Senator Marco Rubio gives me great hope for the future of our republic. I can’t do better than Ben’s title, which hardly covers it “Greatest pro-life speech in a generation”
Watch this, now. It is worth your time.
h/t @bdomenech
A couple of years ago, I wrote about Obama coming to Columbus and basically wrecking a full-scale, city-wide disaster exercise that major airports are required to perform every three years. For his ten minutes on the ground, workers at the site of his jobs speech were sent home without pay.
President Obama is above it all, our first post-American president. He certainly didn’t learn anything from his trip to Ohio, because on the heels of killing the Keystone pipeline project and associated jobs, he has struck again in Orlando. On short notice, he decided to show up in Disney World interrupting and disrupting the vacations of thousands of families to give a speech, ironically on tourism.
Normal folks save up years and years to afford a trip to the Magic Kingdom. Mom and Dad have to coordinate their time off from work between their own bosses and each other, the kids’ school, etc. They save and plan well in advance. Most people can’t just stay over an extra day to make up the time and aren’t likely to get a refund on their park admission.
This is our president. A man above the country, above the people who, never having held one, knows nothing about a real job and working long hours to be able to afford the extravagance of a trip to Orlando. Ever the community organizer, Obama’s hubris and disrespect for the individual he claims to champion knows no bounds. So far out of touch and out of step with flyover country, it would be laughable if it weren’t so infuriating.
Read more: Walt Disney World, The Place Where Dreams Come True…Unless Obama is in Town
h/t @rumpfshaker
While our soldiers come home too often unseen, you are the ones waiting at the airport for your husband, the kids for dad, that no one notices. You’ve gone to bed so many lonely nights you wish you could lose count, praying and crying alone to God the phone doesn’t ring, that there will be no knock at the door tonight.
For a months, often a year or more, life at home has kept moving. There are still carpools for school, soccer games, ballet lessons, birthdays, bedtimes, bike rides, bandaids, broken bones, and more.
You manage to keep the house running as a single parent. You hear the little ones say, “I miss dad, when’s he coming home?” and your heart breaks just a little each time. You miss him too but have to be strong and brave for him, for them.
Like your solider man, you volunteered for this assignment. You knew what you were getting into, but no one ever remembers you. No one ever says “thank you.” You’d be grateful if they just remembered him every now and again. For your family, the yellow ribbon isn’t just a magnet – it is your husband, the father of your children, your best friend.
You have the hardest job in the world. You are a military wife and mom.
from Flyover Country, thank you.
Video c/o @ajenable and family.
We’re constantly subjected to the debasing of our culture. Somehow, it seems to me that things are in fact getting worse. The other night I tried to watch a new show called ‘Broke Girls’. The promos made it look funny, what could it hurt? Within the first 5 minutes there were several blatant sexual anatomical references by one of the female leads. I turned it off. If you really need this to make your show popular, maybe you should hire better writers.
Unfortunately, this isn’t isolated. My TiVo recorded a suggestion, and I put it on because I was bored. Again, within the first 5 minutes one of the secondary characters broke into to gross, anatomically descriptive sexual humor while talking to his daughter-in-law. There was no innuendo here – it was in your face. Again, I was turned off and turned the show off.
Are the writers really so poor, the pool of new show ideas so shallow this is what TV has turned into? An adults-only stand-up comedy act? I won’t go see stage comics or improv shows because I don’t need to hear 90 minutes of material written merely for the shock value.
At some point, men have to stand up and be men. We have to say “enough.” Enough swearing and other disrespectful language, enough of the locker room humor in mixed company. We owe the women in our lives more respect and more class than that, guys. I have failed, and am guilty of using language I should not have. I will be apologizing for my mouth, and then I’m changing the channel.