Folks, this was just brought to my attention. Jim Cannon at Thinking Right, is currently engageged in sending letters of encouragement to servicemen in the Navy. You can be a part of this great project. Please take a moment to visit Jim’s site and then send your letters of ecouragement to the men and women of the USS Russell. Please send your letters to: letters@thinking-right.com

Hmmm…Looks like Obama is finally beginning to feel the heat emanating from the kitchen. His good buddy Rev. Wright has spoken one too many times.

Obama said, “I am outraged by the comments that were made and saddened by the spectacle that we saw yesterday.”

I’m really surprised that Obama has taken this long to speak out. There’s really no tellin” how much damage Wright has done to Obama’s campaign.

It looks to me that what is good for the goose is definitely not good for the gander.
It doesn’t seem to bother Mr. Polis one bit to criticize his opponent for the very same things that he indulges in himself. Funny how are….must be in the blood.

Oh yeah, while I’m thinkin’ of it,the other thing that really bothers me is the way Mr. Polis has chosen to invest his money. Yes, I know that one should be free to invest in those stocks that are most likely to bring a decent retrurn on one’s money. However, it really doesn’t take a genius to see that Polis is doing the very thing that he is accusing his opponent of doing. Mighty. Strange.

Jared Polis divested himself of stock in these companies with atrocious environmental and human- rights records as soon as he discovered them through his fund manager,” campaign spokeswoman Dayna Hanson said in an e-mail.

Additionally, Polis still has investments worth between $250,000 and $500,000 in the Far East Energy Corp., which explores “some of the largest coalbed methane projects in China,” according to its website.

Kinda hypocritical don’t ya think.

And….one more for the road:

A Polis news release on March 6 criticized Fitz-Gerald for taking money from what it alleged were some of the “largest anti-environmental corporations and human-rights violators in the world.” Polis had investments in four of those companies.

Hanson said Polis netted only a few hundred dollars from two of them, and one — which provided him $100,000 to $1 million — was only a week-long investment.

It never ends, does it?

I’ve copied the following in its entirety from Colorado Family Action, because its so terribly important that we act on thiis now:

Urgent: Contact Your Colorado Representative!!

The Colorado state legislators are meddling again in private interests that they have no business regulating, in particular religious institutions.

Senate Bill 167 would force all private colleges, bible colleges, and seminaries, to receive formal approval by the Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE). This commission would be given the authority to determine if a private college is accredited based on policies they have created. SB 167 bill goes on to give the CCHE the right to revoke a private college’s authorization if the school fails to gain accreditation.

But potentially the most devastating effect of this bill would be that students have the ability to file complaints based on a failure to provide the educational services for which the student enrolled with the CCHE. The Commission can then drag the our religious universities through litigation and revoke their academic accreditation if they wished.

It is this continued attempt to regulate religious institutions that liberal legislators see as their responsibility. However, taking away a religious institutions right to determine its own curriculum is unconstitutional. We can not let our private schools be intimidated into educating students based on what the state government dictates.

Despite our attempts, SB 167 was passed in the Senate and has now been sent to the House for vote. It is your duty to tell your Representatives that you do not wish for our religious universities to be subject to further government imposed regulation.

Hate to be just a linker ad not a thinker, but this reporting of a day in Samarra is well worth the time invested in reading it. It give a great deal of insight into what our warriors go thru on a daily basis.

Well, that’s where I spent the better part of late Sunday morning and early Sunday afternoobn. I mean, well, flying the B17, but watching him shoot landings and taking a gajillion pictures. Lot. Of. Fun.

It’s a difficult to realize that men actually went to war in these birds. Most of the bombing runs in Europe were made at 20-30 thousand feet. For what it’s worth, the cabin was neither pressurized nor heated. Temperatures often dropped to 20-30 degrees below zero in the cabin. To clamber aboard and look around gives ya a whole new appreciation for what the “finest generation” endured to protect our liberty. If you see a WWII vet, offer him your thanks for what he did.

Often times we forget that there is another front to the war in SW Asia. The following embeded video reminds us that there is also heavy in Afghanistan.

Nuts

Ex-President Carter (He of double digit inflation and block long gas lines) is up to his old tricks again. According to those in the know, this visit will boost Hamas’ credibility on the world scene. Funny how the Dems have a habit of doing this. For those of you that don’t remember, President Clinton accomplished the same thing when he sat down for a visit with Yasser Arafat.

ME: Hmmm…uh, well, lesee..does this button work? Whadaya mean password? So what. I forgot it.

COMPUTER: Click here and I’ll send it to you.

ME: Ooooo…kay. Yep that’s it. Got it. Now, what to write. Well, maybe an excuse…hmmmm, no, that won’t do. How ’bout the truth. Well, there’s really no excuse for the prolonged absence. Just doin’ things that didn’t include blogging. In a flash of brilliance, I decided that if I was gona pay $18 every month to the good folks at Blogs About, I’d probably better write something every now and then.

Well, where to start after 4 months of absence from the blogging scene?

Victor Davis Hanson of the National Review sums up the goin’s on in the Cliton household pretty well:

If the current president hasn’t been helped by the present campaign, look what’s it’s done to his predecessor. The Clinton legacy is wrecked. Left-wing bloggers, liberal columnists, and some Democratic politicians now despise Bill and Hillary Clinton — even more than did “the vast right-wing conspiracy” of the 1990s.

A furious Hillary keeps charging the media with the same sort of bias that the Republicans used to routinely claim always favored her husband. Apparently the Left has become infatuated with Barack Obama and does not want another eight years of the once-iconic Clintons — especially after their use of the race card, the hardball politics, and Hillary’s chronic exaggeration and misstatements.

Don’t think that I’d want to be a fly on the wall around there….way too much danger from flying objects.

The war against terrorism is progessing now that the politicians have decided to let the “boots on the ground” run things. General Petraeus, Chief Cook and Bottle Washer and head of all things military, summed things up this way:

What tactics are working? “We got down at the people level and are staying,” he said flatly. “Once the people know we are going to be around, then all kinds of things start to happen.”

Rather than continue with all of the newsworthy events of today, I’ll call it quits for now. Wouldn’t want to develop carpal tunnel syndrome what with all the typing and such, you know. Happy Trails for now and we’ll write again, later.