I was reading a news article yesterday and came across the following comment:

“The best way to save the Republican Party now is to destroy it. In the marketplace of ideas, social conservatism is a viral infection contaminating the GOP. It represents an evolutionary dead-end whose logical conclusion is fascism if not outright totalitarianism. Is it not obvious that the imposition of the evangelical ideology–any fundamentalist ideology for that matter–lies in direct opposition to a free people in a democratic land? Our Constitution, specifically the separation of church and state, no longer serves as a bulwark against the morality police, who seek to impose faith-based notions such as creationism upon those of us with rational minds. Social conservatives aim to constrain freedom of thought, freedom of choice, freedom to pursue happiness. These freedoms live at the heart of an entrepreneurial and economically strong America. No doubt, the diktat the social conservative movement wishes to impose upon ALL us Americans is antithetical to a free market system, and therefore exists as hypocrisy within the Republican platform. Privatize profits, socialize losses, and make religion the opiate of the masses. Indeed, this has been a dark eight years of Orwellian doubletalk. Enough! I’m a Reagan Republican and I’m voting for Libertarian Bob Barr.”

I really agree with Mr. Smart American and I thought I’d share.

If you haven’t heard, Charlton Heston died yesterday at the ripe old age of 84. While I don’t revel in his death, he did kind of sort of go nutty with the whole NRA thing.

While most of the world remembers him for Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments, CH will always be remembered by me as Taylor, the wayward astronaut lost on the crazy mixed up ape planet. Talk about monkey love…

Anyway, I guess we can pry that gun from his cold dead hands now.

I apologize for being remiss in my duties of blogging lately. But I’ve been busy a few other projects.

So, as you may or may not know, I live in Georgia. There is a mess of a water crisis here right now. We’ve got less than 90 days left by some estimates. Mainly the drought has been bad in the southeast. Our fine government officials have scrambled to do something about it. As we all know, crisis management doesn’t work well.

So what has our find Governer Sonny Perdue decided to do? Yep, you guessed it, pray for rain.

I’m truly frightened that the leader of our state is putting his eggs in the “God will save us” bucket. I want to move so badly!

Read about it here.

So I was reading about the puppet master retiring at the end of August and checked my portfolio to see how much money I’ve lost from my retirement fund today and saw this:

 My Microsoft position was up a total of $666.01. It just kind of made me chuckle. Karl Rove stepping down, Microsoft up $0.03 which, times $222 is $666. I won’t even go into the number of 23’s in there. I think you get where I’m going with this…

It only took five hours for fearless leader to let his boy Scooter off the hook. Ok, so, he outed a CIA operative, was found guilty in a federal court, but, ya know, well, he’s suffered enough. The only possible reason that fearless leader would feel that way about Scooter (and commute his sentence) is because he wasn’t the real source of the leak. It stands to reason, and by the administration’s actions sort of affirms that Scooter merely took the fall for Karl.

Here’s my message to Mr. Libby:

Scooter, if you were uninvolved and took the fall for the crooks in office, you’re an idiot. These guys don’t give two shits about you. Hope it was worth it.

I found this today. It’s old, but funny. The Conservative Voice is always good for a laugh.

Interesting story I read tonite about a hospital in Seattle that removed a 6 year old girl’s uterus to make better the quality of her life. Right now she has the mental capacity of three month old child. By arresting her sexual maturity, the progression of her disability will slow, and she will live longer and have a better life. So what’s the catch?

The doctors, by removing this girl’s uterus without court approval, involuntarily sterilized her. And, yeah, you guessed it, Washington state has an anti-involuntary sterilization law. Yeah, I think I’ll go with the doctor’s advice.

To the state’s credit, the law was originally passed in 1909 as a way to curb gene-cleansing. It a widely held belief that the inferior should be sterilized as not to reproduce.  There is a good article at the Seattle Weekly and here on CFIF. 

The full story about little Ashley is here.