Cardinals Coach hits homerun for AZ

Take me out to the ballgame. No. Really. Take me. I want to go and I need a ride.

St. Louis Cardinals coach Tony LaRussa was asked during an interview with their local television station what he thought about Tea Party protesters showing up for a demonstration last night in support of Arizona's anti-illegal immigration law. The reporter had a hard time asking the question, not knowing what to call the Tea Party "ideas". But LaRussa wasn't fazed. Yeah, let them come. It's America. This is what it's for.
But then he continued unprompted to show his support for Arizona, saying if the feds won't do their job, then the state is forced to do it for them.

You're up to bat LaRussa.



I've always liked the Cardinals. Watched them play the Mets once and fell in love with baseball and Todd Zeile all in the same afternoon. It was one of those good days.

Here's the post-show report. Reporters actually spoke to some of those Tea Party patriots and walked away with their lives. Must have been one of their nonviolent moments.

Buyer's Remorse: debt for you, your kids, your grandkids, your great grandkids, their friends and their friend's friends and their friend's pets

The national debt will reach 62 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) by the end of this year, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) said Wednesday.

The budget office said the debt will reach its highest percentage of GDP since the end of World War II. The jump is driven by lower tax revenues and higher federal spending in the recent recession.

Awesome. No hope of keeping our change.

Kagan wants to tell you what to eat

First, let's just get to the meat of it. Or bread or butter or asparagus of it.

This is Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court, Elena Kagan. And this is the insanity that comes with her.

Coburn: Do we have the power to tell people what they have to eat everyday? (Referring to the abuse of the Commerce Clause.)

Kagan: Long pause. Rolling of the head. Stuttering...Senator Coburn, uh.. more pause I..I...



She never answered the question. Not even after the end of the clip. She avoided it. Not a hard question to answer, unless you are a radical leftist like Kagan.

Rush had a valid point. As always. "We can all agree the government doesn't have a place in the bedroom. But now they have a place in the dining room? In the kitchen?"

The government can't tell a woman not to kill her unborn child because that's her body. But they can make that woman eat egg whites only.

Mmmkay.

Quote Me: pointless and random

I stayed up until nearly 5 am writing in a scrap notebook like a mad woman. Inspiration strikes when inspiration wants. I wrote and scribbled and scratched out and rewrote for hours and felt the exhilaration of doing what I was designed to do - write. Then I shook my hand to stop the cramping.
After a few hours sleep, I awoke with one succinct thought. And here it is. If a President and his administration, pompous and bullying in their governance, want me to never realize my dreams but instead be beaten under debt and taxes and control, I've got one response to that:

Bite me.


We will succeed. This nation. This freedom. Our success. God has sustained us and God will keep us victorious. And any thoughts of defeatism, especially those coming from the Obama administration, shall be trampled under our feet.

Now if you'll excuse me, I have a book to write.

Reason #478,556 Why Biden Makes Us Proud

Stop wanting to keep the money you earn. Give it up, man. Give it up. Or suffer the forked and fumbling tongue of the VP.

Quote Them: Clinton's nonexistent maternal instincts

“You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.”

Hillary Clinton,
Secretary of State and baby grim reaper


PS Hillary was representing the Obama administration's reason during the G-8 for not supporting aid for maternal and infant health in the poorest nations in the world. In other words, until there is abortion, there will be no aid for poor mothers and infants. Understand? Obama's agenda is more important than feeding starving babies.
Not that we should be surprised. This is the guy who has no problem leaving infants who survive abortions alone in a room without food or love or health care until they die alone. Some call it infanticide. I personally call it evil. But hey, that's just me and my kooky idea about protecting the innocent.

Anne Halpine and Greg Pfundstein in a National Review column ask some rather telling questions about this move by the Obama administration to deny aid to mothers and infants
until their political ambitions are met:

Does Hillary Clinton think it is more important to promote liberal Western ideologies than to address the critical needs of the women and children of Africa and Asia? Does she prefer to promote the tired, old eugenic orthodoxies of the largely discredited population-control movement? Is Hillary Clinton — and the Obama administration — willing to hold up funding for maternal and infant health because of a dogmatic commitment to a universal right to abortion on demand? What about the rights of countless women all over the world who want to bring children into the world safely, without risking their lives and the lives of their children?

Yeah. What about it?

Alabama Superstar Line-up

Oh those Alabama political candidates. They are having way too much fun. Here's another Rick Barber ad. This time, he's got a special guest. A few actually. The most recognizable will be Dale Peterson, a man we've never seen without his cowboy hat on his head and a shotgun in his hand. But wait this ad out. There's a special singing performance. The man who spontaneously sang an often forgotten verse of the "Star-Spangled Banner" during a Tea Party meeting gives us a repeat. And in the end, Barber even has a joke for Glenn Beck.



I didn't understand the Glenn Beck reference. So I searched it out. Here's the background.



I'm not exactly certain what Glenn's point was here. He was attempting to take Rick Barber to task for an ad, pointedly mentioning how the left and liberals will perceive it. Um...really? Glenn has literally asked people to ship pitchforks to his studio. Does he really need to be criticizing others for their media tactics?

I love Glenn. But this was unnecessary criticism. The left hates Tea Party protesters. They accuse them of violence, though they are not, and hatred, while the left hates them, and even racists, though minorities in the Tea Party movement say otherwise. When did we start worrying about how the left will perceive us? We're not trying to win them over. We're out to defeat them.

Reality has nothing to do with how the left paint the Tea Party protests. Nothing. And never has. Rick Barber is a man unconcerned with the left's viewpoint and more concerned with getting a job done, an attribute you'd think Glenn would find not only admirable but simpatico.

AZ Gov Brewer: Do your job Mr. President

What does border security look like to President Obama?

This.

A sign.



No hype. No graphics. No splicing. Just Arizona Governor Jan Brewer standing in the desert of her state asking for the federal government to fulfill their nearly sole purpose of existing: securing our borders, protecting our citizens and land. Period.

Instead, Obama would rather stick his fingers into the plume pie of the private sector, which functions fine without him. We survived long before he came. And if conservatives can take Congress back in November, we might just survive long after he is gone.

Zach Anner: Bringing sexy back

Zach Anner needs his own television show. He thinks so, too.



I hadn't heard of this guy, despite his viral YouTube status. But that isn't saying much. I'm really not cool, hip, happening, nor do I know what is. Surely you've figured this out by now.

He is, however, hilarious. And with very little research (seriously little, I just typed his name into YouTube), he popped up. Here is Anner's full Oprah clip.



And here's a traveling trip with Anner. Will Oprah give this guy a show? An Obama sticker on his wheelchair and dropping the word "unleashed" a few times might help.

Wisconsin Dem: Arizona isn't a border state

Peggy West, a member of the Milwaukee County Board, will not support doing business with Arizona companies because of their unfair illegal immigration law. Now, if Arizona was a border state, if they had to deal directly with illegals, that might be a different story.

But since they are a ways, quite a ways, away from the border, well...then their law is just heinous.



Arizona borders Mexico. What?! That's not what Google said.

West later attempted to explain her statement by saying she knew Arizona was a border state, just not the biggest border state. That's Texas. Arizona is only the second biggest border state. See the difference?

West claims that the point she was trying to make is that because Texas has a much larger border with Mexico, she might feel differently about such a law in that state. "Had Texas come out with the legislation, having the largest border, I think that I would be more receptive to the fact that there was a problem. But having it be Arizona, having it be the second largest boarder and knowing there are troops on the border in Arizona, it didn't seem to me that this legislation was particularly necessary at this moment in time," West said.

Um...let's look at her statement again, then. She's not confused. We are.

"If this was Texas, which is a state that is directly on the border with Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this saying that they had a major issue with undocumented people flooding their borders, I would have to look twice at this. But this is a state that is a ways removed from the border..."

My bad Peggy. I completely misunderstood your very clear misunderstanding of Arizona's real issue: illegals flooding Arizona's border and attacking the citizen's safety, as well as their economy. Also, that picture you saw of Arizona's Gov. Jan Brewer with Obama was not a direct "pipeline" to the President. He had refused to meet with the governor for months, preferring instead to send Mexican President Felipe Calderon to the Congress where he attacked the US for their supposed ill-treatment of illegals, while Calderon governs a nation cited by Amnesty International for multiple human rights violations.
Oh, and ps, he also arrests illegals in his country. And they don't get the posh treatment of illegals captured in America. Honey, you don't want to cross that border illegally going south, that's all I'm saying.

When Obama finally did meet with Brewer, he promised to send additional border security. He didn't do it. He's not going to do it. Instead, the White House legal team is filing a lawsuit against a state, inside its own country, that is simply trying to do the job Obama refuses to do - secure the borders.

And the National Guard troops on the border? They aren't allowed to stop illegals.

This woman is a prime example of what happens when weak people get into positions of leadership and jump on whatever popular bandwagon passes by. They don't know the issue. They don't bother to educate themselves on the issue. Then they use whatever meager or major authority they have and wield it like a bully.

Arizona is a border state. They do have undocumented workers flooding their borders. And she said if that were so, she'd rethink her position. But she's not rethinking it. She should have apologized and admitted she was wrong. Instead, she'll keep pushing to boycott Arizona because she doesn't feel this legislation was "particularly necessary at this moment in time." And she's an expert on what Arizona should do since she lives in Wisconsin.

And they wonder why conservatives want a smaller government.

Quote Them: Paul McCartney hearts Oil Spills

“Sadly we need disasters like this to show people. Some people don’t believe in climate warming – like those who don’t believe there was a Holocaust. But the facts indicate that there’s something going on and we’ve got to be aware of it if we want our kids to inherit a decent world, not a complete nightmare of a planet – clean, renewable energy is for starters.”

Paul McCartney,
singer and environmental lover of oil spills


PS Those oil spills. Heck. We need them. Forget the birds and fish and wildlife, not to mention the livelihood of the fishermen or the towns that survive on summer tourism. Oil spills like this help environmentalists further their political activism. So spill, spill, spill. While you're at it, litter, too. It's all for a good cause.

And on the second point, I could explain to Sir Paul the difference between the Holocaust and global warming, since he apparently is a bit foggy on comparisons. But Ed Morrissey at HotAir does such a grand job, I'll let the big boys handle this one:

We know the Holocaust took place because of eyewitness testimony, records kept by the Nazis, and an overwhelming amount of evidence at the camps. We don’t rely on computer models that continually fail to deliver accurate predictions and unscientific conjecture to establish the fact of the Holocaust. And we don’t “need disasters like this” to show people anything except that (a) exploration is risky, and (b) it would be a lot less risky on land and in shallower water if the American government would allow it.

Steven Crowder, ladies and gentlemen

He's back and now a contributor on Fox, the earthly Heaven for Conservative pundits. May their capitalistic, small government glory reign forever and ever.

Here's Steven on Obama and Big Oil, a perverse love affair for the ages. "Why can't I quit you!"



What? We need petroleum for lipstick? Then drill, baby, drill. How could we stand the site of Joy Behar without the aid of color?

Christians arrested in Michigan for handing out pamphlets outside Arab festival

Dearborn, Michigan, where the Constitution ends.

Police stopped a couple of Christians within three minutes of passing out Gospel of John pamphlets in Arabic and English outside of the Arab International Festival. Not inside. Outside. On a public street. In an American city. Protected by the First Amendment. Sometimes.

They were arrested for disorderly conduct. Really. I guess that now includes standing on a public street passing out pamphlets.



Via Allapundit at HotAir:

If this is what it looks like, replete with cops confiscating video cameras to keep what happened off the record, it’s one of the most ridiculous First Amendment violations you’ll ever see.

The Thomas More Law Center, a Christian legal defense organization, says it will legally represent those arrested since the Dearborn police violated their free speech. Dang straight.

A Youtube video, which I will not embed and give them additional views, has been posted by an obvious Muslim source saying those arrested at the festival were proselytizing and saying, "Jesus is Lord." That, apparently, is suppose to be a criminal offense. Except it's not. Besides, they were arrested for disorderly conduct. But saying "Jesus is Lord" in America isn't disorderly conduct, I don't care how many Muslims are standing around to hear it. It's called free speech and it's protected.

Well...except in Dearborn.

What's so wrong with women being soft?

Kai Hibbard lost the weight. 118 pounds, in fact. And America watched her do it. As a contestant on Season 3 of The Biggest Loser, Hibbard had an experience she is now saying wasn't all that pleasant. Or healthy.

(insert sarcasm here) I'm shocked.

A television show brings on the heaviest people they can find and pushes them through extreme workouts and diets and dehydration to promote the idea that, "You, too, can lose 12 pounds per week!" with a verbally-abusive trainer and a food Nazi. All this can be yours if you just buy their books or their diets or their advice. And yes, they do accept Visa and Mastercard.

And this is unhealthy?
(insert additional sarcasm here) Say it isn't so.

I don't know if she's telling the truth that this is all about finally being honest and not making money, that she wants to be a proud military wife and stand beside her active-duty husband and not feel like a coward, that it's about setting right some wrongs.

I don't know if it's true. But I do know reality television sucks.


Watch CBS News Videos Online

I'm stepping on my soapbox. You've been forewarned.

I'm glad Kia was able to lose the weight, along with the other contestants. What I've always hated about this entire show, this whole culture, is the obsession with quick fixes and size. Health is only important if it leads you down the path of fast weight loss and the sculpted male-biceps of the First Lady.

Skinny is healthy, even though it's not. Bony is beautiful, even though it's not. Grown women starving themselves to look like 12-year-old girls and men salivating over their emaciated forms is natural, even though it really isn't.

You ever wonder how it is that being underweight is a sign of supposed health, while also being a symptom of fatal disease?

Today, I'm wearing my "V" shirt. It's the same one in my profile picture and a shirt I've worn so much it deserved a title. I wear it because it's soft. So very soft. I found it at Target. The design didn't get my attention. But then I reached out and touched it. And yes, I was hooked.

Wearing this shirt makes me happy. Period. It's gentle. Whispering. Almost dewy. It isn't all that feminine. But I love it because it feels feminine. Or at least what use to be thought of as feminine. The softness. The curves. The...I'm going to use this word...luscious form of the female body.

Women use to be celebrated for their roundness. Now it's sucked out, starved out, or cut off. Women were the weaker sex because we were the softer one. But that's no longer acceptable. What I see are bones. Lots of bones. And the more they stick out the hotter the women apparently are.

These days, the round bodies of painter Gustav Klimt would be put on a treadmill and told to cover up until their BMI dropped.

What's so wrong with women being soft? When did that become such a hostile concept? Fit is good. Health is good. I'm for both in a big, big way. But that's not, painfully obviously not, the goal. These days, women fluctuate between being painfully thin to overly sculpted. We've redefined the word "healthy" as "ripped" and everything else is sub par or primed for mockery.

I still remember President Obama even commenting in February 2009 during his pre-Super Bowl interview with Matt Laur how Jessica Simpson was "in a weight battle apparently." How dare gaunt Daisy Duke eat. I actually thought she looked good with her curves back.

I thought she looked unique, soft. I thought she looked feminine. And we simply can't have that.

Trace Atkins: drilling moratorium "idiotic, juvenile, overaction"

Is it wrong that this man's voice gives me shivers?
Okay, moving on.

Wait, thinking about it again.....
Okay, back to moving on.

This is an excellent interview. Atkins, a country singer, worked in the oil industry for ten years, six of which were on oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico. He's not speaking from a celebrity point of view, thank goodness, but a former rig worker point of view. And his insight is spectacular. It's common sense, which, in these days of our governance having a complete lack of it, also gives me shivers.

The good stuff hits around the two minute mark.

Anderson Cooper: A lot of folks here in Louisiana are concerned about President Obama's moratorium on deep water drilling. Do you support it or do you think its a bad idea?

Trace Atkins: I think it's a terrible idea. That's like kicking a man when he's down. That is the most idiotic, juvenile, overreaction...it's ugh..it's an uninformed decision is what it is. It's just ridiculous...

He goes on to point out the fact tens of thousands of oil wells have been drilled in the Gulf without a single incident. And then the idea of shutting down American companies for a mistake made by others? That not only harms the oil industry, it harms every single company that services that industry, as well as the families who depend on those paychecks.

Atkins also doesn't waste time pointing out that the environmental dictates, i.e. forcing oil exploration in deep-water instead of allowing it in shallow water and on land where it's easier and can be done with less risk, caused this disaster. Next time you're wondering through the woods and catch someone hugging a tree, be sure and thank them for their part in destroying the environment and economy along the Gulf coast.

And don't let them hug you.

O wants to help illegals get fair wages

I thought the job of the President and his administration was enforcing the law, not helping people break it. My bad.

“You have the right to be paid fairly whether documented or not.”
Obama's Department of Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis

They want to "help". And I want to know, how? Will we now be subsidizing employers who illegally hire illegal immigrants to illegally help them illegally pay illegal immigrants more?

That's cool. Just take it out of that big piggy bank in the sky. Or plant more of those money trees on the west lawn. And don't stress the law. It's really more of a suggestion, anyway.

Awesomely Awesome: a Dale Peterson endorsement

Do you remember this?



The most famous Ag Commissioner candidate ever has given his endorsement to the Republican primary winner for that office. Dang. It's like John Wayne taking on politics. If more guys like him would run, political races wouldn't bore my brain into premature rigor mortis.

Watch and enjoy. And wait it out for the tag line.

Greatest car commercial ever

This is my peace offering. Forgive my absence. I've missed all of you, except the spammer who keeps sending me Chinese hieroglyphics.

Enjoy the commercial.





George, George. Only you could charge armed guards of the Royal Army without even an eye twitch of fear. Great men are established by great actions. He won the war. But perhaps his greatest victory was over personal ambition and ego, a battle long lost by our current president and a defeat dragging this nation into leadership inaction and world irrelevance.

George Washington, though it had been offered, refused to be another King George. And for that he deserved, at the very least, a sleek ride.

It's day 43, do you know where your President is?

Actually, it's day 44. But yesterday, while water and oil in the Gulf of Mexico proved they can mix, or at least come together for a magnificently horrific disaster, President Obama took time to show the American people he's dedicated to doing his job, being a leader, not resting until this Bp oil spill ends, by doing what any good leader would do during a history-in-the-making environmental - and eventual economic - disaster...



He presented Paul McCartney with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize and joined a celebrity round of, "Hey Jude."

UPDATE:

Just found this video. Self-explanatory.

Jon Stewart: O sucks at cleaning oil spills

Nothing says you care about the environment like finding time for Marv Albert.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
The Spilling Fields
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party

As a passing comment, Stewart acknowledges that, yes, we have plenty of oil. Thus the gusher. So can we dispense with the propaganda that it's running out? That we're tapping the well dry. Apparently, our oil reserves are plentiful, thus the high-pressure gusher that keeps going and going and going. Much like that Energizer bunny quote.

Reason TV's Nanny of the Month: No raw milk for you!

I had raw milk for breakfast. Raw goat milk, in fact. And it was delicious and nutritious.



Nutrition is a bit of a hobby for me. In fact, I'm baking fish right now, along with green beans, which I will consume gleefully with a cucumber and avocado salad in about three minutes. No, it isn't a diet. God gave me curves. I have no plans to give them back.

I've studied nutrition for my personal use, for friends, for simply the desire to be knowledgeable, for over ten years. I love to eat healthy. Love how I feel. Am romanced with a bucket of freshly picked berries, instead of flowers. Nutrition is my thing.

But what's great about it is...it's also my choice. Should I decide to deep fry that fish, trade the green beans for french fries, and swap the cucumber salad for a brownie, the decision is mine. Not a bureaucrat. And I will deal with the nausea and afternoon nap that follows.

Everyone is different, nutritionally speaking. We're individuals. Our bodies react to food in our own unique way. Some of us need more salt, some less. Some more carbs, some less. Some more protein, some less. Some of us should be eating artichokes. Some of us don't want to.

We're not children. We don't need Mommy Government smacking our hands away from the cookie jar. Besides, Mommy Government doesn't know jack about nutrition. Or this bureaucrat chick would know that raw milk does a body good.

Mickey Kaus: the 45-second ad that says it all, really quickly

He's running for office. Literally. Running. Fast like. Seriously.

He's a Democrat running against Barbara Boxer in the California primary. It takes 45-seconds to hear his rather odd Democrat platform. Notice anything?



He's running with a Conservative theme, criticizing unions who stop economic growth, pork spending, lack of a secure border, and he is even being honest about Democrats tight connection to Wall Street. Running. In California. Literally. Conservative.

Seriously.


Curtsy to Patterico and his Pontifications

Tavis Smiley: Christians blow people up everyday

I've already gotten my kill in this morning. I try to detonate before breakfast. That way I can spend the rest of the day focusing on chanting about death and threatening Comedy Central, who edits Christian insults due to their overwhelming fear of Joel Osteen.



Tavis Smiley is a far-left radio host who wakes up every night in a sweat after a reoccurring nightmare where Mother Teresa walks into his bedroom carrying a King James bible and strapped with C4.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali with Townhall.com Blog gives the man enough rope to hang himself on his own insanity.

Christians blow up post offices? Name one.
Christians attacked Columbine? Explain that concept to Casse Bernall's parents.
He can list them all day long? Go for it.