• If you identify more with Democratic policies please check out Democrats for Life of America to see if you agree with them enough to join their efforts.
• Don’t buy the argument that Republicans haven’t made any progress on this issue during Bush’s terms. There is the Mexico City Policy, Bush blocking federal funding for embryo-destructive research, and the two justices added to the Supreme Court that are confident strict constructionists. All major developments that McCain has promised to continue.
• If you do feel that the safe, legal, and rare direction is the best way to go at least consider the possibility that the politicians you support are playing lip-service to your concerns and using it as cover to solidify their pro-abortion agenda

I also though a question touched on by the caller at the end of the program was interesting. We all have a silly law that we love to hate. My new favorite is a law in California banning trans-fats in restaraunts. Perhaps due to silly laws like this combined with a  general disrespect for our institutions and traditions the law has lost it’s ability to play the role of teacher …

Other great articles written by the hate-filled baby-eating Democrat Victor Davis Hanson include the following:

• In War: Resolution
• What Happened to History
• The Can’t-Do Society
• Huckabee and the Chattering Classes

Taken in whole I am sure these articles prove he is a satin worshiping warmonger and Republican shill but I just can’t put my finger on it. Please use your clairvoyant, redeemed wisdom to inform me of the grave mistake I have made in enjoying these.  Also, when you adjoin the letters double-u tee and ef in capitals you make me want eat your liver.

As you can tell blogging is still going badly, or rather, not going at all. I thought I’d be able to muster up some energy for it and get it going over the long weekend but I can’t seem to get in the swing. And that’s sad because I’ve read some great things lately that I’ve personally found very compelling. One was a new book titled Americanism: The Fourth Great Western Religion which I appropriately read over the holiday. A very nice book. I’d encourage you not to be turned off from the title as it has nothing to do with christian reconstructionism or dominionism, but it does make a convincing and direct connection between our liberal ideals–liberty, equality, democracy–and the convictions of the US’s earliest Puritan settlers. For me, I think reading this book will mark the beginning of the end of ridding my mind of the utterly destructive cynicism that has plagued me for so long. I’d really like to hammer out a full review but that probably won’t happen, however it would be very cool if some friends read it so we could chat about it. Huh, huh, I know you want to. Anyway, a few of our great states fine representatives could definitely be challenged by the author’s eloquent presentation of what he calls American chivalry.

Oh yeah, computers should draw congressional districts and every smug modern liberal should get a tongue lashing from a beautiful refugee of the Muslim world. Good day.

Here’s to ignoring good advice. Cheers.

Its been a while since I’ve talked about the boys so here we go. Levi is almost three, he always has some funny thing to say and his perception of the world around him is great to take in. The other day Levi was standing on the railing of our patio saying hi to people as they walked by. When our neighbor with the dog who bit me came by he told him that his dog is a bad doggy several times. I don’t think the neighbor appreciated it but I was chuckling behind the wall. Levi loves Nate and everything that Nate is interested in. He ask Nate if he wanted to go to Everest with him when he gets bigger and asked Nate if that would make him happy. Levi also spends some of his day on the computer “working”. He is very social and wants to go to school. He often will put on his Oregon Ducks back pack, his helmet and hops on his tricycle telling me he is going to school. He was having some trouble with jealousy, if Nate hugged me he would get in the middle of us and tell Nate I was his Mommy. Nate would do it just to bug him, I’m glad that didn’t last to long. This picture was taken around Christmas when we went to Vasquez Rock state park. Levi was a little timid about climbing around at first but soon he was all over the rocks having a blast. Its hard to believe my baby is so big already.
Now for Conrad. He is still the cutest baby I’ve ever seen and yet some how he didn’t win the Regis and Kelly’s most beautiful baby contest. He finally took his first steps on Saturday when Nate was off in the forest with the camera. He refuses to do it again. We ask Conrad if he can walk and he nodes his head yes and then walks on his hands and feet or he just says no. He wants to be involved in everything and is like Levi’s little puppy dog following Levi everywhere. He has mastered the stairs and can get off the couch or bed with no problem. He loves to read books and pushes his car around. In the morning he stands in his crib and yells mommy until I come and get him and he is much more stubborn than Levi ever was. I love them both so much and look forward to every stage of their lives.