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Ex-UW football player launches personal Haiti relief effort
“I knew I’d come out of retirement at some point …”
With those words, Jake Wood began a recent blog post, explaining his latest mission to Haiti to his many faithful followers on the Internet.
Wood is a former University of Wisconsin football player who enlisted in the Marines after graduating from college in 2004. His tour of duty complete, Wood sprang back into action after Tuesday’s devastating earthquake in Haiti.
In a matter of 96 hours, Wood put together his own relief team, then hopped on a plane on Saturday to go do what he can to help the victims.
As they say, “Read the whole thing.”
Christopher Monckton, at the Copenhagen “summit,” has a conversation with a Greenpeace member. After listing several facts which contradict “the science is settled” mantra he asks her if she would be willing to rethink her faith in Greenpeace.
The most important statement is made at the very end of the video. Don’t believe anyone, do your own research.
Forty years ago today, Ronald Reagan gave a speech in support of Barry Goldwater’s Presidential campaign, and urging Americans to rally behind the American dream. Often referred to as “A Time For Choosing” it served to launch Reagan’s own political career. Go here for the text of the speech.
The main points are still valid, if not critical, in today’s environment.
Paul Hudson, the climate correspondent for BBC News, says “for the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures.”
If life was fair, when you looked up any of the words in this post’s title you would see a picture of Dr. Thomas Sowell. Once again he hits a walk-off home run in his recent column “Utopia Versus Freedom.”
“Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom.” We have heard that many times. What is also the price of freedom is the toleration of imperfections. If everything that is wrong with the world becomes a reason to turn more power over to some political savior, then freedom is going to erode away, while we are mindlessly repeating the catchwords of the hour, whether “change,” “universal health care” or “social justice.”
If we can be so easily stampeded by rhetoric that neither the public nor the Congress can be bothered to read, much less analyze, bills making massive changes in medical care, then do not be surprised when life and death decisions about you or your family are taken out of your hands– and out of the hands of your doctor– and transferred to bureaucrats in Washington.
Let’s go back to square one. The universe was not made to our specifications. Nor were human beings. So there is nothing surprising in the fact that we are dissatisfied with many things at many times. The big question is whether we are prepared to follow any politician who claims to be able to “solve” our “problem.”
Unfortunately, those who most need to understand this logic are the least likely to be convinced.
Harry C. Alford, the president & CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, was testifying before the Senate committee on Environmental and Public Works today. Apparently Boxer thought the score needed to be evened out by entering into the record a differing opinion from other black groups.
Alford: “Madam Chair, that is condescending to me. I’m the National Black Chamber of Commerce and you’re trying to put up some other black group to pit against me.”
Boxer: “If this gentlemen were here he would be proud that he was being quoted.”
Alford: “He should have been invited!”
Politico has more details and a link to the Youtube video.
Why is it that the lefties who are supposedly color blind always seem to be keeping score?
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