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http://www.marketwatch.com/story/palin-cleared-on-ethics-violations-reports

There were early reports, which the left blogs trumpeted as ‘proof’ of guilt. I’m sure the AP buried this final finding, which clears her.

Was just pulled over myself. I informed the officer right away that I had a permit and was carrying. He was fine, just asked me to keep my hands where he could see them. All was fine, no citation. He did ask if I was a lawyer because I handled it all well/clearly.

However...I find the ‘why are you here’ question asked in the video to be highly disturbing.I think the answer given is the right answer, but I would agree that my initial response would be ‘none of your damned business.’

I have had a skirmish or two with family members over politics and FB. We’ve gotten past them with a simple discussion about having strong opinions and moving on. Of course, I think they are idiots and they probably think the same of me. I can live with that.

I read the transcript and thought it didn’t change the context at all. She’s so busy caring about the Americans that she didn’t bother to find out why the attacks happened...cause, you know, there could be more attacks, right? That makes a huge difference, right? That is, if you’re really concerned about protecting Americans. Otherwise, you’d just pull some bureaucratic CYA and...ohhhhh. Never mind.

I’m not sure the Episcopal Church is actually Christian anymore.

If it saves just one life, it would be worth it.

We visited the Stones River site last winter (my daughter became a junior ranger of the Park, which she loved). I was just in awe as we walked Hell’s Half-Acre (a little scrap of ground just off the highway) and stood at the ridge looking down into the river where so many men died. I cannot imagine demanding a charge on a hill loaded with men and cannon...and I cannot imagine following the order to your death. It was chilling. The Slaughterpen was sobering as well (granite crags where Union soldiers were caught between 2 Confederate forces and slaughtered — the terrain is slippery and full of deep crevices and impossible to run on; my daughter and I did our best to walk it quickly, and even in calm conditions, concentrating, it was tricky).

I highly recommend a trip there, if you have the opportunity. Many well-preserved and documented Civil War sites in middle Tennessee — and with an interesting perspective that I was certainly never taught in school.

This kind of blows the lid off the left’s guise of ‘education’ being the basis behind sex ed. After all, if they were all about education, and they really believed a ‘fetus’ was just a ‘clump of cells’, you could discuss development and show ultrasounds all day long. If we had a news media that was actually free and ethical, this would be trumpeted. Instead, they’ll celebrate the right to murder.

Apparently, Johnny was up in Northgate and got in between a friend of his and a 47 year old guy who were fighting because the old guy alleged Johnny’s friend uttered a racial slur against him. Johnny then (stupidly) offered a fake ID to the cops, and they found another in his wallet.

Not exactly hardened criminal status, more like one of the gajillion 18-20 year olds with fake ID’s who got busted. Doesn’t make it right, but when people say ‘he has an arrest record’, I’m thinking he’s churning out crack out of mom’s basement and assaulting the elderly while robbing them at the walk-up ATM. He’s guilty of being a stupid kid with a non-functioning frontal lobe.

Johnny Football! (Fightin’ Texas Aggie Class of 94 here.)

Even if that’s true, the fact that this election is even somewhat close, given Obama’s failure and especially given recent events in Benghazi, is deplorable. It proves that the public education system is an absolute failure (critical thinking skills are clearly not engaged). It proves that the MSM has a strangle-hold on Americans’ minds and opinions. I resent sharing my air with these people.

Romney is not ‘my guy’; I’ll be holding my nose as I vote for him. But after last night, I’ll be holding it a little more loosely. If nothing else, I was ecstatic to see a Republican actually fight back. Romney had some great zingers (my personal fave was when he said he had 5 boys, he’s used to people repeating the same thing over and over and trying to convince him that it’s true). When I compare it to the simpering of McCain during the last go-round — the difference is astonishing. I just wish he was an actual conservative.

The comments post-article are priceless. Rolling in the schadenfreude this morning.

Working in someone else’s business is vastly different than running it, by yourself, as sole employees. And it seems you’re projecting; I hardly feel sorry myself, nor am I a victim. I’m captain of my fiscal fate (with the exception of the invisible hand of economy and the ridiculous decisions of the current president). I’d rather drive my own bus than ride someone else’s.

With our own business, we certainly work a lot of hours — but there’s a difference between the hours we work and the hours lots of folks in the ‘regular’ world ‘work’.

In the regular world, it seems like ‘work’ includes regularly checking Facebook and Twitter...multiple personal calls in an hour...BS-ing with the cubicle-dweller across the way...extended lunches. In other words, precious little ‘work’ is actually done in all of those hours. When you are working for yourself, however, how much work you do determines how well you live, and if your business (and therefore you) will survive.

My father says that we reward the wrong things in this country. This is just another way that we reward poor work: by giving people something more to claim victim status on, when if the average worker was pinned on how much time they actually spend productively working, it’s not anywhere near even a standard 8 hour day.

We have become a nation of whiners and victims — and they’re all going to be voting for the guy who’ll give them free stuff and make them feel warm and fuzzy.

According to Reuters, Obama had his first on Tues., Sept. 2 of 2008, with John McCain being prepared to do so. This article indicates Romney/intelligence are trying to work out logistics.

This says, then, that Obama began receiving updates within 5 days of the end of the 2008 DNC. The RNC ended on the 4th, which means McCain would not have had time to begin briefing on the Sept. 4 byline of the Reuters statement.

Given that the RNC closed this year Aug 30, the question has to be asked: what is taking so long that the national intelligence office isn’t getting the Republican candidate rolling? Romney’s been the presumed candidate for several months.

This makes me so sad for him, his wife, his family. To have received Jesus, and through his ‘research’, forsake him — heartbreaking. How many people are lost because of their reliance on their wee little brains?

I will never understand how people can assume that we can understand God — the Creator of all things, things we are just discovering, things that we still have no idea how they work — but we can understand Him, and decide that He doesn’t exist because He does not make sense when we ‘investigate’ and ‘research’ Him.

Why do people who shriek about ‘staying out of our bedrooms’ constantly insist on flaunting bedroom behavior in public?

...isn’t that the ‘hide yo kids, hide yo wives’ Lincoln Park guy?!

If true, then people are more politically misinformed than I previously believed — which is hard to believe, since I believe most people have no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to government issues. They parrot what the people on the TV tell them...which is the case here, certainly, but to a ludicrous extent. W had such promise, and he went RiNO (which grates on me still), but — Jimmy Carter is still alive, and anybody who believes he was better than W wasn’t paying attention.