Not so much

"this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow..."
Barack H. Obama's Nomination Victory speech, 2008, St. Paul 

Dreams Come True for America / Pachelbel Canon by Jon Secada & Rebecca H...

Seasonal goal

1000 miles, 1,000,000 peddles.
Around the lake, 'n through the prairie.
Over hill, and over dale,

a thousand miles, with no travail.
The sights I've seen, the sounds I've heard,
All nature sings, her God confirmed.

quote of the day

 I have never known a word to become absolute dogma, without a speck of evidence, the way "diversity" has.  Thomas Sowell

The company of mockers

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly;
Nor stands in the path of sinners,
nor sits in the seat of the scornful.

But his delight is in the law of the Lord
and on it,
he meditates day and night.

He shall be like a tree planted by springs of water
which yields its fruit in due season,
and whose leaf shall not wither.
And whatsoever he does will prosper.

Not so the wicked.
They are like chaff that the wind blows away.
Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.

For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous.
But the way of the wicked leads to destruction.
Psalm 1   

The torch America carries is one of decency and hope. It is not America’s torch alone. But it is America’s duty – and honor – to hold it high enough that all the world can see its light.
Governor Mitt Romney

Blaming misery on the successful has been the Democrat playbook since FDR (despite the fact that FDR, JFK, Al Gore, and John Kerry were and are all multi-millionaires).

Bruce Walker, American Thinker

Madison Rising - The Star Spangled Banner

Insightful quote of the week with commentary

The generation coming of age in the '60s rejected the old standards without a thoughtful replacement.  They wanted no rules limiting their behavior.  Their slogan was "If it feels good, do it."  Gary Horne, American Thinker

Growing up in southern California during the 60's time frame, this was precisely the creed of the era.  But 50 years later, that vacuous mantra of moral relativism has reaped an ocean full of rudder-less ships.  Do you know any of these hapless souls traversing without a moral compass?  God save us one and all.  In the end, He has the best ideas for human conduct.  cm    


Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/10/a_society_without_rules.html#ixzz28YqSIgWw

JoyFul sporting her inimitable style.
What a Doll

President Romney debating an empty chair
(Thanx Clint:  This metaphor never gets old)

Author unknown, but truth nevertheless

Leftism is not an ideology.  No sane person thinks "soaking the rich" or "investing tax dollars" achieves any particular objective.  The creation of predefined bogeymen is an ancient and unsavory strategy for seizing and then holding power -- the Jewish people can testify to that grim fact -- and there is nothing more to it than that.  Leftist leaders today are simply the barbarian warlords of centuries ago who promised to steal and to share the spoils of what others have worked to produce.  

The conjuring up of eternal victims and eternal victimizers was at the heart of this black magic.

The purpose of these sorts of systems is not the achievement of professed goals, but rather permanent justification for holding power.