China Still Evil

China to soften its one-child policy slogans, but not the law itself Talk about window dressing! These are the "old" slogans that China is rewriting to "soften". Note, the law and the punishments remain the same, just how they say it. Perfect example of why left-wing totalitarian communist dictatorships are pure evil.

People's Daily cites several examples of "harsh slogans," including those "which sometimes even threaten criminal acts." The newly instituted program, slugged the "face-washing project," will offer more proactive slogans to help enforce the policy, which has been in place since 1979. China claims the policy, which applies to those living in urban areas, affects approximately 35.9 percent of the population and has resulted in an estimated 400 million fewer births since first being implemented. Some examples of the more offensive slogans currently in use include: "If you don't receive the tubal ligation surgery by the deadline, your house will be demolished!" "We would rather scrape your womb than allow you to have a second child!" "Kill all your family members if you don't follow the rule!" And… "Once you get captured, an immediate tubal ligation will be done; Should you escape, we'll hunt you down; If you attempt a suicide, we'll offer you either the rope or a bottle of poison." The new less offensive slogans replacing the more callous ones will reportedly seek to "avoid offending the public and stoking social tensions."

Dems Accept "Evil" Koch Money

Hat Tip: Instapundit Koch Industries: All Recipients I guess they were okay before they were "evil". Sheesh. Hypocrites.

Trump "Explains" Obamacare

I got this in my email and I don't care if it is accurate or if Trump actually said it. It is funny because it is true. Trump Explains Dumbo Care No one has sumed it up better than Trump 'Let me get this straight . . .. We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, But provides for 16,000 new IRS agents. Written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it (but exempted themselves from it), and signed by a Dumbo President who smokes, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes. For which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, By a congress which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare. All to be overseen by an obese surgeon general and financed by a country that's broke!! What the hell could possibly go wrong?'

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Story/Prayer in my Mailbox

There once was a man named George Thomas, pastor in a small New England town.

One Easter Sunday morning he came to the Church carrying a rusty, bent, old bird cage, and set it by the pulpit..

Eyebrows were raised and, as if in response, Pastor Thomas began to speak.... "I was walking through town yesterday when I saw a young boy coming toward me swinging this bird cage.

On the bottom of the cage were three little wild birds, shivering with cold and fright. I stopped the lad and asked, "What do you have there, son?"

"Just some old birds, "came the reply”.                             
"What are you going to do with them?" I asked.


"Take 'em home and have fun with 'em," he answered. "I'm gonna tease 'em And pull out their feathers to make 'em fight. I'm gonna have a real good Time."                             
"But you'll get tired of those birds sooner or later. What will you do then?"                             
"Oh, I got some cats," said the little boy. "They like birds. I'll take 'em to them."                             
The pastor was silent for a moment. "How much do you want for those birds, son?"

"Huh ?? !!! Why, you don't want them birds, mister. They're just plain old field birds. They don't sing. They ain't even pretty!"                             
"How much?" the pastor asked again.

The boy sized up the pastor as if he were crazy and said, "$10?"

The pastor reached in his pocket and took out a ten dollar bill. He placed It in the boy's hand. In a flash, the boy was gone.

The pastor picked up The cage and gently carried it to the end of the alley where there was a tree and a grassy spot. Setting the cage down, he opened the door, and by softly tapping the bars persuaded the birds out, setting them free.                             
Well, that explained the empty bird cage on the pulpit, and then the pastor began to tell this story:

One day Satan and Jesus were having a conversation. Satan had just come from the Garden of Eden, and he was gloating and boasting. "Yes, sir, I just caught a world full of people down there. Set me a trap, used bait I knew they couldn't resist. Got 'em all!"                             
"What are you going to do with them?" Jesus asked.

Satan replied, "Oh, I'm gonna have fun! I'm gonna teach them how to marry and divorce each other, how to hate and abuse each other, how to drink and smoke and curse. I'm gonna teach them how to invent guns and bombs and kill each other. I'm really gonna have fun!"

"And what will you do when you are done with them?" Jesus asked.

"Oh, I'll kill 'em," Satan glared proudly.                             
"How much do you want for them?" Jesus asked.

"Oh, you don't want those people. They ain't no good Why, you'll take them and they'll just hate you. They'll spit on you, curse you and kill you. You don't want those people!!"                             
"How much? He asked again. Satan looked at Jesus and sneered, "All your blood, tears and your life."

Jesus said, "DONE!" Then He paid the price.

The pastor picked up the cage and walked from the pulpit.                             

The Forgotten Man Painting

Sales Soar For Controversial Obama Painting After Story Goes Viral Traffic has shut the website that sells the painting down (here). But the artist's website is up and has a nice interactive view of the painting - here.

Operation Counterweight Begins

With these helpful websites here and here. The first site has this spectacular goody in the form of a video that "The video is a must-watch, for the sheer joy of seeing Buerkle smack down the odious, arrogant, condescending, racist, incompetent boob that is Eric Holder. The media is attempting to distract us with false employment numbers (talk about Journalistic Sun Stroke) and the ginned-up Komen crisis. Most citizen activists are very much following the aftermath o Fast and Furious."

Greed and Virtue

Hat Tip - Instapundit and Jonah Goldberg I think anything from Mr. Friedman is awesome.

Why I Didn't Bother Watching Obama's SoU

State of the Union Rerun

Calling For A Group Record Release

Once again, the republican establishment earns it's title as the stupid party.

Romney to right tax "mistake" after primary loss

First off, it wasn't a mistake. Tax forms aren't released until after April 15th.

Second, all presidential contenders should agree to release all financial, medical, and educational records only once Obama releases his.

We know the individual college grades of every president and presidential nominee from the past 30+ years, but not Obama's? Does that seem fair?

But the press demands the full-monty only from conservatives. Does that seem fair?

This whole tax record issue is a manufactured scarum from the press to distract the presidential contenders from attacking Obama.

And like an idiot, Romney doesn't use it as an opportunity to unmask the press and Obama's hypocrisy but caves.

Stupid, stupid, stupid.

Bye Bye Newt

Two things. First of all, if ABC news has this interview which could devastate Gingrich's campaign, then why wait. Just talking about it now is impacting the race. And two, if ABC news airs this when will the LA Times release the Obama Tapes?

Sweet Economic Freedom

Reason Magazine hits it out of the park with this article Does the Constitution Protect the Unenumerated Right to Economic Liberty?

Wonderful Wine.com

Okay, it is easy to complain so it should be easy to praise as well. I recently won and received a gift certificate for wine.com. Needless to say, it did not stay unspent long (like seconds). There was a slight problem with the order and when I called to inquire, Cathy from wine.com's customer service informed me that one bottle from my order was missing. I could wait until the order was completed and so aside from some chatting 'cause I'm a talker, the call was over. Well, imagine my delight when I open my email and find out that Cathy from wine.com not only removed the missing bottle from the order so it could be shipped to me right away, AND no only did Cathy search the warehouse and find the missing bottle and arrange for that bottle to be shipped to me as well. Cathy from wine.com also waived the shipping fees! (Yippee! Enough for another bottle!) I responded with the following email below:

Dear Cathy, You are wonderful. Thank you so much for your help and over-the-top assistance with my order. Please pass this message on to your supervisor or send me their email and I will tell them directly how thoughtful and kind you have been to me. That you are a credit to the company. And that I am a very loudmouthed broad who is delighted to tell all and sundry what great customer service wine.com has provided me via YOU. I look forward to visiting (and purchasing from) wine.com repeatedly in the future.

Being a gal of my word, I'm posting this consumer-company exchange. I hope wine.com keeps Cathy because she is going to be the reason I purchase wine from them in the future.

My First Hero, M. Thatcher

And this my friends is why Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will ALWAYS be a righteous kick-ass babe in my book. ALWAYS.

Abortionists Inc.

Planned Parenthood’s Annual Report: Got $487.4M in Tax Money, Did 329,445 Abortions

According to its latest annual report, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) received $487.4 million in tax dollars over a twelve-month period and performed 329,455 abortions. Planned Parenthood Federation of America President Cecile Richards and President Barack Obama. (AP Photo) In addition, the number of adoption referrals made by the organization continued to decline.

The State of Rights

As a Yankee girl, the phrase "states' rights" always had a slavery twinge to it. In some ways, still does. But nowadays, the idiocy of a central, all-powerful government in a country as varied and large as the United States of America makes States' Rights an increasingly urgent issue. This article is yet another example of why the Federal government must be hacked away and brush cleared so that individuals and individual states/localities can decide what best works for them. No one in DC knows better than the postman in Des Moines what Des Moines needs most. Period. Why Medicaid Is No Longer a Voluntary Program. How the Emergency Treatment and Labor Act interferes with state sovereignty

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Britain's Future Lies With America, Not Europe Welcoming Britain back into the North Atlantic economic community would be a win-win for all involved.

TSA Rape Victim Speaks Out

Read about it here on the Advice Goddess website.

Pipeline Pipe Dreams

I don't know what Obama is smoking but if he thinks he can convince the American public that the Keystone XL Pipeline shouldn't be built then he'd better quit smoking. 60% Favor Building Keystone XL Pipeline. The administrations position is that

"The White House sent new signals Sunday that President Barack Obama may be forced to kill TransCanada Corp.'s Keystone XL oilsands pipeline if his administration is forced to make a decision on the project within 60 days. Gene Sperling, a senior economic adviser to Obama, told CNN that legislation requiring a final ruling on Keystone XL within two months could doom the pipeline because there's not enough time to complete a new environmental review."

Hat Tip: Small Dead Animals The frantic refusal to even consider the pipeline which could help businesses from all industries and create many jobs is puzzling. One assumes it is because pipelines are so unusual and need special environmental studies since they are so rare. ... Oh Really?

A quick google and you can see that nearly all the inhabited areas of the United States of America are riddled with pipelines. We need this energy. It is from a friendly neighbor and ally rather than a middle eastern dictatorship and as my husband explains in this article - Create wealth, not jobs. Keystone XL pipeline would boost prosperity, not government -

TransCanada's Keystone XL pipeline is a massive job- and wealth-creation project. The pipeline will snake its way 1,700 miles from Alberta to the Gulf coast with stops in Oklahoma and Illinois. Keystone will create $7 billion in investment without any additional congressional spending. It is exactly the sort of massive construction project Mr. Obama demanded from Republicans in September, with one important exception: It’s private.

Read the whole article, it's very good in my completely biased opinion. The long and short of it is, the Keystone Pipeline would be a huge help to the American economy and her people. That Obama wishes to stop it from helping us is unforgivable and hopefully makes him unelectable next year.

An Explanation

Dear Reader, I owe you an explanation as to why my posting at this blog has dropped off. Chaos. Chaos. And more chaos. In the one year and three months since my father died, I've gone into a tailspin, coped with every older female in my family being in and out and in and in and in hospital for various ailments and surgeries and self-inflicted injuries. We've added new pets (three) to the family, we've traveled to visit family up and down the coast, my husband went awol to promote his book, I've had a personal illness (mild), and the regular stresses of caring for a family which includes a child with both ADHD and SID. Worst of all, I miss my daddy beyond words. There are other shoes which must drop but I promise in the new year to do better. Thank you for your patience and my God bless you this holiday season and bring you joy in the new year.

Layaway Angels

And this my friends is what I call Christmas. I can not begin to tell you how inspiring I found this story to be, how proud I am of my fellow Americans, and how I think I might go to K-Mart this week and do my part as well. After all, these Christmas layaway angels seem to be mostly from the great American Heartland as a lifelong East Coaster, I have to make sure we keep up. Anonymous donors pay off Kmart layaway accounts. At Kmart stores, Santa gets help: Anonymous donors are paying off strangers' layaway accounts

The young father stood in line at the Kmart layaway counter, wearing dirty clothes and worn-out boots. With him were three small children. He asked to pay something on his bill because he knew he wouldn't be able to afford it all before Christmas. Then a mysterious woman stepped up to the counter. "She told him, 'No, I'm paying for it,'" recalled Edna Deppe, assistant manager at the store in Indianapolis. "He just stood there and looked at her and then looked at me and asked if it was a joke. I told him it wasn't, and that she was going to pay for him. And he just busted out in tears." At Kmart stores across the country, Santa seems to be getting some help: Anonymous donors are paying off strangers' layaway accounts, buying the Christmas gifts other families couldn't afford, especially toys and children's clothes set aside by impoverished parents. Before she left the store Tuesday evening, the Indianapolis woman in her mid-40s had paid the layaway orders for as many as 50 people. On the way out, she handed out $50 bills and paid for two carts of toys for a woman in line at the cash register. "She was doing it in the memory of her husband who had just died, and she said she wasn't going to be able to spend it and wanted to make people happy with it," Deppe said. The woman did not identify herself and only asked people to "remember Ben," an apparent reference to her husband.

Simply wonderful but what got me crying was this.

In Missoula, Mont., a man spent more than $1,200 to pay down the balances of six customers whose layaway orders were about to be returned to a Kmart store's inventory because of late payments. Store employees reached one beneficiary on her cellphone at Seattle Children's Hospital, where her son was being treated for an undisclosed illness. "She was yelling at the nurses, 'We're going to have Christmas after all!'" store manager Josine Murrin said.

Read the whole article, it is filled with Christmas goodness.

Excellent Review of "Stealing You Blind"

A great review of "Stealing You Blind. How government fat cats are getting rich off of you." from The American Spectator. The Grinches Who Stole Christmas

Murray's book focuses largely on the bureaucracy and why they have become an increasing threat to our freedom and our pocketbooks. Bureaucrats have a huge incentive to increase costs. In government, a bureaucrat's success -- his pay raises and promotions -- is determined not by solving problems but by finding more problems to justify ever larger budgets and staff. Murray, a Brit by birth, saw this first hand when he went to work for the Department of Transport. "In government, performance is judged by increases in funding. The cost-cutting boss is viewed with suspicion, even outright hostility, by his peers, as letting his side down," Murray, who works at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, writes. The success that the political class has had is evidenced by the fact that the wealthiest Congressional District in America is not in Manhattan or Beverly Hills, but in Northern Virginia. It is Virginia's 11th District, a suburb of Washington, D.C. that is home to many top-level federal workers. The district has a median household income of $80,397, nearly double the national average of almost $42,000. Bureaucrats are now paid, on average, more than the private sector, have top-notch health and retirement benefits, and virtually iron-clad job security. The justification for this is that such people are in "public service" and good wages and benefits are needed to attract good people. But it is a myth that so-called public servants are any less self-interested than anyone else. Indeed, they often serve themselves at the expense of the public. Murray provides numerous examples, from the federal down to the local level. One agency that looks like a disaster waiting to happen is the Transportation Safety Administration. "TSA is a reactive security operation, always fighting the last battle. Yet it doesn't even fight those battles particularly well," Murray writes. Post 9/11, TSA failed to detect Richard Reid, the shoe bomber, and Umar Farouk, the underwear bomber, both of whom were fortunately subdued by passengers on their planes. But TSA's failure means more inconvenience for passengers, as we now have to take off our shoes and go through either body-scan machines or pat downs on our private areas. Despite this, testing has found that TSA screeners may miss up to 60%-75% of simulated explosives. Testing at airports that employ private security companies perform much better, with a failure rate of 20 percent. The reason is that screeners from private companies "know they will be picked on with constant covert tests and are therefore 'more suspicious.'" TSA has grown into a 67,000-employee bureaucracy, and in February of this year the Obama administration gave TSA the right to unionize. A unionized TSA could mean even more headaches for travelers as unionized government employees are nearly impossible to fire and union contracts tend to favor pay scales based on seniority rather than performance. Some members of Congress have urged airports to take their "opt-out" option and hire private security firms. But that requires TSA approval, and like any bureaucracy protecting its turf, the agency has declared that "unless a clear and substantial advantage to do so emerges in the future, the requests will be denied." TSA Administrator John Pistole has said that he doesn't think there's any advantage to private security firms. On the local level, there is no better example in Murray's book of the lengths to which a union will go to get its way than the Uniformed Sanitationmen's Association in New York City. A major blizzard hit New York in December 2010. Wanting to send a message to the mayor about staff cutbacks and reduction in the ranks of supervisors, union heads told snow crews go slow in snow cleanup. Several neighborhoods such as Borough Park and Middle Village were targeted for poor snow removal since the residents there are wealthier and have more influence with their politicians. This may have led to the death of one three-year-old boy as the ambulance could not get to him in time. However, priority cleanup was given to the neighborhoods of agency heads and other city bigwigs.

Full Disclosure - This is actually another shameless attempt on my part to promote my husband's book (which makes an EXCELLENT Christmas present by the way) in order to boost sales so I can finally replace my 25-year-old stove and carpeting.

Hollywood's Child Rapists Run Rampant

NYT silent on shocking Hollywood pedophilia charges

Corey Feldman [made] eye-opening remarks in August to ABC’s “Primetime Nightline” that “the No. 1 problem in Hollywood was and is and always will be pedophilia. That’s the biggest problem for children in this industry … It’s the big secret.” Alison Arngrim, the veteran Hollywood actress best known for her role decades ago as Nellie on “Little House on the Prairie,” has said, “This (the abuse of children) has been going on for a very long time. “If a child actor is being sexually abused by someone on the show, is the family, agents or managers – the people who are getting money out of this – going to say, ‘OK, let’s press charges’? No, because it’s going to bring the whole show to a grinding halt, and stop all the checks,” says Arngrim. “So, the pressure is there not to say anything.”

Read the whole thing but make sure it is on an empty stomach. I guess Hollywood's love of pedophilia explains that bastard Polanski: Nobody is applauding as Hollywood premieres Polanski defense

This Year's Christmas Card

Merry Christmas

Dick Durban Aiding Murder of Egyptian Copts

For the sake of an earmark, Dick is preventing Egyptian Copts from getting the help and protection they desperately need. What a murderous douche-bag. The End of Religious Freedom In an age when the persecution of Egypt's Coptic Christians is more bloody than ever the bill to continue funding the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom was held up by just one man, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill). Read the whole thing and be nauseated.

Finally: What does Dick Durbin have to do with the death of the USCRIF? Perhaps there are simpler reasons involved in the death of USCRIF. The bill to continue funding it was held up by just one man, Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill). Durbin may not necessarily oppose aiding religious minorities as much as he is in favor of delivering pork barrel to his constituents. Thus, unbelievably, only until or unless the Thomson Correctional Center in northwest Illinois is funded and/or funded for the purpose of holding Guantanamo Bay detainees, there can be no funding for religious freedom anywhere else on earth. Politics is a decidedly unfunny business. I usually tell people that a politician is, by definition, a thief and a liar, but that he or she is also a balancer, a compromiser, someone who is always in a position to sell one cause for the sake of another, to help one person and not another, to borrow from Peter in order to pay Paul. This is both how democracy works and how things get done in non-democratic countries as well. Cronyism, greed, arrogance, intolerance, injustice, occasional mercy, occasional do-goodism characterize how humanity in the aggregate behaves. We know that most Muslims are not friendly toward any infidel religion, including Christians, Hindus, Jews, Buddhists, etc. Christians have been — and still are — savagely persecuted in Muslim lands. I and many others have often written about this. Author and apostate Nonie Darwish and ex-Muslim secularist Ibn Warraq have both spoken out about this burning issue. Christians are being savagely persecuted in Egypt and all across the Middle East and Islamic world. In Pakistan, Christians have literally been crucified, teenaged Christian girls have been kidnapped, raped, and then forced to marry their rapists and convert to Islam. In 2010, a Muslim mob attacked a Christian man and slaughtered him with pick-axes for refusing to convert to Islam. Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Afghanistan do not allow Christians, Jews, or other “infidels” to pray openly or to build any new houses of worship. The Arab Muslim Middle East is almost completely “Judenrein” (free of Jews) since more than 800,000 Arab Jews were exiled or forced to flee their countries between 1948-1968. Mina Nevisa is an Iranian Muslim convert to Christianity who wrote a book about her experiences. Both she and her female cousin were attending an underground Christian church in Teheran which put them in danger. Nevis fled Iran together with her husband. Her cousin was not so lucky:

She was arrested on charges of apostasy and taken to Evin prison, where she was raped, tortured, and then killed by a firing squad. Their pastor was also killed.

Muslim apostates in Europe also face perilous challenges. Egyptian-Italian Magdi Cristiano Allam, who was converted to Catholicism by the pope, lives with six round-the-clock bodyguards. Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the Somali-Dutch-American apostate-secularist, also requires a full-time security detail. People who do not have public profiles, who are not academics, intellectuals, politicians, or public speakers, also face similar danger. Tomorrow, the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission hosts a hearing on the “Worsening Plight of Egypt’s Christian Copts.” Nina Shea, the head commissioner of USCRIF, is a keynote speaker. Clearly, USCIRF provides invaluable information concerning the injustices levied against religious minorities in the Middle East and in the Islamic world. Congress must reinstate the US Commission for International Religious Freedom — to do otherwise would be immoral, dangerous, un-American, and unacceptable.