It's happened!

We have the second youngest chief justice of the Supreme Court sworn in today. John Roberts Jr. has succeeded Rehnquist and we must all pray that he is a strong conservative. All the justices of the Supreme Court were there, excluding Antonin Scalia (he had a seminar in Colorado), actually I think (as does Ann Coulter) that Scalia should have been nominated for the chief justiceship. But, ah well, what's done is done. Hopefully Roberts will be a strong conservative and the next nominee also.

Democratic Hatchet Men

The Left is still playing by their old rules: If you can't beat 'em in elections, beat them in the courts. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay has had to step down from his position because he was indicted by a grand jury for conspiracy charges (the prosecutor was a democrat). Meantime Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is being investigated for selling off his stock in his family's business, they think he used fraud to get rid of them before their value dropped. The plan here is obvious, liberals (being the sore losers they are) are out to sabotage the GOP and our succeeding. But if while all this "controversy" is going on Bush can slip conservative nominees onto the Supreme Court it will all be worth it. One interesting note, while liberals get mad at conservatives for "possible" crimes, they defend their own politicians who have committed far worse crimes. President Bill Clinton lied under oath, to the American People, Senator Ted Kennedy murdered a young lady and is still holding public office, (those are the two most famous ones) the list goes on but I won't bore you any further, and the left never mentions any of that. Liberals should watch out, if we conservatives ever start playing by their rules, they will never have a future in American politics.

Just when you thought that all good news had been sucked out of the world by some evil villain (probably named Dan Rather), a light breaks through. Cindy Sheehan has been arrested! Sheehan along with a bunch of her cronies was arrested for protesting without a permit (in front of the White House), they were warned three times that they would have to move. They failed to heed this warning and now are cooling off in the police station. However all that will happen is they will have their pictures taken (knowing Mrs. Sheehan's ego she'll probably offer to autograph hers') and be fingerprinted but maybe they will stop believing in "the divine right of protestors-especially those who are family of soldiers who have died (Adam could you translate that into Latin for me).

Schiavo's Back!

Wife-killer and all-around jerk Michael Schiavo is planning on writing a book relating his side in the much discussed controversy of earlier this year. This guy can never get enough money can he? First he sues on "behalf" of his wife to get several thousand dollars, then he kills his wife to get more money from the insurance company and now he's going to write a book about it. I just hope that no publisher will publish it and leave Michael sitting in the dust where he belongs.

Pledge...Unconstitutional?

Today US District Judge Lawrence Karlton ruled that the saying of the Pledge of Allegiance is unconstitutional, arguing that it violates a child's right to be "free from a coercive requirement to affirm God." I find it weird that this judge who claims to uphold the values of the constitution, must have never read the writings of any of the framers of the constitution, he probably hasn't even read the constitution. The 1st Amendment actually says, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof..." Nowhere in the constitution does it use the phrase "separation of church and State", but wacko-leftist judges insist upon this phrase which has been used to create rulings including this one. Below I list other wacko-extreme rulings that have happened.
Stone v. Graham-1980: (I include quotes from the rulings) "It is unconstitutional (there's that good old phrase again) for students to see the Ten Commandments since they might read, meditate upon, respect or obey them."
Warsaw v. Tehachapi-1990: "It is unconstitutional for a public cemetery to have a planter in the shape of a cross...if someone were to view that cross, it could cause 'emotional distress' and thus constitute on 'injury in fact.'
Florey v. Sioux Falls School District-1979: (this is my favorite) "It is unconstitutional for a kindergarten class to ask whose birthday is celebrated by Christmas."
Every judge in America today should remember these words from the Late Chief Justice of the Supreme Court William Rehnquist: "The 'wall of separation between church and State' is a metaphor based on bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned."

Today in the news it was announced that the head of FEMA has been removed from the post of managing Katrina cleanup. This is a big mistake on the White House's part, they should have left him in charge specifically because the left was criticizing him. It wasn't FEMA's fault or anybody in the White House's fault that Katrina was so devastating. The Red Cross was ready in Louisiana with food and water, they went to the authorities and asked when they should take the stuff to the Superdome and to the New Orleans Convention Center. They were told that Governor Blanco did not want any supplies taken there, so as not to make it a target for more survivors to come in (they wanted to clear it out first). The governor failed in her job to provide for her constituents. Also Mayor Ray Nagen was supposed to release New Orleans' school buses and public buses to pick up those who could not get out by themselves. This he did not do, and the buses are still sitting in their parking lots with water all around them, ruined! Whose fault is this again?

Another aspect that is fascinating to me is how the left changes its tune so quickly, during the presidential election of 2000, the left declared that Bush was the idiot of idiots. From 2002 to 2004 he was characterized as manipulating the courts, the media and the congress to forward his agenda (Bush is now fiendishly clever) . Now the left is saying that not only is he the cleverest manipulator but he also controls the weather! When will the left ever get it?

Bush names Rehnquist's Replacement!

Bush has finally started using the mandate that America gave him in 2004. Democrats have urged the president to choose Justice O'Connor to serve as Chief Justice for a year until a replacement can be found. Bush has refused to do that and has further slammed the door on Democrats' hopes by choosing Judge John Roberts Jr. (his pick to replace O'Connor) to be Chief Justice. Way to go, Bush! Give 'em the old one-two!

Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies

I couldn't believe it when I heard it. But on the up side this, along with Roberts' nomination could give Bush a chance to build up a Supreme Court of interpreters (not re-writers) of the Constitution. Maybe now, people will quit complaining about all that Bush "hasn't" done and start focusing on the fact that he might have important things to do.


Also, Bush has sent a army general into New Orleans to oversee recovery efforts. Perhaps the affected areas will be cleaned up soon.

Hurricane Katrina, supposedly "the hurricane that is brining America together," is doing just the opposite. People in New Orleans have been shooting at those trying to rescue them, National Guardsmen actually would hide anytime they saw someone in fear that it was a sniper. A helicopter bringing relief was shot at. And it's not just the physical violence that is going on in the affected areas.
Political mudslinging and hate-speech towards the Bush administration has been peaking, Democrats say: "Bush is responsible!" Other people including Republicans say that the president should do more, what more can he do? You tell me. When will people realize that we don't need pointing fingers, we need able bodies and equipment to help clean up and rebuild those areas that have been devastated by the hurricane.

Today on AOL News there was a poll on how Pres. Bush is handling the aftermath of Katrina, to my astonishment 60% said that he was doing a poor job, with 14% saying excellent, 9% saying "to early to tell", 8% saying fair and another 8% saying good. What more do these people expect Bush to do, go down to New Orleans and personally rescue people who are stranded? Bush is the president of the United States he has to control the entire country as well as make decisions about American policy abroad he probably would go down there and help if he were still governor of Texas or even if he had been beaten in last year's election. But he isn't and wasn't and so he must be kept safe so as to guide America through the rest of his term in office as he sees fit.

Here's the link to this article where you can vote on how you think Bush is doing: http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050831184309990017

I find it interesting that even with Katrina dominating the news, the leftist media propagandists still find time to mention Cindy Sheehan's protest which has today hit the road. According to Mrs. Sheehan her group plans to protest at Tom DeLay's office on their way to DC. Perhaps they could also stop in New Orleans to help the rest of America instead of spouting hate-speeches towards Bush, our troops and Americans. If they are so concerned about people losing their lives why don't they go there and help?
As a footnote to yesterday's blog, I found out that the Department of Transportation has waived gasoline regulations requiring the 40 different types of gas to be used in certain places, this will help keep the gas coming and is the first smart move of the DOT in a very long time.