Election Results from the mind of Cowgirl Up.

As I'm sure you've noticed, last night the Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives to the Democrats. Now we can all look forward to a few years of San Francisco liberal Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House.

I would be willing to bet that most voters outside of California have no clue just how twisted this woman really is. Like it or not she will now be the poster girl for the Democrats, enabling the rest of America to experience first-hand what we California conservatives already know. I'm hoping it will be a wake-up call, but maybe the American voter really does want people like Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean and Hillary Clinton at the helm...

Unfamiliar with California and San FranFreakshow's politics? Two examples from yesterday's election:

1) San Franciscan voters passed Proposition J, officially adopting a policy calling for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. (When this proposition was authored and put on the ballot, many conservatives got a chuckle out of the fact that should such a wish ever come true, it pretty much translates as a vote for President Hastert. Now, I suspect the San Francisco Leftists take heart knowing their girl will be taking his seat. Democratic Underground must be sizzling at this very moment with rabid moonbats foaming at the mouth in anticipation of impeachment proceedings.)

2) By over 60%, San Franciscans passed Proposition F, requiring all employers in San Francisco to provide their employees paid sick leave.

And you might recall that in November 2005, San Francisco sought and passed a complete ban on handguns. This was later overturned by the courts, but it is indicative of the mentality this city breeds.

In the State of California, voters rejected Proposition 85, which called for the notification of a minor girl's parents before she gets an abortion. Let's get this straight. It's not preventing a minor girl from getting an abortion, has a protection clause for those at risk of parental abuse, yet California defeats it. Hypocrisy at it's height: minors in California need parental consent for just about everything from getting their ears pierced to whether or not they can take an aspirin at school; but should a pregnant 14-year-old need an abortion, why, it must be her right as a woman.

As I write this, I hear there is yet hope for the Senate. Virginia Senator George Allen's race is too close to call so keep an eye on that one.

Maybe the Republicans will hold the Senate. And maybe, just maybe, the next two years President Bush will disover his Veto pen...

Saddam Hussein Sentenced to Death by Hanging from the mind of Cowgirl Up.

About damn time, too.

Fox News reports on it here.

"Did They Go Out and Kill and Rape and Sodomize Some Children...?" from the mind of Cowgirl Up.

Meet Cindy Sheehan's Supporters

Melanie Morgan of Move America Forward and talk show host for KSFO in San Francisco has been on a book tour for her recently published American Mourning, in which "Peace" mom Cindy Sheehan is scrutinized. As Morgan and Sheehan hail from the same region, Morgan has been very thorough when it comes to chronicling the antics of Sheehan and her ilk.

In an e-mail update from October 27th, Morgan details:

Last night Cindy Sheehan brought her anti-war "Peace Mom" book tour to Fresno, California.

Outside of Cindy's appearance stood a group of pro-troop supporters, fully decked out in red, white & blue and carrying "Support Our Troops" signs. One of them was Robin Butterfield who lost her son in the war on terrorism.

Sheehan's supporters began to verbally attack the patriotic group, culminating in an outburst by one Sheehan supporter who screamed at the woman that her son died protecting other Marines who, "Kill, rape and sodomize children."

This video illuminates the true mentality behind moonbat Sheehan's supporters.

I Left My Heart In San Francisco from the mind of Cowgirl Up.

or, what I did for my summer vacation

I've been off the radar all summer long wrapped up in a move from the San Francisco Bay Area to the greater Atlanta area. On top of a 2500-mile relocation, selling a house is no easy task. Especially in the current real estate market cool-down. (The entire selling experience has been so difficult, in fact, now that it's finally over I'm certain that if Dante were alive today, he'd write about a special level of Hell where souls must suffer through selling & buying a house in the State of California.)

While I will miss the pleasant California climate, bountiful sunshine, natural beauty, and Pacific ocean, I can't say that I will miss the leftist moonbats, the over-inflated cost of living, and the resulting PC politics. I'm going to miss the Golden State, but I will not miss the Land of Fruits, Nuts & Flakes.

When told about my upcoming relocation, a liberal friend of mine remarked how he could never live in Atlanta because he imagined it to be "too conservative." Unfortunately, I find this perspective to be common among my numerous acquaintances who have spent their entire adult lives steeping in the leftist groupthink of the West coast. Normally I let little remarks like that slide, but in this case I couldn't help but fire back in an e-mail reply that Georgia has plenty of liberals to keep him comfortable; Atlanta, in particular, being home to such establishments as CNN and the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library. I also took the opportunity to remind him that despite Georgia's conservatives, Atlantans continued to re-elect the demure Cynthia McKinney (although the following week she lost her primary - never fear, Moonbats! Like a bad penny, she has a way of always turning up.) Needless to say, I haven't heard back from this friend since then. To be honest I don't care, either. He falls into the same elitist camp that my lesbian neighbors were so fond of flying the flag for: The only places worth living in are New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and perhaps Portland, OR. Well, they can have it. Although I've only called the Southeast home for roughly three weeks, it's nice to live somewhere more normal for a change - somewhere you don't have to wear Birkenstock sandals, slap a "Bush Lied People Died" bumper sticker on your car, and wear a Che Guevara tee while sporting the footprint of the American Chicken on your person in order to fit in.

More or less in poverty? from the mind of Unknown.

House OKs minimum wage increase - via MSNBC.

What does this actually mean? I think that there will be no direct effect on us in the Northwest as our local minimum wages are much higher than the federal minimum. But... we live in an integrated economy.

One thing is for sure, and that is the increase in price levels... which means that my buck fiddie today will be buying significantly less a down the road. The US as a whole has been fairly lucky (or, perhaps it isn't luck at all, but good management of the economy) with low inflation.

Another thing is for sure... in one fell swoop, our number of citizens at poverty level will instantly increase. If price levels change roughly equally to the raise in minimum wage, we will merely be demoting the workforce that is 15 or 20 cents above minimum wage back down to the base. That's unfortunate.

We will also be encouraging 'under the table' employment. As the legal pay rate increases, the incentive for an employer to not report employment, not file taxes, and look for someone who is willing to work illegally goes up. This will actually increase the demand for illegal immigrants. And, since the demand for illegal employment seems mostly endless, I doubt they'll be surfing the correct side of the supply/demand curve that would naturally incrase wages. In order to increase wages in the marketplace, one needs to have a labor shortage.

Locally, this will probably benefit Oregon and Washington. By raising the minimum wage elsewhere in the US, basically, one can view it as reducing the minimum wage in a state where the state minimum wage is higher. This will only make things more competitive, and should be a benefit for regional economy.

My verdict? I see it as a way to buy votes. In all reality, the people who will be effected by this legislation generally don't get the fact that it is a null and void change in their lives. In fact, for the middle class (majority of small business owners) and anyone who likes to travel internationally, the increase in wages will lead to a decrease ability to do business and a decreased value of the Dollar compared to other currencies. Oh, yeah... and it will be a good incentive to ship more jobs overseas.

Aren't the liberals againt shipping jobs overseas?

React to the Unknown, or Develop flexible coping skills? from the mind of Unknown.

Many conversations I have with Human Caused Global Warming advocates deal with the culminating argument that they believe that global warming is human caused, therefore extreme measures should be levied upon humans to stop the warming. I argue that even though that theory is a bit too simplistic and, in my opinion, not accurate, we are better off spending our efforts developing coping strategies because the reason for climate change is not limited to human causes. I ask them how cutting back on CO2 emissions will combat a surge in energy from the sun.

.This article is by someone who seems to be somewhat likeminded. Oh, he also is a Nobel laureate, and works at a little science laboratory in Europe. He's not a former presidential candidate, actor, newscaster or... well, things that just don't matter... he's a top notch chemist.

Read what he has to say, and think about it. Would you rather be spending all of your money fixing the wrong problem... or would you like to develop various strategies to deal with numerous problems as they arise.

Just think about it. If you do, you just may wonder why the global warming industry refuses to take that approach. One reason might be that the forward thinking first world countries are the likely ones to develop and deploy such measures. This system would probably benefit some sort of government contractor, instead of impose great limitations on citizens of the most productive countries on the planet

UNreasonable from the mind of Unknown.

Today, our faithful leader in the world order, Kofi Annan, stated requirements for a UN peacekeeping mission to Lebanon.

This is from memory, so it's a rough quote. He said "in order for peacekeeping forces to arrive, the violence MUST stop."

OK, so, technically, a peacekeeping mission, by definition, would be a mission where peace already exists and must be maintained. So, by this definition, the UN should probably muster a force and deploy to the border between Sweeden and Norway.

Our 'world order' leaders at the UN just don't get it. We need force to battle the backwards ideology of the islamofacists today. If a body is to exist to promote peace worldwide, then it must be willing to not just KEEP the peace, but sometimes, when needed, RESTORE the peace. It appears that the UN is unwilling to do the more difficult, but sometimes necessary mission.

Think of it this way: Our local police forces in the US are charged, basically, with enforcing laws that provide the private citizens with the greatest possibility of having a peaceful life, free from violence and bodily harm. By the UN definition of peace promotion, if a local police officer came up to a domestic dispute between a man and a woman, he should only be able to exert any kind of force IF the couple stops fighting. Can you see it now? The cops episodes would mostly be made up of extended video footage of husbands pummeling their wives.

Now, we all in the west understand that sometimes our police must use force to break up a bad situation. They go through training, and are given a fairly wide array of tools to be able to use the best possible force to dissolve bad situations. Many military forces around the world have a similar set of tools and similar training that is catered to dissolving wars instead of domestic disputes.

History has shown, however, that UN peacekeepign forces are not the blessing that the UN makes them out to be. Perhaps Israel is better off providing their own protection.