I hope all you Mom's out there enjoy your day (especially you, Mom -- sorry we couldn't make it). It's got to be better than mine, I'm reading Turrentin! Yech! OK, maybe he's not exactly, "Yech!" but he's pretty close. Though, I did get a nice digital picture frame so the day wasn't a total bust :-) and I'm getting Ruby Tuesday for dinner (my husband's going to get take out for us).

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Whoa! Are they ticked with her! She just got the Bush treatment.

WTH? Wouldn't that be a preemptive invasion?

That's why it's time to consider a more serious option: invading Burma. Some observers, including former USAID director Andrew Natsios, have called on the U.S. to unilaterally begin air drops to the Burmese people regardless of what the junta says. The Bush Administration has so far rejected the idea — "I can't imagine us going in without the permission of the Myanmar government," Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday — but it's not without precedent: as Natsios pointed out to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. has facilitated the delivery of humanitarian aid without the host government's consent in places like Bosnia and Sudan.

A coercive humanitarian intervention would be complicated and costly. During the 2004 tsunami, some 24 U.S. ships and 16,000 troops were deployed in countries across the region; the mission cost the U.S. $5 million a day. Ultimately, the U.S. pledged nearly $900 million to tsunami relief. (By contrast, it has offered just $3.25 million to Burma.) But the risks would be greater this time: the Burmese government's xenophobia and insecurity make them prone to view U.S. troops — or worse, foreign relief workers — as hostile forces. (Remember Black Hawk Down?) Even if the U.S. and its allies made clear that their actions were strictly for humanitarian purposes, it's unlikely the junta would believe them. "You have to think it through — do you want to secure an area of the country by military force? What kinds of potential security risks would that create?" says Egelend. "I can't imagine any humanitarian organization wanting to shoot their way in with food."

I'm for it (as long as it's just air drops and we don't actually invade), how about you lefties? Would you support an invasion for humanitarian purposes? Of course, you know they might take it as an act of war.

So, here's the question for those who think that we are too pushy and throw our weight around in the world: should we do it to help those in need when their government won't let us help?

Ouch! Pretty vicious stuff and it's from a Democrat! I particularly liked Obama dancing segueing into William Ayers stepping on the flag, pretty effective :-)

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It kind of goes along with this:

Hillary's only hope is that the super delegates will come to their senses and realize that Barack Obama's relationships with the corrupt Tony Rezko, the racist-wife stealing Jeremiah Wright, and the unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers will provide the Republicans with ammunition they have never had at hand to use against the Democrats' candidate. This is particularly true of that flag stomper, Bill Ayers.

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We may now understand why Barack does not wear a flag lapel pin. He's afraid that Bill Ayers will stomp on him. In reality, it will be the relationship with Bill Ayers that will empower the Republicans to destroy the candidacy of Barack Obama.

This is not a question of whether or not the Republicans will use this material. They will. So what is there to find? That is the area of greatest danger for the Democrats. Obama has lied about his longstanding relationship with Bill Ayers.

Why? What is he hiding? As I have pointed out before, 1995 was a critical year in the Obama/Ayers relationship. It was in 1995 that Barack was tabbed by Ayers to be the Chairman of the Annenberg Challenge (a failed $50 million project). That same year, Barack sat at a kitchen table with Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Bill's wife, a plotted the ouster of Alice Palmer, who Obama took down in order to secure his place in the Illinois state senate.

I know you guys don't trust Fox or National Review but this is from Huffington Post, people!

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Oh man! Even though I can't stand our candidate, this is the best campaign season ever! I thought the 2004 race was fun with Kerry in the bunny suit (man that has got to be the funniest political picture ever -- I still laugh every time I see it), the shots of him holding a gun and the wind surfing and bicycling but they pale in comparison to this race :-)

Not mine since I'm still preparing for my doctrine of God final:

In the end, the document seems to be saying something like this: “We’re tired of being lumped in with the fundamentalists, who are always angry and rattling on about America being a ‘Christian nation’ and that kind of junk. We’re tired of being treated as the lapdogs of the Republican party. We’re followed the Republicans all these years because of one issue — abortion — and while we don’t want to abandon our pro-life stance, we think that we’ve ignored a lot of other Christian values and convictions in order to get leverage on this one matter, and now we’re thinking that that wasn’t such a good idea. And by the way, some of us have been Democrats all along. But we’re not telling you how to vote, so don’t jump to any conclusions. We just want to be seen as polite and reasonable participants in the American public sphere, unlike the red-faced old dudes you always see on TV presented as ‘the evangelical voice.’ We’re sick and tired of all that.”

I share many of the feelings that prompted this document, I admit, but I think this so-called Manifesto raises more questions than it answers, and creates more confusions than it resolves. The authors call themselves “representative evangelicals,” but are they? Or do they represent a highly educated, culturally elite subset of evangelicals? If they want to claim the name “evangelical” and deny it to fundamentalists, then what happens if the people they call fundamentalists want to call themselves evangelicals? Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University (an organ of the Religious Right if there ever was one) calls itself the world’s largest evangelical university — should it stop using that adjective? (“Evangelical,” I mean, not “largest.”)

I think from the little I've been reading about the document, it's written to someone like me who is tired of Christians trying to reshape the Republican party in their image and the Republican party letting them because it helps them obtain power. To some that means abandoning it altogether and joining the Democrats or admitting that you're already a Democrat. For me that's a bridge too far to cross because I really am a Republican. I have no intention of voting for people who will fund abortions, raise my taxes, pull out of Iraq in defeat and spend at a greater clip than even the Republicans could imagine. Not to mention how bloated the federal government would be when they were done. No, I can't see jumping from the pan into the fire.

Hey Obama, how many states are there?

Does anyone doubt that Obama knows how many states there are? Just like I'm sure McCain knows the difference between Sunni and Shiites.

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I was just on Hulu and noticed that they had episodes of Speed Racer. Here's the first one and you can watch the rest here.

Um...I'm thinking the wisdom part is a stretch:

Code Pink is now resorting to witchcraft to beef up the number of its supporters protesting Berkeley's controversial Marine Corps Recruiting Center.

The women's anti-war group has told ralliers to come equipped with spells and pointy hats Friday for "Witches, clowns and sirens day," the last of the group's weeklong homage to Mother's Day.

"Women are coming to cast spells and do rituals and to impart wisdom to figure out how we're going to end war," Zanne Sam Joi of Bay Area Code Pink told FOXNews.com.

The group's week of themed protests, which included days to galvanize grannies and bring-your-daughter-to-protest, appears to have done little to boost its flagging numbers.

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But if events this week are an attempt by anti-war protesters to remarket their cause, the Marine recruiters in Berkeley tell FOXNews.com that Code Pink's presence outside their office has helped — not hindered — their mission.

"Ironically, it's actually helped us by putting our name out. We're now well known. And people know who we are, and where we are, and they come in to talk to us about enlisting. They've gotten us the publicity that we could've never afforded to pay for ourselves," Wheatcroft told FOXNews.com.

"Just in the last three weeks, 10 people came in looking to apply, looking to become Marine officers, and that's much higher than normal," he said.

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I'm sure there will be some retribution for this in the form of a law:

British consumers throw out a third of all food bought, worth some 10 billion pounds (12.7 million euros, 19.5 million dollars), a study showed Thursday.

The average household throws food worth 420 pounds each year into the waste bin, rising to 610 pounds for those with children, said the study by the Waste and Resources Action Programme (Wrap).

This includes 1.3 million unopened yoghurt pots, 5,500 whole chickens and 440,000 ready meals, it said.

"These findings are staggering in their own right, but at a time when global food shortages are in the headlines this kind of wastefulness becomes even more shocking," said Environment Minister Joan Ruddock.

"And there are climate change costs to all of us of growing, processing, packaging, transporting, and refrigerating food that only ends up in the bin," she added.

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Urging his supporters to lie to their bosses:

Please join us as we knock on your neighbors doors and bring Senator Obama's message of hope, unity and change. There is nothing more effective than connecting with another voter and expressing your story. Only you can do that. You know how important this is! I know I don't have to ask, but I will one last time--please join us tomorrow. Call in sick if you have to and help us all day by canvassing or offering rides to the polls.