Apologies in Advance – Experiencing a Hacking Issue

Maggie over at Maggie’s Notebook made me aware of some hacking issues that I am experiencing as of late.  She has gotten some rather lengthy and not very nice comments using my blog’s name.  I didn’t write them.

So, if anyone else is getting these from “Just A Conservative Girl” I apologize in advance.  There are not from me.  They are using the email address justaconservativegirl@yahoo.com as the email address.  That is not my email, nor do I use the one that is listed on the side of the blog as a contact when I comment.  So if either of those email addresses are coming up with comments, they are from someone else.

I had gotten an email with a long letter attached about Newt and Muslims and some other disjointed messages asking me to have the courage to print it.  I wrote back to the person that if they want their opinion out there, they should write their own blog.  This person may be the culprit.

So again, I apologize if there are any nasty comments out there.  I assume the person will get bored and move on at some point or find another target to get out their obvious anger.

Thanks Maggie for letting me know.  I apologize your spam filter got filled up with this hate.

 

Quote of the Day – Michelle Obama Edition Part 2

“When we send our kids to school, we have a right to expect that they won’t be eating the kind of fatty, salty, sugary foods that we’re trying to keep them from at home,”

Michelle Obama speaking while sharing a school lunch at suburban school in Fairfax, VA.  (Lucky me, I got caught in that traffic yesterday)

 

New guidelines have been announced for school lunches.  The guidelines include less fat, less sugar, and less salt.  All good things for our children.

There are about 17% of children across our country who are considered “obese”.  A very stunning number if you think about it.

I have no problem with giving children healthy foods choices at lunch.  But did these kids get fat because of school lunches?  I don’t think so.  Michelle Obama says it herself; ‘at home’.  Children who are not being given healthy choices at home will not be less obese because of this.   Nor will children who only get bad choices at home want to eat this food.  You can serve them healthy food all you like, it is eating that matters, not the serving.

Does this solve the problem?  No, it does not.  Yet one more big government one size fits all solution that is doomed for failure.

 

State of the Union Rerun.

From Instapundit:

Quote of the Day – Lisa Woodman Edition

‘I was totally in shock and really humiliated. I look after myself and I’m only 28. I just want to be treated with a bit of respect.”

Lisa Woodman, single mother of four, who is upset she has been banned from nightclubs in her hometown in the UK due to inappropriate outfits for her age.

 

You decide:

 

 

No, Ron Paul Fans Aren’t Cult Like

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doesn’t this remind you of this cult of personality thing from a few years ago?

Quote of the Day – Tim Thomas Edition

“I believe the Federal government has grown out of control, threatening the Rights, Liberties, and Property of the People.

This is being done at the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial level. This is in direct opposition to the Constitution and the Founding Fathers vision for the Federal government.

Because I believe this, today I exercised my right as a Free Citizen, and did not visit the White House. This was not about politics or party, as in my opinion both parties are responsible for the situation we are in as a country. This was about a choice I had to make as an INDIVIDUAL.

This is the only public statement I will be making on this topic.”

Tim Thomas, goalie for the Boston Bruins, on why he skipped the team visit to the White House celebrating the Stanley Cup Championship.

Quote of the Day – Madonna Edition

“I say to my daughter, ‘That outfit is a little bit too risqué or revealing’ and she looks at me and says, ‘That’s rich coming from you.’”

Madonna on her teenage daughter dressing habits.  Oh, the irony.  Now that it is her child that is dressing on the slutty side, she doesn’t think it is as cute.

Quote of the Day – President Obama Edition Part 6

“should not intrude on private family matters.”

President Obama on the government’s role on anniversary of Roe v. Wade that legalized abortion across the country.

Hmm, he seems perfectly fine with the government interfering with people’s deeply felt beliefs about forcing people to pay for birth control against their wishes.  He seems perfectly fine with making people who want no children to pay for fertility treatments with their insurance costs.  He seems perfectly fine with the government telling religious organizations that they have to pay for things that go against their beliefs. Those beliefs are a private family matter are they not?

Hypocrite.

Quote of the Day – Thomas Sowell Edition

“Those who want to concentrate on the baggage in Newt Gingrich’s past, rather than on the nation’s future, should remember what Winston Churchill said: ‘If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.’ If that means a second term for Barack Obama, then it means we’ve lost, big time.”

Yeah, That’s What All Ten-Year-Olds Are Wearing

It isn’t really a good idea to second guess why parents make the decisions that they make when it comes to their children.  Different strokes for different folks and all that.  Children are just as individual as adults are, they mature at different times and in different ways, so since no one should know their child better than the people who live with them on a daily basis it becomes a judgement call for parents.

I was looking through the news in the British papers, as I try to do several times a week, and I came across an article about Cindy Crawford’s daughter, Kaia Gerber, making her modeling debut.  She really is a mini me of her famous and beautiful mom.  Apparently, Kaia has wanted to start modeling since a very young age and Cindy had said two years ago that she wanted to keep her out of it as long as possible.  I guess 10 years old was as long as she could.  Kaia has become the face of the Young Versace line.

Maybe I am just a prude, but I think this is a very provocative ad for a such a young girl to be involved with.  It seems very reminiscent of the ads that Brooke Shields did with Calvin Klein.   Remember that one?

There is even a similar look to the two of them.  But one huge difference is that Brooke was 4 years older when she did this ad and she is fully dressed.  She is only showing a little midriff which is nothing compared to what people let their girls do nowadays.

Cindy is an excellent business woman.  She knows how the modeling industry works and understands the downsides.  I am sure that she will do everything possible to guide her daughter through the pitfalls that some of the models find themselves falling into, drugs and eating disorders to name but two.

I just don’t think that I would be all that happy to let my very young and impressionable daughter to dress in such a grown up fashion, have her face put on billboards and the like, and to let her think that how she looks is how she gets ahead in the world.  Children are innocent for such a short period of time, why can’t we just let them have that anymore?

At ten she is already wearing a full face of make-up running around town:

I wouldn’t let my ten-year old out of the house in this outfit.  But like I said, maybe I am just a prude.

Some Morning Humor

Now?

If you don’t know by now, the HHS has mandated free birthcontrol for everyone. It used to be a chicken in every pot, now it’s a pillbox for every uterus. We will occupy Wallstreet but by golly, those squatters in the womb have to go!

And if you object, well, you have a year to get used to it.

365 days to pray for an alternative. To lobby the deaf ears of Congress. To file law suits and spend time, talent, treasure and passion railing against a Leviathan government that has decided everyone must get with the times and those practices while personally are just fine, shouldn’t be applied to one’s livelyhood or way of life. Finance abortion on demand. Don’t want abortion. Don’t get one. But pay for the next person who does. Don’t want birth control? Don’t use it. But pay for it anyway. Moral objections? Pshaw. That’s so 19th century of you troglodite!

With all due respect, it’s been a good run. America with it’s experiment with liberty and limited government is now over. We shall be taxed for everything and anything. We shall be made to pay for anything. The government shall tell us how we may practice our religion, with any tenets we hold dear being checked as soon as we leave the chapel door. You can believe what you want still, as long as you don’t actually practice it or state it publically.

We shall pay for things we do not want, for things for other people to engage in that we do not approve of, and for all things Congress deems necessary, which is to say everything. There is no limit. No budget. No plans of debt reduction. There is no brake on the wants, wishes/desires for more of our government, no activity they won’t regulate, no area of life on which they do not have the final say. They are the authority, the experts, the ones with the power. We should be gracious for the time, money, indeed the jobs we have. We should be grateful our betters have been willing to spend such time educating us, making laws to get us in line, to make our lives into the utopian visions they hold for us. Everything will be so much better if we just agree to go along. Can’t we all just get along? If you can’t get along with us, it must be because you are evil, ignorant and like making things unfair. Now…you aren’t like that are you? Because if you are, you need to be educated, changed or silenced. Cue Sopa.

It’s clear with the complicity of the media, that we have no say. We cannot make enough noise. Any protest we muster shall be deemed dangerous, treasonous, evil. Is it time to take our toys and go home and remember that we had a beautiful country once, with beautiful laws and people committed to the rule of law and the Constitution? Whatever we are, it is not what it was. I don’t know what it is, but I don’t like it. I didn’t vote for it. I don’t want to finance it. I disagree with it. Is it time to consider whether in the course of human events, the tree of freedom needs watering? I’m not sure…but I am fearful…this does not feel like the home of the free.

Maybe the mayans were right…about endings anyway.

CAPTION CONTEST!

"This is the land where we do big things." --President Obama

 

Quote of the Day – Mark Levin Edition

“We so know so little about Obama and ABC is talking to Newt’s ex-wife”

Especially considering CNN is reporting that she is not adding anything of value to the interview she gave two years ago.

Reason 15,893 to Home School

The NEA among others have come out with new guidelines for teaching sex education to our children.  While the report doesn’t specifically say this, I doubt that this will be opt-in.

Lets begin with what will be taught to your 5-7 year-olds:

They should be able to properly name both male and female anatomy, they should be able to talk about all different types of families, and show respect for these families.  They also need to be able to talk about and demonstrate how media influences how boys and girls think and act.

7-10 year-olds:

They should be able to define sexual orientation, and be able to name parents or adults that can help them understand sexual orientation.

Apparently, the worry is that right now, only about 3.1 hours is spent talking to elementary school children about HIV/Aids, pregnancy, and STD prevention.  Silly me, I didn’t think I needed to talk to a five-year old about STD prevention.  I am so out of it.

Here is one of my favorites:

By completion of the eighth grade, the report says, students should be able to “[d]ifferentiate between gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation,” “[e]xplain the range of gender roles,” and “[d]efine emergency contraception and its use.”

Upon completion of middle school, students should be able to “[a]nalyze external influences that have an impact on one’s attitudes about gender, sexual orientation and gender identity”; “[a]ccess accurate information about gender identity, gender expression and sexual orientation”; “[c]ommunicate respectfully with and about people of all gender identities, gender expressions and sexual orientations”; “[e]xplain the health benefits, risks and effectiveness rates of various methods of contraception, including abstinence and condoms”; and “[d]escribe the steps to using a condom correctly.”

I am not naive enough to think that kids don’t have questions about sex or are not tempted to experiment.  Their bodies are changing and many kids hit puberty in the eighth grade and they start to have sexual feelings.  I get that.  I also get that kids are much more advanced in many areas then I was at that age.  But I will tell you, the very last thing I wanted to talk about, let alone participate in at that age was the down and dirty details of sex.  I was horrified whenever anyone brought it up.  I wasn’t ready at that age, plain and simple.  I get that not all kids will be like that, but there will be children who are just not ready for these types of conversations and to force it upon them is abusive.

And by the time they graduate from high school students should be expected to “[d]efine emergency contraception and describe its mechanism of action” and “[a]ssess the skills and resources needed to become a parent.”

Also included in the guidelines are the following: “Compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages of abstinence and other contraceptive methods, including condoms”; “Access medically-accurate information and resources about emergency contraception”; “Compare and contrast the laws relating to pregnancy, adoption, abortion and parenting”; and “Describe potential impacts of power differences (e.g., age, status or position) within sexual relationships.”

Well, at least they are willing to talk about adoption over abortion and abstinence.  I guess I should take some comfort in that.  But never fear, the NEA, in all of its infinite wisdom, has partnered with Planned Parenthood and GLSEN to help write these guidelines.  Thank heavens, they contacted the experts in giving our children moral guidance.  /sarc.

You can read the report here to get a gander at the glossary they provide.  Ooh, can’t wait.   Bedtime reading.

Will Newt Roast?

Two things. First of all, if ABC news has this interview which could devastate Gingrich’s campaign, then why wait. Just talking about it now is impacting the race.

And two, if ABC news airs this when will the LA Times release the Obama Tapes?

Wonderful Wine.com

Okay, it is easy to complain so it should be easy to praise as well.

I recently won and received a gift certificate for wine.com. Needless to say, it did not stay unspent long (like seconds).

There was a slight problem with the order and when I called to inquire, Cathy from wine.com’s customer service informed me that one bottle from my order was missing. I could wait until the order was completed and so aside from some chatting ’cause I’m a talker, the call was over.

Well, imagine my delight when I open my email and find out that Cathy from wine.com not only removed the missing bottle from the order so it could be shipped to me right away, AND no only did Cathy search the warehouse and find the missing bottle and arrange for that bottle to be shipped to me as well.

Cathy from wine.com also waived the shipping fees! (Yippee! Enough for another bottle!)

I responded with the following email below:

Dear Cathy,

You are wonderful. Thank you so much for your help and over-the-top assistance with my order. Please pass this message on to your supervisor or send me their email and I will tell them directly how thoughtful and kind you have been to me. That you are a credit to the company. And that I am a very loudmouthed broad who is delighted to tell all and sundry what great customer service wine.com has provided me via YOU. I look forward to visiting (and purchasing from) wine.com repeatedly in the future.

Being a gal of my word, I’m posting this consumer-company exchange. I hope wine.com keeps Cathy because she is going to be the reason I purchase wine from them in the future.

(Crossposted at Shout First)

Quote of the Day – Michael Williams Edition

“The moral fiber in our community is dwindling, if not now, when? Because its pajama pants today, next it will be underwear tomorrow.”

Commissioner Michael Williams of Caddo Parish on his proposed ban on wearing pajamas  in public.

Wew, now we know why there are no morals in our society anymore, it is pajamas.  Ban those dreaded pj’s!!  They are going to be the downfall of western civilization as we know it.

I would not wear my pajamas out in public, but this is taking the nanny state a little too far.

Quote of the Day – Francesco Schettino Edition

‘I didn’t even have a lifejacket because I had given it to one of the passengers – I was trying to get them into the lifeboats in an orderly fashion. All of a sudden the boat listed between 60-70 degrees, I tripped and ended up in one of the lifeboats. That’s why I was in there.”

Francesco Schettino, Captain of the ill-fated Costa Concordia.

Isn’t this something like the dog ate my homework?  Pitiful.  I hope this man is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.  Coward.

Quote of the Day – Travis Bass Edition

“I’d pay her $600,000 personally not to go to Red Egg,”

Travis Bass, co-owner of Red Egg Nightclub in New York City, on Kim Kardashian.

It seems that the train wreck that has been the Kardashians is finally coming to long over due end.  Apparently when they grace the covers of magazines the sales have dropped 18% since Kim’s sham of a marriage.

It is good to know that people still think of marriage as something more than a publicity stunt.