Lulu and Lola

From the Daily Mail:

A woman has forked out a staggering £40,000 on tiaras and tutus for her pampered dogs.

Louise Harris, 29, was a self-confessed dog hater until four years ago when her sister took her to look at some Yorkshire Terrier puppies called Lulu and Lola.

She fell in love with the pair and has not looked back since.

The correspondent who sent this in and who shall be nameless, asked, "Next stop breast enhancement?"

So Are You Ready For The...

Thanks to Susan S.

Gun Sales On The Rise

From the Advocate:

Baton Rouge gun stores are seeing the same spike in weapons sales as their national counterparts.

They attribute the increase to president-elect Obama’s position on gun control issues and the questions opponents raised about his motives and his fitness to be president.

Jim McClain, of Jim’s Firearms, on Siegen Lane, said business is up 30 percent from people buying the semi-automatic weapons and high-capacity clips subject to the federal assault weapons ban, which was in effect from 1994 to 2004.

McClain said Obama is on record supporting reinstating the ban, and that a number of semiautomatic weapons popular with law-abiding gun enthusiasts were included in the ban, particularly the AR-15.

“People have a legitimate concern for the next four years of losing our Second Amendment rights for certain types of firearms,” McClain said.

Thank you, John McCain. I thank God every day that you were not elected to the presidency. Although you were not elected, you will leave behind an ugly legacy. I hope that you're pleased with yourself. Honestly, I don't know how you sleep nights.

Obama, along with a large number of police officials and of ordinary citizens, want the ban on semiautomatic weapons reinstated. Who needs to own a semiautomatic weapon? The US is awash in guns. May we redraw the line at semiautomatic weapons?

Even if the ban is reinstated, those who have the weapons, will very likely be permitted to keep them.

The KKK Lives On

From the Times-Picayune:

A Tulsa, Okla., woman who traveled to Louisiana to join the Ku Klux Klan was shot to death by the leader of the group's Bogalusa chapter Sunday after she tried to back out of initiation rites at a remote, sandbar camp in northeastern St. Tammany Parish, authorities said Tuesday.
....

The woman apparently learned about Foster's group, the Sons of Dixie, through the Internet and applied so she could recruit others in Oklahoma, Strain said. Investigators have recovered the woman's application to join the Klan and noted that she had requested that the organization waive its typical membership fee.

The woman came to Louisiana by bus on Friday to begin her initiation into the group, Strain said. After several rites, including a head-shaving, she was taken to a camp on a sandbar, accessible only by boat, in the Pearl River Canal near Sun.

The initiation continued at the campsite, with rituals that consisted mainly of lighting torches and "running around in the woods," Strain said.

Sunday night, the woman decided she wanted to leave the camp, sparking an argument with Foster that soon turned violent, Strain said. Foster pushed the woman down and, as the argument continued, he shot her with a .40-caliber handgun, the sheriff said.

--- Belongings set ablaze ---

Foster immediately moved to cover up the crime, Strain said. He quickly flipped the woman's body over and tried to dig out the bullet with a knife before ordering his followers to destroy evidence, Strain said.

During the night, Klan members set fire to the woman's belongings as well as the campsite and dumped her body near Lock No. 3 Road, about a half-mile from the shooting site, Strain said.

Read the rest of the article on the whole vicious and bloody affair. This is sickening, but hardly surprising. At the moment, I have no words to express my horror.

Obama's election showed the best of us, but it will, at the same time, bring into the light the worst of some of us, not just in Louisiana, but around the country.

This should serve as a warning to anyone thinking about joining the Klan. If you say you want in and then reconsider, you could be dead.

Lord, have mercy.
Christ, have mercy.
Lord, have mercy.

Oh, No!

President-elect Obama Meets With a Dangerous World Leader Without Preconditions!

Thanks to Matt.

SpongeBob - November 5, 2008 - Best Day Ever

For the 1 week anniversary.

With thanks to Ann.

Umm - Yummy

From Pundit Kitchen.

Thanks to David.

In Honor Of Veterans Of All Wars

In honor of and in thanksgiving to all veterans who have done their duty by serving our country in the US military, whether in war, or in relatively peaceful times.

A Prayer for Veterans' Day

O Judge of the nations, we remember before you with grateful hearts the men and women of our country who in the day of decision ventured much for the liberties we now enjoy. Grant that we may not rest until all the people of this land share the benefits of true freedom and gladly accept its disciplines. This we ask in the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.

Thanksgiving for Heroic Service, BCP 1979

Irony Of Ironies!

My friend Oyster at Your Right Hand Thief pulled the quote below from a conservative blogger, and I could not resist stealing it.

"Obama thinks he is a good talker, but he is often undisciplined when he speaks. He needs to understand that as President, his words will be scrutinized and will have impact whether he intends it or not. In this regard, President Bush is an excellent model; Obama should take a lesson from his example. Bush never gets sloppy when he is speaking publicly. He chooses his words with care and precision, which is why his style sometimes seems halting. In the eight years he has been President, it is remarkable how few gaffes or verbal blunders he has committed. If Obama doesn't raise his standards, he will exceed Bush's total before he is inaugurated."

-- John Hindraker, of the conservative Power Line blog, Time magazine's 2004 "Blog of the Year".

I dislike giving anyone at Power Line a link, but I feared that you may not believe that Hindraker said the words above. If you can trust me without clicking the link, then please don't click.

IT PLEASES

Far above the dome
Of the capitol -
It's true!
A large bird soars
Against white cloud,
Wings arced,
Sailing easy in this
Humid Southern sun-burned
breeze -
the dark suited policeman
watches tourist cars -

And the center,
The center of power is nothing!
Nothing here.
Old white domes,
Strangely quiet people,

Earth-sky-bird patterns
Idly interlacing

The world does what it pleases.

Gary Snyder