Who died and made Disney God?
Interesting article. I've certainly had my issues with purveyors of children's entertainment and their treatment of moral issues and this is an excellent article about just such a thing. (H/T Drudge Report)
Pretty. Smart. Girl.
I am a conservative, home schooling mom of two fabulous kidlets, and wife to a hard workin' man who can always make me laugh. I have a great affection for sparkly things, coffee, and all things political.
I love Jesus, my family, Texas and the consititution of the United States of America. I am a proud daughter and sister of brave men who have defended my right to write whatever I want on this blog.
I am also not one of those gals that gets upset when someone calls me "honey". I've never thought that because I was born female, I was somehow disadvantaged.
I live by the philosophy that you can say anything you want as long as you say it with a smile.
And now for something completely different
http://perezhilton.com/2008-11-25-video-of-the-year#respond
Me as POTUS=Pink as poet laureate.
Though Pink's life and my life are miles apart, I have always admired her in your face style and ability to be transparent about her life through her art. Pink is an original.
Even conservatives love good music.
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Joy Behar Hates Home Schoolers
This just gets my home schooling mom dander up. Yesterday on "The View" the gals were discussing where the little Obama kidlets were going to go to school and Ms. Behar suggested that they not be home schooled because those children are "demented". The she went on to say that the Obamas should ship some children into the White House and have school there. I got news for you, Ms. Behar, that IS a home school. Around here, we call it co-op. Of course it is taught by like minded parents and not "professional educators", but I will put my kidlets education and social development against any kid in the public school system. She does not know what she is talking about and should simply shut up.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/11/19/demented-joy-behar-disses-homeschool-students/
UPDATE:
I left this in the comments section at MichelleMalkin.com
"I am a home schooling mom and I do not lightly dismiss this comment. It is a prevalent idea among liberal elitist types who thing they know how to raise our kids better than we do. This is a warning shot. They, in lock step with teacher’s unions, are gunning for our kids. They will use the Obama presidency to expand the reach of the NEA and try and shut down our home schools if we let them. Join HSLDA or your state home school association. These are the organizations that are involved in the daily fight for our freedoms. We are one law away from losing the right to school our kids at home."
UPDATE:
missykat16 @ michellemalkin.com said it best.
"As a former homeschooled student, I can say that I, along with my brother and sister, are definitely not demented. My mother (a public school teacher) decided when my sister was born that her children would never go to public school, and we never did. I am in college now, and I am so thankful for the things that being homeschooled taught me. I didn’t just learn things, I learned HOW to learn. That is the best part of homeschooling. If you want to know something, you go to the library or get on the internet and find it out. And the whole socialization deficit is a lie. It is far more beneficial to learn how to interact with people who are older and younger than you than to interact with your exact peers, since those who aren’t the same age make up the majority of people you will have to deal with the rest of your life. But people like Ms. Behar like to ignore the majority of homeschooled students who are smart, well-mannered, and well-adjusted, and focus on the fringe minority who are just plain weird."
Somewhere a mother's heart swells with pride.
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Unions Stranglehold on Automakers Must be Broken
Here in Texas we have a seasonal influx of folks from colder climates that we affectionately call "snow birds". These are retired folks who want to escape the cold and snow of their region and bask in our glorious, mild winters. Two years ago, after selling our house and waiting for our move out of state, I had the pleasure of spending a couple of months living in my camper in a very nice RV park amongst these snow birds. Most of them were from Michigan. Most of them were retired from car companies. Most of them were in their 50's. It seems that if you go to work for a car company in your 20's, and work for 25 years, the unions have made it possible for you to retire with all your wages and benefits in tact. In fact, according to a video recently produced by the car makers themselves, each current employee is supporting 3 retired folks. My friend Paul Ibrahim does an excellent analysis of this video here http://www.paulibrahim.com/. >
We cannot trust our elected officials to hold these guys accountable and force the unions to scale back their expectations. We must allow these companies to fail so that they are able to break the agreements that they have made with the unions and start over from scratch. Everyone wants to blame the management of these auto makers, but we need to take a close look at the greedy union bosses, too.
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A Conservative Call to Arms
I've heard a lot of pouting and whining about "what do we do now?" from conservative corners. Michelle Malkin's lead story today outlines a plan of action to reclaim our party from the moderate-reach-across-the-aisle types. Read it and write your lame duck reps and let them know how you feel.
It works. Really.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
From a comment on a post at Pat Dollard (H/T to Atlas Shrugs): Will you please take the time to read this, and if you think it worthwhile, pass it along to your email list, and ask them to read it? Even if they voted, with all good intentions, for Mr. Obama? Thursday, November 13, 2008
Something Wicked This Way Comes
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I am a student of history. Professionally. I have written 15 books in six languages, and have studied it all my life. I think there is something monumentally large afoot, and I do not believe it is just a banking crisis, or a mortgage crisis, or a credit crisis. Yes these exist, but they are merely single facets on a very large gemstone that is only now coming into a sharper focus.
Something of historic proportions is happening. I can sense it because I know how it feels, smells, what it looks like, and how people react to it. Yes, a perfect storm may be brewing, but there is something happening within our country that has been evolving for about ten - fifteen years. The pace has dramatically quickened in the past two.
We demand and then codify into law the requirement that our banks make massive loans to people we know they can never pay back? Why?
We learn just days ago that the Federal Reserve, which has little or no real oversight by anyone, has “loaned” two trillion dollars (that is $2,000,000,000,000) over the past few months, but will not tell us to whom or why or disclose the terms. That is our money. Yours and mine. And that is three times the 700B we all argued about so strenuously just this past September. Who has this money? Why do they have it? Why are the terms unavailable to us? Who asked for it? Who authorized it? I thought this was a government of “we the people,” who loaned our powers to our elected leaders. Apparently not.
We have spent two or more decades intentionally de-industrializing our economy. Why?
We have intentionally dumbed down our schools, ignored our history, and no longer teach our founding documents, why we are exceptional, and why we are worth preserving. Students by and large cannot write, think critically, read, or articulate. Parents are not revolting, teachers are not picketing, school boards continue to back mediocrity. Why?
We have now established the precedent of protesting every close election (now violently in California over a proposition that is so controversial that it wants marriage to remain between one man and one woman. Did you ever think such a thing possible just a decade ago?). We have corrupted our sacred political process by allowing unelected judges to write laws that radically change our way of life, and then mainstream Marxist groups like ACORN and others to turn our voting system into a banana republic. To what purpose?
Now our mortgage industry is collapsing, housing prices are in free fall, major industries are failing, our banking system is on the verge of collapse, social security is nearly bankrupt, as is medicare and our entire government, our education system is worse than a joke (I teach college and know precisely what I am talking about)–the list is staggering in its length, breadth, and depth. It is potentially 1929 x ten. And we are at war with an enemy we cannot name for fear of offending people of the same religion, who cannot wait to slit the throats of your children if they have the opportunity to do so.
And now we have elected a man no one knows anything about, who has never run so much as a Dairy Queen, let alone a town as big as Wasilla, Alaska. All of his associations and alliances are with real radicals in their chosen fields of employment, and everything we learn about him, drip by drip, is unsettling if not downright scary (Surely you have heard him speak about his idea to create and fund a mandatory civilian defense force stronger than our military for use inside our borders? No? Oh of course. The media would never play that for you over and over and then demand he answer it. Sarah Palin’s pregnant daughter and $150,000 wardrobe is more imporant.)
Mr. Obama’s winning platform can be boiled down to one word: change.
Why?
I have never been so afraid for my country and for my children as I am now.
This man campaigned on bringing people together, something he has never, ever done in his professional life. In my assessment, Obama will divide us along philosophical lines, push us apart, and then try to realign the pieces into a new and different power structure. Change is indeed coming. And when it comes, you will never see the same nation again.
And that is only the beginning.
And I thought I would never be able to experience what the ordinary, moral German felt in the mid-1930s. In those times, the savior was a former smooth-talking rabble-rouser from the streets, about whom the average German knew next to nothing. What they did know was that he was associated with groups that shouted, shoved, and pushed around people with whom they disagreed; he edged his way onto the political stage through great oratory and promises. Economic times were tough, people were losing jobs, and he was a great speaker. And he smiled and waved a lot. And people, even newspapers, were afraid to speak out for fear that his “brown shirts” would bully them into submission. And then, he was duly elected to office, a full-throttled economic crisis at hand [the Great Depression]. Slowly but surely he seized the controls of government power, department by department, person by person, bureaucracy by bureaucracy. The kids joined a Youth Movement in his name, where they were taught what to think. How did he get the people on his side?He did it promising jobs to the jobless, money to the moneyless, and goodies for the military-industrial complex. He did it by indoctrinating the children, advocating gun control, health care for all, better wages, better jobs, and promising to re-instill pride once again in the country, across Europe, and across the world.
He did it with a compliant media–did you know that? And he did this all in the name of justice and . . . change. And the people surely got what they voted for.
(Look it up if you think I am exaggerating.)
Read your history books. Many people objected in 1933 and were shouted down, called names, laughed at, and made fun of. When Winston Churchill pointed out the obvious in the late 1930s while seated in the House of Lords in England (he was not yet Prime Minister), he was booed into his seat and called a crazy troublemaker. He was right, though.
Don’t forget that Germany was the most educated, cultured country in Europe. It was full of music, art, museums, hospitals, laboratories, and universities. And in less than six years–a shorter time span than just two terms of the U. S. presidency–it was rounding up its own citizens, killing others, abrogating its laws, turning children against parents, and neighbors against neighbors. All with the best of intentions, of course. The road to Hell is paved with them.
As a practical thinker, one not overly prone to emotional decisions, I have a choice: I can either believe what the objective pieces of evidence tell me (even if they make me cringe with disgust); I can believe what history is shouting to me from across the chasm of seven decades; or I can hope I am wrong by closing my eyes, having another latte, and ignoring what is transpiring around me.
Some people scoff at me, others laugh, or think I am foolish, naive, or both. Perhaps I am. But I have never been afraid to look people in the eye and tell them exactly what I believe–and why I believe it.
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It doesn't have to be this way for us, for America. We are not doomed to repeat history, because we are aware. Click over to the original post at Pat Dollard, read and listen.
LEARN
BE AWARE
SPEAK OUT
SHARE THE WEALTH OF INFORMATION
All the information is out there! Just because the nightly news is not informing you does not mean that you cannot be informed. If you don't know where to look, leave me a message in the comments or email me and I will gladly share my reader list with you. If we do not stop this tide now, it will quickly drown us. Obama did not just "burst onto the scene" or any such nonsense. This was and is a planned attack, and we are complacently allowing it under a veil of "change". Six years is all it took for Germany to be taken over from within. How long do you think it will take America with a leader like Barack Obama?
In six years, my oldest child will be 17. What do you think Mr. Obama will have planned for him?
Six years ...
TxSkirt here: When I read this, my blood ran cold. I took a class about Nazi Germany in college, and I surely see the similarities. Read this and pass it on. Let's not bury our heads in the sand.
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Motherhood
I spent this last weekend helping Old Dear Friend prepare for her son's bar mitzvah. I made taco dip and sliced cheese while ODF worked feverishly on a video montage of her son's life thus far. It brought back so many memories or trips and events and like any good mother, I shed a tear or twelve as I looked into his, and in many pictures, my own childrens smiling faces.
One day when the kidlets were 2 and 4 and behaving very badly in a very public place, I glanced up to see a 50ish lady smiling at me with tears in her eyes. "Cherish these days" she said "they'll be gone before you know it." At that point I had been with my children every day of their lives on this planet and I felt it. I said exasperated "Some days I could use a fast forward button." Now I know that was naive of me. My kidlets are now 8 and 10. I am almost half way to adulthood. And as I told ODF this weekend, I wish I could make everyday of their childhood last a week.
After the services at the synagogue on Saturday, there was a dance. We dropped the children off at the country club and the adults in our party went to dinner. Finishing early, we decided to go back and observe the party. Standing undetected outside the party room, peering through the window, I caught a glimpse of my 10 year old sons first dance. Dancing at this age usually involves a lot of jumping, but this was a slow number. Hot from the jumping he went to get a drink when he saw a girl sitting by herself in a chair just watching the others slow dance. As I watched, he picked up two cups and carried them over to the girl. After a minute, they got up to dance and she was smiling. She was his 8 year old sister.
I do so much that is wrong as a mother. I yell when I should hug. I seem preoccupied with clean rooms and teeth. But in that moment of supreme kindness demonstrated by my son, I thought "I had something to do with that". God has been gracious to me and allowed me the gift of raising and mentoring this amazing kid. Of course, I found out later (from his sister) that several girls asked him to dance and he turned them down. He is, afterall, 10 years old. But he made his sister's night, and swelled his mother's heart, by dancing with the sad little girl sitting in the chair.
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My Brother's Blog
I can't begin to tell you all how proud I am of this blog post. It actually is just an e-mail that my brother, James, sent out to family and friends. He is an extraordinary dude. He barely made it out of high school because of undiagnosed dyslexia. He joined the navy to learn a trade and along the way learned that he was a pretty smart guy, not the idiot that our public school system told him he was. He left the navy after Clinton took over because "it wasn't the same". Now he is a successful guy who is well respected in his field, married to a fabulous woman and travels all over the country for his work. This was his first political campaign to work on, and he chose to get involved in the liberal bastion of New Mexico. He makes some interesting points. Enjoy.
I went over the text of our new president acceptance speech from last night these are all quotes from his speech and things we need to remember when this man runs for re-election in 4 years. All of his words are in red (a little King James pun) and taken from the fox news speech text at the foxnews.com website.
“I know you didn’t do this just to win an election and I know you didn’t do it for me. You did it because you understand the enormity of the task that lies ahead.”
TRANSLATION: You bought all of the promises I was selling on the campaign trail. You should get ready to be disappointed.
“For even as we celebrate tonight, we know the challenges that tomorrow will bring are the greatest of our lifetime - two wars, a planet in peril, the worst financial crisis in a century.”
TRANSLATION: Yes you feel good now but when the intoxication of victory wears off you are going to be left with only the hangover of reality. Again you should get ready to be disappointed.
“Even as we stand here tonight, we know there are brave Americans waking up in the deserts of Iraq and the mountains of Afghanistan to risk their lives for us”.
TRANSLATION: I thought I would mention these folks before I bring them home in defeat. The new administration is counting on using our brave military men and women for the new civilian security force here at home. A 200,000 strong national police force made up of battle tested combat veterans. HMMMM!
“There are mothers and fathers who will lie awake after their children fall asleep and wonder how they’ll make the mortgage, or pay their doctors bills, or save enough for college”.
PERSONAL NOTE: To all you Moms & Dads does this sound familiar to you? Nothing in life is fair to get what you want out of life you have to work hard and sacrifice.
“There is new energy to harness and new jobs to be created; new schools to build and threats to meet and alliances to repair”
TRANSLATION: The only reason we would need to pursue new energy and creation of new jobs is because he is going to kill off the energy and jobs we have now. New schools are needed to continue the re-education of young Americans to the ideas of socialism. Threats to meet could that be another reason for a 200,000 member national security force? What alliances to repair with who all the countries that do not support the war on terrorist? Perhaps he means the countries who would love nothing more than to see the United States disappear from the face of the earth.
“So let us summon a new spirit of patriotism; of service and responsibility where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look after not only ourselves, but each other”.
TRANSLATION: Do more for less so I can give the fruit of your labor to someone who does nothing for it. This is not patriotism it is socialism look it up in the dictionary.
“The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even one term, but America - I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you - we as a people will get there”.
TRANSLATION: I am announcing tonight my campaign for reelection in 2012. Again you should get ready to be disappointed.
“Let us remember that if this financial crisis taught us anything, it’s that we cannot have a thriving Wall Street while Main Street suffers - in this country, we rise or fall as one nation; as one people”
TRANSLATION: I will take what they have and give it to you and will continue to do so until they are poor like you. Now I don’t about ya’ll but I don’t want someone else to pay my way in life I want to do it myself. I for one have never been real good at doing what I was told to do by others. (Just ask my Mom & Dad) so this just does not work for me.
“And to those Americans whose support I have yet to earn - I may not have won your vote, but I hear your voices, I need your help, and I will be your President too”.
TRANSLATION: Be a good little drone and do as you’re told or you will pay the price for your insolence!
Well we just covered that so I will move on. Folks don’t be discouraged and never give up on this country we have survived worse than this man. The key is two things; first 2010 mid-term elections take away his power base in the House and Senate. Second get involved in politics on the state, county, city level, whatever. I learned a valuable lesson this election cycle working with the Republican committee office in Roswell, NM. You cannot effect change if you’re not involved in the process.
Respectfully submitted,
James Mullins
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Pray For our Country
I was going to write a blog about how we needed to lift our country up in prayer, but my friend see-dubya over a MichelleMalkin.com did it better than I ever could. We are lucky to be Americans. Vote and then spend some time on your knees praying for our country. No matter what happens, this is still America, ya'll.
I’ve felt a renewed purpose among the defenders of ordered liberty and limited government these last few days. I think the tide is turning, and if there were a few more days like we’ve had here lately I would be very confident that things would work out as I’d hoped. I sure do wish the coal-plant audio had hit early last week. I wish the Palin exoneration had come sooner. I wish MKH’s video, the credit card story, Ayers’ relationship to Cuban Intelligence, the text of Ayers’ book, theKhalidi tape…well, we’ve tried. For good or ill, that part’s over. We’ve made our case. We’ve walked our routes and knocked on doors. We’ve given money. We’ve said our piece. To us is left only the simple duty of voting our conscience and remaining vigilant. It is out of our hands now, but I do believe it is in someone else’s. And so there is still one more thing left to do. Pray for our country. By God’s grace, we live in a Republic where we may govern ourselves. Pray God would guide us to do so wisely. Here is the prayer for our country from the magnificent old 1928 Book of Common Prayer. While my private intercessions are a bit more…specific than this, these sentiments still ring true, across party lines, across the years, and across the issues: ALMIGHTY God, who hast given us this good land for our heritage; We humbly beseech thee that we may always prove ourselves a people mindful of thy favour and glad to do thy will. Bless our land with honourable industry, sound learning, and pure manners. Save us from violence, discord, and confusion; from pride and arrogancy, and from every evil way. Defend our liberties, and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindreds and tongues. Endue with the spirit of wisdom those to whom in thy Name we entrust the authority of government, that there may be justice and peace at home, and that, through obedience to thy law, we may show forth thy praise among the nations of the earth. In the time of prosperity, fill our hearts with thankfulness, and in the day of trouble, suffer not our trust in thee to fail; all which we ask through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Senator Obama vowed a few days ago that, if elected, he will “fundamentally transform” the United States of America. (Silly me, I thought he was supposed topreserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, not remodel it.) And so he may get to change some laws. He’ll definitely try to take our money and our guns. His goons may break some heads and wreck some careers. But that fundamental change he’s been waiting for is going to be harder than he realizes. He cannot break our spirits. He cannot fundamentally transform us from Americans into cosmopolitan “citizens of the world”. He can’t deface our pride, and his depredations will only make us cling even more joyfully to our faith. No matter who wins this election, on November 5th, and on January 20th, and every day thereafter we will still be free and emancipated citizens of the greatest nation on God’s earth. Obama and his judges cannot just decree us otherwise. Not unless we let him. Not unless we give up and act like we’re whipped. Not unless we bow down. I won’t bow down. Not to the Obamessiah. And I won’t change–or if I do, it certainly won’t be a change he directs, and it won’t be into his idea of what I ought to be. But maybe that won’t even happen. I remember going to bed in November 2000 thinking the same sort of thing about the incipient presidency of Al Gore. And look how that worked out… As I said, it is out of our hands. Remain vigilant. Do not bow down. Do not give up. Pray. ________________Pray
By see-dubya • November 4, 2008 12:49 AM
{Post by See-Dubya, written on my own time on my own computer.}
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