Archive for the ‘Hoosier Values’ Category

I’m not Catholic, but I have to agree with Scott, that this is the best “get out the vote” video I’ve ever seen.  If you’re pro-life, this video gets you motivated no matter what sect of Christianity you belong to or even if you’re not religious, but pro-life.

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The front page of the September 18 Indiana Daily Student featured a large full color picture of three students wearing pig noses and pig ears placing condoms on fake bananas. The back page had another large full color photo of a student placing a condom on a fake banana.

Is this really necessary? Did the IDS really need to have large full-color pictures of people putting condoms on fake bananas on the front page of Thursday’s newspaper, especially considering that the newspaper is distributed throughout downtown and in various grocery stores in Bloomington? Did the silly pictures actually serve to enlighten people and advance the discussion of how to prevent sexually transmitted diseases in a substantive way? Or was it sensationalism for the sake of sensationalism?

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Hoosier Access sends its condolences to the Rooney Family.  Mr. Rooney was a great leader in Indiana for conservative causes and will be greatly missed.

Via Veritas Rex:

The conservative movement in general and the Indiana Family Institute in particular lost a dear friend today with the passing of the Honorary Chairman of our Center-Right Coalition in Indiana, J. Patrick Rooney.

Pat was a policy pioneer and an advocate for the least fortunate among us. He worked tirelessly for those trapped by limited school options or wracked with few if any health care resources. He was also a keen mind and a generous supporter of conservative causes that sought to help everyone, not just the elites.

While we in this realm can never know with certainty how Eternity greets anyone but ourselves at that moment of the encounter with the Divine, I won’t be surprised to learn Pat Rooney heard that voice say this very day, “Well done, good and faithful servant.”

Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius is going to be campaigning in Indiana for Barack Obama today.

I suspect that there won’t be much difficulty in getting tickets; I doubt that they will be having packed houses to see the Governor of Kansas, since most Hoosiers have probably never even heard of her before.

But just what should Hoosiers know about Kathleen Sebelius?

How about this bit from Wikipedia:

Sebelius has been endorsed by Planned Parenthood and they have conducted fundraising activity on her behalf. Sebelius vetoed abortion legislation in Kansas in 2003, 2005, 2006, and again in 2008.

On April 21, 2008, Sebelius vetoed House Substitute for Senate Bill 389, titled the Comprehensive Abortion Reform Act by its sponsors. Proponents of the bill claimed the legislation would strengthen late-term abortion laws and prevent “coerced abortions,” particularly with respect to minors. The Kansas City Star reported that HS SB 389 would have required the State of Kansas to collect patient diagnostic information providing detailed medical justification for late-term abortions, and would have also permitted litigants to sue abortion providers if they thought that a relative of theirs was planning a late-term abortion in violation of Kansas law.

Kansas City Archbishop Joseph Naumann has stated that Sebelius has a long record of supporting and advocating for legalized abortion and that her public stances have “grave spiritual and moral consequences.” Naumann also asked that she no longer receive Holy Communion. Naumann criticized Sebelius for vetoing HS SB 389.

I’m not thinking that she’s exactly a champion of Hoosier values.

Perhaps the visit by Sebelius is an effort by the Obama campaign to appeal to moderates.

After all, her hard-line pro-abortion stance is at least more moderate (or maybe just less radical) than that of Obama himself, who has voted in favor of infanticide.

I wonder if Baron Hill will show up and join the Governor.

Today, at an Obama campaign rally in St. Louis, Democrat Congressman Russ Carnahan attacked Sarah Palin when introducing Joe Biden, proclaiming:

“For all his tough talk [McCain] buckled to the right wing of his party in his choice. Picked someone with zero experience in national government, zero experience in foreign affairs. There’s no way you can dress up that record, even with a lot of lipstick,” he said.

Later in the day, at a campaign rally in Lebanon, Virginia, Obama said, “You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig. You can wrap an old fish in a piece of paper called change. It’s still gonna stink. We’ve had enough of the same old thing.”

The partisan crowd roared and cheered at the reference, clearly seeing it as a slam on Governor Sarah Palin, something that Obama’s campaign staff–in full-fledged spin and damage-control mode–vocally denied.

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Taken in context with the Obama campaign’s similar lipstick reference earlier in the day, it’s hard to not see this as something deliberate. And if it is not deliberate, but instead some sort of gaffe, then there is no reason not to apologize for any misunderstanding and move on.

As it stands, the lipstick reference by Obama (and at an earlier campaign rally) are added to a lengthy catalog of sexist and crass actions by the Obama campaign, whether against Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin or, earlier, against Senator Hillary Clinton. In one case, Obama’s crass sexism was targeted at a reporter that asked a question he did not want to answer.

Together, they paint a picture of an interesting pattern.

Take this ad screen shot (courtesy of NRO’s Media Blog):

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The supposed quote, as reported by the Associated Press:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told ministry students at her former church that the United States sent troops to fight in the Iraq war on a “task that is from God.”…

“Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God,” she said. “That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God’s plan.”

The full quote (via Huffington Post, of all places):

“Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending [U.S. soldiers] out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God’s plan.”

The general gist of Palin’s remarks are not that of some sort of zealot speaking of a religious crusade, but rather seem to strike a tone that is an awful lot like this pithy (and oft-repeated and paraphrased) Lincoln quote:

“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side, for God is always right.”

Don’t hold your breath waiting for a retraction; folks in the seats on the left will claim that Abraham Lincoln was himself some sort of crusading theocratic religious zealot first.

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This moment during the Palin speech should have proved to everyone watching that the Palin family is a unit working together for the good of the family, that they are a family like yours and mine….and that Piper could be a star in the making herself.

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It seems that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

Why WRTV, a respected Indianapolis television station, would want to dignify a blog (and a “commentator”) that utilizes phrases like “MILF” and “GILF” is beyond me; maybe they expected it when they hired her. It wasn’t like she didn’t have a record of going low (placing the social security numbers and bank account routing numbers of political opponents up on the internet, as just one example).

They probably didn’t expect the whole vulgar slang acronym thing to come along with it.

The internet is ripe with rumors of all kinds, about all sorts of people. Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Barack Obama, and now Sarah Palin have all been the target of a variety of vicious internet rumors that have yet to be substantiated by facts.

First came the smears about Trig Palin not being Sarah Palin’s son, but instead the son of Palin’s daughter Bristol. The origin of these rumors appears to be a photo in which Bristol Palin looked somehow pregant (because of a quirk of her posture) and her mother (with her family standing in front of her) didn’t.

I still can’t see it, though.

This photo, in turn, sort of dispelled all of that (though some on lefty blogs opined that Governor Palin must have been wearing a fat suit, and still others speculated that the whole thing was a plot by Karl Rove to make them look stupid).

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Barack Obama, March 29, 2008:

…look, I’ve got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby. I don’t want them punished with an STD at the age of 16…

Because, of course, a new life is immediately comparable to a sexually-transmitted disease.

Sarah Palin, September 1, 2008:

“We have been blessed with five wonderful children who we love with all our heart and mean everything to us. Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. As Bristol faces the responsibilities of adulthood, she knows she has our unconditional love and support.

“Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family. We ask the media to respect our daughter and Levi’s privacy as has always been the tradition of children of candidates.”

I hope the media will ask Senator Obama a simple question:

Is Bristol Palin being punished with a baby?

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From the Twitter feed of lefty blogger Bil Browning (sent by an observant reader; I don’t use Twitter):

Just lobbied Rep Baron Hill on trans inclusion in ENDA. Told him facts he didn’t know and he said he’d remember for his vote

Baron got reelected saying that he was in tune with Hoosier values and with the values of the people of his district.

So what does he think about ENDA? Will he take into account the views of his district, or just the views of the People’s Republic of Bloomington? Will he listen to 19 conservative counties, or the most liberal community in Indiana?

Update: Weak snark from Thomas Cook aside, the question remains. Where does Baron Hill stand on ENDA? Does Thomas Cook have an answer? Does Baron Hill?

Becky Skillman issued the following statement upon hearing of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin being chosen as Senator McCain’s VP choice:

Statement by Lt. Governor Becky Skillman on the selection of Governor Sarah Palin as the Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States

“I am delighted with John McCain’s choice for running mate. Governor Sarah Palin will bring with her a wealth of life experience to the White House - from serving as a popular and effective leader of Alaska to balancing her personal life as a wife and mother. She is a reformer and a public servant that Hoosier women, and all Hoosiers, can relate to.”

As blogger, and contributor to Hoosier Access, Scott Tibbs has already noted, Baron Hill doesn’t have much of a problem with Barack Obama or the Obamassiah’s extremely radical position in favor of leaving babies that survive botched abortions to die.

Baron was on WGCL in Bloomington on August 8, and Scott called in to ask him about this position. Baron took exception to being criticized for his endorsement of Barack Obama:

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Now that endorsement was also made in the face of the clear support of establishment and rank-and-file Democrats in the 9th District for Hillary Clinton.

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