The hostage taker in the Clinton campaign headquarters in Rochester N.H. was reported to have a history of mental illness.  The police were able to subdue the man, and all hostages were released unharmed, and that is good news.  No one hurt, the perpetrator is in custody and the investigation continues into his mental health.   Why would he want to do such a thing?

On this same day in History, a gallop report was released.  “Republicans are significantly more likely than Democrats or independents to rate their mental health as excellent, according to data from the last four November Gallup Health and Healthcare polls. Fifty-eight percent of Republicans report having excellent mental health, compared to 43% of independents and 38% of Democrats.”   Gallop.com

To conclude.  There is almost a 2 to 1 shot that the hostage taker at the Clinton camp was a democrat.

“No tolerance: Execution,” and “Kill her, kill her by firing squad.” Those zero tolerance rules of our American schools have progressed around the world and into Sudan, or did our schools learn a few things from those people in Sudan style Africa?

A school teacher in a private school allowed her students to name the teddy bear pal of theirs “Muhammad” and for that ‘crime’ she was tried and convicted and sentenced to15 days in prison, and then deportation. The courts had mercy on her and changed the original punishment, which was 40 lashes and 6 months in jail. Gillian Gibbons is British and a teacher at the Unity High School, a private school, which includes many Muslim children. One of the kids said it was his idea to name the teddy Muhammad as the name is so very popular as a name for Muslim children. But that’s just the testimony of a kid sticking up for his teacher.

But that’s not all. The latest breaking news is that after sermons at some local Mosques, an angry spontaneous mob assembled outside the Presidential Palace protesting and protesting for over an hour, “Shame, shame on the U.K.,” The protesters called for Gibbons’ execution, saying, “No tolerance: Execution,” and “Kill her, kill her by firing squad.” “It is a premeditated action, and this unbeliever thinks that she can fool us?” said Yassin Mubarak, a young dreadlocked man swathed in green and carrying a sword. “What she did requires her life to be taken.” AP report.

Naming a teddy bear after the prophet.

The AP reporter included this statement: “Many in the West were mystified by the anger over a teddy bear.” Duh. Most of us in the west are still mystified by their reactions to cartoons. Most of us in the west are continually mystified at their sanctioned treatment of women. Most of us in the west are mystified at the desire on the part of politicians, the lamestream media reporters and the elite to appease these radical Muslims.

It must be the fear of a beheading.

Water boarding is also feared because it’s torture.

As I See It.

Saddleback Church in sunny Lake Forest, California actually invited Hillary Clinton to deliver a speech at the church sponsored “Global Summit on AIDS and the Church,” and she saw it as an opportunity to showcase her warm soft fuzzy feminine evangelical side.  Other presidential candidates were also invited, but did not make the commitment to appear in person. Romney, McCain and Huckabee sent taped messages to the summit.

Now the big question.  How does what Hillary propose as a solution to the AIDS problem worldwide, compare to what Warren and the summit propose?   We know Hillary has a grand tax spending plan costing in the billions, which in no way encourages abstinence from sex until marriage, or educates people on how and why the virus is spread, while at the same time she also supports the gay lifestyle choices.  “How many condoms do you want today?”   “Here, let me get you a clean needle.”

For those of us needing a refresher every once in awhile, AIDS/HIV had its origins through the gay sexual revolution.   Just 26 years ago the virus was discovered among gay men in the US.  Do you remember how the confession by Rock Hudson stunned us all?   Aids was not occurring among straight men.  It was gay men and the gay lifestyle sexual activities that has spread the HIV virus through unprotected sex, through genes to innocent babies, through blood transfusions to innocents and through the sharing of needles by drug addicts.   There was a case of the Immunodeficiency virus discovered in Africa in 1959, which was then spread throughout that continent of poor malnourished uneducated peoples.

Hillary does not identify the two as going together, and I wonder whether Rick Warren and the Summit also connect the dots. 

Reaching out to those in the gay lifestyle infected with the virus is a worthy endeavor, but to only provide them with the means to prevent infection may help the few who take notice, but the activities will continue on, and the virus will also continue to spread more and more into the general population.  The activity and consequence must be emphasized again.  Those activities that spread the virus must be re-entered into the public discourse to get that lifestyle stigmatized again as the root cause.   ”If you do this, then the consequences may very well be this.”

The gay activists will never let that happen though, not in this country, or the world under the present politically correct notions of tolerance and forced acceptance for everything under the sun.   This progressive age of unreason has brought on the “it’s not my fault” mentality of: I was born this way, and I can’t help myself.   Baloney.    And liberals like Hillary Clinton stand by that lifestyle, not as a choice, but as a part of their identity as a person.

So as for me, to invite Hillary Clinton (the warm fuzzy big hearted side) to speak to a group of evangelicals who wish to help those already suffering with AIDS is like having Chuck Colson invite OJ Simpson to speak to a group of murderous gang bangers in prison. 

Yes, Christianity should help the infected, but just handing out preventive supplies is in a way endorsing the lifestyle.  It’s like our education system way of thinking, the kids are going to have sex anyway, so give them the means to protect themselves - - - at taxpayers expense.   Boys will be boys.   

Hillary will be Hillary.  Next stop, a Jewish Temple, an Islamic Mosque, a Buddhist Temple and then on to the San Francisco gay pride day. 

As I see  It.

Here’s an article every red blooded American ought to read.  Larry P. Arnn is the president of Hillsdale college in lower Michigan, a college that does not take one nickel from the feds either in scholarships or grants of any kind.  Because, if they did then the feds would be able to regulate in some way over what Hillsdale does as a higher learning institution.

The article in it’s entirety can be downloaded Mr. Arnn’s message: “A Return to the constitution”  in pdf form right here and now.  

A few excerpts to get you interested:

“We honor it [the constitution] more avidly than ever in the breach of its restraints, but at the same time we pay it the respect of mandatory, hectic, and empty observance. Except for our dishonoring of it, we have never honored it so much.”
“Take two examples, the first from Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia. He is the longest serving senator, and by reputation a great historian of that body and of the nation. He is fond of the Constitution of the United States. He talks of it often, and he carries a copy with him, he says, at all times. He is the author of a law now three years old that requires Constitution Day celebrations at schools and colleges across the land, if they take the federal dollar, which with rare exceptions
they do. Never mind that there is a constitutional question about that federal dollar. We make it the ground of a federal command to respect the Constitution nonetheless. The government?s breach is the authority for mandated observance.”

And then he gets into our public education system as he recalls the republican platform of 1996.  A thing of the past, forgotten, neglected, a foolish thought that someone would step forward.

“Our formula is as simple as it is sweeping: the federal government has no constitutional authority to be involved in school curricula or to control jobs in the work place. That is why we will abolish the Department of Education, end federal meddling in our schools, and promote family choice at all levels of learning.” 

Then, and now Margaret Spellings, the Secretary of Education says:

Forty years ago, education was just beginning to transition from being a small office dedicated to gathering statistics. Today we?re 4,500 strong, armed with computers and Blackberrys, and we?re committed to a mission, ranging from financial aid to special education and to making sure that no child is left behind.

She sure is proud of it’s hugeness.

Go read the rest of the story . . . . .  Hillsdale College

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They bill themselves as the Council on American-Islamic Relations, but are they really interested in furthering the relations between Islam and America?   And since America has such a deep regard to the freedom of speech as it is written, shall I say stamped in gold, right into our very own Constitution, then CAIR would also regard our freedoms as the fabric that holds America together as a nation. Right? Then CAIR, if they really wanted to further the relationship of Islam to America would support the rights of a radio talk show host to say what was on his heart, right or wrong, offensive or not. Right?

It’s part of our culture. If you disagree, you can turn it off and find a radio show that is more to your liking. Right?

Well that’s not good enough for CAIR.   Not good enough for Islam.

I’ll inject here that it is also not good enough for some liberal Americans either, who would just as soon get all of talk radio shut down, since most of the talk shows that make a go of it are conservative in nature. Free market economics and all that stuff that drives liberals up the wall scratching their whatever’s as to how to defeat the market system with new regulations like the Fairness Doctrine, which is anything but Fairness.

Anyway CAIR is putting pressure on the advertisers of the Savage Nation show, and some have pulled their ads to appease the CAIR lawyers in waiting.

What a wonderful opportunity America has that this battle falls right at the start of the largest shopping season of the year - - Christmas. If these companies were called by millions of Americans protesting the canceling of ads on the Savage nation, backed up with a personal boycott of those stores over the next month, the message just might reach their bottom line. Bottom lines that fall infuriates shareholders.

Here’s the list of stores with a link.

JC Penny. Call E-Mail

OfficeMax. 1 800 283 7674 Email: williambonner@officem…

Auto Zone. E-Mail.

You could include in your message a simple statement: By withdrawing your advertising from the Michael Savage Show it tells us that you agree that freedom of speech is not worth supporting, and you also agree with Omar Ahmad, the co-founder of CAIR who is quoted as saying:  “Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith but to become dominant. The Koran, the Muslim book of scripture, should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.”

It is only when good men do nothing that evil men win power over the good.

And that’s as i see it.

And the guys handled the planted questions without a hitch.  Retired General Keith Kerr, struggling to get the words out about gays serving openly in the Military was actually a member of Hillary’s LGBT Americans For Hillary Steering Committee.  Anderson Cooper said he was duped, and had they known about it they would have disclosed the planted activist to the candidates. 

Do we expect anything different out of CNN?

Even Joe Scarborough of MSNBC had some biting words for CNN: ” . . it is total crap to suggest that nobody in CNN knew that this guy was from the Clinton steering committee.” 

The democrats have openly boycotted a sponsored debate by Fox News, which tells Americans that liberals cannot handle tough directed questions by what is considered a conservative leaning news organization.   Those three liberals, Edwards, Obama and Clinton, also appear to be in the pocket of the Unions as they would not participate in the CBS debate if the workers go on strike.  Honoring the strikers? 

The GOP candidates get quizzed by leftist news organizations all the time, but if the GOP decided they would boycott any and all of the lamestream media sponsored ‘debates’ they would be run over by negative coverage. 

Do we see a stacked deck?   So what?  Everyone of the republican contenders can handle it. 

The democrat contenders could not.

Put Hillary, Barrack and Edwards in front of Rush Limbaugh and they would be putty.   Put Romney, Giulani, McCain, Thompson, Huckabee, Paul, Hunter and Tancredo in front of Michael Moore and Moore would be putty.

There’s got to be a scientific study for everything.  Is there anything left under the sun that has not been studied?   They will find it or invent one, or fund a study to see if everything has been studied.   Who funds all of these “studies,” anyway, and why? 

The latest scientific study could have been done in a 5th grade classroom asking the kids if they thought getting out of the chair and standing up tall could help fight obesity.  Do we really need to know the microbiological physiological functions of cells standing up or sitting down to know that just sitting down all day long will contribute to obesity.   Duh!

Scientists have found intriguing evidence that one major reason so many people are overweight these days may be as close as the seat of their pants. Literally. According to the researchers, most of us sit too much.   ABC News. 

“It was hard to believe at first,” said Marc Hamilton, associate professor of biomedical sciences at the University of Missouri-Columbia and leader of the research team.

The solution, Hamilton said, is to stand up and “putter.”

There you have it folks.  The final word.   Throw out the students desks and make them stand in class, no, the kids need an example to look up to, so start with the school boards and the principals first.   Congress gets enough time puttering around, they need to sit down. 

Silly is as silly does.   Yea, I read this silliness too.   I’m getting up from the keyboard to putter, and to say good night, I’m outta here till tomorrow.

A construction company in Nant Glas, Trefnant, UK was forced to spend £140,000 on a special new habitat for a bunch of greater crested newts, a very special kind of lizard, because they are protected by European law.

Because of their declining population, the amphibians are protected by the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981) and the European Habitats Directive (1994).

The company designed the habitat as part of a 26-property development at Nant Glas, Trefnant. Company director Matt Anwyl joked: “We could have built them a three-bed roomed house instead”. BBC News. 11/27/2007

£70,000 for each Newt. “When environmental specialists arrived to move the newts to their bespoke home, they could find only two.”

But that’s not all the newts have done. The history of newt habitats go back a ways in time.

Residents living near the breeding ponds of great crested newts hope to halt the building of 26 executive homes near their habitat. 2004

A £7.5m redevelopment of a County Durham estate has been halted after rare newts were found on the site. 2003

Endangered spieces can call even major building developers to heel. For better or worse, a policy diktat introduced a year ago insists that planning applicants - property giants to you and me - carry out an ecological impact survey at specific times of year as part of any planning application.

“Fifteen great crested newts added £315,000 to the cost of a road-widening project in North Wales and five slowworms caused a six-month delay on a house-building project after Natural England - the agency that advises the Government on nature conservation - stepped in to stop work at the site,”

Bats are also a problem, as are Badgers. Yes Badgers, and when caught and placed in a new environment, they tend to return to their original home. Now bats are another story. “One client has Greater Horseshoe bats in his barn near Bristol, which he wants to convert into a garage. After 18 months, he still doesn’t know if he is able to proceed,” says Mr Jon Abbatt, of the Agricultural Development and Advice Service (ADAS) who gets £1,000-£1,500 for an initial look-see.

Mr. Jon Abbatt at work. What power. Oh yes, did I forget the huge responsibility of protecting all these critters in ponds and barns.

If governmental bureaucrats could get as zealous about wiping out extreme poverty, like the kind in Sudan, or AIDS, or a bunch of other HUMAN problems, as they do about protecting a few reptiles and birds, then it might mean something.

Otherwise, forget it. All of your work is in vain, and I for one would not give one wooden nickel to all of their efforts. Humans first Please.

As Mr. Abbatt is standing in front of St. Peter at the pearly gates,

St Peter asks Jon: And what did you do with your life?

Jon: I relocated 34 newts, 129 bats and 8 badgers saving them from people encroaching on their territory.

St. Peter: How did it help the people?

Jon: Well, they did have to pay a bunch more for their homes, but they could feel good about the newts having their own pond.

St. Peter: But how did it help humans, you know, your neighbor, your brother and sister?

Jon: I created places where newts could live secure and free of humans, and people could enjoy looking at them in these ponds.

St. Peter: Jon, you are going back to try again. One more time, only this time, hmm, let’s see Jon, How would you like to see a part of Africa?  Or, there’s an opening for a smart kid in China, Mexico or someplace in Iran.

As I see It.

To appease the policies of local schools, the long time traditional Dickens Christmas Festival in Saginaw, Michigan had to be renamed to the Dickens HOLIDAY Festival.  Why?  Because they wanted to advertise the festival in the local schools and the schools had implemented a policy that the word Christmas (and Santa and Nativity too) could not be used in the schools.   Banned the words.  Can’t say or write these offending words in a school.  

The public school program in Saginaw even has what they call “The Birth through Five Program” which begins with a hospital visit upon the birth of the child and continues through age five. 

How much longer before a mother is considered as only the deliverer of a child?

I really did not want to call John Edwards a wannabe dictator, so to make it a bit softer sounding, I invented a new word (new to the online dictionary anyway): tyrannist, which means someone exercising tyrannical absolute power.

And that is what his Health Care stupid idea would be, would do as it would give to the government absolute power over your health care.

“I’m mandating healthcare for every man woman and child in America and that’s the only way to have real universal healthcare.”

“Every time you go into contact with the health care system or the government you will be signed up.” ” . . . whether it’s payment of taxes, school, going to the library, whatever it is they will be signed up.”

When asked by a reporter if an individual decided they didn’t want healthcare Edwards quickly responded, “You don’t get that choice.” ABC News.

Amazing.

It’s really not all that amazing for a politician seeking power to think this way, as it’s kind of what we expect nowadays. But it really is amazing that perhaps many millions of Americans could agree that this could be a solution for our imaginary health care crisis.   The US of A does not have a Health Care crisis.   Has not been one.  There is not one.

There will be one if democrats have it their way.

Edwards is done in by his own yakety-yak.

As I See It.