Monthly Archives: January 2005 «

 

Hillary supports faith based initiatives

Posted by: ST on January 20, 2005 at 11:35 pm » Comments Off

Will there be an outcry from the usual suspects over this? Don’t count on it.

 

Awww – this is so cute!

Posted by: ST on January 20, 2005 at 11:33 pm » Comments Off

I’m sure you’ll agree Ladies and gents, the second term has officially begun!

 

Prayer request for our troops

Posted by: ST on January 19, 2005 at 12:56 pm » Comments Off

Re: the transportation of the voting machines and ballots to the towns and cities in Iraq for the upcoming elections there. Read more at Black Five. God bless ‘em.

 

Sister Toldjah hits the 10,000 mark

Posted by: ST on January 15, 2005 at 9:22 pm » 4 Comments

THANK YOU to all of you who have visited this blog and made it fun and interesting these last few months! I’ve been blogging since October 2003, but didn’t really know how to network around the blogosphere, didn’t realize I should have gotten a Sitemeter counter, or anything. My posts weren’t frequent on the blog [...]

 

This blog is Payola-free

Posted by: ST on January 15, 2005 at 6:32 pm » Comments Off

Liberal blogger Kos seems to want to believe that all conservative bloggers are taking money from Republican political operatives. In response to that, note the small yellow button on the right Get yours here! Wink to Catscape and Carpe Bonum. Related: John Cole at Balloon Juice makes a strong argument that Kos did nothing wrong [...]

 

The Media in Iraq

Posted by: ST on January 15, 2005 at 6:16 pm » Comments Off

Read the essay written by LTC Tim Ryan, CO, 2/12 Cav, 1st Cav Div, to see what he has to say about the media’s presence in Iraq. (as a side note on LTC Ryan, let’s hear it for a North Carolina guy! Wink to Lucianne.com and Blackfive.

 

“Ashamed to be an American”

Posted by: ST on January 15, 2005 at 6:10 pm » Comments Off

Apparently all the rage in some circles these days seems to be disassociating oneself from 1) being proud to be an American and 2) being thought of as one who voted for George W. Bush: After spending 10 days in London with friends who were outspoken about their disdain for President Bush’s policies, Berns Rothchild [...]

 

Voter Turnout for 2004 Highest Since 1968

Posted by: ST on January 15, 2005 at 9:07 am » 7 Comments

The thing I heard most often on election day 2004 was that “high voter turnout” meant that voters wanted change. Apparently, that wasn’t accurate: Deep divisions over the war in Iraq and intense voter registration drives pushed the 2004 presidential election turnout to 60.7 percent, the highest level since 1968, the Center for the Study [...]

 

Beware of the teddy bear

Posted by: ST on January 15, 2005 at 8:25 am » Comments Off

Oh, this is not just any bear …. it’s the “Crazy for you” bear. From Brit Hume’s “The Grapevine” segment on Fox, we read that the Vermont chapter of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill wants the Vermont Teddy Bear company to pull this bear from the shelves, saying the bear “stigmatizes” the mentally [...]

 

Why are the Dems saying there’s no social security crisis?

Posted by: ST on January 14, 2005 at 11:18 pm » Comments Off

When they WERE saying during Clinton’s tenure that it was imperative that we save it and soon?