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“I’m not so much looking for an explanation from her [Senator McCaskill], I’m looking for an apology!” – American Soldier.  This was said at a town meeting on Monday night in St. Louis, MO.  Very inspiring.

People Singing the National Anthem

Today I travelled with two friends to attend the Tea Party hosted in Washington, MO.  What an inspirational event!  So many people (about 3000 I heard) came out to support the tried and true conservative values of freedom, independence, and self-preservation.  There were so many great signs, t-shirts, and speeches.  Highlights for me were hearing from Curtis, an 18-year-old blogger at www.gatewaypatriot.com, hearing from Dr. Gina Loudon on how to promote legislative change, and hearing from Dana Loesch, a very passionate radio host.

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So, there I was standing in line at Walmart the other day.  I picked up a reprint of Time’s 2004 pictorial issue all about D-Day, self described as a “reissue of the 2004 Time Classic.”  And, I know, this is such a little thing, but it just adds to the bigger picture of how astonishingly liberally bent 95% of mainstream media is.  So I’m flipping through the pages and I land on this one big, glossy picture of a factory in New Orleans that manufactured landing boats for the D-Day invasion.  In that picture you see the workers busily assembling the landing boats with a oversized banner hanging above them that says, “The guy who relaxes is helping the axis” [see right].  Now that all seems logical to me.  Don’t slack off, cause the Nazis are taking over the world, right?  But the 2004 caption by the Time magazine writers says, “ON THE DOUBLE:  Urged on by a propaganda poster, workers in one of the Higgins’ seven factories in New Orleans churn out his landing boats.”  Propaganda?  Prop-a-gan-da??  At first I was mad.  Then I was confused.  Maybe I got the definition of propaganda wrong.  So I looked it up!  Propaganda according to my MacBook Pro dictionary dashboard widget means, “cheifly derogatory information; esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view.”  Am I missing something here?  How is this poster propaganda at all?!  It’s not!  Nazis were evil!  Americans were out to save the world!  And yeah, if you relax, you were indirectly helping the Axis.  I see no propaganda here.  Well, what can I say Time Magazine writers… way to call the kettle black.

Below is an ongoing, thoughtful discussion between a friend and I regarding global warming and cap and trade.  The response I wrote was way too long for facebook, so I’m posting it here.  My thoughts are in blue.  His are in black.

Ok, let’s look at it this way…. : )

we insure our cars, health, and home, expecting nothing bad to happen… Thousands of dollars a year go down the drain for a minor probability of actually using the $ we invested… everyone supports this system.

Everyone supports this system because people have the FREEDOM to choose who they want to insure with, how much they’ll pay, or even, whether or not they want a car or health care or a home to insure.

Insuring that we avoid catastrophic consequences of the scientific communities’ projections of climate change seems like the prudent thing to do, EVEN if there is a not a high probability of it happening (which there is, according to the people who actual study the climate).

Not everyone who studies the climate believes that global warming is real. If it were real, why would CO2 levels keep going up over the past decade while the global temperatures have consistently declined each year of the last ten years? Continue reading after the jump…
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“Experts predict that this bill would destroy between 1,105,000 and 2,479,000 jobs on average, every year.”

Democrats are trying to ram another bill down the throats of Americans without much thought for the actual outcomes of the bill.  And they’re trying to do it by TOMORROW!  Get informed by reading the article below and others that are coming out by the dozens today.  Then call your representative and let them know how you feel!  I just called mine.

WSJ’s “Cap & Tax Fiction” – “The biggest doozy in the CBO analysis was its extraordinary decision to look only at the day-to-day costs of operating a trading program, rather than the wider consequences energy restriction would have on the economy. The CBO acknowledges this in a footnote: ”The resource cost does not indicate the potential decrease in gross domestic product (GDP) that could result from the cap.  The hit to GDP is the real threat in this bill. The whole point of cap and trade is to hike the price of electricity and gas so that Americans will use less…”

Cap-and-trade does more harm than good – “While U.S. officials vowed to learn from Europe’s mistakes, the bill sponsored by Reps. Henry Waxman (D., Calif.) and Edward Markey (D., Mass.) has many of the same flaws and adds massive “offsets” that blow away the “cap” in “cap-and-trade.” Offsets allow polluters to, for example, pay to preserve an acre of forest so they can continue burning coal above the cap. The concept’s problems are legion and well-documented.”

Call Your Representative Today!!!

I don’t know what to say about this other than my thoughts and prayers go out to these people.  I can’t believe it.  You need to hear the whole thing.  Obama’s response: “I want to start off by being very clear that it is up to Iranians to make decisions about who Iran’s leaders will be; that we respect Iranian sovereignty… We will continue to pursue a tough, direct dialogue between our two countries, and we’ll see where it takes us.”  Way to be tough, Obama.  Seems he’s more outraged at water boarding than this.

I remember when President George W. Bush called Iran, Iraq, and North Korea the “axis of evil.”  The media response was tepid at best but more often appalled that Bush called out these specific countries as worse than others.  Well here we are now.  Iraq is no where the threat that Iran and North Korea are… both of whom are pursuing nuclear weapons.  President Bush had the foresight to see that these countries were a threat and to neutralize one of them.  I can only hope Obama has the guts to do the same.

“They are killing students with axe.  You know they put the axe through the heart of young men.  It’s so… devastating.  I don’t know how to describe it.  I can’t find the words, but this is horrific.  This is genocide.  This is a massacre.  This is Hitler!  You people should stop it.  I mean, it [starting to cry] long time we have been exposed to this and nobody takes action.  It’s time to act!” – Iranian woman