For the past few years, we’ve had to do without any snow whatsoever for Christmas, but this year, God was generous, and we had a perfect Christmas Eve snowstorm. In the end, we got about four inches, including some ice and sleet.
Safe travels to all of you still out there in it. Be safe, and Merry Christmas.
Here are some pictures of my parents’ house in the snow:
I thought the rest of you might need a break from studying as well.
Enjoy the amazing voice of Julie Andrews coupled with some clever Belgians at Antwerpen’s Central Station in a sort of flash mob publicizing a new reality TV show.
I worked almost tirelessly this past election season for local and national Republican candidates, as I’m sure many of you did, too, making phone calls, walking in parades, sitting at booths, and putting up a few yard signs. Unfortunately, what I learned of the local party establishment wasn’t good. It simply reinforced what we’ve known for the better part of twenty years, that the old guard Republicans are more interested in electing Republicans, regardless of what that candidate believes, than they are in electing the right people. They don’t care about anything except keeping in power those who already are.
Those same people are the Moderates that pushed for candidates like McCain, not seemingly to realize that we’ll never win any votes by not offending anyone. We all saw where that got us.
It’s time for a new direction, even locally. If we expect to ever regain Congress or the White House, or even certain governorships, we must work hard to recruit the right people, based upon their values and beliefs and not their voter registration card. Blindly supporting RINOs and Liberal Republicans (yes, they do exist!) is not our ticket back to D.C. in 2010. Strong conservative ideals are.
Here is my challenge: vote for Conservative Republican candidates only. If a candidate is a RINO, vote for neither candidate, but then write your local GOP and tell them why (maybe before you vote!) We must send a message that we will no longer stand for candidates that do not represent our ideals!
Just wanted to send a quick reminder out to everyone that this Tuesday is the Senate run-off election in Georgia involving Fair-Tax supporter Sen. Saxby Chambliss. Saxby, as you should know by now, won the general election by 3% but failed to break the 50% mark, triggering a mandatory run-off election.
Sens. Saxby Chambliss and Norm Coleman are the only two Senators that stand between us and a full-fledged, unhampered (no, we’re not quite there yet) onslaught of Liberal attacks.
At this late date, probably the best thing we can do is continue to phone bank for Saxby. Mike Huckabee’s HuckPAC has an online phone bank set up that can be accessed here. It does take a quick sign-up, but restricting Obama’s power is worth it.
I’d like to migrate my blog from Wordpress.com hosting to my own hosting service, but I have a few questions for you WP aficionados out there:
How do I migrate and keep my permalinks intact? Most direct to calebhays.wordpress.com.
What happens to my Google search rank? Do I have to build it all over again? Is it less because it’s not WP.com?
Where is the best place to look for themes? I’d like to make this transition invisible to my readers (aside from this blog post), but I cannot seem to find the same “Chaotic Soul” theme. Eventually I’m going to change it anyway… perhaps it is time?
Thanks for your help! Just leave your suggestions in the comments below!
This weekend is Apple’s annual Insomnia Film Festival, and just like last year, a group of friends and I are going to participate. We’re competing against film school students and cinematography majors, so we need all the help we can get!
Leave your ideas for our film in the comments section below, and we might just use them! You’ll receive a shout-out in the credits for your contribution if we do choose to use it.
While you’ll have the honor of saying you helped us create our video, by leaving your idea in the comments section, you agree to donate it to our cause and waive any legal right or ownership you may hold. Please do not plagiarize other groups for your ideas.
I strongly encourage everyone to watch this all-important and historic debate tonight at 8:00 CT. The matchup between Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska and Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware is sure to be one for the record books, no matter who wins.
Personally, I’m rooting for Sarah Palin, and I hope you are, too. The woman is a genius, I believe, and will do wonders debating tonight (if the McCain campaign sets her loose).
It will broadcast on the four major networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, and FOX) as well as air on the cable news networks (CNN, FNC, MSNBC, etc.), so everyone should have a chance to catch it. I assume it will also be streamed live on the candidate’s websites, as well, but I can’t verify that.
Remember, if you’re in the Pittsburg, KS/Joplin, MO area, come watch it with the PSU Campus Republicans in the basement of the Student Center. We’ve got a lot of comfortable seating and a big screen TV. Hopefully, we’ll have some snacks, too, if they’re not confiscated… (the student center is sometimes not that big on food…). It’s a come-and-go affair, but someone will be there starting at 7:30. See you there!
After the debate, comment here on how you thought it went.
I wrote to the McCain campaign to let them know how I felt about their handling of Sarah Palin and the media.
I’m writing in as an ardent McCain-Palin 2008 supporter because I feel the campaign is making a grave mistake.
In recent weeks, Gov. Palin has done three nationally televised interviews, two with hostile interviewers and one with a much more congenial interviewer (Sean Hannity). Personally, I thought Gov. Palin did a fairly good job. Sure, she was nervous, but those were her FIRST national interviews.
However, the liberal media has used those interviews to paint Sarah as an airhead or a lightweight, and the polls say it’s working. We all know that Sarah is an intelligent and well-versed woman, but they’re not seeing it. That’s where I think the campaign is making [its] mistake.
Let Sarah be Sarah. Have her say, “You know what? I WAS nervous in those debates, because they were my first, but that’s okay, because I’m NOT a Washington insider, and I don’t plan on becoming one. John McCain and I are going to Washington to change Washington, not to have Washington change us.”
The American people love Gov. Palin because she’s “one of us.” It’s okay for her to have a so-called “lackluster” interview. The campaign needs to make sure THEY are the ones controlling the news cycles, however, and showing the voting public Sarah’s great, positive traits and qualities.
I know McCain-Palin will win this election, but only if the campaign takes charge and works with the “friendly” media to spread the truth.
Yes, it’s been awhile, and I do apologize if it appears that I’ve been neglecting my blog. The truth is, I have, but I’ve got some good reasons for it. First, I’ve been disabled by a long-standing issue with my right hip. Something recently has made the problem flare up again, and I’ve basically lost my ability to walk without crutches. That burden, coupled with any medication they give me and my normal class workload, has caused me to push my blog onto the back burner.
Now, some have accused me of not writing because of my supposed “shame” about Gov. Palin’s recent performance. Let me tell you right now that I am not ashamed of Gov. Palin. In fact, I think she did a fairly good job in her first three national interviews, especially the one with Sean Hannity.
What I don’t appreciate, however is the way the McCain campaign is seemingly “manhandling” her. For goodness’ sake, let Sarah Palin be Sarah Palin. I think she should say, “Yea, so those interviews weren’t as good as Barack Obama’s… so what? I told you I’m not a Washington insider. These things are brand new to me, but that’s okay, because I’m not going to Washington to have Washington change me. John McCain and I are going to Washington to reform Washington. We’re doing it for our country…” She desperately needs to say something of that sort, because I truly believe the American people love her for who she is. This political posturing that we’ve seen is nonsense.
As for the idea that John McCain has now slipped so far behind he’ll never win, I say “P’shaw.” Has everyone forgotten what’s coming up tomorrow night? Oh, that’s right, the Vice-Presidential Debates, where Gov. Palin will smash Sen. Biden. Has anyone seen her performances in any of Alaska’s gubernatorial debates? She was phenomenal! I think if she’ll just relax (or if they’d just let her relax) she’ll be great.
Some say she’s not qualified enough to be Vice-President, or a “heartbeat away from the Presidency,” but I disagree. The woman is highly intelligent and has been the chief executive of our most energy-rich state! Does no one realize how BIG Alaska really is? It’s basically the size of the Louisiana Purchase… that’s HUGE! As for the “heartbeat” comment: first of all, I think it’s low for the Dems to attack John McCain because of his age. He has shown time and again that while he’s no “spring chicken,” he can take Obama on and do his job very effectively. Joe Biden is whom I am worried about being a “heartbeat away.” The man is a disaster. Did you not see what he did at a rally in Missouri? He asked wheel-chair bound former State Senator Chuck Graham to “stand up” and then realized his mistake and made a fairly big deal about it. Folks, we cannot have this man “a heartbeat away from the Presidency.” It would be a disaster!
It’s important to note the different reasons why Sarah Palin and Joe Biden were brought on to their respective tickets. Joe Biden was tapped to give the Demo ticket any foreign experience credibility at all. Prior to Biden, Obama was sunk. Now with Biden, well, you don’t hear about him too much do you? Sarah, on the other hand, was asked to join the ticket for her conservative values and her extensive energy policy experience. John McCain didn’t need any foreign policy shoring-up; the man is a legend when it comes to foreign travel. In the first debate, he named places I’d never even heard of. That’s not to say that Sarah is clueless when it comes to foreign nations. Check out her words to Ahmadinejad in a statement last week when she was supposed to speak before a rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in New York sound fierce enough to me,
“Senator McCain has made a solemn commitment that I strongly endorse: Never again will we risk another Holocaust,” her speech says. “And this is not a wish, a request, or a plea to Israel’s enemies. This is a promise that the United States and Israel will honor, against any enemy who cares to test us.”
Sounds fierce enough to me.
As for the economic meltdown, while I don’t believe that either candidate has exactly the right idea, I definitely support Sen. McCain. Obama wants to tax us more in a time of great financial distress! How ridiculous! At least McCain is on the right track by demanding the cessation of most earmarks and the paring down of the federal budget.
I know our country is in a great financial crisis, but I still do not appreciate the idea of American taxpayers footing the bill for the stupid mistakes and hunches of some of America’s largest corporations. It doesn’t make sense, and it’s not something I believe the federal government should be this involved in.
The point is, our nation is at a major crossroads. People say not to vote on party lines, but folks, there’s a reason we have parties, and you can’t just ignore the label. In November, you can either vote for the party of defeat and elect Obama-Biden to the White House and watch our nation lose its free market and capitalistic roots, turning to European-style big government and socialism, or you can elect the party and ticket of reform, hope, and limited government by sending McCain-Palin. The choice is obvious to me.
P.S. If you’re in the Four-State area, come check out the PSU Campus Republicans’ Debate-Watching parties. We’re hosting them in the basement of the PSU Overman Student Center at 302 E. Cleveland, Pittsburg, KS 66762 at 7:30 p.m. for every remaining debate.
