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Afternoons are crazy in my house. Just after 2, Thing 2 will wake up screaming from her nap, if she went to sleep at all. If not, then I’ll usually rescue her from her evil crib at that time. Then we fight over what she should have for a snack. She always wants a cupcake. And I always say, “No cupcake!” At which point she collapses into a fit of sobs and tears. Eventually she’ll decide that she really does want the cheese/fruit/triscuits/other tasty wholesome snack, pick it up off the floor where’s she’s thrown it and eat it.
After that debacle, it’s usually time to go pick up Thing 1 from school and run an errand or two. Today we had to get some new tires for my truck. We went to Costco because I had some giftcards, plus you can get ice cream while you wait. Into the tire center. I know I need two at least, but think, “Hmm, do I really want to be back here in 3-6 months to replace the other two? Nope!” So I order up four new tires. The very polite service guy rattles of a price of eight hundred dollars and change. I’m not sure exactly, he lost me at eight hundred. Two new tires will be just fine thankyouverymuch. I tried not faint or choke or vomit as I forked over enough money to buy a plane ticket to Hawaii. Then I spent some time day dreaming about Hawaii.
Of course I was slammed back to reality when Thing 1 tipped over Thing 2’s stroller in the tire department at Costco.*
Thankfully there was no line, so it was only a 45 minute wait. We got some ice cream to share and I got a diet coke. I haven’t been buying it regularly any more, because I can’t find find a twelve pack for less than $5, and let’s face it: that’s extortion. I blissfully sipped my chemically caffeinated goodness while Things 1 & 2 raced to see who could eat more ice cream faster. Turns out Thing 1, although she paid for it dearly with a massive brain freeze that I refused to listen to her whine about.
New tires, sugared up children, and a broke Jenny headed home. I opened up my laptop and tweetdeck, trying to ignore the cacophony of, “I don’t want to do my homework!!!” and “Cupcake!” surrounding me. And I saw avatar pics of terminator sheep with glowing red eyes. And lots of tweets with the hashtag #demonsheep.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
So I tweeted: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is with the #demonsheep??
And I was immediately rewarded with links. I love Twitter. It satisfies my impatient nature.
The evil terminator demon sheep appear in an ad for Carly Fiorina, a sometimes fiscally conservative running for the republican nod to run against Senator Please-Don’t-Call-Me-Ma’am-Boxer in California. The ad slams an even more liberal republican than herself, Tom Campbell. And for some reason, it’s filled with demon sheep.
It made my whole day.
*No toddlers were harmed in the making of this post. Unless you consider cupcake denial to be harmful. In which case, it was torturous.
Organizing for America, which can be found at www.BarackObama.com, is “the successor organization to Obama for America, is building on the movement that elected President Obama by empowering communities across the country to bring about our agenda of change.”
On the surface, it looks good. What’s wrong with encouraging people, especially young people, to become more involved with the political process, to donate their time and talent to serve the community? Nothing, of course. Unless it’s just a tool to spread progressive propaganda like “the government knows better than you do” and “rich people are stealing from you.” On a side note, I’ll never understand why people get upset about CEOs making millions but not Kobe Bryant.
Those crazy kooks over at OFA are busy recruiting high school students in government schools to become part of the team that will transform America. To help spread the word that health care is a right, not a service, that fetus’s aren’t babies, and that bankrupting energy companies is a good idea. You know, to really be a part of sumpin’ special.
Remember, this is a partisan organization to promote liberal/socialist ideals, and they’re recruiting teenagers in their high school government classes. Not at lunch in the quad, not after school in the office, but right in the classroom. If that isn’t unsettling enough for you, wait until you check out the recommended reading list. On it is Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals, a book dedicated to Satan and containing such gems as:
“The third rule of ethics of means and ends is that in war the end justifies almost any means….”
and:
And so the guided questioning goes on without anyone losing face or being left out of the decision-making. Every weakness of every proposed tactic is probed by questions…. Is this manipulation? Certainly….”
and:
“An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth-truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing…. To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations….”
and:
“A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage — the political paradise of communism.”
Unbelievable.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews had some commentary on the State of the Union Address last night:
He is post-racial by all appearances. You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour. You know, he’s gone a long way to become a leader of this country and passed so much history in just a year or two.
Like being black is something to be forgotten? I don’t forget that President Obama is black. I just don’t care.
High schools, sexual bending, and what’s wrong with parents today, plus current events with contributor Brittany Cohan. Also, cocktail time with Mike G.
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Tim Tebow is a Heisman trophy-winning quarterback for the University of Florida. As a home-schooled kid from a Christian family, he shatters the stereotype that kids taught by their parents at the kitchen table grow up to be abnormal, socially stunted adults. Arguably the best college football player in the country, Tebow remains centered in his faith and family.
Pam Tebow was serving as a missionary in an orphanage in the Philippines with her husband Bob and Tim’s older siblings when she was pregnant with Tim. She suffered from a parasitic infection, and doctors predicted a still birth and advised Pam to abort the baby for her own health. She refused, and gave birth to a healthy, full term baby boy.
Focus on the Family has sponsored a 30 second add to appear during Superbowl XLIV, which features the Tebows and include some sort of “choose life” message. And you know how pro-women groups feel about people choosing life. They really can’t stand it, can they? It’s interesting to me that they get so angry about it. I mean, if there’s nothing wrong with abortion, why do they get so upset about women choosing not to do it?
The Women’s Media Center and the National Organization for Women are going absolutely bonkers, accusing Focus on the Family of being “extremely intolerant and divisive and pushing an un-American agenda,” and pushing an “anti-abortion vitriol has resulted in escalated violence against reproductive health providers and their patients.” Whoa, that’s harsh.
So what does Tim Tebow have to say about the ad and about his mother’s decision to choose life?
“I know some people won’t agree with it, but I think they can at least respect that I stand up for what I believe…[T]hat’s the reason I’m here, because my mom was a very courageous woman. So any way that I could help, I would do it.”
Bravo to the Tebow family for standing firm in their beliefs in the face of tough opposition. I applaud you for not being afraid to exercise your 1st amendment right to free speech. Even if that speech is difficult for some people to hear. And to those that would deny the Tebows, Focus on the Family, and CBS the 30 second advertisement, I have two words for you: mute button.
A few days ago, President Obama spoke with about 30 sixth graders to talk about his new Race to the Top program. Basically, it’s a race to spend as much tax-payer money as possible on education for the children. Barack Obama is so fantastically competent at managing schools, I’m sure he knows exactly what he’s doing. I mean, look at what he and Bill Ayers accomplished in Chicago! Wait, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge was an abysmal failure? Huh…
Anyway, I got sidetracked for a moment there. My reason for mentioning the President speaking to sixth graders was not to talk about education, but to point out that President I-can’t-speak-without-my-bff-teleprompter-present brought his bff the teleprompter to address the 12 year olds. Seriously.
As if trying to prove that he really has no clue what he’s talking about unless he’s reading off a screen, President Obama brought along his bff this morning to address a dozen or so people boardroom style.
I wonder if he uses Tele when he whispers sweet nothings to Michelle…
Update:
According to this article, Obama did not use the telepromter to address sixth graders. He used it to address news photographers that were sitting in the child-sized chairs. ”You guys look really cute in those chairs,” the President quipped. Personally, I think it says something about his overuse of the thing that no one was really shocked by news that he had used it to speak to 12 year olds.
Today the Supreme Court knocked out significant campaign finance laws, all of which had been unconstitutionally enacted in the name of “fairness.” The 2002 Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (McCain-Feingold) attempted to restrict electioneering by wealthy corporations and labor unions by barring them from using general treasury funds to pay for advertisements or other broadcasts that mention a political candidate. Just a little bit of unconstitutional censorship, that’s all.
In a 5-4 vote, the Court lifted those restrictions. Which means that companies will be able to run ads for candidates they like. You know what kinds of candidates companies like? The ones that make it easier for them to actually run their businesses, instead of trying to bankrupt them with mandated health care requirements and cap and trade. If they can successful run a company, they can expand operations… and create jobs! Remember, it’s better to have a job and no health care than no job and no health care.
From the White House, President Obama called the ruling a “major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans.”
This from Mr. Closed Door himself. Obama doesn’t care about everyday Americans. We’re all just serfs to him, here only to fund his playground of policies and bailouts. Well we’re done Mr. President. We’re picking up our toys, packing up our trucks, and going home to the Constitution. Don’t let the sand hit you in the teeth.
Discussions about Scott Brown’s MA Senate win with Leon Wolf and Dan Riehl.
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BOSTON – In an epic upset in liberal Massachusetts, Republican Scott Brown rode a wave of voter anger to win the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Edward M. Kennedy for nearly half a century, leavingPresident Barack Obama’s health care overhaul in doubt and marring the end of his first year in office.
