It's good to be gub'mint.

I went to the Post Office today to mail a letter. I got there at 9:15, not long after they opened. The parking lot was empty and the building was empty except for five employees. One was at the other end of the room doing something with PO boxes, one was doing something with a till, and the other three were leaning against the counter talking.

I had to buy stamps so I went to the signpost to wait for someone at the counter to help me. All five of the employees looked at me but NOT ONE made a move to help me. No one greeted me, no one smiled at me, no one even acknowledged I was there.

You guys, I stood there for at least five minutes while the guy with the till kept right on doing whatever he was doing and the other three employees in the room continued with their conversation about a movie they'd all seen.

Finally, someone else came out of the back and sold me my stamps.

What private company would EVER run their business this way? One that would quickly be out of business, that's for sure.

In today's "Well...DUH" news:

The Heathcare bill may cost more than we were originally told.

Ya think?

Is this honestly a surprise to anyone? A third grader with only a basic knowledge of math could have predicted this.

Wait. . . so Obama, Pelosi, and Reid lied to us?

Shocker.

It's RINO Season!

I live in Utah - one the reddest of the red states - where last night incumbent Senator Bob Bennett was defeated in the second round of voting at the GOP state convention. He didn't even make it to the primaries, that's how mad people are. I cannot tell you how happy this makes me.

I wasn't very involved in politics at 1992 when Bennett was first elected, but I vividly remember the campaign commercials he ran promising to serve two terms only and then get out. Uh... that was 18 years ago and in the meantime, Bennett has voted for bank bailouts, entitlements, earmarks, and pushed for a bipartisan healthcare bill. What a classic example of the corrupting power of power.

I'm sure incumbents all over the country have taken notice and are worried. And they should be. The American people are ticked and it's open season.

Lock and load, citizens!

Raquel Welch, you have just earned my respect

I admit, I don't know much about Raquel Welch other than that my dad considers her one of the most beautiful women in the world. And she is.

But more important than her beauty is her willingness to say something that might be unpopular in her OpEd, It's Sex O'clock in America.

I urge you to read the entire article. My favorite part is this:

"During my pregnancy, I came to realize that this process was not about me. I was just a spectator to the metamorphosis that was happening inside my womb so that another life could be born. It came down to an act of self-sacrifice, especially for me, as a woman. But both of us were fully involved, not just for that moment, but for the rest of our lives."

Bravo, Raquel!

In the past two weeks...

I have:

1. Visited a new doctor ... and been asked to show ID
2. Signed my son up for preschool ... and been asked to show ID
3. Been pulled over for speeding (*ahem*) ... and been asked to show ID
4. Purchased something with a credit card ... and been asked to show ID
5. Traveled on an airplane ... and been asked to show ID
6. Bought compressed air ... and been asked to show ID

I KNOW - can you even believe what I've endured in the last 14 days. The horror! It's amazing really that I'm still alive to tell the tale. I mean, my driver's license is in my wallet, in my purse, and to get to it I have to undo TWO snaps and a zipper. How dare they inflict this hardship on me!

Not to mention, I'm a woman and half of the people asking to see my ID were men, so I've clearly been the victim of sexism. And two were not the same race as me, so I've definitely been the victim of racism.

I don't know how I stand it, I really don't.

The Face of Evil

This is Peter Singer, philosopher, professor at Princeton. Peter Singer is evil.

Why?

Of course Peter Singer wants to kill babies. I mean, look at him, that guy's whole persona just screams abortion on demand. But it's worse than that. Peter Singer wants to kill newborns AND toddlers. He thinks it should be okay to kill anyone under two years old if they are deemed "unfit."

In his liberal screed Rethinking Life and Death he writes,

"Human babies are not born self-aware or capable of grasping their lives over time. They are not persons. Hence their lives would seem to be no more worthy of protection that the life of a fetus.

It gets better. Writing about disabled children, he says...


"When this can be known at a very early stage in the voyage, we may still have a chance to make a fresh start. This means detaching ourselves from the infant who has been born, cutting ourselves free before the ties that have already begun to bind us to our child have become irresistible. Instead of going forward and putting all our effort into making the best of the situation, we can still say no, and start again from the beginning."

This is the typical liberal nonsense of I've got mine so now I'll make sure you don't get yours. Does this idiot even realize that the whole reason he's alive today is because his mother obviously didn't share his point of view? (I read somewhere that she has Alzheimer's and he wishes he had the power to euthanize her.)

I almost can't even write about this, it makes me so sick. If you have ever visited a NICU and watched a baby there fight for each breath, you can SEE their will to live. If you have ever gazed into a newborn's eyes, you know there is a fully-formed soul there.

Is there anything more evil than preying on the most helpless among us? As adults we should be focusing our efforts on protecting little ones who can't protect themselves, not rationalizing ways to get rid of them if they are inconvenient. What's next? Babies with colic are labeled "defective" and can be killed so their parents can get some sleep?

Can such a creature like Singer even be called a human being? I don't think so.

Illegals and liberals boycott Arizona!!

And Arizona sighs with relief.

Wow, could that have gone any better? Bravo, Arizona!!

I think I feel the need for a vacation in Phoenix coming on...