Republican's Learned Nothing From McCain Candidacy

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Members of the Republican National Committee elected their first African-American party chief Friday, choosing former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele to chair the organization after six tumultuous rounds of voting.

For the duration of his campaign, Steele fought suspicions that he was too moderate to lead the party because of his blue state roots and his former membership in the Republican Leadership Council, a group that sought to curb the influence of social conservatives in the party.

The Republican Party continues to astound me. If John McCain did nothing else for us during the presidential elections, he taught us that the Republican Party does not want a Moderate to pilot our cause. Steele summed up the desperation of the vote that led to his election, "We have been misdefined as a party that doesn't care, a party that's insensitive, a party that is unconcerned about minorities, a party that is unconcerned about the lives and the expectations and dreams of average Americans. Nothing could be further from the truth."

After today, no fair-minded observer can believe the stereotype of the Republicans as the party of old white men. Likewise, no reasonable person can believe that the Republicans are interested in advancing the Conservative principles that this nation is so desperately craving.

I wish this election had been less about race and more about doctrine. The RNC needs to be purged and returned to the philosophy that shaped its one time greatness. I’ll remain open-minded about Steele, as I don’t really know much about him.

Blago Worried About Precedence

In an impassioned plea to spare his job as Governor, Rod Blagojevich rambled endlessly and at times aimlessly for forty-eight minutes today in front of the Illinois Senate during his closing statement at the trial that will decide his political future. An ominous silence fell over the senate members as the two-term governor concluded his statements and exited the senate chambers.

As the senate members sat somberly through the rambling annotations of Governor Blagojevich, he described a concern over future precedence. "If they can remove a governor elected twice by the people, and a legislative branch can do it without being required to prove any wrongdoing, and, conversely, not allowing the governor to prove he didn't do anything wrong, if they can do it to me, they can do it to you and any other citizen and they can do it to other governors in other states," Blagojevich said.

As a private citizen, I am equally concerned about precedence. I’m concerned that if our representatives do not send an unequivocal message that political corruption will not be tolerated – especially in a case that has such blatant and public evidence – and will not go without penalty, then we will never see an ending to malfeasance.

I empathize with the soon to be former governor, in that he was unable to call any witnesses during the impeachment trial. I believe that in every situation where allegations of misconduct are present, the reprobate should be able to put on a defense (no matter how ridiculous or out of touch that defense may be).

The senate vote could come at any time.

Barack Fails First Test

Breaking News

President Barack Hussein Obama has failed his first attempt to achieve the bipartisanship he has been promising. Divided precisely on party lines, the final vote was 244 to 188. No Republicans voted for the bill, while just 12 Democrats voted against it. The president couldn't even attain 100% of the votes from his own party.

Contradicting his promise to acheive bipartisanship after being asked whether he was confident of getting Republican support, the President replied only: "I'm confident we're going to get it passed."

In a remarkably out of touch statement the President stated, "I hope that we can continue to strengthen this plan before it gets to my desk. We must move swiftly and boldly to put Americans back to work, and that is exactly what this plan begins to do."

House Republicans, trying to protect the American people from the expansive and expensive spending bill, noted that the bill does nothing to cut taxes and put money directly back into the people’s pockets. "The underlying bill, while it has some good provisions, has a lot of wasteful provisions and slow-moving spending in it," said House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. "We have to act -- we have to heal the ailing economy. The question is how to do it best; we think that fast-acting tax relief is the way to get it done."

At the end of the day, the president and his party will undoubtedly pass this bill with very few concessions despite the will of the American people. Change - the word the president campaigned on - remains elusive. These are the same strong-armed tactics that have dominated the oppressive Democratic Party for decades. This is business as usual.

Obama The Defeatist

In yet another example of defeatism ideology, Barack Hussein Obama has declared to the Arab community and the Middle East that the United States is not their enemy. The Oligarchic Obama made it clear that his priority is to repair the broken relationship between the west and the Muslim hatemonger’s.

Calling for mutual respect and interests, Obama pleaded his apologetic propaganda. B. Hussein Obama has done a magically fantastic job of capitulating the war on terror and empowering the Jihadists of the world. His words, posture, and actions signal a weakened resolve and a tempered sovereignty.

Combined with his immense failure to lead the citizenry through this damaged economy and propagate its rapid decline through increased government and excessive spending paints a dangerously weakened and unprepared naivety. Elections have consequences and electing the most inexperienced and unqualified person in history to lead our nation is clearly going to have dangerous significance.

Now, I’m not against diplomatic solutions to ugly situations. Negotiating with a culture and a religion that has unmistakably demonstrates through word and action their intent to rid the globe of anyone contrary to their fanaticism is not the proper course of action any leader who wants to remain credible and respected should pursue.

I have never felt more afraid in my lifetime then I do right now. I’m not fearful because I question the resolve of the American people; I’m fearful in spite of it. I’m fearful because this president and his oligarchic allies, Pelosi and Reid, are leading us into an inconceivable state of weakness and defeat militarily, economically and socially.

We must stand our ground and demonstrate our unyielding intention to protect our liberties and defend our interests. We must rally and send a clear message to the leadership of this nation that we will not relinquish our freedoms or our security in them. We must insist that our government return stop taxation and return motivation to industry and business owners. We must restore morality and vitality to the people.

EMS Statistics From Inauguration

Crews -- that include six EMS task forces -- handled 1,148 responses between 4 a.m. and 4 p.m. Personnel in first aid stations on the Mall treated 490 people, and transported 31.

Officials in the command operations center -- located in Engine 2 -- said there was a crush of calls between 4 and 5 a.m. that stretched local resources because mutual aid crews had not arrived.

By 3 a.m., crews were overwhelmed by the masses who were braving the frigid temperatures for a spot. Although there were 40 warming tents set up, and several buildings were open, many suffering from exposure didn't take advantage of the care.

By 8:25 a.m., officials said there were more than 400,000 on the Mall. The requests for EMS were continuous. Fire officials said that between the hours of 4 a.m. and 10 a.m., they responded to 262 calls. Those included everything from falls to people with diabetic emergencies, and exposure issues.

EMS crews were busy at the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station when several people required medical assistance after escalators broke down under the weight of the crowd. In addition to several suffering chest pains and difficulty breathing after climbing the stairs, others were complaining of heat issues, officials said.

A woman fell onto a Metro track near Gallery Place, but was not seriously injured.

There were roughly 200 ambulances stationed in the city, with 80 from D.C. Fire. FEMA supplied nearly 100 ambulances.

At Engine 2, second floor offices were equipped with flat screen televisions which monitored several different news channels. There were also maps stretched across walls, white boards filled with important information, and cameras monitoring local roadways.

Ambulance crews from nearby jurisdictions were assigned a navigator who was helping guide them through the city.

Additional ambulance crews that were on standby were called into the city to assist. Schultz said it was fortunate that those units were at the ready.

"The mayor declaring a state of emergency was a brilliant move," he said, because it ensured that fire officials had the resources they needed. Sirens blared as units attempted to weave through crowds. People often ignored the emergency vehicles.

In the command center, officers were keeping tabs on resources, the crowd, traffic and requests for assistance.

Every two hours, all section chiefs gather in an office to report on what's happening. Schultz keeps the meetings short, telling the officers to relay only the pertinent information. Many were operating on little sleep.

Schultz said plans call for the center to stay open until at least 3 a.m. Wednesday.

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I wish you dismal failure Mr. President!

Like all dictators around the world, Obama will need additional security. An Indonesian man fits the bill and has taken steps to place himself into the line of fire. Like Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler, Barack Hussein Obama will have a body double.

Having had the costliest inauguration in United States history amidst one of the most challenging financial times in history, President Obama’s speech was full of continued empty words and endless rhetoric. Nearly two million spectators packed the National Mall and surrounding areas to observe this historical moment of the most unqualified person in history assuming command of the United Socialist States of America.

reports the cost of today’s activities exceeding $150 million dollars. 20 + jumbotrons, more than 5,000 port-a-potties, and 10,000 National Guard and active duty troops. $40 million just for the parade. 58, law-enforcement and other agencies working on security. 8,000, District of Columbia police officers on duty, and those hired from departments around the country. 1,000, U.S. Park Police officers on duty, and those hired from outside departments. 550, Metro transit police on duty, and those hired from outside departments.

These are astonishing numbers amidst the mass populous losing their homes, jobs, and businesses. Yes, change has come. Obama, having visited a D.C. homeless shelter yesterday dined on a very impressive lunch. The president, his family, and members of congress will be dining on seafood stew in puff pastry, duck breast with cherry chutney, herb roasted pheasant with wild rice stuffing, molasses whipped sweet potatoes, winter vegetables (which curiously include asparagus and wax beans), and a dessert they are calling “Cinnamon Apple Sponge Cake,” which is more like an apple charlotte made with brioche. When was the last time you dined so well?

The racist Jeremiah Wright announced recently that tonight, Michelle Obama will be the first black woman in U.S. history to sleep in the White House legally. One has to wonder when it was ever illegal to sleep there?

Lastly, today if you still doubt that we’re rapidly approaching a socialist dictatorship, read the news out of Flint Michigan. The state of Michigan is giving a man a choice – marry the mother of his child or pay for the cost of the birth. Now, I am not fond of unwed people giving birth. I am also deeply opposed to abortion and divorce. Forcing people to take a sacred vow of marriage is not the answer. However, this took up very little press on its announcement in light of this emerging socialist regime.

I love how everyone in the nation is wishing this president success. What a politically correct and empty thinking nation we have become!? I hope this far left, liberal, “government is the solution” joke of a President is a colossal failure. I want our nation to heal and recover, but if Obama and the Democrats succeed in their agenda our nation will lose it’s freedom, reach a debt we may never come out of, and lose our precious liberties as we sink into a moraless people. No thank you! I wish you dismal failure Mr. President.

Editorial Note: I've been corrected by a friend. My opinion that Obama, Pelosi, and Reid form a singular dictatorship is incorrect. This is actually the definition of an oligarchy. From now on, I will use the word oligarchical or other variation of the word.

The Coming Power Struggle

(CNN) -- President-elect Barack Obama on Tuesday tried to persuade Senate Democrats to get behind his plan for the second half of the $700 billion bailout, warning he would veto a threatened disapproval resolution, according to senators who met with him.

Sen. Chris Dodd, chairman of the Banking Committee, reminded fellow Democrats what a bad political situation it would be to pass the disapproval resolution and force Obama use his veto pen on it as one of his very first acts, the senators said.

On Tuesday night, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the House is making "great progress" and that "we won't leave here without an economic recovery package."

This is the first example of the power struggle that is to come. Is Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid going to run the nation or is the radical Dictator-elect Barak Insane Obama going to run it? Look for more news like this in the future. We mustn't forget that Obama is just the puppet and that others are pulling his strings. How else could he have gotten elected? It sure wasn't on his merits or history.

Barak the Baby Killer

My wife chastised me for telling my children that Obama is a baby killer. Besides sponsoring legislation that would mandate leaving a botched abortion baby to die without any intervention, he has promised, "The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act."

The Freedom of Choice Act (FOCA) would eliminate every restriction on abortion nationwide.

• FOCA will do away with state laws on parental involvement, on partial birth abortion, and on all other protections.
• FOCA will compel taxpayer funding of abortions.
• FOCA will force faith-based hospitals and health care facilities to perform abortions.

Barak and the Democrats are determined to destroy this country and any sense of morality. My children will know that the Dictator-elect is IN FACT a BABY KILLER! Be informed. Inform others. Become a member of the Conservative Resistance.

Obama Meets Reality

George Stephanopoulos, host of ABC's This Week, interviewed the unqualified, highly inexperienced, CHANGE (to Socialism) mantra Dictator-Elect Barack Hussein Obama earlier today. In many of Obama-hood's answers, you can hear the naive failed community organizer begin to admit that he won't be able to deliver on all the rhetoric of his campaign. Take for example the following exchange on the issue of health care taken from transcripts of the interview.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So how do you pay for health care?

OBAMA: Well, you know, these are going to be major challenges. And we're going to have to make some tough choices...

...I'm not suggesting, George, I want to be realistic here, not everything that we talked about during the campaign are we going to be able to do on the pace that we had hoped.

In other words, it's not going to happen. There isn't any money for it. Obama has yet to admit that his election is one of the contributing factors in the slow recovery of the economy. Thus, why we call this Obama's recession.

Also, did you hear that the even bigger boob Biden was refused entry to a Delaware movie theater in Concord Pike? He tried to attend the 7:45 screening of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but it was sold out. None of the other movie goers noticed him and/or his wife, despite the Secret Service that was with them. This is even more laughable since Delaware is where he lives and serves in the Senate.

My Hometown School System Under Attack by ACLU

One student's parent is about to jeopradize 55-years worth of voluntary religious education in elemenatry schools where I was raised. This is a program that generations of local families have enjoyed. For many families, this is the only exposure to issues of faith and morals they may ever experience. The seed that is planted at the elementary age is something that is often generously harvested later in life.

I'm asking all of my readers to please pray for this legal battle. Pray for all the parties involved and for the judge that will be presiding over this attack. This is a program that I participated in as a child and one I'd love for my children to be able to go through in our current city.

Below is a link to a story detailing this attack that made national news on WorldNetDaily.com.

FAITH UNDER FIRE
ACLU to churches: Not on school grounds, you don't
Mom sues district for allowing 'Back to the Book' classes on campus

The American Civil Liberties Union, on behalf of an offended parent, is suing an elementary school district for allowing its students to attend a non-taxpayer-funded religious education program that meets on campus.

For the past 55 years, the Huntington County Community School Corporation of rural Indiana has permitted students in its eight elementary schools to attend religious study groups through a "released time" program.

The program, coordinated by an area church association, enables students with parental permission to be released from classes one hour during the school day to receive religious instruction that cannot be otherwise offered by the public school.

And while a 1952 U.S. Supreme Court ruling permits "released time" religious instruction, the ACLU is alleging that since Huntington County's programs are housed in trailers on school property, they violate the First Amendment's Establishment Clause.

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Democrat Reward System

This cartoon is a prime example of our growing Democratic reward system for sloth. Obama is about to take this mentality to a brand new level with his Redistribution of Wealth economic dooms day welfare package.

Why Do We Call It Generation Y?

The Mom Song

In appreciation for Mom's everywhere.

Panicked Travolta Pleads With Son, Jett, To Wake Up

I decided to post this article and comment on it, because it is told from the perspective of the EMT. I was kind of surprised to find the EMT commenting on any call because of privacy issues, but maybe privacy isn't as big a deal in the Bahama's as it is in the United States.

This is a key example of how you should treat every person on every call equally and with the professionalism and thoroughness due every patient, because you never know who a patient is or how public a patient can become. Chief EMT Marcus Garvey said he had no idea who he was working on; even with Travolta right beside him.

I don't know John Travolta. The only thing negative that I know for sure about him, is that he is a member of the Church of Scientology. I've seen him in various interviews and watched stories about his generosity. So, it was no surprise when I read that even in the midst of his despair and grief he took a moment to praise the EMT who worked on his son. Garvey related that Travolta tapped him on the shoulder and said, "Good job, good job."

Unfortunate tragedy is something that we in the prehospital medical world have to deal with on an almost daily basis. We do the best we can and often with little or no appreciation. My deepest sympathy goes out to the Travolta family.

Sick of Racism Claims

So, my family and I are vacationing in Indiana for a long weekend with my side of the family. I woke up this morning and caught the news. I was disgusted to read that profiling or racism was discussed as a possibility in the removal of a Muslim family from an Airtran flight after passengers heard them discussing security issues at the airport.

Given the FACT that Muslims are the leading perpetrators of terrorism in the world, a Muslim family discussing airport security on a flight warrants their removal. Airline officials are being bedeviled for taking action even after the FBI cleared them. Why isn't the Muslim family being judged for being stupid enough to bring up such a topic in that setting? How moronic of them! Shame on them!

I was equally outraged at how Blago's attempted replacement of Obama is playing the race card. Burris, on a Today show interview, repeated comments made earlier in the week by Democrat Bobby Rush. Burris is quoted as saying, “It is a fact there are no African-Americans in the United States Senate. Is it racism that is taking place? That's a question that someone may raise."

HELLO!? This has nothing do with racism. This is solely an issue of a corrupt Governor, who has lost the ability to govern, appointing ANYONE to replace Obama. It is absolutely nothing to do with racism.

I'm so tired of racism always being the go to when an African American or some other perceived minority can't get their way. Even if Blago could appoint this man in spite of his present legal circumstances, after comments like this I would make every attempt to have him disqualified and/or vote against him.

African Americans are not the oppressed people they once were and are barely the minority. According to the Washington Times and other media sources, the U.S. Census Bureau reports that by 2042 caucasions will be the minority. While I'm confident that racism still exists in America (represented by every race on earth), I am not convinced that racism plays a significant role in most majority decisions.

For instance, Obama was elected despite being severely unqualified and inexperienced and despite his terribly failed efforts to be a community organizer. IF racism ruled American policy or attitudes, do you think he would have been elected? It is doubtful, despite America’s desperation to escape GW Bush’s inexcusable lack of conservative leadership.

I’m sick of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson alarmists. The American people are sick of them. We’re sick of political correctness doctrine. We're sick of organizations like the Anti-Christain Law Union (click link to see their logo) twisting our laws to strong arm our liberties away from us. Enough is enough. Crawl back into the hole you came from.