As most have heard by now, protestors from the OccupyDC movement attack the Washington Convention Center last night while Americans for Prosperity Foundation’s Defending the American Dream Summit was taking place.
No one in the news media seems to know exactly what happened, but I was on-scene, along with Jarrod Mendicki and Gavin Kreidler.
I was an attendee at the summit and was trapped inside for over an hour as protestors blockaded the doors and prevented our exit. I wrote about the attacks right after they occurred from my firsthand perspective here.
I’d now like to provide more details.
The three of us were inside the South Building of the Washington Convention Center, trying to exit. All of the doors were blocked by OccupyDC protestors:
When we finally were able to exit onto L Street, a woman, a protestor from OccupyDC, was hit by a random car driving eastbound as she and several other protestors mobbed the vehicle.
I was on the scene with my iPhone and recorded the events starting a three-to-five seconds after the accident: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmQdobhvi70.
“He is not here; he has risen, just as he said. Come and see the place where he lay.” Matt 28:2 (NIV)
As we celebrate this beautiful Easter morning and share in the joy that is Christ Jesus, our living Lord and blessed Savior, let us always remember that it was our bodies that should have been broken, our blood that needed to be spilled, our sides that were supposed to have been pierced.
Our heads should have been the ones split apart by a crude ring of thorns, but they weren’t.
We should be the ones to pay for our wrongs.
But we were not.
May your Easter be forever filled with the Love and awesome Grace of Christ.
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.
