Quote Of The Week

"To avoid any controversy and to satisfy this gentleman's concerns, the ornaments were removed,"

Jim Toomey, public information officer for Sonoma County, California

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This was in response to a complaint from an atheist about an angel at the top of a Christmas tree in the county recorder's office.

At what point are we going to stop letting one individual like this dictate what the majority wants?

I can even go with banning prayer at county meetings, this is an overt endorsement of religion, but an angel on a Christmas tree?

We need to stop this insanity.

Remember Those Who Cannot Be Home This Christmas

I have to work this year on Christmas Eve and Christmas. I work 7:00 am to 7:00 pm so we get up early so we can have our Christmas before I go to work. My kids have grown up with my nontraditional schedule and are real good sports about it.

I of course was feeling sorry for myself and feeling bad for the kids the other day when a thought occurred to me - there are men and women in Iraq and Afghanistan and everywhere else the military sends them to protect us here at home.

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I get to come home at the end of the day, me and the kids and my wife get to spend my days off during their school break together, I have nothing to complain about.

So this year let's remember the young men and women who don't get to come home for Christmas, the ones who never will again, and, most importantly, those at home spending Christmas without them.

Merry Christmas everyone from the Chuckthinks family

Decide: Pets Or Your SUV

Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man's best friend

PARIS (AFP) – Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle.

But the revelation in the book "Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living" by New Zealanders Robert and Brenda Vale has angered pet owners who feel they are being singled out as troublemakers.

The Vales, specialists in sustainable living at Victoria University of Wellington, analysed popular brands of pet food and calculated that a medium-sized dog eats around 164 kilos (360 pounds) of meat and 95 kilos of cereal a year.

Combine the land required to generate its food and a "medium" sized dog has an annual footprint of 0.84 hectares (2.07 acres) -- around twice the 0.41 hectares required by a 4x4 driving 10,000 kilometres (6,200 miles) a year, including energy to build the car.

To confirm the results, the New Scientist magazine asked John Barrett at the Stockholm Environment Institute in York, Britain, to calculate eco-pawprints based on his own data. The results were essentially the same.

"Owning a dog really is quite an extravagance, mainly because of the carbon footprint of meat," Barrett said.

Other animals aren't much better for the environment, the Vales say.

Cats have an eco-footprint of about 0.15 hectares, slightly less than driving a Volkswagen Golf for a year, while two hamsters equates to a plasma television and even the humble goldfish burns energy equivalent to two mobile telephones.

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They would really not like me, we have 3 cats, a goldfish, and an SUV.

Basically though, this is just one more example of how silly global warming, and the entire ideology of the left for that matter, has gotten.

Finally, I'm not much of an animal person but this is just sick "Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living". Just more insanity from the left.

Hypocrisy, Thy Name Is Democrat

'My Congressman is Nuts dot com'

By: David Freddoso
Online Opinion Editor
10/29/09 5:11 PM EDT

For those following the extremely entertaining career of first term Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., a seasoned Republican campaigner sends along the following:

Central Floridians today announced the launch of MyCongressmanIsNuts.com as a more appropriate alternative to CongressmanwithGuts.com. MyCongressmanisNuts.com was formed due to outrage and embarrassment within Central Florida over Alan Grayson’s liberal positions and childish approach in Washington, D.C.

Alan Grayson’s recent self indulgent behavior has paralyzed his ability to serve as an advocate for the citizens of Central Florida. He has alienated every Republican, as well as reasonable Democrats, by proclaiming Republicans wish for the sick to “die quickly,” and referring our health care system as a “Holocaust.” Grayson called a female governmental official, with whom he disagreed, a “whore” on a national radio program. Further he referred to Republicans as “knuckle dragging, knee dragging, Neanderthals.”

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I just heard about this yesterday on Fox News.

The site is funny, check it out.

Seems the good Congressman is really pissed and is asking Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute the author of this site for...something.

Evidently his one big beef is that she is not a constituent of his and is therefore committing fraud because she calls him "my Congressman".

As of right now there is no indication that he disputes her contention that he is nuts.

So the question is if the author of this website gets prosecuted (probably not likely) will Grayson be tried for calling Linda Robertson, an adviser to the Federal Reserve Chairman, a whore and be forced to prove she is? Don't hold your breath.

Finally, why is it that Democratic Congressmen and Senators have such a problem with women?

What Do You Think About This?

I heard a comment while watching Fox that made me think.

The discussion was about the Copenhagen conference and which countries would sign on to making cuts.

One of the threads of conversation was about Kyoto and the notion that developing countries like China and India would have been exempted.

There is a push now by large industrial countries to not give China and India these exemptions, make them follow the same rules as everyone else.

My belief all along has been that they should. In fact, this has been one of my biggest hang-ups about the Kyoto Protocol (one of many).

The comment made though is that China and India may believe that all of these industrial countries used carbon-emitting practices to build their industrial base and now want China and India to play by different rules in their development.

I found this a curious way to look at it.

Forgetting all other things about China and India, unfair pricing, unlevel playing field such as lower wages, etc, do they have a point?

Are the developed countries being arrogant in making these countries play by different rules or are these environmental rules a good way to level the playing field?

What do you think?

Quote Of The Week

Bitch

Senator Charles Schumer (D, NY)

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This was directed at a flight attendant who had the gall to ask him to follow the rules that rest of the common passengers were expected to follow.

There are 2 issues here.

First is the absolute arrogance of Congressional members.

He simply did not seem to think the rules applied to him. He was a United States Senator. Didn't the flight attendant know he was busy destroying the country?

This is not the first time we have seen this. More than that, it appears to happen more with the "out for the common man" Democrats.

The second issue is the way he demeaned this woman. It is amazing how often we see this from Democrats considering their strong stance on protecting women's rights.

In my opinion, liberals are far more disrespectful of women than conservatives.

Look at their history.

As much as conservatives despise Hillary Clinton, she saw a new low of vitriol when she was attacked by fellow Dems when she ran for President.

Her husband, Slick Willie, is possibly the most disrespectful President we have ever had in regards to women.

Look at how the left ridicules a woman who wants to stay home and raise her children. She's a simpleton, likely less intelligent, and nothing more than a tool for her husband to use.

Look at how the left treated the women that Bill Clinton was sexually harassing.

Then of course, we have Sarah Palin. I don't need to go there for the readers of this blog, we all know the Hell she was put through.

I think this one word spoke volumes not only for liberals but for Congressional members everywhere.

Let's See How This Plays Out

Democrats Descend Into Brawl Over Health Care

With just days remaining to prove that they can meet a self-imposed Christmas deadline and pass President Barack Obama's signature initiative through the Senate, Democrats seeking a rendezvous with history instead detoured to an intraparty brawl.

Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., was poised to release the latest version of the Senate legislation as early as Friday, but it was unclear what kind of reception he'd get. Labor leaders said the bill was soft on the insurance industry, and former party chairman Howard Dean said he'd vote against it if he were a senator.

All eyes were on the only known Democratic holdout, moderate Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, whose primary concern is that abortion funding restrictions in the bill were too lax. Nelson indicated Thursday he still was not happy but would keep talking with Reid, who needs 60 votes to push through Republican opposition.
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Liberals are furious over the compromises Reid had to make to keep the bill alive. Gone is a government insurance plan modeled on Medicare. So is the fallback, the option of allowing aging baby boomers to buy into Medicare. The major benefits of the bill won't start for three or four years, and then they'll be delivered through private insurance companies.
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The AFL-CIO, the nation's largest labor federation, and the Service Employees International Union both expressed deep disappointment. The Senate bill includes a tax on high-cost insurance plans that unions fear will hurt their members.

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This is the nightmare that won't end for Democrats.

The one saving grace they thought they had was that if they could not pass health care reform, they could dump the blame on Republicans.

Problem is they are their own worst enemy, and worse, it's a public fight.

Health care could be the final nail in their 2010 mid term election coffin.

The economy and deficit were going to be killers so I think a lot of the swing or right of center seats they hold were already gone.

With the health care debate though, there may not be a win salvageable.

They are publicly embarrassing themselves with the steady string of concessions and bribes for votes.

Now the bill they pass will be so devoid of far left causes they may lose their base. They will likely wind up with a bill that will not have either tax-payer funded abortions or a public option, the dual Holy Grails for the left.

There was great hope on the left that their time had finally come with both the most liberal President ever and the most far left Congressional leadership, at least in modern times.

This group can't pass abortion funding. They can't push through a takeover of health insurance. We will stay in Iraq for the foreseeable future. We are sending more troops to Afghanistan. We haven't taxed the rich into poverty yet. The Homeland Security Director is even starting to use the word terrorism again.

Imagine the disappointment.

The Dems could go to the polls next year with conservatives fired up, independents having lost any trust in both them and Obama, and the left being disappointed and deflated.

2010 may be a rough year for Dems.