There's lies and damned lies.  And then there are the New York Times (NYT) lies!  Take for example this oh-so-condescending missive by some deviant named Bill Keller .  In it, he claims the NYT is a bastion of truth and fairness.  Why, their "journalistic standards" are so high, they couldn't imagine trying to slant the news!

I doubt that people at Fox News really believe their programming is “fair and balanced” — that’s just a slogan for the suckers — but they probably are convinced that what they have created is the conservative counterweight to a media elite long marinated in liberal bias. They believe that they are doing exactly what other serious news organizations do; they just do it for an audience that had been left out before Fox came along.

I would never suggest that what is now called “the mainstream media” — the news organizations that most Americans depended on over the past century — achieved a golden mean. We have too often been condescending to those who don’t share our secular urban vantage point. We are too easily seduced by access. We can be credulous. (It’s also true that we have sometimes been too evenhanded, giving equal time to arguments that fail a simple fact-check.)

But we try to live by a code, a discipline, that tells us to set aside our personal biases, to test not only facts but the way they add up, to seek out the dissenters and let them make their best case, to show our work. We write unsparing articles about public figures of every stripe — even, sometimes, about ourselves. When we screw up — and we do — we are obliged to own up to our mistakes and correct them.

 Yeah.  Right.  What explains this little lie of blatant omission then, committed just a bit later in the same article?

When a producer named Joe Muto was caught last month slipping in-house videos to Gawker, Fox did not merely, as any employer would, send the mole packing. It called the district attorney to press criminal charges, including grand larceny. Well, at least this answered the nagging question of what, exactly, constitutes a criminal offense in Murdoch World. 

So, what's missing?  That a competing organization PAID the SOB to spy on Fox News.  He was a corporate spy, engaged in corporate espionage.  You can rest assured that if Fox News had done that to the NYT the mighty Bill Keller would be screaming about it.

But he -- like his fellow travellers at they NYT -- is just a partisan hack.  Scream that the iother side is unfair, then lie like hell.

That's their way.  By their fruits yea shall know them. Lies are their native language, for they serve the Father of Lies. 

The "anti-Bully" bully beats up on Christians:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2136502/Dan-Savage-blasts-Christian-teens-walked-lecture-criticised-bullsh-t-Bible.html

Meanwhile, an Islamic government hangs gays -- slowly and brutally, by lifting, not dropping:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/19/AR2006071902061.html

Meanwhile, Islamic nuts are burning churches and killing Christians:
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/04/29/nigeria-boko-haram-islamists-attacks-two-churches-during-services-8-killed/

But that's not news.  That's not important.  Why, those evil Christians would institute a theocracy here!

Damned hypocrites.

As recently noted, the San Antonio Tea Party (SATP) is alive alive well.  Today, we had a small (for us) tea party meeting of about 275 folks.  Herein, I shall crib from the script we used.

Allen Tharp was one speaker.  He's an impresive guy whom I've had the pleasure of meeting through the SATP board.  He's the owner, Chairman, & Chief Executive Officer of Allen Tharp LLC, of San Antonio, Texas and Olde England's Lion and Rose British restaurant and pubs, as well as a minority partner in a chain of quick service chicken restaurants called Golden Chick.  He also runs a small construction company that does all of the finish out on the Lion and rose restaurants, as well as custom cabinets and furniture for high end clients.  He also owns a company that serves almost one million high quality meals per month to local military personnel.   Allen Tharp's endeavors provide over 900 local jobs to San Antonio, Alamo Heights, Live Oak, Helotes, and Austin.

Next up was JoAnn Fleming. She's been a leader in the constitutional conservative movement for twenty years, JoAnn is Chair of the Texas Legislature's Tea Party Caucus Advisory Committee and the full time, volunteer, Executive Director of Grassroots America - We the People.  She is well known in the corridors of the Texas Statehouse in Austin.



Then came a man who was A*M*A*Z*I*N*G -- Rev. C.L. Bryant.  Rev. Bryant is the founder of One Nation Back to God. He is a native of Shreveport, La.; the son of a WWII veteran and restaurateur. Professionally, C.L. Bryant has been a gospel minister since the late 70's. His ministry has taken him coast to coast and in to the mission fields of South America including the Amazon. He is the former president of the NAACP in Garland, TX. His strong pro-life views caused him to leave the organization leading him to the path of conservatism.  His resume goes on and on.


Wow.  This traditional black minister had the crowd of (admittedly mostly white) Tea Partiers on their feet multiple times.  Do book this man for your event if you can.


In the crowd were some impressionable youth, like this gent.  His proud father notes his son has started a conservative's club at school.


Reverand Bryant posed for pics afterwards.  Here he is with Nancy Goettman, founder of Awake America:


And here he is with yours truly.  Note that Ken Bennight, current Chairman of the Board, SATP, is on the right.


(What?  The picture with me is bigger?  You don't say?  Yeah, that Juhl character really is vain, isn't he?)

UPDATE:  Welcome Instapundit readers!  The great and Mighty Blogfather has truly blessed us all, no?  (Oh, and Allen's picture is fixed.  Sorry!)

Now reading the third book of The Hunger Games trilogy.  The description of President Snow brought an old quote to mind....

There's a report that conservatives distrust science, like they're troglydites or some such.

Instapundit notes this:

The reason is the use of science as an argument-from-authority for bigger government. If scientists want more trust, perhaps they should try not to be tools.

Better yet is a comment someone sent him:

I tracked back to the original paper (http://www.asanet.org/images/journals/docs/pdf/asr/Apr12ASRFeature.pdf) to see what the exact survey question was.

“The GSS asked respondents the following question: “I am going to name some institutions in this country. As far as the people running these institutions are concerned, would you say you have a great deal of confidence, only some confidence, or hardly any confidence at all in them [the Scientific Community]?”(page 172)

The confidence in “people running these institutions” was being measured, not “Science” itself. Huge difference. HUGE!

No Kidding!

You need to understand what Wickard vs. Filburn was all about and what it has to do with Obama-Care.  Thomas Sowell explains:  http://www.creators.com/opinion/thomas-sowell/back-to-the-future-12-03-27.html

(Sorry, can't create links at the moment.  Something about the interaction of Firefox updates and my provider's editing software.....)

Full on evil:  Sexual exploitation of children.

Associated evil:  Keeping full-on evil employed because he's an effective coach.  http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/46843083/ns/today-today_people/

Football Uber Alles?  Screw that!

Penn State should be STRIPPED of their football program.  You want to argue that with me, come do it face-to-face for a screaming match.  But do be aware I've had both voice training and NCO academy training.  I WILL out-scream you, you low-life pervert-lover.

Saw this on Facebook:

Good idea.  Make a few of your own print-it-yourself versions.  It's pretty easy!

Here's n evil idea!  Attack men and all their ways by dosing women with testosterone, then report opn how awful it makes them!  The Atlantic takes up the banner in Your Life on Testosterone: Overly Sure, Unwilling to Listen to Anyone.  Oh, and start with a BLATANT LIE:

The hormone makes people more egocentric and dramatically reduces cooperation between people, according to a new study of females.

Yeah, give a male hormone to women, who are NOT designed with the physiology to handle it and extrapolate the result to all "people."  Thus, we are led to conclude...MEN are egocentric and can't cooperate!

Let's push it some more in the article, too:

Self-centered, unwilling to listen, and overly sure of yourself. This is your life on testosterone, even if you are female.

Even IF you are female, eh?  Meaning MEN are always that way.  So very clever.  If only we could all be more like women....

BAH!

The effect of male hormones on women is exaggerated because they have no balancing hormones.

The effect of female hormones on men is exaggerated because they have no balancing hormones.

Men and women both have their place in society.  Enough with the war on men!

Earnings are up!  Great news to be trumpeted!

Printing more and more funny money causes inflation.  This must be hidden from the public as "Quantitative Easing."

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis explains what it means when you combine the two...

Earnings are up a fraction of a percent in February, but the CPI is up four times as much. The result is "real" earnings are down once again, having peaked in October 2010.

EVIL.  An order that all churches on the Saudi peninsula be destroyed comes from one of the highest authorities in all of Islam, according to Powerline:

This is an authoritative pronouncement, as Sheikh Abdul Aziz bin Abdullah is “the Grand Mufti of the nation that brought Islam to the world. Moreover, he is the President of the Supreme Council of Ulema [Islamic scholars] and Chairman of the Standing Committee for Scientific Research and Issuing of Fatwas.” That last title sounds like a joke; unfortunately, it isn’t.

So, how many churches at risk (beside the homes and businesses of each and every Christian)?

It occurred to me to wonder how many churches there are in Kuwait; according to this Catholic site, around 12% of the population is Christian, and there are a number of Catholic and Protestant churches. It will be interesting to see whether they come under attack, and if so, whether the destruction of churches will be reported on.

Ha!  You may rest assured that any reports of churches burning in Kuwait will not be publicized nearly as much as some Koran being mishandled by an American GI.

Yes.  Had some arguments with friends about that recently.  I like how how Ilya Somin put it over at The Volokh Conspiracy in Libertarianism and the Civil War:

... I believe that any possible justification that the Confederates may have had was negated by the fact that they seceded for the purpose of perpetuating slavery - a far greater violation of libertarian rights than anything white southerners could complain of in 1861.

Indeed.  As the vice=president of the confederacy put it in The Cornerstone Speech:

the new Constitution has put at rest forever all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institutions-African slavery as it exists among us-the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Jefferson, in his forecast, had anticipated this, as the "rock upon which the old Union would split." He was right. What was conjecture with him, is now a realized fact. But whether he fully comprehended the great truth upon which that rock stood and stands, may be doubted. The prevailing ideas entertained by him and most of the leading statesmen at the time of the formation of the old Constitution were, that the enslavement of the African was in violation of the laws of nature; that it was wrong in principle, socially, morally and politically. It was an evil they knew not well how to deal with; but the general opinion of the men of that day was, that, somehow or other, in the order of Providence, the institution would be evanescent and pass away. This idea, though not incorporated in the Constitution, was the prevailing idea at the time. The Constitution, it is true, secured every essential guarantee to the institution while it should last, and hence no argument can be justly used against the constitutional guarantees thus secured, because of the common sentiment of the day. Those ideas, however, were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. It was a sandy foundation, and the idea of a Government built upon it-when the "storm came and the wind blew, it fell." [emphasis in original]

The South was BUILT and BASED on slavery.  They seceded to SAVE slavery.

I have less than zero sympathy for those who whine about the so-called "war of northern aggression."  If it was:  GODD!  It ended an evil that has no place in our country.

Consider those areas where there is no way in hell, and I mean NO way, that they will vote for a real conservative.  What's the best the rest of us can do?

Support the RINO!

Sure, they'll vote "liberally" on every bill.  Well, they MIGHT occasionally be reasonable, but don't count on it.  No, but there is one vote which is critical -- the vote for who runs the place.

Do you want Nancy Pelosi back in charge in the House?  Do you want Harry Reid kept in charge of the Senate?  No?  Then it's time to support the right RINO!

In the case of Senator Scott Brown, the Dems understand that quite well: 

My question is, if Scott Brown is so damn liberal, how come the Democrats already are spending millions upon millions of dollars to knock him out of the Senate next year?

 Here in San Antonio, one of local knot-heads is retiring:  Charlie Gonzalez, son of that famous public pugilist, Henry B. Gonzalez.  Now, no place that elected these knot-headed idiots to office will support a conservative.  But a RINO...?  Maybe.

The question is simple:  Do you want people who vote for Pelosi & Reid?  Or do you want to throw in a few bucks and a few chats with friends (or maybe even some real support, like block walking) that could produce a change of leadership (or lack of change, depending) that the commies will hate?

Chris Rock is certainly on my Feces List.  Yes, I really am building one...with links. Oh, and he was attacking the *woman* who was holding the camera!

http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-TV/2012/03/14/EXCLUSIVE-Chris-Rock-Attacks-Conservative-Author-Over-Tea-Party-Question

If a society does not recognize the rights of individuals, it starts with denial of property and political rights.  It does not end there.  Further down the road towards Hell-on-Earth, they deny the right to life itself.  We deny that to unborn babies, but China is a bit further along.  They "harvest" the organs of living political prisoner.  No painkillers, either.  Might harm the product.  This is not an easy article to read, but read it you must!

The Xinjiang Procedure
Beijing's ‘New Frontier' is ground zero for the organ harvesting of political prisoners

To figure out what is taking place today in a closed society such as northwest China, sometimes you have to go back a decade, sometimes more.

Thirty-six scheduled executions would translate into 72 kidneys and corneas divided among the regional hospitals. Every van contained surgeons who could work fast: 15-30 minutes to extract. Drive back to the hospital. Transplant within six hours. Nothing fancy or experimental; execution would probably ruin the heart.

With the acceleration of Chinese medical expertise over the last decade, organs once considered scraps no longer went to waste. It wasn't public knowledge exactly, but Chinese medical schools taught that many otherwise wicked criminals volunteered their organs as a final penance.

Right after the first shots the van door was thrust open and two men with white surgical coats thrown over their uniforms carried a body in, the head and feet still twitching slightly. The young doctor noted that the wound was on the right side of the chest as he had expected. When body #3 was laid down, he went to work.

Again READ IT YOU MUST!  ALL OF IT!

In the movie "Sophie's Choice," is there not a key scene where a Nazi "makes" her choose which child will live and which will die?  For the evil Nazi, the evil of murdering a child is not enough.  The good mother must be made to betray her child.  Evil upon evil, damaging the good.

So, too, it is now with Christians who believe an unborn baby is a person who is murdered during an  abortion and the Obama Administration. 

It's official. The concern pro-life organizations had about the ObamaCare legislation funding abortions has been confirmed, as the Obama administration has issued the final rules on abortion funding governing the controversial health care law.

Nestled within the "individual mandate" in the Obamacare act - that portion of the Act requiring every American to purchase government - approved insurance or pay a penalty - is an "abortion premium mandate." This mandate requires all persons enrolled in insurance plans that include elective abortion coverage to pay a separate premium from their own pockets to fund abortion. As a result, many pro-life Americans will have to decide between a plan that violates their consciences by funding abortion, or a plan that may not meet their health needs.

It is not enough that Christians are forced to stand by and tolerate women exercising "choice."  They must be made to participate.  They must be made to PAY for the very thing they believe is murder.

Of course, evil seeks to obscure the issue.  You see lots of reports concerning the Catholic Church and "contraception."  Thus, the supporters seek to confuse the issue and split Christians.  They speak of "women's rights" and "women's health choices" and "whether they're going to fund day care" and "who's going to pay for all those children that are out there" and and and (quotes from Jennifer Brandt, family law attorney on Fox News, 10 p.m. CDT this evening).

All to muddy the waters.  To deflect the subject.  They seek to make us pay for what we believe is murder. 

They speak of rights but insist that the pregnant woman is the only one with rights.  The father-to-have-been?  No rights!  The baby?  No rights!  Only the woman has rights!  But they won't say that straight out.  Every attempt to speak of others's rights is deflected with an attack or other diversion.

And we will be forced to pay for that which we believe is murder.

Long ago, a friend of mine, Mark De Coursey explained "Sophie's Choice" to me.  She submitted.  She chose.  She betrayed her child.  In doing so, she murdered her child.  She was more guilty than the Nazi.  The child expects the bad man to do harm.  Having "mom" say that you must die?  Utter evil.

The Obama Administration wants to force us to do evil. 

What choice will you make?

Good versus Evil.  That's what it all boils down to; that's what's really happening.

We are in a war.  Not just a political contest.  Not just a "culture war."  A knock-down, drag-out, destroy the enemy war of good versus evil.

It has many fronts.  We fight the battles every day.  Some we win and some we lose.  And sometimes we fight for the wrong side (because we're human).

Had a bit of time to back up and start looking at things from this perspective.  Don't be surprised if I analyze things based on good vs. evil.

We must discern carefully what is good and what is evil.  As Isaiah 5:20 puts it:

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

We must call evil "evil" and good "good."  We each need to and not just because we are all Breitbart now.  It really is a time to choose.  What will you choose?  Good, or evil?

Sorry for the lack of content of late.  Been really, really busy.  We've sold our home and moved into a short term rental.  We're having a new home built and will be moving again soon.  That means re-sorting and re-packing  Meanwhile, work spooled up as I conducted a class for new employees and am now working a test (overtime $$--yea!)

Do have a lot of tabs saved.  I'll try to post some content...soon.

Meanwhile, the San Antonio Tea Party has a meeting/luncheon tomorrow!  

Sunday, January 15th, is the first general meeting of the new year. Please join the San Antonio Tea Party as we kick off 2012 in patriotic fashion.

Pedrotti’s North Wind Ranch  will be the location of the event.

As usual, the festivities will begin at 12:30 PM with a catered fajita lunch (purchase your meal now …)

Do support your local Tea Party!

Beside the$15 Trillion debt, there's the road California is taking (with the rest of us not far behind).  Ed Deiscoll lays it out HERE.

Received from George Rodiguez, President, San Antonio Tea Party:

Folks...

Please let both Congressman Canseco and Congressman Smith know how disappointed The San Antonio Tea Party is with the Speaker and House leadership on the matter of "Two month extension". I feel they were politically out-manuvered by Obama and the liberals in D.C. This has left many with a perception that the House GOP caved, and that they are paper tigers. That affects of us all the way down to the grass roots who have worked to change the House leadership out of Pelosi's hands.

Beside our disappointment in losing this policy battle, we are very frustrated that GOP leaders cannot seem to argue, articulate, or explain their position in the media. I am amazed that no one was able to respond to, or criticize, Obama ASAP when he read a note about someone who won't be able to have a pizza night if the tax-break was extended another two months! This capitualation by Boehner and the House has left the SA Tea Party terribly disappointed, angry, and frustrated. Republicans need to learn how to, and do a better job of responding to Obama in the arena public opinion and in the media. We are tired of hearing GOP leaders just blame the media for losing public arguments, because I don't think that was case this time. Boehner and McConnell should have responded ASAP to the silly points presented by the Obama people... and they should NOT have given in. This was poorly handle and now we will all have to pay a long term price.
Please ask Cico and Lamar to tell Boehner how very disappointed we are with his leadership. We recommend that the GOP leadership on both side of the Capitol, learn how to handle the media and public arguments, otherwise we're doomed in 2012.

Thank you.
George Rodriguez, President, San Antonio Tea Party.
ps. I'm going to go eat some Pizza.