"Mr. Excitement, " We Hardly Knew Ye!

Everyone who grew up with Johnny Carson knew well who Tommy Newsom was. Although he was a top shelf jazz sax player (how could you be in the Tonight Show Band and not be top shelf?), most of us knew him as the stiff and awkward fill-in for Doc Severinsen when Doc was away. Whether that persona was authentic, Johnny ruthlessly depicted him as "Mr. Excitement."

Another great one from that generation is gone.

The linked article has a lot of good info on Mr. Newsom. Those who remember him will want to see this recap.

When will the border fiasco end?

Yet another border agent charged with murder.

Global Warming Hits Mars

Now that climate change is heating up Mars to the point where it might lose its southern ice cap, I wonder what we can do about it. Is there any way we can purchase carbon offsets on the Martian's behalf so that they can be spared this impending doom?

Scientists from NASA say that Mars has warmed by about 0.5C since the 1970s. This is similar to the warming experienced on Earth over approximately the same period.

Since there is no known life on Mars it suggests rapid changes in planetary climates could be natural phenomena.

The mechanism at work on Mars appears, however, to be different from that on Earth. One of the researchers, Lori Fenton, believes variations in radiation and temperature across the surface of the Red Planet are generating strong winds.

In a paper published in the journal Nature, she suggests that such winds can stir up giant dust storms, trapping heat and raising the planet’s temperature.

The above pictured Rover must be one bad ass SUV that's causing all the global warming on planet Mars. After all, nothing else is up there that could be causing the climate change. It must be the "Sojourner" Pathfinder Rover that's doing all the damage.

The obvious question that will go unasked by mainstream media types is this: why isn't our climate change blamed on natural temperature fluctuations extant throughout the ages, eons before the elitist's private jets soared the friendly skies.

Spring Time in East Texas

The bluebonnets (our state flower) have really been gorgeous this year and it seems they've lasted longer than usual. Unfortunately time and opportunity weren't with me as often as I'd wished whenever I came upon a bluebonnet photo-op. This is one of the few pics I've gotten this year.

This pic was taken along Highway 80 a few miles west of Terrell, TX.

Chelsea's New Blog

Be sure to check out my daughter's new blog which she recently started as an extracurricular work-related assignment. It's always great to see one of your pride and joys in the Blogosphere.

It's in it's infancy and we look forward to seeing it grow just as we've enjoyed seeing her grow.

Blog early and often, Sweetie!

Of course she made my blogroll! She's at the top of the list!

"Those Damn Christians"

According to a new WND piece, Christians are in the bull's-eye in a new 'hate crimes' bill:

A fast-tracked congressional plan to add special protections for homosexuals to federal law would turn "thoughts, feelings, and beliefs" into criminal offenses and put Christians in the bull's-eye, according to opponents.

"H.R. 1592 is a discriminatory measure that criminalizes thoughts, feelings, and beliefs [and] has the potential of interfering with religious liberty and freedom of speech," according to a white paper submitted by Glen Lavy, of the Alliance Defense Fund.

"As James Jacobs and Kimberly Potter observed in Hate Crimes, Criminal Law, and Identity Politics, 'It would appear that the only additional purpose [for enhancing punishment of bias crimes] is to provide extra punishment based on the offender's politically incorrect opinions and viewpoints,'" said Lavy.

The proposal has been endorsed by majority Democrats on the committee, and already has 137 sponsors in the full House, making it possible it could be voted on in a matter of days or weeks.

What is it about Christians that so many secular people hate? After all, it's not like Christians are the most intolerant folks around. On the contrary, I can't think of a more tolerant group of people. O' sure, every broad category has exceptions, but Christians aren't out there calling for the death of homosexuals are they? We may not approve of homosexuality (or adultery, for that matter), but no one in my Christian circle of friends is intolerant of "gay" people; we just think homosexuality is a sin just as adultery and stealing and Sabbath breaking is a sin. We hate the sin, not the sinner. Is that intolerant?

Will this proposed bill treat Muslims, Christians and Jews equally? Last I checked, Muslims are a bit more intolerant of homosexuality than are Christians and Jews, but it seems that the left will bend over frontwards and backwards in order to not offend Muslims. What's with that, anyway? Why are they not as concerned about offending Christians or Jews?

Put your thinking caps on folks. You may have had to take Religion 101 or have a limited background in Christian upbringing to figure this out, but stop and think real hard why Christianity and Judaism are the most hated religions of all time and will continue to be from here on out.

Give up? It's because secular people hate the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. That covers Jews, but in addition to the God of the Old Testament, the secular left abhors the very mention of Jesus Christ. The mention of His name can cause apoplectic caterwauling of Biblical proportions.

The secular enemies of God and Jesus Christ will do anything it takes to marginalize those who stand for the Word of God and they are scurrying about to erase His name from this country's law books and institutions on which this country was built.

You'd think that the secular left would be more fearful of those who actually whack the heads off people for not converting to their religion of peace.

Have Christians been doing that? Go figure!

Carbon ‘smokescreen’ Offsets

Welcome Radio Equalizer readers!

Surely the holier than thou practitioners of the International Church of Environmentalism couldn't be involved in fraudulent shenanigans, could they?

Companies and individuals rushing to go green have been spending millions on “carbon credit” projects that yield few if any environmental benefits.

A Financial Times investigation has uncovered widespread failings in the new markets for greenhouse gases, suggesting some organisations are paying for emissions reductions that do not take place.

Others are meanwhile making big profits from carbon trading for very small expenditure and in some cases for clean-ups that they would have made anyway.

The growing political salience of environmental politics has sparked a “green gold rush”, which has seen a dramatic expansion in the number of businesses offering both companies and individuals the chance to go “carbon neutral”, offsetting their own energy use by buying carbon credits that cancel out their contribution to global warming.

The burgeoning regulated market for carbon credits is expected to more than double in size to about $68.2bn by 2010, with the unregulated voluntary sector rising to $4bn in the same period.

Be sure to read the rest of the piece to see who profits from the tithes of guilt ridden environmentalists.

Go See This Movie!

You must see Walt Disney's Meet the Robinsons, and if at all possible, see it where it is showing in Digital 3-D.

We went to see Meet the Robinsons today after much prodding by our daughter and son-in-law. It's showing here in Dallas in Digital 3-D Mode and it's MOST IMPRESSIVE technology! I'm not a huge fan of Disney cartoon movies, but this one is top shelf, cream of the crop, state of the incredible art, drop dead outstanding animation in unbelievable 3-D!

A short Donald Duck cartoon, circa 1953, which was the first 3-D that the Disney Imagineers produced, was shown prior to the movie. Its 3-D technology was crude by comparison, but when you consider it was nearly 60 years ago, it was pretty impressive.

Meet the Robinsons is and will be playing in regular theaters, but if you can possibly see it in a Digital 3-D Theater, by all means, see it in that mode...it's awesome technology.

Above and beyond the amazing technology, the story is exceptional...with a captivating time travel twist. Additionally, the movie is a heart-warming tribute to the man who made it all possible...Walt Disney. This one gets 5 out of 5 stars.

Go see it and be sure to stay for the credits (not that anything spectacular happens there, it's just an amazing array of talent that was required to make this masterpiece).

If Only WE Could Do This

The Virginia Tech student body has insisted that the media hordes leave campus by Monday:

You've seen the news coverage from Blacksburg, complete with prominent network anchors reporting from the scene.

And now, the student government at Virginia Tech is asking for all of that to end. It's calling on hundreds of reporters to leave campus by Monday morning, when students are supposed to return to classes.

A spokeswoman for the student government says the campus appreciates the reporting on the story, but that students are ready to move forward.

Liz Hart says "The best way to know how to do that is get the campus back to normal."

Ah, yes...to be able to get back to normal! How do we get the mainstream media out of our lives?

Earth Day Sacrilege: Green Myths

Max Schulz's piece on Green Myths is sure to cause some caterwauling among the leftists on this most revered secular holy day:

Machines have replaced work animals (also cutting down the land needed for grazing). Crops deliver richer yields in smaller spaces. Today we harvest 80 million fewer acres of cropland than we did 60 years ago. And our overall per-capita timber consumption is half of what it was a century ago.

Result? According to the Forest Service, we have actually seen a net reforestation since 1985. We aren't losing forestland, we're gaining it.

Greenpeace's call for replacing fossil fuels with cleaner alternatives might make sense, but only if there were any realistic alternatives available. Presently renewable energies like wind power, solar power and ethanol aren't close to being able to substitute for the coal, natural gas and oil that make up the lion's share of our energy sources. Coal provides half our electricity today. Wind and solar provide less than 1 percent.

More, alternative fuels can be as land-hungry as agriculture. The typical 1,000 megawatt coal or nuclear plant might sit on a few acres. To generate the same amount of electricity with renewables would require 60,000 acres for a utility-scale wind farm, or about 11,000 acres of photovoltaic cells capturing the sun's light.

Ethanol, too, can't be produced in the massive quantities required to make a significant dent in our gasoline consumption - and its production depends on vast tracts of farmland, too.

Other myths?

* More than four of every five poll respondents said that our cities are getting dirtier. In fact, pollution has been slashed since 1970, and our cities are far cleaner today.

* A majority believes our chief supplier of foreign oil is Saudi Arabia. In fact, it is our friendly neighbor to the north, Canada. All told the Persian Gulf supplies just 17 percent of the oil we import, and just 11 percent of all the oil we use.

This Earth Day, Greenpeace and its fellow environmental ecclesiasts will once again call on their flocks to take action. By all means, let us safeguard the environment - but with steps rooted in fact, not myth.

Mr. Schulz lovingly refers to the devotees of Earth Day as members of the Church of Environmentalism.

Ya gotta love him!

Essential Earth Day Reading...the Earth Charter

I paid homage to Earth Day with a post over at the Reject the U.N. website. Check it out!

In Case of Emergency...

Hat tip to Townhall.com for this Mike Shelton cartoon.

Quote of the Day and Gun Free Zones

Mike Krzyzewski's quote is quite timely in light of the massacre at Virginia Tech:

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.

(Which explains the nonsensical politically correct "zero tolerance" rules enforced on school grounds and college campi all over the country.)

Regarding "gun free zones," Ann Coulter wrote a brilliant piece on the utter foolishness of such zones. Here's a portion of her column:

Apparently, even crazy people prefer targets that can't shoot back. The reason schools are consistently popular targets for mass murderers is precisely because of all the idiotic "Gun-Free School Zone" laws.

From the people who brought you "zero tolerance," I present the Gun-Free Zone! Yippee! Problem solved! Bam! Bam! Everybody down! Hey, how did that deranged loner get a gun into this Gun-Free Zone?

It isn't the angst of adolescence. Plenty of school shootings have been committed by adults with absolutely no reason to be at the school, such as Laurie Dann, who shot up the Hubbard Woods Elementary School in Winnetka, Ill., in 1988; Patrick Purdy, who opened fire on children at Cleveland Elementary School in Stockton, Calif., in 1989; and Charles Carl Roberts, who murdered five schoolgirls at an Amish school in Lancaster County, Pa., last year.

Oh by the way, the other major "Gun-Free Zone" in America is the post office.

But instantly, on the day of the shooting at Virginia Tech, the media were already promoting gun control and pre-emptively denouncing right-wingers who point out that gun control enables murderers rather than stopping them.

Liberals get to lobby for gun control, but we're disallowed from arguing back. That's how good their arguments are. They're that good.

Needless to say, Virginia Tech is a Gun-Free School Zone — at least until last Monday. The gunman must not have known. Imagine his embarrassment! Perhaps there should be signs.

I won't publish all of Ann's column, but it's imperative you visit her site and read the entire piece.

A gun-free zone is a logic free zone.

Cox & Forkum Hiatus....DOH!

Cox & Forkum have decided to take a little break...hopefully it won't be for more than a month or so.

Gun Free Zones?

The Media hordes were all over themselves today about guns and maybe there are just too many of them in this country. Really? Maybe there aren't enough!

What is the one thing that all of the locations have in common where horrific mass murders have taken place? That's right, they've all been "gun free zones."

Huh? How could that be? If all guns are prohibited in these "gun free zones" then how could it be that a mass murderer could kill dozens of innocents with a gun if he is in a "gun free zone?"

Who knows how many lives could have been saved today on the Virginia Tech campus if one or many of the students and/or faculty menbers would have been carrying weapons and were trained to use them. How many times do we need to be reminded that guns don't kill people; people do.

Does anyone on the left get it yet? Gun laws won't and can't prevent gun crimes anymore than laws against murder will prevent murder. Last time I checked, murder was against the law in Virginia.

It's something to think about when someone tells you there are too many guns in this country. More gun laws won't deter gun crimes any more than more murder laws will prevent murder.

Tongue-tied Conservatives in Washington DC

Republicans in Washington DC just can't seem to get it together. They have a real problem confronting the outrageous actions of democrats. They may be in the minority but that shouldn't preclude them from speaking out. Even when they were the majority they were silent when it came to being critical of the outrageous leftist behavior. The brilliant Thomas Sowell labels this vacuum as the outrage imbalance:

Can you remember seeing a Republican expressing outrage? Democrats express outrage 24/7. Ted Kennedy alone has expressed more outrage than the entire Republican Party. Democrats can lie their way around the world before Republicans can manage to mumble the truth.
The case for conservatism cannot be too hard to articulate. Talk radio is dominated by articulate conservative talk show hosts. Even the liberal print media have some very articulate conservative columnists like Charles Krauthammer and others. There are also very articulate and conservative editorial pages at the Wall Street Journal and other newspapers, as well as similarly articulate conservative periodicals like City Journal, the Weekly Standard, and Commentary.
Only where it counts -- in Washington -- are conservatives tongue-tied. The reason for this is one of those mysteries that may never be solved.
Even some Republican leaders recognize it. Former House Republican Leader Tom DeLay said as much during a recent interview on the Rush Limbaugh show.
After rattling off a list of achievements by the House of Representatives when it was under Republican control, Mr. DeLay was asked why nobody knows about those achievements. He admitted that Republicans did a poor job of getting their story out.

So where's the outrage and why is there a dearth of it? It's what the republicans need right now. If not in Congress, for sure with a presidential candidate...an articulate conservative presidential candidate with some real outrage. Where is he? See what Professor Sowell has to say in the rest of his column.

Unintended consequences of "feel good" environmental policy

This is what you get when "feel-good" environmental policy is foisted upon the world:

FOOD-PRICE inflation so severe that central banks are forced to raise interest rates to growth-stifling levels; corn prices so high that poor Mexicans can’t afford their tortillas; massive deforestation to make way for more corn and palm oil; poor farmers pushed off their land to make room for carbon-offsetting plantings paid for by rich jet-setters; and Al Gore for president.

These are some of the unintended consequences of hastily conceived environmental policies. In America, President George Bush has decided that we can plant our way out of dependence on foreign oil. He envisages a future in which America’s fuel will come from planting above ground rather than drilling below it. In Europe, Angela Merkel and Tony Blair have hit upon carbon trading as the solution to global warming, and the man whose mirror assures him that he is the greenest of them all, David Cameron, has a wind turbine on his roof to generate enough electricity to power his hairdryer.

With the possible exception of Gordon Brown, none of these hitch-hikers on the environmental band-wagon worries much about the cost of these policies, or has given the slightest consideration to the only consequences that are certain — the unintended consequences, some of which I have listed above. And Gore, the former vice-president turned Academy-Award-winning movie producer (and waiting in the wings to enter the race for the Democratic nomination for president), says our choices are action today, or desertification and flooding will be upon us very soon.

You really need to read the entire piece.

There's a simple solution to our dependence on foreign oil; simply stated, we just need to produce more domestic oil. There isn't an oil shortage. There have been massive oil and gas discoveries in the Gulf of Mexico as well as under the frozen tundra in Alaska. The oil is out there, but spineless politicians who slavishly side with leftist environmental groups, who deplore capitalism, continually stand in the way of our progress. Therein lies the problem.
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On a related topic: The ethanol craze is putting the squeeze on corn supplies and causing food prices to rise.

Imus was just the beginning of the witch hunt

'It's not just Imus,' warn talk-radio headhunters

WASHINGTON – Now that radio talk-show host Don Imus has been banished, it's time to clean up the rest of talk radio, says a partisan media watchdog group headed by David Brock.

Next in the cross hairs for alleged expressions of "bigotry and hate speech targeting, among other characteristics, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion and ethnicity" are, according to Media Matters for America, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, John Gibson and Michael Smerconish.

This is what is really going on behind the Imus flap. You need to read this piece.

The left is going after Rush and since they have no sense of humor and totally don't get parody, they will likely attack him in those areas. Remember, since the left doesn't get Rush, they don't understand that the purpose of his bits is to expose absurdity by being absurd.

They don't get it because they just don't get it!

NOTE TO THE ATTACKERS OF RUSH AND OTHER TALK SHOW HOSTS: You probably are absolutely clueless to the fact that the vast audience of Talk Radio (Rush et al) is very active and very astute, and did I mention very vast (remember the spur of the moment Dan's Bake Sale)? We spend money with their sponsors and will continue to do so with gusto. We contact our Congressmen. We let them know what we think. We pay attention and we're not going to put up with any unconstitutional crap. We know who you are and we know that you operate in the shadows because the light of truth exposes you. Your arguments are non-existent. Your only hope is to silence your opposition.

The Pharisaical Left

The American Thinker ran a good piece yesterday about Imus and the leftist hypocrites who paraded onto his show lo, these many years. They knew his schtick...they laughed at his over the top jokes and now they are the ones excoriating him.

In the post-Easter crucifixion of the "Imus in the Morning" radio show that substituted for news this week, the hypocrisy would make a Pharisee blush. All of a sudden, it's supposedly shocking that Don Imus referred to the Rutgers girls' basketball team with language that is routine on millions of "rap" recordings willingly bought by white and black kids alike for lo these 20 years.

Never mind, even, that such jokes have been a staple of Imus' show for decades. Where have these shocked detractors been? Over the years, he has referred to Gwen Ifill of the New York Times as "a cleaning lady," called tennis-playing Venus and Serena Williams "animals" and compared the forwards of the New York Knicks to gorillas. Race aside, he routinely uses foul and sexually degrading language to middle-aged women who are guests on his show.

Curiously, those abused women on his show, strident feminists all, usually giggle appreciatively. I refer to columnist Maureen Dowd, reporters Andrea Mitchell, Claire Shipman, and Cokie Roberts, and plagiary-challenged historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, to name a few. But then again, they are usually on his show to promote their books.

Be sure to read the rest of the piece.

Any casual observer will notice that it's the left who opposes freedom of speech and demanded Imus be fired. Those on the right believe that speech should be protected no matter how offensive. The market rightly determines who succeeds or fails.
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Essential reading: The Imus lynch party

Be Not Distracted

Lots of stuff is going on out there to take our minds off the really important things that are going on behind the scenes. Don't let yourself be distracted by minutia.

I linked to this story last Sunday and it's not altogether unrelated to the jinormous Imus brouhaha.

You just need to project a bit to the very near future when "gay rights" will become as sacrosanct as "civil rights" and no one will be able to be the least bit critical of homosexuality on the job, in the military, in academia, at church, or even at home. We're virtually there! The thought police is recruiting hoards at break neck speed and it may not be long before your thoughts will need to be modified. Your actions have probably already been modified.

We no longer live in a world of free speech. Political correctness made sure of that. But how much longer will a sleeping America continue to tolerate the intolerance of the left?

It's going to be interesting if and when the sleeping giant awakes and calls for a "come to Jesus" meeting with the left. It will be downright horrific if the sleeping giant continues to slumber!

In the meantime, we all need to do whatever it's going to take to wake that guy up!

Talk Radio: If you're not an avid listener, you're missing out

Today was a red letter day for Talk Radio. If you missed Rush Limbaugh, you need to go to his linked site and read the transcripts or listen to today's show. He was strong!

All this trumped up, never ending flap about Imus is ultimately going to lead to conservative talk radio and the attempt to reenact the Fairness Doctrine, which has nothing to do with fairness and everything to do with silencing conservative ideology on the airwaves. Imus just happened to say the wrong thing at the right time for the opportunistic and hypocritical Sharpton and Jackson to make a long awaited power play of the ages.

But what about tolerance, multi-culturalism, freedom of speech and the free exchange of ideas in the marketplace? Well, the left doesn't really do very well when it comes to arguing their ideas and if you don't agree with them, well, then, you will be targeted, marginalized and "taken out" if it is within their power to do so.

As Thomas Sowell once said, "The liberals' favorite argument is that there is no argument. Nothing uttered in opposition to liberal beliefs exists, in their minds, at least nothing worthy of their intellectual engagement."

Rush isn't the only essential talk show out there these days...you need to hear Mark Levin. He doesn't take crap from anyone and is in the face of any and every one who is taking this country down a dangerous path. His legal background and expertise make him ever more credible in his substantive verbal attacks.

Today he exposed Al Sharpton for the liar, race-baiter and anti-Semite that he is and cited proof for every allegation. You can go to his above linked site and hear his streaming rants. They are priceless and they are ammunition for the cultural battles in which you may find yourself.

Glenn Beck is another talker well worth your time. He's tackles topics no one else will touch. You need to find him on your radio dial and if he's not available in your town you can catch him every weeknight on CNN Headline News, yeah, that CNN!

The culture war is heating up, folks, and you're not going to get the straight poop from the MainStreamMedia, but then, if your reading blogs, you already know that. You'll get plenty of poop from them alright, but it's not going to be the straight poop!

You gotta be listening to Talk Radio as often as possible. It's becoming the only place where you can really hear both sides of any given story.

"Off Color"

Kudos to Cox & Forkum for once again being spot on in this most recent brouhaha over "offensive" words. Guess we don't even need an amendment guaranteeing the "right to not be offended" if everyone just assumes we already have one!

Be sure to visit the Cox & Forkum site for some outstanding commentary on this ubiquitous story that never seems to go away.

Is anyone sick of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson's "black leadership" yet? I'm betting that the first luminary or corporate head to stand up against either one of these race-baiters will be hailed by mainstream America as a hero. Someone just needs to tell them where to go.

Edwards: Assad Yes, Ahmadinejad Yes, Ailes No

A ditty in the OpinionJournal's Best of the Web exemplifies the illogic of the left; in this case, John Edwards. Like nearly everyone else on the left, they are happy to legitimize crazed dictators and terrorist thugs, but don't think they can ever deign to legitimize the FoxNews Network.

Here are the laughable money quotes:

"I think that what America should be doing on the issue of Iraq is dealing directly with both the Syrians and the Iranians, and I don't know precisely what Speaker Pelosi is going to do in Syria, but we as a nation should be engaged with both the Iranians and the Syrians directly in helping stabilize Iraq. Both countries have an interest in a stabilized Iraq. They don't want refugees coming across their border, they don't want economic instability, and they don't want to see a broader Middle East conflict. And I think it makes sense to not on some ideological basis not deal with them, but to engage with both of them directly."--John Edwards, CNN, April 3

Now compare that to this:

"We just called the CBC [Congressional Black Caucus] to let them know that we're looking forward to their debate with CNN but we're not going to participate in the proposed debate with Fox [News Channel]. There's just no reason for Democrats to give Fox a platform to advance the right-wing agenda while pretending to be objective."--Edwards campaign statement, April 6

Do they really understand how they are coming off? Do they really understand what they are saying? Either they are really stupid or really anti-American...which is it? There can't be any middle ground here, can there be?

Take THIS, Al Gore, U.N, Earthfirsters and Leftists everywhere!

From no less than Newsweek and MSNBC.com comes Richard S. Lindzen, an MIT Professor of Meteorology who has written a piece titled There’s No Such Thing As a 'Perfect' Temperature.

Yet another global warming denier who'll have to be silenced!

Yikes! This isn't going to bode well with the global warming evangelists around the world, but just to keep them happy we might as well post some further "proof" of global warming over the decades.


What was the downside to global warming again?

Will "Gay-rights" redefine your church's message?

Is this the future of religion (and small business) in America?

A plan being shoved down a fast track in the Oregon Legislature would give homosexuals a vast range of new state laws they could use to impose their moral perspective on Christians across the state, according to opponents who fear for their speech and religious expression rights.

Senate Bill 2, on its face, is written to enshrine in state law special protections for homosexuals by classifying them as a protected civil rights group. But hundreds of pastors – whose churches include tens of thousands of evangelical Christians – are horrified by what they see advancing virtually without opposition.

"Senate Bill 2, in the Oregon House of Representatives, if passed, will limit your free speech rights and rights of conscience; require public schools to teach that homosexual/lesbian/bisexual behavior is 'okay' and 'moral'; impact your rights as a business owner; and put judges in authority on certain church matters," according to David Crowe, of the Christian ministry called Restore America.

Yeah, but that's Oregon, one of the most left wing states in the Union (not counting the People's Republic of Massachusetts) and it could never happen in my state, right? Well, not necessarily. There's that pesky snowball effect that the left is so adept at initiating and propagating. Before you know it, sleepy citizens are overwhelmed by what appears to be a massive movement when in reality, the moral majority wasn't even paying attention.

When you start shredding the Constitution and disregarding the existing rule of law, then you're well on your way down the slippery slope of lawlessness and anarchy. When John Q. Citizen sees that the government has disregard for Constitutional law, it's only a matter of time before people begin to take the law into their own hands.

"This bill is arrogantly, defiantly and deceptively crafted to accomplish a lot more than what it is saying," he told WND. "It definitely adds sexual orientation to the list of protected civil rights groups.

"But there is verbiage in the bill and the verbiage has to do with the primary purpose of a church. They're seeking really to gain a foothold for homosexuals into the Christian church with the court's approval," he said.

"It's more than the nose of the camel, they want the whole camel in the tent to ruminate around however they would like," he said. "The word we've gotten from attorneys is that of all the bills around the country this is the worst," Crowe said.

"The bottom line this is a total effort by the left to subvert our morality, our Judeo-Christian morality and impose on us a morality they consider superior. What it is really is challenging everything we as Christians stand for."

The bill would affect churches even though it has a so-called church exemption, he said, because it would require every church operation that isn't directly in support of its primary mission goal to be subject to mandatory homosexual hiring requirements and other restrictions.

And it would leave the determination of what is in support of a church's primary mission to be determined by a secular judge. It is possible, for example, that a lesbian could sue a church if not hired to be a pastor's secretary.

For Christian business owners, it would require them to hire and promote homosexuals irrespective of the religious beliefs the owner might hold -- or whether the employee agrees with the products, in a Christian bookstore for example.

For parents, it means their children in public schools would be subject to the state-sponsored and state-required indoctrination that the homosexual lifestyle choice is moral – even if the parents hold religious beliefs that contradict that.

"The law – and this is onerous – has a clause that talks about developing a program of education to change our attitudes," Crowe said. "To change our attitudes? Is it the government's business to change attitudes? But that's precisely what's in the bill."

Got an interest in free speech and freedom of religion? Then be sure to read the entire piece and keep your eyes and ears open regarding this story.

Two pertinent quotes are noted on the above mentioned Restore America website. Respectively, they are by Daniel Webster:

"Our destruction if it come at all, will be from...the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence."

and by John Hancock:

"I urge you, by all that is dear, by all that is honorable, by all that is sacred, not only that ye pray but that ye act!"

Law abiding Americans can't allow immoral legislators to run rough shod over our fundamental laws of the land.

Wake up, America!

A Christian Passover?

FoxNews correspondent, Lauren Green, has an informative piece about Passover, its roots at the time of the Exodus and how Christ and his apostles observed Passover on the evening before his crucifixion. She also is hosting a FoxNews Special on Easter titled, The Passion: Facts, Fictions and Faith.

Many Christians forget or don't even realize that the first century Christians observed Passover and the annual holy days which are considered "Jewish Holidays." They reason that Christ celebrated these days because he and the early Christians were observant Jews. They were, in fact Jews, but Christ's form of worship was contrary to the Jewish religion, which is the very reason he was crucified.

An interesting study for curious Christians could begin with a simple Google search on the History of Easter.

Ron Dart did a good Born To Win radio program titled Easter or Passover which will be especially interesting to history buffs.

Don't Hold Your Breath!

Hat tip to Lucianne.com for this cartoon.

Proof positive that Pelosi's trip is damaging to U.S. policy

In case you are among the undecided and need real proof that Speaker of the House Pelosi's trip to Syria is doing damage to our foreign policy and further aids and abets our enemies, all you need to do is read this!

Pelosi and leftist democrats across the country are the best allies international terrorists could ever ask for. They have become the consummate friends of our enemies and continue to undermine our resolve to win the war against the Islamo-facists. In fact they are now denying that there even is a war on terror!

More proof: Terrorists endorse Pelosi's 'good policy of dialogue'.

Even more proof: Pelosi messes with Israel's foreign policy

But all you really need to know about this dubious trip is that President Carter endorsed it.

UPDATE: Did Pelosi commit a felony?

David Limbaugh's must read column: Pelosi's Gift to Our Enemies.

Even USATODAY admits Pelosi was "out of bounds."