Archive for January, 2007
John Kerry Makes Everyone Look Good
Sunday, January 28th, 2007Do you need any further proof that John Kerry is a moron? I don’t. Just when I start to think that the whole political class is one big group of self-serving imbeciles, John Kerry comes along and provides stark evidence that there is still a moral-deprived scale. He makes everyone look good.
John Kerry: morally bankrupt.
A Houston Winter Day
Sunday, January 28th, 2007Busy this weekend. Moving rocks. Yes, rocks. We have a path of moss rocks in the back yard and made a family project of moving most of them to save for future landscaping needs.
I look forward to our back yard being finished. Today part of my time was spent screeching at Little Toot to get out of the underbrush. We’ve had so much rain and everything is twiggy and soggy and leaf-laden and mushy–a perfect home for snakes and other critters.
Still it was fun to get into the brisk air and warm sunshine. Should be 32 degrees tonight. Another cold night to kill off bugs, I hope.
Lunch consisted of beef and cheese ravioli. Everyone ate in that enthusiastic post-physical labor way while the light streamed in through the windows onto the table. Heavy pasta meals just don’t work when it’s 95 degrees out. Sometimes I miss the extended cold periods we had up North until I remember the dreary gray skies that came with the extended cold.
Ah, well, I still love Houston–bugs, humidity, and snakes and all.
The Child-Centered Congress
Friday, January 26th, 2007You know how I’m sick of Nancy Pelosi’s fecund uterus? You know how I’m sick of all the talk of squirming little bundles of bouncing energy and the future and “it’s for the children“?
The reason why this talk brings on my morning sickness, mid-day sickness and and night-sickness too, is that I thinks it is bullshit. Sorry. That was blunt. Just so you know, I don’t view bullshit as a swear word. I favor it, because it’s so descriptive. I don’t believe these ambitious, eat-my-mother-for-breakfast women mean a word of all their professed caring. All this baby talk reminds me of John McCain’s nasty rhetoric about torture. Strange transition, but follow me, here.
McCain brought up legislation to eliminate torture, remember? What was the implication in his tone? Anyone who opposes the legislation MUST BE FOR TORTURE. Likewise, anyone who is against Pelosi’s mommy-state legislation (no nannies, oh hell no! We were stay-at-home, bake the cookies moms–that warm fuzzy information via Wolf Blitzer and his snuggly interview with one of Pelosi’s progeny.) is against America’s children and their sun-shiny future.
It’s manipulative and vacuous. It’s just all so child-like. Have you had this conversation with your kid lately?
Johnny: I want to go to Jimmy’s house to play.
Mom: No, you need to study for your test tomorrow.
Johnny: You NEVER let me do what I want to. You ALWAYS say no. You must be against my friends.
Whenever a Congress person is Jonesin’ for their way, they resort to baby talk. So far, we’ve had whining, theatrics and temper tantrums. How long have the Dems been the majority? Dr. Sanity has a great post along these lines, she concludes:
This childish obsession is probably directly connected to why they seem incapable of treating our completely voluntary military personnel as adult men and women capable of making choices that their Democrat mommies don’t approve of. But at least they are consistent. They treat all of the American public as infants in need of their guidance and supervision.Chief Democrat Squirrel Pelosi has made sure we know that she and her fellow Dems are doing what they do “for the children.”
I’m not at all surprised. Their logic of their self-serving behavior suggests that they, themselves, are the “children” they care about most.
Precisely.
Karbala Abduction
Friday, January 26th, 2007The AP via USA Today reports that US soldiers died after being abducted during a sneak attack:
The brazen assault, 50 miles south of Baghdad on Jan. 20, was conducted by nine to 12 militants posing as an American security team. They traveled in black GMC Suburban vehicles — the type used by U.S. government convoys — had American weapons, wore new U.S. military combat fatigues and spoke English.
This is disturbing, indeed. For those who don’t believe that what is happening in Iraq is War or are so dulled due to media saturation and video game violence and so view the combat over there as US game-playing, these type of accounts challenge that notion.
I was struck by Michael Yon’s latest post. A modern Hemingway, Yon’s description of the tense, anxious waiting-to-battle feel will bring you right into the heart of the fight.
As an aside, the AP’s report about the abductions I tried to verify elsewhere. I don’t have the contacts that some bloggers have, but color me skeptical about all AP reporting these days.
And that, in a nutshell, is the problem with the MSM slanting, lying, omitting and putting forth garbage from dubious sources: no thinking person believes them anymore.
Fire Alarm Innovation
Friday, January 26th, 2007Sick of worrying about Fire Alarm batteries? Worry no more. Via Medgadget, an alarm that screws into a light-bulb socket and then you screw the light-bulb into it. No more batteries! Makes a noise that can be heard throughout the house.
Now, if only they made a similar carbon monoxide detector. Well there’s this and you could always sort through these.
Why I Don’t Take The Democrat Women Seriously–UPDATED
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Ann Coulter sums it up nicely:
Girl-power feminists who got where they are by marrying men with money or power — Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, Arianna Huffington and John Kerry — love to complain about how hard it is for a woman to be taken seriously.
It has nothing to do with their being women. It has to do with their cheap paths to power. Kevin Federline isn’t taken seriously either.
I’ll vote for America’s Maggie Thatcher, when America finds one. Hillary Clinton isn’t her. And Nancy Pelosi’s triumph isn’t soul-satisfying either. She needs to shut up about her uterus and stick to business. One more word about her kids and grandkids…….
Update:
Hillary is not the New Iron Lady. I know, stating the obvious. Over at TCS Daily, though, are reasons, why:
Moral clarity: Margaret Thatcher’s approach to the Soviet Union lacked the self-doubt and ethical confusion so often mistaken for intellectual sophistication. Resolve: With this moral confidence came the courage to show strength. Famously, Thatcher warned George H. W. Bush not to “go wobbly” over the Persian Gulf. The UN and the US: In reference to the United Nations and to the International Criminal Court, Thatcher wrote: “because there is no world ‘nation’, no world political identity, no world public opinion,” the only way to enforce the will of international institutions would be “to suppress democratic instincts, resist democratic pressures.”Concluding:
If Margaret Thatcher is Hillary Clinton’s model when it comes to security, defense and personal strengths, the policy direction this would suggest is clear: a confidence in American global leadership and an acknowledgement of American moral superiority over her enemies; a refusal to take orders from the United Nations, and a general skepticism of international institutions; a robust approach to domestic terrorists and a refusal to “go wobbly” over threats such as Iran.
This Thatcherite approach is certainly a formidable and attractive foreign policy on which to run for President. It presents only one problem for Sen. Clinton: making it through the Democratic primaries with a platform anything like it.
Hillary Clinton has been running for President for a long, long time. She was running before she became Senator Clinton. She knew that she could not become President without keeping her ride hitched to her husbands. Expedience.
She has an authoritarian nature that supercedes her intellect. Actually, in the Senate, her nature is tempered by the constraints of the institution. As President, she will have few of those constraints.
There is no question that Hillary Clinton would be a strong, powerful leader. But there are many strong, powerful leaders in the world guided by whim and greed. They cause big problems in the countries they lead and for the world at large.
Don’t mistake the shared sturdy legs and somber tone with shared steely resolve and moral clarity. The style may be vaguely similar, but the substance could not be more different.
LGF: "Orwellian Headline of the Day"
Thursday, January 25th, 2007“U.S., Iraqi Troops Clash in Baghdad” is the AP Headline. What do you think that means? That they’re working together, right? Riiiiiiight. But that’s exactly what they were doing–not clashing with each other as the AP would have you mindless rubes believe (because they know that you don’t read beyond the headlines, if you can read at all).
LGF has more great links and information:
- Were the downed helicopter contractors shot “execution-style“? Probably not.
- And does President Iran Good Hair really mean “wipe off the map” or is he calling for regime change in Israel? Even Reuters knows what he means.
- Russian Uranium smuggler caught by U.S. and Georgian officials. What the hell is happening in Russia? So much for 24 scare tactics, ‘eh?
Sex Offenders
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Why does it seem like psychos manage to assault many children or even women and men before they get caught and yet youngsters doing what young people sometimes do, end up in prison? John Hawkins brings attention to a case in Georgia where a now twenty-year old guy will go to jail for ten years, without parole, for having sex as a teenager with a girl two years his junior who initiated the sex.
Another frustration: I routinely check the websites that list local sex predators, but the information is incomplete. Some of the situations are like the one described above. I’m not going to be concerned about that. “Sexual assault” means what? What were the age differences? Was it a family member or does s/he prowl neighborhoods looking for prey?
I’m all for tough laws and stiff penalties–some of these people are so messed up, no amount of incarceration will “cure” them. Better that they’re off the streets forever. But a young man’s life shouldn’t be ruined because he engages in consensual sex with a peer. The laws weren’t intended for that. He will be used and abused in prison. That is not justice.
Depressants Depressing Side Effects
Thursday, January 25th, 2007Besides suicide, birth defects, low/no sex drive, trivial health matters all, anti-depressants double the risk of bone fractures. And we have children, babies, on these drugs.
People, you are a walking human experiment if you take anti-depressants. There are many alternatives to these medications–most involve finding the root cause of the problem. And the root cause is not “you were born with a brain imbalance”. This passive, hopeless perspective can make depression worse on it’s own.
Here are some imbalances that can cause depression:
- Thyroid insufficiency
- Adrenal fatigue
- Hormone imbalances
- Reactive hypoglycemia, blood sugar handling problems
There are some people who think that depression is “all in your head”. These people, some therapists are completely behavioral, therapeutic in their approach. And it is true, some depression is very responsive to talk therapy.
But there are physiological problems that can lead to depression. Some can be alleviated by diet, exercise and natural solutions–including balancing hormones. This goes for men, too. Low testosterone is a huge cause of depression in men. A combination of talk therapy and natural treatments can have amazing results.
Anti-depressants should be a last resort in all but the most extreme, desperate cases. Otherwise, finding a health-building lifestyle regimen can eliminate depression and create a happy life–rather than avoid, or medicate a sad one.
Et tu QE 2?
Thursday, January 25th, 2007More sickness on cruise ships. A few days into a 108 day cruise and “hundreds” of passengers have a norovirus. Ewwwwwwww!
I have concluded that it is unnatural to be stuck with so many people on an enclosed ecosystem. Even the QE2 is not immune.
More here.
