From Jeff Blogworthy, our thought of the day:
“[Liberals] want to be our shepherds; But that requires us to be sheep.”

Straight from Alpha Patriot, a table comparing Hillary Clinton vs. Condolezza Rice, point by point, with comments. Here it is. And may I remind you, that’s Dr. Rice.

On Wednesday, SCOTUS will hear oral arguments on whether the Ten Commandments belongs in government buildings. Top Court to Weigh Ten Commandments Cases.
There is something that I would like to bring to your attention, and that is the whole “Separation of Church and State” thing. Thomas Jefferson has, up until now, gotten credit for it because he mentioned it in a private letter (and scratched it out). This is not the basis of SOCAS, but rather Hugo Black, a SCOTUS justice back in the early 20th Century made it up out of whole cloth. You can read more about this and other fascinating facts about SCOTUS in the book Men in Black. Here’s a nugget from the review:

Surprise: the liberal Supreme Court Justice who erected the “separation of church and state” was a member of the Ku Klux Klan!

It will surely be a wonderful read, if I had the money to get it. Donations are accepted to the right, and all monies collected until I say otherwise will go towards the purchasing of this book.
Good Luck. We’ll need it.

I helped vote Ed Bryant into office in 1994, when I was healthy and living in Bartlett. He voluntarily stepped aside when he served his promised terms and now he wants to be a Senator.
I was given the opportunity to attend, but Thursdays are the only night out my son and I get, so I had to decline and let Mike at Half-Bakered do the reporting for me. Meeting Ed Bryant.
I’ve met Mr. Bryant before, and found him to be a down-to-earth kind of guy. Humble and quiet. Just the way I like my politicians. I only suggested to him once on how to vote, but I forget the particulars of it. It had something to do with gun rights, but I am out of that picture now for obvious reasons, even though I am still a Life Member of the NRA.
The good news is I played Epic against Orks and won by a narrow point spread.

Here you go. MTV Poll Masks Youth Views on Social Security.
A push poll, for those of you who haven’t heard the term before, is a poll where questions are asked in a certain way so as to provide a predetermined outcome. In essence, forcing you to answer the questions the way the pollster wants you to answer him.
This is what MTV’s ‘Rock The Vote’ did in a recent poll on President Bush’s plans to privatize Social Security.
But things didn’t work out like RTV planned. Despite the leading questions, two-thirds of those polled 39 and younger liked the privatization, something RTV didn’t want to hear. So they dismissed the findings like all good Liberals do and said what they planned to say anyway.
But they were prepared for a massive “wrong” answer response, as for those who answered against the poll were browbeaten with additional questions that made them at least reconsider their position.

Consequently, the survey itself proceeded to supply the necessary “nuance” by posing nine follow-up questions for the 198 lost young souls who dared embrace the concept of personal retirement accounts. “Would you still favor” reform if it meant:
— creating a new government agency?
— massive new federal debt?
— requiring “additional help from government”?
The barrage of unattractive hypotheticals ran on and on. This isn’t polling. This is a lecture from an overeager high school guidance counselor. Why not just ask us if we would prefer privatization if we had to eat cat food in our retirement? If we’d be forced to listen to Milli Vanilli? If advocates of personal accounts would come to our houses, kick our dogs and erase our iPods?

The numbers are undeniable, but AARP/RTV want to ignore cold, hard numbers, preferring to sit in their dirty diapers. “Sure, it’s nasty, but it’s warm and it’s mine.”
But the last paragraph of the article sums it up nicely:

Because of its maniacally manipulative methodology, the AARP/RTV survey can tell us nothing reliable about what Americans think about Social Security. But it speaks volumes about the sponsors. Neither AARP nor RTV wants to hear what their constituents think. Both groups are far more interested in telling their constituents what they should think — whether they like it or not.

And the Left accuses the Right of being mind-numbed robots, receiving their daily marching orders from the likes of Rush, et.al.

Here you go. I promised on a message board that we will see RFID chips in our hands with ID and Credit Card info in 10 years. It seems that technology is progressing faster than I anticipated. When paying with plastic, why swipe? Just wave.
While there are things to be overcome, this is coming and soon. And all it would take is a portable scanner to bump into you and get your CC information. Or your ID.
This is a bad idea on so many levels it isn’t funny. But it’s going to happen weather I like it or not. Just beware. Revelations 13:16-17 and all that.

An interesting article from Worldnet Daily: Condi to replace Cheney next year?
The article broaches the idea of Cheney stepping down next year and President Bush appointing Cindi Rice as the new VP. This would position her for a run at the Presidency in 2008, putting her well in front of the Hildebeast. I think this is a great idea, the only problem is that Condi wants to be President of the NFL more than she wants to be President of the United States.
Let’s hope this comes to fruition.

This is a tragedy on an unprecedented scale: Aborting Black America?
I think it is appropriate to put this quote first, to put things into perspective:

The Life Education and Resource Network (LEARN) notes that Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger was an advocate of Hitlerian-style eugenics who was renowned for her racist views.
“Colored people are like human weeds and are to be exterminated,” Sanger once urged, according to LEARN. [emphasis mine]

Let me say for the record that I do not agree with this view. I don’t care if your skin color is black, white, red, or orange with green polka dots. I adhere to Dr. Kings vision and judge you by your character and actions.
That being said, the Black populace is doing an enormously self-destructive number on themselves. Between burning their own homes and businesses during riots, selling drugs to Black children, Black on Black violence, socially enforced illiteracy, teen pregnancy, and on and on.
The Black people are doing more to keep themselves down than Whitey ever did. We don’t need to lynch Blacks any more, they shoot themselves on a regular basis. Here in Memphis, Blacks make up about half the populace, but account for over 80% of the crimes.
And, according to the article, more Black babies are aborted every three days than died in all of the lynchings over an 86 year period.
Here’s another fact: Almost 80 percent of Planned Parenthood clinics are in minority communities. You know, with just a little more work, I’ll bet that PP can turn the Black populace into a negative growth spiral, aborting more babies than are born. That should eventually wipe out the Black populace in America. Which some people obviously want. All they need to do is start Norplanting all of the girls when they hit 13.
This is disgusting and needs to stop, on both sides of the equation.

While I kinds of knew this all along, I am still disappointed to hear this: The Univ. of Hawaii Should be Ashamed.
The U of H invited the Anti-American Ward Chuchill out to Hawai’i and let him give the speech that has made him infamous. In fact, they gave him three standing ovations.
I am disheartened by this series of events. I know Hawai’i is a Blue state, but to invite such anti-American invectiveness into your home and salute it is beyond me. While I always hoped of returning to live in Hawai’i again, I don’t want that in my heart anymore.

An “astonishing” report has been made by he Home Office. CCTV ‘does not stop crime’.
Just to translate, I think the Home Office is the British equivalent of Homeland Security.
Of course cameras do not stop crime, any more than gun control keeps guns out of the hands of criminals. If they want to, they will find a way. The thing of it is, if many criminals invested as much time and energy into doing the right thing instead of committing crimes, they would be successful people.
The one thing cameras do catch is your normal citizen in a moment of indiscretion or making a once-in-a-lifetime mistake. They are the ones that get caught by the cameras and pay a heavy price for that one moment of weakness.
I am against the tracking of citizens moving normally about their lives by any means, electronic, camera or whatever.
Now when will we see this kind of report in the US?

This is even more disturbing than RFID chipping our children, and it comes from just about the same source: Your Kids Are in Danger.
The article talks about armies of mental health “professionals” who are just waiting for the funding to invade your children’s school and make sure their “mental health” is up to par.
If it isn’t, and it won’t be, then your little darling will get counseling and medication to correct what is probably just normal phases of growing up.
But here’s the more serious part:

“Teams of [mental health] experts are awaiting an infusion of cash. They’ll be ensconced in your child’s school before you even know it. A bonus is that your little darlings will probably give them quite a bit of information about you also, and then you can receive therapy you didn’t know you needed.
“Do you sometimes raise your voice? Ever spank them? Have politically incorrect attitudes? Use forbidden words? Own a gun? Smoke cigarettes, especially indoors? Read extremist literature? Refuse to recycle? Prepare for a knock at the door.” [emphasis mine]

That is true. Using their own subjective (and biased) standards, anybody not measuring up to their standards will be subjected to scrutiny and “counseling” to “correct” those problems, of which the above are but a small part of them.
This is yet another step of surrendering (or having it forcefully taken away) the raising of our children to the State. Fight this with everything you have, because I promise you this: You don’t want that knock on your door.

This is a very disturbing issue. It is one where I am at odds with the Bush administration. LOST At Sea.
The Law Of the Sea treaty (LOST) is a bad idea that was rejected by President Reagan, then modified by President Clinton. President Bush is amazingly in favor of this monstrosity which would surrender parts of our national sovereignty and subject 70% of the world to control of the UN, and we all know how well the UN manages things.
Write your Senators and urge them to vote against LOST. This is a bad idea that we must never be a part of.

I found this perusing my nightly message boards: Video production is where the action is.
I absolutely love the setup:

The Orks are pouring it on. The green-skinned, snaggle-toothed furies rake the Space Marines with missiles and machine-gun fire. Then they rush in, axes raised high to deliver the final death blow.
Just then, the Dreadnought appears, tracer rounds pouring from its Gatling gun like a solid beam of light. The beacon of fire sweeps to and fro, painting the barren terrain with Ork dead.
Now is the moment. The Space Marines rise from cover and charge. The slaughter begins in earnest. It’s over in just two minutes.
That’s a pity. It was just getting good.

The article actually talks about tie-ins to movies, and I would love to see a CGI movie like that one that came out a few years ago, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. There is too much fluff to get into like you do in a Star Wars movie at the beginning, you’ll just have to let it go and let them get involved in the hobby to get the full story.
Which is good news for the hobby. The more players we have, the healthier the hobby is, and the more money Games Workshop makes. You can easily spend $500+ to get a tournament army put together in 40K. That’s not including your time in building and painting your little war-men either. But it is a definite father-son time spender, and that is always good for the family.
An old Tennessee Philosopher by the name of Herb Parsons used to say, “Go and hunt with your children. If you hunt with your children, you’ll never have to go out hunting for them.” I think that applies to any hobby that families spend time over.

I am not only running late on time, but something is messing up my keyboard. Several keys have stopped working, preventing me from properly filling out links and stuff. I have the posts I want to make, I’ll make them when I get home tonight.
That old fire in the belly has relit, now all I have to do is get it back up to full strength.

I accidently ran out of room on the website (actually, the comment spam did it) and everything crashed. So, I had to reload everything and start from scratch. Luckily, I was able to backup the posts. The bad news is I forgot to back up the templates before wiping everything, so things will look different until I can get it back.
BTW, I am feeling better and I have a couple of posts on the hook, ready for when I’m done fixing the website back to what it was.