How is this any different from pharmacists refusing to fill birth control perscriptions?

It’s not, so you’d think there’d be the same amount of outrage. Of course, my uterus isn’t involved and it’s the Religion of Peace so there won’t be.

After reading the awesome facts Frank J has learned about Fred Thompson, I’m starting to wonder if they’re the same person. Chuck Norris is a legendary bad ass. Frank J has convinced me Fred Thompson is too.

Here are a few of my favorites:

* Fred Thompson has blasted more people in the face with a shotgun than even Dick Cheney.
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* Fred Thompson reconsidered running for reelection after 9/11 but later decided to handle things on his own. He was soon seen entering the Middle East with a bottle of tequila in one hand an a handgun in the other. They’re still counting the dead.

* Though Fred Thompson left the Senate in 2003, Harry Reid still hasn’t stopped wetting his pants.

* Fred Thompson’s gaze can kill small animals.

* Fred Thompson once ended a filibuster by ripping out a Senator’s heart and showing it to him before he died.
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* When terrorists get to the afterlife, they’ll find that none of their seventy-two women are still virgins. Why? Because of Fred Thompson.

Come to think of it, have YOU seen Chuck Norris and Fred Thompson together? Hmmm.

(hat tip Wizbang)

Teddy Kennedy has a piece in the WaPo today, trumpeting everything the Democratically controlled Congress has achieved since Nancy Pelosi began her Reign of Terror.

Rome wasn’t built in a day, but if this new Congress had been its architect, it might have been. It has been just 66 days since Congress changed hands, and already the results are remarkable. In my 45 years in Congress, I have never seen the Senate turn so rapidly from stalemate toward real progress.

Wow, that’s a pretty bold statement there Senator. What, pray tell have you accomplished during the 66 day Reign of Terror?

Last week, the Senate and the House held hearings on the inexcusable conditions at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
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Hearings and the threat of legislation by the new Congress have forced the mighty banking industry to admit that credit card fees and interest rates are far too high and to pledge to end some of its worst practices.
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Just last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee provided a forum for U.S. attorneys who were fired for political reasons.
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But Congress is now performing its constitutional role as a check on the executive. The administration is being asked the hard questions and being held accountable for its answers.
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We have also demanded accountability from ourselves by requiring that each member of Congress go on the record as supporting or opposing President Bush’s escalation of our involvement in Iraq’s civil war.

Let’s see…holding hearings, providing forums, threatening, asking hard questions….seems to me Senator Kennedy, all you Democrats are doing is talking a whole lot.

But that’s really to be expected. If the Democrats actually did something about the issues, they wouldn’t have anything to complain about anymore.

I haven’t been paying much attention to the seemingly never ending list of people considering running for POTUS in 2008. Sure I know the big ones, but I’m not excited enough about any one of them to get behind their candidacy. I’ve been motivated by my dislike of a candidate.

But all that’s about to change.

The former Senator from Tennessee (no not that one, the other one) is considering running for the GOP nomination in 2008.

WALLACE: There’s been a lot of buzz, as we said, in Republican circles that there’s no true conservative in the GOP presidential field. Now some top Republicans, including your friend former Tennessee senator Howard Baker, are putting out trial balloons about you possibly entering the race.

Question: Are you considering running for president in 2008?

THOMPSON: I’m giving some thought to it. Going to leave the door open.

WALLACE: Well, you say leaving the door open. What’s going to go into your decision-making process, what factors? Why would you do it? And what do you see — do you see some holes in the current Republican field?

THOMPSON: It’s not really a reflection on the current field at all. As you know, some of them are very good friends of mine. I’m going to wait and see how it pans out, see how they do, how it develops.

A lot of people think it’s late already. I don’t really think it is, although the rules of the game have changed somewhat.

Part of it is internal, a little self-examination on my part. Adlai Stevenson, I guess it was, said, you know, the trick is to do what’s necessary to be president and become president and still deserve to be president. And that’s serious consideration.

I’m concerned about what’s going on in the country, in our world, always have been. Just the fact that I left the Senate did not negate that in any way. I’ve been involved in national security issues and things of that nature since I’ve been out of the Senate.

I think we’re going into one of the most perilous times that our country has been in. I think that there are great opportunities out there.

But it’s not preordained that we’re going to remain the strongest and freest nation in the history of the world. We’ve got to do some things well. We’ve got to do some things differently.

Fred Thompson is one of my favorite former Senators (my favorite being Alan Simpson - love that guy). I don’t agree with all of Senator Thompson’s positions, but he’s a man who comes across as reasonable and open to discussion. I like that. And you know what else I like about the guy - he has something going on in his life other than politics. He hasn’t built his entire life around Washington and the games those people play.

I’d still like to hear more about his position on economic matters, tax policy and the like. But the race just got a whole lot more interesting to me.

(hat tip Redstate.com)

…really shouldn’t be throwing those stones.

Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards says Jesus would be appalled at how the United States has ignored the plight of the suffering, and that he believes children should have private time to pray at school.

Edwards, in an interview with the Web site Beliefnet.com, said Jesus would be most upset with the selfishness of Americans and the country’s willingness to go to war “when it’s not necessary.”

“I think that Jesus would be disappointed in our ignoring the plight of those around us who are suffering and our focus on our own selfish short-term needs,” Edwards told the site. “I think he would be appalled, actually

Americans are selfish - So says the man who lives in a 28,800 square foot glass house.

He really should head to Hollywood. Anyone who can keep this straight of face while spewing this hypocritical crap should be in movies. He’d win an Oscar.

Yesterday Drudge had a headline “Does Fatherhood begin at conception?” or something like that, linking to a speech by Barack Obama. I didn’t read the speech, but the headline made me think.

When does Fatherhood begin? Is it when life begins? Is it when the kid is born? Somewhere in between? Is it when the man decides to be in the child’s life?

I tend to think it’s when the man decides to be in the child’s life. While I would like to believe that once a man creates a child he has an obligation to that child for life, that’s not how we were designed as human beings. Fatherhood is clearly a choice. His job in creating life is over once he shows his O face. Contrast that with the role of a mom - we carry the kid around for nine months with swollen ankles and stretch marks, then have to feed the kid for however long the American Association of Pediatricians recommends. Dad can just walk away.

In the great planning of humanity, that’s how it was intended to be. Society has tried to institute socially acceptable standards of a father’s responsibility. But in the end, it’s still his choice.

What do you think?

The MSM went bonkers last week trumpeting the record profits ExxonMobil earned last year. But as always, that’s only half the story. What you didn’t hear about were the record taxes ExxonMobil was paying. Emphasis mine.

While they were recording record profits last year, they were also writing checks to Uncle Sam to the tune of $100.7 billion — two and a half times what they made in net profit. In fact, previous Tax Foundation research found that from 1977 to 2004, federal and state governments extracted $397 billion by taxing the profits of the largest oil companies and an additional $1.1 trillion in taxes at the pump. In today’s dollars, that’s $2.2 trillion.

Surely paints an entirely different picture now, doesn’t it?

(via The Tax Foundation)

There was something political going on tonight, wasn’t there? For the life of me I can’t remember what it was… Oh, yes. The State of The Union address was tonight. I was busy getting my butt kicked at the gym and I wasn’t able to watch the faces The Prom Queen made behind Bushie’s back. A bit disappointed in that, I bet it was great fun.

I’ve ve read the transcript of the speech, and I have to say I was less than impressed.

It’s the same old pig with a new shade of lipstick - control spending, Social Security reform, education, healthcare, immigration…etc., etc., blah blah blah. It’s like he was working with rookie speech writers who simply looked at what they did last year, and did the same thing this year. He couldn’t get these things done with a Republican controlled Congress, does he really think he’s going to get this done with The Prom Queen holding the gavel? Even he can’t be that stupid.

I’m glad I didn’t waste my gym time.

So like every other righty blogger I watched the season premiere of 24 tonight. I wasn’t that impressed.

-Warning, spoiler alert-

Yes Jack Bauer still kicks ass, he always does. But this year’s opener got a little predictable and a whole lot preachy. You knew Jack was going to escape from Fayed, you knew he was going to stop that suicide bomber. It’s Jack, he always saves the day. Even his inability to torture information out of that terrorist, his going soft if you will, was predictable. The man spent two years in a Chinese prison. Of course he’s going to lose his edge. I would’ve been more surprised had it made him more of a badass.

And of course the emphasis on Palmer’s Chief of Staff’s (hereafter to be known as The Biscuit from his Ally McBeal days) suggestion the President revert to FDR style holding camps. I always thought 24 did a very good job at presenting all political implications in a fairly balanced manner. This season, so far anyway, it seems like they’re exaggerating them. Almost like the producers are making them seem so extreme they come off as comical, preachy. I wanted to throw my remote control at the TV when Karen spouted off with the shredding of the Constitution nonsense. I don’t like to be preached to when I watch TV.

If 24 starts heading in that direction, I’ll turn it off. I’ll give it another chance tomorrow night, but I’m not holding out much hope. It is still Hollywood after all.

Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the Democrats in the House are hard at work towards world domination Pinky & The Brain style. They’re latest hairbrained idea that will ultimately fail - granting union rights to TSA airport screeners.

Thompson’s provision would require the Homeland Security Department to apply the same management system to all TSA employees, including screeners. With that change, screeners would have the right to decide whether they wanted to be represented by a union and would be given job protections if they blow the whistle on waste, fraud and abuse.

The 9/11 commission did not address union rights or personnel rules but urged improvements in airport screening operations. AFGE maintains that collective bargaining rights help smooth agency operations because labor-management contracts provide a structure for addressing employee issues, including job performance.

Are we living in opposite land? Is black now white, and up now down? I didn’t think I’d been gone that long.

Since when does unionizing a workforce IMPROVE job performance? The poor job performance of the TSA screeners isn’t the fault of a not being represented by a union. And if it is, then those screeners really should be replaced with someone who would stop whining and stfu up about collective barganing, and do the job of protecting the public.