THIS LADY'S NAME NEEDS TO BECOME A HOUSEHOLD WORD

It sucks to be Monica Lewinsky.  Throughout the United States and across much of the world the word "Lewinsky" has come to be synonymous with a certain sex act.  Well ... at least most of us think it's a sex act, even if Bill Clinton doesn't.  How would you like to be Monica's father?  You're just walking across the office and someone yells your name.  "Lewinsky! I need you!"  Not good.

Now we have another name that needs to become a household word --- a word associated with unreasonable hysteria and pure, unadulterated meanness.  The name is Wanita Renea Young and she lives in Durango, Colorado.  The rest of you can count yourself blessed that this woman isn't your neighbor.

The cookies were delivered without incident .... until, that is, they got to the home of Wanita Renea Young.  When Taylor and Lindsey Jo knocked on Wanita Renea's door she became hysterical.  She was, as she described it, "terrified!"  She wouldn't answer the door.  She called the Sheriff instead.  The cops came and decided that no crime had been committed. 

The next day this pathetic woman went to the hospital complaining of a severe anxiety attack from the knock on her door.  She thought she might have had a heart attack.  Her next step was to file a lawsuit against the two teenagers.  

Taylor and Lindsey Jo wrote a letter to Wanita Renea Young apologizing.   Taylor said "I didn't realize this would cause trouble for you ... I just wanted you to know that someone cared about you and your family."  No good.  Wanita says the apology rang hollow.

Then the families of the girls offered to pay for Young's medical bills, but they wanted her to sign a document releasing them from any future claims.   A reasonable request, considering that this woman was clearly showing herself to be something other than a kind human being.  That offer was refused.

Finally the lawsuit goes to court.  A judge awards this pathetic woman $900 to cover her medical bills.  Wanita Renea Young says that she hoped the girls learned their lesson.

I'll tell you who learned a lesson.  Durango, Colorado.   Virtually every citizen of Durango now knows that Wanita Renea Young is a certifiable nut-case, and someone to be avoided.  A poster child for hysteria and irrationality.  Just more proof that no good deed goes unpunished.

Someone needs to step forward and do something nice for Taylor Ostergaard and Lindsey Jo Zellitti to show them that most people aren't quite as nasty as Wanita Renea Young.

NO MORE TALK OF GUARANTEES

Just a quick note on this Social Security argument.  Believe me, there's going to be plenty of time to address this in the coming weeks and months.  For right now let's try to set the record straight on the current Democratic line that Bush is trying to replace guarantees with speculation.  Know this:  there is no guarantee that you will receive any Social Security benefits. Nowhere in the laws of the United States is there any guarantee that anyone will receive Social Security benefits.  You would think that the media would take the time to investigate this "guarantee" nonsense and report .... then again, you wouldn't.

IRAN TALKING MIGHTY TOUGH

Just a quick note here.  Iran is saying that they will accelerate their drive to master nuclear technology if the United States or Israel attacks their nuclear facilities.  Well, that would be just fine. First we reduce Iran's nuclear capabilities to rubble.  Then they spend the big bucks rebuilding.  When they get to the point that they're close to being dangerous we level the facility again.  Then they can start rebuilding again.  Then we attack again.  We get practice taking out nuclear facilities, and the Iranians get to thump their chests and spend money.  Sounds like a good deal to me. 

BUDGET DOUBLE STANDARD

President Bush's budget for the next fiscal year comes out today. It will be a $2.5 trillion spending proposal that includes cuts in 150 programs. Since the left hates any cuts in spending, get ready for an endless parade of sob stories.

The media will read the budget, see that a program is being cut, then run right out and find at least two people who's lives will just absolutely be ruined by the "cuts." But isn't this quite the double standard? Weren't we being told just a few weeks ago that the deficit was out of control? Why..it was the highest ever! (Not true, of course.) Now that Bush is actually doing something about the deficit, the left will have none of it.

To the left there is one and only one way to solve a budget deficit .. and that is to raise taxes, and to raise taxes only on rich people.

Just as with most major issues, the Democrats have no ideas, no plan and nothing to offer. They're concerned about the deficit, but they don't want to cut any spending. Their answer is going to be to raise taxes. Unfortunately, the majority of the Republicans in the House and Senate probably won't have the gonads to cut any spending either.

By the way, most of these "cuts" are just going to be cuts in the growth of spending. 

DISENFRANCHISED IN IRAQ

As the vote counting continues in Iraq, it seems it won't be long before we know the result. Once the election is certified, a 275-member national assembly will begin to draw up a permanent national Constitution in Iraq. As you've seen and read, the elections in Iraq were a smash hit. A huge success! 

But wait...here come the whiners. The Associated Press (who else, right?) is reporting that our old friend, "disenfranchisement" has reared its ugly head. Since there aren't too many black neighborhoods and since there weren't any butterfly ballots with swinging chads, what could they be talking about?

Apparently some polling stations weren't open. Some ran out of ballots. One person's name was inadvertently left off the ballot. There have been more than 100 complaints of irregularities. Sounds like a lot, right? Well, not really. Out of something like 8 million votes cast, there were 100 complaints. Let's see....that seems to equate to an insignificant amount, way less than 1 percent.

The elections were fine. All of this is nothing more than an attempt on the part of the Bush-bashing, pro-insurgent media to question the legitimacy of the election.

After all, the media isn't rooting for success in Iraq. Never have been.

IF ONLY ALL POLITICIANS WERE LIKE THIS

Dick Cheney may just be the best vice president we've had in a very long time. Cheney was on Fox News Sunday and was asked if he would consider running for president in 2008. Absolutely not, said the VP. But what if the president begged? Here is what Cheney had to say:

(Quoting William Sherman) "If nominated, I will not run," "If elected, I will not serve," or not only no, but "Hell no." I've got my plans laid out. I'm going to serve this president for the next four years, and then I'm out of here. By 2009, I'll be 68 years old. And I've still got a lot of rivers I'd like to fish and time I'd like to spend with my grandkids, and so this is my last tour. I don't plan to run for anything."

The man genuinely has no interest in becoming the president of the United States. He's put in his time in government, as a chief of staff, Congressman, Defense Secretary and now Vice President. He's done.

Most politicians, particularly Democrats, want to hang onto power as long as humanly possible. Too bad there aren't more like Dick Cheney.

FAITH AND SPIRITUALITY VS. RELIGION

Have you read any of the books in Neale Donald Walsh's  Conversations with God series?  I think I read Book 1 in 1998 and soon thereafter had Walsh as a guest on the show.  Reviewer Dave Schweir pretty much summed it up when he wrote:  "Conversations With God has its finger on our culture's spiritual pulse. This book appeals to those who have been hurt in life - by family, friends, authority figures, "organized religion" and failures in career and relationships.  In short - all of us."  

I pretty much stay in constant trouble with a segment of my listenership because I just don't seem to fit their judgment of what a Christian should be.  These people are always anxious to send me rather unpleasant emails telling me in no uncertain terms that God doesn't like me, and neither do they.  Their messages usually usually end with the standard "I'm never going to listen to you again" line.

Sunday afternoon I picked up Conversations with God, Book II and started reading.  I happened upon a particular passage that fairly summed up my own feelings, and I thought I would share it with you here.  The passage opens with Neale Donald Walsh talking to God:  

Do we need to return to religion?  Is that the missing link?

Return to spirituality.  Forget about religion.

That statement is going to anger a lot of people.

People will react to this entire book with anger  . .  unless they do not.

Why do You say, forget religion?

Because it is not good for you.  Understand that in order for organized religion to succeed, it has to make people believe they need it.  In order for people to put faith in something else, they must first lose faith in themselves.  So the first task or organized religion is to make you lose faith in yourself.  The second task is to make you see that it has the answers you do not.  And the third and most important task is to make you accept its answers without question.

If you question, you start to think!  If you think, you start to go back to that Source Within.  Religion can't have you do that, because you're liable to come up with an answer different from what it has contrived.  So religion must make you doubt your Self; must make you doubt your own ability to think straight.

The problem for religion is that every so often this backfires -- for if you cannot accept without doubt your own thoughts, how can you not doubt the new ideas about God which religion has given you?

Pretty soon you even doubt My existence -- which, ironically, you never doubted before.  When you were living by your intuitive knowing, you may not have had Me all figured out, but you definitely knew I was there!  

It is religion which has created agnostics.

Any clear thinker who looks at what religion has done must assume that religion has no God!  For it is religion which has filled the hearts of men with fear of God, where once man loved That Which is in all its splendor.

It is religion which has ordered men to bow down before God, where once man rose up in joyful outreach.

It is religion which has burdened man with worries about God's wrath, where once man sought God to lighten his burden.  

It is religion which told man to be ashamed of his body and its most natural functions, where once man celebrated those functions as the greatest gift of life!

It is religion which taught you that you must have an intermediary in order to reach God, where once you thought yourself t be reaching God by the simple living of your life in goodness and in truth.

And it is religion which commanded humans to adore God, where once humans adored God because it was impossible not to.

Everywhere religion has gone it has created disunity -- which is the opposite of God.  

There is so much more, but I'm not going to copy Walsh's entire book here.  Read this particular dialogue for yourself.  You'll find it starting on page 247.  Those of you who are deeply troubled, even outraged by what Walsh has written .... these books could do you some good.

No, it's not a suicide bomber, it's a thorax cake! Scroll down in the reading assignments for a link to the recipe.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Apparently a few people are still actually leaving the country for Canada because George Bush was re-elected. Good riddance...don't let the door hit you on the way out. By the way, you'll be back as soon as you need a life-saving operation.

The America-hating leftist college professor that compared the 9/11 victims to Nazis apparently has had more to say in recent years. At one point, Ward Churchill said he wanted America "out of existence."

New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof says liberals are making a huge mistake by being so against Social Security reform. He says it's time for the left to put their cards on the table.

President Bush says he wants to reform the tax code, but George Will explains how the president is also continuing to come up with new exemptions and loopholes.

The whole Ward Churchill controversy is hiding a larger problem, which is the difference between academic freedom and free speech. Roger Kimball explains.

The General who said that shooting Islamic terrorists was "fun" was just doing his job, and is to be commended, not punished. Ralph Peters says we need more people like him.

Howard Dean is going to be the new chairman of the Democratic Party and Michael Goodwin writes that he is digging his own party's grave. The vote will be held Saturday, February 12th!

President Bush wants to reform Social Security, and naturally, CBS isn't impressed. The Bush-hating at the Tiffany network continues, as The Media Research Center reports.

The Democrats are forgetting that a certain percentage of Democrats are actually interested in their own private Social Security accounts. Donald Lambro says liberals are not offering their own plan.

Despite their public statements to the contrary, Saudi Arabia is engaged in spreading religious hatred. Jeff Jacoby has the facts.

George Bush set out to transform the world and the presidency, and Michael Barone writes that he is succeeding. And we're only halfway through.

Senator Chucky Schumer of New York praised Alberto Gonzales and supported his nomination. Then, all of a sudden, he opposed it. What gives? 

You might not want to click on this right after eating.  These are cake recipes.   You'll remember my kitty litter cake.  Well that's pretty tame compare to the thorax cake and the zombie cake.

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