In This Dimension

Evangelicals, Romney and the Future of the GOP

Evidently the “Evangelicals” are getting their shorts in a knot about a possible McCain-Romney ticket.

I guess they’d rather have the most inexperienced, historically illiterate, naïve super-Liberal in the history of American Politics as President.

What has the Far Right’s opposition to abortion cost the country? A huge faction of Center and Youth voters not ever considering voting for the GOP. And what has been the consequence? Unionized teachers ruining our future as they ruin our education system, and judicial activism running roughshod over the People.

Every other issue pales in comparison to the destruction of our culture, our society, our future when[…]

Obama, Carter and Single Digits

“Jimmy Carter ended single-digit inflation. Maybe Obamanomics will end single-digit unemployment.”

– Mark Van Zandt in the WSJ 30 July 2008, responding to this op-ed

China Olympic Spying

Today Sen. Brownback – a Boomer Rightie - is whining that Chinese officials are installing spying devices in major hotel chains to eavesdrop on visitors to the Olympics. Obviously it isn’t only the ill-educated Baby Boomer Left that lacks a general understanding of the way the world works. One awaits an outcry from the Left on civil liberties, privacy and various other concepts that just don’t exist in China.

Newflash: It’s their country. Did anyone really expect China NOT to take advantage of this influx of foreigners to gather a massive amount of information – of which likely way over 99%[…]

Obama’s Socialist Fade

It’s fascinating, but Obama seems not only to have misread the American public, he seems to have misread Europeans. And today’s polls show he is beginning to pay the price.

The American voter is not at all interested in someone arrogantly and condescendingly taking upon themselves the responsibility to apologize to the world – as a citizen of the world (whatever that is) – for the perceived mistakes and slights he believes America has made.

The European voter – not the European media; for they are as biased and ignorant as our media -  knows that the freedom of Europe is due to[…]

Global Warming - NOT

“New data from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute shows that there is more ice than normal in the Arctic waters north of the Svalbard archipelago. In most years, there are open waters in the area north of the archipelago in July month. Studies from this year however show that the area is covered by ice, the Meteorological Institute writes in a press release.”–Barents Observer (Kirkenes, Norway), July 24

So far we have the Norwegians, the Swedes, the Russians, and professors in Australia, reporters in the UK, and half of America discussing the lack of supporting evidence to Al Gore’s scare tactics. Isn’t it, oh,[…]

He ventured forth to bring light to the world

(This column is from the Times of London, written by Gerard Baker, and published on 25 July 2008. The URL is: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4392846.ece )

The anointed one’s pilgrimage to the Holy Land is a miracle in action - and a blessing to all his faithful followers

Gerard Baker

And it came to pass, in the eighth year of the reign of the evil Bush the Younger (The Ignorant), when the whole land from the Arabian desert to the shores of the Great Lakes had been laid barren, that a Child appeared in the wilderness.

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple[…]

2010 Was Not a Good Year to be President! - A look back.

Welcome to Toastmasters, June 13, 2033

Today Rick Campbell, one of our senior members at age 87, is here to reminisce a bit and give us a history lesson. He says he is so old that he learned to drive an internal combustion engine car (remember those?) with a manual transmission. He once owned a typewriter. He remembers when bicycles had one speed, phones had two-party lines, and cameras had something called film. As incredible as this may seem, he says that when he was young, it was common for people to smoke in restaurants and public places. He is from[…]

Iowa Flooding Responsibility

A couple questions from The National Review: 
 
Where are all of the  Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa  and helping the folks affected by the floods? 
 
Where is all the media  asking the tough questions about why the federal government hasn’t solved the problem? Asking where the FEMA trucks (and trailers) are?
 
Why isn’t the Federal Government relocating Iowa people to free hotels in Chicago?
 
When will Spike Lee say that the Federal Government blew up the levees that failed in Des  Moines?
 
Where are Sean Penn and the Dixie Chicks?
 
Where are all  the looters stealing high-end tennis shoes and big screen television sets?
 
When will we hear[…]

Obama in the MidEast

Perhaps you heard the Obama sound bite today that he, “heh heh,” most enjoyed meeting with the troops while on his maiden tour of Iraq and Afghanistan. You know – the places where he has been bloviating on how we ought to fight – or not – and where there are – or are not – various dangers from terrorists excuse me, Islamist freedom fighters. Such an expert. Probably from the visits to Iraq (none) his Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee Chairmanship hearings on Iraq and terror (none), and his visits with military folks (none).

Here’s what really happened when he got to[…]

Health Care

The sister of a good friend recently underwent surgery in NY for a tumor in her spine. The “best” doctors managed to overlook some stuff that resulted in more pain and a lack of (their) awareness and acknowledgement of it and checked her out of the facility.

Ooops.

When these “top” doctors finally acknowledged their blunders, the woman was checked back in to the hospital and the pain brought under control.

During the entire affair one of the family’s concerns was, “What if this happened under a regime with National Health Care?”

You know – the kind championed by Teddy Kennedy – but which[…]