GREAT speeches at the RNC tonight...plus special

Sarah Palin gave a GREAT speech tonight--she was poised, on target, funny, succinct and sounded ready to take on the world! And the crowd obviously LOVED her. Speeches by Rudy Giuliani, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee (whose speech I really enjoyed), Michael Steele (who I hope someday runs for office), Carly Fiorina, and Meg Whitman, were all great as well.

But the funniest part during Palin's whole speech? When the camera caught her own daughter, 6 year old Piper, being 'motherly' with her baby brother, Trig:


BEST. VIDEO. EVER.

GOP convention 'big gun' speakers

SPEAKERS AT GOP REPUBLICAN CONVENTION
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Speakers’ remarks will reflect the convention’s overall theme, "Country First," and the theme for Wednesday’s events, which is "Reform."

6 p.m. to 7 p.m.

• U.S. Sen. Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.)
• Video: "Country First: Prosperity," with narration by Robert Duvall
• Anne Beiler – grew up poor & Amish, now successful businesswoman with "Auntie Anne's Pretzels"
• U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman (Minn.)
• Renee Amoore – a BLACK WOMAN Republican, woo hoo!
• State Sen. Abel Maldonado (Calif.)
• Carolyn Dunn

7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

• Dr. Elena Rios
• Ruth Novodor – nearly voted for Obama, now voting for McCain
• Christy Swanson – a DEMOCRAT business woman, voting for John McCain!
• Texas Railroad Commission Chairman Michael Williams
• Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico Luis Fortuno
• Meg Whitman, former President and CEO of EBay
• Video: Sen. McCain’s Economic Reform Package
• Carly Fiorina, former Chairman and CEO of Hewlett-Packard
• Prayer: Bishop Thomas Wenski

8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

• GOPAC Chairman Michael Steele (another black Republican, yay!)
• Former Gov. Mitt Romney (Mass.)
• Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (Ark.)
• Musical Performance: John Rich, Gretchen Wilson, and Cowboy Troy

9 p.m. to 10 p.m.

• Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani (N.Y.)
• Gov. Linda Lingle (Hawaii)
• Video: Sarah Palin
• Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin

Pictures of the 'mystery man'

My gosh. Was I ever that young? Look at these pictures, the boyfriend looks like a BABY. Very cute pictures. Talk about getting thrust into the spotlight quickly and in a VERY big way. Hope those kids can handle it (and I sure hope Levi is a Republican!). All pictures courtesy of Yahoo, with the last one from HuffPo (I gotta stop doing that!)




EDIT: some new info has come out about Levi. Not only that he's a great hockey player, but that he has said some things on his MySpace page (those things WILL come back to bite you eventually) that seem very suspect, mainly his use of an "F bomb" over and over, and his statement "I don't want kids."

Well Levi, perhaps you should have thought of that before you unzipped your pants. It takes TWO to make a baby. I'm sure you aren't ready for all of this hooplah, and a child out of wedlock, but you don't have much of a choice now, seeing as your girlfriend's mom is the potential VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

WELCOME TO THE BIG LEAGES. It's time to grow up and be a man, and show what you're really made of.

A little late information, but still very eye-opening

This information below is from Trinity United Church's own website. This is Barack Obama's former church, the one he attended, with his family, for 20-odd years. Does this sound like a Christian church? Where is Christ in this creed?

Trinity United Church of Christ

These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered. They consist of the following concepts:

• Commitment to God. “The God of our weary years” will give us the strength to give up prayerful passivism and become Black Christian Activists, soldiers for Black freedom and the dignity of all humankind.
• Commitment to the Black Community. The highest level of achievement for any Black person must be a contribution of strength and continuity of the Black Community.
• Commitment to the Black Family. The Black family circle must generate strength, stability and love, despite the uncertainty of externals, because these characteristics are required if the developing person is to withstand warping by our racist competitive society. Those Blacks who are blessed with membership in a strong family unit must reach out and expand that blessing to the less fortunate.
• Dedication to the Pursuit of Education. We must forswear anti-intellectualism. Continued survival demands that each Black person be developed to the utmost of his/her mental potential despite the inadequacies of the formal education process. “Real education” fosters understanding of ourselves as well as every aspect of our environment. Also, it develops within us the ability to fashion concepts and tools for better utilization of our resources, and more effective solutions to our problems. Since the majority of Blacks have been denied such learning, Black Education must include elements that produce high school graduates with marketable skills, a trade or qualifications for apprenticeships, or proper preparation for college. Basic education for all Blacks should include Mathematics, Science, Logic, General Semantics, Participative Politics, Economics and Finance, and the Care and Nurture of Black minds.
• Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence. To the extent that we individually reach for, even strain for excellence, we increase, geometrically, the value and resourcefulness of the Black Community. We must recognize the relativity of one’s best; this year’s best can be bettered next year. Such is the language of growth and development. We must seek to excel in every endeavor.
• Adherence to the Black Work Ethic. “It is becoming harder to find qualified people to work in Chicago.” Whether this is true or not, it represents one of the many reasons given by businesses and industries for deserting the Chicago area. We must realize that a location with good facilities, adequate transportation and a reputation for producing skilled workers will attract industry. We are in competition with other cities, states and nations for jobs. High productivity must be a goal of the Black workforce.
• Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect. To accomplish anything worthwhile requires self-discipline. We must be a community of self-disciplined persons if we are to actualize and utilize our own human resources, instead of perpetually submitting to exploitation by others. Self-discipline, coupled with a respect for self, will enable each of us to be an instrument of Black Progress and a model for Black Youth.
• Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness.” Classic methodology on control of captives teaches that captors must be able to identify the “talented tenth” of those subjugated, especially those who show promise of providing the kind of leadership that might threaten the captor’s control. Those so identified are separated from the rest of the people by:Advancement of Black People towards freedom.

1. Killing them off directly, and/or fostering a social system that encourages them to kill off one another. (What?!)
2. Placing them in concentration camps, and/or structuring an economic environment that induces captive youth to fill the jails and prisons. (again...what?!)
3. Seducing them into a socioeconomic class system which, while training them to earn more dollars, hypnotizes them into believing they are better than others and teaches them to think in terms of “we” and “they” instead of “us.”
4. So, while it is permissible to chase “middleclassness” with all our might, we must avoid the third separation method – the psychological entrapment of Black “middleclassness.” If we avoid this snare, we will also diminish our “voluntary” contributions to methods A and B. And more importantly, Black people no longer will be deprived of their birthright: the leadership, resourcefulness and example of their own talented persons.

• Pledge to Make the Fruits of All Developing and Acquired Skills Available to the Black Community.
• Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions.
• Pledge Allegiance to All Black Leadership Who Espouse and Embrace the Black Value System.
• Personal Commitment to Embracement of the Black Value System. To measure the worth and validity of all activity in terms of positive contributions to the general welfare of the Black Community and the Advancement of Black People towards freedom.

The Pastor as well as the membership of Trinity United Church of Christ is committed to a 10-point Vision:

1. A congregation committed to ADORATION. (of whom? HIMSELF?)
2. A congregation preaching SALVATION. (how? Biblically or the TUCC way?)
3. A congregation actively seeking RECONCILIATION.
4. A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA.
5. A congregation committed to BIBLICAL EDUCATION.
6. A congregation committed to CULTURAL EDUCATION.
7. A congregation committed to the HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN DIASPORA. (why only to them?)
8. A congregation committed to LIBERATION. (of whom... from what?)
9. A congregation committed to RESTORATION.
10. A congregation working towards ECONOMIC PARITY. (that's called Socialism)

Now...if one were to replace the word "black" with "white" throughout this "church value system", they would be tarred, feathered, hung up, strung up, butchered and beaten by the media and perhaps even arrested for being so blatantly racist. And yet...here it is for all to see. And THIS not racist or segregationist??? This is nothing more than a "list of grievances" from what I can see.

Not to mention that since Barack Obama became known, and his relationship with Rev. Wright was put under the microscope, Rev. Wright has since retired. In doing so, he has kicked his own church doctrine to the curb. He will now be living in a $1.6 million, 10,000 square foot mansion, all paid for by his church, in a gated community. Jeremiah Wright himself criticized people from the pulpit for middle classism, and for too much materialism...so how's that for working towards "economic parity"?

This is REALLY how it works

Found this in the comments of the Newsbusters website. This person has it figured out. This is EXACTLY why we will never understand each other, politics, men/women, etc., and why the world will never function the way it's supposed WITHOUT CHRIST. 

Did you expect ROSES?

 September 1, 2008 - 19:15 ET by Acts 2_38 Most of the time you go, "How could they do that?" or "How could they say those things about someone's child?", and you never seem to actually come up with the answer. You scrupulously laid off Chelsea then you watched as liberals attacked Barbara and Jenna with aplomb. You stare in shock as the left pursues some witch hunt or other, that would have them impaling themselves on [swords] of righteous indignation, were they themselves being scrutinized in like manner. But you still don't get it. You still persist in being the good natured Joes you are. You still think that the left is just "different" and that "reasonable people can see things two different ways and no one is necessarily evil". Maybe you think that way because you're basically "good" and think everyone's like you. Maybe you're like Rick in Casablanca and just "misinformed", in either case, you're sadly and greatly mistaken. Reasonable people can't see the murder of children "two different" ways, if one of them ends up with dead children! Part of the problem is that you've grown up with a lot of false religion mixed in with the truth. We all have. "WE'RE ALL GOD'S CHILDREN", sound familiar? Of course it does, we've heard it thousands of times.

The problem is that biblically it isn't true. In fact, Jesus specifically, in painstaking detail, taught the exact opposite! HE said in the parable of the Wheat and the Tares, Matt 13:24-30, with the explanation here, Matt 13:36-41, that many people on earth do not in fact belong to Him. That's why they can think that two men should call what they commit upon each other "marriage", or can think that the interruption of a developing life in the womb is not "murder". If you pin one down, they can't even understand that but for their "intervention" a human being would be alive and going to the friggin' dry cleaners! It's like something clouds their reasoning. Well it's because only His "sheep" will hear His voice (John 10:27). And since He is truth, it is no wonder that those who are not His, embrace, spread, or revel in, lies! I realize that some will be uncomfortable about this discussion of religion but I really feel that it is in this province that the solution can be found. Maybe if you wake up you won't keep "bringin' a knife to a gunfight"! See, it doesn't surprise me that an alleged Christian like Obama would start preaching that "Jesus isn't the only way" (Listen to the audio, here.) He could have pointed out that he isn't a minister and that those questions are "above his paygrade", hmmm, why does that sound familiar? But see, he wasn't as cagey then, back then he answered the questions with his liberal satanic view of the world! So when,he as an alleged Christian supports infanticide or that he finds support for gay unions in the SERMON ON THE MOUNT, but can't seem to agree with all of the "obscure scriptures" which specifically condemn homosexuality, I'm not surprised at all. Have you listened to this guy's Pastor??? The preacher's religion is from Satan, not Jesus! (2 Corinthians 11:13-15). "Black liberation theology" teaches its worshippers to hate whites, and Jesus said that hating one's brother is a "no-no" and earns you a quick ride to a hot lake (1John 3:15 and 4:20). It's no shock to me that Pelosi would tell masterfully constructed lies about the position of the Catholic Church as it relates to abortion and in her version, it's the Church that doesn't know IT'S position! For the record the Catholic churches position on abortion is ONE HUNDRED percent biblical, contrary to some of their other notions which we could, but won't, expound on here. Nor sadly, does it surprise me that Alan Colmes and CBS' John Roberts, would now insist that Palin's a deadbeat mom for "abandoning" her special needs child. They are after all, in most cases, just doing their father's work (John 8:44), and as far as vilifying the daughter of a Vice Presidential candidate? Just another day in liberal land. Most of us on the other hand, really need to wake up.  

 EXIT QUESTION: If you don't recognize your enemy as your enemy, how can you possibly beat him? AMEN! Until we truly wake up, we will be forever blind, and never know the real truth!

Hate speech or free speech?

Interesting that it's called hate speech if what you happen to say or think goes against what someone else says. Seems to happen frequently with Obama/Clinton supporters, Muslims, and other minority groups.

Celebs for McCain: Yes, Virginia, There are a Few

Isn't it sad that the few conservatives in Hollyweird have to be so surreptitious:

They have been meeting quietly at out-of-the-way diners and bars in and around Los Angeles for four years expanding their membership by word of mouth.

So when Liberals try to talk about how horrible conservatives are, just remember these:

• Gary "I didn't kill Chondra Levy" Condit.
• Teddy "Chapaquidick" Kennedy
• Robert "KKK" Byrd
• Bill "I did not have sex with that woman" Clinton
• Hillary "Whitewater and condescension" Clinton
  
• Barney "sex with a male prostitute" Frank (not to mention working a gay brothel out of his own house!)
• Sandy "Document in the Pants" Berger
• James "Gay Affair" McGreevy
• Jesse "Affair and illegitimate Child" Jackson
• John "Affair and illegitimate child" Edwards
  
• Eliot "Prostitute ring" Spitzer
• Nancy "I need my own plane" Pelosi
• Al "My house uses 5 times the energy of Bush's" Gore
  

However, according to the MSM, they don't seem to hold a candle to Larry Craig's "bathroom toe-tapping" incident...