcraft, Alma 14:32 For those who did not belong to their church did indulge themselves in ^asorceries, and in ^bidolatry or ^cidleness, and in ^dbabblings, and in ^eenvyings and ^fstrife; wearing costly apparel; being ^glifted up in the pride of their own eyes; persecuting, lying, thieving, robbing, committing whoredoms, and murdering, and all manner of wickedness; nevertheless, the law was put in force upon all those who did transgress it, inasmuch as it was possible.

And on to anti-Christ, Korihor outlines a doctrine well traveled by the secularists:

A. There is no god.
Alma 30:13 O ye that are bound down under a ^afoolish and a vain hope, why do ye yoke yourselves with such foolish things? Why do ye look for a Christ?

B. Prove there is a god.
For no man can ^bknow of anything which is to come.

C. You have to be crazy to believe in god.
14 Behold, these things which ye call prophecies, which ye say are handed down by holy prophets, behold, they are foolish traditions of your fathers.

B. Prove there is a god.
15 How do ye know of their surety? Behold, ye cannot know of things which ye do not ^asee; therefore ye cannot know that there shall be a Christ.

C. You have to be crazy to believe in god.
16 Ye look forward and say that ye see a remission of your sins. But behold, it is the effect of a ^afrenzied mind; and this derangement of your minds comes because of the traditions of your fathers, which lead you away into a belief of things which are not so.

D. The Secularist's hallmark rationalization: Moral Relativism.
... every man ^afared in this life according to the management of the creature; therefore every man prospered according to his genius, and that every man conquered according to his strength; and ^bwhatsoever a man did was ^cno crime.

E. Finally, accusing good men of the Secularist agenda.
31 And he did rise up in great ^aswelling words before Alma, and did revile against the ^bpriests and teachers, accusing them of leading away the people after the silly traditions of their fathers, for the sake of glutting on the labors of the people.

First Woman Silver Star Recipient since WWII

CAMP SALERNO, Afghanistan — A 19-year-old medic from Texas will become the first woman in Afghanistan and only the second female soldier since World War II to receive the Silver Star, the nation's third-highest medal for valor.

Army Spc. Monica Lin Brown saved the lives of fellow soldiers after a roadside bomb tore through a convoy of Humvees in the eastern Paktia province in April 2007, the military said.

After the explosion, which wounded five soldiers in her unit, Brown ran through insurgent gunfire and used her body to shield wounded comrades as mortars fell less than 100 yards away, the military said.

"I did not really think about anything except for getting the guys to a safer location and getting them taken care of and getting them out of there," Brown told The Associated Press on Saturday at a U.S. base in the eastern province of Khost.

Brown, of Lake Jackson, Texas, is scheduled to receive the Silver Star later this month. She was part of a four-vehicle convoy patrolling near Jani Kheil in the eastern province of Paktia on April 25, 2007, when a bomb struck one of the Humvees.

"We stopped the convoy. I opened up my door and grabbed my aid bag," Brown said.

She started running toward the burning vehicle as insurgents opened fire. All five wounded soldiers had scrambled out.

"I assessed the patients to see how bad they were. We tried to move them to a safer location because we were still receiving incoming fire," Brown said.

"I did not really have time to be scared," Brown said. "Running back to the vehicle, I was nervous (since) I did not know how badly the guys were injured. That was scary."

The military said Brown's "bravery, unselfish actions and medical aid rendered under fire saved the lives of her comrades and represents the finest traditions of heroism in combat.

Read the 60 Minutes interview


Of course, it should be mentioned that THIS IS A 60 MINUTES INTERVIEW and Logan will take swipes at the Army and imply all sorts of things, but the heart of the story is that this girl did her job, did it with excellence, and saved lives. Stories about American exceptionalism need to be told to all the nattering naysayers in the media today.

Mormons attacked by cowardly extremists

WE ALL ARE MORMONS....by Rabbi Shifren

We are living in an era of insanity! Witness the latest attempt to remake the nature of our country, founded and established on certain principles that have been the envy of the entire world. The latest assault on our country and its values comes in the form of vicious and criminal violence against the Mormon church in Westwood, California

Interesting how the selective self-righteous indignation on the part of the radical Gay activists is played out here: they bewail the blow to freedom and justice! But I thought we just had elections, where the majority of Californians expressed their views in a free and open manner. Are we not a nation of laws? Dare we relive the McCarthy era, where  Americans were harassed and threatened with the loss of their jobs for believing in a certain way? If the Gay radicals should have their way, untold numbers of Americans would live under the threat of the Gay-Lesbian "thought police," where individuals that reject the Gay lifestyle would be sought out and have sanctions brought against them. 

It's bad enough for those working in the entertainment industry here in Los Angeles, where a fog of political correctness and a bending over backwards to accommodate, even promote Gay lifestyle is in full gear. Let none dare say that this type of activity is anathema to our country, our morality, and the  debauchery of our young people.

Let it be stated unequivocally: The radical Gay attack on the Mormons is the shot over the bow against the United States of America. There was a time when what a man did in his bedroom was sanctified between himself and G-d. Now we are being served an "in-your-face" smorgasbord of smut and licentiousness as being between people who only "want their civil rights." 

Hogwash! We are dealing with the equivalent of a moral takeover of the country that has as its bedrock a belief in G-d and His promise for humanity. They don't want civil rights! What they desire is quasi Gay/Lesbian hegemony, where a huge "bookburning," reminiscent of the Nazis, will purge any remnants of the "Christian, White, mainstream America" that has given ALL AMERICANS the most profound scope of freedom, liberty, and justice that Mankind has yet to experience. 

People have perhaps wondered: why the Mormons? Answer: they are a small, yet vocal Christian minority. They have been selected by the mobs as vulnerable, a group that might not have such massive support among America's Christians. 

We who are friends of the Mormons, their patriotism, their family values, will not falter in our continued support of these dear Americans. Let us recall the Christian minister Niemoller, whose admonition during those dark years of Nazi Germany moved us to our core:

"When they came for the gypsies, I said nothing, because I wasn't a gypsy. When they came for the homosexuals, I said nothing, because I wasn't a homosexual. When they came for the Jews, I said nothing, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I said nothing, because I wasn't a Catholic......then they came for me, and there was no one left to defend me."

My fellow Americans, in the coming battle for the heart and soul of America and everything we cherish, may this call to arms be the mantra of every concerned patriot:

"WE ALL ARE MORMONS!"

Mormons attacked by cowardly extremists

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Rabbi Nachum Shifren

Lecturer and Author, "Kill Your Teacher: An Expose of Corruption and Racism in LA Schools" & "Surfing Rabbi: A Kabbalistic Quest for the Soul"

http://www.surfingrabbi.com

http://www.surfingrabbi.com/surf_blog.html

http://www.killyourteacher.com

Red vs Blue Holiday Wishes

Um, funny but PG-13, maybe PG-30...


"Thanksgiving is when all the Pokemons taught the Jedis how to grow crops"

Twilight. Reviewing a book and movie I've never seen or read.

Nor do I plan to. Sorry, but I can't see how books written for teenage girls end up making millions. What does that say about folks who managed to turn off "Biggest Looser" and trundle into the reading room to devour a story as wafer thin as Twilight?
Lots of big people books out there, come on in! the water's great.

Economy Christmas

My dear friends,

Somewhat embarrassing to admit, I'm not getting an annual bonus and Christmas is tight this year. I will be making bedroom slippers for you all as gifts. Please let me know your sizes. You'll most likely agree that it's a splendid idea, and should you wish to do the same, I've included the instructions below.

How to make bedroom slippers out of maxi pads:

You need four maxi pads to make a pair.

Two of them get laid out flat, for the foot part.

The other two wrap around the toe area to form the top.

Tape or glue each side of the top pieces to the bottom of the foot part.

Decorate the tops with whatever you desire, silk flowers (this is most aesthetically appealing), etc.

These slippers are:

* Soft and Hygienic

* Non-slip grip strips on the soles

* Built in deodorant feature keeps feet smelling fresh

* No more bending over to mop up spills

* Disposable and biodegradable

* Environmentally safe

* Three convenient sizes: (1.) Regular, (2.) Light and (3..) Get out the Sand Bags.

I've attached a photo of the first pair I made so that you can see the nifty slippers for yourself.....

Awaiting your response. It's crucial that I get the right size for each one of you.

Irene Sendler

Glen Beck hits another one out of the park as he tells the story of Irene Sendler. Living in Warsaw Poland, she smuggled thousands of Jewish children out of the clutches of the murderous Nazis. The members of the National Socialist DEMOCRAT party run by Hitler was in full swing and exterminating any and all Jews.
Her story is one of courage, selflessness, and charity. Things people of faith value.
She was denied the Nobel Peace Prize as Algore won instead.
His fatuous slide show that made him tens of millions and has generated an almost Nazi-like following of thuggish true believers is the polar opposite of what Irene stood for.

Welcome to the 21st Century. Hel12.

The Amazing Orbiting Toolbag

According to Spaceweather.com;
"When Endeavour astronaut Heidemarie Stefanyshyn-Piper dropped her toolbag during a spacewalk on Nov. 18th and it floated away, mission controllers probably figured they'd seen the last of it. Think again. Last night, Nov. 22nd, veteran satellite observer Kevin Fetter video-recorded the backpack-sized bag gliding over his backyard observatory in Brockville, Ontario. "It was easily 8th magnitude or brighter as it passed by the 4th magnitude star eta Pisces," he says. Spaceweather's satellite tracker is monitoring the toolbag."

This little slip of the gloves has produced something phenomenal, "The Amazing Orbiting Toolbag".
Here's a clip of the toolbag getting away:

And here's a clip from Kevin Fetter who video-recorded the backpack-sized bag gliding over his backyard observatory in Brockville, Ontario:

F15 secret undersea launch.

F15 secret undersea launch. Secret military prototype of new undersea fighter using the F15 chassis. Amazing area 51 technology unveiled.

More from our tolerant friends...

AntiGayBlacklist.com

Support the Organizations that are Fighting to Overturn Prop H8 and
Defend Our Basic Human Right to Marry Kids and Goats.

And they list all the Prop8 donors. Just like Hitler's Brownshirts would do.

Leavitt Replaced by Daschel

From FRC. There goes the neighborhood...

Obama Daschles Hopes of Pro-Lifers

Breaking news this afternoon suggests that President-elect Obama is unlikely to govern from the middle. By appointing former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D) as U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, the 44th President provided a frightening glimpse of his new Cabinet. According to Politico, "Daschle was also considered for health care czar in the White House, but the transition team decided he could be more effective with Secretary in front of his name." As Majority Leader, Daschle was a notorious opponent of every pro-life measure. He blocked the partial-birth abortion ban, voted for taxpayer-funded military abortions, and supported a measure that would have forced Americans to pay for the distribution of the morning-after pill to young school girls. Apart from his extreme political ideology, the selection of Daschle is even more troubling because the South Dakotan lacks any experience in the public health arena. To most Americans, who thought this election was about "change," these appointments must seem incredibly ironic. So far, the new Obama administration has only managed to change the titles of the same old liberal leadership.

On an even more sinister note, it looks like the Dems are getting their way on abortion (infanticide) and are vigorously pursuing an agenda that will put the number of infanticides in America at almost fifty million by early 2009. Their goal is a 2020 number of one hundred million.

Since many states will not report these figures estimates could be shy, but not generous.

What do you do when you don't get your way?

Call your mommy...

Calif. Supreme Court to take up gay marriage ban

The California Supreme Court accepted three lawsuits seeking to nullify Proposition 8, a voter-approved constitutional amendment that overruled the court's decision in May that legalized gay marriage.

What is really deceitful in this article, is this photo. The caption reads:

Rev. Amos Brown, a national board member of the NAACP, raises his hands as he speaks to a large crowd of supporters of same-sex marriage, as they cheer in front of San Francisco City Hall on Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008. Thousands of demonstrators gathered to listen to speakers and protest the passage of Proposition 8, a ballot measure amending California's constitution to ban same-sex marriage. The event is part of a simultaneous protest planned in in hundreds of communities.

Now, if 70% of Black voters were in favor of Prop8, then who are these nuts with the time to take off work and go protest?
Bing! If you answered LIBERALS, you are correct.

And again, why not call it Homosexual Marriage. What's so gay about being Homosexual?
Never could figure that out.

LGBTQ: You've got to be kidding

• Lesbian
• Gay
• BiSexual
• Transgender
• Queer

How intolerant can they be? The left out some of their biggest supporters...
Let's see, ManBLA, the Man-Boy-Love-Association. We 'intolerant' folk used to call them pedophiles. Then there are the 'animal lovers' I can't even describe this one without barfing -- beastiality. Or, is that all under queer?

And, as the tolerant ones, they have already destroyed property, harassed, threatened, and disrupted the lives of us 'intolerant Christians'.
Love those Freep-ers. http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/prop8/index

Here's a great quote:
"Burn their f---ing churches to the ground, and then tax the charred timbers," insisted the popular Web site and blog, JoeMyGod. One poster listed the addresses of local Mormon churches, writing, "I do not openly advocate firebombing or vandalism. What you do with the information is your own choice."
This from Boston. http://www.dailycollegian.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=6737dcb0-a1b4-4e5b-9010-878f62ee1cfd

Strange Resemblance

A Gelfling and an Iranian.
Obama's BFF campaign manager.

No on 8 Campaign in Turmoil During Last Weeks

Over the last week, details have emerged revealing that the No on 8 campaign was unorganized and for the most part, in a state of complete disarray. Key campaign staff, including the campaign manager, were replaced in the final weeks as it became apparent in polls that the Yes on 8 campaign was quickly gaining ground.

Their replacements sought to shift voter support for Prop 8 by pouring millions of dollars into television and radio buys aimed at convincing California voters that support for traditional marriage was the equivalent of Japanese internment camps. They went so far as to compare Yes on 8 voters to bigots.

They were ultimately stunned that California voters saw past their deceptive ads and voted to once again uphold the definition of marriage to be between a man and a woman. Ethnic communities, those who have truly been affected by civil rights issues, turned out to vote Yes – African Americans alone supported the measure by more than 2 to 1.

It is true that the Yes on 8 campaign ran a better campaign.  We raised important issues, our messages appealed to voters and we had a volunteer army that was unprecedented in California history.  But just as the best farmer cannot raise crops in the barren desert, our campaign, no matter how well run, could not have succeeded if there were not still a deep well of respect for the sacred institution of marriage.  And for that, the voters in their wisdom deserve the credit.

Sacramento Musical Theatre Director Resigns Due to Harassment by No on 8 Supporters

Today the Sacramento Bee announced that Scott Eckern, artistic director for the California Musical Theatre, resigned under pressure Wednesday as a growing number of artists threatened to boycott the organization because of his $1,000 donation to the Yes on 8 campaign. This kind of blacklisting shows that the No on 8 campaign, which claimed to be all about tolerance, is in fact a cauldron of intolerance and bigotry.

Sacramento Bee Editorial: No on 8 Supporters Cross the Line that Separates Civil Protest from Harassment

An editorial in the Sacramento Bee today takes a close look at the outrageous actions undertaken by many No on 8 supporters following the passage of Prop 8.

The editorial summarizes the opposition's actions, citing that, "Angry opponents of Proposition 8 are targeting businesses and individuals who contributed money to the "yes" campaign. Vandals have hit churches that supported the initiative. Sparked by the speed and reach of the Internet, supporters of gay and lesbian rights are organizing protests from California to Salt Lake City, the home of the Mormon Church."

And while the editorial takes a sympathetic approach to the opposition's protests, saying their "charged reaction is understandable," it does not justify that by "venting their anger and in exercising their right to challenge Proposition 8, some opponents risk crossing the line that separates civil protest from harassment. And by crossing that line, they undermine the message that some gay and lesbian leaders are trying to impart: that everyone's rights should be respected."

The editorial went on to acknowledge that the No on 8 campaign has not adequately addressed the acts of violence and harassment undertaken by their supporters, saying that "a lone statement" on their Web site asking supporters to not isolate those who oppose their views is simply not enough.

Elton John: Where Prop 8 went wrong

Elton John: Heterosexual Couples Have Marriage, Same-Sex Couples Have Civil Partnerships

USA Today published an article Nov.13, in which Sir Elton John spoke about his position on Proposition 8. John clarified his position on Prop 8 while attending the annual benefit for the Elton John AIDS Foundation. He was accompanied by his longtime partner David Furnish, whom he joined in a civil union in 2005. John was quoted as saying, "We're not married. Let's get that right. We have a civil partnership. What is wrong with Proposition 8 is that they went for marriage. Marriage is going to put a lot of people off, the word marriage."

John went on to emphasize that civil unions grant same-sex couples the same rights afforded to married heterosexual couples. He stated, "I don't want to be married. I'm very happy with a civil partnership. If gay people want to get married, or get together, they should have a civil partnership…the word marriage, I think, puts a lot of people off. You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships."

January 21st or 22nd. Where's the tinfoil hat?

Lets Get it Straight...

What Prop8 meant, and why it is harmless. Why is homosexual marriage harmful? Who is intolerant? Their agreement is that if you don't agree with them, you are an intolerant bigot. But, if they don't agree with us, they shut down churches, take over school curriculum and force other intolerant agendas down our throats. So, who's the bigot? The person who wants to maintain their personal religious freedoms and uphold an institution that are inseparable from that idea, or the person who wants to force a state religion on everyone who does not agree?
This is Secularism, or State Religion, verses Personal Religious Belief.

SCHOOL -- 1958 vs. 2008

Scenario:
Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1958
- Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2008
- School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to
jail and never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in for
traumatized students and teachers.  

Scenario:
 Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school.
1958
- Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies.
2008 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
 

Scenario:
 Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1958
- Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal. Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.
2008 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state because Jeffrey has a disability.
 

Scenario:
Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his Dad gives him a whipping with his belt.
1958 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2008 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse.  Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang.  State psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers being abused herself and their dad goes to prison  Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.
 

Scenario:
Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school.
1958 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal out on the smoking dock.
2008 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons  

Scenario:
Pedro fails high school English.
1958 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, goes to college.
2008 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system and Pedro's English teacher.   English banned from core curriculum.  Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.  

Scenario:
Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed.
1958 - Ants die.
2008- BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with  domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list and is never allowed to fly again.

Scenario:
Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary.  Mary hugs him to comfort him.
1958 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2008 - Mary is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison.  Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy.

Mormons & Prop8 Facts

Dear Friends,

In the aftermath of the recent election, we may find ourselves oddly on the defensive regarding our support for the Yes on Proposition 8 cause. Our young people have been especially subject to mean spirited comments by high school friends and teachers. We have nothing to be ashamed of. We did nothing wrong. In fact, we did everything that a civic minded American can and should do. I have put together a few facts that help me to appreciate our position better. For example:

1. Mormons make up less than 2% of the population of California. There are approximately 800,000 LDS out of a total population of approximately 34 million.

2. Mormon voters were less than 5% of the yes vote. If one estimates that 250,000 LDS are registered voters (the rest being children), then LDS voters made up 4.6% of the Yes vote and 2.4% of the total Proposition 8 vote.

3. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) donated no money to the Yes on 8 campaign. Individual members of the Church were encouraged to support the Yes on 8 efforts and, exercising their constitutional right to free speech, donated whatever they felt like donating.

4. The No on 8 campaign raised more money than the Yes on 8 campaign. Unofficial estimates put No on 8 at $38 million and Yes on 8 at $32 million, making it the most expensive non-presidential election in the country.

5. Advertising messages for the Yes on 8 campaign are based on case law and real-life situations. The No on 8 supporters have insisted that the Yes on 8 messaging is based on lies. Every Yes on 8 claim is supported.

6. The majority of our friends and neighbors voted Yes on 8. Los Angeles County voted in favor of Yes on 8. Ventura County voted in favor of Yes on 8.

7. African Americans overwhelmingly supported Yes on 8. Exit polls show that 70% of Black voters chose Yes on 8. This was interesting because the majority of these voters voted for President-elect Obama. No on 8 supporters had assumed that Obama voters would vote No on 8.

8. The majority of Latino voters voted Yes on 8. Exit polls show that the majority of Latinos supported Yes on 8 and cited religious beliefs (assumed to be primarily Catholic).

9. The Yes on 8 coalition was a broad spectrum of religious organizations. Catholics, Evangelicals, Protestants, Orthodox Jews, Muslims – all supported Yes on 8. It is estimated that there are 10 million Catholics and 10 million Protestants in California. Mormons were a tiny fraction of the population represented by Yes on 8 coalition members.

10. Not all Mormons voted in favor of Proposition 8. Our faith accords that each person be allowed to choose for him or her self. Church leaders have asked members to treat other members with "civility, respect and love," despite their differing views.

11. The Church did not violate the principal of separation of church and state. This principle is derived from the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, which reads, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof . . ." The phrase "separation of church and state", which does not appear in the Constitution itself, is generally traced to an 1802 letter by Thomas Jefferson, although it has since been quoted in several opinions handed down by the United States Supreme Court in recent years. The LDS Church is under no obligation to refrain from participating in the political process, to the extent permitted by law. U.S. election law is very clear that Churches may not endorse candidates, but may support issues. The Church as always been very careful on this matter and occasionally (not often) chooses to support causes that it feels to be of a moral nature.

12. Supporters of Proposition 8 did exactly what the Constitution provides for all citizens: they exercised their First Amendment rights to speak out on an issue that concerned them, make contributions to a cause that they support, and then vote in the regular electoral process. For the most part, this seems to have been done in an open, fair, and civil way. Opponents of 8 have accused supporters of being bigots, liars, and worse. The fact is, we simply did what Americans do – we spoke up, we campaigned, and we voted.