Gore loses by a handful yet again

Ah, timesheets. Such a long and painful process. Just thinking about them gives me the inspiration to blog.

I saw this news flash on Drudge Report and couldn't pass it up:

**EXCLUSIVE**

'THE REAGAN DIARIES' OUTSOLD AL GORE'S 'ASSAULT ON REASON' IN OPENING WEEK ACTION, BOOKSCAN WILL REPORT.

REAGAN WON THE RACE BY SELLING JUST 5 MORE BOOKS THAN GORE! [RECOUNT! RECOUNT!]

'DIARIES' MOVED 49,626 COPIES TO GORE'S 49,621, INDUSTRY SOURCES TELL THE DRUDGE REPORT.

Talk about being doomed to second place. At least Gore seems to be stepping back from the Global Warming hooey. Yes, I said hooey. It's incredible how many people have been and are currently being pressured to line up behind Global Warming, and how much ridicule is heaped upon those who bring up evidence to the contrary. It's the Emperor's New Clothes all over again.

[via Drudge Report]

Boxing and shopping

Hello again, fellow people around the world. I am back to blog and as my stories have been told and told, I have found some new stories that might interest you.

First, I would like to tell you the day that I boxed my mom and dad with empty soda can boxes, which I also did today to my dad. Emma was also helping me, too. She had two empty boxes and I had the other two. We pounded and pounded on Daddy and Mommy until they couldn't take another pound. Today while I was boxing my dad, I had four empty soda boxes instead of two, and I kept pounding him with them. I laughed and laughed.

While we were baby shopping for Baby the other day, we had to find a bumper set we liked for the baby's crib. I hope you know this, but I do know this for sure, that yesterday you might have seen me shopping in Babies R Us. We also took some pictures there of the different bumper sets we liked.

One was called "Bright Hopes, Sweet Dreams".

The other one was called "Lady Bugs".

They both had different types of bugs on them, but they looked cute the way they matched with themselves.

I liked the Bright Hopes, Sweet Dreams one better, because it was so colorful, I thought it would be just right for Baby.

I know some of you have seen the picture from my Dad's blog post, below. I liked the picture because I was having fun. I like making grins, having smiles, and I especially like shopping for Baby.

Goodbye everyone around the world. I hope that you will log on to my dad's blog, because it is so special to me, since he is so special to me. I think you should log onto his blog to see my paragraphs that I made and have been making.

Bye!

EJW/btw

Proof that I break rules

The cart has one of those pictures that shows you shouldn't put your kids in the basket, but who could resist taking a picture of such cute kids behaving so well. The threat/promise of ice cream when we're done baby shopping helps a bit.

That look is pretty darned scary!

Two headed tortilla monster slightly chilled

I can't decide which is more fun: thinking up strange titles for my posts, or imagining what readers will think I wrote about when view see it in the archive later. Tweedle Dee decided she was cold and Tweedle Dum couldn't imagine being left out in the, uh, cold. Apparently, the words "hold still while I take your picture" sound exactly the same as "squint your eyes and growl" when crunching chips and guac with one arm inside a coat sleeve. Check it out for yourself!

Truly equal rights

The 2008 race for the Presidency is barely underway, but there's already two pieces of information which, in combination, have me concerned.

1. Mitt Romney, a very qualified and conservative Republican candidate, is being eyed with suspicion primarily because he's a Mormon.
2. The very liberal Senator Barack Obama had a recent upswell of support since revealing that he's a born-again Christian.

In short, I'm worried that many Christians will vote for Obama because he's a Christian ("Rah, rah, we got another Christian in the White House!") over Romney because he isn't, without thinking about the real consequences.

Most people, when asked about Romney say, "I like him, but I'm not sure about him being a Mormon." Make no mistake: this is illegal discrimination, just as if they had said "I like him, but I'm not sure about him being Black", or "I like him, but I'm not sure about him being Gay". Religion, race, and sexual preference are all protected class, and none of them directly affect his ability to serve as President.

Sidebar: discrimination is not illegal, only discrimination on the basis of a protected class. Discrimination on the basis of other factors (i.e. past history, evidence, a person's stated point of view) is very legal, and more commonly known as "thinking".

Not electing Romney on account of his religion, or electing Obama because of his -- either way, it's discrimination on the basis of religion and it's illegal. If Christians want the protections against discrimination on the basis of religion, then we must stand up for that same freedom for all religions. Yes, even the nut jobs. (Though of course, I'm not referring to your particular religion, gentle reader.) God himself gives us all the right to make wrong choices - we know that right as "free will" and the result of exercising that right as "sin". And yes, I think this means we have to make it a point to stand up for a person's right to be homosexual or Moslem without being persecuted.

However, it's equally important that as Christians we don't confuse standing up for rights with agreeing with their position. This is not a call for unbounded ecumenism. Absolute truth still exists, Jesus is still the Way, the Truth and the Life, and we have the same obligations as before to share that with those who don't have a personal relationship with Him. I also make a big distinction between the freedom to believe and the freedom to blow up onesself in a crowded marketplace based on that belief.

As election day gets closer, it'll be tempting to go the easy way out and just pick the person who "identifies with our team" the most. Don't fall for it. The wrong Christian in the White House can do a lot more damage than a candidate who is a good leader with good policies and respect on the world stage, but who happens to be an atheist.