Connor is sleeping and allie has a tummy ache after going to a sleep over. Aidan is outside in the treehouse all atwitter listening to the fireworks. He keeps asking permission. He's confused, we never let him outside at night and he's happy and but a little unsure.

teehee.

My opinion I like her. I'm sad she's stepping down as governor. I hope it's to run in the senate.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-27/sarah-palins-a-brainiac/

I saw this post from Ilona Andrews of Magic Bites, Magic Burns and Magic Strikes(which btw is an awesome series and she's got more books coming out). Anne Sowards is looking for steampunk.


Not quite sure who that is but ummm, thought I'd live journal it to authors on my flist.

Hopefully this one will be more talkative then the last.

errm

Eclectic Pagans anyone. Debating about advertising on solitary wiccans. ummmmm someone start a good convo on talk religion.

http://investment-blog.net/obama-sell-b-2-bomber-blueprints-to-china-for-debt-relief/

Obama: Sell B-2 Bomber blueprints to China for debt relief!

By Daniel at 1 June, 2009, 8:55 pm

Record deficits and a crashing economy appear to be taking a toll on the young Barack Obama Administration. The Administration has been talking about hiking income taxes and perhaps instituting a VAT tax.

China is also concerned with the mounting deficits in the United States budget. China is the single biggest holder of US Treasury Bonds and is one of Washington’s biggest trading partners. The People’s Republic has had a burgeoning economy, but is increasingly wary of the falling US dollar.

While the exact amount of Chinese ownership of US treasuries is unknown, it is estimated to add up to over a trillion dollars. If China were to call in US guarantees on these bonds, economists fear it could lead to an economic collapse larger than the Great Depression.

China has recently expanded its defense budget, ostensibly to keep up with its economic growth. China is reportedly working on its own version of a stealth bomber (the US has the only functioning model) but is lagged by technological defects.

On April 1st, President Obama spoke to Chinese Premier Hu Jintao during the G20 Summit. During this meeting, Mr. Hu expressed interest in writing off some of the US debt in exchange for military technology. The President has since referred the matter to Defense Secretary Robert Gates.

The Defense Department is reportedly furious with the President’s proposal to sell blueprints of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber to the People’s Republic. Gates has flatly rejected the President’s plan, but has since been asked to step down if he will not facilitate the process.

According to the deal, the United States would sell the plans for the B-2, along with radar-absorbing paints and metals in exchange for $50 billion in debt relief. The B-2 cost the US government $23 billion to develop the bomber in the 1980s.

According to the Administration, this proposal will help the United States resolve its debt issues. They point out their belief that the B-2 bomber is “strategically obsolete”, according to a source in the White House Press Office. In addition, the source claims that the Chinese would be unable to create their own functioning stealth bomber fleet for “at least eight years.”

American allies Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea are very wary of the proposal. Koo Syi, a geopolitical analyst from South Korea, points out that this technology could be passed to China’s allies. This was the case when Chinese nuclear technology was transferred to Pakistan and North Korea. According to Koo, Obama has rendered US allies’ opinions as “irrelevant.”

While this proposal is controversial, it is not being presented to Congress, where it could meet with stern opposition. Instead, the State Department has been informed to assisted the Defense Department with the transfer of materials.

http://turnerradionetwork.blogspot.com/2009/06/obama-sell-b-2-bomber-blueprints-to.html

So I was heading out to let my hubby nap and to look at the 50 percent off fabric sale in the quilt shop. I want to make my brother in law and his soon to be wife a quilt for their wedding. I run over a bike, get out move it out of the way, and notice legos. Bend to pick them up.

I suddenly hear someone say something. Surprised I get up and turn around. There is my ex neighbor holding a card. She says she's been thinking of us since our run in at the grocery store and she's praying for us. I thank her befuddled but happy. We talk for a bit, and she heads out to the beach with her kids.(it's a few hours drive in alabama and they are staying there for the weekend). I comment on her nice sandals. They are cute even if they are irrelevant to this writing.

On my way back home from the quilt shop I open the card. She's enclosed a 100.00 bucks for us to have fun with. O_O O_o Oh my. See me in shock. She really has been thinking of us and I gotta do something nice now, only not sure what.

I have to agree with Michelle, though most of the time I find her a bit too extreme. Others will say no one knew this guys motives, but frankly he apparently was crowing them from the rooftops.

Irritates me.

I have friends and family in the military and I want to make sure they are truly cared for. Next 4 years can't fly by fast enough for my taste.

and seriously what the hell is with the whole America is a muslim country thing?!!!

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Climate of Hate, World of Double Standards
by Michelle Malkin
06/03/2009


When a right-wing Christian vigilante kills, millions of fingers pull the trigger. When a left-wing Muslim vigilante kills, he kills alone. These are the instantly ossifying narratives in the Sunday shooting death of late-term abortion provider George Tiller of Kansas versus the Monday shootings of two Arkansas military recruiters.

Tiller's suspected murderer, Scott Roeder, is white, Christian, anti-government and anti-abortion. The gunman in the military recruitment center attack, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, is black, a Muslim convert, anti-military and anti-American.

Both crimes are despicable, cowardly acts of domestic terrorism. But the disparate treatment of the two brutal cases by both the White House and the media is striking.

President Obama issued a statement condemning "heinous acts of violence" within hours of Tiller's death. The Justice Department issued its own statement and sent federal marshals to protect abortion clinics. News anchors and headline writers abandoned all qualms about labeling the gunman a terrorist. An almost gleeful excess of mainstream commentary poured forth on the climate of hate and fear created by conservative talk radio, blogs and Fox News in reporting Tiller's activities.

By contrast, Obama was silent about the military recruiter attacks that left 24-year-old Pvt. William Long dead and 18-year-old Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula gravely wounded. On Tuesday afternoon -- more than 24 hours after the attack on the military recruitment center in Little Rock, Ark. -- Obama held a press conference to announce his pick for Army secretary. It would have been exactly the right moment to express condolences for the families of the targeted Army recruiters and to condemn heinous acts of violence against our troops.

But Obama said nothing. The Justice Department was mum. And so were the legions of finger-pointing pundits happily convicting the pro-life movement and every right-leaning writer on the planet of contributing to the murder of Tiller. Obama's omission, it should be noted, comes just a few weeks after he failed to mention the Bronx jihadi plot to bomb synagogues and a National Guard airbase during his speech on homeland security.

Why the silence? Politically and religiously motivated violence, it seems, is only worth lamenting when it demonizes opponents. Which also helps explain why the phrase "lone shooter" is ubiquitous in media coverage of jihadi shooters gone wild -- think convicted "Jeep Jihadist" Mohammed Taheri-Azar at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill or Israel-bashing gunman Naveed Haq, who targeted a Seattle Jewish charity or Los Angeles International Airport shooter Hesham Hedayet, who opened fire at the El Al Israeli airline ticket counter -- but not in cases involving rare acts of anti-abortion violence.

Even Jeffrey Goldberg of the left-leaning Atlantic magazine noticed the double standards. He called attention to a National Public Radio report on the military recruiter attack that failed to mention the religion and anti-military animus of the suspect. Wrote Goldberg: "Why not tell people what is actually happening in the world? We saw this a couple of weeks ago, when the press only gingerly acknowledged that the malevolent though incompetent suspects in the synagogue bombing-conspiracy case in New York were converts to Islam. How is the public served by this kind of silence? The extremist Christian beliefs of George Tiller's alleged murderer are certainly relevant to that case, and no one in my profession is hesitant to discuss them. Why the hesitancy to talk about the motivations of the man who allegedly killed Pvt. William Long?"

The truth is that the "climate of hate" doesn't have just one hemisphere. But you won't hear the Council on American-Islamic Relations acknowledging the national security risks of jihadi infiltrators who despise our military and have plotted against our troops from within the ranks -- including convicted fragging killer Hasan Akbar and terror plotters Ali Mohamed, Jeffrey Battle and Semi Osman.

You won't hear about the escalating war on military recruitment centers on the op-ed pages of The New York Times -- from vandalism to obstruction to Molotov cocktail attacks on campus stations across the country; to the shutdown of a Pittsburgh military recruitment office by zealots holding signs that read "Recruiters are Child Predators"; to the prolonged harassment campaign against the Marine recruiting center in Berkeley, where Code Pink protesters called America soldiers assassins; to the bomb blast at the Times Square recruiting center last March.

And you'll certainly hear little about the most recent left-wing calls to violence by a Playboy magazine writer who published a vulgar list of conservative female writers and commentators he said he'd like to rape (the obscene slang word he used is not printable). The list was hyped by the magazine's publicity team and light-heartedly promoted by mainstream publications such as Politico.com (founded by Washington Post reporters).

Is it too much to ask the media cartographers in charge of mapping the "climate of hate" to do their jobs with both eyes open?

Mrs. Malkin is author of Unhinged (Regnery) and the forthcoming "Culture of Corruption: Obama and his Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks & Cronies" (Regnery 2009).

Salmon

Took some salmon I got on sale. Heated up the stainless steel skillet with a little bit of oil. Ground some pepper on top, added Italian Seasoning and some dill. When both sides were carmelized squeezed lemons on top. Pushed salmon around the pan to soak up deglazed pan and juice. Serve with Salad.

Tuna Steak.

Same as above. Now if your an adult, you can have it raw in side like others do, or like me slightly pink. But since my daughter was primarily going to to eat it, I wanted it cooked.

My kids loved it. Though the boys had fish sticks. My daughter absolutely loves seafood stuff. She wanted more fish later and had an extra fish stick. Hubby loved his salmon and some of my tuna. So it was a hit all around.

Served with salad.

Now that I have my Janome 521 sewist, I'm getting ready to finish my sons pirate quilt. I have hand sewed the middle part. Now I'm machine stitching around the lines. My hand stiches are fine, but my machine stitches are all over the place. I need more practice.

But so far it sews like a dream, I just need to figure it out more.

It's fricken memorial day for crying out loud.

http://cbs11tv.com/local/patriotism.at.office.2.1020415.html