Good News From the FCC
I hadn’t heard about this.
New Blog
Today I discovered AlphaPatriot and have added it to my blogroll. Check it out.
Vasectomy
A friend is having one. He said that when he went he was told that you either had to be married for 10 years or 35+ years old. I don’t know if that is just the doctor he went to or standard.
Here’s the kicker. When he went to schedule the surgery, his wife had to sign off on it.
Let’s get this straight. If your wife wants an abortion, you have no say. If you want a vasectomy, she has to sign off on it.
Gay Marriage In Georgia
The legislature is considering the issue.
Hundreds of gay and lesbian activists rallied at the state Capitol on Friday to fight what they call an attempt to legalize discrimination. The issue is a proposed constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriage in the state. After meeting in the Capitol Rotunda, the activists fanned out to the doors of the Senate and House, sending notes asking their elected officials to come out and talk. For those who didn’t comply, the protesters waited.
I love this quote. It is so typical of the Democrats:
Sen. Mary Squires (D-Norcross), one of three legislators who attended the gathering, called the proposal political grandstanding. “This is just the Republicans trying to hurt people so that they can use it as a political tool to hurt voters,” said Squires, a candidate for U.S. Senate.
The article does not mention whether or not people who support the bill rallied for it.
The Enemy Within
Our hometown paper looks at the regional government employee union meeting held in Warner Robins, GA.
President Bush came under heavy fire Friday as officials from the American Federation of Government Employees closed out a two-day meeting at the Local 987 union hall on Watson Boulevard. The session included presidents and vice presidents from several locals within AFGE’s 5th District. The district, one of 11 in the AFGE structure, covers five Southeastern states and Puerto Rico. Speaking at a concluding town hall meeting attended by about 40 union members, AFGE national vice president Charlotte Flowers said she was tired of Bush “wrapping himself in the flag at public events and calling himself a true patriot.” Flowers, based in Atlanta and District 5s chief executive, said Bush had made federal employees the enemy. “He continues to portray us in a poor light,” she said. “It’s demoralizing. We work hard for the American people. We deeply care about the work we do. The president needs to look at federal employees if he wants to see who the true patriots are.” AFGE is the bargaining unit for about 600,000 civilian employees in the federal government. Local 987 represents some 12,000 workers at Robins Air Force Base.
Maybe if the AGFE was willing to compromise on issues like the Homeland Security department and actually do regular, consistent, decent work people wouldn’t look down on government employees. But, when they can’t be fired for doing crappy work, people will continue to view them negatively.
Abandoning Bush
There are a lot of folks out there thinking of abandoning Bush. I have considered it. I have weighed the alternatives. Without more than a simple outline, below is my thinking.
Why I Am Fed Up With Bush
He is spending money like a socialist.Medicare Farm Bill NEA Increase Proposed Energy BillHis amnesty plan that he won’t call an amnesty plan is extremely flawed. Whether he is sincere in his beliefs about it, or is trying to capture the hispanic vote, as it is proposed it is a bad idea. He acts like he takes conservatives for granted. Conservatives are to the GOP what black voters are to the Democrats.
Why I’ll Still Actively Support and Vote for Bush
Democrats think the war on terror is a police/law and order issue.Bush understands that it is a real war. Bush is not afraid to act unilaterally and/or disrupt old alliances if our national interests so demand.Bush recognizes evil as evil and is not afraid to call it by name. He is a man of faith and his faith centered life guides him with a steady hand. Bush understands that business is not the enemy of the people; it is the fountain of most national wealth and the hand that more often than not lifts people from poverty through empowerment in the free marketplace. His judicial nominees are true conservatives. Bush does what he says and shoots straight, whether or not I like it. He fills government with conservatives, even though he fails to act like one sometimes. Bush can be trusted.
Now is too important to not vote or waste my vote in a protest. The winner will either be a Democrat or a Republican. I’d rather a Republican than a Democrat. Republicans will not surrend and call it multilateral cooperation.
Well, those are my thoughts. Do with them what you will.
People Who Don’t Pay Attention
National Review’s official positions on the following topics: Bush’s immigration reform: opposed Medicare reform, as passed: opposed NEA funding increase: opposed Federal Marriage Amendment: support
I thought that was all well known. Until K-Lo posted this email she got.
Keep The Bloodbath Going
I have an idea.
Let’s all contribute to Howard Dean. Keep him viable and watch for a self destroying convention.
Tricky Dick
Power Line critiques Dick Morris’ column today that the nomination is far from a done deal in the Democrat camp.
I like Dick Morris. I wish I had his skill as a political consultant.
But, let’s remember that a few weeks ago, Morris thought that Dean had this think in the bag.
The question for Dean is whether his leftist base can stake him to enough votes to prevail in a three-way field. Against the current crop of nine candidates, he can win by garnering a quarter of the votes in most states. But when the race narrows, he’ll need to get 40 percent or more to win in each of the large key states. A fringe candidate can usually get one voter in four. But can he get enough to win once the bar is raised? My bet is that he can – because of the very rules that the Democratic Party leaders put in place to stop somebody like him from winning. Chastened by the almost-victories of Bill Bradley and John McCain in their respective primaries in 2000, the party bosses decided not to risk having their favorite sons overturned by some flaky result in Iowa or New Hampshire. Knowing that a candidate (like Dean) could come out of nowhere and win these two notoriously unpredictable states, the party leaders deliberately front-loaded the nominating process so that the victor of Iowa and New Hampshire would have a hard time garnering the money in time to compete six weeks later in the simultaneous primaries in New York, California, Texas and Ohio. If some out-of-the-mainstream candidate upended their favored campaigns in New Hampshire or Iowa, he would never be able, they felt, to translate his new momentum into dollars in time to buy enough media to influence enough voters to win four big states. By the time he had solicited funds, opened the mail, deposited the checks and bought the media time, the primaries would be almost upon him. Oops. Dean outwitted the leaders. By raising his money early in the process through the Internet and eschewing the limits on his campaign spending that federal matching funds would bring, he already has enough money to compete in the big four states. It is Dean’s opponents, struggling for traction after losing Iowa and New Hampshire, who will trouble revving up for the big primaries in early March.
He may have started the piece with an if as everyone use to hedging answered would, but the article seems clear Morris thought Dean was on track.
In saying all of this, so did I. But, then, I’m not a super professional crack political consultant/analyst.
Neither Dick nor I, no doubt, foresaw the implosion of Howard Dean. I’m still stuck on the fact that the staff really thought Dean’s campaign was a movement.
They really thought that. Nuts. Had Dick or I know they really thought that, we could have had this thing wrapped up accurately months ago.
The Rules
Our Grand and Glorious Commissar has some rules for bloggers. I will no longer apologize for light blogging. You’ll just have to deal with it. Like today.
Deal with it.