TexanInfidel's Blog

Here's an idea, ladies:  If you don't want to have sex with your husband, tell him, now get this, that you don't want to have sex with him.  Seriously.  If I hear that any of you are emulating the behaviors of Charris Barrows I will be disappointed (although not surprised at some of you - you know who you are) in your people-skills.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article20
80618.ece#OTC-RSS&ATTR=News

In what I expect to be a regular occurance, president elect Barack Obama was greeted with silence when he went to meet with Marines in Hawaii.  No disrespect, just silence.  No chants for Hopenchange, just silence.  Most of our brave men and women can see through this fellow...
From http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/12/o
bama-visits-ma.html
"FROM ABC NEWS' SUNLEN MILLER IN HAWAII:

President-elect Obama stopped by the Marine Corps base in Hawaii Kaneche Bay where servicemen and -women were eating Christmas dinner in Kailua Thursday evening.

“Just wanted to say hi, hey guys,” Obama said as he walked into the Anderson dining hall which was decked out in Christmas decorations.

The diners represented seven military units -- Marine and Navy -- some of whom were joined by their families for Christmas dinner.

As Obama entered the room, it was absent of the regular fanfare of cheering and clapping. The diners were polite, staying seated at their respective tables and waited for the president-elect to come to them to stand up."

Melissa Ethridge gets it.  Why don't other people get it?

She has called for civility in the gay community towards pastor Rick Warren after the public outcry when Obama called on him to say a prayer at his inauguration.  Ethridge talked to Warren and after he told her he owned all of her albums a tiny light bulb went off: Wait, this doesn't sound like a gay-hater... 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/melissa-etheridge/the
-choice-is-ours-now_b_152947.html

So it turns out that Warren hasn't been preaching hate against proposition 8 and has been pretty lukewarm on the subject.  So is the tale of the outraged angry Christian majority a tall one?  The same thing happened when supposedly millions of outraged Christians were ready to take up arms against a Playboy cover in Mexico that vaguely resembled the Virgin Mary.  Where are the protests?  Where are the crazy red-eyed Christians dressed all in black carrying their torches ready to go on a gay hunt?

To be honest I think we all have better things to do.  We'll speak against issues we feel are detrimental to an individual's spiritual well being.  We'll vote against legislation and legislators who lack the integrity to govern in a way that preserves a free society.  But mostly we'll just spend time with our families.    Sure there are like 70 people in a cult somewhere that truly hate those who think differently, but mostly we just worry for their souls.  I posted a video by atheist Penn (of Penn and Teller) where he understands Christians preaching their faith - if he saw a truck headed toward someone and they couldn't see it he would make damned sure to either make them see it or get them out of the way.  

So go ahead and call us hateful.  Go ahead and question our faiths.  Go ahead and point out our sins that should surely disqualify us from exhibiting any form of judgment (were we Christians and therefore perfect).  Unfortunately these arguments bear no weight.  We fall because we're human and in no way deserving of God's love.  We preach because we love so deeply that the souls of a complete stranger matter to us.  

Dead horse beaten.

Well sort of.  He sort of gets it.  The atheist Penn looks to have gone on a bender but at least he understands.  He comments that if you know in your heart that there is heaven and hell and you think someone might be going to hell then you're a horrible person if you don't feel obligated to tell everyone.  This is how he SHOULD feel.  We don't tell you about Christ just to hear ourselves talk or to kill your buzz.  We tell you of Christ so that you might know the joy of knowing Him.  Anyway, watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JHS8adO3hM&eurl=http:/
/hotair.com/archives/2008/12/19/aww-the-official-atheis
tchristian-reconciliation-post/&feature=player_embedded

In typical left-wing liberal fashion, a budget deficit in New York was met with MORE TAXES.  In other words, even though lower taxes actually end up providing more revenue (yay Reagan), they are going to impose increased taxes on everything from sodas (or "non-nutritional drinks") to cigars.  Downloaded music to gasoline.  The governor by prostitution-scandal / default, David Patterson, has promised to cut a few jobs but mostly just to gouge his constituents. 

Do you want to know why Texas remains among the strongest states during this self-imposed tough economic time?  For one, low taxes on businesses compared to states like New York and California.  This encourages businesses to *gasp* take root here.  Also, the housing market never became over inflated like Phoenix and California. 

This is what we're in for, folks.  First they impose "sin" taxes like higher taxes on alcohol and cigarettes.  But what happens when the programs they are using sin-taxes to fund become exponentially bloated (as gov't agencies always do) but the rate of sin curtails due to the discouragement caused by high taxes?  Well, you can't cut the entitlement programs.  People depend on them now!  You have to raise taxes. 

So why not target the obese?  Tax candy and sodas.  Tax fast food.  You're only doing it for their own good of course.  Then what happens when the obese are forced to eat arugula and carrots? 

Well, we have to tax the greedy.  Tax luxury cars.  Tax expensive clothes.  Those stupid richies have it coming, right?  Well what happens when they buy their cars and clothes someplace cheaper?  You HAVE to make up for this lost revenue.

We can tax the lazy.  Tax cable tv.  Tax the movie theaters.  Do you see where this has already gone in New York?

Whenever someone proposes a tax based on correcting some behavior or injustice be afraid.  Be very afraid.  Soon they will come for your "sins".

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2008/12/16/2008
-12-16_gov_david_paterson_unveils_dire_new_york.html>

I know, I know.  I haven't posted in a while.  Here's something that caught my eye.  The rise of militant atheism and anti-Christian rhetoric is quite discouraging.  I respect their right to believe nothing.  The only thing I expect in return is a respect of my right to believe in something. 

There was a nativity scene in the Washington state capitol building.  Next to it an atheist group placed a sign basically saying that there is no God, no Jesus, no heaven or hell, no angels or demons.  Seriously?  Seriously.  Why take away from the joy of others just because you want to pretend to be smarter than everyone else?  I mean what did Jesus ever do to you?  Is something that Jesus taught so very wrong that He deserves to be mocked at a celebration of His birth?  http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,461424,00.html

Then some film producer decides to rewrite the Bible to portray God as saying it is better to be gay than straight.  And to punch the late Princess Diana in the face they've named it the Princess Diana Bible - for her "many good works".  Their justification?  "There are many different versions of the Bible; I don't see why we can't have one,"   princessdianabible.com

Then CostCo abandons Christmas but has no problem peddling Christian wares and profiting from Christmas sales.  Dang.  I liked CostCo. 

So please tell me what the point is in robbing others of their happiness.  Does it fill the emptiness in one's soul to smack someone else's soul around for a while?  None of their banter makes me believe in God any less.  In fact, their misery and absolute hatred of a loving God and His followers makes me stick closer by His side.  

So PETA folks released a video of people "torturing" turkeys.  By "torturing" they mean breaking their necks to kill them.  They have released this video strategically before Thanksgiving to encourage folks to purchase turkey alternatives - like tofurkeys (blech).  I would like to know a better way to kill a bird with a long neck than breaking it's neck. 

And for anyone who has ever been around turkeys - they are perhaps the dumbest animals in the world.  They can't be left out in the rain because they will look up at the sky until they drown.  I have personally seen wild ones screaming at the cows for eating their corn - granted wild ones are far more intelligent because they haven't been bred to be huge and stupid.  So what other purpose on God's earth could these creatures possibly serve than to be consumed for nutritional value?  That's what bobcats use them for.  Why not humans?

We already have our Thanksgiving turkeys.  We will be enjoying 2 wild turkeys - one smoked, one fried.  Anyone else have a nice Thanksgiving turkey-eating tradition to share?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Animal-rights-video-s
hows-apf-13618439.html

In a display of actually...impressive pirating, Somalian pirates have overtaken a Saudi vessel fully loaded with $100 million worth of oil.  What?  Okay on my last post I posted pictures of the rag-tag pirates who were easily destroyed by the Royal Navy.  

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/18/somalia
-oil

To top things off, the Pirates demand $10m ransom... 

And look at the world leaders' response: World leaders: We're powerless to act...

So let me get this straight... These guys:

overtook this ship:

... So what were the oil tanker guards armed with?  Slingshots?  Stay tuned for more pirate updates.

So in a story I find hilarious, a group of Somalian/Yemini pirates tried to overtake a cargo ship.  Then they made the mistake of opening fire on the British Royal Navy.  The funny part of the story comes when you see the pirates:

Seriously?  These guys opened fire on the Royal Navy?  I mean to think that they could even overtake a cargo ship is a bit ridiculous.

A few of them died.  The rest of them surrendered.  Do pirates nowadays really suck this much?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/
article5141745.ece

Our wild-and-crazy pal Ted Nugent has declared it open season on RINOs.  This is really a good read.  He's crazy but I love him.

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http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=29458

Rino Season Is Now Open by  Ted Nugent
11/12/2008 Like any entity that abandons basic quality control, political parties rot from within. It happened to the Democrats long ago, and now has become the case with the Republican Party, which has strayed from its conservative underpinnings.

There are really only four things I have a strong aversion to: unloaded guns, dull knives, banjos, and Republicans in Name Only (RINOs).

The Nugent family simply doesn't allow any of those things in our lives.

RINOs are Fedzilla punks who feign support for conservative principles only when it serves their political interest. RINOs are also known for their moderate positions such as supporting tax increases, federal “bailouts”, “comprehensive immigration reform”, advocating more counterproductive gun control that guarantee more innocent victims, opposing the death penalty, and growing and sustaining Fedzilla and all its toxic mongrels by going along with the liberals. RINOs have forgotten President Ronald Maximus Regan's admonition that government is the problem, not the solution.

RINOs reach across Fedzilla's aisle to cut deals and build consensus with the liberals. Consensus building means compromising values and cutting deals with the socialist prankster punksters whose goal it is to turn America into EuroAmerica.

Consensus building is for wimps and soulless people who stand for nothing. Compromise is not about being tolerant: these days, it’s about giving up conservative principles.

As the Republican Party begins to retool, rebuild and return to the "less government is best government" conservatism that makes America work, the first thing the GOP needs to do is to lock the RINOs out of the discussion. Heavily armed with an abundance of conservative attitude, my hunting buddies and I will provide security to ensure RINOs are kept downwind from the discussion. If allowed to participate, RINOs will continue to rot the Republican Party from within and diminish it in the eyes of the public. Enough is enough.

John McCain has been a RINO on campaign finance, immigration, global warming and other issues and look what happened to him. He had reached across the aisle so many times to cut deals with the liberals that he had to pick Governor Palin, a true conservative, to try and lure disenfranchised and disgusted conservatives back into the fold. Didn't work. Senator McCain was the wrong candidate at the right time. RINOs lose elections;
conservatives win them.

Should President-elect Obama implement his wrong-headed economic policies, our economy will continue to slide into the abyss and America's debt will continue to soar to unsustainable levels. Conservatives must hold the line at all costs and call out all RINOs who support President-elect Obama's economic kamikaze plan.

Make no mistake, conservative values and ideologies are embraced by Americans. The polls all indicate Americans are fed up with the Pelosi-led, do nothing congress, and do not support more government programs and control. Sounds to me like we have a conservative revolution brewing.

Conservative leaders and thinkers such as Newt Gingrich, Jed Babbin, Governor Jindal of Louisiana, Thomas Sowell, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Governor Sarah Palin and others need to turn up the heat and bring this less government, more individual freedom and strong national defense revolution to a boil. It is time.

My specialty is making Fedzilla punks squirm and turn into a puddle of sweat and drool. Therefore, in the spirit of famous butt kickers Generals Chesty Puller and George Patton, I say we launch an attack on all fronts. Uncle Ted hereby declares it is open season on RINOs. No bag limits or permits required. Conservative ideas, arguments and votes are the weapons we will use. Hunt them down and shine a blazing light on these RINO turncoat cockroaches. Zero in the "we the people" crosshairs of your voting assault weapon and aim for the RINO pumpstation. Double tap center mass. Whack em and stack em, track em and hack em, pack em and give em no slack. Let's do to the RINO beasts what we did to the passenger pigeon. Force out of the Republican Party out the subspecies known as RINOs.

We must not make the mistake of keeping the GOP tent so big that there’s room for RINOs. They are in the business of producing conservative defeats. Instead, join me in the new Conservative Revolution. Let's go out and win another one for the Gipper.

[Editor’s Note: Ted Nugent is H.E.’s first licensed RINO hunter.]

You know what would make me more sympathetic to the gay cause?  People throwing flyers at me during worship service yelling things like "it's okay to be gay" and "Jesus was a homo".  Wait, that would make me think that they were tactless bastards. 

Look, we love the sinner, not the sin.  We are all sinners.  This is an example of the gay community shoving it down people's throats.  You can't attack people while they are worshipping - much less carry pink upside down crosses.  Do I go to your gay parties and start preaching to you?  Nope.  Good for the churchgoers for not reacting the way these people wanted them to react.

http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/article/20081112
/NEWS01/811120369

Is this a vote of no confidence in Obama by our financial systems?  The markets today responded to the events of November 4th with the biggest post-election slump in history.  Now I wonder why the markets would have little confidence in this president elect...  Hmmmm.... By the way, it's not because he's part black.

Stocks Have Biggest Post-Election Slump....
History List...

Soooo in the aftermath of the most rigorous polling of an election EVAH, what polls were most accurate and which fell short?  Here's a new analysis by Fordham University political scientist Costas Panagopoulos.

1T. Rasmussen (11/1-3)**
1T. Pew (10/29-11/1)**
3. YouGov/Polimetrix (10/18-11/1)
4. Harris Interactive (10/20-27)
5. GWU (Lake/Tarrance) (11/2-3)*

6T. Diageo/Hotline (10/31-11/2)*
6T. ARG (10/25-27)*
8T. CNN (10/30-11/1)
8T. Ipsos/McClatchy (10/30-11/1)
10. DailyKos.com (D)/Research 2000 (11/1-3)

11. AP/Yahoo/KN (10/17-27)
12. Democracy Corps (D) (10/30-11/2)
13. FOX (11/1-2)
14. Economist/YouGov (10/25-27)
15. IBD/TIPP (11/1-3)

16. NBC/WSJ (11/1-2)
17. ABC/Post (10/30-11/2)
18. Marist College (11/3)
19. CBS (10/31-11/2)
20. Gallup (10/31-11/2)

21. Reuters/ C-SPAN/ Zogby (10/31-11/3)
22. CBS/Times (10/25-29)
23. Newsweek (10/22-23)

So two key civil rights barriers were addressed yesterday.  On one hand, we will have the first African-American President in history.  On the other hand, 2 large states struck down gay marriage.  The interesting thing lies in the demographics.

In California, proposition 8 (to ban gay marriage) had the following stats:

Among white voters, 51% for, 49% against

Among black voters, 70% for, 30% against

 

In Florida, the gay marriage ban passed in the following way:

Among white voters, 49% for, 51% against

Among black voters, 71% for, 29% against

 

My question is: What does this say about the way blacks see the plight of gays and lesbians?  Do they consider it equal to the discrimination they faced in getting equal rights?  It certainly would appear based on numbers that they don't.  Any input?

A much needed bit of sunshine from www.MichelleMalkin.com:

Gird your loins, conservatives By Michelle Malkin  •  November 5, 2008 01:05 AM

There is no time to lick wounds, point fingers, and wallow in post-election mud.

I’m getting a lot of moan-y, sad-face “What do we do now, Michelle?” e-mails.

What do we do now? We do what we’ve always done.

We stand up for our principles, as we always have — through Democrat administrations and Republican administrations, in bear markets or bull markets, in peacetime and wartime.

We stay positive and focused.

We keep the faith.

We do not apologize for our beliefs. We do not re-brand them, re-form them, or relinquish them. We defend them.

We pay respect to the office of the presidency. We count our blessings and recommit ourselves to our constitutional republic.

We gird our loins, to borrow a phrase from our Vice President-elect.

We lock and load our ideological ammunition.

We fight.

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First assignment for fiscal conservatives in Washington:

1) Oppose the Democrats’ next stimulus boondoggle.
2) Oppose Obama’s windfall profits tax proposal.
3) Oppose new bailouts for states deep in debt.
4) Oppose new foreclosure prevention measures that will simply provide perverse incentives for borrowers to walk away and delay a needed market correction.
5) No more federal loan guarantees for corporations (especially in light of this.

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Too funny: This post has been linked by French newspaper, Le Monde. Their headline:

“Contre-attaque: Les Républicains se préparent à une longue lutte.”

Oui.