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I Knew He Was an Alien

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Saturday, January 17, 2009 5:48:59 PM
But I thought we were searching for intelligent life.  Here's Iowahawk on Henry Waxman : http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/01/mark-your-time-humans.html
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I Took the Kids to the Casino

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Saturday, January 17, 2009 10:36:48 AM
No, not a real one before you think I am a terrible parent. I may very well be a terrible parent but I hate casinos.  I took the kids to a place called Kids Castle probably because the Golden Nugget was too obvious.  It is basically looks like a Chuck E Cheese without the giant singing rodent.  They don't use tokens for the games there. They use cards that you load up and swipe on the machines.  The problem is that about 90 percent of the "games" at this place weren't games at all.  They were devices you used  to try to win tickets.  For example, there is a version of Deal or No Deal where you pick a case and like on the show the boss up in a office offers you tickets for the case.  My daughter hit deal right away and won 22 tickets.  The problem is that for 22 tickets you can buy basically nothing.  For 50 you can buy a 50 cent package of Playdough.  My son saw a McQueen eating set and began obsessing on it.  It was 1200. I was trying to calculate the conversion rate like I was in a foreign country. I think it was each ticket was worth about a penny.  An X Box was price at 47500. We weren't going to get there last night and my efforts to get the kids to understand the concept of saving weren't going well.  My daughter wanted a more reasonably priced High School Musical notepad which was worth about a dollar and priced at 350.  This was doable  if my son were to get nothing and volunteer to sacrifice his tickets to his sister to make her dreams come true. Fat chance.  After nearly 90 minutes  grubbing for tickets  or crying at the redemption counter  we left.  The kids wanted to come back the next day.  Fat chance. The good news is we have nearly 400 tickets. A couple of nights more and we can buy a $5 McQueen set that we probably already own. 
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Chick Flicks a Partial Guide

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Friday, January 16, 2009 10:51:24 AM
The Mrs. and I saw Bride Wars last night.  There were better movies to see but the times didn't work or ran too long.  My wife wanted to see the film and unless the film is unwatchable like Mama Mia, I defer to her.  I don't mind chick flicks provided that 1.) they have attractive female leads.  Bride Wars has Anne Hathaway. Enough said.  2.) They are moderately funny.  It can't be a film where everyone gets cancer and dies and long drawn out death. If I like that I'd watch Lifetime. This film fell short on the moderately funny category. It was barely funny. It also was barely ninety minutes but felt longer. My wife said it was definitely a wait for cable film.  I would have put it a notch lower, stuck on an airplane film but above prison.
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Plane Crash in New York

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Friday, January 16, 2009 2:25:41 AM
By now you have heard of the plane crash in New York where birds flew into the engines disabling them and causing the plane to crash.  Thank God skillful piloting and a quick rescue meant there were no fatalities. I know it is too early for speculation but apparently they were Canadian geese. My wife is Canadian and I don't think this reflects on Canada at all.  How do we know they weren't recent immigrants to Canada?  I heard there that the flight recorder picked up one goose identified as Mohammed yelling "Allah Akbar!!!" before flying into the engines. I cannot confirm this report.  http://townhall.com/news/us/2009/01/16/all_155_survive_as_pilot_ditches_plane_in_hudson

UPDATE : Dan, a reader of my blog posts this in response : I have to believe that these geese were at the very least sympathizers with the cause of jihad.  While I can also not confirm the reports of the cry before impact, these geese are from the eastern part of Canada which has a heavy French influence and therefore almost genetic dislike for America.  In addition, I understand that through new types of forensic science they have determined that one of the geese had visited Pakistan recently.
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Thank You Mr. President

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Friday, January 16, 2009 2:13:21 AM

Count me in the 30 %. I think President Bush is a great man and was a very good President. Sure there were failings as there are with all administrations but I will list off memory some of his achievements and noble attempts in no particular order:


  1. Kyoto Treaty- He vetoed it. We are seeing record cold temperatures this winter. The warming of the planet peaked in 1996 or 1997 and has been cooling ever since. It is very cool now, cooler than even Barack Obama.

  2. Federal Funding of Stem Cell Research – He vetoed it. You don't sacrifice the young to save the old. This is a reverse of Soylent Green. It is a slippery slope that we shouldn't go down as a nation.

  3. War in Iraq and Afghanistan – He initiated both as Commander in Chief. It amazes me that somehow it is a bad thing that Saddam didn't have WMD's. He was clearly trying get them, nuclear weapons in particular. North Korea shows us that the time to attack is BEFORE they get them. Once they have them, options are limited and the military option isn't an option.

  4. Support for Israel – Never has Israel had a more staunch ally in the White House. It is the right thing to do for Israel and for our nation.

  5. Tax Cuts – They helped stimulate the faltering economy after the internet bubble burst and 9/11. They helped get the economy moving again. It is also the right thing to do to return the money to the people. They money doesn't belong to Washington, it belongs to the people. Tax cuts didn't cause the huge deficits in Washington, spending did and continues to now.

  6. Social Security Reform - If this country goes bankrupt, it won't be because of Lehman Brothers, AIG or anyone else on Wall Street. It will be because of runaway entitlement spending number one being Social Security. Bush tried to grab this third rail. The Democrats in the congress attacked him like deck hands on the Titanic saying there was no problem with the ship.

  7. Immigration Reform – Here I break with members of my party and much of talk radio. President Bush tried to get something done to improve the status quo. The result was he lost his base completely. Now we will probably get a much worse bill with Democrats in control of everything and they will get credit among Latinos for getting it done.

  8. Supreme Court Judges Roberts and Alito - Two fine judges who believe in interpreting law and not making it.  May they both live long lives on the court.

  9. No Attack on American Soil – Most important of all. No one including myself would have predicted that over eight years would pass after 9/11. Perhaps it was the security measures the President put in place. Perhaps it was the Patriot Act and it's ability to “connect the dots.” Perhaps it was for the first time, we were on offense in Iraq and Afghanistan. Perhaps the wars got our “allies” in the Arab world in line. Perhaps killing them over there beats fighting them over here. People blame Bush for the economy and the stock market and pretty much everything else they don't like. Consider this, a nuclear weapon going off on American soil would tank the U.S. Economy and would be a bummer for the stock market.


Those are the first nine Bush accomplishments (or attempts) that came to mind reflecting on the Presidency of W. Thank you Mr. President. You served the country well.
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Republicans Should Tread Lightly on Geithner

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Thursday, January 15, 2009 11:18:21 AM
Up until a week ago, Republicans in general and conservatives in particular were happy with the pick of Geithner to head up Treasury.  Now  many are making a big stink because he didn't properly withhold payroll taxes and had a nanny who's immigration status lapsed for a brief time.  My feeling is that unless the person being appointed is completely incompetent or a crook, you let the President get his cabinet.  To the victor go the spoils.  President Elect Obama won almost fair and square. The reality is without the shenanigans of ACORN and probable illegal foreign money, he probably still would have won given the atmosphere at the time.  Anyway, let him have his picks.  Further, remember Kimba Wood.  She would have been a very good attorney general for Bill Clinton.   There was, however, a scandal involving a nanny who was here illegally and her nomination was withdrawn.  Remember who replaced her?  Janet Reno.  It could happen here.  Obama has been picking mostly centrist picks to head up his cabinet.  If attacked from the right, he may move hard left and we all don't want that.
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Ricardo Montalban Dies

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Thursday, January 15, 2009 10:39:51 AM
We haven't heard from him in years but he just died at 88. Everyone my age remembers him from Fantasy Island as Mr. Rourke (sp?) the host.  He was also the pitchman for Chrysler for many years.  It was said that they invented the term "Corinthian Leather" because it sounded so cool with Montalban's accent. He wasn't an actor in the modern sense, he was a star in classic sense. Today star means DUI or DWI (driving w/o underwear).  Star meant something different in an earlier day.  R.I.P. http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/15/news/obits.1-407992.php
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Celebrated Summer

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Thursday, January 15, 2009 1:36:19 AM
It's hot here. Really hot.  I drove home and at nearly 7pm it was still almost 80 degrees.  Those of you in the Northern extremities, remember we have a $40 billion deficit and Arnold is looking to raise revenue any way possible including allowing drivers to use the carpool lanes with only one driver by paying a "fee."   Remember when HOV (High Occupancy Vehicle) lanes were introduced as a method to encourage carpool driving?  Well then they allowed drivers of electric cars, then hybrids to use the lanes because it was good for the planet.  Now I guess it is all what is about what is good for the budget.  I am all for it. If everyone else pays, I think it means the rest of the lanes will be open for me.  I drove home listening to my Husker Du   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H%C3%BCsker_D%C3%BC  mix.  I had been a fan since college.  Before Green Day, Nirvana and Foo Fighters there was Husker Du who combined the edge of punk music with the melodiousness (that can't be a word) of the Beatles.  My mix focuses on their last two albums after they got signed by Warner and right before they broke up : Candy Apple Grey and Warehouse Songs and Stories.  The group had two songwriters who split the songs pretty much down the middle. I was always on the Bob Mould http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Mould side.  Celebrated Summer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrated_Summer is one of their later early hits.  It is a great top off (the car not the person) song to play on a hot summer night.  The calender was the only indication of winter here.  For those of you living in other states, trapped in snow remember we can trade the weather but you gotta take the earthquakes, high taxes, ridiculous regulation, unbearably high cost of living, traffic (it took 90 minutes to go 25 miles home today), mudslides, fires, nearly almost every moron celebrity, the entire California legislature, Senator Boxer and Speaker Pelosi.  Sleep on it and get back to me.  In the mean time check out Iowahawk on the year in movies : http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2009/01/movies-are-your-best-entertainment-value.html
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Why There Will Never Be Peace in the Middle East

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Wednesday, January 14, 2009 1:37:18 AM
From the NYT : http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/14/opinion/14goldberg-1.html?_r=2
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PJ O Rourke

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Tuesday, January 13, 2009 8:42:41 PM
Devastating and hysterical at the same time. My sides hurt from laughing.  The best line : I think about the next four years of Hillary's dutiful efforts at global peacemaking, and I hear a chorus of voices echoing around the world--from Israelis and Palestinians, Iraqis and al Qaeda, Taliban and NATO troops, Pakistanis and Indians, Sri Lankans and Tamil Tigers, Georgians and South Ossetians, Colombian soldiers and FARC guerrillas, Hutus and Tutsis, Congolese rebels and other Congolese rebels--all saying, "Thanks, but we'd rather be killed by each other than nagged to death by you."

Check it out : http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/015/987slhyv.asp
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Ann Coulter's New Book Guilty

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:45:21 PM
I am only 30 plus pages in and it is brilliant as usual.  In the second chapter about single motherhood Coulter writes,"if a child in the womb could choose one fact about his parents-rich, good-looking, intelligent, easygoing, athletic, went to Harvard, black or white- the one factor that would improve his life chances more than any other is that they are married. (Or at least the second-choice, right after "Mother is not 'pro-choice.'" "

Brutally honest. This is why you can put me in the loves Ann Coulter column.

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Climate Change

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Sunday, January 11, 2009 4:49:10 PM
Did you notice how the term global warming is giving way to climate change?  Here's why, a sampling from today's Drudge http://www.drudgereport.com/ :

http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/106922-earth_ice_age-0

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/5026/2/

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99162528 and http://www.npr.org/blogs/daydreaming/2009/01/what_to_wear_at_78_degrees.html

http://www.thenorthwestern.com/article/20090110/OSH04/90109104

http://www.dailytech.com/Article.aspx?newsid=13834

and my favorite where snow has trapped thousands at Madrid's airport. That is in Spain. I have been to Madrid in January nearly 30 years ago. I wore a wind breaker.  No snow in sight.  http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssIndustryMaterialsUtilitiesNews/idUSLA46960720090110

I said it before and I'll say it again.  I don't believe global warming is real and if it is, it may not be a bad thing.  Much of human history has advanced during warming periods.  There is a reason.  When you have to put on 4 layers of clothing to walk to the mailbox, it limits human activity which affects the advancement of mankind.  There is no other way to explain the Canadian's love of curling. 




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The World's Oldest Hatred

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Saturday, January 10, 2009 10:28:30 AM
A great column http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZjkwNjVlNmE5MWUyOTVhMWIyODkzNWNlZGM1YjU2Zjc= by Mark Steyn as usual about the real roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict, namely Jew hatred.  The Nazi's didn't start Jew hatred and it didn't end there.  The Nazi's just had a more efficient mechanism for realizing their hatred in full. I don't think this protester in New York was commenting on O.J. Simpson with his sign http://hotair.com/archives/2008/12/31/a-jewcy-photo-caption-opportunity/ . If the Islam which is just Pan Arabism could gas or nuke six million more, they would.  A sobering thought is that there are approximately six million Jews in Israel, six million.   Jews and the world said "never again," after the Holocaust.  The world has a short memory.  In less than a lifetime the destruction of Israel is a real possibility with a nuclear Iran.  Among a younger generation of Jews even, the importance of the existence of Israel is diminished. Note the words of Jon Stewart who is a primary news source among young people.  Stewart has been openly critical of Israel in the current conflict http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/01/10/MNGU156LEQ.DTL drawing praises of Muslims.  This is during a conflict in Gaza where Israel leaves notes to people who's buildings are about to be bombed so that innocents can evacuate.  No the only difference between now and half a century ago is today Jews in the state of Israel stand up for themselves because ultimately no one else will. 

A reminder: you can buy pizza, soup, burgers for the Israeli soldiers at http://pizzaidf.org/
You can always contact your Congressperson, Senator, and President Elect Obama and voice your support for Israel particularly in this conflict.  Finally when someone brings up a moral equivalent argument particularly about the current fight in Gaza, remind them that Israel pulled out of Gaza completely and were rewarded with six thousand rockets that continue to this day. If the Palestinians in Gaza want a cease fire, perhaps they should consider cease firing themselves.
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Something I swore I'd Never Do

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Friday, January 09, 2009 9:52:38 PM
You know that there are the some things, most basic, most integral to your moral core, that you swore you'd never do no matter what.  No money in the world could have forced me to do what I did today.  Of course, I did what I did because of my daughter.  Sometimes our kids make us do things we swore we would never do.  Tonight, I did something very wrong.  I am talking of course about white rap.  My daughter has a keyboard that plays a constant beat and my daughter insisted we make up lyrics.  Two verses in only confirmed how wrong it was for me to attempt.  I am ashamed, humiliated and hope my daughter drops this rap thing right now before I have to add a second verse about cleaning out my gutters tomorrow.
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Mr Burris Goes to Washington

Posted by RepublicanEvangelist on Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:54:47 PM
Harry Reid refused to seat the appointed junior Senator from Illinois today.  The taint of Gov. Blago is the apparent reason.  But even a broken clock is right twice a day and it appears that Mr. Burris is perfectly qualified for the job and has been able to remain unstained by scandal.  Considering this is Illinois politics is the equivalent of the virgin birth. Bill Sammon said on Foxnews last night that Reid wanted Burris to promise not to run in 2010.  Senator Reid is afraid that Burris will not be able to defend the seat in two years when the voters of Illinois will get to decide the seat vacated by President Elect Obama.  Apparently Reid prefered Blago pick one of two women candidates, both of which were white.  Implied here is that the good people of Illinois might elect a black man like Barack but not a full on black man like Burris.  Not only is the idea racist on the face of it, it is also stupid. Had Reid just seated Burris, there is every reason to believe he'd be a competent Senator and be relected in the 2010 election cycle. What Reid has now done is drawn EVEN MORE attention to the seat and no matter what happens, the black community of Illinois will be left with a bad taste in their mouths. And they should.  What is even more curious is why Senator McConnell and other Republican Senators aren't seizing the opportunity to expose Reid's hypocrisy and yell from the rooftops, "Seat Senator Burris Now!!!" We Republicans believe in the rule of law and there is no evidence that the Burris appointment was not perfectly proper and he is qualified for the job. There haven't even been formal charges brought against Governor Blago and may never be.  Fitzgerald has asked for another three months to build his case.  In the meantime, the Illinois Governor has not been impeached and still legally serves at his post until removed.  Laws he signs are valid. Appointments he makes are valid until proven otherwise.  Burris should be seated now.  Let's be honest, a body that has a Mensa member like Barbara Boxer in it, should not be picky about who else it lets in. http://townhall.com/news/us/2009/01/06/democratic_leaders_seek_to_resolve_burris_saga
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