The Fat of the Land

Heading Out West...

We had a wonderful weekend up at Andrew and Laura's. We celebrated Andrew's birthday and his brand new MBA! It was awesome, the weather, the family time and the boys having a chance to ride their bikes, fish and relax.

It was a good family weekend and now I am preparing to head out to Seattle to have time with Mom and Dad.
I am sure that it will be awesome to be together, I just wish we could all go, but with Mom in the hospital, and the short notice, this wasn't the time.
We are hoping that all of the interventions that the doctors are coming up with, will be enough to set Mom on the right path and get her home! I will be able to help out with getting her home and settled.

I will blog from out there.

Something's Fishy Here...

OK, now really. I have not been all that critical of Obamacare on this blog. A snide comment here and there, a bit of humor, oh and I did post that chart of the Democrats health plan. Hmmm...yep that could have been it.

I guess I am actually one of the fishy ones, as defined by the White House:

Facts Are Stubborn Things
Posted by Macon Phillips
August 4, 2009

Opponents of health insurance reform may find the truth a little inconvenient, but as our second president famously said, "facts are stubborn things."

Scary chain emails and videos are starting to percolate on the internet, breathlessly claiming, for example, to "uncover" the truth about the President's health insurance reform positions.

There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care. These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation. Since we can't keep track of all of them here at the White House, we're asking for your help. If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.

Yes, I have been guilty of some "fishy" blogging, and I guess the repercussions have begun.
The boys and Tim found this on the lawn tonight...

No, a dead Catfish on the lawn isn't a severed horse head in your bed, but it is seriously strange, right?

Classic Veggies and A Parable for Our Times...

If you can just substitute "surgeon" for "Veterinarian", this could be our health care in a few years!
"If you go a little loopy, better keep your nurse well paid", indeed. Loopy seems to be the theme of the Obama administration...

They MIGHT be Getting it...

Remember back in high school, how there was that one really popular kid, and everyone would fall all over themselves just to be a small part of his circle?

Kids would do the stupidest things, lie, cheat, steal, just to make an impression on that kid. If someone from a "loser" group happened to be have something he needed he would suddenly be friendly and while he was using them for whatever it was, they would bask in the glow of his popularity and they would deny they even knew their other geeky friends. Of course, when they weren't useful anymore, they'd be thrown out of the circle and the former friends would want nothing to do with them, duh....

So I think a few people in the Main Stream Media are starting to realize that they are the geeky kid....

Schoolhouse Rock for Our Times...

So here is a great little ditty that we can sing as we go down Obama's road to socialism.



HT to CMR once again...

Where Would We Be if He Hadn't Come?

Posted by Patrick Archbold of Creative Minority Report

Gratitude...Or Lack Of It

"If they hadn't come, where would we be today?" -- Louis Delevin, resident of Normandy, France.

I am an ingrate. Life has a way of obscuring, for me, the things for which I should be most grateful.

Sixty five years have past since the Normandy invasion. In that fateful morning those many years ago, freedom for Europe was a question very much in doubt. At the cost of much British and American blood, Nazi tyranny began to be pushed back.

Many years have passed since those fateful days and such things are rarely in the thoughts of the people of Europe and America. Once a year, people gather on the shores of nothern France to commerorate those days, but the truth is most people have forgotten what was given them, at the cost of much blood.

Not so Louis Delevin. He was twelve years old living on his family farm at the time of the great invasion. He vividly remembers giving out apple cider to soldiers who passed his farm. He knows what was gained for him and it still grateful.

[Boston] "If they hadn't come, where would we be today?' said Delevin, 77, who as a farm boy of 12 provided the pilots with apple cider between raids on the retreating German troops. "You don't have to be a great scholar to understand that the freedom we enjoy today was decided in those days in 1944."

I am impressed by gratitude I think because I realize how often I am not. It is true, I rarely think of how the freedom I enjoy was secured for me. Boys half my age gave their lives in places they likely never heard of before they died there. They gave me this gift and I so rarely remember, never mind show the proper gratitude.

As great was their sacrifice, as wonderful the freedoms I enjoy, so much more has been given to me. Two thousand years ago my God humbled Himself to be born in poverty and to suffer, die, and be buried, and to rise again so that I may live, forever. This amazing gift of God is completely undeserved. And yet, so many times I reject this freely given gift only to once again beg for and be granted a forgiveness I don't deserve.

John 14:15 "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments."

Why am I such an ingrate? Why am I so incapable of love? Why can't I remember what has been given me and how? Where would I be if He had not come?

When looking at the crosses in the ground on the cliffs of Normandy I should be truly grateful for what has been given me at so great a cost. Ever so much grateful should I be when I look at the cross above my bed.

Posted by Patrick Archbold at 9:37 PM

How's He Gonna Do It?

This is going to be very interesting.
Barry appears to be trying very hard to do what Abraham Lincoln said couldn't be done.
He is trying to fool some pretty smart and committed people.

I will be very interested to see how he manages to reconcile this:

"We meet at a time of tension between the United States and Muslims around the world -- tension rooted in historical forces that go beyond any current policy debate," Obama said in the address that included quoting Islam's holy book, the Koran.

"I have come here to seek a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world, one based upon mutual interest and mutual respect," he said. "America and Islam are not exclusive, and need not be in competition."

"This cycle of suspicion and discord must end," he added.

With This:

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim June 2009 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. I call upon the people of the United States to turn back discrimination and prejudice everywhere it exists.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this first day of June, in the year of our Lord two thousand nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-third.

BARACK OBAMA

And This:

"There will always be people, many of goodwill, who do not share my view on the issue of choice. On this fundamental issue, I will not yield and Planned Parenthood will not yield."

Barack Obama

The thing is, the Muslim world will never respect a society that does not adhere to it's most fundamental precepts. On these fundamental issues, they will not yield. And many in Islam have some pretty strong language about what you do with people that break those precepts.

“Homosexuality is a moral disorder. It is a moral disease, a sin and corruption.” – Dr Muzammil Siddiqi of the Islamic Society of North America.

Homosexuality “is utterly contrary to every natural law of human and animal life.” – Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Canada.

“Homosexuality is unlawful in Islam. It is neither accepted by the state nor by the Islamic Society. Quran clearly states that it is unjust, un-natural, transgression, ignorant, criminal and corrupt. [...] Muslim Jurist agree that, if proven of guilt, both of them should be killed.” – Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan.

As for Abortion:

Basically, Islam considers life as a sacred gift from God Almighty. No one is allowed to take or stop the life of anyone else except by way of justice or according to the Islamic law. Thus, the Holy Quran says: "Say: Come, I will rehearse what God has really prohibited you from: Join nothing as equal with Him; be good to your parents, kill not your children on a plea of poverty; We provide sustenance for you and for them; approach not shameful deeds, whether open or secret; take not life, which God has made sacred, except by a way of justice and law (Chapter 6, Verse 151).

In another verse, the Holy Quran says: "Kill not your children for fear of want; it is We who provide sustenance for them as well as for you; for verily killing them is a great sin.
(Chapter 17, Verse 31).

Hmmm....

Methinks Barry is going to have some explaining to do to someone...

The forked tongue of American politics is going to be a little less believable even as it tries to end the "cycle of suspicion and discord".

"Tolerance" and "choice" aren't spoken everywhere. Keep talking and somewhere, someone isn't going to believe you.

The Money Circle...

I read this and wanted to share, but I have to warn you, by the time I was finished I was quite dizzy and a little nauseous.
Oh yeah, and for the true flavor of Steynian brilliance, read it with a British accent.


May 23, 2009 6:00 AM

What Are We Stimulating?

The stimulus will do nothing for the economy, but it will advance the cause of statism.

By Mark Steyn

I was in Vermont the other day and made the mistake of picking up the local paper. Impressively, it contained a quarter-page ad, a rare sight these days. The rest of the page was made up by in-house promotions for the advertising department’s special offer on yard-sale announcements, etc. But the one real advertisement was from something called SEVCA. SEVCA is a “non-profit agency,” just like the New York Times, General Motors, and the State of California. And it stands for “South-Eastern Vermont Community Action.”

Why, they’re “community organizers,” just like the president! The designated “anti-poverty agency” is taking out quarter-page ads in every local paper is because they’re “seeking applicants for several positions funded in full or part by the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA)” — that’s the “stimulus” to you and me. Isn’t it great to see those bazillions of stimulus dollars already out there stimulating the economy? Creating lots of new jobs at SEVCA, in order to fulfill the president’s promise to “create or keep” 2.5 million jobs. At SEVCA, he’s not just keeping all the existing ones, but creating new ones, too. Of the eight new positions advertised, the first is:

“ARRA Projects Coordinator.”

Gotcha. So the first new job created by the stimulus is a job “coordinating” other programs funded by the stimulus. What’s next?

read the rest here

May is Mary's Month!

H/T to Amy Wellborn and co.

Obama Man Can...