Help Hillary Pick A Campaign Theme Song

There is no end to the fun you can have with this one, whether in seriousness or jest.

Hillary Clinton is asking for your help in helping choose a campaign theme song (YouTube message). She has a list of nine songs on her website for you to choose from. In the alternative, you can offer your own suggestions. This song will be played during every one of her stump speeches until November, 2008.

City of Blinding Lights, U2
Suddenly I see, KT Tunstall,
I’m a Believer, Smash Mouth,
Get Ready, The Temptations,
Ready to Run, Dixie Chicks
Rock This Country, Shania Twain
Beautiful Day, U2
Right Here, Right Now, Jesus Jones
I’ll Take You There, The Staple Singers

Falwell Was No “Little” Man

Michael Medved, in an article posted today on Townhall.com, counters the rabid anti-Christian ideologues and their munchkin-esque (”Ding-Dong, Falwell’s Dead!”)  attacks on the fallen/risen figurehead of so much of the Christian conservative political social movements of today, Jerry Falwell.

Despite the effort to disregard him as “little,” Falwell qualified in every sense as a large figure– big hearted and cheerful, secure and sincere in his own faith, with enormous dreams and major impact. He never would have stooped to a cruel, small-minded, petty and pathetic publicity stunt like smearing one of his ideological adversaries on the very day that opponent died.

I do not know Falwell well. I have not heard of him besides the periodic news articles, same as many other perhaps. But recall that Medved is no Christian, but a practicing Jew. Jerry Falwell was known as a cheerful warrior even to his critics and ideological adversaries. Always affable but never wavering in his pronouncement of the truth. May he be an example to each and every one of us in this, that he loved his enemies and hated their sin. Wanting them to be freed from the bondage so many of us accept with servility. And that dichotomy was so obvious even many of his detractors cannot admit otherwise.

There lies a body, a shell of a man gone on not just to a better place, but to a greater reward. Listening even now to his Lord and God tell him: Well done, good and faithful servant. Enter in to your eternal reward. You have served me in the little, now serve me greatly.

Colorado Teachers Support Washington v. WEA

In a recently released video clip, some Colorado teachers explain why they support the efforts of Washington state teachers to make their union ask before spending their fees on politics.

One teacher shares how he initially signed up for the union and then decided to withdraw because he didn’t think the work it did for him was worth the membership dues he paid. Another teacher told how, when she protested some political activities the union was conducting at the school, she was singled out and harassed.

All-in-all, and interesting watch.

(It is a Quick Time movie, so may take a minute to load.)

Union Collaboration With Politicians

Take a look at the following articles for some blatant examples of union’s working hand-in-hand with politicians they put in office.

Go HERE for background on the lawsuit.

An Overview of the new Motions – We posted the recently filed briefs on the Teachers-vs-Union website. Here is a summary of the briefs.
What is Gregoire’s Emergency? “The union asked me to.” – Governor Gregoire had everything to gain and nothing to lose by vetoing the emergency clause in HB 2079. So why did she pass up the opportunity? Adam Wilson, over at The Olympian, asked and received this answer:
WEA Files Supplemental Brief with SCOTUS – Was Rep. McDermott duped or did he know all along?

This Blog Is Edited On Ubuntu

I say to Microsoft: “Your mother was a goose and your father smelled of my hen yard, fie on your dominating schemes.”

But how easy is it to install and run Ubuntu?

For me it was an exercise in ease and speed: I inserted the disk, booted my laptop, clicked the icon, followed the ease and brief wizard, rebooted again, and voila… Ubuntu! The best bit, it takes about 15 minutes and I’m never without a usable operating system except for the two reboots. Read this article by the Clueless Newbie on her experiences with the latest version of Ubuntu.

For those who do not know what Ubuntu is, it is a version (flavor or distro in common terms) of Linux that is particularly well configured and easy to install and use. I’m almost ready to build my dad a new computer and put Ubuntu on it for Christmas. No more viruses, and it just works.

Cameron And Comfort Face-Off Against Atheism On NBC Nightline

I know this news is a week old, but better late than never. Besides, considering the ratings network news shows receive and their plunging viewer numbers, maybe most of you didn’t see the debates either. I haven’t yet.

Kirk Cameron, the actor, and Ray Comfort, the preacher, debated two atheists from the Rational Response Squad on national television on NBCs Nightline TV show. NBC has posted videos of the debate online as well.

I’ve heard some of the information put out by Cameron and Comfort, it’s top class. Well explained and yet very deep, full of truth and information which Christians can use to defend their faith and show others the validity of the Christian worldview and it’s superiority compared with philosophies today. I find it humorous that the duo not only claim they can prove God exists without using arguments based on faith or the Bible, but that they can prove atheists do not exist.

I get a mental picture of a plucky underdog battling a massive and lethargic yet vicious conglomerate of evil.

Public Servant Strikes Immoral?

Who would believe that the father of alphabet soup, the champion of Big Labor who used big government price and spending controls to rescue the U.S. economy from the Great Depression (Actually, WWII rescued the U.S. economy from the Great Depression.) believed that public sector strikes were immoral.

Unlike today, in the 40’s and 50’s, the notion that teachers should engage in collective bargaining – much less go on strike to get districts to meet their demands – was controversial.

Resistance came even from the ranks of traditional organized labor. In 1959, AFL-CIO President George Meany declared: “It is impossible to bargain collectively with government.”

Public servants are just that: public servants. When public servants strike, they disparage their role as public servants and betray the public they serve. Sadly, the public, who often believe the rhetoric of striking public servants, pay both the injuries incurred during strikes and the increased, and sometimes unsustainable, benefits, salaries and working conditions “won” by the strike.

Sites You May Find Interesting Or Useful

In other words, I’m tired and can’t decide what I want to blog about today. So I used my trusty StumbleUpon button and found whatever tickled my tired bone.

1. StopHerNow.com - Site devoted to stopping Mrs. Hillary Clinton in her bid for supreme world dictator.
   
2. Notes To Self - I’ve got a load of them, but here’s someone else’s. (”Note to self: Don’t mourn the death of relational second-guessing. Certainty can be a beautiful thing.”)
3. Daniel Kirkley - My new favorite musician. Especially “My New Dawn”. And yes, that is a myspace profile. I abhor myspace mostly, but I must admit they work for musicians.

And a little note about myself:

I feel relationally inept, but today I feel a little less relationally inept than I did yesterday. I realized that there are more important things than my feelings, and that for a relationship to progress I must serve the other persons needs. Cowardice in a relationship only results in the robbing of the other person of their half of that relationship. I ‘knew’ this, but I’d not applied it, yesterday I applied it and I feel like a new man.

Early Named Storm Not Evidence Of Warming, Not Unusual

The main stream media, in their breathless haste to make us all permanent victims of fear and vulnerable to psychological depredations, have bolloxed their game plan yet again. In their willful ignorance of the facts we find evidence of their their willingness to sacrifice truth to power and fact to ideology.

The latest storm (no pun intended) brewing in Global-Warming-ville (other common names have been Check-Your-Brain-At-The-Door-burg and I’m-With-Stupid-(Gore)-ton) involves a named storm, Andrea. Apparently Andrea is early. The scientists in their holy wisdom and awesome might have defined a season during storms ought to appear, and Andrea had the audacity to appear early. The mainstream media scream in abject terror: “this is only the 17th named storm in history to appear before the season”. Relax, it’s nowhere near as bad as it sounds.

First a question: Who are human scientists that the earth has any responsibility to ask their permission regarding anything at all? If you meet a scientist walking down the street, do them and us a favor and poke their head with a pin, it’s probably a bit over-inflated, and reducing the pressure may enable them to think straight again.

So then, on to the facts. In a recent Rush Limbaugh show, the great Maja Rushie dredged up the facts regarding this statement and revealed the posers for who they are. Storms have been tracked and named since the 1951 (and even then it wasn’t until the 1960s that there were satellites capable of tracking storms not observed by boats and landlubbers), and in that period since then there have been 17 named storms which happened in May, before the season officially began. Now a little math, I realize this may be difficult if you’re a liberal and because of the unrealistic importance of relativism to you, you may not believe that there are actual hard facts and real solutions to such demonstrably concrete and definite concepts as mathematics, but please, accept for this moment the premise that 2 and 2 equal 4, and follow me into the rabbit hole. The math is really simple: this year is 2007 and we first began track in the year 1951. Pulling out the calculator I find that 56 years have elapsed in the intervening time. Out of these 56 years there have been 17 storms of naming strength. Now 56 years is a long time to some of us (myself included), but it’s hardly “history” in the context of the statement. But 17 storms out of 56 years is still an average of more than 1 every 3 years. 34% of the time, on average, there is a named storm before the normal season.

We Americans like to think in terms of seasons, and we like to keep our lives compartmentalized by those seasons. Football games don’t happen outside the season. Unfortunately for our fragile egos, nature does not abide by seasons with as much rigidity as we wish. A season for nature is only an arbitrary limit within which most of those events the season defines happen. Named storms don’t have to come during the season, they’re just more likely to.

And then this, an article published on LiveScience.com titled “Premature Tropical Storm Not Due to Global Warming, Scientists Say“seems to say it all. There’s no global warming here folks, move along. Nothing to see.

Youth And Heroism

Adolescence is the age of heroism. The age of poetry. The age of great dreams and noble ideals. The age of sacrifice. ~Orson Scott Card