Archive: February 2009
Bonus Quote du Jour

An organized mind at work is a wonderful thing to watch. During his address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, President Barack Obama placed the mind of his presidency on display, and it was wonderfully organized. The speech — a State of the Union stand-in — presented a clear, mostly left-of-center agenda [...]

What Would You Give Up?

We’d like to take a moment and salute our Catholic friends and relatives who are giving something up for Lent, which starts today and continues for 39 more. We know our cousin Dianne is giving up smoking — a corker idea and one for which she has our full support.
Others cite sweets and sodas. I [...]

Quote du Jour

“He had me at ‘Madame Speaker.’”
— Steve Schale (1975 – ), Democratic consultant and chair of Obama’s Florida campaign, reacting to the president’s speech on the stimulus plan

So-Called Liberal Media Skews Obama Approval Ratings…Downward

That pesky liberal media is at it again. Here’s the headline from CNN:
68% Give Obama Speech a Thumbs-Up
Hmmm…so if 68 percent liked it, then I guess 32 percent didn’t, right? Wrong. Actually, almost everyone liked it.
Sixty-eight percent of speech-watchers questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey had a very positive reaction, with 24 percent indicating [...]

Video: Governor of California Smoking Pot

Arnold Schwarzenegger smoking pot
This video from the 1970s is appropriate now because a bill has been introduced in the California Legislature to legalize the state’s $14 billion marijuana industry. The taxes on the pot could add as much as $1 billion per year in tax revenue, which would be helpful now because the state is [...]

West Virginia Hate Group Posts Ad Depicting Gays As Snipers

Last week, a Mormon politician in Utah compared gay people with Islamic radicals. Now an anti-gay group in West Virginia has released an online ad that depicts gays as snipers by showing a dual-gender couple and their children in the crosshairs of rifle scope.
Wayne Besen of Truth Wins Out (TWO), has called on the hate [...]

Flight of Fancy

What happens when you launch a paper airplane from the 31st floor of a New York City office building? A very cool short video.
Flying from Sam Fuller on Vimeo.

Not Content to Deny Marriage to Gays, Group Wants to Legislate Divorce

The Palm Beach Post published an editorial today that takes a tough stance against the group that backed the scabrous Amendment 2 passed in the recent election that defined marriage as between a man and a woman, period. Now it appears that they want to pretty much outlaw divorce, ostensibly for the sake of Florida’s [...]

The Rewritin’ o’ Histry Continues

Like 75 percent of the twits who worked for him in the gubmint, George W. Bush is unemployed. However, the resourceful Texan has signed on with the Washington Speakers Bureau (slogan: “Inspiration from the World’s Greatest Minds”), making himself available on the Rotary Club circuit for fees that “vary based on event location.”
Here is [...]

Quote du Jour

These Obama bucks might be worse than Monopoly money because Monopoly money is real, and the Obama bucks cost you in the end.
— Florida State Sen. Mike Bennett, R-Bradenton