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We all have heard about Barack Obama’s rise to his historic nomination this year.  We witnessed Hilary’s historic run this election season as well.  What the democratic party did this year is remarkable, and it’s good to see minorities and women take a bigger role in this country. 

Do you recognize these names: Justice Scalia, Justice Thomas, or Condoleeza Rice?  Obviously you have, and all of these minorities hold important positions within our government.  The problem with this group is that they are conservative, not liberal.  It seems like whenever a liberal minority is in office, or is running for office, it’s a monumental moment that is great for America.  But if the candidate is a conservative, the spin on them is much different, and can even turn negative. 

Let’s use John McCain’s nomination of Sarah Palin.  Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, is now the running mate of John McCain, and the attacks on her came fast and hard.  I understand that she was criticized for her lack of experience, but she was also criticized for being “out of touch.”  Democrats and the media were quick to point out that she doesn’t form to the mold of what they believe a woman should be.  Attacks included: she has five kids; including one who has down syndrome (this concerns pro-choice organizations), she has strong Christian values that is dangerous to liberal beliefs, and she tends to put her family before her career.  In other words; critics of the nomination say that “SHE’s NO HILLARY.”  Forget what she has gone through, forget that she is a great model of sacrifice and putting her family before herself.  Many liberals are saying because she’s conservative, doesn’t have a poor me/women/minority attitude, and because she puts her family before her career she’s, out of touch and no Hilary.  Sarah’s monumental nomination isn’t being portrayed that way, it’s being viewed as a danger and a threat to woman and minorities because she doesn’t fit the mold of a liberal candidate, and because of that it’s not as monumental if Obama would have picked a liberal woman; how sad.

It’s election year; in case you haven’t noticed, and things are beginning to heat up. Candidates are calling each other out, tentions are flairing up in house holds, and talk shows are trying to persuade listeners to vote for a certain candidate. Things can get kind of confusing during an election year, and I like to keep things as simple as possible. So, when I go vote for a cadidate, I think about an old saying: “you are the company you keep.” When I sit down and think about those who support Obama, then I realize that there’s no way I can vote for him. Here are five groups (maybe a little more) who will vote for Obama that cause me not to vote for him:

1) Hollywood- I like Hollywood. It’s a fun town, has nice weather, and sometimes it produces good movies and shows. It’s the people inside Hollywood I don’t like. The majority of Hollywood are way left leaning liberals who think socialism is ideal, and well… just look how they live their lives, not quite the model citizens.

2) The world- you take a look at how receptive the world is of Obama, and it’s frightening. They view him as a god who should be enthroned. If you see how Europe is turning out, and how the countries are being run; especially France. Why would we want a candidate that these country fully accept? I don’t want a candidate that the world despises, but I surely don’t want one that the world loves.

3) The youth- don’t we always complain how the youth are lost, confused, and don’t know how to run their own lives. Then why should I vote for a candidate that the youth fully embrace. Doesn’t make sense to me.

4) The poor- this isn’t a knock on the poor; but I don’t want to vote like the poor. They want handouts from the government, and will vote for the party that gives the most handouts. The people should help the poor, not the government. Government programs are good for temporary fixes, but many feel that they can’t live without the assistance.

5) Air America, moveon.org, Atheists… ENOUGH SAID.

6) Finally… Uniions. Unions were fine and dandy back in the 50’s, but now they are money grubbing organizations who protect the worker at all costs; even those that don’t deserve protection. Don’t believe me, look at the teacher unions. Also; they take union dues and give them to candidates, that’s just wrong.

When I sit down and see who is voting for Obama, I realize why I won’t vote for him; he truly is the company he keeps.

One of the main things I don’t like about Washington (on both sides of the aisle), is that they seem to really enjoy talking out of both sides of their mouths. Republicans preach morals, but many of the get wrapped in some sort of scandal; the democrats preach fair elections and reforming; but many of the are wrapped up in pork barrel and ear marks. One thing that I don’t seem to understand is “the separation of church and state.” I do understand the government not giving federal money to churches, and places of worship. I also understand how churches cannot endorse a certain candidate because of the their tax status. What I don’t understand is how democratic candidates are can continuously be invited to places of worship, sit on the alter during service, and give a political speach either during or after the service. Isn’t this the same as a church endorsing a candidate? Over Father’s Day weekend, candidate Obama sat on the alter during a service, and gave a rousing speech about black father’s being absent from the family unit. Many news outlets praised him for his words, and said that he was right on. Can you imagine the uproar if a conservative Catholic candidate gave a rousing speech on abortion or any other type of conservative talking point? The media and democrats alike would be outraged; they probably even cringe at the thought. Democrats are so against religion in the public square, they even send troops into conservative churches to see if they are endorsing a candidate. There is obviously a double standard when it comes to the use of the Sunday pulpit. As long as you’re a liberal church endorsing a liberal candidate; by all means use the pulpit to spread the word. But if you’re conservative, and believe there is absolute right and wrong (that’s were the drawing point lies; I’ll talk about that in another post), then you’re violating laws, and must be reported. The pulpit is used for sermons and homily’s, not for politicians to spread their garbage.

Either the media isn’t doing it’s job, or the voting public is blind; or it’s a combination of both.  It seems like whatever the democrats do, they are let off the hook, and Republicans are inspected with a fine tooth comb.  Some of the things the democrats have done are;  Filibustering Bush’s nominees, holding special meetings so the president can’t exercise his congressional right to elect a recess apointment, and now turning off the lights while the Republicans are trying to hold a debate on energy and off shore drilling.  Democrats have left for the summer recess, while some Republicans stayed to continue the debate (whether it be by morals or show, only they know).  Nancy Pelosi allowed Congress to adjourn without coming up with an energy plan, and turned out the lights on the Republicans.  Yet, the newspaper reports continue to blame some Republicans, gas companies; and voters continue to blame Republicans and Bush.  Ladies and gentlemen, right now the Democrats are running the country.  They have been for awhile now because of the Filibusters, and now by making Bush a lame duck president.  They didn’t allow him to overhaul social security, they aren’t allowing him to work on the energy crisis, and they have attempted to block almost every nomination.  Also, they are spewing more negative junk than McCain is, and McCain is getting lambasted for his negative campaign.  One of these days, the media either fairly or accidentally will report the news fairly, but right now it’s not, and voters are being duped.

Here are some poll numbers: a majority of Americans largely place the blame of high gas prices on oil companies and not necessarily on Democrats in Congress. Sixty-eight percent pointed the finger at U.S. oil companies, and 65 percent blamed foreign oil producers, while 54 percent blamed the Bush administration and 31 percent Democrats in Congress.  How is this possible? The democrats need to be held responsible, and the media needs to be agressive and not hold a double standard.

Will the love affair between between Obama and the media please stop!  Here we are, a few months away from the election, and the media is in awe that this man is going to Afganistan and Iraq.  Breaking news is all over the place, programs are being interupted, it’s like we should make today a national holiday (or Monday since today is Saturday).  He has gotten more attention for going that Bush, and when McCain is over there, it’s like there’s no story at all.  A couple of things to point out: 1) It is going to be interesting if the media will show how the military personel really feel about his plans for the war and national security.  The last time I checked, the military was overwhelming voting Republican, and they want McCain in the office over Obama.  2)  Will just one reporter or anchor bring up this question:  Why the hell did it take Obama so long to get over there?  This should be his second or third visit, not his first.

The love affair between Obama and the media is sickening for a couple of reasons; and I just want to hurl when I hear the press cover him sometimes.  Very rarely is he asked tough questions, and any mistake that he makes, instead of pointing it out, the’ll spin it and make the republicans look evil.  The media has a lot of power and influence, and I just have a feeling that that the way the are covering this race, the Republican party has no shot this November.  I will admit, the Republicans put themselves in this situation as well, but, the media needs to be objective, and they are not at this point.  They are courting Obama and standing McCain up.

I keep hearing the democrats say that this nation is divided, we need to unify the nation.  We need to get this nation together again.  Well Thursday, Nancy Pelosi came out and said that Bush was a total failure.  I’ve said several times on this blog; I don’t have a strong opinion about Bush.  There are some things I agree with, and somethings that I don’t.  But to call him a total failure is ludicrous, especially with a do nothing, blocking congress that we have now.  Bush couldn’t do anything his final term because of the democrats blocking everything.  See, Nancy is right; our nation is divided.  It’s not divided in the terms that the democrats say though.  Our political parties are completly divided, and the democrats want to gain control of everything and “unify” the country by being able to pass every democratic bill and legislature.  This isn’t unifying, it’s taking control.  The country needs to be unified by compromise on both sides of the isle.  This nation is full of whiners that want to get their own way (from citizens to politicians).  Whiners don’t compromise, they find ways to get their own way.  Everyday gets scarier and scarier.

Late last week, one of McCain’s staff members said that we have become a nation ofo whiners.  I understand that McCain had to back off for political reasons, but I agree with the statement.  Back in the golden days, the United States was a nation of doers.  Citizens didn’t wait or expect the government to bail them out, they tried to find ways to bail themselves out.  These days all we hear about is, “The government has to do this, the government has to do that.”  The goverment is here to protect the citizens and help the citizens, not do everything for the citizens.  As citizens, WE need to do things for ourselves.  Go back to school if you don’t have a degree (the government will help you), start your own business if you’re unemployed (the government will gelp you), get a second job like I did for a little while (government can’t help you there).  Take action to help the country, don’t just take action every 2 or 4 years by voting, but take action in your daily life. 

If you went to CNN.com yesterday, here were some of the stories you read about: “Uncle goes to jail for kidnapping of neice for sex ring,” “Bush gets heckled during Fourth of July speech,” “Obama’s comments on Iraq spark flip-flop charge,” and my favorite “Cindy Brady stops show to vomit.”

There was one major story that took place yesterday that didn’t make it on CNN.com, or any other major news outlet.  That story was “More than 1,100 Troops in Iraq to Re-enlist in Independence Day Ceremony.”  This is a very important story, it shows how troops believe in what they are doing, and they WANT to be there, and WANT to finish the job.  I try to stay away from media bias claims.  I know that the media is liberal because my mom worked in the industry for around 30 years, and I worked in it for about 1 year.  But now I believe that I have to jump on the media bias band-wagon.  When CNN is quick to report a death, suicide, or show a disgruntled military or family member on screen to rant about the war, but won’t cover how 1,215 members currently serving in Iraq are reenlisting for duty, how can one not see the bias?  I was pissed yesterday when I didn’t see the story being covered by anyone, and then even more furious when I didn’t see it today.  I did a search on the article title in yahoo today, and only blogs and military news outlets have any kind of coverage on this.  This is disturbing and sad, and I now can positivly say that the media has an agenda.  Well, one thing is for sure; I can laugh harder when I hear Air America complain about the media being biased.  Well, I’m done for the day, and I’m off to read some more of the comments by liberal citizens who believe that hecking Bush during a 4th of July speech was  appropriate, and a form of free speech.  (Notice how I didn’t make fun of anyone).  Have a great weekend!

My family and I went to the Narnia exhibit at our local science museum last night, and it was ok.  Now before all you Narnia people get upset; this is coming from a person who has little to no interest in the books or movies.  I went because my wife wanted to go, and thought that my daughter would enjoy it too.  As we were walking through the fictional land of Narnia, we came to a part of the exhibit where the weather turned from summer to a long, cold winter.  Well, the creators of the exhibit thought that this would be a great place to incorporate Global Warming.  I was furious.  What the hell are they trying to do by throwing global warming into an exhibit like this.  Are they trying to say that global warming is a myth like Narnia?  I highly doubt that, but here I am trying to enjoy an evening with my family and I’m thrown this crap.

Personally, I don’t know what my take is on global warming.  I do believe that humans are doing damage to the earth, but I also believe that we are in a natural warming trend right now; and in the next few years we will go through a cooling trend.  I have two pieces of evidence that the earth goes through a natural warming and cooling trend.  Evidence 1: Remember the ice age?  Well how did the ice melt?  The earth naturally warmed up.  2) In the 1970’s scientists believed that we were going through global cooling, and that everything was going to freeze.  Um; it warmed up a few years after that. 

I’m just tired of all this ’going green’ garbage.  We’re forced fed this information, and forced to buy green products that don’t even work.   By the way, going green is too expensive for me and my family that has two kids in disposable diapers; that uses paper plates and styrofoam cups because washing the dishes takes too much energy after a long day.  Well, good night.  I’m now going to drive my Pinto that hasn’t had an emissions test in 20 years to the Circle K around the corner.

It’s that time of year again where the best tennis players in the world spend a fort night at Wimbeldon.  Everybody from around the world is invited to come to the grass courts and enjoy some great tennis; everybody except for the pigeons.  In years past, pigeons have made their home at Wimbeldon, and this as posed as a distraction to the competators, and a health risk for the spectators.  A few years ago, the management bought 2 hawks to help keep the pigeons out of the area; and they have done a good job except for two particular locations.  Well; this year, they decided to hire on some sharp shooters to take down the pesky birds so that competators and visitors may have a more pleasant experience.  I think it’s a great idea; take out those hideous creatures.  But PETA has different ideals and morals.  They believe that it’s a crime to do such a hideous act, and that the organizers should go to jail for cruelty to animals.  Organizers claim that they used the most humane way to get rid of the pigeons first, and then went to the snipers next.  I for one can’t imagine the horrors of waking up tomorrow morning and having 5 less pigeons in the world, can you?  PETA get a life and save a child, not a pigeon.