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Collected Miscellany

• Free stuff Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:30:18
  Book cover via Amazon FYI, for those interested in these sorts of things: Women on the Web, an online women’s magazine, is giving away a beach bag containing an autographed copy of Jane Green’s The Beach House, Lancaster sunscreen products and a custom beach towel to five lucky readers. addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fcollectedmiscellany.com%2F2008%2F09%2Ffree-stuff%2F’; addthis_title = [...]
• Constellation Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:34:42
  I hope this means more books available for Kindle and available on the publication date.  I seem to have looked at a few books who were not available on the Kindle until after the hardback had been released.  Might have something to do with the publisher’s profit on each item. I would love to see digital [...]
• Lamplighter (Monster Blood Tattoo, Book 2) by D.M. Cornish Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:00:32
  Book cover via Amazon Way back in May when I saw that the second book in the Monster Blood Tattoo series by D.M. Cornish, the sequel to Foundling, was being released I was excited. But I will admit that I was a little nervous when I saw that Lamplighter was such a large tome (over 700 [...]

Obama's con

• Great Blogger Headlines Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:30:17
  Fisking Obama on his ridiculous attacks on Sarah Palin is like shooting fish in a barrel, but I wanted to draw your attention to two of my favorite responses. Ace has a long but effective title to his post: Extremely Confused Would-Be Commander-in-Chief Launches “Harshest Attack Yet” on Woman Who’s Not Technically Even His Opponent Ace links to [...]
• Obama’s false bravado on change Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:54:00
  Obama has clearly decided to run a campaign against President Bush.  And he has also lost any sense of shame.  He is constantly accusing his opponents of things that apply equally, or even more so, to himself.  Take today: “Don’t be fooled,” a particularly punchy Obama told a crowd this morning at a town hall meeting [...]
• Obama continues to smear opponents Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:02:40
  Obama goes back to the “they will try to scare you” complaint: “I know that I’m not your typical presidential candidate,” Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told executives and employees of the Schott glass company Friday afternoon, “and I just want to be honest with you. I know that.” “And I know that the temptation is to say, [...]

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OK, after much mucking about I finally decided what I am going to do with this blog.  I am not going to syndicate the content from my other blogs.

Instead, I am just going to use this as a more personal blog.  I will post about sports, family, culture, and whatever else strikes my fancy.

The last couple of posts from my other blogs, however, are now available on the top of the left sidebar.  Just in case you wonder what I am up to on the other sites.

So to clear things up:

Books = Collected Miscellany

Politics/election 2008 = Obama’s Con

Everything Else = this site

I am sure this has been helpful for the 20 visitors I get a day . . .

I’m going to fight for my cause every day as your President. I’m going to fight to make sure every American has every reason to thank God, as I thank Him: that I’m an American, a proud citizen of the greatest country on earth, and with hard work, strong faith and a little courage, great things are always within our reach. Fight with me. Fight with me.

Fight for what’s right for our country.

Fight for the ideals and character of a free people.

Fight for our children’s future.

Fight for justice and opportunity for all.

Stand up to defend our country from its enemies.

Stand up for each other; for beautiful, blessed, bountiful America.

Stand up, stand up, stand up and fight. Nothing is inevitable here. We’re Americans, and we never give up. We never quit. We never hide from history. We make history.

Thank you, and God Bless you.

– John McCain

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I am back in my home state of Michigan and happy to be here.

Driving six hours with an eleven month old in the car is a bit of a challenge, but we made it up here safe and sound.

I thought my BlackBerry was going to catch on fire as the emails burned up the wires.  As I was was leaving Ohio McCain was heading to Dayton to announce his VP pick!  Lisa agreed to drive so I could read email.  Speculation was followed by amazement followed by debate and discussion.

Once we arrived Ella wanted to swim right away and I joined her in the water.  We then had a lovely meal and peach gobbler for desert.  Then finished out the night with a soak in the hot tub.  Ah, vacation!

Hard to believe that college football has started.  I will nervously be watching the University of Michigan Wolverines game against Utah this afternoon.  I am hoping that they can get off to a better start than they did last year!  The start of the Rich Rodriguez era will finally be under way.

Hope all of you are having a great Labor Day weekend.

So those few longtime readers visiting the site since the change over: what do you think?

Do you like the design?  Functionality?  Sideblog?  Please feel free to leave some feedback or just say hello.

Things seem to be working here at the new site.  But please be patient as we work out the kinks.  If you find a broken link or something unusual drop me an email or leave a comment.

I am not sure how many people are really reading this site yet, but I appreciate the patience of anyone who is.  I am still working out the kinks of the syndication system that imports my posts from other blogs.  I am also working on fully transitioning from MT to WP.  I hope it will all be worth it in the end.  Thanks.

Watched a good bit of the Barclays today.  It was one of those tournaments where nothing seems to happen until the back nine and then there are half a dozen players with a shot to win.  It was also weird watching the Fed Ex Cup without Tiger Woods.

In the end Sergio Garcia, Vijay Singh, and Kevin Sutherland went to a playoff and Vijay won.

I found it rather ironic that Sergio found a way to make a clutch putt (a bomb on the first playoff hole it what looked like a win) only to have Vijay make one and then win on the next hole.

Sergio looks like Phil Michaelson did a few years back.  Where he always seemed to be hanging around but never won as many as he should have.  I wouldn’t be suprised to see the Spainard break out and win a bunch here soon.

In case anyone is wondering, I am using a plugin that imports post from my other blogs.  The title hyperlink will take you to the other blog.  This is just a way to put all my blogging in one place.  For those of you who want a one stop shop.

It is about the sanctity of life, not government spending

ABC News:

The Democratic Party is planning a convention designed to soften the edges on the party’s support for abortion rights, with a revamped platform and a speaking lineup that reinforces efforts to broaden Democrats’ appeal on the hot-button issue.

Oh sure, if by softening you mean being even more pro-abortion than ever.

Obama supports a policythat can arguably be called infanticide
and the  Democrats remove language from the platform that called for abortion to be “safe, legal, and rare” and insisted on a right to an abortion regardless of the ability to pay. So abortion on demand
paid for by the government. This is softening? Just because a nominally pro-life politician gets a speaking slot and some pro-life folks were in on the discussions?

This is the media buying the spin. The Democrats having been trying to soften their image for some time but the hard core abortion zealots get angry even when they move rhetorically to the center - hence the platform changes. But the key is that all of this is mere appearances. They have never supported anything in
actual policy. No parental notification, no to partial birth bans, no to required counseling, etc.

They want you to believe that government spending on pre and post natal care or other welfare programs somehow makes them compassionate and working to reduce the need for abortion. But this
is the part of the con as well. The sanctity of life can not be massaged away by government spending or programs. The issue is the murder of millions of innocent children not how best to encourage
healthy children.

And Obama even voted against giving children born in a botched abortion this fundamental right to life - a policy that NARAL refused to oppose! Does the fact that he supports more government spending on natal health care suddenly change the fact that he supports the deliberate killing of innocent babies living and
breathing outside the womb?!?!

Obama may talk nice about pro-lifers and use his famous charm but he
is an abortion extremist. The media simply refuses to  accurately report the truth.

And pro-life voters shouldn’t be conned by this ruse.

Obama’s abortion extremism and deception is coming to light.

Yuval Levin explains:

Six years ago, Congress passed the “Born-Alive Infants Protection Act,” making it illegal to kill a child who is fully born during an attempted abortion. The bill passed without a single opposing vote in either house, and was signed into law by President Bush on August 5, 2002. When he was a state senator at that same time, Barack Obama opposed a state version of the bill in Illinois.

His explanation for the vote since then has been that the state version did not include a so-called “neutrality clause” which says explicitly that the bill is not meant to influence the legal standing of a fetus before birth one way or another. The federal law contained such a clause, and the state law, Obama has long insisted, did not. As recently as June 30, the Obama campaign made that case to answer the charge (in that case from Bill Bennett) that Obama had opposed the Born-Alive Act.

But now, the National Right to Life Committee has uncovered proof that Obama in fact voted in committee against even the version of the Illinois Born-Alive Act that did include exactly the
same “neutrality clause” as the federal bill. On March 12, 2003, when the bill was being debated, an amendment was added that inserted the neutrality language of the federal bill verbatim into
the Illinois bill. Obama voted for the amendment (that’s the vote on the left-hand column on this committee vote record), and then voted against the amended bill (that’s the vote on the right on the same document). All the Democrats on the committee (which Obama chaired) followed his lead, and the bill was defeated.

This was, again, legislation that in the same form had by then passed unanimously at the federal level. Even NARAL did not oppose it. Apparently Barack Obama did, and his old explanation for doing so seems at odds with the facts.

More details here.

So not only is Obama far outside the mainstream on the issue of abortion, but he refuses to honestly explain his position. This is new politics? This is Hope and Change?

Nope, this is the ugly side of Obama. And it is a side he very much doesn’t want Americans to think about. But this election is too important to ignore these ugly truths.

Don’t Buy the Hype, Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid.

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