Lame Cherry: Independence Day

Lame Cherry: Independence Day

Sarah
he three greatest leaders in the past 100 years were like Winston Churchill in England in the wilderness of politics before God tapped them to revive America and lead her to unsully the liberal whoring which she had been sold into.

Theodore Roosevelt was a rancher and cowboy in the Dakota Territories of the Badlands in the years leading up to his almost Joseph ascension to lead the United States.
The GOP stuck Roosevelt in the Vice Presidential slot to just get rid of that "damned cowboy" as the patricians of Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, Noel Sheppard, Bill O'Reilly, Joseph Farah and their past likenesses referred to TR.
Roosevelt stated that it was that cowboy experience which prepared him for being President and he could not have done the job without living that life.

Richard Nixon, these patricians questioning Sarah Palin, forget he was out of politics for 8 years before ascending to the Presidency in America's time of need.
If the patricians had not engineered that coup on Mr. Nixon, he would have been remembered by all now as one of the greatest leaders in world history, which he was. Even with the Sarah Palin political rape Mr. Nixon endured and still endures by liberals, those who comprehend history know completely how Richard Nixon put the first spike in the coffin of the Soviet Union.

Ronald Reagan, the epitome of the American rugged individual, was not a Governor, not a Senator, not an Ambassador. He was simply Ronald Reagan, American Citizen for almost a decade before God rose up this rod of Gideon to save America. Exactly like Gov. Palin, Mr. Reagan was not in politics, but was like Esther chosen for that moment in history when God called.

It is fitting to remind people of Esther as her example was brought up in 2008 connected to Sarah Palin.
Esther was a Benjaminite, and not a Jew as people forget Judah had 3 tribes in Judah, Benjamin and Levi at that time of captivity.

Esther was chosen to be Queen to replace a haughty woman who was humiliating her husband. For all the good Hillary Clinton could do, she has chosen too often the expedient course and made a weak Bill Clinton weaker. Mrs. Clinton in this Obama tenure has mimicked the worst of Obama when she could have excelled in freedom for Honduras and benefited by listening to her husband, instead of tagging along with Obama to the abyss.
Queen Esther though while being chosen for the first inclusion into power, soon enough was set aside and quite overlooked by the King.

It was in the moment of need for the Jews, when her Uncle, Mordecai and all 3 tribes were about to be slaughtered, that he had to remind her, that being Queen would not stop her from being hung too, and God put her there for His purpose and either she stood up for what was right or God would find someone who would.
Esther risked her life, risked her position in government and if the King had not granted her and audience, she would have been put to death and in the days following there never would have been a Jew left in the world as the Empire would have created a complete holocaust then.

So I see no problem in the least with Sarah Palin being like Theodore Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Queen Esther or Lady Liberty, as all were in the political wilderness, without party, without support, and without any chance given by the experts, and yet they all had God helping them and by God they arose to where He willed them to be to serve America.

Right Wing Nut House � PALIN RETREATS

Right Wing Nut House � PALIN RETREATS

Jim Geraghty had the best explanation for this extravagant, unprecedented hatred directed against Palin:

Hugh suggested it tied to the contrast between her lifestyle and her critics: “She is the embodiment of the anti-choice, the opposite of every choice that lefty elites have ever made — as to going back home instead of moving to the west coast, having children, having a child with Down’s, staying married to one man the whole time, choosing rural or suburban over urban and living a generally conservative lifestyle, working with her hands . . . That everything she is is the antithesis of everything that liberal urban elites are, so it’s not just enough to say, ‘I disagree with you,’; she has to be repudiated and crushed.”

And now, I would submit a slight refining of that idea, that the seeming happiness of Palin’s life is a 24-7 irritant because it challenges the way some liberals see the world.

Liberals believe that their ideas, philosophy, worldview, and policies liberate believers, and that the conservative equivalents limit people. Liberals see themselves as rejecting outdated beliefs and obsolete ideas, overturning established orders, and discarding traditions established by superstitious and ignorant forebears who weren’t as enlightened as we are. Conservatives, in their minds, are runaway cultural superegos, always wagging their fingers about individual responsibility, dismissing excuses, reminding people that they can’t always do what they want because of the consequences to themselves and to others.

Conservatism, they suspect, will leave you in a marriage that doesn’t satisfy you, burden you with children you don’t want, repress your passions, and trap you in a empty, boring, and unfulfilled life, with no hand of government able to help.

Vinegar and Honey

Vinegar and Honey
An American Without Reserve
by Daniel Webster

I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American; and I intend to perform the duties incumbent upon me in that character to the end of my career. I mean to do this with absolute disregard of personal consequences.

What are the personal consequences? What is the individual man, with all the good or evil that may betide him, in comparison with the good or evil which may befall a great country, and in the midst of great transactions which concern that country's fate?

Let the consequences be what they will, I am careless. No man can suffer too much, and no man can fall too soon, if he suffer, or if he fall, in the defense of the liberties and constitution of his country.


In spite of everything that's going on in our great country right now, I know that there are still those who echo those very words of Daniel Webster, and have within their hearts, a commitment to do whatever is required to preserve the freedoms for which so many have sacrificed and died.

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical�

Curmudgeonly & Skeptical�: "'The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other peoples' money.' - Margaret Thatcher"

VDH's Private Papers::Thuggery 101

VDH's Private Papers::Thuggery 101: "Mr. President, do not talk to a thug unless you absolutely have to. Do not apologize to — or put our trust in — one. And whenever people rise up against a thug, speak out immediately and forcefully on their behalf — and let the thug, not America, worry about the consequences of the spread of freedom."

VDH's Private Papers::Obama II vs. Obama I

VDH's Private Papers::Obama II vs. Obama I: "In response, as I read between the lines, conservatives are told by the Obamans something to the effect, 'Forget our prior demagoguery, aren't you at least happy we backtracked and are now adopting some of your war-on-terror positions we used to trash?', while liberals are supposed to be happy with something like, 'Just forget all that stuff about ethics, transparency, and anti-lobbying/influence; we're in power now and will do anything necessary to fulfill your agenda.'

There will be a backlash to all this, and one of unprecedented fury."

VDH's Private Papers::Thoughts on a Schizophrenic Society

VDH's Private Papers::Thoughts on a Schizophrenic Society

Francis W. Porretto - Eternity Road

Francis W. Porretto - Eternity Road

I am heartbroken.

Only this morning, as a comment to this post at GM's Place about the ongoing campaign to destroy Sarah Palin, I had this to say:

Hatred can have many geneses. Palin-hatred might partake of several.

First, there's Governor Palin's exceedingly "conventional" home life, in which she's happy and stable. Quite a lot of people will never know such a life. They envy it in the Ayn Rand sense: "hatred of the good for being the good." The syndrome afflicts left-liberals disproportionately.

Then there's Palin's extraordinary beauty and grace. It's been said, with some justice, that politics is celebrity for ugly people; there's certainly quite a lot of ugliness on the Left. It's also been said, by P. J. O'Rourke and Ann Coulter among others, that the beautiful women are the most reliable indicators of political trends -- and the beautiful women are trending to the Right. That has to sting the vitriolic harpies on the Left.

Then there's Palin's political success. She busted every barrier the Alaskan Establishment set before her, pretty much without outside assistance. This is a "twofer:" first, because her political success owes nothing to the feminist movement, and second, because she's a conservative Republican. That puts a spear into the Left's notions that conservatives can't abide a strong woman.

Then there's Palin's sincerity about her convictions. She walks it like she talks it: devoutly Christian; pro-life even at her own expense; utterly faithful to her husband despite their frequent protracted absences from one another; loving and supportive of all her children, including her soldier son and her unwed mother daughter; and incorruptible in the performance of her duties, where so many other pols would be setting themselves up to cash in after their time in office has ended (at least). Name a left-liberal pol who left office poorer than he went in; some of them even refrigerate their bribes.

Finally, but by no means least, she wears figure-flattering clothes, grooms herself beautifully, and walks gracefully and confidently in high heels. Most women on the Left resent having to shave their legs -- some don't bother -- wear clothing that would look well on an alley-dwelling wino, and think high heels are a Republican plot.

A teenaged character in Jack Vance's novel Araminta Station asks his father why a woman hates him and Dad so. Part of the answer is that "You are everything that her son is not." I'd say that applies to Palin-hatred, as well.

Just a few minutes ago, Sarah Palin resigned as Governor of Alaska:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin shocked the political word Friday by announcing that she will step down at the end of the month and transfer power to Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell.

Palin made the announcement from her home in Wasilla, flanked by her husband, Todd, and family and state commissioners....

Palin, who defeated incumbent Gov. Murkowski in a primary in 2006,.gained national prominence when GOP presidential candidate John McCain picked her as his running mate last year. But her approval ratings in the state have skidded in recent months.

Palin has been dogged in recent months by ethics inquiries. Her office last month announced the 15th dismissal of an ethics complaint against her or one of her staff.

The campaign to bring down the best conservative officeholder in the country has succeeded...by wearing away Governor Palin's patience. Not one accusation ever stuck. Every complaint brought against her was dismissed. But each one taxed her time, her zeal, and her bank account. It took a million mosquito bites to bring down this elephant, but when substance is lacking, numbers will sometimes suffice.

It's time for freedom lovers to take a no-prisoners / no-mercy attitude toward the Democrats, the Left, the Mainstream Media, and the Republican Party establishment. All of these have contributed to Palin's departure. It is vital that none of them ever know another restful night. Dog their private lives. Dog their finances. Dog their associations. Pepper them with hostile questions and accusations at every imaginable turn.

Take vengeance for Sarah Palin.

What flows in Vegas .�.�. - The Denver Post

What flows in Vegas .�.�. - The Denver Post: "Parker and Kerkorian were introduced by 'Tiger' Mike Davis, an oil and gas veteran living in Las Vegas who sold properties to Delta in 2003. Davis, who was once married to former Denver Post owner Helen Bonfils and has a long-standing friendship with Kerkorian, received 263,158 shares in Delta as a 'finder's fee.'"

Posted: 03/09/2008 01:00:00 AM MST

reviewjournal.com -- Living: ON THE SCENE: Wynns honored at fund-raiser at Sti...

reviewjournal.com -- Living: ON THE SCENE: Wynns honored at fund-raiser at Sti...: "Two tickets to the opening gala of the Cartier Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, plus accommodations, brought in $4,000. Steve Wynn offered an opening night suite at Wynn Resort targeted for April 2005, which happens to be the 55th anniversary of the Desert Inn's opening, won by 'Tiger' Mike Davis. Winning the drawing for the 2004 H2 red Hummer was Jonathan Stiff."

Delta Petroleum Corporation Announces Close of Strategic Investment by Tracinda | Reuters

Delta Petroleum Corporation Announces Close of Strategic Investment by Tracinda | Reuters: "Delta would like to further express its appreciation to Edward 'Tiger' Mike Davis for his participation in introduction between the company and Mr. Kerkorian. Tracinda Corporation said, 'We are extremely pleased to formally enter into our long-term partnership with Delta Petroleum and its management team. Since first announcing our intention to invest, we have grown even more confident in the company's long-term strategy and ability to achieve significant growth from its well-positioned exploration projects. We look forward to lending our support and benefiting from that strategy alongside the Company's other shareholders.'"

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DENVER, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ )

Grifters, Oil Men, Tabloids, The Scrappy Ingenue, The Titans and the Hardass: An American Story | MetaFilter

Grifters, Oil Men, Tabloids, The Scrappy Ingenue, The Titans and the Hardass: An American Story | MetaFilter: "Helen, at age 69, fell in love with her chauffeur -- 'Tiger' Mike Davis, a strapping young college dropout of 28. Their romance died, and a nasty divorce ensued, in which he received a large settlement. Rolling that money into oil field investments, 'Tiger' Davis got rich."

High Altitude Attitudes: Six Savvy ... - Google Books

High Altitude Attitudes: Six Savvy ... - Google Books

Tiger Mike Davis info

Lost in a Web of intrigue

Lost in a Web of intrigue

Tiger Mike Davis info:

TigerMikeMemos - very funny

TigerMikeMemos - very funny

House of Eratosthenes

House of Eratosthenes

On Marriage: Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Says the flibbertigibbet, I screwed around on my husband, so I guess marriage can’t work out for anyone…plus, I get to write a column!

On marriage: Let’s call the whole thing off
Author Sandra Tsing Loh is ending her marriage. Is it time you did, too?
By Sandra Tsing Loh
updated 6:27 a.m. PT, Mon., June 22, 2009

Sadly, and to my horror, I am divorcing. This was a 20-year partnership. My husband is a good man, though he did travel 20 weeks a year for work. I am a 47-year-old woman whose commitment to monogamy, at the very end, came unglued. This turn of events was a surprise. I don’t generally even enjoy men; I had an entirely manageable life and planned to go to my grave taking with me, as I do most nights to my bed, a glass of merlot and a good book. Cataclysmically changed, I disclosed everything. We cried, we bewailed the fate of our children.

And yet at the end of the day — literally during a five o’clock counseling appointment, as the golden late-afternoon sunlight spilled over the wall of Balinese masks — when given the final choice by our longtime family therapist, who stands in as our shaman, mother, or priest, I realized…no. Heart-shattering as this moment was — a gravestone sunk down on two decades of history — I would not be able to replace the romantic memory of my fellow transgressor with the more suitable image of my husband, which is what it would take in modern-therapy terms to knit our family’s domestic construct back together. In women’s-magazine parlance, I did not have the strength to “work on” falling in love again in my marriage. And as Laura Kipnis railed in “Against Love,” and as everyone knows, good relationships take work.

Which is not to say I’m against work. Indeed, what also came out that afternoon were the many tasks I — like so many other working/co-parenting/married mothers — have been doing for so many years and tearfully declared I would continue doing. I can pick up our girls from school every day; I can feed them dinner and kiss their noses and tell them stories; I can take them to their doctor and dentist appointments; I can earn my half — sometimes more — of the money…I can administer hugs as needed to children, adults, dogs, cats; I can empty the litter box; I can stir wet food into dry.

Which is to say I can work at a career and child care and joint homeownership and even platonic male-female friendship. However, in this cluttered forest of my 40s, what I cannot authentically reconjure is the ancient dream of brides, even with the Oprah fluffery of weekly “date nights,” when gauzy candlelight obscures the messy house, child talk is nixed and silky lingerie donned, so the two of you can look into each other’s eyes and feel that “spark” again. Do you see? Given my staggering working mother’s to-do list, I cannot take on yet another arduous home- and self-improvement project, that of rekindling our romance. Sobered by this failure as a mother — which is to say, my failure as a wife — I’ve since begun a journey of reading, thinking, and listening to what’s going on in other 21st-century American families. And along the way, I’ve begun to wonder, what with all the abject and swallowed misery: Why do we still insist on marriage? Sure, it made sense to agrarian families before 1900, when to farm the land, one needed two spouses, grandparents, and a raft of children. But now that we have white-collar work and washing machines, and our life expectancy has shot from 47 to 77, isn’t the idea of lifelong marriage obsolete?
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Imagine driving with me now to Rachel’s house for our new 40-something social hobby — the Girls’ Night dinner. Leap not from my car, even though I realize — given my confessed extramarital affair, avowed childhood desire to see my father explode into flames, and carpet of tattered Happy Meal wrappers — I may not strike you as the most reliable explicator of modern marriage. Still, we forge on, and what I’d like to do now is recant for a moment and not be quite so hard on marriage, which I think is a very good fit for some people.
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[Helen] Fisher, a women’s cult figure and an anthropologist, has long argued that falling in love — and falling out of love — is part of our evolutionary biology and that humans are programmed not for lifelong monogamy, but for serial monogamy.

“Why Him? Why Her?” explains the hormonal forces that trigger humans to be romantically attracted to some people and not to others (a phenomenon also documented in the animal world). Fisher posits that each of us gets dosed in the womb with different levels of hormones that impel us toward one of four basic personality types:

The Explorer — the libidinous, creative adventurer who acts “on the spur of the moment.” Operative neurochemical: dopamine.

The Builder — the much calmer person who has “traditional values.” The Builder also “would rather have loyal friends than interesting friends,” enjoys routines, and places a high priority on taking care of his or her possessions. Operative neurotransmitter: serotonin.

The Director — the “analytical and logical” thinker who enjoys a good argument. The Director wants to discover all the features of his or her new camera or computer. Operative hormone: testosterone.

The Negotiator — the touchy-feely communicator who imagines “both wonderful and horrible things happening” to him- or herself. Operative hormone: estrogen, then oxytocin.

Fisher reviewed personality data from 39,913 members of Chemistry.com. Explorers made up 26 percent of the sample, Builders 28.6 percent, Directors 16.3 percent, Negotiators 29.1 percent. While Explorers tend to be attracted to Explorers, and Builders tend to be attracted to Builders, Directors are attracted to Negotiators, and vice versa.

Exclaims Ellen, slapping the book: “This is why my marriage has been dead for 15 years. I’m an Explorer married to a Builder!”

The nitwit. Guess Fisher forgot about that fifth one there. Poor schmucks that are married to these nitwits; they’re about to lose half their stuff because they made the awful mistake of allowing their nitwit wives to read books.

Yup, it’s really as bad as people think it is. Middle-aged married women with a Cinderella complex, angry that life isn’t perfect and stress free, get all sauced up and talk each other into divorces. Then they bury their gross wrinkly noses in hateful chick-books carefully designed to expunge any doubts about it that might remain, download some hunky stud off the innerwebs, and the poor schlub who was stupid enough to marry them loses half his stuff.

And then they become authorities on marriage, graciously counseling women who are more mature and mentally balanced than they are. Making craploads of money, if they get lucky…and still pulling in that alimony check. So that girls’-night-out wine-buying slush fund stays all slushy.

This is the kind of thing that makes me think our whole society needs a reboot. In a number of our most treasured institutions, the rules are made by whoever among us have proven themselves to be, without any doubt, the most dysfunctional.

Country music song of the year: 'Show Them To Me' - Bare chested women could save the...

Country music song of the year: 'Show Them To Me' - Bare chested women could save the...

The Blind Squirrel: What does Cap Trade mean to you?

The Blind Squirrel: What does Cap Trade mean to you?

What does Cap+Trade mean to you?

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Now that the House has voted on Cap and Trade without any idea what was in it.... details are starting to leak out.

The bloody bill was not even finished being written before they voted on it..... they did so blindly under party orders. The final three hundred page amendment was handed out just three hours before the vote, and the whole bill was not assembled at the time of voting.

So.... what does this little gift from congress mean to you, with its $15 per ton tax on CO2 emissions?

How about.... doubling your electric bill for a start. 57% of the electricity in the nation is from coal fired plants, and the tax will (at best) double the price of coal, plus the fuel to transport the coal, plus the fuel to dig the coal, plus.......

Heat your home with oil or gas? The new tax will add about 50% to your heating bills.

Drive a car, do you? Nice car? Enjoy that ride to work, do you? How about gas taxes increasing by up to fifty cents a gallon. Look on the bright side... maybe yours will be one of the estimated two million jobs this new tax will cost the nation. If you have no job, you'll save on gas.... what with having no place to go.

Oh... and don't forget..... every single thing you use in life..... everything you eat, wear, sit on, write on, and use.... all comes by rail and truck. All those transportation costs will go up 30% to 70%. Hmm.... another thought.... most of our nations farm fertilizers are petro-chemical based, and all the equipment to work the farms and transport the food is diesel. Look for food costs to almost double.... if you can get any.

These numbers are based the administrations most favored numbers.... the best case sce

Blogger: Home On the Range - Post a Comment

Blogger: Home On the Range - Post a Comment

Personal responsibility and the value of life and things earned.

Grouchy Old Cripple: What if...

Grouchy Old Cripple: What if...

What if...

Many of my readers sent me this. It's sumpin' for all the liberals who have been lambasting Chimpy McHalliburton Bushitler during the past eight years.

What If George W. Bush had ...

made a joke at the expense of the Special Olympics, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given Gordon Brown a set of inexpensive and incorrectly formatted DVDs, when Gordon Brown had given him a thoughtful and historically significant gift, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had given the Queen of England an iPod containing videos of his speeches, would you have thought this embarrassingly narcissistic and tacky?

If George W. Bush had bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had visited Austria and made reference to the non-existent "Austrian language," would you have brushed it off as a minor slip?

If George W. Bush had filled his cabinet and circle of advisers with people who cannot seem to keep current on their income taxes, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had been so Spanish illiterate as to refer to “Cinco de Cuatro” in front of the Mexican ambassador when it was the Fifth of May (Cinco de Mayo), and continued to flub it when he tried again, would you have winced in embarrassment?

If George W. Bush had misspelled the word advice would you have hammered him for it for years like Dan Quayle and potato as “proof” of what a dunce he is?

If George W. Bush had burned 9,000 gallons of jet fuel to go plant a single tree on “Earth Day”, would you have concluded he’s a hypocrite?

If George W. Bush’s administration had okayed Air Force One flying low over millions of people followed by a jet fighter in downtown Manhattan causing widespread panic, would you have wondered whether they actually “get” what happened on 9-11?

If George W. Bush had been the first President to need a teleprompter installed to be able to get through a press conference, would you have laughed and said this is more proof of how he is inept he is on his own and is really controlled by smarter men behind the scenes?

If George W. Bush had failed to send relief aid to flood victims throughout the Midwest with more people killed or made homeless than in New Orleans, would you want it made into a major ongoing political issue with claims of racism and incompetence?

If George W. Bush had ordered the firing of the CEO of a major corporation, even though he had no constitutional authority to do so, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had proposed to double the national debt, which had taken more than two centuries to accumulate, in one year, would you have approved?

If George W. Bush had then proposed to double the debt again within 10 years, would you have approved?

So, tell me again, what is it about Obama that makes him so brilliant and impressive? Can't think of anything? Don't worry. He's done all this in 10 weeks -- so you'll have three years and nine-and-a-half months to come up with an answer.

Monthly S&P500 Inflation Adjusted | The Big Picture

Monthly S&P500 Inflation Adjusted | The Big Picture

I meant to get to this from last week — but given that its a 140 year chart, I guess one week won’t matter much (via Ron Griess of The Chart Store):

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PERMALINK

How to discover an elephant sized field

How to discover an elephant sized field

Knowledge Is Power

Knowledge Is Power:

http://www.sondrak.com/index.php/weblog/honey_does_this_dog_make_my_ass_look_big/

Michelle/dog/ass


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