Liberals are all atwitter about Sarah Palin’s interview at a turkey slaughter house. She was there to pick out her family’s turkey for Thanksgiving. The obviously sheltered folks at Huffington Post are just outraged at Palin’s cavalier attitude as turkeys are slaughtered in the background. The liberals’ dismay is quite funny actually but not as funny as their oblivousness as many of them will share in a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner themselves.

After the pardon Palin proceeded to do an interview with a local TV station while the turkeys were being SLAUGHTERED in the background!! Seemingly oblivious to the gruesomeness going on over her shoulder, she carries on talking for over three minutes.

Here’s the video if you haven’t seen it yet.

Considering Sarah Palin has been hunting for years and knows how to field dress a moose, she’s of course going to be unfazed by what happens at a turkey slaughterhouse. If the libs are shocked by how these turkeys met their demise, maybe I shouldn’t tell them that my Thanksgiving turkey wasn’t slaughtered as Palin’s was, but it was shot by a hunter friend up here in the woods of Northern Michigan.

Thank you, Natalie, for getting me back up and running!

Sorry, folks, but I messed up my upgrade and none of my links work. I’m working on it and I hope to have the site working again, soon.

The citizens of California voted and decided that they want their state constitution to define marriage as being between one man and one woman. Well, not satisfied listening to their citizens, Democratic legislators asked the state supreme court to nullify proposition 8 that California citizens just passed. A variety of pro-gay marriage supporters have filed lawsuits asking the state Supreme Court to stop proposition 8. We heard this afternoon that the California State Supreme court has agreed to hear the challenge:

“The California Supreme Court today denied requests to stay the enforcement or implementation of Proposition 8, and at the same time agreed to decide several issues arising out of the passage of Proposition 8.

“The court’s order, issued in the first three cases that had been filed directly in the state’s highest court challenging the validity of Proposition 8, directed the parties to brief and argue three issues:

(1) Is Proposition 8 invalid because it constitutes a revision of, rather than an amendment to, the California Constitution?

(2) Does Proposition 8 violate the separation-of-powers doctrine under the California Constitution?

(3) If Proposition 8 is not unconstitutional, what is its effect, if any, on the marriages of same-sex couples performed before the adoption of Proposition 8?”

So what is the point of voting in the state of California if those who are opposed to the result of the vote can just ask the courts to overturn the will of the voters?

But it’s not just the lawsuits that are at issue here. Today Michelle Malkin in a syndicated column documented how the pro-gay marriage lunatics have lost all self-control:

Over the past two weeks, anti-Prop. 8 organizers have targeted Mormon, Catholic, and evangelical churches. Sentiments like this one, found on the anti-Prop.8 website “JoeMyGod,” are common across the left-wing blogosphere: “Burn their f–ing churches to the ground, and then tax the charred timbers.” Thousands of gay-rights demonstrators stood in front of the Mormon temple in Los Angeles shouting “Mormon scum.” The Mormon headquarters in Salt Lake City received threatening letters containing an unidentified powder. Religious-bashing protesters filled with hate decried the “hate” at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Orange County, Calif. Vandals defaced the Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills, Calif., because church members had collected Prop. 8 petitions. One worshiper’s car was keyed with the slogans “Gay sex is love” and “SEX;” another car’s antenna and windshield wipers were broken.

In Carlsbad, Calif., a man was charged with punching his elderly neighbors over their pro-Prop. 8 signs. In Palm Springs, a videographer filmed unhinged anti-Prop. 8 marchers who yanked a large cross from the hands of 69-year-old Phyllis Burgess and stomped on it.

Read all of Michelle’s piece. You’ll see that this is just a small portion of what the pro-gay marriage lunatics have done. But do you see this lunacy reported in the mainstream media? Of course not because when the left becomes unhinged, it doesn’t make the 24 hour news cycle. It isn’t criticized. Their violence and bigotry are given a pass. But when conservatives express anger toward an issue, the media not only report it, but they also exaggerate it. Case in point: McCain supporters at rallies were accused of becoming angry and out of control. The media reported that someone at one of McCain’s rallies shouted “kill him” when McCain mentioned Obama’s name, but the Secret Service couldn’t find anyone who heard it. James Joyner at Outside the Beltway documented other reports in which the media exaggerated the anger of McCain supporters.

Barack Obama came into power by promising “change you can believe in,” but after seeing his first appointments, Rahm Emanual, Eric Holder, probably Hillary Clinton, and who knows who else, it’s becoming clear that Obama is anything but change.

She hasn’t been on the air since June 16th apparently because during a promo for a segment on non-verbal communication on June 6th, she said this about Barack and Michelle Obama’s fist bump:

HILL: A fist bump? A pound? A terrorist fist jab? The gesture everyone seems to interpret differently. We’ll show you some interesting body communication and find out what it really says.

That seemed to get her into some big trouble when Media Matters and Huffington Post, two far left organizations threw fits about her comments. As a result she was yanked from the air. Now we’re hearing from TV Newser that her contract won’t be renewed. So, Republican candidates like Sarah Palin can be criticized, maligned, insulted, and besmirched and that’s just fine. But say anything that’s even the slightest critical of a Democrat candidate and you’re yanked from the air.

E.D. Hill has been one of my favorite news people since I started watching Fox News and Fox and Friends back when she was E.D. Donahey. I’m afraid this is one more illustration that Fox is moving more to the pro-Obama left in its programing.  That’s a shame. Soon I won’t be able to watch any television broadcast news because I won’t be able to stand all the fawning.

Motrin released a new ad that got a lot of moms so roiled that they expressed their anger publicly and with such vehemence that Motrin pulled the ad off the air. The ad outraged mothers who took offense at the condescending tone and the accusation that moms who carry their babies in slings do so in order to make a fashion statement. If you haven’t seen the ad, you can watch it here:

It’s not a very good ad. I couldn’t stand the text moving around so much. It made my head hurt. I also didn’t care for the tone of the narrator’s voice. But was it worthy of such a big negative reaction? I’m not so sure. Nonetheless, if you’re going to create an ad that is for a targeted audience and all it does is alienate that targeted audience, that’s a pretty good sign your ad sucked.

This video confirmed for me what I already knew: the media, in the tank for Obama, helped give him the presidency by refusing to report anything negative about him while consistently hammering John McCain and Sarah Palin. Twelve Obama supporters were interviewed on election day after casting their ballots. They were asked questions about the candidates and their political parties. Very few of these Obama supporters knew which political party had control of Congress, how Obama won his first election, or that he said he would bankrupt the coal industry. But they all knew whose party spent $150,000 on clothes and whose teenage daughter was pregnant. The folks at the site How Obama Got Elected who conducted the interviews also commissioned a poll by Zogby to see if the results from their non-scientific video interviews were similar to the results from a scientific poll. They were.

The people behind How Obama Got Elected are working on a film called Media Malpractice… How Obama Got Elected, which will focus on the media’s influence in the 2008 presidential election. If you want to remain informed on this project, you can sign up for email updates.

Chuck Norris has an article today at World Net Daily in which he writes about the anarchist behavior by those on the Left. Those who opposed Prop 8 are outraged that the majority of Californians voted to amend their state’s Constitution in order to make marriage between a man and a woman. Interestingly, those on the Left who had been demanding tolerance for their beliefs and activities are suddenly intolerant, sometimes violently, toward those who don’t agree with them. Chuck outlines a few of the examples of the tolerance-demanding, anti Prop 8 side of the political spectrum behaving badly toward those who voted for Prop 8. Unfortunately for them, though, they’ll have a lot of Californians to intimidate. Virtually every county in California, including Los Angeles county, voted to keep marriage between a man and a woman.

Here’s a portion of Chuck’s article:

No matter one’s opinion of Proposition 8, it is flat out wrong and un-American to intimidate and harass individuals, churches and businesses that are guilty of nothing more than participating in the democratic process. Of course activism is anyone’s political right, but cruel coercion and repression is not. One can’t demand tolerance and show none in return. Sadly, many of these activists have become the very thing they accuse of their opponents: being hatemongers.

I agree with Prison Fellowship director Chuck Colson, who wrote, “This is an outrage. What hypocrisy from those who spend all of their time preaching tolerance to the rest of us! How dare they threaten and attack political opponents? We live a democratic country, not a banana republic ruled by thugs.”

The enraged vehemence and actions being displayed by many Prop 8 opponents are the same underhand tactics bullies use in neighborhoods and school playgrounds. They reflect the ways that mobs conducted themselves in the underworld. They are methods gangs use to control their turf. They are the wiles that the KGB used to suppress their enemies. But this is the United States of America, where voting is supposed to be free from restrictions or repercussions. Revenge or retribution is not the American way. Is militant antagonism and vengeful aggression really the best Americans can offer to other Americans who oppose them?

Good question. As time goes on, we’ll see if those who were opposed to Prop 8 get their rationality and reason back, which is usually what happens when a group of people are faced with a result they did not want. When Barack Obama won the election, those who were opposed to his presidency reacted with a variety of feelings: outrage, terror, sadness. I was one of them. I’m still very scared of an Obama presidency. However, I am not going to get a bunch of McCain supporters together and attack Obama supporters. That would be outrageous and unacceptable. It simply isn’t what happens in America.  Instead, I will be part of the loyal opposition. I will be respectful but if I think Obama is wrong on an issue, I will absolutely express my opinions without advocating violence. It’s too bad some of those on the Left can’t do the same when they lose.

This message comes from Michael Yon who called Glen Reynolds to give him the news you probably haven’t heard anywhere in the mainstream media:

“THE WAR IS OVER AND WE WON:” Michael Yon just phoned from Baghdad, and reports that things are much better than he had expected, and he had expected things to be good. “There’s nothing going on. I’m with the 10th Mountain Division, and about half of the guys I’m with haven’t fired their weapons on this tour and they’ve been here eight months. And the place we’re at, South Baghdad, used to be one of the worst places in Iraq. And now there’s nothing going on. I’ve been walking my feet off and haven’t seen anything. I’ve been asking Iraqis, ‘do you think the violence will kick up again,’ but even the Iraqi journalists are sounding optimistic now and they’re usually dour.” There’s a little bit of violence here and there, but nothing that’s a threat to the general situation. Plus, not only the Iraqi Army, but even the National Police are well thought of by the populace. Training from U.S. troops has paid off, he says, in building a rapport.

He says the big problem everybody is talking about now is corruption. But hey, we have that here, too. He’ll be heading to Afghanistan next week. “Afghanistan is a bad situation, but on Iraq I can’t believe things have turned out so well.”

Michael also says that Obama can pull some troops out of Iraq and send them into Afghanistan without any negative repercussions, thanks to President Bush’s tenacity and our troops’ skill and unshakable commitment.  The media will do what they can to give all the credit to Obama even though he and the rest of the Democrats minus a small minority fought tooth and nail to undermine President Bush, our troops, and their efforts.

So what’s the big picture? We have a democratically elected government in the Middle East, making it one less country under the control of tyrannical dictators, which is important for not only our national security but the rest of the world’s too.

Bob Owens at Confederate Yankee, one of my favorite sites, writes this:

Our soldiers in Iraq have played many roles and worn many hats, but it seems that their primary role now is that of a peacekeeper, providing support to a government and a people that seem increasingly capable of handling their own affairs.

We can declare victory because President Bush wouldn’t quit on his troops. If Barack Obama had his way, a triumphant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would have had a chance to have made the same claim over the Caliphate of Iraq.

Indeed.  Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, however, met his 79 virgins in June of 2006 thanks to President Bush and the US and Allied Forces.