musing minds

Regarding Barack Obama’s offense at what President Bush said in Israel about appeasement; Mitt Romney said (and I paraphrase) – When you throw a rock over a fence, the dog that yelps is the dog you hit.

President Bush didn’t name names, although Mrs. Pelosi visited Syria and Mr. Carter visited with Hamas.

Our prayers go out for the continued recovery of Teddy Kennedy. We may not be the man’s biggest fans, but we certainly do not wish him ill.

I saw a t-shirt with this message on it on Saturday at Six Flags…

Will he be “asking” for our change by raising taxes? Or is he just looking for more campaign donations?

Jay at the Stop the ACLU and his wife won’t be getting much sleep for a while since they are the proud new parents of Reagan Dailene, born May 12 at 3 pm, 21 inches long and weighing in at 8 pounds, 4 ounces.

Jay’s posted a picture at STACLU.

Today is mammogram day (kind of appropos the day after Mothers’ Day) so while I’m being squeezed until I pop enjoy some morning links:

Yesterday Betsy brought us a story about the Benefits of Tort Reform, visible in Haley Barbour’s Mississippi; today she brings us disturbing news of a bill that could deprive public safety workers of their right to not join a union, a bill that could force unionization.

David Bernstein at The Volokh Conspiracy comments on Obama On Lebanon.

Warner Todd Huston at Stop the ACLU notes the Chicago Sun Times declaring Obama “Our first woman president.”

Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Henry Hager!

Hubby and I just celebrated our tenth anniversary on Friday. We were married on the day before Mothers’ Day as well. We wish the Hagers all the best!

This song was sung at Church this morning in honor of Mothers.

The video has the lyrics in captions. The tune is the William Tell Overture which some may know as the Lone Ranger theme song.

Happy Mothers’ Day to all the mothers out there.

This photo is my dad, my mom, my sister, and me. My sister’s the little one who looks like a baby doll, instead of a 6 month old. I was nearly 2-1/2.

The Little Guy lost a top front tooth today. The Tooth Fairy will be leaving him a Thank You card.

We were eating Cheetos and hadn’t yet brushed our teeth…

She has a quart of silicone in each breast and she wants to increase that amount. She’s 28 years old now, can you imagine her at 58? It sure would be hard to walk, what with bumping your breasts with your knees with every step!

Sheyla’s MySpace page.

Story at FoxNews, more at MyFoxHouston – with video!

Clinton loaned her campaign $6.4 million out of her pocket over the past month to try to keep pace with Obama, including $1.4 million in the past week, aides said. It was the second time she has dipped into her personal fortune to fund her presidential bid.

“She did this in order to remain competitive with Senator Obama on television,” Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson said. “The loans are a sign of Senator Clinton’s commitment to the race, commitment to continuing the process and a commitment to being competitive with Senator Obama.” (emphasis mine)

That’s what Reuters reported today. I think, however, that donating to her own campaign would show more commitment. Mrs. Clinton expects others to donate to her campaign, those people are not “loaning” the campaign money, those people don’t get any money back.

If Mrs. Clinton really wants to show her commitment to her own campaign, she’ll donate to her own campaign, not loan the campaign money.

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UPDATE: NC voters chose Barack Obama to be the Democrat nominee for President. What does that say to you Mrs. Clinton?

Hillary Clinton said today,

By the time the polls close tomorrow, North Carolina voters will have helped to pick the next President of the United States of America.**

Actually, that won’t happen until 183 days from now, Tuesday, November 4th, 2008. That’s the day that North Carolinians will have “helped to pick” the next president. Right now, they’re helping to choose the democrat nominee for the office…

**transcribed off Fox News Channel.