State of the Union: The Conservative Response

Don't Smoke, Eat Healthy, Do Not Consume Junk Foods, and Hang in There Kid!

Vice President says unemployed should 'hang in there'

Yahoo! also asked the Vice President how we, as Americans, can turn around the economy and he responded with something even conceded might sound a little "silly."

"One of the ways to impact, as strange as it sounds, on the federal debt, on economic growth, on the cost of maintaining health care in America is: Don't smoke, eat healthy, do not consume junk foods," he said.

"I know that sounds silly, but it's very practical in terms of your own health and well-being, but also on the impact, on the cost of maintaining the health care system in the United States."

I can see the light at the end of the tunnel already!! Oh, no, wait. That's a train. :-(

Liberalism’s Disastrously Simplistic View of How Progress Happens

The Sputnik Fallacy

In the wake of the moon landing, liberalism failed to understand that society is not an enormous engineering project.

Sweet

Boy meets girl, gets married, buys motorcycle. Rides it for 60,000 miles and has accident when wife is pregnant with 3rd child. (me) Wife orders motorcycle to be taken off road until all her children are grown and on their own. One day when bike is moved to a different storage location, son sits on bike and dreams of being a Jedi Master like his father. Couple grows old together and bike is not ridden for 40 years. Husband is now a grandfather of 7 and married for 50 years, when he dies of a stroke at age 71.
Son looks over the old rotting machine and finds note attached to it from his father to him. Son decides to restore the old 1958 BMW R-50 as a tribute to his father. With the help of many friends, especially Peter Nettesheim, world renowned BMW collector, bike is restored to look even better than it did when it was built in Germany.

Beyond Crazy, But Looks Like He's Done It Before

Found Some 'Green' Jobs Here!

New Heroes vs. Old by Thomas Sowell

People today who complain about the automobile's pollution have no idea how much more pollution there was before the automobile came along. In New York City, for example, the 40,000 horses that were the backbone of the city's transportation, before the automobile, produced 400 tons of manure per working day, along with 20,000 gallons of urine.

Somebody has to clean that up.

Quote of the Day

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman
US educator & physicist (1918 - 1988)

Cats are Evil

Silly

Airport security officials brand three inch toy gun "firearm"

Husband, Ken Lloyd, said his wife had demanded “a reality check”.

No doubt. Even GI Joe gets disarmed at the airport, eh. No word yet on the little plastic hand grenades.

Craziest Movie You'll See Today

It's an Indian movie overdubbed in Russian but you do not need to understand the words, doesn't even seem like the whole movie. Just watch, it's so bad it's awesome.

Dishes Not Getting Clean Lately?

Why Aren't Your Dishes Getting Clean? New Environmental Laws

Thanks to environmental protection laws passed in 16 states, dish detergent manufacturers have been forced to remove powerful cleansing agents called phosphates from their formulas nationwide. The result? Detergents that don't clean, reported Tampa Bay Online.

Local appliance repairman Don DiChristopher told the news agency that technicians were out in droves to frustrated customers who had already thrown out several sets of dishes or replaced their machines altogether, unable to get dishes clean.

"Holy cow, we got bombarded, our phone literally rang off the hook with calls," DiChristopher said, noting that his service received hundreds of calls shortly after the switchover to phosphate-free cleansers was completed in July. "We started turning down repair calls."

I have this exact problem and I was thinking the dishwasher was broken, too.

Bleeding Edge Flashlight Technology

Very cool lights.

Was it Crushed?

Builders stumble across ice age 'graveyard' filled with fossilised remains of dozens of huge animals

Their haul so far still makes for impressive reading - ten American mastodons; four Columbian mammoths; four ice age bison; a Jefferson's ground sloth, an ice age deer and a tiger salamander have all been identified.

Wait...what? A Tiger Salamander?

Maybe there's a prehistoric, giant Tiger Salamander that I never heard of and I can't find on Google?

Boo Hoo

Elton John feels like 'second-class citizen'

Sir Elton John is "fed up" with being a treated like a "second-class citizen" in the U.S.

Seriously? Because I'm pretty sure that wherever Sir Elton John goes he is treated as absolute royalty.

Oh, the marriage 'ban' thing? That's it? First off, I don't think it really effects Elton John's life in any way, let alone in any meaningful way. Are they not going to let Elton John visit his man (or vice versa) in the hospital? -God forbid something would happen. Can't get his man in the company insurance plan? Don't be ridiculous, Elton John can get just about anything he wants. And there are ways around these things for others that don't involve messing with marriage.

Second, it's not a 'ban' on homosexual marriage. It's just that the definition of marriage is a man and a woman, it's always been that way since it was ordained by God as a pillar of society. Man and woman get married, have kids, raise family, families nurture children, families get together and form community, then city, state, country.

If you prefer, it is the way nature works. The male/female thing is about as universal as anything in nature. Survival of the fittest - the species is not going to survive very long if it doesn't reproduce, and reproduce as productively as possible.

People in the United States did not come together and decide to ban homosexuals from getting married as sometimes seems to be suggested. It is not a smart idea to just take a wrecking ball to the foundations of society without being completely sure of what you are doing. Humans have been on this planet for at the very least 6000 years and do you think it has been only in the past 40 years or so that homosexuals have thought it would be a good idea to get married? You don't think anyone has thought of it until now? And yet, somehow, there are no societies on Earth where this has happened successfully. Some things just don't work. Why only one man and one woman? Why marriage at all? Why can't a guy just go with whatever woman or man he likes that day? I say a lot of survival of the fittest has gone on with marriage in societies and what we have is what works. Period. The past 40 years has seen a shake up of the marriage foundation and it shows, it shows very badly.

You can make a better case for men having multiple wives or as many women as would have him being acceptable to society than homosexuals getting married. There are far more straight men than there are homosexuals, and nearly all would - all other considerations aside, natural inclinations acted upon only - live that way. Why don't they? Where are the successful societies built on that foundation? There are none. Because it harms society. It harms the children. It doesn't work.

So come on Elton, stop feeling sorry for yourself. Maybe do a little introspection. Read Glenn Beck's The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life. It's really very good. If Elton John is not a happy man he has no one to blame but himself.

That's my opinion, worth price charged.

Truth Be Told...

Interesting. You can say the same about socialist/progressive/communist societies. In fact, the West is degrading, backsliding, devolving towards this failed societal model, led by people who think they understand, who are not willing to learn from others, and who only want to tell others what to do because they know best. And of course their herds follow their every lead.

God help us.

Good Man Down

Jack LaLanne Dies at 96

He's been around a long time, I used to watch his show when I was a kid. He lived a good life and inspired many.

LaLanne died of respiratory failure due to pneumonia Sunday afternoon at his home in Morro Bay on California's central coast,

Drat! Foiled Again!

Hawaii law bars release of Obama birth info

State Attorney General David Louie told the governor that privacy laws bar him from disclosing an individual's birth documentation without the person's consent,

Actually, I already knew that. Why didn't Gov. Abercrombie know that. Or did he?

South Korea Shows America and the World How It's done

SKorea storms Somali pirates to rescue ship crew

South Korean special forces stormed a hijacked freighter in the Arabian Sea on Friday, rescuing all 21 crew members and killing eight assailants in a rare and bold raid on Somali pirates, South Korea said.

"This operation demonstrated our government's strong will to never negotiate with pirates," the general said.

"We will not tolerate any behavior that threatens the lives and safety of our people in the future,"

Yes, much has changed.

Silence = Death

We will not be silenced.



The warning trumpets are blaring and it's up to We the People to take a stand.

Not a Manly Book

I gotta be honest. I stumbled upon Ann's blog, A Holy Experience, some time ago (it's in my links on the left) and have always enjoyed her beautiful writing, not because I like reading beautiful writing so much (hey, I'm a man) but because God speaks to me through her writing. God wants me to know these blessings Ann is sharing. I suspect you may feel the same if you allow God's truth into your life.

Her book, One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are, does not disappointment. I just received the book and read the first chapter the same day - not meaning to, I was going to finish a couple of other books first - and it is better than I expected.