Pretty soon I’ll be running down to Virginia to celebrate Thanksgiving with family. As usual, this will involve lots of eating and watching football, the latter featuring the annual Commonwealth Cup between my alma mater Virginia Tech and Thomas Jefferson’s creation, the University of Virginia. Thanksgiving was first [...]
In northern San Diego, south of Delmar and on a hill tucked in between historic U.S. Highway 101 and the Pacific Ocean is Torrey Pines State Reserve. It is also immediately north of the golf course with the same name. The name comes from a rare type [...]
According to ABC News, the Obama administration’s stimulus-tracking web site has reported 30 jobs saved in Arizona’s 15 congressional district. Is that the area where Sheriff Joe Arpaio tries to keep law and order? Or one of the Hopi, Navajo or Hualapai reservations? Or maybe a national park such [...]
During my recent trip to California, I went up to Palm Springs, where I had stayed on two separate trips during the 1990’s. My first time out there, I was shocked to find Rush Limbaugh’s TV program on at 6 PM, instead of 1 AM, its timeslot on one of [...]
I remember our Veterans, who serve and have served. In particular, I want to thank my grandfather, who served in the Pacific on the USS Storm King during WWII, and my Uncle Martin, who went ashore on D+1 with the 2nd Infantry Division and was wounded four times liberating France [...]
John Muhammad, mastermind of the “beltway sniper” attacks that left 10 people dead in Maryland and Virginia in 2002, was executed at 9:00 PM Tuesday night, by lethal injection. He was convicted and sentenced to death in Virginia for the murder of Dean Harold Meyers, who [...]
As Pelosi and Co. have since spewed for their abomination dressed up in the rags of liberty and freedom, I’d thought I’d link to a story that shows what it looks like with the rose-colored glasses of Hope and Change™ removed.
Twenty years ago today, the Berlin Wall came down. It was torn down, not by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, as famously urged by American president Ronald Reagan, but by ordinary Germans. The destruction of the wall led to the reunification of Germany, and eventually to the end of European [...]
According to Yahoo and Fox News, Republicans have won the odd-year gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey.
In Virginia, where governors are limited to a single 4-year term, Bob McDonnell has defeated Democrat Creigh Deeds by 59% to 41%. Republicans also won the races for Lieutenant Governor and [...]
I now interrupt my travelogue to bring you some news about what’s going on out there in the world.
A staffer for the House Ethics Committee has been fired for revealing the names of seven congresscritters under investigation.
Now that RINO Dede Scozzafava has withdrawn from the special election in the [...]
Founded in 1798 and located in Oceanside, California just off state highway 76, the San Luis Rey de Francia mission is the largest of the California missions, and is a National Historic Landmark. The mission includes a church, a cemetery, a garden and a museum, of which this is [...]
While exploring the mountainous region east of San Diego, I came across these two small missions (to translate the post’s title). About a mile north of Santa Ysabel is the town’s namesake, the Mission of Santa Ysabel Asistencia. Founded in 1818 by Catholic missionaries intending to minister to the [...]
I spent last week on vacation in a state where the sun is warm, the beaches are gorgeous, Mexican food is abundant, and the governor is a Kennedy in-law. (Oh well, three out of four ain’t bad.) Since some have suggested that it might slide off into the sea [...]
Somer Thompson
Sheriff Rick Beseler said that the identification was based on clothing on the body and a [...]
Capt. Nick Giglio
Sumter (WLTX) – Officials at Shaw Air Force Base say they believe a pilot whose plane collided with another jet died on impact, and they are now looking to recover his body.
Officials announced their findings at a 10 p.m. Saturday night news [...]
Three scum-sucking pus-bags who murdered innocents in the last 4 months have breathed their last.
In Texas, if you kill someone… we kill you right back….
Christopher Bernard Coleman, 37, was executed by lethal injection on 22 September 2009 in Huntsville, Texas for the drug-related murder [...]
England’s Children’s Minister wants a review of the case of two police officers told they were breaking the law, caring for each other’s children.
Ofsted said the arrangement contravened the Childcare Act because it lasted for longer than two hours a day, and constituted receiving “a reward”.
It [...]
I can’t believe Target bended and gave….
LOS ANGELES — A Southern California immigrant rights group on Friday asked the Target store chain and a costume company to stop selling an “illegal alien” Halloween costume it said is offensive to immigrants.
The costume features the mask of an alien with a [...]
Remember, fellow conservatives, we all have the right to disagree with President Obama, but let’s be careful about getting too bent out of shape. After all, ill-chosen words can sometimes inspire political violence, you know.
And while we’re at it, we might want to avoid comparing Obama to Hitler
[...]
Shorter Joe Trippi, on Obama:
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California Budget Is Already in the Red 10 Weeks After Passage
Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) — California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will know within a month whether a $1.1 billion drop in revenue collections is part of a growing budget shortfall or an isolated event, his [...]
Obama wins the Noble Peace Prize???? You got to be kidding me! I wonder if he’ll be nominated for the Heisman or an Oscar?!? He’ll probably win them both too.
Ya know, had the President actually brokered peace, somewhere in the world, then this would have actually been a shoe [...]
“most people back home dont even know, no one gives a s—” – excerpt from an email from a deployed soldier.
We “beat back” the insurgents, so we won that battle. But the fact that they, more or less, kicked us out of the base, to the point that our [...]
Here is a link from independent war correspondent Michael Yon talking about the increased fighting in Afghanistan, and more troubling, the destruction of a forward operating base:
We need more gear and more forces now. We can outfight these enemies and we can win the war, but at this rate [...]
This HAS to be the perfect allegory to this story:
I don’t think it was what they had in mind when they released it however…
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Before I go running off to North Carolina to watch a football game, here are a few things I’ve run across over the last day or two:
Some lenders are modifying mortgages by lowering the due principal.
As the time [...]
Barry worship or bad acoustics? Are these members of the Gamaliel Foundation, in a meeting back in December 2008, saying “Obama”, or “oh, God”, after “deliver us”? I’ve seen this on several blogs, but I’ll give the H/T to Pink Elephant Pundit, where I first found a YouTube version. [...]
Here’s a man who knows how to stand up for his country.
Part 1:
Part 2:
Part 3:
One personal note. I, too, have seen copies of the plans for Auschwitz and Birkenau – when I visited there. I’ve seen the gas chambers, the ovens used to cremate [...]
Tucked into the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania, next to a waterfall on a bend in the Youghiogheny River, is the small town of Ohiopyle, the center of a state park of the same name. A bike trail, converted from an old rail line, runs along the river and is [...]
Jim Treacher has the details, about a woman who showed up at the 9/12 tea party in DC. As it turns out, she even turned up in one of my pics.
Copyright © 2009 And Rightly So.... This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are [...]Yes, they’re apparently French pilots. And yes, I’m sure that they’re bored as they have no bad guys to go up against.
But this is still a cool video. I wish I had cool theme music playing when I was flying…
Copyright © 2009 And Rightly So.... This Feed is for [...]On September 17, 1787 thirty-nine men from the very young United States of America, having gathered in Philadelphia, finished writing a Constitution, a proposed replacement for the country’s governing document, the Articles of Confederation.
In much more recent political news, [...]
On Saturday 9/12/09, I went down to DC to join the Tea Party protest. Around 8:30 AM, I arrived at Shady Grove, a station on the Washington Metro subway, just north of Rockville, MD. As I got out of my car, I noticed license plates from Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan. [...]
Courtesy of Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air:
Sheesh.
Copyright © 2009 And Rightly So.... This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is guilty of copyright infringement. Please contact legal@andrightlyso.com so we [...]Tomorrow, I will be in Washington, DC, attending a huge rally against some of Barry’s policies. By some estimates, several hundred thousand people may show up, some from halfway across the country. By falling on the day after the anniversary of 9/11/01, the 9/12 rally will remind us that [...]
Based on Tom Friedman’s article, the one talking about the virtues of China’s one party rule, this is apparently the first draft before revisions!
Watching both the health care and climate/energy debates in Congress, it is hard not to draw the following conclusion: There is only one thing worse than [...]
I heard this wonderful little snippet that I had to rewind and hear about twenty times just to make sure I heard it come out of the President’s speech tonight:
A belief that in this country, hard work and responsibility should be rewarded by some measure of security and fair [...]
Arrest warrants have been issued for 11 workers hired by ACORN, for voter registration fraud in Homestead, Florida. According to Florida state attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle,
11 workers hired to register voters by the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now — or ACORN — submitted 888 fraudulent names. She said the [...]
Oh hell no:
No matter how good it first sounds, if it contains a Health Choices Administration or something like it, Obama’s “compromise” will just be a wolf in sheep’s clothing. If you don’t know what a Health Choices Administration is, you haven’t studied the [...]
Unemployment has risen to 9.7%…and it will probably get worse before it gets better. One way to make sure that number climbs is to bring forth the so called Card Check law.
As Labor Day approaches, union bosses must put workers first by giving up their quest to pass the [...]
Tomorrow, Obama will give his speech to the nation’s schoolchildren. Some have been critical of his planned speaking appearance, and others have said, “What’s the big deal? Reagan and/or (GHW) Bush also spoke to kids in school.” Still others have argued that Barry’s upcoming speech is different from those given [...]
Heh…Duncan notes how many of the Founding Fathers were part of the original “terrorist” organization. Well I’ll be damned. That blends well with this article I just read.
Book sales … blog visits … tea parties … town halls … a national poll … There is increasing evidence of [...]
According to its Wikipedia entry, it can be “considered” that:
The Sons of Liberty was a secret organization of American patriots which originated in the Thirteen Colonies during the American Revolution. British authorities and their supporters, known as Loyalists, considered the Sons of Liberty as seditious rebels, referring to them [...]
What’s the answer to this question?
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Obama was going to ask the children to find ways to serve him. He still thinks it’s all about him – that hasn’t changed one bit. Good grief! No surprise to see his performance ratings are tanking. Good thing people see him for what he [...]
Taxachusetts is getting prepared for the swine flu – by crafting a bill that if passed, would give state and local agencies a broad set of powers, in the event of an emergency. Some of these would would be:
to require the owner or occupier of premises to permit entry [...]
Today’s top story would have to be the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, at age 77, from the brain cancer that he had been fighting for over a year. Kennedy was known as the Lion of the Senate, by the knickname “Ted”, and also by a few things [...]
Atleast she doesn’t shift the court further to the left…..
WASHINGTON — Ohio prison authorities confirmed Tuesday the execution of Jason Getsy, 33, who was convicted of the 1995 murder of a 66-year-old woman he shot while trying to carry out a contract killing.
Getsy was pronounced dead at 10:29 am [...]
The scientific paper, which is published in a book “Infectious Diseases Modelling Research Progress”, looks at an [...]
After being released from prison, and being conditionally reinstated by the NFL, former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick has been signed by the Philadephia Eagles. Vick be vying for the job of backing up veteran QB Donovan McNabb, or perhaps trying to learn another position.
There is no doubt that [...]
When Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) held a town meeting in Houston this past Tuesday, a woman named Roxana Mayer, identifying herself as a physician, expressed her support for the pending health care reform legislation. Only one problem – she’s not a licensed physican. She’s not even involved in [...]
Just a couple of things I ran across earlier today. Of course, when you run across Astroturf, you have to be careful, because it’s different from grass. And below a thin layer of rubberized padding, there’s a substrate made of solid concrete.
Caleb Howe at Red State has some Astroturf [...]
During most of the Bush presidency, various Democrats told us that people had a right to voice their dissent, without their patriotism being questioned. Some even pulled out the quote, “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism”, often attributed Thomas Jefferson (although there is no evidence that he ever [...]
…Or did he time-travel back to ancient Egypt, and pose for this sculpture? The Jacko-resembling bust, on display since 1988 in the Field Museum in Chicago, even includes a disfigured nose, possibly the result of anti-idolatry by early Christians or early Muslims.
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by including this picture of Raven* at the beach…
(* Note: Not sure if this is Raven.)
Not so sure about her choice of beach companion however…
That’s right! Sexy time!
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Via the Talking Points Memo we get this gem:
Unreal.
“Our ability to put the extremists into perspective helps us frame our narrative”.
Because anybody who stands up to Obama and his plans for this country is an extremist and gets in the way of the party “narrative”. [...]
Would someone please explain to me how Congress has the power to pass this law that can prohibit this behavior?
Rachel Merrill, mother of three, was holding innocuous-seeming contraband in her hand at an Arlington Goodwill store earlier this month: a 1971 edition of “Little House on the Prairie.” This [...]
and the blog-mistress will be unhappy with me. Better get back to work around here before she notices I was gone…
A few links from around the ’sphere:
It looks like we’re running out of oil quicker than anticipated. Ofcourse, I’m sure there is no “green” agenda [...]
Things have been pretty slow around here at ARS, but the news cycle never stops. Here are a few items I’ve spotted during the last few days.
Dozens of illegal aliens, convicted of serious crimes, have been released back into the US after serving their [...]
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One December day a married couple found an old straggly cat at their door. She was a sorry sight. Starving, dirty, smelled terrible, skinny, and hair all matted down. The husband didn’t feel like taking in a cat, but he and his wife both still felt sorry for her, [...]
Deaths of famous people seem to have been quite frequent during the past few weeks. As the LA Times puts it,
It seems that every time we turn around, another beloved celebrity is passing away. Today, it is with heavy heart that we report yet another celebrity death.
This time, [...]
Forty years ago, on July 20, 1969, a spacecraft from Earth, just one small part of a large rocket that had lifted off from Florida four days earlier, touched down on the moon in a region called the Sea of Tranquity. Officially designated the Lunar Excursion Module, or LEM, and [...]
Seems like a slow summer around ARS right now. No posts for almost a week… Ruh-roh! So my contribution will be this gem from “Russia’s Got Talent”.
Copyright © 2009 And Rightly So.... This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your [...]Big Ben turns 150. To celebrate, children will get to climb the belfry and see the inner workings in action.
Charles Krauthammer gives his opinion of the U.S.-Russia “Joint Understanding.”
At the G-8 conference, Russian [...]
From Theo Spark:
Killed in action the week before, the body of Sergeant First Class John C. Beale was returned to Falcon Field in Peachtree City , Georgia , just south of Atlanta , on June 11, 2009 . The Henry County Police Department escorted the procession to the funeral [...]
Kolob Canyons is an area in Zion National Park located about 20 miles northwest of Zion Canyon (shown in parts 1 and 2). There are no roads within Zion connecting Kolob to the rest of the park. Instead, Kolob has its own entrance and visitors center, just off exit 40 [...]
Read this statement:
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury [...]
A few months back, I posted two videos from The Nose On Your Face, that humorously depicted Teh OneTM carved onto Mt. Rushmore, talking with Honest Abe, Teddy the Rough Rider, Tom of the Declaration, and the Original George W. Yesterday morning, life imitated art, as activists connected [...]
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) said Tuesday that the health-care reform bill now pending in Congress would garner very few votes if lawmakers actually had to read the entire bill before voting on it.
“If every member pledged to not vote for it if they [...]
“Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all, enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy.”
Copyright © 2009 And Rightly So.... This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are [...]For my second hike in Bryce Canyon National Park, I decided to find the Tower Bridge, so named because it reminded people of an artificial bridge in London. The trailhead was about 100 yards to the north of the trail to Queen’s Garden. This trail would be longer, about [...]
A dramatization of the representatives of the 13 colonies voting on a resolution to approve a declaration of independence from the British Crown
Excerpts from a letter from John Adams to his wife dated July 3, 1776, the evening before that fateful vote:
Had a declaration of independence been made seven [...]
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That [...]
There’s nothing quite like an electric violin, made from that all-American icon, the baseball bat.
And for Raven, some more American icons:
Ooooo-rah!
I wish I had something clever and snarky to say…. but the headline just steals my thunder…
MEXICO CITY — Mexican authorities say two professional wrestlers found dead in a low-rent hotel in the capital may have been drugged to death by female robbers.
Autopsies are being performed on the two [...]
Bryce Canyon National Park is located in southern Utah, about 40 miles east of Zion National Park, and about 30 miles north of the border with Arizona, as the crow flies. The driving distances, as you might expect, are another matter. Unlike Zion, where the main road follows the [...]
KIRKWOOD, NY — State police in New York say two Pennsylvania men robbed a gas station and might have gotten away if they had also fueled up.
Troopers said they caught 29-year-old Lonnie Meckwood, of Carbondale, and 51-year-old Phillip Weeks, of Tunkhannock, after their getaway car ran out of gas [...]
As noted in Part 1, a seven-mile-long road extends northward into Zion Canyon from a visitor’s center near the southern entrance to the park. At the north end of the road is a place called the Temple of Sinawava, named for the coyote god of the Paiute Indians. Unlike many [...]
I am sure the answer would go something like this:
“Um. Well. Um. Er. um. That’s above my paygrade….”
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Later, while answering a question about crime in [...]
Not the kind that illegally cross our border with Mexico, but the kind that allegedly crashed near Roswell, NM, and whose technology is thought by some to have been exploited by the US government in a place known as Area 51. Whether or not these aliens exist and [...]
On September 11, innocent Americans were murdered by violent members of a polygamy-encouraging religion, who had no reservations about attacking civilians. Today, a memorial to that senseless massacre sits in an open field, as we assure ourselves that the vast majority of that religion’s adherents want nothing to do with [...]
Comparing Barack and President Sarkozy in their response to the Iran election fraud and subsequent coup d’état, were I the French parliament, I would pass a bill taking this:
and renaming it:
Fromage de la Liberté
How far we have fallen…
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From 1881 to 1899 a breakwater was built from the northern shore of Rockland Harbor to protect the harbor from Nor’easters. The Bodwell Granite Company used around 700,000 tons of granite for the project, which cost more than three quarters of a million dollars. As [...]
I loved “Band of Brothers”, and if this is as well done as that, then I have a feeling I’m really gonna like this one as well. It supposedly follows the 1st Marine Division, so Raven will like that..
Copyright © 2009 And Rightly So.... This Feed is for personal [...]After visiting Nevada’s Valley Of Fire State Park (see yesterday’s post), I continued southward to Hoover Dam. As I entered US highway 93, the dam traffic had already slowed to a snail’s pace. I thought it might be due to some dam construction, but there was none I could see [...]
I just got back from a trip to Nevada and Utah, where I went without computer or internet. I started my sightseeing in Valley Of Fire State Park, about 50 miles east of Las Vegas. I had visited the place one time before, on a tour put on by [...]
must be refreshed time to time by the blood of patriots and tyrants…
Hopefully it won’t be just the blood of Iranian patriots….
This is the kind of stuff that can enrage a populace to mass unrest… I think the mad mullahs might have overplayed their hand…
(NOTE: If this does turn [...]
Hopefully you’ve already called your father and told ‘em how much you love ‘em. If you are a “Daddy”, thank the Good Lord above for giving you the privilege, and pray that you can live up to, or already have, the responsibility of your children.
Copyright © 2009 And Rightly [...]The federal government is spending $423,500 to find out why men don’t like to wear condoms, a project government watchdogs say is a nearly-half-a-million-dollar waste of taxpayer money.
Researchers at Indiana University’s Kinsey Institute, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, are investigating why [...]
you might not agree with the definition, but this ain’t illegal…. dumbass…
A written exam administered by the Pentagon labels “protests” as a form of “low-level terrorism” — enraging civil liberties advocates and activist groups who say it shows blatant disregard of the First Amendment.
The written exam, given as [...]
From an email from my madre:
The year is 1947
Some of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, a little over 60 years
ago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with five
aliens aboard crashed onto a sheep and mule ranch just outside Roswell ,
New Mexico . [...]
