Free In Idaho!

I always enjoy reading some of the other (usually younger) guys’ blogs when they talk about their kids.   Jay G does it.  Marko does as well.   So I thought I’d brag a little on our youngest kidlet.  My Sweetie and I went out to the airport this morning to pick her up.  She came to town for a couple days, to get away from work and the rain, ”hide out in Idaho”,  and to visit with us (well, with her Mom mostly).  When we got back to the house she opened her bag and pulled out her wallet and said “is cash ok to pay you back for my plane ticket?”

This grown up kid thing has it’s moments too. 

I have already mentioned the Idaho Dems going out of their way to ensure just the right mix of, er, skin tones, ancestry, and persuasions represented in the delegates they chose to send to their convention in Denver later this summer.  But that isn’t bad, because, after all, Barack The Sinless Obama has been known to shuffle the members of his audience now and again, to get the “right mix for the camera”.

So is it any wonder the Democrat National Committee is sparing no expense, or browsweat, to bring before the cameras in August a convention that promises to be the biggest “green” spectacle ever seen?  Yes, even dwarfing the Live Earth concerts, or so they can hope.  Proving to the world that they truly believe they are better than everyone else when it comes to righteous living, and how devoted they are to Mother Earth.  From the Wall Street Journal this morning (warning on content: we’re rating this one S for Spewing, H for Hurling)

DENVER — As the Mile High City gears up to host a Democratic bash for 50,000, organizers are discovering the perils of trying to stage a political spectacle that’s also politically correct.

Consider the fanny packs.

The host committee for the Democratic National Convention wanted 15,000 fanny packs for volunteers. But they had to be made of organic cotton. By unionized labor. In the USA.

Official merchandiser Bob DeMasse scoured the country. His weary conclusion: “That just doesn’t exist.”

Ditto for the baseball caps. “We have a union cap or an organic cap,” Mr. DeMasse says. “But we don’t have a union-organic offering.”

Much of the hand-wringing can be blamed on Denver’s Democratic mayor, John Hickenlooper, who challenged his party and his city to “make this the greenest convention in the history of the planet.”

This whole story is astonishing to me.  This is the party that promised to straighten out Washington two years ago, to bring us a heightened standard of ethics,  to fix the economy, end the war, bring us an energy plan, give us health care, rescue the environment, and make us all love government again, especially really BIG government.  But then, just like the apologists for the failure of communism and socialism keep trying to tell us, they haven’t really failed to deliver these things, they just don’t have the right people in power yet.  But you just watch, once we have Barack The Sinless Obama as our President, things are going to be just ducky.  And you just need to look at our convention to know how serious we are.

There will be special food, special balloons, special hats and fanny packs.  Why, it’s going to have a carbon footprint so low you’ll need a bloodhound to find it.  There will even be garbage can monitors, just like in grade school, to make sure nobody lets a fork get into the wrong trash stream.  Don’t believe me?  It gets better.  Keep reading

To test whether celebratory balloons advertised as biodegradable actually will decompose, Ms. Robinson buried samples in a steaming compost heap. She hired an Official Carbon Adviser, who will measure the greenhouse-gas emissions of every placard, every plane trip, every appetizer prepared and every coffee cup tossed. The Democrats hope to pay penance for those emissions by investing in renewable energy projects.

A Carbon Advisor?  Really?  Oh my, they’re really serious.  They’re so serious they are even going to buy some of AlGore’s carbon credits, “to pay penance for those emissions”.  You know, something about that reminds of Martin Luther, Wittenberg, indulgences… but that might just be me.  But I can’t help but wonder, if He Who Must Not Be Made Fun Of is actually elected, how soon before each of our cities gets a Carbon Advisor?  Maybe that’s what they plan to do with all those extra BATF agents they won’t need after we all turn in our guns?  Carbon Advisors and Waste Stream Monitors…

We’ve already had enough religion mixed into this campaign, especially on the Democrat side of late, but I remember a passage that seems to apply here.  Yes, Barack The Preacher Obama is wrong, some of us are reading our Bibles, not just clinging to them.  So Barry, and you in the hope change choir, ponder on this for a bit, see if anything comes to you.  It’s from The Sermon on the Mount, one of the items you’ve preached at us about.

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before men to be noticed by them; otherwise you have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. “

Hypocrites.

Nothing in law or politics is a sure thing.  Never has been, and never will.  So I know you’re nervously awaiting the Heller decision, just like I am.

“Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms under our own possesion and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?”

                                          - Patrick Henry

Update: not this morning…

10:27

Ben Winograd -  The Chief Justice has announced from the courtroom that the Court will issue all of its remaining opinions tomorrow at 10 a.m. Eastern.