For Christ, For Truth, For Liberty

Folks, you’re being lied to about what happened in Honduras. Moreover, our own president’s stance on this issue is probably quite telling, so please pay attention to what is going on!

It was not a military coup. It was, in fact, an attempt by President Manuel Zelaya to override—indeed, overcome and re-create in his image—that nation’s constitution. However, the power to do this does not belong to the President. Malaya’s attempt to do so anyhow (by declaring a referendum allowing himself & a “constituent assembly” to draft a new constitution, one that would do away with presidential term limits) was declared un-constitutional by Honduras’ Supreme Court.

Honduras’ top military commander warned Malaya that the Supreme Court had ordered the military not to carry out the election. Malaya fired the commander, but the Supreme Court reinstated him. Not to be denied, the wannabe dictator and his supporters ransacked a military post, seized referendum ballots provided by the dictator in Venezuela, and distributed them.

In other words, it was Malaya attempting a coup, not the military. The military and the Supreme Court were in fact defending Honduras’ constitution from a naked power grab. This is very important to remember.

Unsurprisingly, the nation’s attorney general declared this “vote” illegal, noting he’d prosecute those involved in pushing it forward. Sunday, Malaya was arrested and sent into exile. The newly-appointed president, Roberto Micheletti, has warned Malaya not to return, lest he be arrested again, and this time sent to prison.

Malaya attempted to usurp the laws & constitution of Honduras and was rightly ejected, and rightly faces arrest and prosecution. Just as in America, even the President is not above the law of the land. The nation’s Supreme Court, its parliament, and its military were not trashing Honduras’ constitution, but protecting and defending it, as well they should. Notwithstanding Chavez’s, er, meddling, what Malaya did and was attempting to do is 100% illegal in Honduras (and, might I add, in the United States?).

Now. Our own President has sided with the ousted wannabe dictator, demanding, in his own jelly-sandwich fashion, that Malaya be reinstated after the so-called ‘military coup’. In other words, Barack Obama cannot stand with the peaceful protesters in Iran being slaughtered like sheep in any definitive fashion, but he is more than happy to support Marxist, statist, Latin-American dictators in their attempts to rule and destroy nations. [Read more →]

Update Passes, 219-212. DO NOT GIVE UP. Move on to your Senators.

Ohio’s John Boehner is, God bless him, filibustering on the floor right now. A Mr. Smith moment? Guess it’s better to take a stand late than not at all, particularly when the republic is on the altar of this fascist, scam-founded bill. Boehner is reading through the 300-page addendum Waxman, aka “Phantom of the Congress”, slammed into the HR 2454 bill at three o’clock in the morning. You can watch live on CSPAN.

CALL THE HOUSE NOW and tell them to VOTE NO on cap & trade!

Don’t let all of America end up looking like this.

Silenced

St. John’s Baptist Church in Stotesbury, WV, seen from the road above.

This church, built by the E.E. White Coal Company in 1918, was to provide the blacks in the Raleigh County area with a church to attend. Apparently, the congregation moved to Beckley sometime in the 1980s, abandoning St. John’s to the creation of the One they worshipped.

More pictures and more information about the church, and about Stotesbury, in the days to come.

Enjoy large.

Call, email, and fax your Representative in Washington RIGHT NOW and tell them to vote NO on cap & trade, and that if they vote ‘yes’ or ‘abstain’, that you will actively campaign against them. MELT DOWN THE SWITCHBOARDS. If you need the contact information, check Legistalker. You MUST CALL. Our freedom depends on it perhaps more than you know, especially with Waxman adding a 300 page addendum to the bill last night.

EVERYONE needs to call their Congresscreature and tell them to vote NO, NO, NO on the cap & tax bill tomorrow. Those of you in states with agricultural or industrial interests and Democrat Congresscreature should be especially active, because I’m hearing reports that these Congresscreatures are wavering because of the effects of this nefarious, destructive bill. This is the most expensive tax in history, and it will crush this nation.

Cap and trade will destroy freedom, just like the healthcare bill. CALL NOW! Email, fax, visit! You can obtain all the necessary information from Legistalker.

Remember, if you CALL NOW!, you’ll win: Freedom! Liberty! Wealth! Freedom of movement! The right to turn on your heat or A/C when necessary! The right to choose which vehicle you drive! The ability to go on vacation where and when you please! Electric bills that aren’t $500 a month! Yes, if you CALL NOW!, these gifts and more will be YOURS!

Update
Economic Impact By Congressional District of Waxman-Markey

Cap & Trade’s Biggest Losers: Electrical Appliances & Equipment

Update II Y’all, when you write/call/visit your Congresscreature, do try and find something *nice*, something to compliment them about. I thanked Rep. Mollohan for voting to stand with the Iranian people in HR 560 (because let’s face it, I’m not sure I really appreciate anything else he’s voted on of late). Check Legistalker, check the voting records, and try to throw them a bone so you don’t just sound…enraged. Which you understandably are. Just an idea.

Also, to the President: You arrogant son of a pansy… You are going to “allow” me to keep my doctors? Excuse me? Who are you? YOU work for ME. [Read more →]

Longtime readers know that despite all of his wierdness, I consider Michael Jackson to be one of the most remarkably talented & creative entertainers of the 20th century, a man who had a remarkable career (one that understandably probably turned him into a bit of a strangeling). Despite his being an oddball in recent years, it’s hard to deny his abilities and influence, and it’s fair to say his music was the soundtrack for a generation (or two). A musical and dance genius, my generation’s Gene Kelly (and the great Gene was impressed by Michael).

For the last half hour or hour, I’ve been hearing disturbing reports, first that he was dead, that he’d that a heart attack, and now that he is in a coma. His condition is uncertain. Having grown up listening to Motown (of course) and as someone who really enjoyed Jackson’s fun music and his incredible dancing…Well. This is very sad as a human interest story. It’s quite saddening when this happens to anyone.

Considering all that is going on, I know this is probably a small story. But then again, he’s a soul, one that presumably matters to God, and as such, perhaps we should pay attention.

My prayers are with Mr. Jackson and his family. Like him or not, please join me in prayers, that if nothing else, he at least comes to salvation before the end, if it is indeed approaching. Goodness.

Update The LA Times is reporting that Michael Jackson, probably the most famous entertainer in the world, aside from Elvis, Michael Jackson has passed away at the extremely young age of 50. My condolences to his family. Surprised at my emotional reaction, but really loved his music and respected his fantastic talent, particularly in dance. As Shep Smith is pointing out, from the time he was a cute little boy singing with the Jackson 5, MJ brought joy & smiles to millions, and was beloved until all the bizarreness began.

What a stunning thing. It is just…shocking. Usually entertainment is something I eschew, but…His music is that of my own youth and that of millions. And he was only 50!

I hope he was saved…

My condolences to his family, especially his young children. Sinatra, Elvis, Michael.

R.I.P.

For the past 24 hours or so, I’ve been hearing from my Persian/Iranian contacts via Twitter, hearing horrible, sickening things about what is going on there. Because so many of them are on the ground in Tehran, of course I cannot give you their names. Those of you on Twitter probably know that tweeters worldwide have been asked to change their location & timestamp to that of Tehran in an attempt to clutter up the wire, so to speak, making it more difficult for the police to track down actual Iranians. I don’t want to potentially harm my own contacts there, but they are indeed quite reliable.

Iran is breaking down, and is having its Tianamen Square as I type.

Today I am hearing that the people are being beaten like animals, with batons, with hands, with axes, chopping at fellow human beings as if they are butchers cleaving meat. The streets and sidewalks of Tehran are red with the blood of those yearning to be free. People are running into alleys to escape, only to find they’re trapped, Basij on both ends. It’s being compared to a mouse trap, to a lion slaughtering mice in his den.

Pepper gas fills the street, and people with broken arms, legs, and heads are lying on the street like rag dolls. Those going to the hospital with gun or baton injuries are arrested and beaten.

Unsurprisingly, the mullahocracy has asked its most feared, demented prosecutor head up the interrogation of detainees , a man who “gained notoriety for his role in the death of a Canadian-Iranian photographer who was tortured, beaten and raped during her detention“.

Iranians tell us that the football stadium has been set up for trials and beatings; that a bulldozer might be digging a mass grave site ouside of Kahrizak (Tehran). One Persian tells the world that it is like “Nazi Germany, China, and North Korea all rolled into one”.

For all intents and purposes, Persia is under full martial law. [Read more →]

Governor Mark Sanford was having an affair with some chickie-poo in Argentina.

You idiot…Good grief. This is stupid, stupid. PATHETIC. 

Glad his wife isn’t standing by him at the presser, though. Poor thing. 

Maybe he should switch to the Democrat party. Then it won’t matter at all, and will in fact be a resume enhancement!

By the way, yes, I’m following events in Iran via my business account on Twitter. More on that later. I can tell you that it sounds like there was a flat-out massacre, brutal, EVIL. A word our president only uses in reference to businesspeople, not actual EVIL people. The dead are being stacked up like firewood in trucks and taken away.

Sigh.

Iranian people don’t expect the Americans to come to Iran and fight for them. Every decent and freedom-loving nation knows that the Iranian people have the right and the duty to change their form of government. What Americans can do for the Iranian people is to lend them their support; not to fight on their behalf, but to rally to their side and to cheer their struggle.

~ Amil Imani

Having spent the entire day sicker than a peacock with permanent molt has its benefits, one of which is time to read and think, however fuzzily. My thoughts have been primarily occupied with what is going on in Iran and the response of our own administration. 

Obviously my heart and prayers go out to the Persian people, and long have they done so. The Muslim mullahs have for too long used and been allowed to use the bloody shackle that is Islam to crush Iran and its people, and the people have long bristled and seethed beneath the weight. Now they’ve at last taken to the streets in a revolt, if not a revolution. The “other guy”, Mir Houssein Mousavi, is probably not that much better than Mahmoud Aminalandslidejihad. Regardless, there’s a possibility these protests could topple the mullahs, something freedom-lovers ’round the world wouldn’t mind seeing. 

Unfortunately, the people standing up and demanding that justice be served in Iran itself are paying a steep price, one their ideological allies worldwide are blessed in escaping. Some killed by gunfire, some having boiling water or unidentified burning chemicals poured onto them from helicopters in the air. 

Almost as disturbing as the Iranian government killing its own people in a sick replay of Tiananmen Square is President Obama’s wishy-washy moral cowardice about these events. Whether or not you think America should get involved militarily (something I think we should absolutely not do), America has a long historical precedent as the nation that has stood up for and stood shoulder-to-shoulder with peoples around the world who rise up, crying for freedom. Something to do with our belief that man is endowed by his Creator with such things, no doubt. Our presidents, for the most part, have verbalized this alliance with the principle of freedom, notably Ronald Reagan and JFK in Poland and Berlin.

Obama’s refusal to do so, especially in light of his referring to “the Supreme Leader” and his bowing to the Saudi king and so forth, is disturbing moral cowardice. All he could bring himself to say was that the actions were “troubling” and “unjust” instead of bluntly, honestly noting that they’re evil and wrong. Indeed, he seems more interested in giving the Islamic theocracy of Iran (and, let’s face it, every dictatorship on the face of the planet) the benefit of the doubt, standing with the tyrants rather than standing with the people being crushed under the jackboot, or perhaps more appropriately, under the burqa.

This is all the more damnable when one considers the number of American presidents, other leaders, and importantly, the common everyday citizens who’ve promised to stand with the Iranians in spirit and offer what support we could should these people ever rise up. They have risen up—and instead of being bolstered by America, they turned to lean on us, only to find that shoulder had been turned coldly and cruelly against them. [Read more →]

Drama Queen

The lighting isn’t quite perfect…I think people were walking along behind me. Oh well. It still makes me happy. Enjoy larger & on black.

 

Well, this is going to kill my chances at winning any political office in my home town, but…

Brooke County residents may be asked to approve an 11.6 percent levy increase in a special election Oct. 17, as several county entities want more money under the renewal levy.

…Brooke County’s libraries are requesting an increase of $30,000 annually during the next five years. No representative was present at the meeting, but a letter to the commission stated the increase is necessary to cover increasing costs of employee salaries.

The Mary H. Weir Public Library in Weirton is asking for an additional $7,938 per year to supplement the $14,000 it currently receives to cover personnel costs as well as the cost of participating in interlibrary loan programs, which the state mandates for libraries to receive state funding.

No. Ask for donors. Ask for sponsorships from the—oh, wait, Obama killed the car dealerships left in town. But…why do I suspect many of your staff voted for him? Well, there have to be other businesses in town willing to sponsor the library. Hold bakesales and fundraising balls and charity auctions. As a local artist, I’d love to donate a few pieces to this cause. Close earlier, open later. Heck, Heaven forbid, FIRE someone. How many Brooke County residents are limping along with less of an income or none at all, and not going on the dole? Hm?

No, we are not just handing you an additional $30K a YEAR, no matter how much I adore libraries. *BZZZZZZZZZT* Denied.

The Brooke County Parks and Recreation Department has asked for a $15,000 annual increase, a reduction from its original request of $30,000, to balance its operating budget. The department’s representative noted the parks have declined to raise the fees they charge the public despite rising operating costs.

Excuse me? You want to charge those not utilizing services for said services, when you could easily raise fees? Raise the bloody fees. Good grief, this one is easy.

Nor does your halving the request garner you points. *BZZZZZZZZZT* Denied.

The Brooke County Health Department is asking for an annual increase of $10,000 to support the free and discounted services the department provides, such as public speaking, first aid classes, cancer screening and communicable disease investigation.

Um…then un-discount the services. Charge a little more. Hold fish fries…er…bake sales…er…tofu bakes. But ten grand a year in this economy? Sorry. *BZZZZZZZZZT* Denied. [Read more →]

The world is spinning out of control. Look at these headlines. Is this the America we grew up in? More importantly, is this the America our Founders intended?

ABC Turns Programming Over To Obama; News To Be Anchored From Inside White House What the HECK!?!??!? Did…is…are we in Soviet Russia? Or is it 1984?

On the night of June 24, the media and government become one, when ABC turns its programming over to President Obama and White House officials to push government run health care…

…ABCNEWS anchor Charlie Gibson will deliver WORLD NEWS from the Blue Room of the White House.

The network plans a primetime special — ‘Prescription for America’ — originating from the East Room, exclude opposing voices on the debate.

As if we don’t see enough of BHO anyhow. Remember the Rockwell song, now used in Geico spots? “I always feel like/Obama’s watchin’ meeeeee….” Gah. It’s one more reason I cannot WAIT for our farmer’s market to open. No Obama on every freaking magazine. More, and from them I got the link to a story I’d known about but was looking for:

Obama to propose strict new regulation of financial industry doesn’t sound bad until you read this:

Under the plan, expected to be released Wednesday, the government would have new powers to seize key companies…whose failure jeopardizes the financial system. Currently, the government’s authority to seize companies is mostly limited to banks.

Obama blocks access to White House visitor list We’re all about transparency, but move along, folks. Didn’t like it with W, either. Sorry, but…who is it paying the bills for that house? Hello?

Welcome to the post-alternative medicine world No more alternatives for you. If Obama doesn’t approve of your vitamins or your chiropractor, too bad. You get to live at a below-optimal level and in pain. Yay for socialized medicine!

Execution Vans To Deliver Lethal Injections Oh, I’ll let you read that for yourself. And to think, I have at least one family member who considers China “a great country and culture”.

Just saying.

And that’s just a handful of stories.

Some positive news? [Read more →]

Of course most of us are watching the wrenching events in Tehran, at least if your news sources cover it (many do not). I can’t say that the outcome is surprising, not Ahminajihadway “winning” or the protests—least of all the protests, and the rulers’ reactions to them. It’s really heartbreaking. Hearts yearning to be free.

Don’t even get me started on the President’s pathetically namby-pamby response to the “election”, the protests, the government shooting down people in the streets. He is troubled, deeply troubled! Just not as unhappy as he is when an abortion doctor is murdered, as the Hot Air folks point out. The “new, remade America” cares more for abortionists than they do those who desire freedom.

Foreign media have been banned from covering the recount or the protests, though that is not stopping intrepid reporters like those from Sky News.

For decades, the people living in Iran (many prefer referring to themselves as Persians) have been shouldering an inhuman burden, placed on their shoulders by the Muslim mullahs, who are really just dictators in bathrobes. The frustration and anger has long been bubbling beneath the surface, breaking out from time to time. My hope is that they can throw off their shackles and find liberty. The people of Iran have no real liberty, and that most certainly includes religious liberty. Of course, Christ came to set captives free, and He’s never been thwarted in His mission to come to slaves of sin and slaves of men, but it would be wonderful to see the door opened to those too afraid to listen, or who do not have believers in their lives to tell them.

Well. We should all hope the people in this nation came come to freedom and bring down those who’ve so long subjugated them.

WOW. For the first time in my horse-racing-loving life, I’ll get to (God willing) see a current Derby champ racing, live, right in front of my own eyeballs! Mine That Bird is going to the West Virginia Derby (Gr. II)! What a thrill! Can you believe it?

Of course, with the Derby winner showing up, that makes me wonder who else might tag along. Certainly not Rachel Alexandra (that would surprise me), but perhaps some of the other Derby contenders. Last year’s race, with the Jackson’s Ready Set, was terrif.

But this will be awesome. I am so excited! Who wants to come with?

Road Comfort

Sign outside of the Elk Motor Court.

Enjoy larger view.

I’ve just learned that my husband has no idea who Archie, Betty, or Veronica are.

Love my in-laws dearly, but…they have failed my spouse.

Just saying.

I don’t usually do this sort of thing, friends, but having spent lots of time at shelters myself, this just breaks my heart. There are two dogs and eleven kittens scheduled for euthanization Friday morning at the Coweta County Animal Shelter in Newnan, Georgia. These animals need either a permanent home or a foster home. If you are in the area and can help, or know someone in the area who might be able to offer a home, please act accordingly by either stopping in for a critter or passing this info on.

Thanks.

You know how MISERABLE I’d be if Derby winner Mine That Bird’s next race was indeed the West Virginia Derby at Mountaineer. That’s just down the street, for all intents and purposes! The rumor mill starts here.

In his review of William Murchison’s Mortal Follies: Episcopalians and the Crisis of Mainline Christianity in the June 8 edition of National Review, Michael Potemra could be talking about the church as a whole, not just the Episcopalians.

…in seeking to adapt to the times, the Episcopal Church has rendered itself less relevant to the actual spiritual struggles of the men and women in the pews. In today’s Episcopalianism, he writes, “there is a seemingly unstoppable momentum to ratify the culture’s choices—the whole range of them, centered on the plenary power of humans to ordain and dispense and control and rearrange.”

…in practice (this) robs the culture of an important witness to the deeper truth about man: that he is broken and fallible, and in need of God’s grace as much as of political liberty. …Murchison makes the case that the Episcopal and other mainline churches would do America a great service by returning their attention to the distinctiveness of the Christian faith.

(emphasis added)

[Read more →]

‘Tis that time again! Follow my Belmont Stakes chatter here, courtesy the fab folks at CoverItLive. Due to illness, I’ll be a bit quieter than usual today, but I can’t resist another chance to cheer on Mine That Bird. Well…not that I’d miss a Triple Crown race regardless.

Join me throughout the afternoon for live coverage!

Dr. Krauthammer on BHO’s ridiculous, foolish speech in Egypt:

One of my favourite subjects.

Especially now that it’s all endangered, har har!

Cowboy In The Cupboard

This was not the nicest shop we’d been in (it’s in the cluster of Washington, PA antique shops). It had some very neat things and amazing pieces of furniture, but the staff…Not so much. Even though I kept my camera hidden—the shop had that unfriendly "vibe" right away—it seemed as if the staff didn’t like us. Indeed, they followed us around the store, clearly with that "We think you are going to steal something" attitude. It was off-putting, to say the least. We don’t run around looking like bums, you know? We’re clean-cut, polite, and, dare I mention, had money to spend.

I sort of regret leaving this guy behind, because there was something fun and charming about him (plus we love cowboys & cowboy movies). However, at this inflated price and considering the treatment we received…I’m glad to have a picture.

Too bad, though. Most of the antique/thriftique shop people we run into are so nice, so enthusiastic, and often so happy to see "young folk" not only in the store, but becoming a little overexcited by things in the shops.

Larger & on black.

As always, my gallery is here and my shop here.

My brain being just one news story away from bursting, let’s talk about the Belmont, shall we?

Firstly, we heard last week that Preakness-winning superfilly Rachel Alexandra will not run in the mile-and-a-half classic in New York. No reason, really, other than her owners think she deserves a break. Still, she and Derby winner Mine That Bird could meet up again in August’s $1-million Haskell Invitational, so if you’re yearning for a rematch, just wait a few months.

(Personally, I still want to see what sort of fireworks we’ll get to enjoy when Rachel meets up with true superhorse, the wicked-awesome 10-for-10 Zenyatta, who is almost indisputably the best racehorse on the track today.)

That said, Mine That Bird will indeed show up for the “Test of Champions”, and as of now stands as the 2-1 favourite, with Calvin Borel aboard once again. [Read more →]

What a crazy world. Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez, considered mi amigo by Barack Obama, is worried that he and Fidel Castro look too conservative compared to the American POTUS. This comes on the same day we hear that he thinks America is one of the largest Muslim nations in the world (this is so ridiculously wrong it’s barely a joke, perhaps just a bit of wishful thinking), one day before he makes a speech that, according to the White House, is about “resetting” our “relationship” with the Muslim world “based upon mutual interests and mutual respect”. Really? We have a “mutual interest” with and “respect” for an ideology that has the destruction of freedom at its core? I mean, we know he doesn’t think we are or ever were a Christian nation (what books did he read, what speeches?), but to think we’re a nation that has anything in common with those who stone women for being raped, torture political dissidents, and ban things like music and pets is remarkable indeed. [Read more →]

I first heard this via Michael Savage Friday night, but unsurprisingly, it’s everywhere by now. Still, I know not all of you have the time or desire to listen to talk radio and such. Moreover, this editorial from Pravda—Pravda!—speaks the truth, and seems all too apropos today, when the US government takes over 72% of General Motors.

GM is bankrupt and almost wholly owned by the government.

When one considers the old Detroit saying that “As General Motors goes, so goes the country”, we should all be terrified.

The wise will heed the words of Stanislov Mishin…But then, the wise knew what would come:

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

…we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

…First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a…burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blind the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power.

…The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more then another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe. [Read more →]

Considering last night’s chatter about art and our society, here’s a small sliver of what America used to produce regularly for you to enjoy. We took US19 halfway to Nashville on our anniversary trip, and as you can imagine, we saw some wonderful things! This is one of them.

Citizens’ Bank of Weston

Darned cold! By the time we reached the end of the block, where the bank was, I was shivering pretty violently, the sun had slipped behind thick, purple clouds and it had begun to rain. My spring coat is not up to protecting me from such bizarre vagaries of weather, so I didn’t get many good, non-quivering shots of the very swanky bank. I did find these images along the windows to be very interesting, though.

Largify.

It has already been decided that we’re returning to Weston on a sunnier, balmier day. 

As always, my gallery can be seen here, and my shop is here.

The Citizens’ Bank of Weston is considered one of West Virginia’s finest examples of Art Deco, and as a dame from the Art Deco capitol of the world, I have to agree that this is a really beauty of a place. Completed in 1930, this was designed by Pennsylvania’s Tilghman Huber Moyer, and was constructed of grey Indiana limestone atop a granite foundation. There have been two additions since 1930, but you can hardly tell they’re new; unlike most additions, they gel quite nicely with the original design of the building.

Next time we’re in Weston, we are going inside this bank.

There is a lot of fascinating history behind the CBW, by the way. For instance, during the Depression, Thomas Whelan, its Cashier (for all intents and purposes, the bank CEO) actually shut down the bank in order to protect its depositors. [Read more →]

Waiting for the butter to brown this afternoon (it was a whole stick, and someone didn’t think to do it in batches instead of a whole chopped-up stick at a time), I came across this article about the NEA from Michael Knox Beran at National Review, and thought he had some interesting things to say about art in general as he discussed the failures of some of the NEA’s programs, nice as their attempts at bringing art to the people might be at heart. [Read more →]

Via the PK. Hee hee…

Day is done,
gone the sun,
From the hills,
from the lake,
From the skies.
All is well,
safely rest,
God is nigh.

Go to sleep,
peaceful sleep,
May the soldier
or sailor,
God keep.
On the land
or the deep,
Safe in sleep.

Love, good night,
Must thou go,
When the day,
And the night
Need thee so?
All is well.
Speedeth all
To their rest.

Thanks and praise,
For our days,
‘Neath the sun,
Neath the stars,
‘Neath the sky,
As we go,
This we know,
God is nigh.

Please, remember what today is for.

Remember those who’ve valiantly shed their blood for our liberty.

Remember them best not by weeping, but by being willing to be just as vigilant in the defense of this precious and precariously balanced gift, a gift given by God, and a gift whose continuation has been paid for with the sweat and blood of patriots.

And though this day is meant to be a solemn remembrance of those who’ve given the last full measure in battle, if you served, ever…Thank you. Thank you so very, very much, and God bless you.

Reflections of.

Larger.

If I’m not back, y’all have a great weekend!