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For those of you who don’t remember, the birth of my puppies was an amazing story.  Here is the link to my post the day after for reference.  It still ranks as one of the most incredible experiences in my life.

The pics above are the two lucky ones we have kept.  And they are my world.  Bishop is the one on top, and Brodie is the handsome little boy below (he’s getting neutered on Friday - ugh).  Bishop was a late-comer.  We had originally intended to keep another pup, Daphne.  She was Patrick’s favorite originally - then fate happened.  Bishop got bit on the paw by a non-venomous snake.  Her paw was swollen double its original size.  I took her to the vet and got her on antibiotics to prevent infection and soaked her paw in epsom salt every night for 2 weeks.

Bishop slept with us away from the other pups during her recovery and won our hearts.  Patrick and I loved Daphne, but Bishop had been trying to show us for a long time that she belonged in our home.  I always thought she was needy.  She jumped in my lap and tried to lick me all the time - even when I wasn’t really in the mood.  But she was persistent in showing me her affection.  I’m ashamed - now that I understand. That first night after the snake bite, I soaked her paw and we wrapped it.  She climbed into bed beside me and snuggled into the countour of my body.  She didn’t leave all night.  And when I woke, she looked up at me with those deep brown eyes and gave me kisses.  I was in love.

Daphne went to an incredible, loving home with a good friend of mine.  And we are starting to build on our family with Brodie and Bishop.  I guess I’m a freak.  I probably won’t ever have a child, but my pups are my babies and my best friends.  The total, unconditional love that a dog can give is the reason that dogs are truly “man’s best friend.”

I wrote about this sometime ago.  And now Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (Kay Bay in these parts) has again been touted as a potential veep for ole John. This endorsement comes from Kevin Rennie of the Hartford Courant.

McCain should throw a Kay Bailey pass and pick Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison. She possesses the fundamentals and will add some lively options to the ticket.

Hutchison is savvy and experienced. She won her seat in the Senate by seeing off 22 other candidates. And then she smote a Democratic state prosecutor who tried to take her down as she climbed to the summit. She can take a punch and land one, while remaining coiffed, composed and stylish.

She’s a reliable conservative who’s a better shot than Dick Cheney. It may be dangerous to say in the 21st century, but she’s articulate and can defend any brief.

And the lady’s got a way with an inspiring anecdote, honed in her two books about notable women. Many of those Democratic primary voters who turned out in record numbers wanted to elect a woman president. Hutchison would give McCain a chance to win their support. Leery suburban women in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio might stop fleeing from Republicans. Better, Hutchison’s won historic numbers of Hispanic votes in Texas, and not just because she’s fluent in Spanish.

Republicans eschew identity politics, but they dislike losing more. The wilderness beckons, so McCain needs to do something unexpected and interesting. Pick a woman who broke barriers without the advantage of a political marriage or family lineage. It could alter the assumptions of a race where one side thinks it holds the copyright on change.

I love Kay Bay.  As I noted previously, the very first election I ever voted in was the special election to fill Lloyd Benson’s Senate seat when he joined the Clinton administration.  And that vote was for Kay Bay.  I dragged my mom to the polling station at Santa Rita Elementary School in Midland, Texas. We cast our votes for Miss Kay (She won with 67% of the vote in that runoff).

I love the woman.  I am pragmatic though.  Two Senators on one ticket might not work.  And Kay Bay is technically pro-choice personally although she has voted against federal funding for abortion and for the partial birth abortion ban every single time without fail.  I think it’s just a personal belief that she tempers with her need to represent Texas citizens (overwhelmingly pro-life). She has a 90.27% lifetime conservative rating from the ACU (higher than McCain).

I will say this - Kay Bay would appeal to the disenfranchised Hillary supporters looking for a reason to support McCain.  I guarantee you that Kay as veep would easily garner an additional 1 million+ votes that McCain might not have otherwise had.  I think lots of women who can’t stomach Obama would breathe a sigh of relief.  Kay might be a dark horse, but don’t count her out.

NOTE:  Kay says she wants to run for governor.  She may come back home to challenge incumbent Republican governor, Rick Perry.  Texas governor is her stated dream job.  And though I voted for Perry - the man’s a tool.  I’d vote KB over Rick any day.  She dispells any notion of a veep slot with McCain, but she’s also coy when asked what she would do if the job were offered to her.  I’d be thrilled either way.  As long as I can continue to call myself her constituent, I’ll be happy - regardless of her office.

I can’t believe McCain actually had the balls to put this on his website.  I wonder if this will make it to TV ads.  This is brilliant.  Watch Obama waffle his way around the issue of Iraq.  This stuff is deadly if McCain uses it correctly beyond his friggin’ website.

Watch.

This dude is a talking head for someone.  He has no convictions and nothing to stand on.  This is the biggest joke I have ever seen.  I want to know who is propping up Obama’s campaign and who is the force behind him.  He is a face who can read a teleprompter well.  I want to know who is feeding him the bullshit he spouts.

This one pisses me off.  Steve loves to see me “fired up.”  Once again, I am fired up.  I hate being the angry conservative.  “Angry” is a trait of the left in this nation.  But, lately, I have come to the conclusion that there aren’t enough “fired up” conservatives.  Blame it on our lukewarm candidate for President or on our lackluster and woeful GOP leadership in Congress (though Steve would disagree).

When a good man like former Texas Sen. Phil Gramm goes down, there is something wrong.  Gramm resigned from the McCain campaign as a co-chair because of statements he made to the Washington Times.  Here are his remarks from the Times article -

You’ve heard of mental depression; this is a mental recession,” he said, noting that growth has held up at about 1 percent despite all the publicity over losing jobs to India, China, illegal immigration, housing and credit problems and record oil prices. “We may have a recession; we haven’t had one yet.”

“We have sort of become a nation of whiners,” he said. “You just hear this constant whining, complaining about a loss of competitiveness, America in decline” despite a major export boom that is the primary reason that growth continues in the economy, he said.

“We’ve never been more dominant; we’ve never had more natural advantages than we have today,” he said. “We have benefited greatly” from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

I’m waiting for the damned crickets here.  He is right.  He speaks the truth.  I guess maybe I’m biased because Phil Gramm is one of my inspirations.  As a Texas Senator, he and Reagan really got me going into politics and made me see the conservative light.  And just like Reagan he is urging optimism in a time that is painted gloomy by the MSM.  And like every other McCain surrogate who speaks the truth, he is thrown under the bus by the McCain campaign.  Screw that.

If McCain refuses to back up his people and continues to diss everyone who speaks truth on his behalf, he won’t have anyone left to speak for him.  All we’ll have left is John running around praising Obama.  I’m about sick of this crap.  Gramm was one of his premier advisers and a potential Treasury nominee.

McCain is making it harder for me to defend him everyday.  Gramm didn’t resign of his own accord. He was forced out after McCain distanced himself from true and poignant statements.  I have no clue where this campaign is going, but I’m done giving financially until they figure it out for themselves.

This blurb from FoxNews.com got me going a bit.

 NEW YORK —  Pakistan’s top diplomat says there are no U.S. or other foreign military personnel on the hunt for Osama bin Laden in his nation, and none will be allowed in to search for the al-Qaida leader.

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi told The Associated Press Saturday that his nation’s new government has ruled out permitting any such military operations, covert or otherwise, to catch militants.

In the interview, he said that “any foreign intrusion would be counterproductive,” and that it will create “an anti-U.S. feeling.”

The United States, increasingly frustrated as al-Qaida, the Taliban and other militants thrive in Pakistan’s remote areas and in neighboring Afghanistan, has offered U.S. troops to strike at terror networks.

Let me replay one sentence of that for you.

In the interview, he said that “any foreign intrusion would be counterproductive,” and that it will create “an anti-U.S. feeling.”

Anti-US feeling?  Roam the streets of Karachi or Islamabad and figure out what the “feeling” is concerning the US.  THEY HATE US ANYWAY.  I fail to understand how we need the permission of these foreign aid leeches in order to kill our public enemy number one. Why do we care that our approval rating amongst the Pakistani populace might fall from 8% to 3% if we attack killers on their soil?

I had a lot of hope for the new government of Pakistan.  But they have shown themselves to be spineless pacifists who are NOT dedicated to the eradication of terrorist elements in their nation.  Even after these elements assassinated their beloved leader (Bhutto) and have continued to kill innocent citizens within their nation, the Pakistani government has shown little resolve or intestinal fortitude.  Instead, they hope that “negotiation” will solve their problems.

What a joke. Ronald Reagan was right.  You don’t negotiate with terrorists.  It gets you nowhere.

I heard this one on the local radio -

At a recent meeting of city officials in Dallas County, Texas, a small racial brouhaha broke out. County commissioners were hashing out difficulties with the way the central collections office handles traffic tickets. Commissioner Kenneth Mayfield found himself guilty of talking while white. He observed that the bureaucracy “has become a black hole” for lost paperwork.

Fellow Commissioner John Wiley Price took great offense, shouting, “Excuse me!” That office, the black commissioner explained, has become a “white hole.”

Seizing on the outrage, Judge Thomas Jones demanded that Mayfield apologize for the “racially insensitive analogy,” in the words of the Dallas Morning News’s City Hall Blog.

You’d have to understand Dallas city politics.  I’m sure Steve will understand - it’s a lot like Chicago.  A lot of hot air, bickering and very few accomplishments.  But this one really struck me as funny.  Goldberg notes in his article -

Call me nostalgic, but there was a time when this sort of stupidity actually generated controversy. Remember the Washington, D.C., official who used the word “niggardly” correctly in a sentence only to lose his job? That at least generated debate.

But these days, stories like this vomit forth daily and, for the most part, we roll our eyes, chuckle a bit, and shrug them off.

Obviously, there’s something to be said for ignoring the childish grievance-peddling that motivates so much of this nonsense. But the simple fact is that ignoring political correctness has done remarkably little to combat it. Meanwhile, people who make a big deal about it are often cast as the disgruntled obsessive ones.

I guess.  Maybe I have become cynical.  I was outraged over political correctness several years ago, but now I’m one of those that just rolls my eyes.  I’m not sure that is the best course of action though.

In Britain this week, the National Children’s Bureau advised that day-care centers treat aversion to unfamiliar foreign food by children as “racist.” It was also reported that two children were punished for their bigoted refusal to kneel and pray to Allah in a religion class.

This strikes me as something beyond mere tolerance. This is will-to-power masquerading as tolerance. This sort of thing needs to be resisted, because there is no end to where thinking like this can lead. Indeed, if it doesn’t cause too much offense, one could even say it’s a black hole.

Goldberg is right.  If we become numb to this type of PC BS and the thought police, then we open ourselves up to a society that is moving towards decay under the auspices of multiculturalism and sensitive speech - just like the UK.  I guess it’s just difficult to get pumped up and outraged anymore when this type of thing seems to happen every single day.

Yes, here we are in the middle of probably the most important conflict of our generation.

Yes, our awesome troops are proud of what they are doing.  Yes, they are succeeding. 

I guess Obama has paid attention to the news lately - which means that he can at least read.  I’m sure he’s realizing that violence is at record lows in Iraq.  He’s realized the success and acknowledges the oil contracts we are bidding for now and what these can possibly mean to our economy.  Money, money, money - hey then we can invent new taxes!

Obama says Iraq trip can refine his policy

Right, after eight years of Bush getting harangued on a daily basis, Barack Obama does two things:

First, he actually admits he supports domestic spying (something even Alan Colmes is angry about).  Second, he slowly starts to “refine” his war position.

Oh sure, after all the work has been done by Bush and Rice, Democrats will try to find some way to take credit for the success this war brings, or will attempt sadly to begin a pathetic backtrack of their eight years of blatant idiocy and this time, they didn’t even have to run a phony war-hero to do it.

Hopefully when this begins, we will know better.  Start looking for the signs real soon.

Take this article as #1.  I can’t wait to hear Code Pink’s response to this incidentally.

***************************Update*******************************

Apparently Code Pink and the rest found out - yes, less than three hours after reading the first article above - we get a new “unchanged” Barack.

Thanks Barack, and thank Code Pink along with the crazy Koz kids and the moonbats from over at Air America radio that still believe the war was evil.  Silly me to think that Democrats (the elected ones) could ever claim credit for Iraq’s success.  

Obama Wades Into Controversy With Iraq Comments

As stupid as this is, it really is so obvious.

“Obama would get more barbeque invitations than McCain”

Okay - at the risk of sounding racist, it really is obvious that black folks can whoop the white folks asses when it comes to barbeque, dancing, singing, and basketball.  I won’t even go there!

But just as General Wesley Clark pointed out that being a POW doesn’t necessarily make someone qualified to be commander-in-chief, I contend that being Chef Boyardee doesn’t necessarily qualify someone either.

I would also like to point out that Republicans have done very well not responding (by in large) to Wesley Clark’s comments about McCain.  In essence, Clark’s comments were accurate, it’s just interesting that he was willing to bring it up in the case of John McCain in 2008, and not in the case of John Kerry in 2004.

Yes as tragic as it is, it seems like only yesterday when the press was camped outside of the church they were marrying in.

Ya know, here we are again - three kids (one from her trainer and the other adopted from Malawi) removed from a familiar existance.

Tell me, why do celebrities even get married?  Is it so they can divorce and use the media attention as career boosters?

As a performer though, I shall vow to love her forever, but I do have a personal question to ask my friends who show up regularly.

On this topic, I’ve received a wedding invitation for someone I’ve know most of her adult life who is indeed on her third marriage.  I’ve attended the other ceremonies, gave up weekend days of rest and relaxation, gave money or expensive gifts before.

How many times are we obligated to attend weddings of friends when they have a proven track record of picking bad mates? 

Perhaps it’s a question for Dr. Laura.

Can you imagine if George W. Bush suggested this?

In light of the fact that four major oil companies have placed bids with Iraq to start refining oil; in an interview with Bill O’Reilly, Democratic Strategist-Veteran Bob Beckel said that we should draft a 100 year contract with Iraq since they now owe us.

Again - what would happen if Bush said that? 

In any case, he also stated that if indeed we got contracts with Iraq, that not even Obama would pull troops out of Iraq.

Of course this is an act of appeasment to the environmentalists that want us to refrain from drilling in ANWR. 

Great!  I actually think Beckel’s idea is pretty good.  Now, can we begin to get the Democrats to stick to issues they are good at like Global Warming hysteria and other things it will take Republicans 1,000 years to prove them wrong on?

Leave National Security to the Republicans.  Thanks!