One day past New, an early Waxing Crescent Moon is seen just after sunset, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008 from Tyler, Texas. The 'nightside' of the Moon is seen lit by light reflected from the day time side of the Earth and is known as 'Earthshine'. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman)Saturday, January 19, 2008
Light from Earth Reflecting on the Moon
One day past New, an early Waxing Crescent Moon is seen just after sunset, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2008 from Tyler, Texas. The 'nightside' of the Moon is seen lit by light reflected from the day time side of the Earth and is known as 'Earthshine'. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman)
Ann Supports Governor Romney
In the article cited below, Ann Coulter appears to be endorsing Mitt Romney for President, and says that he is the best among the Republicans. She says that Romney is truly conservative, and actually is pro-life. It should be noted that the fact that Romney is a Mormon is a good indicator that he will be a social conservative. I am only concerned about his economic conservatism. I would also want to know if he can stop or even reverse the growth of the government and the apparent need of the government to continue to seek ways to micromanage our lives. I want to be free; I don't want every aspect of my life dictated to me by the federal government or one of its assinine agencies.
Ann also is saying that Democratic voters are crossing to the Republican primaries to support McCain or Huckabee because they are not the right candidates to defeat any Democrat.
I am still not sold on Romney, but I do like Ann Coulter. Her opinion holds alot of weight with me. I am looking for Fred Thompson to surge to the forefront where he belongs.
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
by Ann Coulter
January 16, 2008
Unluckily for McCain, snowstorms in Michigan suppressed the turnout among Democratic "Independents" who planned to screw up the Republican primary by voting for our worst candidate. Democrats are notoriously unreliable voters in bad weather. Instead of putting on galoshes and going to the polls, they sit on their porches waiting for FEMA to rescue them. In contrast to Michigan's foul weather, New Hampshire was balmy on primary day, allowing McCain's base -- Democrats -- to come out and vote for him. Assuming any actual Republicans are voting for McCain -- or for liberals' new favorite candidate for us, Mike Huckabee -- this column is for you.
My thinking was that Romney would be our nominee because he is manifestly the best candidate. I had no idea that Republican voters in Iowa and New Hampshire planned to do absolutely zero research on the candidates and vote on the basis of random impulses.
Dear Republicans: Please do one-tenth as much research before casting a vote in a presidential election as you do before buying a new car. One clue that Romney is our strongest candidate is the fact that Democrats keep viciously attacking him while expressing their deep respect for Mike Huckabee and John McCain.
Turn on any cable news show right now, and you will see Democratic pundits attacking Romney, calling him a "flip-flopper," and heaping praise on McCain and Huckleberry -- almost as if they were reading some sort of "talking points." Doesn't that raise the tiniest suspicions in any of you?
Voting for McCain because he was a POW a quarter-century ago or Huckabee because he was a Baptist preacher is like buying a new car because you like the color.
The candidate Republicans should be clamoring for is the one liberals are feverishly denouncing. That is Mitt Romney by a landslide. New York Times columnist Frank Rich says Romney "is trying to sell himself as a leader," but he "is actually a follower and a panderer, as confirmed by his flip-flops on nearly every issue." But Rich is in a swoon over Huckabee. I haven't seen Rich this excited since they announced "Hairspray" was coming to Broadway. Rich has continued to hyperventilate over "populist" charmer Huckabee even after it came to light that Huckabee had called homosexuality an "abomination." Normally, any aspersions on sodomy or any favorable mentions of Christianity would lead to at least a dozen hysterical columns by Frank Rich. Rich treated Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ" as if it were a Leni Riefenstahl Nazi propaganda film. (On a whim, I checked to see if Rich had actually compared Gibson to Riefenstahl in one of his many "Passion" reviews and yes, of course he had.) Curiously, however, Huckabee's Christianity doesn't bother Rich. In column after column, Rich hails Huckabee as the only legitimate leader of the Republican Party. This is like a girl in high school who hates you telling you your hair looks great.
Liberals claim to be enraged at Romney for being a "flip-flopper." I've looked and looked, and the only issue I can find that Romney has "flipped" on is abortion. Even when Romney was claiming to support Roe v. Wade, he won the endorsement of Massachusetts Citizens for Life -- a group I trust more than the editorial board of The New York Times.
Romney's Democratic opponents always won the endorsements of the very same pro-choice groups now attacking him as a "flip-flopper." After his term as governor, NARAL Pro-Choice America assailed Romney, saying: "(A)s governor he initially expressed pro-choice beliefs but had a generally anti-choice record. His position on choice has changed. His position is now anti-choice."
Romney governed as a pro-lifer and has been viciously attacked by pro-abortion groups. By contrast, Giuliani cleverly avoids the heinous "flip-flopper" label by continuing to embrace baby-killing. (Rudy flip-flops only on trivial matters like illegal immigration and his own marital vows.) And, of course, Romney is a Mormon. Even a Mormon like Sen. Harry Reid (Democrat from Nevada) claims to be pro-life.
At worst, Romney will turn out to be a moderate Republican -- a high-IQ, articulate, moral, wildly successful, moderate Republican. Of the top five Republican candidates for president, Romney is the only one who hasn't dumped his first wife (as well as the second, in the case of Giuliani) -- except Huckabee. And unlike Huckabee, Romney doesn't have a son who hanged a dog at summer camp. So there won't be any intern issues and there won't be any Billy Carter issues. It's also possible that Romney will turn out to be a conservative Republican -- at least more conservative than he was as governor of Massachusetts. Whatever problems Romney's Mormonism gives voters, remember: Bill Clinton came in third in heavily Mormon Utah in 1992.
COPYRIGHT 2008 ANN COULTER DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE 4520 Main Street, Kansas City, MO 64111
Ann also is saying that Democratic voters are crossing to the Republican primaries to support McCain or Huckabee because they are not the right candidates to defeat any Democrat.
I am still not sold on Romney, but I do like Ann Coulter. Her opinion holds alot of weight with me. I am looking for Fred Thompson to surge to the forefront where he belongs.
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
by Ann Coulter
January 16, 2008
Unluckily for McCain, snowstorms in Michigan suppressed the turnout among Democratic "Independents" who planned to screw up the Republican primary by voting for our worst candidate. Democrats are notoriously unreliable voters in bad weather. Instead of putting on galoshes and going to the polls, they sit on their porches waiting for FEMA to rescue them. In contrast to Michigan's foul weather, New Hampshire was balmy on primary day, allowing McCain's base -- Democrats -- to come out and vote for him. Assuming any actual Republicans are voting for McCain -- or for liberals' new favorite candidate for us, Mike Huckabee -- this column is for you.
My thinking was that Romney would be our nominee because he is manifestly the best candidate. I had no idea that Republican voters in Iowa and New Hampshire planned to do absolutely zero research on the candidates and vote on the basis of random impulses.
Dear Republicans: Please do one-tenth as much research before casting a vote in a presidential election as you do before buying a new car. One clue that Romney is our strongest candidate is the fact that Democrats keep viciously attacking him while expressing their deep respect for Mike Huckabee and John McCain.
Turn on any cable news show right now, and you will see Democratic pundits attacking Romney, calling him a "flip-flopper," and heaping praise on McCain and Huckleberry -- almost as if they were reading some sort of "talking points." Doesn't that raise the tiniest suspicions in any of you?
Voting for McCain because he was a POW a quarter-century ago or Huckabee because he was a Baptist preacher is like buying a new car because you like the color.
The candidate Republicans should be clamoring for is the one liberals are feverishly denouncing. That is Mitt Romney by a landslide. New York Times columnist Frank Rich says Romney "is trying to sell himself as a leader," but he "is actually a follower and a panderer, as confirmed by his flip-flops on nearly every issue." But Rich is in a swoon over Huckabee. I haven't seen Rich this excited since they announced "Hairspray" was coming to Broadway. Rich has continued to hyperventilate over "populist" charmer Huckabee even after it came to light that Huckabee had called homosexuality an "abomination." Normally, any aspersions on sodomy or any favorable mentions of Christianity would lead to at least a dozen hysterical columns by Frank Rich. Rich treated Mel Gibson's movie "The Passion of the Christ" as if it were a Leni Riefenstahl Nazi propaganda film. (On a whim, I checked to see if Rich had actually compared Gibson to Riefenstahl in one of his many "Passion" reviews and yes, of course he had.) Curiously, however, Huckabee's Christianity doesn't bother Rich. In column after column, Rich hails Huckabee as the only legitimate leader of the Republican Party. This is like a girl in high school who hates you telling you your hair looks great.
Liberals claim to be enraged at Romney for being a "flip-flopper." I've looked and looked, and the only issue I can find that Romney has "flipped" on is abortion. Even when Romney was claiming to support Roe v. Wade, he won the endorsement of Massachusetts Citizens for Life -- a group I trust more than the editorial board of The New York Times.
Romney's Democratic opponents always won the endorsements of the very same pro-choice groups now attacking him as a "flip-flopper." After his term as governor, NARAL Pro-Choice America assailed Romney, saying: "(A)s governor he initially expressed pro-choice beliefs but had a generally anti-choice record. His position on choice has changed. His position is now anti-choice."
Romney governed as a pro-lifer and has been viciously attacked by pro-abortion groups. By contrast, Giuliani cleverly avoids the heinous "flip-flopper" label by continuing to embrace baby-killing. (Rudy flip-flops only on trivial matters like illegal immigration and his own marital vows.) And, of course, Romney is a Mormon. Even a Mormon like Sen. Harry Reid (Democrat from Nevada) claims to be pro-life.
At worst, Romney will turn out to be a moderate Republican -- a high-IQ, articulate, moral, wildly successful, moderate Republican. Of the top five Republican candidates for president, Romney is the only one who hasn't dumped his first wife (as well as the second, in the case of Giuliani) -- except Huckabee. And unlike Huckabee, Romney doesn't have a son who hanged a dog at summer camp. So there won't be any intern issues and there won't be any Billy Carter issues. It's also possible that Romney will turn out to be a conservative Republican -- at least more conservative than he was as governor of Massachusetts. Whatever problems Romney's Mormonism gives voters, remember: Bill Clinton came in third in heavily Mormon Utah in 1992.
COPYRIGHT 2008 ANN COULTER DISTRIBUTED BY UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE 4520 Main Street, Kansas City, MO 64111
Crazy People
I got this photo off of Yahoo.com.
Does anyone really believe that we can reason with these nuts!?! (see caption to picture below)
Mother always said, "Never argue with a crazy person, and always wear clean underwear in case you get run over by a bus."
"Devout Shiites cut their heads with blades during an Ashoura procession to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein in Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. Ashoura, the tenth day of the Islamic month of Muharram, is marked by Shiite believers as the day that Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad and one of their most revered saints, was killed in the Battle of Karbala in the year 680 A.D."
Does anyone really believe that we can reason with these nuts!?! (see caption to picture below)
Mother always said, "Never argue with a crazy person, and always wear clean underwear in case you get run over by a bus."
"Devout Shiites cut their heads with blades during an Ashoura procession to commemorate the martyrdom of Imam Hussein in Basra, 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. Ashoura, the tenth day of the Islamic month of Muharram, is marked by Shiite believers as the day that Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad and one of their most revered saints, was killed in the Battle of Karbala in the year 680 A.D."
Friday, January 18, 2008
The Broken Gargoyle
This is the Broken Gargoyle that is the namesake of my blog. I think that the broken gargoyle is an appropriate symbol. The gargoyle, generally, was erected on buildings for two purposes: to act as a drain spout and to keep evil spirits away from the occupants. The broken gargoyle is not at full power. Some evil spirits remain at bay, and some do not. This particular guy means alot to me because it reminds me of the fun loving spirit of my wife and how she has made my life better. We were having fun in New Orleans when we came across this little guy.Tuesday, January 15, 2008
January Cruises are Highly Recommended
We set out on January 6, 2008, for a 7 day tour of the Caribbean on the Carnival Conquest sailing out of Galveston.
A good picture of the lobby bar on the ship. It was a gorgeous ship.
The Conquest had a Mardi Gras theme complete with copies of Impressionist paintings on the walls as murals. Monet, Renoir, Manet, Gaugin, and Van Gogh to name a few.
We leave Galveston behind in the mist.
And sail into the sunset.
This is the map of our course on deck 5 of the ship. Three days to sail from Galveston to Jamaica. Wednesday in Jamaica, Thursday on Grand Cayman, and Friday in Cozumel.
Hello, Montego Bay, Jamaica.
The view from Montego Bay into the Gulf.
A marching band arrives to see us off in the evening.
The airstrip in Jamaica where planes come in low over the water.
Our room steward made great towel animals, but we could not figure out what this was. I think it is a seal. The medal is part of the prize I received for winning the Trivia contest on the ship.
The midnight buffet is a sight to behold. Lots of food related art...or art related food.I will have to post the pictures from Grand Cayman later. We took them on a different camera. We spent alot of time on a boat and in the water. We went on an excursion with Captain Marvin where he took us snorkeling and then to Stingray City to swim with those things that killed Steve Erwin.
Here I am during part of our Jeep tour of Cozumel. I am at the ruins at El Cedral. The guide told us the a wish would be granted if you made it while touching the temple. I don't believe in that sort of stuff, but it made a good photo.
The burro in El Cedral.
An iguana sitting on a stone fence.
We stopped at a little bar across from a very nice beach to have some beer, chips, and salsa. They had a Coati chained to a pole.
A picture of the gulf while sitting in the bar.
We took this particular photo of our ship docked next to another Carnival ship. We saw this as we were going back aboard after our tour of Cozumel. I really like this picture. It has an artistic quality and a symmetry about it that you don't see so often. I think the ships are identical.
The lights of San Miguel as we sail away from Cozumel back to Galveston.
The last towel animal we found in our room. This monkey was our favorite.
I want to give a big hello to Brenda, Nicki, Dana, Bethel, Max, and Stephen. You were a fabulous group to have dinner with. I enjoyed every minute of it. I hope we meet again.
Who is Barrack Obama?
Senator Barack Obama, Governor Bill Richardson, Senator Hillary Clinton and Ruth Harkin stand during the national anthem. Barack Hussein Obama's photo (that's his real name)......the article said he REFUSED TO NOT ONLY PUT HIS HAND ON HIS HEART DURING THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, BUT REFUSED TO SAY THE PLEDGE.....how can a man like this expect to be our next Commander-in-Chief????Who is Barack Obama?
Here is some very interesting information, and something that should be considered in your choice. If you do not ever forward anything else, please forward this to all your contacts...
this is very scary to think of what lies ahead of us here in our own United States.
What is also frightening is the way the mainstream media has fallen in love with this guy.
And where does Oprah's allegiance lie if she is willing to support this man for President?
We checked this out on ' snopes.com'. It is factual. Check for yourself.
Who is Barack Obama?
Probable U.S. presidential candidate, Barack Hussein Obama was s born in Honolulu , Hawaii , to Barack Hussein Obama, Sr., a black MUSLIM from Nyangoma-Kogel , Kenya and Ann Dunham, a white ATHIEST from Wichita , Kansas . Obama's parents met at the University of Hawaii. When Obama was two years old, his parents divorced.
His father returned to Kenya . His mother then married Lolo Soetoro, a RADICAL Muslim from Indonesia.
When Obama was 6 years old the family relocated to Indonesia. Obama attended a MUSLIM school in Jakarta.
He also spent two years in a Catholic school. Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim.
He is quick to point out that, 'He was once a Muslim, but that he also attended Catholic school.' Obama's political handlers are attempting to make it appear that he is not a radical. Obama's introduction to Islam came via his father, and that this influence was temporary at best.
In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya soon after the divorce, and never again had any direct influence over his son's education. Lolo Soetoro, the second husband of Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, introduced his stepson to Islam.
Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world.
Since it is politically expedient to be a CHRISTIAN when seeking major public office in the United States, Barack Hussein Obama has joined the United Church of Christ in an attempt to downplay his Muslim background.
ALSO, keep in mind that when he was sworn into office he DID NOT use the Holy Bible, but instead the Koran.
Barack Hussein Obama will NOT recite the Pledge of Allegiance nor will he show any reverence for our flag.
While others place their hands over their hearts, Obama turns his back to the flag and slouches. Let us all remain alert concerning Obama's expected presidential candidacy.
The Muslims have said they plan on destroying the US from the inside out.
What better way to start than at the highest level - through the Office of the President of the United States.
Please forward to everyone you know. Would you want this man leading our country?
I don't.
Another question is why the major news networks in broadcasting and cable have not given this information to the voting public as a whole.
Tuesday, January 1, 2008
Remember Blue Swede? Happy New Year.
Okay, forget the accompanying video, it's the song version that is classic. I couldn't find the old video of the group "Blue Swede" doing this song in the blue bell bottom suites. I know I'm showing my age, but this is an old favorite of mine.
Happy New Year!
Happy New Year!
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