I wonder what Rosie will have to say today about the freeway that melted in Oakland and collapsed ?  I thought metal and concrete didn't burn...

Oh wait I know, President Bush and Company conspired to bring the bridge down, the explosive placed after the fire began; tin foil hat brigade warning.

 "And have we now forgotten that powerful Friend? or do we imagine
we no longer need its assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time;
and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this
Truth, that God governs in the Affairs of Men. And if a Sparrow
cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that
an Empire can rise without his Aid?"

~~Benjamin Franklin~~ (Motion for Prayers in the Constitutional
Convention, 28 June 1787) Courtesy of the Patriot Post

This could be delivered on the floor of either the House or Senate today...

Jesus teaches the value of the fear of God:

And not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. 31 Do not fear therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.
~~Matthew 10: 29-31~~

You know I am looking forward to seeing President Bush wielding the sword that is the veto...following the passing by Dimocrats of the pork laden, timetable for surrender from Iraq is awaiting the Senate to pass the same.  President Bush and his henchmen (and henchwomen) have said that the bill is not just DOA but dead before arrival...

I love this new House and Senate.  They are the do nothing Congress.  They have passed no substantial laws.  A divided government is not so bad when the Dimocrat led Senate and House accomplish nothing.  Unfortunately, they have also bogged down the wheels of government by going on a phishing expedition.  At every turn they have a new committee to subpoena and investigate the White House...

The Do-Nuthin' Congress is led by the bookend jesters: San Fran Nan and  Harry (I've never seen a land deal I couldn't make money on) Reid.  Harry Reid (IMHO) is a fool, and very well may lead the Dimocrats not only to lose the 2008 Presidential election but control of both Houses if they continue down the path they have chosen.  The American people are weary of the campaign in the Global War on Terror in Iraq, but they will reject the lack of support for the troops.  Every time Reid opens his mouth and puts a time table on withdrawing troops he is giving Aid and COmfort to the Enemy.  The enemy, Islamofascists, are circling dates in red on their calendar.

Every time Harry Reid, Dickey Durbin, San Fran Nan undermine the president, and more importantly, General Patraeus they embolden the Terrorists.  The 9 soldiers who lost their lives this week in a suicidal bombing were killed by, none other than, al Qaeda.  Let's turn over Iraq to the likes of al Qaeda and the pip squeak Sadr...

Denny Kucinich has files impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney; John Conyers wants to do the same to President Bush;  the House of Representatives have subpoenaed Condi Rice to testify about the lead up to War...

In the meantime Social Security, Medicare are going bankrupt.  We are failing on behalf of our children as education has fallen way down the list as Congress flails around and flagellates the White House...it's like a shark feeding frenzy...nothing is getting done to the detriment of many well deserving issues.  Tax Reform.  Tort Reform...

Anyone want to chime in????  What about the Dimocrats 100 Days---now it 200 Days?  365 days?  720 Days???

 

 

Harry Reid has done a huge disservice to those who fight to secure our safety and security in the world.  The men and women in Iraq are putting their lives on the line to secure freedom and liberty in a part of the world that has not seen neither the former nor the latter; the goal also prevents the securing of a safe haven for al Qaeda and other terrorist organizations (read: Hezbollah and Hamas).  We are in for the fight of our lives.

Ask military personnel what they think:

LT Nichols also in Baghdad:

Senator Reid: When you say we've lost in Iraq, I don't think you understand the effect of your words. The Iraqis I speak with are the good guys here, fighting to build a stable government. They hear what you say, but they don't understand it. They don't know about the political game, they don't know about a Presidential veto, and they don't know about party politics.

But they do know that if they help us, they are noticed by terrorists and extremists. They decide to help us if they think we can protect them from those terrorists. They tell us where caches of weapons are hidden. They call and report small groups of men who are strangers to the neighborhood, men that look the same to us, but are obvious to them as a foreign suicide cell.

To be brief, your words are killing us. Your statements make the Iraqis afraid to help us for fear we'll leave them unprotected in the future. They don't report a cache, and its weapons blow up my friends in a convoy. They don't report a foreign fighter, and that fighter sends a mortar onto my base. Your statements are noticed, and they have an effect.

Finally, you are mistaken when you say we are losing. We are winning, I see it every day. However, we will win with fewer casualties if you help us. Will you?

Respectfully,

LT Jason Nichols, USN
MNF-I, Baghdad
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Defeatocrat Dimocrat bent on scoring political points to get the pork laden Emergency Funding for the troops is foolhardy at best and deadly at the worst.  Recall that during the last election the Dimocrats swore they would not put timetables for pullouts on the Iraq War...how many other false promises have they broken: again recall the First 100 Days?  Nothing done...except as Senator Schumer has graciously pointed out oversight: the number of committee hearings and investigations has more than doubled.  Wasted time and money, and nothing done...yup, I'm thinking of changing my party affiliation to Defeatocrat Dimocrats!

 A little fun for those who, like myself, dabble in the photographic arts:

Tip of the Day: Sunrise, Sunset...

A little distraction from non-stop coverage of the tragedy at Virginia Tech...I will have to get out and take a few shots.

 "What a glorious morning this is!"

-- Samuel Adams (to John Hancock at the Battle of Lexington,
Massachusetts, 19 April 1775)

Reference: American Statesman: Samuel Adams, Hosmer (297)

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On a morning that is dominated by the Virginia Tech shootings, we are reminded that this too will pass.  We are a great country, a country of the greatest opportunity in all the world.  One sick individual caused great harm, but the American people will find a way to mourn, grieve and then pull themselves up by the bootstraps and become better for it.  Word of heroism by Professor Liviu Librescuis who saved lives and lost his chose to be here.  When we hear the lives touched by those who lost their lives we are inspired.

This is the time to look inside and not to lash out and make rash decisions, score political points.  Errors were made somewhere, and they need to be corrected.  The officials in VT will look at what they did right and what they did wrong and will make changes. 

May God comfort those who have lost loved ones.  May God bring those out there closer to Him.  He did not cause this, as we live in a broken world, a fallen world, a world full of sin.  And as President Bush was mindful to remind us:

21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.

Romans 12:21 (New King James Version)

In the news the last few days have been the lives of those who attend Duke and Rutgers.  The lives of the former have been utterly changed forever, perhaps to the point of no return.  Apologies have been issued in both instances, and in one the harm is so egregious that no amount of sorrow is appropriate.

The accusation of rape in the Duke case, and then the prosecutorial misconduct is so bad that the reputations and even, dare I say, the earning power of the three male college students has been forever affected.  Whereas, the feelings of the female ballplayers have been hurt, and the earning power of these women may have been enhanced.  They can write a book, and be remunerated.

The usual suspects turned up in both cases.  An examination of the treatment of the Duke Lacrosse players by the MSM and the black community is instructive.  White males are accused of raping a black woman, a terrible and disgusting event.  However, when one examined the facts of the case, the only thing that was obvious was that everything was viewed through the lens of race. 

The MSM rallied around the "victim."  The perpetrators were never, never, presumed innocent.  The idiot, IMHO, prosecutor Mike Nifong was out for one goal: get re-elected.  The MSM saw an opportunity to sell newspapers, and gain market share, by shelling the salacious details.  Not once did they stop and look objectively at the evidence.  Not to mention that there was a conspiracy to cover up exculpatory evidence.

Then there were the paragons of virtue standing up for the victim in the Duke case, as well as the Rutgers incident:  the Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson.  One can argue, as many conservative pundits have pointed out, the two have very little credibility based on their own race baiting and a history of comments that call into question their own racism.  Sharpton and Jackson have both made comments that were racist.  Hymie town? 

Where is the mea culpa from the Reverend's for their singling out the Duke Lacrosse players?  Oh, it wasn't their fault, they were misled by a white prosecutor so they are off the hook?  Again, where is the outrage about Fitty Cent's comments regarding "the Jew?"  The use of language that disparages women, black women especially, is bad in and of itself, but misogynistic lyrics should be damned just as much as some stupid comedy sketch by a white man.  Now, that said, Don Imus has a history of racist comments, and frankly, I am not going shed a tear for him losing his job.

Now, the liberal MSM is complicit in the ruination of both the Duke Lacrosse players and of Don Imus.  There is a huge double standard in the media.  Nary is there condemnation of Gangsta Rap.  Mel Gibson comments were front and center for weeks, the Duke case was front page news for months, the sickening rant by Michael Richards was blasting from my TV speakers for weeks...and there in the mix is the Al and Jesse show.

There needs to be a discussion is this country around race.  But what is bad for one race should not be celebrated by another.  Words cut, they can damage reputations and affect a group of people.  We can not accept the use of any word coming from the mouths of anyone.  Ho's, used by a white man and by a black man should be equally shunned.  A search of rap song titles brings up many "artists."  I don't hear the Al and Jesse show condemning those who make money on the backs of women, especially black women. 

All I am asking for is consistency, and I don't see it in the Al and Jesse show.  MSM is so far left leaning that it is not even worth commmenting.  Subscriptions are plummeting, and new media is stepping into the void, nicely I might add.  But, I would love to see new spokespeople for the African-American community.  New voices that aren't tainted by the stench of racism.  Will it happen?  I won't hold my breath.

Don Imus is out of a job.  Mike Nifong should be out of a job.  The Al and Jesse show whould be retired.  And the innocent Duke players should make millions off of book deals.  The Rutgers team should just get over it, and show the world the class and determiniation they did on the basketball floor.  As to the MSM, if you can't get reporters to admit their bias, and see them report both sides of an issue and allow readers to make their own conclusions, subscriptions are going to continue to fall off the cliff.

 I wanted to take a moment to thank all of my readers and to wish you all a Happy Easter, and may the Lord Bless you and your families.  Thank you Lord Jesus for dying for my sins, but most of all thank you for defeating death and rising again:

John 20

The Empty Tomb

 1Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance. 2So she came running to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, and said, "They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we don't know where they have put him!"

 3So Peter and the other disciple started for the tomb. 4Both were running, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. 5He bent over and looked in at the strips of linen lying there but did not go in. 6Then Simon Peter, who was behind him, arrived and went into the tomb. He saw the strips of linen lying there, 7as well as the burial cloth that had been around Jesus' head. The cloth was folded up by itself, separate from the linen. 8Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed. 9(They still did not understand from Scripture that Jesus had to rise from the dead.)

Jesus Appears to Mary Magdalene

 10Then the disciples went back to their homes, 11but Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb 12and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus' body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.

 13They asked her, "Woman, why are you crying?"

   "They have taken my Lord away," she said, "and I don't know where they have put him." 14At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.

 15"Woman," he said, "why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?"
      Thinking he was the gardener, she said, "Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him."

 16Jesus said to her, "Mary."
      She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, "Rabboni!" (which means Teacher).

 17Jesus said, "Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet returned to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, 'I am returning to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.' "

 18Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: "I have seen the Lord!" And she told them that he had said these things to her.

Jesus Appears to His Disciples

 19On the evening of that first day of the week, when the disciples were together, with the doors locked for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" 20After he said this, he showed them his hands and side. The disciples were overjoyed when they saw the Lord.

 21Again Jesus said, "Peace be with you! As the Father has sent me, I am sending you." 22And with that he breathed on them and said, "Receive the Holy Spirit. 23If you forgive anyone his sins, they are forgiven; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven."

Jesus Appears to Thomas

 24Now Thomas (called Didymus), one of the Twelve, was not with the disciples when Jesus came. 25So the other disciples told him, "We have seen the Lord!"
      But he said to them, "Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my finger where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe it."

 26A week later his disciples were in the house again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them and said, "Peace be with you!" 27Then he said to Thomas, "Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. Stop doubting and believe."

 28Thomas said to him, "My Lord and my God!"

 29Then Jesus told him, "Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed."

 30Jesus did many other miraculous signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not recorded in this book. 31But these are written that you may^[a] believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.

Madame Speaker Pelosi's trip to Damascus has stirred up the passions of even the most liberal of the MSM newspapers.  They are none to happy that Pelosi was trying to hijack foreign policy and create"a shadow presidency is not only counterproductive, it is foolish. (Washington Post, no less.)"

Then there was this from the USA Today Opinion: "She violated a long-held understanding that the United States should speak with one official voice abroad — even if the country is deeply divided on foreign policy back home." Ouch!

Dimocrats aren't happy to simply stick it to the president here at home on the war, but they want to show the world that they are going to be in charge.  It certainly is harmful when the third in line for the presidency, and the highest ranking Dimocrat in the House goes to a terrorist state and makes nicities with a dictator.  Absolutely unheard of; the appeasers are out in full force.

And, even worse Pelosi wouldn't bring about a vote on a resolution in support of Great Britian in it's hostage taking crisis.  Poor form San Fran Nan...

The Dimocrats then counter that there were Republicans over there, too.  Well, the president and the White House roundly criticized them, too. 

Dreadful, it bogles the mind to imagine what the world willl be like if Hillary is in charge.  The other night I had a nightmarish thought:  what if Al Gore was president during 9/11?  What would the world be like now?  The Taliban still in charge, but with a few craters from the cruise missles Gore authorized to be launched?  Saddam Hussein still cutting thet hands off people, pushing them off roofs, and striking deals with UN officials to weaken sanctions to point of dropping them all together?  Would Libya now have the bomb?  I shudder at these thoughts.

Then I hear in the back of mind:  "Madame President Hillary Clinton."  Sworn in by the first Speaker of the House San Fran Nan...Sandy berger back in thet White House...Bill Clinton freed of day to day decision chasing skirts around the White House...

There are two brouhahas in the media today from two celebrities; Don Imus and Fifty Cent (Fitty) made comments on the radio.  One apologized for his comments, the other has not even explained himself.

Don Imus on his show 'Imus in the Morning' called the Rutgers team: "Nappy Headed Ho's."  I never listen to the guy, as his voice annoys the heck out of me, and this is probably just one of many of his idiot comments.

Now to the second comment by Fitty Cent (scroll down a few stories): "Fitty called to weigh-in on fellow rapper Tony Yayo's assault case. After telling the host that he didn't think Yayo's legal troubles would hurt "his crew," he added, "Worry about the Je-Je-Je-Jew unit. They're the real goon squad. When the lawyers come out, you'll see what it is. I don't pay nobody. I only pay the lawyers." The rapper didn't clarify what he meant, or if he was referring to anything in particular."

Of course, Imus is getting all the flak, and was good enough to apologize, but one expects him to make comments that are intemperate at best.  Fitty Cent, on the other hand, will get a pass...note the huge difference in the treatment of former Seinfeld Michael Richards, he even had to go through rehabilitation.

Both comments were made on the radio, one was picked up by every major news outlet, and Fitty's comments are picked up by bloggers and TMZ.  The MSM is blinded by it's liberal bent, once again...

I found this site today via Wizbang:  The kids are alright -- for now.  It combines Google Maps with 42 states sex offender databases.

Are there sex offenders in you r neighborhood?  I did a search for my neighborhood, and fortunately there are none within many miles of our home.  However, there are some scary guys in the Oceanside area...

Are your kids safe?  I have bookmarked the site, and plan to visit it at least once a month.

The information posted includes addresses and photos of these creeps.