Democrats Split on Surrender Strategy

The Washington Times reports that Republicans are pleased that the Democrats are split on the war. (How best to surrender while appearing strong on defense?)

The issue isn’t if they’re split but why they’re split. This business about the Democrat politicians being split as to how we best surrender is hardly about high moral agonizing that brings honest differences of opinion up front and center in Donkeyland.

It’s all about getting re-elected and regaining power. It is inconceivable that it can ever be about protecting America – with liberal politicians and RINOs it is always about saving their butts!

Make no mistake about it. The liberal position, deep in their heart of hearts, is, and has always been, against the war – even while they were voting for it!

Whether it is a Vietnam Avoidance Syndrome (VAS) (as in the vas left wing defense strategy – how do we get out – before we risk a victory?) or just is more of the reflexive, “stop Bush from succeeding”, we can be sure that they are not and never have really been, “for the war.”

Like welfare reform, and approving a conservative Supreme Court nominee, or cutting taxes, or strengthening our Homeland defense, they need to be dragged into it! They did so reluctantly because they really opposed it, but they know where mainstream America is and it’s not for surrender to terrorism or sitting until we get attacked fatally.

Thus the long roller coaster joyride they’ve recently had trashing Bush’s war on terrorism has finally gotten ahead of themselves and they found themselves out on a limb that could easily get cut off in 2006 and 2008. They, and far too many of our worthless wimp Republicans, have staked out an early re-election strategy far from Bush’s war and have just found themselves in a leaky – if not foundering , boat.

It is fun to watch them squirm - I say, Let the water flow!

Just Broder Being Broder

Every time I read the MSM I instinctively hear in the recesses of my mind Ron Reagan’s gentle but firm voice saying, “Now there you go again.”

David Broder is a pretend neutral. He has covered the right from the lefts point of view with a stealth pen, but never fails to posit the left in false flattering images and paint the right as wrong. A fisking is in order, to set the record straight.

In his latest missive, "A Pox on Both Parties," Broder blames the health care failure in Clinton's first term as a failure in the cam girls committee – never mentioning that it was Hillary in charge, and charging like a bull attempting to disenfranchise people from their private choice of health care. She was covertly trying to take away from the people and relegate to the great nanny in D.C. fundamental “control over your own bodies.” (I just love to use sacred liberal phrases against them.)

This grab for shifting one seventh of the economy from your house, to the White House, (fatally?) exposed Hillary for what she really is: a power-grabbing liberal socialist. There was no need for cautious pretense. The White House was theirs, to be treated as theirs. (Travelgate-FBI files, anyone? ) The Clintons were making a play for the whole enchilada. Broder writes:

Broder furthermore would have us believe (unbelievably!) that the failure of Bill's (Hillary’s) attempted healthcare shenanigans was the reason Gore and Kerry didn’t get in:

Broder says that because Bill (Hillary) failed to deliver on taking over your private healthcare, the voters won’t trust a Democrat to run the show again. He believes that if socialism’s version of healthcare had been put in place by Hillary, then Gore and/or Kerry would have been elected.

Well hello Dave, nice try, but it was the attempt - not the failure - on healthcare reform that exposed their true liberal colors and scared the voters away!

“Now there you go again, Dave!”

Adult Stem Cell Progress in Spinal Cord Repair

There's great news on the stem cell research front — the adult stem cell research front, I should say. Gribbit of Gribbit's World posted at The Wide Awakes about some exciting new research on the use of stem cells derived from nasal tissue to repair damaged spinal cords. To date, much research had been done in rats, but I believe that this is the first human trial reported. In this report from The Guardian, Geoffrey Raisman and colleagues in the spinal repair unit of University College London will try to repair damaged spinal cords from accident victims using a technique first pioneered in animal research. In fact, I found an online issue of the scientific journal The Anatomical Record that appears to deal with the very technology that the British researchers plan to use. It's pretty exciting stuff. From The Guardian:

All medical research requires first steps, and this is a crucial one to test the hypothesis that this technology will be successful. Power to them.

My blogbuddy from www.chaturbaterooms.com and I have written about embryonic vs. adult stem cell research, and in particular, the misinformation about promise and the overhyping and politicizing of the research done in the ethically problematic embryonic stem cell research area. There are plenty of ethical and practical issues involving embryonic stem cells that even ardent supporters of the principle are nonetheless troubled by the implications of such research, especially under existing and proposed legislation.

As more and more hopeful findings regarding adult stem cell and cord blood stem cell research are promoted, maybe we will reach a state in the research debate at which scientists finally admit that their hopes and dreams for curing serious diseases might not, after all, depend on the killing of human embryos.

Open post linked at Jo's Cafe, The Conservative Cat, Don Surber After Hours, Stuck on Stupid, basil's blog

Bacon Break — “Welcome Home Soldier” Open Post

Welcome Home Soldier

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NOTE to TTLB Egosystem Boosters: While 'tis sad indeed that NZ Bear saw fit to nix counting inline trackbacks, and therefore ego-punish those seeking to promote their best material through sharing their wares in trackback parties, as a reader and a writer I still feel that OTB kiosks are particularly useful — in fact, very nearly the best thing happening in the b'sphere. I hope we direct more traffic to your site, and who cares if we all dropped 50 or 150 places in the rankings. Other ideas are brewing in my wee little head too — since, of course, all rules were made to be circumvented. ;-)

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The War On Christmas

First of all, Stop The ACLU got a full page, color ad in the Washington Times. If you haven't seen it yet, you can do so HERE.

Every year we have come to expect the ACLU to wage war on Christmas. Just recently, the ADF won a victory for a school threatened by the ACLU over a nativity webcam sex scene. The ACLU have created an environment that has spread like a virus across the nation. The far left have taken the politically correct ball and ran with it. They have redefined in their own minds, and in the minds of many Americans that "all inclusive" means "excluding" Christianity.

The environment the ACLU have created through threatening tactics across the years have made many schools proactive. In order to avoid lawsuits, some schools straight out banned the C word. This year, however, legal groups are being preemptive. The Alliance Defense Fund has even devoted a website, and offered free legal advice to any who feel they are being censored this year.

A backlash is happening this year as the American people are making their voices known. Wal-Mart felt the backlash, and backed off the politically correct exclusion of the word Christmas after being threatened with a boycott. Boston set off a furor this week when it officially renamed a giant tree erected in a city park a "holiday tree" instead of a "Christmas tree."

The Capitol officially returned to calling it a Christmas tree instead of a holiday tree. Lowes also dumped the "holiday" reference after public outcry.

One Michagan family was told they could not display a nativity scene on their own lawn. After being threatened with fines if they did not remove it, they contacted the Thomas More Law Center, and were victorious in standing up for their rights.

Bill O'Reilly is leading the charge on his show, featuring the secularization of Christmas. John Gibson, also of FOX news has even written a book about it.

They are not alone, bloggers are reacting too. California Conservative has teamed up with us, and created a petition to support Christmas. Stop The ACLU is providing Christmas decorations for your blog. Kevin McCullough is asking his readers to send the ACLU Christmas cards.

Across the nation, people are standing up to the ACLU. In Georgia, legislators are proposing a bill that would allow counties to freely display historical documents "without threat from the ACLU. The Louisiana Legislature has approved a resolution urging Congress to pass the Constitution Restoration Act, a bill that would prohibit federal courts from ruling in cases involving government officials who acknowledge God "as the sovereign source of law, liberty or government." Under the bill, any judge who violates the proposed rule by making "extrajurisdictional" decisions will have committed an offense that is grounds for impeachment.

Representative Hostettler has introduced legislation to the House that would limit attorney fees in Establishment Clause cases to injunctive relief only.

We have a petition set up asking Congress to stop taxpayer funding for the ACLU. Stand up, and fight the ACLU.

Run, It’s Climate Change!

I am reminded of a scene years ago. As a Catholic youngster eager to see the world, I found myself in uniform standing in front of the Vatican in Rome, thanks to the courtesy of the US Navy. Gosh, I must have thought, here I am actually standing in front of - the Pope’s home, the Pieta by Michelangelo, the Sistine Chapel… all here, right in front of me.

I was abruptly approached by a man in a dark trench coat (it seemed all Romans wore dark in those days). He opened one side of his coat to display a treasure of all things Catholic: small bottles of Holy Water and several Rosaries along with some small Holy Pictures. After I assured him that I already had enough of those things he quickly opened the other side of his trench coat and displayed his collection of what could only be called pornography. He asked, “You buy dirty pictures Joe?” In the event that I wouldn’t fall for that prurient selection, he had one more vice to fall back on - surely a sailor about town would buy one of the small bottles of firewater nestled neatly in little pockets sewn into his lower lining. Capitalism, according to Judas, was thriving at the Vatican.

A special moment like this becomes carved into one’s memory, for I see it again vividly. Not with my memory, but with mere observation of the manner in which the modern liberal deceivers are willing to flip open their coats and flash any lure that works, in order to get you to buy something from them. If the first lie doesn’t work, than surely the next will be more plausible. Should that fail, there is always the coat lining.

And so once again we watch as the word-smiths of the nether world continue with their diabolical plan to upend truth, and make all things relative - relative to their successful control over the rest of us, that is.

Let’s look at what is in their trench coats, their trail of eco- deception, as it were:

In the seventies it was imminent Nuclear Winter – that failed!

In the nineties it became Global Warming, just as imminent, just as much a failure!

Now they are forced to show us the bottom lining of their trench coat –the sure thing – we must buy this latest clever deception - ordinary “Climate Change.”

Ok world, get ready, start shaking, be prepared to start recoiling like Count Dracula to a crucifix at the mere mention of two words, for this seemingly innocuous phrase will morph from a neutral drab comment about scientific and history reality, into a fearful evil about to devour the planet.

If only we could get Steve McQueen to play the lead as he did in The Blob, with masses of folks frantic, panicked, running and screaming it’s coming… run, it’s coming… it’s …why it’s… (eriee music please) ta…da Climate Change!

You get the gist, from this headline in The Independent (UK): Impact of climate change 'can be likened to WMD'. We can be sure that every nuance of normal weather (not climate) will be propagandized into a dreaded, run-for your lives crisis. It is conceivable that ordinary normal everyday weather change, which has been happening regularly since the beginning of time, will now become a weapon in the lexicon of the left, to be known as “Climate Change.”

So get yourself a scorecard and start taking notes on the weather. When it goes through its normal patterns of rain, dry, sun, warm, hot, and cold, you will be told over and over that it is because of "Climate Change." This time their disingenuous lies are believable, because every day there is weather and everyday there will be eco-propaganda aimed at thusly taking away our sovereignty.

Why climate? Why all this global warming and nuclear winter deviousness? Because the one world left needs to find something that will transcend the authority of our nation’s borders. Since climate affects the whole world, they reason, that is how they’ll break the USA’s reluctance to give up their sovereignty.

Why did Bill Clinton bother to bring hundred of meteorologists to the White House, if not to lecture them about all weather change being global warming?

Why did Mike, still a solid believer in communism, become the head of Green Cross of the World?

It’s all about leftist weaponry folks - not science. Climate science, I’m afraid, has become the willing step of the political left!

Coming soon to a leftist media center near you: “There will be a 10 in 10 chance of deception" — it’s already happening - as in this new article from The New Scientist: Failing Ocean Current Raises Fears of Mini Ice Age. (Rush Limbaugh discussed this at length today, BTW)

Appanrently competition is bad for self esteem

or so believes the principal of Franklin Elementary School in Santa Monica, California. She has banned "tag" from recess, saying that it creates self-esteem issues for whoever happens to be "it." This follows, as the article points out, a similar fight over dodgeball in other states. This is disgusting. In my opinion, adults are simply abdicating responsibility, and simply saying that they are too lazy, or don't have time, to supervise the activities of them under their care. Can dodgeball or tag be used as an opportunity to bully? Of course. So can absolutely anything else.

The point is, it's the teachers' responsibility to supervise, and intervene if a harmless, healthy game turns into something ugly.

It's admittedly a fine line to walk, but it's also true that some must be allowed to learn to defend themselves, or their self-esteem may never develop properly. I submit myself as a classic example. Pay heed, , and learn about a formative incident in one of your friendly WWR bloggers' life:

When I was in 4th grade, I was a largish, gentle, bookish lad. I was quiet, kept to myself, and never dressed or acted like the popular . One day, a distubed little bully named Larry Bender decided he would make a name for himself by tormenting the big, quiet kid. Me. Turned out later, of course, that Larry had some fairly serious family problems, but I didn't know this at the time. He pushed me around for days, making my life hell. I tried to ignore him and hoped he would go away. Of course, he didn't. The frustration mounted, until one day at the lunch table, he made a comparatively innocuous, but caustic, comment in my direction, causing the entire lunch table to laugh at me. That was the proverbial final straw. I reached down the table, grabbed him by the jacket, hauled him bodily over the top of the table, and punched him once, hard, in the eye. The teachers broke it up and hauled us both to the principal's office, one aptly named Mrs. s. She gave Larry a brief suspension, and told us both that she had been aware of the problem for several days, but that I simply had to learn to defend myself. If I didn't learn that, I might have been prey to bullies from then on. It was an extraordinarily valuable lesson, and I thank Mrs. s to this day for making me learn it.

Pardon me for the tangent, but I feel that it is applicable. Quite a lot of a person's character is hammered out in the rough-and-tumble of hood competition, and those lessons, once learned, will serve that person well in life. Games are, indeed, a microcosm of real life.

Blogging will resume monday

as the weekend is keeping me occupied. Watched Alabama trounce LSU last night - too bad they're on probation and can't go to any championship / bowl games. Ah well. Spent today with a visit to Home Depot for a water heater blanket - lunch out with the wife - a stop into King Soopers for some groceries - and spent the better part of the afternoon deep cleaning our carpets with my new, super-duper Hoover SteamVac. Yes, I'm that sad that I find joy in cleaning our carpet. Anyway, now I have to wait for them to dry before finishing up, then watch Alias, and call it a night.

See you guys / gals tomorrow.