Palinmania!

Last Sunday, I sense something was in the airwaves when someone at church called out to someone else 'Isn't that Sarah Palin something?'
It's Palinmania! even before 'the speech' on Wednesday night at St.Paul, Minnesota convention.
Usually most cradle catholics after Sunday mass could not wait to leave except those that help out in parish activities. Most don't even wait for the last note of the beautiful balcony choir of lay people. The parking lot is empty by the time the lights are turn off in between masses, to save on electricity and keep the church cool. Stained glass windows brighten the church until the next mass.
Politics and political news usually are not a common topic among catholics after church. Even lapse catholics like Pelosi and Biden are not discuss or the sex scandal.

After days of intense media coverage about Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's qualifications, more than 40 million Americans tuned in Wednesday to see for themselves what they thought of her.

Sarah America!!!

St. Paul, Minnesota

Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for the nomination for Vice President of the United States...
I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America.
I accept the challenge of a tough fight in this election... against confident opponents ... at a crucial hour for our country.
And I accept the privilege of serving with a man who has come through much harder missions ... and met far graver challenges ... and knows how tough fights are won - the next president of the United States, John S. McCain...

for the whole speech...

Sarah Palin said...

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that's not why the ship is built."

Sarah Palin for VP, Republican all the time!

This blog will be Sarah Palin for VP, Republican, all the time until Nov 4, 2008!
my favorite historian, Professor Victor Davis Hanson, wrote today...

So apparently they are eager to see a rare politican who is unapologetic about America's past achievements (cf. Obama's "tragic history" and need for more "oppression studies"), and who reminds us with pride that a muscular world of action, not community organizing, creates the bounty that others use and take for granted but so often sneer at the methods of its acquisition.
Right now, there are millions rooting for her in a way not true of Biden—and many who are criticizing her don't have a clue why that it is so.

ht: The Corner on National Review...

my favorite politician said about Sarah Palin last night

Speaking of the vice presidential nominee, what a breath of fresh air Governor Sarah Palin is.
She is from a small town, with small town values, but that's not good enough for those folks who are attacking her and her family.
Some Washington pundits and media big shots are in a frenzy over the selection of a woman who has actually governed rather than just talked a good game on the Sunday talk shows and hit the Washington cocktail circuit. Well, give me a tough Alaskan Governor who has taken on the political establishment in the largest state in the Union -- and won -- over the beltway business-as-usual crowd any day of the week.
Let's be clear ... the selection of Governor Palin has the other side and their friends in the media in a state of panic. She is a courageous, successful, reformer, who is not afraid to take on the establishment.
Sound like anyone else we know?
She has run a municipality and she has run a state.
And I can say without fear of contradiction that she is the only nominee in the history of either party who knows how to properly field dress a moose ... with the possible exception of Teddy Roosevelt.
She and John McCain are not going to care how much the alligators get irritated when they get to Washington, they're going to drain that swamp.

ht: gopconvention2008.com

Been there!

Been there, Governor Palin!
As a Catholic I believe in abstinence too and instilled it to my children but teenagers like most teenagers do the opposite of what you say and do!
Seventeen years ago, my then 19 year old, college freshman daughter was pregnant with her
and we are all (including her paternal and step family) doubly blessed with her around us.

Sarah Palin for VP of the United States of America

I have not supported a candidate in the presidential election since this


but this newsreport did it.
Am proud to vote for Governor Sarah Palin (R-AK) as Senator McCain's VP on Nov 4, 2008!
She is 100% pro-life!

Capitalism & Freedom, filipino style

Capitalism will prosper in a democratic climate but democracy is not necessary as shown by communist China and socialist India.
Capitalism is an economic system.
Democracy is a political system.
Capitalism will improve people’s economic lives.
Freedom in a democratic society enhances capitalism.
Capitalism need a free market to sell, to buy, to trade.
Economic freedom must increase 50% in the Philippines by:
Sunset government laws, rules & regulations that controls and hinders individual endeavor!
Repealing laws and regulations that discourage risk taking!
Raise children independent, self reliant and individually responsible for their actions!

a blast from the past!

Fred Thompson, hope for conservative Republicans

ht Townhall.com

We are not here tonight just because we are Republicans. We are here because we know that we have the strongest, freest and most prosperous country in the history of the world, and that if we adhere to the traditional principles of the Republican Party, which are the first principles of our country, we will keep it that way.
We know that we were given a country based upon certain eternal truths–the wisdom of the scriptures and the wisdom of the ages … the fact that there is such a thing as human nature that has to be taken into account when governing … and most fundamentally, based upon the fact that people are meant to be free. Our founders derived from these principles a government that had its powers separated, checked and balanced because they knew that power tended to corrupt. In keeping with that they incorporated in our Constitution a system of Federalism to make sure that there was not too much power concentrated in the central government, which was given delineated powers and no others.

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Unbelievable & scary!!!

Fred Thompson withdraw but Fredheads are not giving up!

Can Fred Thompson be the Warren Harding of 1920?
Read this bio on this website and make your own conclusion. Fred is not dead yet!

http://www.millercenter.virginia.edu/academic/americanpresident/harding/essays/biography/3

Rush Limbaugh's brother David pleads...

'Time to Step Up, Fred!' Fred Thompson that is...

It's time to step up, Fred. Conservatives need a leader about whom we have no major reservations. The only one looming out there about you is your failure, so far, to persuade voters you want the job.
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That said, he needs to make a more convincing case to the voters, which will require a greater display of enthusiasm that he views these as both perilous and promising times and that he is the best man, overall, to navigate the ship of state through these times.
So, Fred, please, as distasteful as it may be to you, it's time to step up and prove you want it. Time is short.
David Limbaugh, brother of radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, is an expert in law and politics and author of Bankrupt: The Intellectual and Moral Bankruptcy of Today's Democratic Party.

Maybe this is Rush backdoor way of endorsing Fred Thompson. Rush said many times he does not endorse anybody at the primary and he probably do not want to break his own rule. Maybe Fred Thompson's plan is like Tiger Woods game plan to win - practice, practice, practice - deliberate, well thought out practice plan.

Happy New Year 2008

from Thomas Sowell's column today...a reminder for less government intervention, freer free market management of market volatility...

To this day, there are people who believe that the market economy failed when the stock market crashed in 1929 and that the Great Depression of the 1930s that followed required government intervention.
In reality, the stock market crashed by almost exactly the same amount on almost the same day in 1987 - and 20 years of prosperity, low inflation and low unemployment followed.
What was the difference? Politicians - first Pres Hoover and then Pres Roosevelt -- decided that they had to "do something" after the stock market crash of 1929.
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan decided to do nothing - despite bitter criticisms in the media - and the economy recovered on its own and kept on growing.
To people who think the government should "do something" - and this includes most of the media - it would never occur to them to compare the actual track record of what happens when the government does something and what happens when it lets the market adjust by itself.
Back in 1971, President Richard Nixon responded to widespread demands that he "do something" about rising prices by imposing wage and price controls that got him
re-elected in a landslide. Moreover, the later damage to the economy was seldom blamed on those price controls.
Recently, Professor N. Gregory Mankiw of Harvard, a former chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, noted that people in Congress and the White House were wondering what they should do about the current economic situation. His suggestion: "Absolutely nothing."
It is not just free market economists who think the government can do more harm than good when they intervene in the economy. It was none other than Karl Marx who referred to "crackbrained meddling by the authorities" that can "aggravate an existing crisis."
Ronald Reagan and Karl Marx did not have much in common, except that they had both studied economics.

Blogging with iPhone

Blogging quite hard to do because you can't cut, paste & Safari's limit to open webpages.
I'm addicted to my iPhone though with the other features.
Pretty soon I can upload my apo's video. iTunes not working right. Removed it and will download it again sometime soon.

America's Benign Assimilation with democratic nations!

tip from Lucianne.com
Successful US military assistance to Philippine insurgency is well known in local news but unheralded.

Before 9/11, the southern island of Basilan was a Muslim terrorist hide-out. In 2002, with the help of Green Berets, Filipino army forces cleared it. By last year, Manila-based businesses felt safe enough to invest there. When I visited last year, Basilan had cellphone towers, more roads and bridges paved with asphalt, more schools and increased agricultural production. Power outages were common because of surges in demand, a sign of uneven development but of development nevertheless.

Between risk-prone invasions like Iraq, on the one hand, and isolationism, on the other, the missions in Colombia and the Philippines showcase low-cost, low-risk and tediously unspectacular counterinsurgency options. And these places are not alone. Other U.S. military deployments I have observed recently -- in Algeria, Mali, Niger, Kenya, Georgia and Nepal -- are variations in a minor key. What stands out about all of these missions is their small scale and implicit modesty. We are not in combat in any of these countries -- but, rather, training local militaries that are or might be. In all these countries, our military aid is combined with civilian development assistance. This is the global war on terrorism as preventive rather than as proscriptive. It doesn't cost much. You could spread Green Beret teams across Africa for the price of one F-22 jet. If there is another model out there that will keep the U.S. military engaged without overextending it, and will help move along inter-agency cooperation, I have not seen it.

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