Obama's Home Teleprompter Malfunctions During Family Dinner

h/t The Onion via American Thinker

Gays Against Gay Marriage: Do They Exist? Do They Matter?

Recently I had an exchange on Facebook about redefining marriage to include gay couples. I mentioned something about conservative gays against gay marriage, and a friend replied to me, saying:

“I for one have never heard of a conservative gay … so that’s a new one on me.”

I wasn’t surprised when he said it, because I didn’t know that conservative gays existed either until the past couple years. Like him, I thought all gays were liberals.

But conservative gays do exist. There are gays who do not agree with the gay marriage issue.

I keep wondering why liberal gays get all the media attention. Why are liberal gays the only gays you see on TV with signs and banners? Why are they the ones who get interviews and publicity, and not the others? Isn’t the marriage issue a gay issue?

Romney Cheated! Oops, No He Didn't but He's Still a Liar

This piece by Bill Buck over at CBS is really upsetting. He starts with this headline:

Upon Further Review: Mitt Romney May Have Cheated to Win the Debate

..then takes 15 paragraphs to rant about how Romney cheated and lied to win the debate. He accuses Romney of looking at a note before the debate, which is against the rules.

After he's finished, he publishes an "update" at the bottom, in which he says basically Oops, it wasn't a note, it was a handkerchief.

And he just can't resist the ad hominem pot shot at Romney by saying,

GOP Women More Feminine than Dems, UCLA Study Claims

A study published by UCLA claims that conservative women have more feminine features than liberal women... in other words, they look more like women than their lib counterparts. Two quotes from the press release:

"Female politicians with stereotypically feminine facial features are more likely to be Republican than Democrat, and the correlation increases the more conservative the lawmaker's voting record."  

"The Democratic Party is associated with social liberal policies that aim to diminish gender disparities, whereas the Republican Party is associated with socially conservative policy issues that tend to bolster traditional sex roles.... These policy platforms are manifest in each party's image — apparently also in the physical characteristics exhibited by politicians."

Here's a Dem response:



h/t The People's Cube.

Gas Prices are Not Too High - Not Yet Anyway

Speed Racer

Gas prices are going up and up, especially here in my area. And people are of course upset. I saw a couple newscasts about it yesterday, and there is talk among some of my Facebook friends about it. But I am going to take the counter position and argue that gas prices are still very low. 

I will know that gas prices are too high when people start slowing down. Around here, people drive like maniacs. I was out on the freeway yesterday afternoon (after seeing those newscasts) and shook my head and how fast people were driving. "So much for gas prices being too high," I thought to myself... again. When people start driving 65 on the freeway, when they quit gunning it from light to light, etc., in general, when they stop acting like they're in a race, at that point, I will say, "Yes, prices are a problem." But as long as people are willing to spend gas money to pretend they're racing everywhere they go,

Just because you CAN vote, should you?

Old school ballot box

Elections are a multi layered event. What I mean is, they have different meanings depending on which way you view them.

For example, I live in California. Me voting for Romney means nothing as far as him getting elected. My state has been a "blue state" for a long time now, which means that the electoral college votes will go for the Democrat, in this case Obama. I believe that last time California went Republican was in 1988 for Bush Sr. These days it would be easy for me to think, "Why should I vote? It does no good."

There are two reasons this is not a good way to think about it:

Do You Feel Loyal to the Founding Fathers?

Do you feel loyal to the founding fathers of the United States of America? If you haven't really thought about it, here's something they said that touched me very deeply many years ago when I first heard it. 

"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."

These are the remarks made at the very end of the Declaration of Independence, written in 1776. Can you imagine? Here they were, knowing full well that they were getting ready for war