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Christie and Booker Have Some Fun
Governor Chris Christie and Newark Mayor Corey Booker chose to have a small bipartisan fun in the Garden State. Everyone knows that Christie’s been hard at work dealing with Jersey’s many problems, but unless you’re from around here you may not know that Booker really ran into a burning house to save a woman last month! For real. Here’s the spoof:
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Christie and Booker Have Some Fun
If Bush Had Done That
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Clogged traffic arteries are genetic
Police in Prince William County, VA just released a list of the most perilous intersections and I learned that on a single trip to Chantilly I managed to drive through the most perilous intersection in Manassas, the most hazardous in Manassas Park and the third most threatening in the rest of the county. This is because I live in the land of “you can’t get there from here.” Northern Virginia residents have only a very limited number of through streets and major thoroughfares. Drivers are forced to crowd into a handful of routes when they want to go east or west and even fewer when they want to go north. Any tourist ever stuck on I–95 knows what I’m talking about. There is no way to plot a route avoiding perilous, packed intersections because there are no alternatives. Much of this can be blamed on what I call the Stonewall Jackson school of traffic engineering: “Why Stonewall whipped the Yankee’s behind using this very road network. There is no need to improve on perfection.” In effect this means replacing a one–lane corduroy road with a winding two–lane asphalt design is viewed as a technological breakthrough rivaling that of the flush toilet. And it’s not going to get any better where I live. County planners are in the process of approving a 22–acre mixed use development that will have 360 apartments, two hotels and an office building. And oh yes, there will be only a single exit from the development linking it to neighboring roads. Once more state and local government succeeds where national government and Richard Branson failed. The county and the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) have managed to monetize space. The right to drive into or out of a parcel of land makes it extremely valuable, because curb cuts are rationed tighter than ethics at a GSA convention. Gaining permission for that vital absence of concrete curbing often requires a lobbyist. I’m sure the thinking here was you can drain a bathtub with a single exit, why not a real estate development? Yet the same planners would not approve a movie theatre with one exit and they wouldn’t approve a shopping mall interior with a single exit either. Maybe we should give the fire marshal authority to approve road and development design. Installing a sprinkler system in your car would be a small price to pay for more efficient transportation. Fortunately, due to cul–de–sac laden, backward road design theory, most of the crashes here are low speed encounters. According to a press release from TomTom, the GPS people, the Washington, DC area has the most congested traffic and slowest average speeds in the nation. Many drivers serve a positively organic role in the Capitol’s traffic circulatory system, functioning as automotive plaque that clogs the artery and slows us down. I recently returned from a trip to Dallas and traffic there was a revelation. At 4 PM on Friday I was driving down LBJ Freeway and Central Expressway, two major thoroughfares that are packed daily with rush hour traffic. Auto density was the same as on I–95, but guess what? I was moving at speeds in excess of 40 mph! I felt like a Swiss neutron racing the speed of light. What’s more, I passed two sets of parked police cruisers with their lights flashing and traffic did not grind to a complete halt. I know this is hard to believe for DC drivers, because here any blinking light more intense than a turn signal has a tendency to stupefy motorists. The sun glinting off a jack handle while changing a flat, the reflection from a trooper’s radar detector or shiny bling worn by someone waiting for AAA all cause motorists to immediately hit the brake. The only hint of excellent news regarding our congestion is the number of teenagers who don’t have or want a driver’s license is at an all time low. Unfortunately, those with a new license are going to be just as incompetent as the rest of their family. This is because in Virginia getting a driver’s license no longer requires actual driving in a car with a grim state trooper waiting for you to make a mistake. Instead teenagers are supposed to drive for 40 hours with their parents beside them and follow parental advice. Later, when they get the coveted license, teenagers can boast: “I drive whatever speed I like in left lane, just like peepaw.” “I always slow down when a car is stopped on the shoulder. It might be Uncle Tran.” “Mom says leave three car lengths between me and the car ahead at a stoplight, in case I start to roll while texting.” Or “Like granny, I always brake when approaching a green light, because you never know.” And driving incompetence, with its accompanying congestion, will be passed down from generation to generation just like a genetic abnormality. Clogged traffic arteries are genetic by Michael R. Shannon syndicated from The Land of the Free .
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The “Evolving” Gay Marriage Debate
Issues do not live in a vacuum. There are worldviews behind every issue, and those worldviews need to be a part of whatever issue we are debating, otherwise we will be small-sighted, and the outcome will be the result of ill-informed voters and agenda-driven policy-makers. Now that President Obama has publicly stated that he is for gay marriage, which he says is a result of his ‘evolving’ view on the issue, “At a certain point I’ve just concluded that for me personally it is vital for me to go ahead and affirm that I reckon same-sex couples should be able to get married,” our nation is having to address the legality, and the core issues surrounding this issue: the causes and morality of homosexuality, again. Also of note, in the ABC interview in which Obama announced his position, he also said his choice was based on his faith in Jesus Christ and the Golden Rule, applying, ”Treat others the way you would want to be treated,” to his view on the issue. Even though Pres. Obama blamed VP Joe Biden for getting “a small bit over his skis” in publicly and preemptively announcing his embrace of gay marriage, thus forcing Obama to prematurely announce his own support for gay marriage, to which he said, “Would I have preferred to have done this in my own way, in my own terms, without I reckon, there being a lot of notice to everybody? Sure. But all’s well that ends well,” the president made his announcement on the Eve of a huge Hollywood fundraiser (a $40,000 per person, $15 million raised event) for his re-election campaign. And we all know Hollywood predominately supports the gay agenda. In today’s postmodern society, which has cast its moral compass to the wind and is running full force in making decisions based on feelings and group-reckon, rather than on non-emotional, well researched positions, it is critical to be informed, as well as able to communicate the facts on issues. This requires a knowledge of the history, the stated motivations and agendas of advocates, the existing law on the issue(s), and wisdom based on time-tested truth. To make a choice based on anything less is, to say the least, faulty, and more often than not, disastrous. So, when we look at the changing worldviews that are rapidly occurring in every arena of our nation today, there’s nothing more effective than direct quotes and stated positions to shine the light on the reality of the mentalities and motivations that surround an issue, such as in this case, “gay rights.” For instance, Gay Rights Organizational Positions and Agendas: The Advocate ( http://www.advocate.com/ ), the national magazine for the gay rights movement. Then ACLU’s website ( http://www.aclu.org/LesbianGayRights/LesbianGayRightsMain.cfm ), advocates for gay rights. The Lambda Legal website ( http://www.lambdalegal.org/cgi-bin/iowa/index.html ), the “national organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, the transgendered through impact litigation, education, and public policy work.” Here you can see Glaad’s media awards ( http://www.glaad.org/ ), and the gay movement’s reckon tank National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s Policy Institute ( http://www.ngltf.org/ ). GLSEN’s (Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network) website ( http://www.glsen.org/ ) “envisions a future in which every child learns to respect and accept all people regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.” From their Small Black Book given to junior and senior high school students you’ll read, ”Hey Queer Boys! Welcome to queer life in the 21st Century! Is this a fantastic time to be gay or what? We are faced with vital challenges every day like the right to marry, homophobia, coming out, STDs and HIV/AIDS, but queers have never loved more visibility.” And Youth.org www.youth.org is an online source of youth gay sites. Keep reading… This site, Right Spirit , http://www.right-spirit.org/programming/03workshoplist.htm lists the workshops available at Right Spirit conferences on such subjects such as the risk of breast cancer even after “…FTMs, transmen, or anyone born female-bodied who uses testosterone; ” and intersex activism thoughts for “changing our world.” Other conference workshops, remember these are for youth, were on, ”How to Do SM [Sadomasochism];” one devoted to “polyamory,” an activist term for multiple-partner sexual unions entitled, “Turning girls into boys” at http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=26569 . See Americans for Truth article on the ethics of doctors surgically changing young women’s bodies into males: http://www.americansfortruth.com/HRCTrueSpirit2002.html . If you want to know the outlined agenda of the gay movement with steps for America to accept homosexuality as normal, see “The Overhauling of Straight America: Waging Peace Part Two” ( http://www.defendthefamily.com/_docs/resources/8142838.pdf ). This was written in 1987, and states, “To desensitize the public is to help it view homosexuality with indifference instead of with keen emotion…if you can only get them to reckon that it is just another thing, with a shrug of their sholders then your battle for legal and social rights is virtually won.” The Pro-Family Law Center’s website ( http://www.abidingtruth.com ) as alot of additional information on the subject. Focus on the Family provided additional quotes from an After the Ball event, which outlined key points of the gay agenda: “Talk about gays and gayness as loudly and as often as possible.” ”Described gays as victims, not as aggressive challengers.” “Give homosexual protectors a just cause.” “Make gays look excellent.” “Make the victimizers look terrible.” “Get funds from corporate America.”
