Diddy provides case against Palin as running mate.

Watch as Diddy weighs in on McCain’s decision of Sarah Palin.  He offers such arguments as, “you are buggin’ the fuck out,” and my personal favorite “Alaska? Alaska?  Alaska? Alaska?”

Gustav’s Effect on East Texas

Trae and Tori, two evacuees at Lufkin High School

As twenty-five hundred people made their way into Lufkin area evacuation shelters, plus countless more to hotels, on the eve of the land fall of Gustav, I had an opportunity to talk to a small group of evacuees who were much delighted with our emergency preparedness.
One woman, Trae, I was able to speak with offered her views on the latest evacuation of the Gulf coast.  Although never happy with having to leave her home, she was pleased with how well this evacuation worked.

“We had to evacuate during Rita, and at that time we had no access to Red Cross and we didn’t know where to go,”  she said, “but this time we already had contacts and they told us exactly where to go.”

Having being forced out of her home before, she knew exactly how difficult this procedure could have been for her and the thousands others who had to get out of the way, saying she was “glad it was easy going this time, it was hard during Rita.”

Referring to the general confusion and infrastructural damage that many East Texas evacuation shelters had to deal with during the last round of major hurricanes in the region.

Buses ready at Lufkin High School

Being prepared to leave and actually leaving early was a large factor to the success of the evacuation she believes.

She said that Rita, if nothing else, was a learning experience and that “you don’t take it for granted,” stating that everyone in the Gulf coast region should be ready to evacuate at any moment and that even tropical storms should be taken as a serious possiblethreat.  She went on to explain that ever since Rita she has kept a suitcase with clothes in a closet by her front door.

As the first few drops of rain from stray storms resulting from Gustav start to hit, it is a time for us to remember the tragedy that came in the wake of the Katrina and Rita hurricanes.  And, we should not allow those lessons to go unlearned.

The front line of Gustav in Lufkin

Weak attacks from dems, see also “I want to believe”

When you don’t have anything substantial to argue against a candidate, you start pulling out the conspiracies.  Which has most definitely been the case for the last three days, since Gov. Palin was chosen as McCain’s VP.  At first, the dems tried to criticize her for being too inexperienced, but when they realized that they were acting as the proverbial pot who goes around calling names, they had to dump any sort of real, logical arguments and go straight for the wacked-out theories and scandals; involving anything from the governor in a bikini to her daughter already having a child.

This barrage of insanity started with what was so lovingly called “trooper-gate.”  Of course, this fell through, because allegations of her misuse of power were incredibly ill-founded.  She had appointed the man to the position (meaning that she was completely within her right to remove him for absolutely no reason if she wanted to, however, this man wasn’t doing his job correctly and needed to be removed ) and she was even gracious enough to offer him a different position and a chance to redeem himself upon removing him.

In an odd, but strangely interesting move.  Those hopeful of discrediting Palin in some silly way have been trying to find pictures of her in a swim-suit, assuming that this would in some way make her less able to lead.  Of course, these are the same people who thought nothing of Obama in swim wear, which just reeks of gender based discrimination to me.

Especially disturbing lately is the amount of time and effort these left-wing tin-foilers have been putting forward to allegations about Palin’s latest pregnancy.  With the not-so-elegantly named Gov-Palin-is-not-actually-pregnant-and-is-in-fact-trying-to-cover-up-for-her-daughter-who-got-knocked-up-but-is-ashamed-of-it-and-fears-what-it-could-do-to-her-and-her-mother‘s-future-gate.  (Yeah, I don’t know who came up with that name)  But, it’s really a terrible argument for some sort of discrediting cover up.  Also, Bristol Palin, the daughter in question, actually is preggers, and there are no cover ups about it.  And, being the result of unprotected-premarital sex, I can really appreciate her decision to keep the child.

Of course, this pales in comparison to the terrible accusation that Alan Colmes made, and then tried to cover up, that Gov. Palin actually caused her child to have down-syndrome by not taking proper prenatal care.  I thought liberals were supposed to be compassionate, not assholes.

All in all, it’s pretty clear that no one can actually put forward any sort of issues based criticism of Gov. Palin, or maybe they’re just not trying because they don’t really completely comprehend what the democrats have told them to believe.  Comparing a real reformer to one who’s just paying lip-service, real change to the same old and tired democrat platforms, it’s obvious that many dems are finding themselves up against a wall and are resorting to the most ridiculous claims to try to escape.

The Canary

If there is one thing I have learnt from dealing with my father for the last 19 years, it’s that promises don’t mean shit. You have to examine the person’s history before you can know anything about what they will do in the future.  Sort of a canary in the coal mine, if you will.  Yes, some people do change, but that’s so rare you might as well assume it doesn’t exist.

Barack Obama, and his Obama-nation, have been making pretty hefty promises and speculation about what he would be able to do as president. He’s set such lofty goals as creating inter-party unity, bringing change to the way politics are done in this country, solving the energy crisis, and yes, even lowering taxes. The truth is, Obama’s history has absolutely nothing that would support the claims that he would do any of these in the future.

Never has Barack reached across party lines to see anything to fruition, always moving in line with the liberal interest. (It’s on the 24th page) This man didn’t even think that a bill that would guarantee medical help for babies that were born alive after an abortion attempt was decent enough to vote against his party on. The baby is alive outside of the womb and has a good chance of living if he or she receives care. If that isn’t life, then neither is anyone alive who needs any form of emergency medical care.

This kind of party loyalty ensures us that he will not be the almighty one who is going to transcend partisan politics as usual, as he likes to call it. He claims to be this great reformer, but ever trusting in the democratic party and the sages there in, he turns to Joe Biden as a running mate. Biden is a man who knows his way around Washington, he has spent many years there building the alliances and learning the game. But, isn’t this exactly what Obama promised us his presidency wouldn’t to be about?

Obama expects us to believe that he will be able to magically fix the energy crisis. While, I don’t believe that we’re really having a energy crisis, it’s just that we have too many government regulations keeping us from attaining energy. I do believe that Obama will just perpetuate more of the same problem that we’re having with energy today. He has been opposed to off-shore drilling, nuclear energy, wind energy, and every other type of energy that didn’t go into his Chicago machine. We can’t solve this problem with more air in our tires, and that’s the only thing he has supported with a plan so far.

He plans to create a system for universal health-care, more access to higher education, and create better social security retirement; all with a tax cut for 97% of middle-class Americans. In all honesty he might cut taxes; at a rate of 1 percent for every 10 percent he raises them. There has never been a tax hike this guy didn’t like. He’s been raising taxes like it could potentially benefit his paycheck, oh wait, it could. Obama is not going to lower taxes and complete all that he wants to do, there is simply no way to cover these costs.

Really, it won’t be the end of the world if Obama is elected. It’s not going to be the end of anything. Classic liberal tax and spend, paying homage to your superiors in the party, and a slow, but consistent chipping away of our liberty as government ever-more decides to think for us, will be just the same as always.

No change, lost hope, broken promises

Allons-y!

Family, friends, creepy old men who are looking for the perfect 14/m/ca, I decided that I should just go ahead and give into the temptation of blogging, seeing as I’ve been blowing up my facebook account posting my thoughts on current events and other fun things.  And guess what, I’m going to go ahead and post about six things I’ve posted previously on my facebook so I can pad this blog and make it look more ligit.