Still going…

As if the adoring press conference tonight wasn’t enough, President Obama was in Missouri this morning for a town hall meeting.
Has the teleprompter not informed him yet that the campaign is over?  That the 100 days is the first hundred days of his term as president, not of the campaign?  That there aren’t any further [...]

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Obama’s First 100 Days

It is President Obama’s 100th day in office, so, of course, he needs to hold yet another press conference.
Oh, look, the teleprompter…
The president opened by thanking Congress by acting quickly to smother the swine flu with money.  $1.5 billion to track and deal with the swine flu.  But we won’t close the border.  Funny, but [...]

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Too much junk

I spent most of yesterday and about three hours tonight cleaning out my mother-in-law’s paper horde.  (No, I am nowhere near done.)  She had every spelling homework my husband or sister-in-law had ever done.  Every artwork.  Every notebook.  Utility receipts dating back to 1970 (wow, I wish my water bill was $17.58!).
Why?
Well, she said, it [...]

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Closing the Border

Apparently, several congressmen have called on the federal government to close the U.S.-Mexico border to prevent the spread of swine flu.  Sounds logical.  I mean, if you’re worried about an epidemic, the first thing you do is isolate the contagious people, right?  This allows the proper authorities to keep the uninfected safe and concentrate on [...]

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What next?

I’m not sure I really want the answer to that.
We’re coming up to the end of the all-important first 100 days of Obama’s administration.
President Obama hs made it a priority to demolish various protections that prevented tax dollars from funding pro-abortion groups overseas.  Let’s spread the death and mental and physical damages, because it isn’t fair that [...]

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Reading Levin’s “Liberty and Tyranny” (part 1)

Conservative radio show host Mark Levin’s book, Liberty and Tyranny: a Conservative Manifesto has been at the top of various best seller lists for several weeks now.
Coincidentally, I reached the chapter on enviro-statism yesterday, just in time for Earth Day.  (woo. hoo.)
To oversimplify and sum up, “statist” is Levin’s label for most left-wingers.  They’ve abandonned [...]

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Earth Day

Did we do Earth Day?  Yes and no.
I’m a sort of Christian, conservative, penny-pinching type of not-quite-environmentalist.
I try to be responsible about what I do in regards to the environment, because I believe God gave man stewardship over the earth, which means we are to take good care of it, improve it, etc.  Not because [...]

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“… everything I wish I didn’t know…”

I really liked U2’s song “Vertigo”, especially the line in the refrain, “I’m at this placed called Vertigo/It’s everything I wish I didn’t know…”
So, for a dizzy, crazy, maddening Monday, here’s my current number one thing I wish I didn’t know:
How to explain a trillion to a couple of grade-schoolers.
I guessed that a trillion grains of [...]

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7 Quick Takes Friday (Apr 17)

1.  If you missed it (oh, wait… the MSM didn’t report anything on it!), the Red Envelope Project did pretty darn well.  An estimated 2.5 million red envelopes arrived at the White House.  No official comment, of course.  Lifenews did report, however, that a mail room staffer confirmed the volume, and commented that it was [...]

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Tea Party Follow-Up (Updated)

Gee, if I didn’t know better, I’d think the left-wing was desperate…
Anarchists at the G20 smash windows, taunt cops, have to be dispersed with tear gas, etc.  (A lot like the anarchists who ripped up Minneapolis for the GOP convention… apparently, they didn’t feel the need to rip up Denver for the Democratic convention.)
Something like [...]

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