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You Shall Not Pass!

They may pass the bill for now. This un-American, liberty-killing, government-expanding, anti-life bill. But it will not survive. They WILL pay. And pay dearly. This isn’t over. It’s only begun. I will not leave the country, I will stay and fight. And win.

Way too long

It’s been far too long since I’ve posted. As I am sitting in a hotel room in Louisville, Kentucky, and have a profound desire to avoid working on the checkbook, this is the perfect time to amend that. Primary election day today back home in Texas: 

* We should know within an hour or two that Rick Perry has crushed Kay Bailey Hutchison in the Republican governor’s primary and avoided a run-off. Gov. Perry can, in small part, thank the inexplicable, inexcusable faux pas by Debra Medina, the sort-of Tea Party candidate. Three weeks ago, when asked by Glen Beck whether she agreed with the 9/11 Truthers, “I don't have all of the evidence there” ... “so I have not taken a position on that.” An act of war and the most significant geopolitical event since the fall of the Berlin wall and she can’t instinctively denounce those that deny the very nature of what happened? Too bad, I sympathize with most (okay, all) of her positions. But her lack of resolve and wit on that single question makes her judgement suspect. Perry has been a good governor, hardly perfect, but he’s a known quantity and not a loose cannon.

* KBH? I don’t share the animosity many conservatives do towards her. She is what she is. I had no expectations for her and she has lived up to them. The only reasonable explanation as to her motivation is desire for relocation. Not good enough.

* Ballot question on requiring sonograms as a prerequisite for abortion. It is nigh on impossible to claim to be pro-choice if you oppose this proposal. Unfortunately it is a non-binding initiative urging the legislature to act. It will save many lives, and more importantly, many souls if they do so.

My new hero: Honduran leader Roberto Micheletti

Real speaking truth to power.
from a Reuters report:
‘Micheletti, however, was defiant of the latest move by Washington, which said earlier this month it was cutting more than $30 million in aid to the poor Central American country.
"We will not back down. Dignity does not have a price in our country," Micheletti told Honduran radio.
Asked if he his visa had been canceled, Micheletti said: "Yes."
"We received letters from the U.S. Consulate in Honduras which say that because of the what happened on June 28, our visas have been suspended," Micheletti said.’
Unfortunately, our own el Presidente knows or cares nothing about dignity. 2010/2012 cannot get here fast enough.

Beware of False Compromises

From Joe Jr. on the health care discourse:
“As a lifetime political junkie I understand and appreciate the need to compromise when crafting legislation, especially when your side is in the minority. However, I also understand that if we are not alert, those compromises may turnout to be fatal for all that we believe.

“The current Health Care Bill is a case in point. Bills like HR3200 do not contain the actual rules that we will be subject to, those are written by the REGULATORS. What I believe the President and the Liberal Wing of the Democrat Party want, more than anything else, is for this bill to be a “Platform” from which they can launch future changes. Therefore, the key for those who oppose a government takeover of Health Care is to closely monitor every provision in the bill. Simply put, whatever is alluded to in any way and not strictly prohibited can be fair game for REGULATORS; and given the current divide in the Federal Courts it will be unlikely that any of these regulations would be overturned.”

Over/under estimating

After el Presidente’s hectoring lecture before the joint session last Wednesday it is clear that he is doubling down and is fully prepared to send some of the blue lemming-dogs over the cliff next fall. To think otherwise is to underestimate his arrogance and audacity. To assume that puppet-master Rahm Emmanuel’s strategy will necessarily succeed is the over side of the equation. Emmanuel is clearly the brains of the operation, but fortunately for America, while he believes himself to be a bright incandescent bulb, he is more like one of the green energy-saving fluorescent bulbs that the camarilla of Czars is trying to foist upon us all: not quite so bright, twisted, and full of toxicity.

The summer has not gone as Mr. Twisty bulb had intended. Chicago-style thug politics are effective, but not as effective in the nation-at-large as in Chicago. At least not yet. He will be playing hardball with the dogs in the house (the mostly unspent stimulus treasure test will be useful). But we can count on their cowardice. The question is who will strike more fear into their hearts? Emmanuel’s kneecap bashers or their own constituents? A few months ago Emmanuel was certain of the former. Doubt is creeping in. el Presidente’s credibility with the public is vanishing faster than Claude Rains’ epidermis. Acorn, Van Jones, tea parties, Pelosi pulling back on Afghanistan, Iran’s rebuff, etc. Things are spiraling out of control for the puppet-master. They can and will do great damage, and they will win some battles, but Americans have surprised many a foe before.

"Profound moral corruption"

Melanie Phillips (via Andrew McCarthy) employs the phrase “profound moral corruption” to describe the fever infecting the British body politic leading so many to support Hamas vs. Israel in the current difficulties in Gaza.

She makes what seems in retrospect an obvious point which I think is lost on most, “The issue of Israel sits at the very apex of the fight to defend civilisation. Those who wish to destroy western civilisation need to destroy the Jews, whose moral precepts formed its foundation stones. The deranged hatred of the Jews lies at the core of the Islamists’ hatred of America, the ‘infidel’ west and modernity, and is the reason why they wish to destroy Israel. Unless people in the west understand that Israel’s fight is their own fight, they will be on the wrong side of the war to defend not just the west but civilisation in general.”

Is there any doubt that she is correct? Further is there any doubt that “profound moral corruption” is behind all of the significant ills plaguing the West in the 21st century? From the economic (CRA, Chris Dodd, Madoff, sub-prime mortgage backed securities), to the cultural (fatherless families, abortion, redefining marriage, pornography), to sports, to international affairs that she is writing about, it is a corruption of values, Western values, Judeo-Christian values. Certainly the history of man is a study in moral struggles, but it is one thing for one man to fail to live up to the mores of a society, it is another for the society as a whole to distort those standards into a self-destructive heap of relativistic rubble.

Though it appears to be, it’s not too late.

20 U.S. Marines vs. 250 Talibani - it's just not fair - for the bad guys.

Just how stupid is Hollywood?  Just another of hundreds of great, true stories about our boys.  And not one good movie about any of it.  They're our boys now, and our political leaders down the road.  I especially like the bit about our sniper - he took out 20 - without a single miss.  You just can't make this stuff up.

Marine Makes Insurgents Pay the Price November 18, 2008 Marine Corps News
by Cpl. James M. Mercure

Thank you, President Bush

Hear, Hear!

Great line: 
"Right now, America appears to be leaning toward electing a man for whom popularity is a paramount concern. That means he must trust the American media and the American electorate to guide him to difficult decisions, not the other way around.“

Bad guys, babies, and taxes

My eight-year-old son asks an excellent question about Barack Obama:
“He doesn’t want to kill the bad guys, he doesn’t care about the babies, and he wants to raise taxes. Why does anyone want to vote for this guy?”
Why indeed?

Obama's Mandate for Nationalized Same-Sex Marriage

Hey, America! O’bama and Slow Joe Biden say they are against so-called same-sex marriage. But as recently as June they said something completely different in a letter to the Alice B. Toklas LGBT Democratic Club reprinted in the San Francisco Chronicle.