Woman Escorted Off Fort Worth Bus For Reading Bible Aloud

It will be interesting to see how the good folks in Ft. Worth are going to react to the intolerant Transit worker who threw a mom off the bus for reading her Bible aloud to her children. Here's just part of the story as reported by Carol Cavazos:

FORT WORTH (CBS 11 News) ― A passenger on a Fort Worth bus says the T. Bus Service discriminated against her religion.

Christine Lutz says she was reading her Bible to her children when the bus driver asked her to stop or get off the bus.

Lutz, a Seventh Day Adventist, and her children were on their way to church.

"She then said, 'Well I don't think this is the place or the time to do so.' And I said, 'Oh, but it's the perfect time and the perfect place since it is our Sabbath and it is the time with the Lord and therefore I'm going to continue.' And I continued," she explained.

Then, a TRE supervisor came on board. Lutz also told him that she would not stop reading. She and her family were escorted off the bus.

Sorry, folks, but that's just not right! Not in America and especially not here in Texas. I hope God fearing, freedom loving Texans all around the country stand up for this young mom and her kids.

It's OK to show kids how to put a condom on a banana in school and it's all well and good if Heather Has Two Mommies. Alternate lifestyles are encouraged on every level of society and the doctrines of diversity and tolerance are strictly enforced across the fruited plain. Radical Islamists can perpetrate brutal acts of inhumanity against innocents without a peep from fearful politically correct egalitarians. But a Christian mom is forbidden to read the Bible on a bus?

What's up with that? Is that where we are in this country? Is that where we are in Texas? I hope not!

Be sure to read the rest of the story.

Joan Hunter, "The T" representative mentioned in the story can be reached here.

"Engaging the Culture"

My friend Ron Dart introduced me to a compelling columnist via his most recent Born To Win radio program titled, The High Ground. The columnist's name is Andrée Seu and she writes for WORLD Magazine.

The particular column Ron talked about appeared in the May 12, 2007 edition of World Magazine and it was titled, "Betrayal." It was about Christians engaging the culture--or not, as the case may be.

Ron, in his broadcast, expanded on Seu's column and he illustrated how some Christians have damaged their cause by "engaging" improperly so as to cast a bad light on Christianity.

Then there are those Christians who may be embarrassed or ashamed of their faith and just "go along to get along" by not engaging the culture at all.

Ron Dart's above linked radio program and Andrée Seu's above mentioned column provide a "one-two" knock out punch of intellect and inspiration for Christians who desire to engage the culture effectively while exemplifying a right and proper Christian outlook.

"How many lobbyists does it take to change a light bulb?"

Timothy Carney, senior reporter for the Evans-Novak Political Report, wrote an "illuminating" piece today brilliantly titled How many lobbyists does it take to change a light bulb? This is essential reading!

The column addresses the aspect of the recently passed energy bill which outlaws the incandescent light bulb by 2012 in favor of the "environmentally correct" bulb which costs much more and has environmental issues of its own far worse than the regular bulb.

Carney did a little digging; followed the money and found out why this law was passed; who benefits and who loses. It's not exactly surprising that corporations buy off politicians, but it is disturbing when mandates are foisted upon us just so someone's bottom line is enhanced. It's even worse when it's done in the name of "the environment."

Earlier this month, Thomas Edison’s GE, together with Sylvania and Philips won a legislative victory when Congress passed an energy bill that would outlaw sale of the standard light bulb by 2012.

Sylvania is the leading light bulb maker worldwide, and GE is tops in America. These two companies, together with Dutch-based Royal Phillips Electronics, concede they basically wrote the new light bulb law. It goes without saying that they stand to profit from it — at consumer expense.

Read the piece. It gets even worse. The new fangled bulb is made in China, whereas the old ones are made here!

It Takes a Comic Book

The U.N. has been trying to build a positive image for itself for as long as it's been in existence. It has failed greatly; mainly because the U.N. is a failed institution. Now, in a desperate attempt to shape its image in a positive way, the bureaucrats intend to propagandize the world's naive and under-educated youth by collaborating with comic book superheroes:

“In a move reminiscent of story lines developed during the World War II, the U.N. is joining forces with Marvel Comics, creators of Spider-Man and the Incredible Hulk, to create a comic book showing the international body working with superheroes to solve bloody conflicts and rid the world of disease … The comic, initially to be distributed free to 1 million U.S. schoolchildren, will be set in a war-torn fictional country and feature superheroes such as Spider-Man working with U.N. agencies such as UNICEF and the ‘blue hats,’ the U.N. peacekeepers.”

This is typically what tyrants do when their message isn't working on adults...indoctrinate the kids! Maybe the U.N. has seen how well this technique has worked for the radical environmentalists over the years; remember Captain Planet?

Government Indoctrination Centers (aka public schools) will be entirely receptive to this new educational tool, much as they are to Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth which has been foisted upon school kids with never a mention of opposing scientific data.

Two quotes by Adolf Hitler come to mind:

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

and

How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think.

(cross posted at Reject the U.N.)

Hillary's Experience by Proxy

Gotta love those newsy's at Lucianne.com for coming up with great stuff like this depiction of Sen. Clinton. Let's hear it for her "experience!" Sure wish we had access to those White House papers that are being held up, er, are taking so long to be released from the Clinton Library.

So many papers...so little time!

Will Bhutto's Assassination be a 'Wake-Up Call to Muslims?

There's an upside to martyrdom...sometimes. In the case of today's assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, it should be a 'wake-up call to Muslims' around the world, especially Muslim women, but will it?

Will moderate Muslims stand up and demand an end to Islamo-fascist terrorism? If not, why the hell not?

Hopefully reasonable Muslims around the world will decry the assassination and demand civility. Only Muslims are going to be able to stop the violence among radical Islamists.

The Counsel on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), has condemned the assassination. Good on them!

May many others do the same and go even further to decry all acts of terror perpetrated by all radical Islamists the world over, regardless of their location.

A Year Later: Olmert still deluded by "Whispers of Peace"

It was a year ago this week that Cox & Forkum penned this editorial cartoon. It was true then and a year later you'd think Olmert would have learned the painful truth that peace can't exist by giving terrorists more land.

He continues to believe that a two-state solution is Israel's only hope.

Steyn on Bhutto

Mark Steyn actually knew Benazir Bhutto and has some personal insights about her at The Corner on National Review Online. Go there to see his comments.

Here are a couple of his thoughts:

Benazir Bhutto's return to Pakistan had a mad recklessness about it which give today's events a horrible inevitability. As I always say when I'm asked about her, she was my next-door neighbor for a while - which affects a kind of intimacy, though in fact I knew her only for sidewalk pleasantries. She was beautiful and charming and sophisticated and smart and modern, and everything we in the west would like a Muslim leader to be - though in practice, as Pakistan's Prime Minister, she was just another grubby wardheeler from one of the world's most corrupt political classes.

Why would Huckabee apologize for Bhutto's assassination?

The National Review Online, via Kathryn Jean Lopez, wrote that Huckabee actually apologized for Bhutto's assassination. Huh?

From CBSNews:

With about 150 supporters crowded around a podium set up on the tarmac of Orlando Executive airport (and about 20 Ron Paul supporters waving signs outside) Mike Huckabee strode out to the strains of “Right Now” by Van Halen and immediately addressed the Bhutto situation, expressing “our sincere concern and apologies for what has happened in Pakistan.”

Does this speak for his lack of experience in foreign affairs or is it just a misspeak? Or worse, is it just poor judgement? Whatever it is, it just doesn't cut it!

If this is what he meant to say, it's scarily Carteresque and immediately disqualifies him to be president.

Oh yeah; there's that other little idiotic faux paus last week when he allowed one of his underlings to trash Rush. Any thinking republican running for president does not bash the man who can single-handedly make or break you!

Where is this guy's good judgement?

US beefs up Special Forces in Pakistan

From The Australian:

US Special Forces are to increase their presence in Pakistan amid assessments that the country is to become the central battlefield for al-Qa'ida as it is driven from Iraq.
"Pakistan should be carefully watched because it could prove to be a significant flashpoint in the coming year," US think tank Strategic Forecasting said in an evaluation of al-Qa'ida's tactics as the Islamist group comes under mounting pressure in Iraq.

With the "rapid spread of Talibanisation" in Pakistan's insurgent northwest, the country would become "especially important if the trend in Iraq continues to go against the jihadis and they are driven from Iraq", the assessment says.

"As the global headquarters for the al-Qa'ida leadership, Pakistan has long been a significant stronghold on the ideological battlefield. If the trend towards radicalisation continues, the country could become the new centre of gravity for the jihadi movement on the physical battlefield."

Why Bhutto's Assassination Matters

Middle East insider and author, JOEL C. ROSENBERG comments on the gravity of former Prime Minister Bhutto's assassination at his blog:

...the attack is certainly another tragedy for Bhutto's family (her father, who was premier in the late 1970s, was hanged by radicals in 1979) and we should be praying for their peace and comfort during this difficult time....but why else does Bhutto's death matter?....to be blunt: Pakistan and her nuclear weapons are in danger of falling into the hands of Islamic radicals....such radicals have attempted to assassinate Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf multiple times in the last few years, hoping to seize control of the government and impose sharia law....today's attack is a sobering reminder that Pakistan is just one coup d'etat away from Osama bin Laden or one of his fanatical, murderous allies suddenly gaining control....it is difficult to imagine a more nightmarish scenario than al-Qaeda in possession of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal, but this is not an impossibility.....for several years, and certainly throughout 2007, Musharraf has been severely criticized by Western leaders -- including those here in Washington, D.C. -- for imposing martial law and employing other heavy-handed tactics in an attempt to crush the radicals and safeguard the country from their control....he has deserved some of this criticism, but we must also keep things in perspective....while we all want Pakistan to become a fully-developed democracy -- peaceful, prosperous and healthy in all respects -- we must be very careful never to underestimate the danger that Musharraf and his colleagues are in from the radicals....they are in a battle not just for the soul but the very survival of their country....I personally have serious concerns about how truly committed Musharraf is to Jeffersonian democracy....but I do not believe that he is the worst-case scenario for Pakistan....bin Laden (or bid Laden-ism) is the worst case scenario....let us, therefore, take great pains not repeat the mistakes that President Jimmy Carter made in the late-1970s when he pressed so hard for democracy and human rights in Iran that the Shah eventually was forced to flee the country and the Ayatollah Khomeini took over....as deeply flawed as the Shah was, can anyone effectively argue today that Khomeini was better for the people of Iran, the people of the epicenter, or the world at large?

"From my cold, dead light socket"

Speaking of great headlines (see my previous post,) Doug Powers waxes eloquent in his most recent column titled, From my cold, dead light socket. A worthy read!

Headline of the Week (or Weak as the case may be)

This headline just about says it all...on so many levels:

A Nation of Dim Bulbs

Mark Levin plays memorable Reagan speech

If you're not a regular listener to the Mark Levin Show you NEED to be. This afternoon he played a terrific speech that Ronald Reagan gave in 1964 which will remind conservatives why we're so utterly disenchanted with the republicans.

You need to hear this speech. Your kids need to hear this speech. And every presidential candidate needs to hear this speech.

The speech is titled "A Time for Choosing."

Levin links to the speech on his above linked site and the Mark Levin Fan blog. I'm linking to it here as well.

Don't miss this! It's quintessential conservatism that is so lacking in today's politicians.

Family Adopts Slain Marine's Dog Partner

Here's a heart warming tear jerker. The Lee family of Savannah, GA lost their 20 year old son this year in Iraq, but in an unprecedented move, the Marines decided to allow Cpl. Dustin Jerome Lee's family to adopt his surviving partner Lex, an explosive sniffing German Shepherd.

This is a great story! In the photo (AP), Lex gets to know his new owner, Camryn Lee.

More about Lex and his new home at Yahoo!

Senate Report Debunks "Consensus" on Man-Caused Global Warming

This one is a keeper! It's lengthy, but it's for the record and available for those times of refutation. Thank God for the senators who still have the cahones to offer up this challenging data. Would that they had enough influence to stop the passage of the nonsensical "energy" bill that was signed into law yesterday.

Here's the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works compilation of data that contradicts the "consensus" of man-caused global warming put forth by Al Gore and the leftists in the United Nations.

Take a look at it; pass it around and put it somewhere you can access it with a couple of clicks. We can't let the leftists win this one. We can't let them win anything!

Has global warming stopped?

Check this out: Hundreds of scientists reject global warming

Lakota Indians break away from US...(updated)

The descendants of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are breaking away from the US. This is going to be interesting to watch. According to this article, any and everyone is welcome to come to their "nation:"

Lakota country includes parts of the states of Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana and Wyoming.

The new country would issue its own passports and driving licences, and living there would be tax-free -- provided residents renounce their US citizenship, Means said.

Did they say "tax free?" I thought they wanted to disenfranchise themselves from the White man. If they're offering a tax free zone, they're going to be inundated with the evil White man and every derivative thereof. Go North, young man!

Have you ever been to the land of the Lakota? It's beautiful up there! It's the land of Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Memorial. Historic Deadwood is just up the road and buffalo meat is the red meat of choice! What's not to like about this new nation? It's gorgeous up there and there's bound to be casinos!

No taxes? Scoot over, Lakotas!

(photo of Crazy Horse Memorial...photographer unknown)

UPDATE:

Not so fast...maybe the MSM exaggerated a little. Better check this out:

In this one we have the story of "the Lakota Sioux Indians" announcing that "they" have withdrawn from agreed upon treaties with the US government and that they are now a sovereign nation, no longer to be called citizens of the USA. Problem is "the Lakota Sioux Indians" that have made this announcement are just an unaffiliated group of Indian activists the leader of whom does not represent the official Lakota tribe leadership! Yet here is the news media reporting this story as if all "the Lakota Sioux Indians" have banded together and quit the union.

I knew it was too good to be true!

Is it Time for a Light bulb Tea Party?

Did you know the “Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007,” which President Bush signed into law yesterday, will ban the the 100-watt incandescent light bulb by the year 2012? Government mandated light bulbs?!

By then, I guess we'll all be forced to use those funny looking neon, curlicue bulbs that contain mercury and require government approved disposal procedures. You didn't know that the politically correct light bulb contains mercury? Hmmm! Not much is being said about that.

Maybe we need a new fashioned Light bulb Tea Party.

Politicians just aren't getting it. They're bending over backwards to the bogus concept that we are running out of oil and that energy conservation will produce more energy. It won't.

Nor will the production of feel good "bio-fuels" solve the created energy crisis. Corn producers love the concept because grain prices are sky-rocketing but food consumers the world over are lamenting that grain supplies are the lowest they've been in years due to the demands of ethanol producers.

Additionally, very few people realize the myths of ethanol production and consumption.

We're being sold a bogus bill of goods as far as energy production. Maybe we should be following the money to see who's cashing in on these government mandated programs which have nothing to do with making us "energy independent."

More from WorldNetDaily: Congress bans incandescent bulbs

Pat Sajak asks 10 Legitimate Questions about Global Warming

Pat Sajak is much more than a game show host. Those who may disagree with him will, no doubt, be quick to jump on his job description or his experience in the real world, but having read many of his columns over the years at his website, it's evident to me that the man is a thinker (hey...he's got some time on his hands, after all!)

His most recent column appears in today's HUMAN EVENTS and he asks 10 pertinent questions regarding "man-caused global warming." Here are a few of them:

1. What is the perfect temperature?

If we are to embark on a lifestyle-altering quest to lower the temperature (or at least minimize its rise), what is our goal? I don’t ask this flippantly. Can we demonstrate that one setting on the global thermostat is preferable over another? If so, what is it, and how do we get there? And, once there, how do we maintain it? Will we ever have to “heat things up” again if it drops below that point?

2. Just what is the average temperature of the earth?

At any one time there are temperature extremes all over the planet. How do we come up with an average, and how do those variations fit in with our desire to slow global warming?

3. What factors have led to global warming in the past, and how do we know they aren’t the causes of the current warming trend?

Again, I don’t ask this in a judgmental way. There is no argument that warming cycles (or cooling, for that matter) have been a part of earth’s history. Why are we so sure this one is different?

4. Why is there such a strong effort to stifle discussion and dissent?

I’m always troubled by arguments that begin, “Everybody agrees...” or “Everyone knows...” In fact, there is a good deal of dissent in the scientific world about the theory of man-made global warming. A large (and growing) segment of those who study such things are questioning some of the basic premises of the theory. Why should there be anything wrong with that? Again, this is a big deal, and we should have the best information and opinion from the best minds.

You need to visit the above links to see the rest of his questions. They're good questions that demand answers. We can't afford to lay down our freedoms, pocketbooks, and American way of life as we know it to those who espouse dubious scientific data. The left is in desperation mode to impose international taxation to bolster the socialist agenda put forth by the United Nations.

Be sure to read Sajak's piece. More and more people are stepping up to question the faith-based consensus of "man-caused global warming."

Belly Laugh of the Day

Believe it or not, there are animal activists out there who are actually offended and upset that these folks put Santa hats on beluga whales. In a normal world we wouldn't pay any attention to people who were this whacked out, but because we live in surrealistic times, we have to exhibit this idiocy whenever it occurs.

"The War Against Words"... The end of free speech?

There's an important and timely piece by Jack Engelhard in Arutz Sheva, who comments on the freedom of speech issues going on in Canada (and all over the world, in reality.) Specifically, the column is about the war against free speech and how it's manifesting itself in the Mark Steyn/Macleans case in Canada and the far reaching effects this "war against words" is having on us.

You're probably thinking...yeah, but that's Canada, a liberal country; this is America and it could never happen here. Think again, O' you of little vision or foresight:

Can't happen here in the US? Well it has been happening here.

Conservative, pro-Western and pro Israel commentators like Robert Spencer (Religion of Peace? his latest), Daniel Pipes and David Horowitz consistently get shouted down from campus to campus. Some get physically roughed up and require bodyguards and double security when they dare to deliver a message that displeases peace-loving professors and students.

Some, like Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, are being sued in British courts. Ehrenfeld wrote the book Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed - And How To Stop It, and though the book was not published in the UK, it's still being taken up by the courts over there for defamation. Ehrenfeld refuses to recognize British jurisdiction and is fighting back through America's court system.

If Canada is on the verge of being "glorious and free" no more, "America Alone" (as Steyn has it) is being asked to remember that it is still the "land of the free" and "home of the brave." That's Steyn's thesis in a nutshell. He's counting on America to save the world from a campaign of tyranny being waged against words spoken and words written.

You best be following this story and others like it. If we're still our daddy's America; land of the free and home of the brave, what are we going to do about this encroaching slavery of thought and speech? Are we going to allow ourselves to be enslaved by the thought and speech police and willingly lapse into Amerika, a zero-tolerance zone, or is freedom of speech worth fighting for?

Singer-Songwriter Dan Fogelberg Dead at 56

Dan Fogelberg, one of my favorite balladeers, died today:

NEW YORK (AP) - Dan Fogelberg, the singer and songwriter whose hits "Leader of the Band" and "Same Old Lang Syne" helped define the soft-rock era, died Sunday at his home in Maine after battling prostate cancer. He was 56.
His death was announced Sunday in a statement by Anna Loynes of the Solters & Digney public relations agency, and was also posted on the singer's Web site.

"Dan left us this morning at 6:00 a.m. He fought a brave battle with cancer and died peacefully at home in Maine with his wife Jean at his side," it read. "His strength, dignity and grace in the face of the daunting challenges of this disease were an inspiration to all who knew him."

Fogelberg was found in 2004 to have advanced prostate cancer. In a statement then, he thanked fans for their support: "It is truly overwhelming and humbling to realize how many lives my music has touched so deeply all these years. ... I thank you from the very depths of my heart."

Fogelberg's music was powerful in its simplicity. He didn't rely on the volume of his voice to convey his emotions; instead, they came through in the soft, tender delivery and his poignant lyrics. Songs like "Same Old Lang Syne"—in which a man reminisces after meeting an old girlfriend by chance during the holidays—became classics not only because of his performance, but for the engaging storyline, as well.

Fogelberg's heydey was in the 1970s and early 80s, when he scored several platinum and multiplatinum records fueled by such hits as "The Power of Gold" and "Leader of the Band," a touching tribute he wrote to his father, a bandleader. Fogelberg put out his first album in 1972.

He'll be missed!

If you were ever a fan, be sure to visit Dan Fogelberg's Official Website.

More here.

Here are a few of his hits on YouTube...enjoy!

Mark Steyn Busted by the Thought Police

Canada's Thought Police are calling columnist Mark Steyn to task for expressing an "unpopular" opinion in his book, America Alone.

This is from today's New York Post:

Celebrated author Mark Steyn has been summoned to appear before two Canadian judicial panels on charges linked to his book “America Alone."

The book, a No. 1 bestseller in Canada, argues that Western nations are succumbing to an Islamist imperialist threat. The fact that charges based on it are proceeding apace proves his point.

Steyn, who won the 2006 Eric Breindel Journalism Award (co-sponsored by The Post and its parent, News Corp), writes for dozens of publications on several continents. After the Canadian general-interest magazine Maclean's reprinted a chapter from the book, five Muslim law-school students, acting through the auspices of the Canadian Islamic Congress, demanded that the magazine be punished for spreading “hatred and contempt" for Muslims.

The plaintiffs allege that Maclean's advocated, among other things, the notion that Islamic culture is incompatible with Canada's liberalized, Western civilization. They insist such a notion is untrue and, in effect, want opinions like that banned from publication.

This is what Canada has come to and it's exactly what the politically correct leftists here in Amerika are determined to have happen as well. More than any other leftist policy, the goal of policing thought and silencing opposing opinion is taking us down the road to totalitarianism.

So much for tolerance and diversity!

Hopefully, the idealogically deaf, dumb and blind will wake up to what's happening before their very eyes before it's too late. I can't even imagine what it's going to take to wake up this lethargic and complacent country.

McCain/Lieberman

Saw this on Drudge and it linked to the Weekly Standard Blog. Here's the big announcement:

"THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that Sen. Joe Lieberman, the 2000 Democratic vice-presidential nominee, will endorse Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for president tomorrow. The two will appear together at a press conference Monday morning in New Hampshire, weather permitting."

My take and $4.50 will get you a nice latte at Starbucks, but here goes...I think this does more to hurt the dems than it does to help the repubs. Obviously, it's good for McCain, but what does this tell you about him? Lieberman would never endorse a conservative, because he's a liberal and always has been. This doesn't do any favors for the conservative base, who wrote off McCain a long time ago. Remember the gang of 14, amnesty, and McCain-Feingold? He was against Bush's tax cuts and he's a big U.N. guy. He and Lieberman are a likely team.

I can't imagine how threatened "vice-president" Lindsey Graham must feel.

The mainstream media is all abuzz because they would much rather see a liberal republican, like McCain, win the nomination than a centrist, which is what most of the other republicans are.

More than anything else this shows just how far to the left both parties have gone.

Could the Sun be the Main Cause of Climate Change?

The "man-caused" global warming controversy needs to be in full and constant debate by as many scientists as possible before anyone or any organization demands there be international taxation.

In fact, international taxation imposed by the United Nations, is what this entire brouhaha is all about.

There are many studies debunking the belief that global warming is caused by man (specifically, western man) and here is the latest such study.

Read it and you'll find it to be quite rational, unlike many of the theories on the other side of this political hot potato.

Steyn: "Children? Not if you love the planet!"

Mark Steyn, in his most recent column, brilliantly unmasks a growing and very disturbing movement among the extreme radical environmentalists. It's been an underlying philosophy throughout the ages, but has manifested itself in our post modernistic world in the eugenics, pro-abortion and zero-population growth movements to name a few.

In today's climate (of desperation, it seems), no one is mincing words or hiding behind so-called pragmatic programs to improve the quality of life for human kind. The focus now is on poor old "mother earth" who has had to put up the "abuse" of the most hated civilization which has ever existed; the capitalistic, liberty based Western Civilization. (That misplaced hate originates from the radical left, as Dennis Prager states in a recent column, The World Doesn't Hate America, the Left Does, but I digress.)

Steyn waxes wittily in Children? Not if you love the planet! . Here are a couple of the money paragraphs:

But here's something new that took hold in the year 2007: A radical antihumanism, long present just below the surface, bobbed up and became explicit and respectable. In Britain, the Optimum Population Trust said that "the biggest cause of climate change is climate changers – in other words, human beings," and professor John Guillebaud called on Britons to voluntarily reduce the number of children they have.

Last week, in the Medical Journal of Australia, Barry Walters went further: To hell with this wimp-o pantywaist "voluntary" child-reduction. Professor Walters wants a "carbon tax" on babies, with, conversely, "carbon credits" for those who undergo sterilization procedures. So that'd be great news for the female eco-activists recently profiled in London's Daily Mail who boast about how they'd had their tubes tied and babies aborted in order to save the planet. "Every person who is born," says Toni Vernelli, "produces more rubbish, more pollution, more greenhouse gases and adds to the problem of overpopulation." We are the pollution, and sterilization is the solution. The best way to bequeath a more sustainable environment to our children is not to have any.

What's the "pro-choice" line? "Every child should be wanted"? Not anymore. The progressive position has subtly evolved: Every child should be unwanted.

Be sure to read the rest of his column. It's an important piece that needs your attention.

Last week I referenced this diabolical "anti-human" movement in a piece titled: If We Could Just Get Rid of Those Pesky People! Be sure to check it out.

When all else fails, get your mom to campaign for you

With all due respect to Hillary's mom, this ad verifies the desperation in the Clinton camp.

Another Journalist whines about "citizen journalism"

I love these kinds of articles! Here's a trained, professional journalist (not sure if he's made it to "elitist" status yet) whining about people like me; bloggers and other citizen "journalists" who are putting the squeeze on newspapers and others in the so-called mainstream media.

Mr. Hazinski, if you and your media buddies would admit to your biases, we probably wouldn't be giving you so much grief. Your problem, generically speaking, is that you claim to be objective when nothing could be further from the truth. Just do your job to the best of your ability and we'll do the same. What people resent is people like you telling us how screwed up WE are, or how stupid we are and how much we need trained and professional journalists such as yourself to steer us in the right direction. And then you whine when no one pays attention to you!

You know what's great about the internet? It's the unabashed free market at work giving readers more choices than they've ever had before. They have to sort out the bad from the good, and those with merit win out. Behold, a meritocracy!

Too many establishmentarian journalists are beginning to sound like agents for the buggy whip union.

If you're a journalist, you have a skill; just get on with your business and if you can't make it, move on to something else. Just quit whining about your new competition. You're starting to look and sound pathetic.

Professing themselves to be wise....

...they became fools (Rom 1:22). Here's a sterling example of such foolishness:

Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) held firm that waterboarding is not acceptable even in the case of Abu Zubaydah. Pressed about whether waterboarding is ever appropriate, even to prevent another 9/11, Snowe replied, "Waterboarding is torture and should not be the policy of the United Sates."

Asked again if it would ever be justified, she said, "I gave my answer."

Drugs a problem for Obama, but not for Clinton?

More projection going on in the Clinton camp as they suggest that Obama's drug use is a concern. What are they smoking at Clinton, Inc.? Have they forgotten what Roger Clinton said on video tape about brother Bill?

At least Sen. Obama was honest enough to write about it in his autobiography.

The Pope v. Al Gore

Let's hear it for Pope Benedict who has condemned the climate change prophets of doom:

"The leader of more than a billion Roman Catholics suggested that fears over man-made emissions melting the ice caps and causing a wave of unprecedented disasters were nothing more than scare-mongering.

The German-born Pontiff said that while some concerns may be valid it was vital that the international community based its policies on science rather than the dogma of the environmentalist movement.

His remarks will be made in his annual message for World Peace Day on January 1, but they were released as delegates from all over the world convened on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali for UN climate change talks.

The 80-year-old Pope said the world needed to care for the environment but not to the point where the welfare of animals and plants was given a greater priority than that of mankind."

How refreshing!

Be sure to read the entire piece.

Huck, Mitt, Rudy, McCain sound like dems...

...when it comes to global warming. The only republicans with the guts to take a politically incorrect stand in today's debate were Alan Keyes and Fred Thompson. Keyes isn't going to be the nominee, but Thompson very well could be. That makes him the only one of the main contenders who hasn't succumbed to the nonsensical "man-caused global warming belief system."

He may get my vote on that issue alone for having the cahones to swim upstream on that bogus contrivance. You go, Fred!

WorldNetDaily has the full story.

Relative of Davy Crockett, 5, kills bear!

You just gotta love this!

"Legend has it Davy Crockett killed a bear when he was three. A distant relative of the 19th-century frontiersman has done the same thing at five.

Tre Merritt, a 5-year-old boy from Arkansas, killed a black bear Sunday, according to his grandfather.
"(The bear) came in about 40 to 50 yards," Mike Merritt, Tre's grandfather, told KATV of Little Rock, Ark, "and when he got in the open, I whistled at him and he stopped and I said, 'Shoot Tre.' "

And that's what his grandson did, killing the 400-pound animal.

"I was up in the stand and I seen the bear," Tre Merritt told KATV. "It came from the thicket and it was beside the road and I shot it."

According to the report, Tre's father said his son began shooting when he was 2 1/2 and killed three deer last year. What else would you expect from a descendant of the "King of the Wild Frontier?"

"His 10th great-grandfather was Davy Crockett," Mike Merritt said. "And Davy supposedly killed him a bear when he was three. And Tre is five and really killed a bear. I really doubt if Davy killed one when he was three."

(Photo courtesy of the Fess Parker official website.)

Don't Rule Out Gore

You can understand why Al Gore would rule out serving in the next U.S. administration, but in the same article he admits that he would consider another bid of his own for the White House.

Gore has everything going for him. He's hot right now...at least among "man-caused global warming believers" who, way more often than not are dems and leftists; certainly people who would vote for him. Today was his big day in Oslo to pick up his Nobel Prize which was just icing on his Inconvenient Cake. Monetarily, he's riding high as well. Some say he's worth more than a $100 Million these days. That's a lot of carbon credits!

So what's next?

What could be more sweet for him than to be called upon to be the democrat nominee for president. Could there be any sweeter way to pay back the Clintons for all they did (or didn't do) for him in the 2000 presidential election? It's pretty common knowledge there's not a lotta love between the Clintons and the Gores.

It could happen!

What will the dems do when they finally realize they have no one running who is electable? They may be coming to that realization even now. They can't just default. Who else but Gore could they turn to especially in this climate (sorry!) of global warming hysteria.

Gore would be more than a democrat nominee...he would be a savior! Watch for it folks!

If We Could Just Get Rid of Those Pesky People!

There's a piece in today's American Thinker that sums up the goal of the extreme radical "man-caused global warming" zealots; tax babies, encourage, if not reward, sterilization and abortions:

December 10, 2007
Misanthropic Global Warming Theory
by Thomas Lifson

The hysteria over allegedly man-made global warming increasingly reveals its true nature: founded in a sense of guilt and self-hatred. How else to explain this nonsense published in a medical journal. From Jen Kelley in the Adelaide Advertiser:

'A WEST Australian medical expert wants families to pay a $5000-plus "baby levy" at birth and an annual carbon tax of up to $800 a child.

Writing in today's Medical Journal of Australia, Associate Professor Barry Walters said every couple with more than two children should be taxed to pay for enough trees to offset the carbon emissions generated over each child's lifetime.

Professor Walters, clinical associate professor of obstetric medicine at the University of Western Australia and the King Edward Memorial Hospital in Perth, called for condoms and "greenhouse-friendly" services such as sterilisation procedures to earn carbon credits.

And he implied the Federal Government should ditch the $4133 baby bonus and consider population controls like those in China and India.'

Human beings are now regarded as mere pollution, to be abated like some toxic chemical. And this from an obstetrician!

It's not stated in this piece, but you can safely assume that the practice of homosexuality is bound to be encouraged by those who espouse the "mankind is the problem" creed. It doesn't produce babies, after all.

Do you ever wonder what kind of mind comes up with such dogma? Doesn't it have to be a mind that is anti-thetical to everything good and/or Godly?

How could a dogma of death and destruction ever be good for anybody or any thing?

Put on your thinking caps people...if there were a devil, wouldn't his motis operandi be to persuade as many people as possible that mankind is the problem? Therefore, it is man who needs to be eradicated in order to save "mother earth" or the godess, gaia? That's what the radical environmentalists believe; that earth, or the creation, is more important than mankind who was created in God's image. Nonsense! Common sensical nonsense! Diabolical nonsense!

Who is it that's not going to be a part of God's plan after all is said and done? It's not mankind. It's the devil! And he's not real happy about it. In fact, if he can't be a part of God's ultimate plan, he's going to do everything in his power to discourage others from being part of it. Hence his dogma of death, destruction and fear mongering.

Ever hear of the "scorched earth" policy? Well, he was the author of it and from here on out he's fixin' to wreak havoc on as many as possible. Mark my words!

The Leftist U.N. Rejects Dissenting Scientists

The Heartland Institute has an extremely illuminating piece on the United Nations and their pre-determined take on global warming. Do you think the U.N. has carefully studied all sides of the issue of global warming? After all, what they are proposing are literally life-changing policies for all concerned. With the stakes so high, wouldn't it behoove them to explore all scientific findings?

Surely you jest! Not only will the U.N. (and every other leftists organization) refuse to hear scientific findings counter to their own, but they will do everything in their power to marginalize and silence anything that contradicts their agenda.

The Heartland piece attests to the disingenuousness of the U.N.'s findings on global warming. Here it is in its entirety:

(CHICAGO, Illinois - December 5, 2007) -- The United Nations has rejected all attempts by a group of dissenting scientists seeking to present information at the climate change conference taking place in Bali, Indonesia.

The International Climate Science Coalition (ICSC) has been denied the opportunity to present at panel discussions, side events, and exhibits; its members were denied press credentials. The group consists of distinguished scientists from Africa, Australia, India, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

The scientists, citing pivotal evidence on climate change published in peer-reviewed journals, have expressed their opposition to the UN's alarmist theory of anthropogenic global warming. As the debate on man-made global warming has been heating up, the UN has tried to freeze out the scientists and new evidence, summarily dismissing them with the claim "the science is settled."

James M. Taylor, senior fellow for The Heartland Institute explained, "It is not surprising the UN has completely rejected dissenting voices. They have been doing this for years. The censorship of scientists is necessary to promote their political agenda. After the science reversed on the alarmist crowd, they claimed 'the debate is over' to serve their wealth redistribution agenda."

Taylor continued, "For example, ICSC scientist Dr. Vincent Gray recently published Unsound Science by the IPCC, which proves the main claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are scientifically unsound. Dr. Gray is an expert reviewer for the IPCC and has submitted more than 1,800 comments on IPCC reports. He is an expert on the IPCC methodology and published Spinning the Climate.

"Dr. Gray is the last person the politicized UN wants speaking," Taylor noted. "He single-handedly debunks the entire alarmist theory. And there are more than 600 Dr. Grays trying to be the voice of reason and science. All are being censored."

Tayor said, "The ICSC scientists don't agree with the pre-determined 'Bali Mandate,' so instead of discussion and debate, we get censorship. Until the UN rejects the politicization of climate change, their reports, protocols, and mandates aren't worth reading--much less ratifying."

The ICSC scientists will be available for advice and counsel in Bali, but they expect scientists to be ignored at the Bali conference.

The Greenest Hypocrites of 2007

This is rich! What could be more delicious than the list of the top ten green hypocrites who travel the world in their private jets demanding we reduce our "carbon footprint." Here's the partial list:

1. Al Gore’s Inconvenient Lifestyle. While the former veep and nouveau-$100 millionaire jets around the world squawking about the “planet having a fever” and demanding that we all lower our standard of living, his own personal electricity use is 20 times the national average, including an indoor pool costing $500/month to heat.

While Gore deflected criticism of his inconvenient electric bill during March congressional testimony by saying he purchased “green” electricity, the truth is, he didn’t start doing so until 2007.

2. Google’s Sky Pig. A photo-op of Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin plugging-in a hybrid car was part of the search engine giant’s June announcement promising carbon neutrality by 2008. But how this PR-fluff squares with the so-called “Google party jet” — Page and Brin’s gargantuan personal Boeing 767, which burns about 1,550 gallons/hour — is any one’s guess.

3. RFK Jr. Tilts at Windmills. Outspoken global warming activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently railed against coal-produced electricity because “climate change is the most urgent threat to our collective survival.”

Meanwhile, Kennedy vigorously campaigns against a proposed Cape Cod wind farm that would generate CO2-free electricity because it would “impoverish the experience of millions of tourists and residents and fishing families who rely on the sound's unspoiled bounties.” Unmentioned in Kennedy’s tirades, however, is the windmill’s unfortunate proximity to his family’s famed Hyannis Port compound.

4. The U.N.’s ‘Bali High’. Early December will witness 10,000 climateers descending upon the paradisiacal island resort of Bali for the 13th annual U.N. global warming meeting. The reason for much jet and limo travel — and other prodigious greenhouse gas generating activity associated with such a mega-conference — is relatively modest: setting the agenda and timeframe for a post-Kyoto treaty. Sure seems like something that could have been handled in a less carbon-intensive way — either by Internet and video conferencing or, if meeting is necessary, somewhere in North America or Europe where most key attendees are based.

Find out who the other hypocrites are...See Steven Milloy's complete list at the above link.


(Algoremobile courtesy of RightWingCafe)

Today's Essential Reading: "Road to Bali"

If you didn't listen to Rush today, then you missed, among other things, the piece by Peter Foster which appeared in the Financial Post, titled, Road to Bali. It deftly explains why the U.N. elites and elite wannabes are in Bali and what they're really talking about (Hint: it's not really about global warming.) Here are a couple of salient paragraphs:

The environmental left, centred in the UN, has achieved stunning success in building and pushing the climate change/sustain-ability bandwagon. They have done this first by funding, then hijacking, scientific research via the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. They have also promoted and allowed access to an ever-proliferating group of activist NGOs (Bali, significantly, is overrun by the non-elected "representatives" of scores of radical organizations, who have in turn forced similar numbers of industry representatives to follow them). NGOs have also had great success in pushing their alarmist message through a sympathetic media and thus --along with more direct lobbying--in achieving grossly disproportionate influence with democratic politicians. "Progressive" pols, meanwhile, have embraced environmental alarmism because it gives a much-needed boost to their flagging relevance.

Climate-change alarmism couldn't be presented as simply a new justification for power-seeking, so it had to be cloaked--as social-ism has always been cloaked, both consciously and unconsciously -- in concern for "the poor." Addressing climate change has always been linked in the UN script with Third World development, even though it in fact represents the greatest threat to such development. Nevertheless, the prospect of more international redistribution has meant that poor countries' corrupt and/or incompetent governments have become enthusiastic supporters of the Kyoto "process."

Please read the rest of this piece. We can't afford to allow these international socialist thugs to determine the future of America. Every democrat presidential candidate embrace the leftist ideals that the U.N. wishes to impose on the United States, whereas there may be some republican candidates who oppose them.

We need oppose those who go along with the U.N.'s plan to redistribute our wealth to 3d and 4th world countries via their global warming agenda.

Run, Hillary, Run!

Thanks to the insightful folks at Lucianne.com for this cartoon.

Two Good Books

I heartily recommend two wonderful books I finished reading last week.

The first one is The Fred Factor, subtitled, How passion in your work and life can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary, written by Mark Sanborn...(be sure to visit Mark Sanborn's Blog).

The Fred Factor is based on the enthusiastic endeavors of Fred Shea, an ordinary mail carrier in Denver, CO., who turned his mundane mail delivery duties into a career dedicated to extraordinary acts of service to all of the "customers" on his mail route.

He didn't do it for recognition or for remuneration; he did it because it brought him great pleasure to serve his "clients" in an exceptional way.

It's a short, easy to read book with lessons everyone can apply to all aspects of life to better enrich your business as well as your personal relationships.

The second book I recommend is by Dr. Robert Emmons, editor in chief of The Journal of Positive Psychology and it's titled, Thanks!, How the New Science of Gratitude Can Make You Happier.

The book is a result of an eight year study on gratitude and the powerful effects that attitude has on those who choose to be grateful.

Emmons makes the point throughout the book that being grateful is one of the most life changing attitudes we can have in our life.

The book is replete with inspiring accounts of people who deal with hardships and tribulation yet find it in their psyche to be grateful.

It's a book that can help and encourage any and everyone, whether or not you're undergoing distress. The attitude of gratitude can make your life better.

Thanks! is the perfect companion to Dennis Prager's book, Happiness Is a Serious Problem; another book I highly recommend.