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by | November 13, 2012 · 1:17 pm

Blue vs. Red

(I don’t know who wrote this one, or I would give him/her credit. I found it on a friend’s Facebook page.)

Dear Red States:

Even though we won by re-electing Obama, we remain ticked off at your Neanderthal attitudes and politics, and we’ve decided we’re leaving. We are sick of you racist, sexist, bigoted, homophobic, genocidal maniacs with no redeeming qualities.

We in New York intend to form our own country, and we’re taking the other Blue States with us. In case you aren’t aware, that includes California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois and the rest of the Northeast.

We believe this split will be beneficial to the nation, and especially to the people of the new country of The Enlightened States of America (E.S.A).

To sum up briefly:

You get Texas, Oklahoma and all the slave states.

We get stem cell research and the best beaches.

We also get Andrew Cuomo and Elizabeth Warren.

You get Bobby Jindal and Todd Akin.

We get the Statue of Liberty.

You get OpryLand. 

We get Intel and Microsoft.

You get WorldCom.

We get Harvard Princeton, Penn, Haverford, Colgate, U of R.

You get Ole’ Miss.

We get 85 percent of America’s venture capital and entrepreneurs.

You get Alabama.

We get two-thirds of the tax revenue.

You get to make the red states pay their fair share.

Since our aggregate divorce rate is 22 percent lower than the Christian Coalition’s, we get a bunch of happy families.

You get more single moms.

With the Blue States in hand, we will have firm control of 80% of the country’s fresh water, more than 90% of the pineapple and lettuce, 92% of the nation’s fresh fruit, 95% of America’s quality wines (you can serve French wines at state dinners), 90% of all cheese, 90% of the high tech industry, most of the low sulfur coal, all living Redwoods, Sequoias and Condors, all the Ivy and Seven Sister schools, plus Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech and MIT.

With the Red States, you will have to cope with 88% of all obese Americans and their projected health care costs, 92% of all US mosquitoes, nearly 100% of the tornadoes, 90% of the hurricanes, virtually 100% of all televangelists, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter and others of their ilk.

We get Yosemite, thank you.

Thirty-eight percent of those in the Red states believe Jonah was actually swallowed by a whale, 62% believe life is sacred unless we’re discussing the death penalty or gun laws, 44% say that evolution is only a theory, 53% believe that Saddam was involved in 9/11, and 61% of you crazy bastards believe you are people with higher morals then we lefties.

We’re taking the good weed too. You can have that crap they grow in Mexico.

Sincerely,

Citizens of the Enlightened (Blue) States of America

Dear Blue States:

Imagine our relief that you’ve decided to secede and form some sort of a bathing-optional commune headquartered in California. The money we’ll save in aspirin, now that we won’t have headaches from listening to your interminable whining, will be worth it to us alone.

We’ll finally be rid of you lazy, moping, latte-sucking Streisand fans now that you’re actually going to follow through on your promise of four years ago to finally get off your butts and leave, as so many of you claimed you would every election cycle and then chickened out of actually doing. (Yeah, we’re looking at you, Alec Baldwin.)

But not so fast. You don’t get to take all the Blue States with you, just the Blue PARTS.

You see, your Blue States aren’t actually “blue.” Mostly, they are states full of Red counties with pockets of Blue urban blight occupied by people who vote Democratic in such numbers that they resemble Third World countries.


Even California is pretty much a Red State; only the coast cities are blue, complete with their mass vote fraudsters. You want ’em? We won’t fight you for them, that’s for sure, but you’re going to have to found your New California without 35 of your most beautiful counties and San Diego, your second-largest city. Sorry about that.

And newsflash…Yosemite territory is American as hell, and you’re NOT!

Nationally, Red counties make up 2.5 million square miles of the country. Obama won less than 600,000 square miles, meaning that in most states he was popular downtown and pretty much nowhere else.

In other words, your guy won the places that people like him would get shot if he walked through them at night. Romney won every other place.

Bottom line:

You don’t get the Blue States as they have lots of towns and counties that would rather blow their dams and flood themselves out of existence rather than go with your sorry commiepuke ass. No, you get the Blue cities.

But we really feel we owe you full disclosure on this exchange.

This might come as an unpleasant surprise, but you don’t actually get the lower divorce and single-motherhood rates and all that other good stuff you THINK you’re going to snag. Those are the conditions that exist in the Red counties, pardner, not in the Blue cities, and you can’t have them.

Instead you get the urban single moms, not the soccer moms; the drug addicts, not the doctors; the waiters, not the chefs.

You get the fine service you’ve come to expect from the brutal and corrupt inner-city political machines. 

You get the abysmal literacy rates and schools that are more dangerous than most prisons, thanks to YOUR policies.

All in all, you get to take with you a public sector in most cities so unmanageable they make Mogadishu seem like a tidily run little municipality by comparison.

You get the labor union shakedown artists, teachers who can’t pass tests in their own subject, and city government leaders for whom graft, racial spoils systems, and outright theft are a way of life.

They’re all very enthusiastic Blue voters, as you know, and we’re sure they’ll stampede their way to New California to start draining your wallets, wrecking your schools, and in general making a mess of your lives. 

And don’t come complaining back to us when socialist central planning does for New California what it did for garden spots like East Berlin and Pyongyang.

We’re putting a strict visa system into place once you all go, and it is quite simple: cross the border, you get shot, end of story.

We, on the other hand, get those Red city suburbs and rural districts. You know, the ones with the good schools, the high property values, the quiet streets and the sheriffs and cops who don’t need to walk around armored up like they’re about to storm the Sunni Triangle.

And don’t even think about keeping the National Parks, the wide open spaces, all those water resources, and all the rest of America’s natural splendor, since those are all pretty much located in Red counties. Hell, we even get most of Oregon and Washington. 

You get the urban liberals in Portland and Seattle, otherwise known as San Fransisco North, and their friends in important social organizations (like, say, drug-running street gangs), and we get the rest of the Northwest. OK by us; we’d be fools not to take you up on it.

So here’s how it works. All of you Blue whiners, please feel free to look at this map of the electoral results district in each state, and take the people with you who’ve made it clear they’d like to go.

That means you get places like downtown Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, and we get to keep the rest of beautiful Pennsylvania, thank you.

You get to administer bloated public services to the violent, drug-addled, gun-slinging populations of delightful inner-city sinkholes of poverty and corruption such as Miami, St. Louis, and the ever-popular District of Columbia, which has been governed by liberals and the occasional crackhead, where even the mayor once asked the President to have the city patrolled by National Guardsmen.

Lucky you, it’s all yours.

Enjoy it in good health… while your health lasts, that is, and don’t forget to wear your Kevlar. Blue “voters” up there in Northeast DC tend to be jumpy on the ol’ trigger finger, especially the ones that vote early and often.

In fact, all around our great nation, you get to keep all the Blue voters who’ve made urban war zones like downtown Detroit the proud showplaces they are today.

We get the rest of Blue states like Michigan and Wisconsin and Illinois and… well… just about every state in the Union, with the exception of Hawaii and New England. And even there, we’ll hang on to a couple of chunks of New Hampshire and Connecticut.

You are especially more than welcome to Rhode Island, which will immediately set up some sort of money-laundering scheme and bilk the rest of you once it has been incorporated into whatever sort of muddle-headed utopia you’re trying to create.

The former mayor of Providence should be out of Federal prison in time to join your Politburo and help you get things set up, for a small consulting fee, of course.

We’ll miss the Hawaiian beaches, but since long stretches of coastline from New Jersey down to Florida and yes, even in Southern California (including San Diego) are actually in Red counties, we’ll be fine.

Sure, we get the rednecks and holy rollers. But since you’re apparently willing to trade them for the gangs and psychopaths terrorizing your Blue cities, what can we say? You want the Crips and the Bloods in their low riders raking your streets with automatic gunfire, and you’re offering us Bubba heading off to church in his pickup? Hey, a deal’s a deal. Done.

True, you also get Manhattan, but damn the luck, you have to take the rest of the city, including the Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn too, as well as Long Island — what’s left of it thanks to Hurricane Sandy, which is enough to almost make us feel sorry for you all out there in New California.

For our part, we’ll take most of the rest of gorgeous New York State, although you get the scam artists who infest the legislature in Albany.

So that’s the deal. You get the cities with all the crime, crack mommies and corruption you can stand.

And sure, you get many of the elite colleges too, with the professors who think that terrorists in Fallujah are freedom fighters and that the people who worked in the Twin Towers on 9/11 were no better than Nazis.

We get the suburbs, the countryside, and all the other beautiful places that remain unspoiled by liberal hypocrisy and addle-brained social experimentation.

We prefer to be something you’re not… NORMAL.

And we’d like a favor, too:

Please keep your sky-high tax and crime rates, since we’re happy to have the corporations and jobs that continue to flee your Blue cities into our Red states. Much appreciated, since our unemployment rates, to say nothing of our crime, single parenting, and illiteracy rates, are far lower than yours.

Oh, and one last thing. We get the U.S. military, too. Did we mention that part? You may have forgotten that they’re volunteers, and most are happy Red state voters.

Not to worry, though, since we’re sure that Islamic fundamentalist terrorists, including that midget president in Iran, will be more than happy to reach an accommodation with a society that embraces radical feminism, gay marriage, gun control, hostility to organized religion of any kind, and Salman Rushdie.

Good luck with that. But one day when some misogynist Saudi freak — who no doubt will sneak into your country by strolling over over the northern border after a few years of sucking on the Canadian welfare system you all admire so much — blows up a couple kilos of plutonium on Sunset Boulevard, go ahead and send Sean Penn to ask the French for help.

We’ll be busy that day…WORKING.

Oh, and since we will also own the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and the vast majority of energy, food and mineral resources, we will be happy to make a deal with you when you start getting cold and hungry. It won’t be cheap either, so hope your wealthy and their vast riches are as generous as they lecture everyone else on about sharing the wealth.

Thank you for such a generous offer!

You saved us a LOT of ammo, too!

Have a nice day!

Sincerely,

The American people

PS: You can keep the marijuana. You’re going to need it, since selling it is one of the last stable industries left in Blue counties.

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by | October 30, 2012 · 7:53 pm

Michael Moore, MoveOn.org Create Most Offensive Campaign Ad Ever

WARNING: CRUDE LANGUAGE

From Robert Laurie at caintv.com:

Michael Moore and MoveOn.org have teamed up to create the most base, unpleasant campaign ad ever.  Featuring a host of foul-mouthed elderly voters, the spot threatens violence against both Mitt Romney and the country as a whole.

“I want the Republican Party to know – if your voter suppression throughout this beautiful country enables Mitt Romney to oust Barack Obama? WE WILL BURN THIS MOTHERFUCKER DOWN.”

Yup, that’s an actual line from an honest to goodness political ad, offered by America’s premiere hack propagandist and everyone’s favorite radical leftist political action Committee.  MoveOn, of course, is funded by a host of the world’s most prominent socialist activists, most famously George Soros.

The ad continues it violent rhetoric, with a threat that, “If the Republicans steal this election, I’m going to track down Mitt Romney and give him the world’s biggest cock punch. What’s the matter sonny, you never heard that phrase? Cock Punch?”

You can read the rest of the article here if you have the stomach for it.

Here is the ad. Watch at your own risk.

Meanwhile, back in Chicago, some of Barack’s homies are feeling a little disillusioned.

And in Colorado, here are some folks who really did build their own business. Now it’s gone. Guess who destroyed it?

(Links supplied by FranklytheNut.)

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by | October 24, 2012 · 10:55 pm

A woman’s place is in the binder: or, you say potato, I say potatoe

If you’re as old as I am — not that I would wish that on you — then you remember Dan Quayle, George H. W. Bush’s vice president. And if you remember Dan Quayle, then surely you remember the notorious spelling bee incident, for which poor Dan is still derisively remembered even now, twenty years later.

Here’s what happened: Vice President Quayle was visiting an elementary school classroom in Trenton, New Jersey, where the students were having a spelling bee. The teacher asked Quayle to be the one to read the words to the students. She handed him a stack of flash cards, on one of which was written the word “potatoe” [sic]. Quayle thought the word was misspelled on the flash card, but he deferred to the teacher. When the student spelled the word correctly, Quayle told him he needed to add an “e” at the end. The lamestream media, who detested Quayle, pounced on the mistake, citing it as incontrovertible proof that Quayle was a blithering idiot.

Ever since the moment Quayle had been chosen as Bush’s VP, the LSM had been trying desperately to destroy him. They spared no effort in searching for dirt on Quayle, but apparently the guy had led a pretty squeaky-clean life, because they weren’t able to find any of the kind of stuff they were hoping for — no affairs, no love children, no DWIs, not so much as an overdue library book or an unpaid parking ticket. By the time of the spelling bee incident they were truly desperate, and they pounced on Quayle’s little mistake like a shoal of starving piranhas on a three-legged cow. Quayle is an ignoramus! He can’t even spell potato! What a dumbass! He’s not qualified to be vice president! Hell, he’s not qualified to live!

Why am I dredging up this old story? Because I find it instructive. If an army of investigators spends insane amounts of time and effort trying to find out something horrible about someone they despise, and the worst they can come up with is that the guy isn’t the world’s greatest speller, what does that tell you? They might as well give up. They won’t, of course — they’ll seize on anything, no matter how trivial, if they think it will humiliate the object of their loathing — but the whole thing positively reeks of desperation. Even if Quayle had not been handed a card with the word misspelled on it, even if he had actually spelled it incorrectly himself, so what? If that’s the worst thing you can accuse a guy of, then your hatred of him obviously has no logical or factual basis. It says more about the accuser than the accused; in fact, it says precisely nothing about the accused, while saying a great deal about the accuser.

Which brings me to Mitt Romney’s innocent little comment at the last presidential debate about “binders full of women.” Without exception, everyone who heard that statement knew exactly what Romney meant by it. If Barack Obama or Joe Biden had referred to “binders full of women,” the lamestream media would have given it as much attention as they give to every other infelicitous phrase uttered by those two — which is none whatsoever. It became a story only because Mitt Romney said it, and the left hates him with a passion, possibly even more than they hated Dan Quayle. The “binders full of women” thing is Romney’s “potatoe” moment.

If the left had succeeded in finding out anything truly damning about Mitt Romney — and their failure was not for want of trying, or lack of resources, or insufficient time — would they be harping endlessly on the “binders” comment? Of course not. They harp on it because they have nothing else to harp on. As gaffes go, it wasn’t even very funny — not half as funny as Joe Biden telling a guy in a wheelchair to stand up, or Barack Obama saying asthmatic kids need breathalyzers, or Bob Schieffer talking about the SEALS killing Obama bin Laden, or Chris Matthews saying that he forgot for a while that Obama was black. But when you’re desperate, you’ll grasp at anything, no matter how lame.

Thus it was that a small coven of feminists who had too much time on their hands and nothing worthwhile to do decided to show up outside the Ohio Republican Party Headquarters dressed as binders. You probably wouldn’t be able to tell they were supposed to look like binders had it not been for their chanting “Equal rights, not binders” as they traipsed around in circles on the sidewalk. (Ladies: Next time you hold a protest, consider hiring a professional writer to come up with a more inspiring slogan.)

Mark Steyn comments:

Yes, indeed. Romney wants to return us to the 1950s, when a woman’s place was in the binder, when every predatory male had his little black binder, and condescending misogynists would interview applicants for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts and smirk, “Why, Miss Jones, you’re beautiful without your binder . . . ” It was the age of patriarchal sitcoms when the little lady would greet her man at the front door with his pipe and binders, where girls were told they could aspire no further than to ace Home Ec and thereby persuade some eligible young man to put a ring file on their finger. We all remember the careless sexist assumptions of the so-called family shows of those days — Leave It to Binder, Ozzie and Binder, Binder Knows Best, My Three Binders, Gilligan’s Binder, The Binder Bunch — until eventually the mold was broken by The Mary Binder Moore Show in the early Seventies. By then, feminists across the land were burning their binders, and Erica Jong had popularized the “zipless file.” As Gloria Steinem famously said, a woman needs a binder like a fish needs a three-tab manila hanging folder.

(Read the rest of Mark’s rant here — you won’t be sorry.)

The left is going bonkers. They are more desperate than I have seen them in a long, long time. When an innocuous little comment about binders can send them into such a frenzy, there’s only one explanation: Their days in power are numbered, and they know it.

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by | October 14, 2012 · 6:51 pm

Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone?

Last weekend we had a cat thread — this weekend we’re going to give equal time to our canine friends.

ADDED by CtH: I looked through my poodle pics to find one that looks like me …

And this is the one that shows how Dewey most takes after Dearest …

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by | October 7, 2012 · 5:13 pm

Goodbye to summer

My husband and I built our house in 1985, the year our son was born. Because we were so poor, we built as little as we thought we could get by with, the idea being that we could always add onto it later. We built a super-simple, no-frills house with two bedrooms, a kitchen, a bathroom, a laundry room, and a living room.

Over the years, we gradually added four more bedrooms (the original two bedrooms were turned into a home office and a music room), another bathroom, a workshop, a garage, and — the best part — a screen porch, which is something I’d wanted forever. The cats, as you can see from the pictures below, think we built it entirely for their amusement.

The problem, we quickly discovered, was that our cats would sit on the catwalk inside the porch, and our neighbor’s cat — who was home alone all day and apparently got kind of lonely — would come over to our house and try desperately to get into our porch. He would jump up and hurl himself at the screens, tearing holes in them with his claws. I got the bright idea that if we put window boxes on all the windows, they would work as cat deflectors, and keep him from inflicting any further damage on the screens.

So our son built eight window boxes, one for each window, and attached them to the outside of the porch. I’ve grown lots of different things in them over the years, but this summer I decided to go with just marigolds. They are easy to grow, hard to kill, thrive on neglect, and bloom enthusiastically from early summer until autumn’s first frost. Now that the weather has turned cold, their days are numbered, so I had my daughter go out and take some pictures of them while they were still blooming cheerfully.

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by | October 7, 2012 · 4:39 pm

Looking for Aussie

Has anyone seen her? We were told she might be here…

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by | August 20, 2012 · 12:26 am

Obamacare: The Ultimate Stimulus Package for the Abortion Industry

The Baby Killer Bailout

by Mark Crutcher, president of Life Dynamics Inc.

In the first few years after its legalization, studies were taken to determine the cost of an abortion. The findings were that the price of a first-trimester procedure was generally around $350. The interesting thing is, that figure has changed little since then. To put this in perspective, even if we ignore the fact that prices have probably risen faster in medicine than in any other area of the economy, applying the basic rate of inflation shows that an item purchased for $350 in 1973 costs almost $2,000 today.

So the question is, with no competition and a seemingly reliable demand, why has the abortion industry not been able to raise prices in almost 40 years?

The answer is that, contrary to what the abortion lobby would have us believe, the demand is not reliable. In any marketing environment, buying decisions can be categorized on a “marginal / non-marginal” scale. On one end of the scale are decisions based solely on “want” (marginal) and, on the opposite end are decisions based solely on “need” (non-marginal.) Buying a ticket to a baseball game is an example of a marginal decision because it is a decision based on want. On the other hand, if a business owner cannot operate his business without a forklift, his decision to purchase one is based on need and is, therefore, non-marginal.

One significant factor in determining where a product falls on this scale is the degree to which consumers might reject it because of price. The more price-sensitive a product is, the more marginal is the decision to buy it. Using the previous examples, a rise in the price of baseball tickets will decrease their sales more than a proportionate rise in the price of forklifts will decrease their sales. This “marginality” scale applies to all purchasing decisions, including the decision whether to “purchase” an abortion or not.

Since day one, the abortion industry has pushed this idea that when a woman does not want to be pregnant she will crawl through hell on broken glass to get an abortion. In other words, their contention is that the abortion decision is a non-marginal one.

For that to be true, it would have to also be true that the cost of abortions does not significantly impact the abortion rate. The problem is, the evidence does not support this. In April of 1988, the financial publication, Economic Inquiry, Vol. XXVI, published a study about the relationship between abortion cost and abortion rates and concluded that, “The significant inverse relationship between the price of abortions and the abortion rate confirms that the fundamental law of demand is applicable to abortions.”

Other independent studies have also documented that, as the cost of abortion goes up the demand for abortion goes down. In addition, Colorado abortionist, Warren Hern, reinforced this conclusion during a May, 1997, annual convention of the National Abortion Federation held in Boston, Massachusetts. At a workshop regarding the use of ultrasound in abortion, Hern complained that paying for an ultrasound machine would increase the cost of an abortion by $25. He went on to say that such an increase would cause patient loads at abortion clinics to “plummet.”

Hern was not merely confirming the argument that price affects the abortion rate, he was going much further and stating that even small increases in price have an overpowering impact. By the way, Hern is no novice in this area. He is the author of the textbook, Abortion Practice, that is almost universally considered to be the definitive publication on abortion and abortion provision.

The point is, whether it’s these studies or the comments of Warren Hern, the consistent message is that the abortion lobby’s “hell on broken glass” rhetoric is a self-serving fabrication and that the abortion decision is often a highly marginal one. If that were not the case, a $25 price increase would not significantly impact abortion rates much less cause the number of women having abortions to “plummet.”

This represents a very sticky dilemma for the abortion industry. The obvious solution to their current economic woes would be to raise prices to reflect their increased costs even if that meant making more money off fewer procedures. But the abortion lobby knows that is not a viable option. They have always been aware that, in order to maintain abortion’s legality, they need the political and cultural inertia created by a high abortion rate. This has put them in a kind of “Catch 22” situation. They need higher prices to financially survive, but those higher prices would lower the abortion rate and threaten their political survivability.

In a nutshell, that is why the abortion industry has not raised prices for almost 40 years. Meanwhile, the cost of doing business has risen dramatically. The result is that the $350 abortion that was so profitable in 1973 dollars, is a stone-cold loser in 2012 dollars. What this means, and what the abortion lobby has known for several years, is that their future depends on finding a way to raise their prices without lowering abortion rates.

Enter Barack Obama.

Make no mistake about it, one of the primary motivations behind this guy’s obsession with socialized medicine is government-funding of abortion. In fact, a model for what his administration intends to do already exists.

Imagine two women sitting in an abortion clinic waiting room. They are the same age, in the same state of health and their pregnancies are at the same gestational stage. The only significant difference between them is that one is paying cash and the other has a health insurance policy that covers elective abortion. After their babies have been exterminated and their corpses tossed in the dumpster, the first woman will be out the clinic’s door for the usual $350 or so. However, the other woman’s insurance company will be lucky to escape with anything less than a $3000 claim to pay.

This is a scenario that is repeated every day at abortion clinics all across the country. It is also a peak into what Obamacare is all about. The Obamanazis figured out a long time ago that the abortion industry’s only hope for survival is for socialized medicine to convert every $350 patient-paid abortion into a $3000 taxpayer-paid abortion. Equally important is that, since customers will be getting their babies butchered at no charge, the abortion rate is not going to drop. In fact, it’s going to skyrocket.

To put it bluntly, Obamacare is a permanent stimulus package for the abortion industry.

Now, if you think I’m baying at the moon here, let me take you back to December of 2009 when this debacle was being fought out in Congress. With only a few hours left before the Christmas recess, it looked like America was going to dodge this bullet. Despite all the greasy politics, arm-twisting, semi-veiled threats, naked bribery, sweetheart deals in smoke-filled rooms and other assorted criminal activities being committed by the Obamanazis, they were still a couple of votes shy. The problem was that several Democrats were holding out over concerns that Obamacare was going to pay for abortions.

Obama and his fellow travelers were assuring them that this was not the case. Of course, this could not be verified since no one had actually seen the bill and, furthermore, they were not going to see it before voting on it. In one of the most arrogant and moronic things ever uttered by an elected official, Nancy Pelosi openly stated that Congress would have to pass the bill before the public would be allowed to see what was in it.

The crucial thing to note here is that this hang-up over abortion-funding could have been easily resolved. If the administration had not been lying, they could have simply allowed those rebellious Democrats to add a one paragraph statement to the final bill specifically prohibiting any funding for abortion. Had they done that, these guys would have shuffled back onto the reservation and passage would have been assured.

But the Obamanazis were lying. They knew abortion funding was written into the bill’s language and that such a paragraph would wipe it out. Since they were not willing to give up on one of the fundamental goals of this monstrosity, they had to stick with their argument that we should all just blindly trust them when they said that the bill would not pay for abortions. In effect, a blank contract was shoved in front of Congress and a pen was forced into their bony hands.

This strategy worked because, to no one’s surprise, the so-called “pro-life Democrats” eventually wimped-out, stopped questioning Obama’s lies and signed where they were told to sign. As is common in the political arena, when the choice is between principle and ambition, the latter is usually chosen. And so it was. Today, the bill is available for all to see and now everyone can know what the pro-life movement knew all along. Abortion funding is included.

In the final analysis, it is simply a fact that Obama was prepared to flush his crown jewel legislation down the toilet rather than take abortion funding out of it. The fancy rhetoric he used during the debate may have been about people suffering and dying because they are being denied basic healthcare. But his actions made it clear that he would write these people off without blinking an eye, unless a government bailout for Big Abortion was part of the deal.

Like I always say, to understand the abortion issue just follow the money trail. In this particular case, if you believe nothing else I’ve written here, believe this: on the day that Obamacare becomes fully implemented, every single abortion performed in America will be taxpayer-funded. Every single one.

Reprinted with permission from Life Dynamics.

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by | August 11, 2012 · 12:08 am

When I care enough to send the very best

Hallmark hasn’t gotten any business from me in many years — not because I’m boycotting them or anything, but because I have no need for what they sell. That’s because my youngest daughter makes all my cards for me. She’s been doing this since she was just a little sprout (she’s now 17).

When my husband and I recently celebrated our 35th wedding anniversary, our daughter made a card for him to give me, and one for me to give him. Here’s his:

penguins

And here’s mine:

frogs

And here’s the card she made for my birthday:

birthday

(check out the label on the bottle — “Blue Bird Bitter”)

When she’s not drawing, or singing, or playing the piano, or reading, or knitting, or climbing trees, or riding her bike, she loves to act. Recently she played the part of Beatrice in Shakespeare’s “Much Ado about Nothing,” part of the local theater guild’s Shakespeare in the Park series. Here’s a picture of her tormenting her love interest, Benedick — something Beatrice spends most of the play doing, before finally giving in and marrying him in the end:

beatrice & benedick

 

Later this month she’ll be performing in a program her voice teacher puts on every summer, called “A Little Bit of Broadway.” The students perform songs from Broadway shows, in costume and in character. My daughter will be singing “I’m Not That Girl” from Wicked. I haven’t asked her yet how she plans to color her skin green for the performance — I’m not sure I want to know.

Never a dull moment!

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by | July 26, 2012 · 10:19 pm

The view from my south windows

My husband took this picture of my deck garden just a few days ago. The weather for much of the summer has been brutally hot and humid — not very pleasant for human beings, but ideal for petunias, marigolds, evolvulus, and herbs.

Here are some pictures of my little friend Lily helping me plant flowers. Lily is four years old and has been coming to my house one day a week for most of her life. She loves to help with the gardening, as you can see.

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by | July 6, 2012 · 11:26 pm

Ludwig lives!

If this doesn’t bring a tear to your eye, send shivers up your spine, and make your spirit soar, then you need to check your pulse and make sure you’re not dead. Be sure to watch all the way to the end.

 

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