Dinner Crashers…

First – allow me to thank the others here at the blog.  The past week has been hectic for me with family stuff, and I really appreciate their posts.  I’m also very appreciative of your comments and patience.

Now….   on to the news.

Well, if you haven’t heard, Mr. Obama was the recipient of the whole “Wedding Crashers” treatment last week.  Except that it wasn’t a wedding, Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn were nowhere to be seen, and the part of the weird couple from Virginia was played by Michaele and Tareq Salah, two socialites and reality show participants from the DC area.

Now, while the concept of White House intruders is not new (the President’s residence used to be much more open to the public, and is now less open for security reasons), most of the intruders were stopped by the US Secret Service or other security personnel before they shook hands with the President at a State Dinner.

At least…  that’s the current story.  And it wraps things up pretty nicely, what with sneaky reality show folks doing things for cameras and getting some publicity.

Except that it’s not the whole story.  That’s right, kids…  the White House Gatecrashers are…   long term Obama supporters.  Talking Points Memo has dug into the memory hole down which this little tidbit of information disappeared, and has discovered that he’d been on the Board of Directors at the American Taskforce on Palestine – an organization with a pro-Palestinian statehood agenda that also happens to be tied to none other than Rashid Khalidi, whose books and scholarship are pimped at the ATFP’s website.

And who is Rashid Khalidi?  Well…. remember back in October 2008, when there was a bit of an eruption because the LA Times refused to release a 2003 video it had of Obama’s presence at an event during which he and Obama were a bit buddy-buddy?  Well, it wasn’t the first time they’d shared dinner together…   but that doesn’t address the issue.  Again: who is Rashid Khalidi?

Rashid Khalidi’s current resume includes things like “Professor at Columbia University” and “Professor at the University of Chicago” (Obama’s supposed employer prior to his job at US Senator).  What it probably doesn’t include is “Spokesman for the Palestinian Liberation Organization during the time they were pursuing an active war of terror against Israel“.

Are you paying attention?

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Just a response to those crazy liberals..

Call this a rant, call it what ever you want.  Here is a round-up of some of today’s liberal blogs and post’s, choice picked by me.  While this is in no way exclusive to every liberal, it will give you an idea of what they are thinking today, and in general most of the time. 

Over at The Huffington Post, Chris Durang has a post titled: Thankful, well not so very much.  He feels like this: 

But in terms of our country and our planet — hmmm. Not feeling so confident, so up, so grateful. And about Barack Obama — well I feel very disappointed.

But, he does feel that the President is still smart and charming, the more important being the charming I’m sure.  In an email a friend of his wrote this:

this latest move in Afghanistan leaves my stomach so knotted with shock and despair.  I believe it is not in our national interest to keep fighting in Afghanistan.  I think our presence there exacerbates violent extremism. Prolonging the war means killing and maiming more innocent Afghan civilians and destroying the lives of many more American soldiers. And I believe pouring billions more into Afghanistan at a time of economic crisis at home is a betrayal of the American people.

Not in our national interest?  I won’t even tackle that, I’ll let President Obama:

“So I want the American people to understand that we have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future,” the president said.  The safety of people around the world is at stake.”

Exacerbates violent extremism?   I can’t quite figure out if Liberals really believe this, or if this is some holy high road they take to make themselves feel better, or to try and show the “nice terrorists“, that we get it.  We are the cause of 9-11, the Ft. Hood Massacre, and any other terrorist activity that befalls our nation.  Come on, wake up!  These terrorists hate us.  The first gulf war was not the cause of 9-11, and our current military involvement in their country isn’t the cause either.   Their extremist religious belief and hatred is a good place to start.  Yes, we are in economic crisis, and wars cost billions of dollars, but the safety of our country is at stake. 

His comments on the bailout reflect a lot of americans thoughts on bonuses given to  executives, but at the end of the segment, he decides to describe Tea Party attenders as “tea baggers“.    This one statement is the main reason I decided to rant today.  Sure we have political differences, we don’t agree on health care, the military, taxes, and so on.  We occasionally call each other names, but, the sexual intention and demeaning tone behind tea baggers is despicable.  It really does shows you the tactics the left will use to try and get their delusional points across, and the viciousness that can accompany it.  The americans that attend tea parties are simply concerned citizens, they have 9-5 jobs, families, and pay their taxes.  The term used to describe them says so much of how little liberals think of fellow human beings.  

Oh look, another video of a Palin Ambush, they just can’t leave her alone.  One would think they are obsessed with her.  Any liberal, will deny that they are afraid of her and everything she stands for until the day they die (or are converted into a conservative).  No, they aren’t fearful at all that she  has a positive-conservative influence on our country.  If you look at the amount of time the liberal media spends talking about her, and the way that they are constantly trying to railroad her any way they can, it certainly makes you think that there is something the liberals are very very concerned about.  Could it be that Sarah is teaching women something that doesn’t fit into the shape and mold of progressive women?  This article from real clear politics is about a year old, but sheds a very bright light on this.

What next……Acorn, remember when Congress said this:

no more federal dollars should flow to Acorn

That was a bipartisan effort.  But, according to the NYT, the good ol’ Attorney General–Holder and the Justice Department are saying this:  Acorn Can Be Paid for Pre-Ban Contracts.  The acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, David Barron said this:

The new law “should not be read as directing or authorizing HUD to breach a pre-existing binding contractual obligation to make payments to Acorn or its affiliates, subsidiaries or allied organizations where doing so would give rise to contractual liability,” Mr. Barron wrote.

Of course it shouldn’t, those are probably mostly legitimate and legal, unlike the future obligations that Acorn would have, that are now banned from receiving any tax-payer money.  Can I please choose the no option for not allowing my tax dollars to fund this organization.  Can my tax money please fund something else, a little less corrupt? 

Well, that is enough for now.  We’ll see what strange and odd thoughts the liberals have tomorrow.

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Gobble

The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God.

In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.

Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well as the iron and coal as of our precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the imposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the divine purpose, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union.

Abraham Lincoln
October 3, 1863
First Thanksgiving Address

Happy Thanksgiving to you all, from all of us here at PachydermsBlog!

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Hide The Decline–Climategate

Just a little bit of funny mixed with a whole lot of truth before you spend a day with the family.

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The vocation of education, it’s not just for teaching anymore.

Over at Hot Air there is a story from MN titled:   University of Minnesota demanding political allegiance for educators?

Here is an excerpt from the blog: 

 

 

 

The task group is part of the Teacher Education Redesign Initiative, a multiyear project to change the way future teachers are trained at the U’s flagship campus. The initiative is premised, in part, on the conviction that Minnesota teachers’ lack of “cultural competence” contributes to the poor academic performance of the state’s minority students. Last spring, it charged the task group with coming up with recommendations to change this. In January, planners will review the recommendations and decide how to proceed.

The report advocates making race, class and gender politics the “overarching framework” for all teaching courses at the U. It calls for evaluating future teachers in both coursework and practice teaching based on their willingness to fall into ideological lockstep.

The first step toward “cultural competence,” says the task group, is for future teachers to recognize — and confess — their own bigotry. Anyone familiar with the reeducation camps of China’s Cultural Revolution will recognize the modus operandi.

The task group recommends, for example, that prospective teachers be required to prepare an “autoethnography” report. They must describe their own prejudices and stereotypes, question their “cultural” motives for wishing to become teachers, and take a “cultural intelligence” assessment designed to ferret out their latent racism, classism and other “isms.” They “earn points” for “demonstrating the ability to be self-critical.”

The goal of these exercises, in the task group’s words, is to ensure that “future teachers will be able to discuss their own histories and current thinking drawing on notions of white privilege, hegemonic masculinity, heteronormativity, and internalized oppression.”

Future teachers must also recognize and denounce the fundamental injustices at the heart of American society, says the task group. From a historical perspective, they must “understand that … many groups are typically not included” within America’s “celebrated cultural identity,” and that “such exclusion is frequently a result of dissimilarities in power and influence.” In particular, aspiring teachers must be able “to explain how institutional racism works in schools.”

These certainly are important cultural issues that need to be looked into.  Obviously much more important than actually teaching students.  And this part of the article:  “The initiative is premised, in part, on the conviction that Minnesota teachers’ lack of “cultural competence” contributes to the poor academic performance of the state’s minority students.”  I wonder if the actual method of teaching that educators use has anything to do with any of the students with poor academic performance? 

But, that’s a blog for a different day……….

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Serving Sarah

Andrea Mitchel stars in this short clip, as a typical, pathetic, (and by pathetic I mean her inadequate and laughable attempt to “ambush” or try to catch Sarah Palin off guard, and fail miserably) liberal media journalist.  She will do anything it takes to try and deliver an embarrassing statement from Sara Palin.  But, nothing in Andrea’s bag of tricks prepares her for the readiness of Sarah. 

She tries the Newsweek cover, asks her about her intention in 2012, and also tries to prompt Sarah into commenting on John McCain’s reaction to her book.  Andrea is arrogant and rude with her elitist attitude and all that it encompasses. It really does nothing more than show how unsuccessful her attempt is to bring down Sara Palin.  Sarah is very polished and sharp with her answers.  Something I think Andrea is not expecting. 

So, in the last week or so, MSNBC has shown their love  (and by love, I mean their fear of her, and the people she ignites) for Sarah Palin.  Whether it is Chris Matthew’s and his comments about the crowds at the book signings, Nora O’Donell’s questions to  a teenager at a Palin book signing, or Andrea Mitchell trying to trip up Sarah Palin in Michigan.  It is all a very calculated and could prove to be very damaging to the liberal media’s agenda. 

Here is a link to a blog that goes into the reasons why the media seem to want to continue to show their love  for her and other conservative women.  It is a must read, and very informative.   

Props to Hot Air for the my initial exposure to the video.

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How much is a Trillion Dollars?

I have come to the conclusion that the majority of people don’t know how much a trillion dollars is. Sure, we can all get around the grasp of a million dollars, maybe a few can envision a billion dollars, but a trillion? For instance, after the Democratic Bill bait and switch tactics, the estimate of new healthcare estimates are that it will cost 1.4 Trillion dollars over 10 years after it starts 2014. (New taxes start immediately, that’s where the deficit reduction spin falsehood comes in) You can see Annoyed’s post more about the healthcare plan.

It’s easy to say that 1 Trillion Dolars is 1,000,000,000,000. That’s twelve zeroes. I couldn’t grasp how much money this is. I couldn’t get my mind around that figure. As a middle class man, I think $1,000 is alot of money. So I turned to graphics to illustrate how much a Trillion Dollars is. The money that equates to about $50000 for every man, woman and child would have to pay to pay off that debt. I found this clip on youtube, there are plenty like it but this one illustrates it the best. Prepared to be amazed:

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Death and Taxes… and Healthcare!

According to the bi-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation, Harry Reid’s 2000-page Health Care Debacle (Senate Version) Contains a few interesting goodies therein:

1. 40% excise tax on health coverage in excess of $8,500/$23,000 ($149.1 billion)*

If I read this right, if your individual health care coverage is worth more than $8,500, you’ll pay a 40% tax on the value over $8,500 that the government determines it is.  Ultimately, it’s an attempt to limit the amount of health care coverage an individual would be willing to get (or business for its employees)…   I mean, sure you COULD get that nice health care plan with tons of benefits, but you’re going to have to pay a 40% tax on it.

2. Employer W-2 reporting of value of health (negligible revenue effect)*

No real revenue effect, but this means that employers are going to have to compile numbers and report them to the government so that the government can tax you that extra 40%.  I wonder if accountants would do this research for free?

3. Conform definition of medical expenses ($5.0 billion)*

This would force things like Archer MSA’s, health savings accounts, flex accounts, and medical reimbursements to conform to the same definitions of medical expenses.  By increasing revenues, this means that they expect the government to get more money (and therefore, you would get less money).  In other words: it’s a penalty for being a thrifty consumer.

4. Increase penalty for nonqualified health savings account distributions to 20% ($1.3 billion)*

They expect more folks to be caught using their health savings for things the government doesn’t believe should count.  If only there was someone else who could make such a tough decision about how to spend money that belongs to a consumer!  Say, like a consumer!

5. Limit health flexible spending arrangements in cafeteria plans to $2,500 ($14.6 billion)*

Do you use a cafeteria plan or flex account to cut back on your taxes every year?  Do you have an insurance plan that doesn’t kick in 100% coverage until your out-of-pocket expenses hit $4000, and so you budget that amount every year?  Do you have children and thus have increased medical expenses?  Well, Harry Reid would like to say, “Screw you and the horse you rode in on” while he limits your cafeteria plan to $2,500.  Right now, there is no statutory limit.  It’s all driven by the employer or the Flex Plan administrator company.

6. Require information reporting on payments to corporations ($17.1 billion)

All I know is that they expect to get 17 billion bucks out of this, so someone’s losing money to the government somewhere.

7. Additional requirements for section 501(c)(3) hospitals (negligible revenue effects)

So hospitals that want to file as a 501(c)(3) would have to meet additional requirements.  Apparently, being “non-profit” isn’t enough.

8. Impose annual fee on manufacturers & importers of branded drugs ($22.2 billion)*
9. Impose annual fee on manufacturers & importers of medical devices ($19.3 billion)*

Here’s a lesson in capitalism for you, kids.  If you “impose annual fees” on manufacturers of anything, those manufacturers aren’t just going to write off those expenses in their profit/loss statement.  This is because businesses don’t actually pay taxes….   they pass their costs along to their consumers (aka “you”).  So when these manufacturers have fees imposed on them, who’s going to end up paying those fees?

Hint: It’s “you”.

10. Impose annual fee on health insurance providers ($60.4 billion)*

How dare any company exist that competes against the government’s entry into their industry!  They must be punished!  FEE THEM!!!!!  (And by “them”, I mean “you”).

11. Study and report of effect on veterans health care (no revenue effect)

Yes.  We must study and report on the effects of our veterans’ health AFTER we’ve imposed this stupid system.

12. Eliminate deduction for expenses allocable to Medicare Part D subsidy ($5.4 billion)*

“Eliminate deduction” = more taxes for you.

13. Raise 7.5% AGI floor on medical expenses deduction to 10% ($15.2 billion)*

This means that to start deducting your medical expenses from your taxes, your medical expenses would have to hit 10% of your adjusted gross income.  In other words, if your household’s AGI is $60,000, you would need to spend $4,500 on medical stuff today in order to begin deducting medical expenses from your taxes.  Under Reid’s plan, that would increase to $6,000.  Keep in mind that the people most likely to hit this amount are families with children and the elderly.

14. $500,000 deduction limitation on taxable year remuneration to health insurance officials ($0.6 billion)*

Most companies can deduct up to $1,000,000 for executive compensation from their taxes.  Under this law, this deduction would be cut in half.  Obviously, these companies must be punished!  Make them pay more!  They certainly won’t pass along their loss of deductions to their consumers!  FEE THEM!  (And by them, I mean “you”.)

15. Additional 0.5% hospital insurance tax on wages > $200,000 ($250,000 joint) ($53.8 billion)

You make more than $200,000 – or have a household that makes more than $250,000?  You get to pay even more taxes for Medicare!  Yay!

16. Modification of section 833 treatment of certain health organizations ($0.4 billion)

Specifically targets Blue Cross / Blue Shield.

17. Impose 5% excise tax on cosmetic surgery ($5.8 billion)*

This seems like a tax on the right, but the sad fact is that most cosmetic surgery is performed on the middle class – and while they claim it’ll only be for “elective” cosmetic surgery, all too often “any” cosmetic surgery is classified as “elective”.  There’s been some recent moves towards covering things like breast implants for mastectomy patients, but that just means that after years and years of implants for mastectomy patients, they’re finally getting around to calling it “non-elective”.

And what about bariatric procedures?  You have someone who’s 200 lbs overweight who decides to get a gastric bypass or band…   will that be called “elective”, despite the fact that it will extend their life, potentially by decades?

Oh – and remember how the Democrats ran on a platform of tax cuts for the middle class?  Remember how Obama’s plan supposedly would not increase taxes, fees, or fines on businesses in exchange for government health care?  Remember BHO trumpeting the “Middle Class Tax Cut”?  See all those asterisks in my list?  Those are items that will, either directly or indirectly, cost the middle class more money.  They’re either a direct tax (like the “cosmetic surgery” tax) or an indirect tax (like the “fees” imposed on companies for the crime of existing in competition to the Federal Government).

And let us not for a moment forget the human cost.  Yep.  Required abortion coverage is back in the bill.

Hat tip to McQ over at QandO and RightWingNews and the Tax Prof over at TaxProfBlog.

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MSNBC–knows how to question kids!

Here is a link to a longer version of the same interview over at HotAir.

Read the comments on Youtube and at HotAir to see what the majority of people think about this.  I’m sure you’ll be able to come to your own conclusion on this video.

 

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A Tale of Two Women

If there’s one thing that liberals love trumpeting, it’s their love for women.  And by “women”, I mean “female human beings who believe, talk, and act like they agree with the liberal agenda without a second thought of their own”.  If we were to be honest with ourselves – as we always should be, the single worst thing to happen to women in recent history has been liberal feminism’s fascistic stranglehold on the “female agenda”.

And woe be unto they who upset the apple cart.

Let’s start by talking about the woman who’s done more to promote the idea of powerful, confident females in recent memory, who was within a hair’s breadth of the Vice Presidency, and who was the inspiration for tens of millions of Americans – and I’m not talking about Hillary Clinton.

To be sure, Hillary’s rise to power is as admirable as the rise of anyone who rides her lecherous husband’s coattails to further her own agenda, but Sarah Palin is far different.  She’s a woman who didn’t ride any coattails, who got elected on her own merits and beliefs, and who has risen, stumbled, and moved along on her own merits.  She’s been a mayor, a governor, and a Vice-Presidential candidate who’s inspired millions and ignited a conservative base thought long dead under the ashes of the Bush-McCain Republican Party – all while being the mother of a gaggle of kids (including one special needs child) and gracefully guiding her wayward daughter through her late-adolescent pregnancy.   All this while helping her husband run a fishing company.

Now – to me, anyway, all this would scream “successful woman who should be a model for all people, not because of her gender, but because she is a successful human being”.  But not to liberals.  Sarah’s opposition to things like “murdering your baby because you’d rather not be inconvenienced” made her a target for the agenda-worshipping members of the liberal establishment.  She’d committed the cardinal sin in the religion of Liberalism: she disagreed with Liberalism.  On everything.  And, being good members of a fascistic, control-hungry religious order, the left did the one thing they’d do to anyone who’d oppose a fascistic, control-hungry religious order: they held an inquisition.

If they could’ve used thumbscrews, they would have.  Fortunately, they had photoshops and pictures of dolls instead.

And yet, Sarah remains Sarah.  In comparison to her critics’ frothing meltdowns, her new book is, in my ever-lovin’-not-even-remotely humble opinion, an honest (if singular-perspective) autobiography.  And despite the AP’s assignment of 11 reporters to fine-tooth-comb the book for “errors” (something they have yet to do with Barack “Jimmy Carter, Jr.” Obama’s 2 Bill-Ayers-scribed tomes), the books are classy – if folksy – tales from the inside that everyone should give ear to.

Naturally, the left is in a lather.  Perhaps she should’ve made contact with The Taliban or Al Qaeda first.  Then they’d love her!

Is it just women this happens to?  Absolutely not.  Is Sarah the only woman who’s suffered their wrath?  Absolutely not.  And this brings us to our second woman: Carrie Prejean.

Carrie Prejean, for those of you who’ve been residing under a rock, is the Miss USA runner up who dared to give her real opinion during an interview by celebrity pervert Perez “I’m Not Actually Creative and Can’t Think for Myself, So I’ll Steal Someone Else’s Name” Hilton.  Being a naive 21-year-old, she actually believed that saying that it was great that our country had the choice, but that her personal opinion was that marriage was a sacred institution that should be between a man and a woman was a way to be respected as a free-thinking individual who has her own opinions.

Unfortunately for her, those who would label her “free thinkers” would declare war on her for not thinking exactly like them.  This is because liberals confuse “free” with “liberal”.  They’re also bad at math, but that’s beside the point.

So, Ms. Prejean spends the better part of her time now defending her answer.  She was stripped of her title as Miss California USA, purportedly after refusing to take the Levi Johnston “let’s pose for a naked people magazine” Route dú Famé.  Still.  In the meantime, her liberal opponents are busily digging up as many semi-naked pictures of her as they can to “prove” her hypocrisy (never quite grasping their own hypocrisy).

And now, we’re receiving news that Ms. Prejean may have made more than just a few semi-naked pics.  Like so many stupid American adolescents, she may have made some videos for her boyfriend that involved her doing things that shouldn’t be done in front of a camera.  The hypocrisy!  The horror!

OK, first…  teenagers?  Here’s a few pointers from your good friend, Uncle Elephant:

1.  Don’t take naked pictures of yourself.  They’re never as funny or awesome as you think they are and they WILL end up on the internet.

2.  If it’s on the internet, everyone on the planet will know exactly what your hoo-hah or ding-dong looks like.

3.  You will be forever judged by your hoo-hah or your ding-dong.  That guy selling you french fries?  He’s seen your ding dong.  That creepy old lady with the cigarette hanging out of her mouth and breath that smells too much like Wild Turkey?  She’s seen your hoo-hah.

4.  Your mom and dad will be so proud!  Seriously…   no, they won’t.  Neither will your siblings, your grandparents, or your children.  There’s a reason they’re called “private” parts.

Ok – so we got that down?  No more taking naked pictures of yourself with your cell phone.  The “cool” kids who are doing that are retards, and unless you want to be just like the retards, you’ll keep your freakin’ clothes on whenever there’s a camera nearby.  Got it?  Are we clear?

Good.

Now, Ms. Prejean has indeed admitted that she’s done that exact stupid thing we’ve just been talking about.  She, too, thought it was cool, and now she’s fighting against a corporation with expensive lawyers and her waning credibility to keep those pictures and videos off the open market.  And now, today… a few years later and a bit more mature, she’s stating that she thinks it’s wrong.  Is she a hypocrite?  Maybe.  More likely, she’s a maturing woman who’s growing in her Christian faith and coming to the realization that she did some stupid things in her past that she’s now having to pay the price for.

If having liberals in charge should teach you anything, it’s that stupidity always costs.

But her own change of heart isn’t enough for liberals.  They want blood.  She dared to stand up for her own thoughts and beliefs and for this, she must be destroyed.  Disagreement with the agenda must not be tolerated, on pain of having Perez Hilton act like a complete jackass on his website whenever your name flitters through his tiny little brain, right in between his latest pervert session with anonymous lovers and wondering whether he should’ve gotten extra napkins with his Nacho Bellgrande®.

Carrie’s reaction has been, frankly, unfortunate.  She’s run away from softball interviews with Larry King and hasn’t quite learned the grace it takes to survive public exposure and criticism.  On the other hand, she’s twenty-freaking-two years old.  I have belly button lint older than Carrie Prejean.  I am fully confident that she will learn, grow, and continue to mature into an adult.

In the meantime, she could learn a lot from Sarah.  She could learn about the grace and confidence it takes to handle the idiotic, hypocritical, inquisitorial splatter-screaming criticism of the idjut left.  She could learn about what it takes to be a free-thinking woman who’s comfortable enough in her own skin to own up to her own shortcomings in a way that disarms her critics.  She could learn about the confidence that faith and family instill in her.

Frankly, I think we could replace the “She” with “I” in that above sentence.

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