Politics, like sex and death, is terribly over-rated....
A thought regarding politics…
Elaine Marshall sez: Runoff would hurt Democrats’ chance at Senate seat
Ya see, it’s crap like this that makes me despise the Seventeenth Amendment and everything about it.
The United States Senate is supposed to represent the states. Up ’til 1913, it was the individual state legislatures that elected their respective senators. Then the Seventeenth Amendment was passed and made the Senate a popularly-elected office.
And that was the beginning of the real modern era of dirty politics and corruption, in my book.
We had our primary elections here in North Carolina today. Incumbent U.S. Senator Richard Burr won the Republican nomination. He’ll be going against whoever comes out of the runoff set for June 22nd against Elaine Marshall and Cal Cunningham from the Democrat party.
Elaine Marshall ain’t happy. And she wants Cal Cunningham to drop out already… for the good of the Democrats. From WRAL’s website…
...“I think not having a runoff is in the Democratic Party’s
A word we should come to hate with good reason
Few words when spoken by a politician or associated sycophant should raise the red flag of alarm more than the word “comprehensive”.
(I heard it used a few minutes ago on the Fox News Channel. Per my longtime observation of such matters, whenever anyone in elected office or the “mainstream” press uses the word “comprehensive”, 99.999% of the time what it really means is “there’s more bullsh-t going on behind the scenes than you seriously want to know about…”)...
“You Picked a Fine Time to Lead Us, Barack”
Here is Jonathan McWhite (accompanied by David McWhite on guitar) perfectly aping a classic Kenny Rogers tune with this hilarious song parody about Barack Obama…
Very great thanks to good friend Bethany Myers for finding this! 🙂...
To the person presently fixated on searching this blog
Behave yourself or everybody finds out who you are having an affair with....
More random wit and wisdom of Chris Knight…
Religion is how people run from God. Politics is how people run from sanity.
(With grateful acknowledgment to Charlotte Butler Wright, who came up with the first part and has it on her Facebook page. And I’ve witnessed the second part more times than I care to count.)...
A textbook education in ignorance
A few days ago my friend and fellow blogger Matthew Federico addressed the situation with history education in the state of Texas. In case you missed that bit of news, last week the Texas State Board of Education voted 10 to 5 to make drastic changes to the history, social studies and economics curricula being taught in that state’s schools.
The vote occurred along split partisan lines. The ten Republicans on the board voted for the curriculum changes and the five Democrats opposed it. The results have been both hailed and condemned as giving the teaching materials a “conservative” and “right-leaning” slant, as opposed to what some construe is a “liberal” one.
The reason this is going to be a big deal for the rest of the country is because Texas is one of the biggest consumers in the highly lucrative business of school textbooks. So if textbook publishers ...
Pelosi sez: Pass healthcare bill “so that you can find out what is in it”
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi made the following startling comment yesterday morning during her address at the 2010 Legislative Conference for National Association of Counties…
...“You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting.
“But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy. Furthermore, we believe that health care reform, again I said at the beginning of my remarks, that we sent the three pillars
A clarification of policy
I don’t do predictions about politics. Politics is too predictable....
A thought on politics and prayer
Instead of asking God to move the minds of politicians closer to your beliefs, why not ask God to move your own mind closer to Himself?
Seems that would be a more effective use of prayer, anyway. And would likely work a far more impressive and greater good across society in the long run....