12 July, 2009

I'd Give Him A Medal


Man steals cats from shelter to save their lives.

What makes me nuts about this kind of story is the simple fact that the veterinary clinic felt it necessary to call the police and fire the director simply on an allegation that she helped him out. Faced with having to euthanize kill those cats, you'd think the shelter folks would have been happier than clams that they were gone, right?

Wrong-o.

I, for one, would have held the door for this guy while he boosted the cats.

Timely



(hat tip Rodger)

Stimulus Not Working???

I've been hearing and reading that the much-touted stimulus package isn't doing what they expected it to do ('they' being the sub-moronic members of Congress who voted for the pig).

Whaddya mean, it isn't working?

It's working just fine, thank you very much. It's doing exactly what Obama, Biden, Reid , Pelosi, Frank and the rest of the clown-shoe-wearing Ringling-Brothers-rejects in DC expected it to do ...

Destroy America's economy and turn us into the biggest third-world welfare state on the planet.

As for Biden's comment that the government 'misread the economy', he's not talking about this mythical 'non-working' stimulus: he's telling us that the economy is more resilient than they'd first imagined.

The stimulus was supposed to finish us off a whole lot sooner than it has.

And, since it hasn't, that's why they're stumping for another stimulus bill.

A second one might - just might - speed up the process of wiping us out.

Joyful, Joyful



[Lauryn Hill]
Joyful, Joyful
Lord, we adore Thee
God of glory
Lord of love
Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee
Hail Thee as the sun above
Melt the clouds of sin and sadness
Drive the dark of doubt away
Giver of immortal gladness
Fill us with the light
Fill us with the light
Oh, fill us with the light of day......

[Choir]
Joyful, Joyful
Lord, we adore Thee
God of glory
Lord of love
Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee
Hail Thee as the sun above
Melt the clouds of sin, sin and sadness
Drive the dark of doubt away
Drive it away
Giver of immortal gladness
Fill us
Fill us with the light of day
Light of day!

[Rap]
(Check the rhyme)
Joyful, Joyful
Lord we adore Thee
An' in my life
I put none before Thee
Cuz since I was a youngster
I came to know
That you was the only way to go
[switch rapper]
So I had to grow an' come to an understandin'
That I'm down with the King so now I'm demandin'
That you tell me who you down with, see
Cuz all I know is that I'm down with G-O-D
You down with G-O-D?
(Yeah, you know me)
You down with G-O-D?
(Yeah, you know me)
You down with G-O-D?
(Yeah, you know me)
Who's down with G-O-D?
(Everybody)

[4 girls]
Come and join the chorus
The mighty, mighty chorus
Which the morning stars begun
The Father of love is reigning over us

[Lauryn Hill] Right away

[Choir]
What have you done for Him lately?
Ooh, ooh, ooh yeah
What have you done for Him lately?

He watches over everything
So we sing

Joyful, Joyful
Lord, we adore Thee
God of glory
Lord of love
Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee
Hail Thee as the sun above
Melt the clouds of sin, sin and sadness
Drive the dark of doubt away
Drive it away
Giver of immortal gladness ([Lauryn Hill] won't you)
Fill us ([Ryan Toby] Fill us with the light of day, Lord, fill us)
Fill us ([Ryan Toby] oh we need You, yes we do, fill us)
Fill us ([Ryan Toby] yeah..., oh, oh yeah)
Fill us ([3 guys] with the light of day, Lord)
....
([Lauryn Hill] We need you, come right away,
we need you, need you today, we need you,
I'm here to say fill us, fill us, fill us, fill us...)

Fill us with the light of day ([Lauryn Hill] oh, yeah)
Light of day!

07 July, 2009

The Whole Palin Thing


A couple readers of this blog (who never comment, by the way) asked me via e-mail for my take on this whole Sarah-Palin-quit-as-governor-of-Alaska thing. Since her resignation announcement, I’ve let it mull over in my head.

Considering I haven’t been listening too much to the news (basically, the news nowdays is nothing more than left-wing liberal-speak), my take on it is based on what I might do if I was in her shoes.

Here goes.

Imagine yourself being selected as the running mate for the Republican nominee for the Presidency of the United States. It rapidly devolves that you are more ‘Republican’ (read that as ‘conservative’) than your running mate. Imagine beginning to see bumper stickers with your name, THEN the Presidential nominee’s name. Imagine hearing and seeing screaming, cheering throngs wherever you give a speech, whereas when your running mate speechifies, he or she garners little more than respectful applause, much of which seems more and more forced as the campaign goes on.

It wouldn’t take you long to realize that you’ve been roped to a dying horse in the most important race of your life, right?

Now let’s imagine that, because of your popularity among the masses, the Enemy (in this case, the opposition party) and their henchmen (and women) in the media begin chopping at you like a bunch of demented loggers in an old-growth forest. Personal attacks, such as those on your intelligence, your faith, your family and friends, grow increasingly hostile and, to a greater and greater extent based on thin truths, lies and outright whole-cloth fabrications. Imagine having to endure vilification day after day, month after month.

Now imagine that, slowly but surely, members of your own political party begin joining in on the bashing. Rather than extolling your virtues and your values, they too begin to vilify you in the press and in person. They call you ‘extreme’. They call you ‘ultra-conservative’. They call you ‘inexperienced’. Even your running mate – that dying old horse – refuses to stand by you under the assault.

Then the inevitable happens: you and your running mate lose. But the vilification, name-calling, fabrications from whole cloth don’t stop. In fact, they increase, turning from what was once pretty typical (albeit vicious) electioneering mud-slinging into vile slanders and personal attacks that wouldn’t be acceptable in a waterfront bar-fight between a band of hookers and a cadre of drunken sailors.

Add to this ever increasing diatribes and vilification from members of your own party. Imagine being blamed for your running-mate’s loss, simply because of your gender or your ‘ultra-conservatism’. Imagine having your faith belittled by talkingheads who worship nothing less than the modern gods of Power and Political Correctness. Imagine these same talkingheads verbally attacking your own children and offering their opinions that your daughters are brown-bag lunches for rapists or that your son – afflicted by a genetic disorder and requiring specialized care and affection – isn’t yours (he’s actually your daughter’s, and you’re guilty of allowing such a ‘deformed’ child to live, taking on the responsibility of the child so that your daughter’s reputation doesn’t suffer, nor does your own political career).

Imagine being falsely accused of and pilloried for the very same sins and iniquities of which your accusers are guilty of on a daily basis.

And now imagine that the political party you belong to, the party for which you spent over a year of your life running from state to state in a bid to keep them in power in the White House, turns on you completely.

Would you want to be a member of that party? Would you want your political future linked to a party which is rapidly becoming exactly like the opposition in its mindless, frothing hatred for those things which had actually made it an opposing political party in the first place?

I certainly wouldn’t.

Sarah Palin, IMHO, is not a Republican. She’s a Conservative (big-C Conservative, mind you). She resigned the governorship of Alaska, but I think, more importantly, she resigned from the Republican Party (at least in her heart and head she did). When an alliance no longer embraces the tenets you joined under, it’s time to move on. Sarah sees this in the Republican Party, so, rather than be tarred by the same brush as people like McCain, the Congresscritters from Maine, and every other RINO in the herd, she’s divorcing herself from them.

But don’t count her out. As has been noted by a few other blog-pundits out here in the Ether, it’s quite possible Sarah may be the vanguard of a new and improved Conservative Republican Party.

We conservatives are looking for Hope and Change, just like the Fifty-Two’ers who put Captain Hopey McChangeitude in the big leather chair at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in November. Perhaps in people like Sarah Palin, our Hope and Change is coming.

05 July, 2009

Oh, Maria


Hail holy Queen enthroned above,
Oh Maria,
Hail mother of Mercy and of Love,
Oh Maria,

Triumph all ye cherubim!
Sing with us ye seraphim!
Heaven and Earth, resound the hymn!

Salve (salve), salve, salve Regina!

(Clapping Hands)

Hail holy Queen enthroned above,
Oh Maria,
Hail mother of Mercy and of Love,
Oh Maria,

Triumph all ye cherubim!
Sing with us ye seraphim!
Heaven and Earth, resound the hymn!

Salve, salve-salve, salve Regina!

(Piano)

Our life, our sweetness here below,
(Oh-o-o)Oh Maria,
Our hope in sorrow and in woe (woe-oh-oh),
Oh Maria,

Triumph all ye cherubim (cherubim),
Sing with us ye seraphim (seraphim),
Heaven and Earth resound the Hymn!

Salve, salve-salve, salve Regina!

A-le-lu-iah

Mater ad mater inter marata
Sanctus sanctus dominus
Virgo respice mater ad spice
Sanctus sanctus dominus

A-le-lu-iah (A-le-lu-iah)

Our life, our sweetness here below,
Oh-o-oh-o Maria,
Our hope in sorrow and in woe,
Woh-o-oh-o Maria,

Triumph all ye cherubim (cherubim),
Sing with us ye seraphim (sweet seraphim)
Heaven and Earth, resound the Hymn!

Salve, salve-salve, salve Regina! (Salve yeah)
Salve Regina! (woh-o-oh)
Salve Regina!

04 July, 2009

Boy, Do We Need This...

Now more than ever...



Or, for you country fans (and I, personally, think this rendition comes closest to Kate's ...)