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Updated February 1, 2010 – News either ignored or under reported by the mainstream liberal media. RuminationsBlog adds new stories at the top. Click on the headline to read the entire story.

Crisis-Pregnancy Centers to be Gagged?
Two hot-button issues – abortion and free speech – are clashing in Washington state, as lawmakers attempt to regulate what is said in crisis pregnancy centers. RuminationsBlog Comment: See our blogpost, Wasting Time and Possibly Lives.

Muslim Student Adviser: Death Penalty for 'Gays'
Vanderbilt University is distancing itself from a Muslim chaplain after he told a gathering of students homosexuality is punishable by death under Islam. RuminationsBlog Comment: Christians are expelled for saying homosexuality is wrong, but university regents pander to Muslim radicals.

Integrity - An Issue for Climate Change Proponents
A leading climatologist says the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has an uphill battle to regain credibility. RuminationsBlog Comment: After climategate and word that the Himalayan glaciers are not melting not only is the science in doubt, but also the integrity of the scientists.

Courtroom Cirque du Jihad
Imagine this nightmare courtroom scenario: Unhinged Jew-bashing, open mockery of American soldiers, juror intimidation and coldly calculated exploitation of U.S. constitutional protections by a suspected al-Qaida defendant. Well, there’s no need to wait for the Gitmo terror trial circuses. New York City is already getting a glimpse of the future. RuminationsBlog Comment: I hope that the Obama administration does not allow are courts to become a farce, but I fear they are stumbling into the hands of radical Muslims.

Green light for tax increases? Gregoire Praises Oregon Vote
In a closely watched test of Northwest voter sentiment on taxes, Oregon decided yesterday to raise taxes on the wealthy to stave off more cuts to government services. RuminationsBlog Comment: Watch your wallet. Governor Gregoire will see this as justification to raise taxes.

States' Rights Rebellion over National Guard
A new push is being launched for states to adopt laws limiting the use of their respective National Guard units unless there is an invasion, insurrection or a few other limited circumstances.

Gay Plan for Bathrooms
A Christian organization in Maine is asking its constituents to rebel against a proposal pending in the state. The Maine Human Rights Commission proposed a set of guidelines that would require schools "to allow young children to have access to facilities of the opposite sex," giving boys access to girls' bathrooms, and girls' locker rooms. RuminationsBlog Comment: I wish the Gay & Lesbian activists would leave our children alone.

Rifqa Bary May Still be Target
Bary ran away saying she feared her father would harm or kill her for leaving the Islam faith. Now the ministry that helped the Sri Lanka native when she was in the Sunshine State, hopes federal authorities will take another step.

Beware Political Chameleons
Washington is beginning to crawl with chameleons doing their best to jump on the bandwagon and swim with the rising tide of liberty-minded Americans.

ACORN Filmmakers Sued in Federal Court
Hannah Giles and James O’Keefe III, the independent filmmakers behind the series of videos which exposed the ACORN internal corruption and illegality were sued today in federal court in Philadelphia by an ACORN employee featured in one of the pair’s films. RuminationsBlog Comment: To paraphrase Dickens, if the law allows this, then the law is an ass.

State Furloughs Pass Senate
The state Senate voted Friday to require state agencies to place workers on mandatory furloughs one day a month or offer alternative plans saving $69 million. RuminationsBlog Comment: The Democrat controlled legislature will never pass such a measure. Mark my words—this is all for show.

More Bankrupt Banks
Regulators have shut down banks in Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, Oregon and Washington, bringing to nine the number of bank failures so far in 2010, following 140 closures last year in the toughest economic environment since the Great Depression.

Univ. of Wash. President Endorses College for Illegals
University of Washington president Mark Emmert says he supports allowing illegal immigrant students to attend college as a pathway to permanent residency and U.S. citizenship. RuminationsBlog Comment: All students receive taxpayer support and the tax money of citizens should not go to support those who enter our country illegally.

Media Largely Ignores U.N. Error on Himalayan Glaciers
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently issued a statement retracting its’ claim that Himalayan glaciers would soon disappear. According to LexisNexis, not one other national television news outlet covered this announcement.

Seattle’s Sound Transit: Art for Plywood Walls
One percent of all Sound Transit project funds must go to public art projects. RuminationsBlog Comment: A near total waste of taxpayer money.

TSA Nominee Steps Down
Erroll Southers, President Obama's nominee to head the Transportation Security Administration, has withdrawn his name from consideration for the position. RuminationsBlog Comment: Another extreme left-wing nominee forced to step aside because of their own words.

Interpol no longer subject to U.S. Constitution
The head of a civil liberties organization is concerned about an executive order signed by President Obama last month which allows an international law enforcement agency to have jurisdiction in the United States without being subject to the U.S. Constitution.

MSNBC “Cheat to keep these b******* out”
MSNBC television and syndicated radio host Ed Schultz declared that he would stuff the ballot box in Massachusetts if he could to prevent Republican Scott Brown from upsetting Democrat Martha Coakley in the race to fill the state's Senate seat formerly held by Edward M. Kennedy. RuminationsBlog Comment: Could there be a better demonstration of the liberal elitist attitude and there complete disregard for democracy?

Treasurer Warns State Will Go Broke
Washington state government is in danger of running out of money if the Legislature fails to act quickly, state Treasurer Jim McIntire says. RuminationsBlog Comment: The state is spending more than it brings in and needs to cut expenses, not increase taxes or create new taxes, such as a state income tax.

Is a U.S. Default Inevitable?
There were those who warned a housing bubble was being created like the dot-com bubble; others who predicted the Empire of Debt was coming down. As, today, there are those warning that the United States, with consecutive deficits running 10 percent of gross domestic product, is risking an eventual default on its national debt.

Seattle Parks Want to Ban Smoking, Spitting and Sex
A proposed ban on spitting in parks — one of 13 behaviors Seattle Parks and Recreation wants to regulate, including a ban on smoking on its grounds — already is generating heated public comment.

Carbon Footprint Hypocrisy
A leading global-warming skeptic says a recent congressional junket to a United Nations global-warming summit in Denmark illustrated once again that many lawmakers urging Americans to cut back on their carbon footprint are not living up to their own expectations "for the masses." RuminationsBlog Comment: With he liberal elites there is often one standard for them and another, stricter, standard they seek to impose upon the rest of us.

Man honored by Obama: God 'sinful, homophobic bigot'
A man honored by President Obama as a "civil rights pioneer" has told a Christian ministry leader the God of the Bible is a "sinful, homophobic bigot" who needs to repent and "seek forgiveness for the pain and suffering which his sinful homophobia has needlessly inflicted upon gay people for the past 4,000 years."

IRS Commissioner uses Tax Preparer
IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman does not file his own taxes in part because he believes the tax code is complex. RuminationsBlog Comment: I laughed when I read this, but the more I think about the more I just shake my head in frustration.

Profile Young Muslim Men
"It's pretty obvious that most terrorist suspects would be young Muslim men. It's something that I could have told you a long time ago," Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch, stated. According to him, the findings cry out for profiling. "Obviously we're wasting our resources searching 80-year-old grandmothers from Ohio," he states. "We are in a war against young Muslim men primarily."

Washington State Income Tax
Senators Rosa Franklin and Joe McDermott have introduced SB 6250 and SJR 8219 to proposing a state income tax.

Washington Senate Bill Would Ban Terms
Nine Democratic senators have filed a bill that would remove from state law any references to school kids that are considered negative. Instead, all such references – such as at-risk, in-poverty and disadvantaged – would be replaced with the phrase "kids at-hope." RuminationsBlog Comment: See our blogpost, A Legislative Waste of Time.

Taxpayers Footing Bill for 'Tool' to Aid Illegals
A border-enforcement advocate says members of the faculty at the University of California, San Diego, are clearly misusing taxpayers' funds in providing GPS-enabled cell phones to individuals trying to enter the U.S. illegally.

Higher Taxes for Washington State
Washington's ruling Democrats are set on raising taxes to avoid deep cuts in state spending. So who gets to pay?

Flight 253 Passenger Visited by FBI
"Today is the second worst day of my life after 12-25-09. Today is the day that I realized that my own country is lying to me and all of my fellow Americans.”

What was the most covered-up story of 2009
At the end of each year, news organizations typically present their retrospective replays of what they consider to have been the top news stories in the previous 12 months. WorldNetDaily editors, however, have long considered it far more newsworthy to publicize the most important unreported or underreported news events of the year.

Lesbian Mother Case Presents Constitutional Issue
A Vermont judge has ruled that the birth mother of a Virginia girl must turn custody of the child over to a former lesbian partner.

Thrifty Families Accused of Prolonging Recession
Anxious families are repaying debts instead of spending in the shops, amid concern over the uncertain economic outlook. The share of income saved in banks and building societies has risen to its highest level in more than a decade.

Second Grader Forced to Undergo Psych Evaluation
The Rutherford Institute has come to the defense of the family of a second grader who was allegedly forced by school officials to undergo psychological evaluations after he drew a picture of a stick figure Jesus on the cross with X's over his eyes.

Government Workers – No Pain, Lots of Gain
The Heritage Foundation, notes that everyone in the federal government is going to be getting a two-percent pay increase this year, which is above inflation.

Seattle has record low temperatures.
RuminationsBlog Comment: The global warming priesthood changed their mantra to “global climate change,” because even while lying about the data they couldn’t explain things like this.

The Fiction of Climate Science
In 1974, the National Science Board announced, “During the last 20 to 30 years, would temperature has fallen, irregularly at first but more sharply over the last decade.”

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One View of TEOTWAWKI

Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 12:35PM

One View of TEOTWAWKI
The History Channel recently aired After Armageddon, a chilling dramatization of what could happen during a flu pandemic. The program focuses on a single fictional family living in Los Angles at the outbreak of the illness. Sprinkled into the drama are comments from experts. As the family makes decisions, some right and others very wrong, these authorities provide context and background. Read More >>

Wasting Time and Possibly Lives

Instead of solving real problems, our elected officials in Olympia are going to great lengths to craft legislation for segments of their core constituencies. There purpose is to pacify their base and ensure reelection. Now that our lawmakers would do that probably doesn’t surprise anyone reading this blog. If fact, if it were just run-of-the-mill political pandering I probably wouldn’t mention it, but two recently introduced bills, House Bill 2837 and Senate Bill 6452 would, if passed, cause the death of innocents. Read More >>

Reflections on the Brown Revolution
Yes, the voters rejected the GOP in 2006 and 2008. Sure, they wanted change when they elected Obama and gave him a Congress strongly under Democrat control. But, that didn’t mean that America wanted bigger government, higher taxes, nationalized healthcare and multi-billion dollar bailouts for everyone from auto companies to banks, insurance firms and finance companies.
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Former Cantwell Aide in Scuffle January 17, 2010
Michael Meehan, former aide to Senator Maria Cantwell, shoved a reporter from The Weekly Standard to the ground earlier this week. The incident happened on Tuesday, January 12^th, outside a Capitol Hill fundraiser for the Massachusetts Democratic Senate candidate, Martha Coakley.
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Some Things Never Change January 16, 2010
As the new year dawned the Associated Press showed their bias. On the morning of January 1^st AP ran the story, Rush Limbaugh Says He’s Fine
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Global Warming Alarmism January 11, 2010
“There has been an unrelenting quarter century of one-sided indoctrination of the western world by the media and by various scientists and governments concerning a coming carbon dioxide (CO2) induced global warming disaster.”
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Heroin for Dummies January 9, 2010
Some days liberals make my job so easy and this is one of them. The liberals working for the New York City health department thought it would be a good idea to take money from hard working citizens and use it print 70,000 booklets detailing how heroin users can be safer addicts.
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Taxes to Fund Silliness January 7, 2010
Just yesterday, under the title A Legislative Waste of Time, I blogged that Washington State senators Rosa Franklin and Joe McDermott, among others, introduced Senate Bill 6249 a law that, if passed, would require state schools to refer to students at-risk as students “at-hope.” Immediately after filing that silly bill, they filed SJR 8219, an proposed amendment to the state constitution that would allow an income tax and Senate Bill 6250 that would institute the tax.
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A Legislative Waste of Time January 6, 2010
The Washington State legislature is only part time. Every year our elected representatives tell voters how heavy the workload is and how they need more time to solve the complex problems of the state. Of course, if we had a fulltime legislature it would necessitate increasing their salaries. What might our elected representatives do if they were passing laws all year long?
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Global Cooling? January 5, 2010
Updated January 7, 2010 Last year at this time, I was digging out from one of the whitest winters I’ve seen in western Washington State. That winter was the only time I have ever come close to exhausting my yearly supply of firewood. This year, thanks to a mild winter, the woodshed remains well stocked, but the majority of the country and much of the northern hemisphere has experienced a bitter cold winter.

What can we learn from all this cold weather? Is the world really getting warmer, as Al Gore continues to tell us, or is it headed into another mini-ice age?
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Simplistic Liberal Views January 2, 2010
An outspoken liberal in my local community, Chuck Haunreiter, accuses his neighbors of being blindly led by, among others, a local conservative radio host, John Panesko, and the local newspaper. It occurred to me that liberals often dismiss conservative ideas with the claim, “Oh, you’re just repeating what Rush Limbaugh said,” or in this case, John Panesko. To believe that the political right is a mindless mob led by a single entity is simplistic. This rather ad hominem retort allows the liberal to validate their feelings about an issue without dealing with the underlying ideas presented by the conservative.
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New Year Wishes December 31, 2009
Liberals often accuse those on the right of only thinking of themselves. They insist that we are heartless and unfeeling. As I have said before, and will certainly say in the future, part of the reason I am conservative is because I have something to conserve. I want law, order and good government for America because not only do I live here, but also my wife and children. This land is my home. If this country collapses in debt, moral decay or racial strife, everything I love will sink in the morass.

So, if you are liberal look over the list of my wishes for the coming year. Are they all that different from what you would wish for?
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Art Therapy for Terrorists December 29, 2009
As President Obama prepares to close Gitmo many of the terrorists are being sent to an art therapy program in Saudi Arabia.
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FAA Party in Atlanta December 22, 2009
According to ABC News the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has just spent five million taxpayer dollars for a managers conference in Atlanta. According to one FAA manager, “Anytime you get a bunch of FAA guys together, it is nothing but a party," and this get together appears to have been no exception.
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The Theft of Self-Reliance November 29, 2009
The government that gives us our daily bread is also at liberty not to give it and then, if we relied upon it, we go hungry.
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Never One of Us November 8, 2009
I have been in combat and, on one particular night, known that moment when my life might have been snatched away in an instant. When all you want to think about are those you love and may never see again, but you must push them from your mind and do your duty even if it is the last thing you do. I tell you this not to boast, because my time in combat was short and, for such duty, relatively easy. I tell you this so that you know that I have been there, both in the military and at the point of the spear. So that when I say what I must, you know that it comes from the heart of a man who has worn the uniform with pride and done his duty for his country.
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Ayn Rand in the News November 2, 2009
Updated November 7, 2009 In an April blogpost titled, Atlas of the Silver Screen, I reported on the continued popularity of both the philosophy and novels of Ayn Rand and today Reason.tv, the video branch of Reason magazine, did a story extolling the continued popularity of her ideas and writings. In that video, which you can view below, they made particular reference to the novel Atlas Shrugged.
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One Illegal Vote is One Too Many November 1, 2009
When Washington State insists upon violating its own laws you have to wonder about the integrity of elected officials and the judges who aid and abet them. In this video, Glenn Beck discusses just that with Michael Reitz of the Evergreen Freedom Foundation.
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As Serious As... October 31, 2009
On Sunday October 11^th at around 4:00pm I felt pain on the right side of my chest that began to radiate down my right arm. For most people this happens on the left, but I’m a conservative so, I guess, even chest pains lean to the right.
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Unsafe Schools October 7, 2009
Kevin Jennings is President Obama’s choice to head the Department of Education Office of Safe Schools. He is also the founder of GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network) an organization that establishes clubs in schools across the country for the purpose of promoting the homosexual agenda. His vision of what a safe school should be is probably not what you would envision. You probably imagine a place where your children feel safe to learn and ask questions, where they will not be bullied or abused. But Jennings is quoted in Human Events as stating that for him the goal of safe schools is closely tied to the GLSEN goal of including “a diversity policy that mandates LGBT [lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender] themes in the curriculum.”
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Liberal Hypocrites October 4, 2009
In 1977 using the guise of a modeling shoot, Roman Polanski gave a 13-year-old girl a combination of champagne and Quaaludes. He then told her to lie on a bed, strip and despite her repeated protests and resistance; performed oral sex, intercourse and sodomy on her.
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Who’s Running the Asylum? September 21, 2009
Updated January 26, 2010 At Eastern State Hospital in Washington State, the government healthcare professionals have recently struggled with the tough question of how they can make the paranoid schizophrenic killers in their hospital feel better. What did these highly trained government doctors decide? Take the criminally insane to the fair where there are hundreds of small children and then don’t keep a close eye on the patients....
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