Jackie Seal

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Hiya readers… If I have any left.  Not that it needs pointing out but I haven’t posted on here since July.  I feel I should let you all know where I’ve been hiding.  It’s this scary place called college.  I’m one of the decreasing numbers of kids who leaves home for college.  Though I am only 3.5hrs from home I am in a different state.  College has kept me plenty busy resulting in no time to blog, which saddens me a lot.  Along with the adjusting to college schedules and the new workload I’ve had to deal with having knee surgery (tore my ACL during pre-season for soccer) which put another obstacle in the way.  For the first month of school the typical day was classes from 8am-1pm, physical therapy from 1:30-3 and then sitting out at soccer from 3:30-6, dinner, and then homework.  It’s been 4 months now since the surgery so my knee has almost returned back to normal.

Like I said, college has eaten up my time and when I do have free time all I want to do is sleep or watch a movie.  During the first semester I found almost no time to watch the news or keep abreast of what was going on, save for the few moments I actually got to spend on Twitter.  Even then I was lost.

So! The plan for the New Year and second semester is to carve out time each day to keep up with news and hopefully get a blog post out every week.  I worked out a pretty nice class schedule for myself that should help with those goals.  You can also keep a look out at The Pundit League, I’ll be trying my best to contribute there on a fairly regular basis.

Just wanted to let you all know that I am in fact, still alive.

 

PS: My blog is in dire need of a makeover.  I welcome all help and suggestions.

 

A few articles to start off your morning:

The Nation- After Donovan’s goal: Joy or Jingoism (ignore the last paragraph)

Reuters- Women are entering politics all over the world! Australia gets First Woman Prime Minister

Reuters- More problems for O-Bummer… Spill Hurts Obama Rating as Storm Season Starts

National Review Online- A Political Moment to Savor

Real Clear Politics- 2012, “Not Going to Happen” for New Jersey Governor Christie

Bristol Palin set to make her debut on the Secret Life of the American Teenager on July 5. Here’s a sneak peek

What would the morning be without some Newsbusters? Brzenzinski: Invite Iran to Conference on Afghanistan Future

And because it was that great, some highlights and of course the GAME WINNER from yesterday’s USA win!

The United States scored 9 goals in World Cup qualifying… All 9 came in the 86th  minute or later in the game.  So, it should be no surprise that the boys made us hold on until EXTRA time before they pulled out a win vs Algeria.  Of course, there was the goal in the first half that was stolen from us, again.  But, for those of us who actually care about soccer sat there for the 90 minutes biting our nails the whole time after the U.S. had chance, after chance, after chance and nothing would go in.  Then, finally off a toss from keeper Tim Howard Donovan played the ball out wide, the ball gets crossed Dempsey’s shot bounces off the keeper and then Landon Donovan pounds it home to send the United States into the second stage of the World Cup!!!!!!

As soon as the ball went into the back of the net I sprang right off my couch and ran around screaming.  My throat is still in pain.  That was the most exciting/dramatic soccer moment I have ever witnessed.

And here is the man of the match after he scored his goal:

Could this be the year the US wins it all?  The dream is still alive!

I know you are probably doing a doubletake at the title. Most of the time it’s conservative females who are always being dubbed “hotties.” But, the men? Most people don’t think HOT when they think of conservative men. Well, to all you skeptics out there let me direct your attention to Liberty Pundit’s list of Hot Conservative Men of 2010!  Melissa Clouthier  of Liberty Pundit’s put together a list of conservative men and had a group of 10 females judges (including, yours truly) rate them on a 1-10 scale. 

 Adam Baldwin, probably best known for his role on TV’S CHUCK was voted number one.  He is also a write and blogger for BigGovernment.com.  To see the 19 other men who made the list click here.

And men- a list of Hot Conservative Women of 2010 was put up last week on RightWingNews

When I wake up on Saturday morning I usually browse around the web reading news stories and blogs and this morning I ran across this article.  After reading it and getting angry I subjected my followers on twitter to a little rant.  Then I decided why not throw together my rant into a little blog post.

The author talks about how her daily commute consists of riding on the NY subway and how there is a new pro-life ad campaign that she will be “forced” to look at.

Anyway, apparently, thanks to a new ad campaign launching this month on NYC subways, I will be adding “I am forced to read some f’ed up anti-choice ads” to my regular subway repoirtoire.

Metro US is reporting that, starting this week, the New York City subway system will be home of a massive ad campaign bankrolled by the San Diego-based anti-choice organization “Abortion Changes You”.

More images and info on the ads after the jump.

The article warns that

The 2,000 ads, which straphangers will see in nearly every subway station beginning tomorrow [this week], depict either a woman saying, “I thought life would be the way it was before,” or a man saying, “I often wonder if there was something I could have done to help her.”

She continues on,

I call bullshit, and I’m not the only one. Samantha Levine of NARAL Pro-Choice New York is all over this one:

“The campaign suggests that feelings of sadness and self-harm are the universal experiences for someone who had an abortion. And there’s no evidence to suggest that that’s true. The organization behind these ads has an agenda. They aren’t seeking to help women — they’re seeking to get abortion banned.”

Then she wanted to challenge the campaign:

So, “Abortion Changes You” ad campaign, I have a question for you: If you care about women so much, why push such an anti-woman agenda? I think that the hidden-agenda-cloaked-in-faux-concern-for-women trend needed to end with the Aughts, yet somehow, the bizarre and twisted logic behind showing women you care about them by cutting off their access to healthcare mysteriously, miraculously, persists in all its annoyingness. Unfortunately, these ads are only the latest to join the crowded ranks of people and initiatives who couch their anti-woman agendas in messaging about “concern” for women and families

So, pro-lifers are anti-women because they seek to help women and encourage them to carry out their pregnancy to term and either love and nurture that child or give it to another family who would love a child but cannot have one on their own.   Shame on those women for not wanting to encourage women to kill their babies.

She then finished with these two gems, which are full of logic (ha!)

“yes, abortion change you- it makes you not pregnant anymore!”

My answer to this:  DON’T GET PREGNANT IN THE FIRST PLACE! If you don’t want to be pregnant……. don’t get pregnant.

Also, you know what else changes you? Being FORCED to carry a pregnancy to term against your will!

My answer:  Really? Against YOUR will?  Who made the decision to have sex?  Who knows what happens when you have sex?  The baby didn’t make you have sex.  You CHOSE to have sex and unless your mom never gave you “the talk” you know what the result of sex is.

The bottom line is that pro-abortion groups cannot use logic to argue why they think abortion is needed.   The arguments presented by this woman are ridiculous and can easily be taken apart with simple one or two line answers.

Liberals are also the type of people that want to tell young women they can play around all they want and not have to live with the results of their playfulness.  Young girls need to realize that having sex is something sacred that should be saved for when they are read to love, nurture, raise and support a child. And yes, the guys need to take responsibility also.  If you really loved the young lady you’d want to wait as well.  It’s what’s best for the both of you. End of story.

This past week Eric Morris asked me to write a guest post for the re-launching of his site and I was more than happy.  I’ll do anything to help out a fellow young conservative!  I chose to write about President Obama’s childish fits he’s been throwing about the conservative opposition to him…

All of this just appears to be another attempt of the President (with the help of the mainstream media) to strike some fear into his opponents.  I don’t know where our current President was under the Bush administration but you’d think he would’ve learned a thing or two.  President Bush wasn’t exactly loved by the media and there was certainly a number of American people who were vehemently opposed to the guy but I don’t recall him mocking them or calling them out by name every chance he got.  It’s just not what a President does.  Generally, you acknowledged when asked but realize that it’s just the way things are going to be and you’ll have to deal with it.  But when you begin to mock and belittle in attempts to shut up, matters will only get worse for you.  I leave you with this quote from President John F. Kennedy,

“Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed — and no republic can survive”

Click here to read the whole piece and support Eric!