Every Breath You Take...

Every Move You Make... Now violates the Federal Clean Air Act.

Team Hopenchange know their cap-n-tax scheme is dead in Congress, so they're going around the legislative process and imposing large portions of it on us by regulatory fiat. The end justifies the means and all that.

More Is Less.

Only a government mind thinks adding 111 new programs, committees, cooperatives, and projects will make your health care more efficient, more accessible, and more affordable.

In a few years, when you pay 30 percent of your income to the government for health care and have to wait in line for hours for urgent care for your sick child, remember all this "reform" was to benefit you.

Hattip: Maggie's Farm.

Harry Reid Is Watching You.

So now, America, freedom is slavery. Where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah...

Can 'Ignorance is Strength' be far behind?

And Another Reason Why This Day May Well Live In Infamy.

The UN's Copenhagen conference on capitalist-caused global warming "climate change" opened this week, which giving us yet another opportunity to play...

Spot The Hypocrite!

It seems our ruling-class betters and their "settled science" experts have a plan to deal with the "global crisis", which can be summed up thusly: We have to destroy human civilization and progress in order to save it. (Now where have we heard similar logic? Anyone? Anyone? Oh, yeah... -ed.)

If our ruling betters and "experts" have their way, in a few years all us little folks will be living according to their moral and economic choices - for our own good, of course. We'll have our very own Zimababwe! I can't wait.

Monday Afternoon Wicked Cool.

Concrete cloth, and some other new materials will peg your geek-o-meter.

Hattip: Soldier Systems.

A Date Which Will Live In Infamy.

68 years ago today:


Image from here

Please remember in your prayers today Lt. (jg.) Ralph Hollis, USS Arizona.

We Have A New Pointy Hat! (UPDATED)

The Very Reverend Morris Thompson has been elected the 11th Episcopal Bishop of Louisiana. He appears to be one of the "moderates", which gives me pause - especially since the lefties seemed to desert their man for him during the balloting. But on the other hand, Thompson was a Marine.

We shall see. And pray.

UPDATE: You Can't Fix Revision... My wife's comment after seeing Rev. Thompson's image: "Lordy, they elected Ron White as Bishop"!

UPDATE 06DEC09: Had several conversations at church today (a large, conservative parish) about our new Bishop-elect, and the responses ranged from not-at-all-happy to wait-and-see. Several parishioners, who followed this more closely than your humble blogger, say Thompson will operate in the mold of our current Presiding Bishop - that is, left-wing secularism posing as theology - but will couch it in "moderate" terminology. They say he seems to be a corporate man, and will follow orders from the top. If that is correct (I pray it isn't), the Diocese of Louisiana is in for a very bumpy ride. If he allows an openly non-celibate gay priest in this Diocese, or requires parishes perform SSB, or uses Diocese funds to support something like the RCRC, the new Bishop will see a commensurate crash in church membership and Sunday attendance. And Diocese income crashing along with it. Our Diocese will not so much tear itself apart as wither away.

Rev. Thompson has a very difficult challenge before him. Pray God gives him the wisdom and grace to make wise decisions and right actions.

Your Troubles Are Over; I'm Here. Again.

Oh, the ego:

By switching his visit from Dec. 9 to Dec. 18, Obama appears to be betting that his presence can - as he has expressed hope for several times in the past - push the negotiations "over the top" toward an agreement.

Take hope dear readers - we all know how well this approach worked the last time Barry went to Copenhagen.

Hattip: Instapundit.

Skiing The Decline.

It's early December. It's South Louisiana. And, for the second year in a row, we're expecting snow. Yes, snow. Not a few flakes in the air, but measurable stuff on the ground. (And yes, if it sticks your humble blogger be out X-country skiing again.)

Dear readers, "global warming" is worse than a joke; it's a fraud. Someone should "hide the decline" up Al Gore's arse.

Respect The Dignity Of Every Living Dolphin...

The things I find at lunch. If The Episcopal Church (tm) doesn't have a blessing for this already, I'm sure they will soon...


From here.

But this image collection, about CIA tricks in the Cold War, is pretty cool.

A Simple Question.

If you can't buy health insurance across state lines, it isn't 'interstate commerce', now is it? So how can Congress claim to mandate it and regulate it?

Wondering...

Family Sees Vitality In Grandma Amisdst Challenges.

You know that awkward moment at a funeral when folks view the body? Everyone there knows the reality, yet they still say, "Doesn't she look nice."

Here's a classic example of the same thing:
Committee sees vitality in Episcopal Church amidst challenges.

The Mainstream Media Protection Amendment.

Seems Senator Feinstien thinks freedom of speech and freedom of the press are best left to "professional" journalists. You know, the same ones soon to be dependent on government bailouts for their paychecks.

I guess people like you and me, well... we should be seen and not heard.

Settled Climate Science.

From the 1970's:

However widely the weather varies from place to place and time to time, when meteorologists take an average of temperatures around the globe they find that the atmosphere has been growing gradually cooler for the past three decades. The trend shows no indication of reversing. Climatological Cassandras are becoming increasingly apprehensive, for the weather aberrations they are studying may be the harbinger of another ice age.

Telltale signs are everywhere —from the unexpected persistence and thickness of pack ice in the waters around Iceland to the southward migration of a warmth-loving creature like the armadillo from the Midwest. Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data. When Climatologist George J. Kukla of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory and his wife Helena analyzed satellite weather data for the Northern Hemisphere, they found that the area of the ice and snow cover had suddenly increased by 12% in 1971 and the increase has persisted ever since. Areas of Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic, for example, were once totally free of any snow in summer; now they are covered year round.

(emphasis mine)

Remember this the next time you hear global warming described as "settled science", requiring draconian government control over large parts of the US economy and your freedom.

Hattip: Ed Driscoll.

A Daily Advent Devotional Guide.

Here.

Hattip: Maggie's Farm.

Laugh Of The Day.

I'm no 'Birther', but this is funny.

Hattip: Theo Spark, and Carole.

A Pointy Hat Is Coming To Town.

I really haven't sworn off blogging about The Episcopal Church (tm), but since General Convention this summer it's seemed pretty pointless. I mean, how do you parody something that's now, officially, a parody of itself?

But there is still news: Here in Louisiana this weekend we will hold a special convention to elect the 11th Bishop of Louisiana. The slate is one orthodox-conservative, one mostly conservative (former RC), three "moderates" (that is, who knows...), and one Schori look-alike - priest as second career, only six years since ordination, superb post-structuralist, whatever-you-want-it-to-mean language skills, yadda, yadda. Interestingly, only one is from a Louisiana parish; which is where, traditionally, our Diocese calls it's Bishops.

After the initial lay meetings last summer on what we wanted in the next bishop, I was pretty pleased at the desire for eschewing earthy-crunchy "relevance" and promoting orthodoxy. But I've seen a partial list of the delegates to the electing convention and, now, I'm not so confident. We shall see.

UPDATE: Current EDoLA newsletter is here. They plan to post ballot updates online as the votes are taken.

Quote Of The Day.

This isn't mine, though I wish it was:

"Barack Obama is making Jimmy Carter look strong, Bill Clinton look ethical, and Geoorge W. Bush look smart".

If polling is any indication, a lot of folks are reaching the same conclusion.

Our Hopenchange Future.

The fruits of Obama's "reforms". We can still stop such Lefty silliness in 2010 if we organize, and put things right in 2012.

Hattip: Instapundit.

Get Ready For 2010.

If you're a Democrat, it's going to be a very bumpy ride. And you can't blame Bush for it this time.