Via Blogs for Bush.

Countercolumn has written an open letter to the New York Times, castigating them for their paltry coverage of positive stories. An excellent fisking with details of stories the Times hasn’t covered and listing those news outlets that have covered the same stories.

Go read it…

We previously wrote about Edward’s KidSafe Playhouses here.

Here are a couple of pictures of one of his latest:

Note: it is only 4 feet from the ground to the top of the stairs.
From Edward himself (in the comments)

Not to cause confusion but it is 4 ft to the last open step near the corner post of the playhouse.

The playhouse itself is elevated about 6 feet. The whole structure is 8 feet, 4 inches wide and 9 feet, 2 inches long.

Email Edward for more information.

Stop the ACLU has a link to a new video re Christmas and the ACLU. Go take a look!

In the Ben Stiller/Jack Black movie Envy the character Nick Vanderpark (Black) invents an aerosol spray that instantly vaporizes doggy doo-doo.

Oh how I wish that product were real! I just spent an hour clearing out the “landmines” that my Siberian, Nikita, left in the backyard. It’s been a while since that particular task was carried out. There were pounds and pounds of the nasty stuff.

I do know that I could avoid this by cleaning up right after Nikita places his landmines, but when they are fresh they can be especially nasty – after a few days they dry up and aren’t as aromatic.

Maybe someone could invent a “roomba” type machine that will search out and destroy canine landmines…

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After TWO days, not ten, the Click for Cathy Campaign has been completed!

Click again and again to help out Chris Muir’s sister Cathy.

See Day by Day for the particulars and click and click again.

When my Dad had cancer this was something that we looked into, but his cancer wouldn’t have responded to it. Sadly, he passed away almost three years ago, September 4th, 2002.

From Angry in the Great White North :

In response to questions regarding the Cindy Sheehan/Crawford Texas issue:
Sheehan Family Statement:

The Sheehan Family lost our beloved Casey in the Iraq War and we have been silently, respectfully grieving. We do not agree with the political motivations and publicity tactics of Cindy Sheehan. She now appears to be promoting her own personal agenda and notoriety at the the expense of her son’s good name and reputation. The rest of the Sheehan Family supports the troops, our country, and our President, silently, with prayer and respect.

Sincerely,

Casey Sheehan’s grandparents, aunts, uncles and numerous cousins.

Angry in T.O. has checked the statement out and emailed one of the aunts for confirmation. Confirmation was received.

BobG at Sweet Spirits of Ammonia brings our attention to another lack of personal responsibility story and the lawyers who help them.

A couple in South Carolina were stopped by the police and given tickets for improper plates, driving on a suspended license and driving without insurance.

The driver, Tony Gainey, admits, “I shouldn’t been driving. I am guilty of that, but the stop never would have taken place if they wouldn’t have violated our rights”

Tony Gainey says his rights were violated because he believes that the police in Greer, SC stopped him because he has a some bumper stickers on his car. One bumper sticker reads: “It’s a Druid Thing.”

The ACLU has jumped on the bandwagon demanding that the charges against Gainey be dropped and that an apology be made to the Gaineys.

Religious persecution. Yep, that’s exactly what this is. And never mind that the charges are perfectly valid, since the tickets were apparently given based on that darn bumper sticker, they aren’t valid anymore…

But think about it, one of the charges is improper plates. Doesn’t it stand to reason that during a routine plate check, finding out that the plates were improper would give sufficient cause to stop the vehicle? But nooooo, the Gainey’s feel that the plates were checked because of one of many bumper stickers on their car said “It’s a Druid Thing”.

Remember to visit Stop the ACLU

The National Abortion Federation and the Feminist Majority Foundation haved joined with NARAL in their false accusations against John Roberts. Via Blogs for Bush, we find that FactCheck.org has posted NARAL Falsely Accuses Supreme Court Nominee Roberts. Reuter’s story Abortion-rights groups demand documents on Roberts states:

The groups, which largely oppose Roberts because of his intervention in the abortion clinic case, also said senators must press Roberts on the brief he co-authored that contended that harassment aimed at women seeking abortion services did not constitute discrimination.

This is covered in full at FactCheck.org in their rebuttal to the NARAL ad.

From FactCheck.org:

The brief that Roberts signed, and on which the NARAL ad is based, is from another matter entirely. It is dated April 11, 1991. Furthermore, it is from a civil lawsuit brought by abortion clinics against protesters who were blockading the clinics. Bombing was not an issue.
Supporting Anti-abortion Groups?
The ad contends that Roberts “filed court briefs supporting violent fringe groups and a convicted clinic bomber.” Indeed, Roberts’ name appears on the “friend of the court” brief in Bray v. Alexandria Women’s Health Clinic that the ad shows. But what Roberts was supporting wasn’t violence or bombing or even the behavior that was the subject of the lawsuit – blockades of clinics. In fact, Roberts went out of his way to say that the blockaders were trespassing, which is a violation of state law. What Roberts argued was that a federal anti-discrimination law couldn’t be used against abortion blockaders because they weren’t discriminating against women – they were blockading men, too.

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Via Michelle Malkin:

The New Haven Register reports that a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) display “Are Animals the New Slaves” which was “showing” at the Green in New Haven, CT has caused much consternation.

The display, which is on a national tour, shows large photos of minorities being beaten, lynched or killed alongside photos of animals in “similar” circumstances.

One man demanded that the NAACP get involved immediately. Five minutes later, Scot X. Esdaile, president of the state and Greater New Haven chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, arrived at the scene, surveyed the photos and blasted the organizers.

“Once again, black people are being pimped. You used us. You have used us enough,” Esdaile said. “Take it down immediately.”

“I am a black man! I can’t compare the suffering of these black human beings to the suffering of this cow,” said Michael Perkins, 47, of New Haven. He stood in front of a photo of butchered livestock hung next to the photo of two lynched black men dangling before a white mob.

“You can’t compare me to a freaking cow,” shouted John Darryl Thompson, 46, of New Haven, inches from Carr’s face. “We don’t care about PETA. You are playing a dangerous game.”

Paul Tomaselli, 46, of North Branford took exception to an exhibit that included a photo of a black man being beaten to the ground by a white man with a stick while a white mob gathers.

Next to that photo was one of a man chasing a seal across the snow with a club.

PETA is definitely in the wrong here.

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