Conservative Musings

Stay Home, Young Lady

After 40 years of telling wives and mothers to get out of the home (which Betty Friedan called "a comfortable concentration camp"), put their children in day care (tax-funded, of course) and join the workforce, these same feminists now tell Sarah to stay home with her children.

So says Phyllis Schlafly, president of Eagle Forum.  Way to go, girl!

To paraphrase Phyllis, the only ones Sarah needs "permission" from to do the things she does are her husband and her family.  From what I've seen so far, they seem up for the challenge.  It's the liberal feminists who seem unable to handle such a strong and courageous woman.  Scared, are we?

-Colonel Steve

Obama Should Know Pork

The guy from Illinois that's running for president should know pork when he sees it.  But you tell me who he's referring to here.

Both Hugh Hewitt and Greg Reynolds tell of a few who, like me, aren't too happy with Senator Obama right now. Obama should learn this: not only do comments like this tick off the ladies, but their men as well.

-Colonel Steve

What's The Liberal Press Doing?

Lady Colonel and I spent part of the evening toggling back and forth between several news channels.  Some were more conservative (read: Fox News) and others were liberal and more liberal (read: CNN and MSNBC). 

After watching each of their coverages of Sarah Palin, I am seriously wondering what the liberal press is trying to accomplish.  Both Lady Colonel and I reeled from the venom being thrown at Governor Palin.  Both of us believe this will backfire tremendously, against the very candidate they wish to help.  To paraphrase The Anchoress, who puts it well, Sarah and Bristol are causing the left to publicly meltdown.

This is sad to watch unfold.  Women, like Lady Colonel, are seeing this as demeaning to females like themselves...and it is very demeaning.  As more and more see this repulsive behavior, it's going to turn them away from the liberal ticket.

Keep it up liberal press.  When it's all over, you may turn out to be the best folks on the conservative side.

-Colonel Steve

Palin Derangment Syndrome (PDS)

Of late, the so-called party for women have shown their vicious hate for a particular woman.  The Anchoress and Ed Morrissey have chronicled this story well.

This same liberal group, proclaiming they are for women, have also requested that Barack Obama's spouse Michelle be off-limits to criticism.  However, even they drag in a candidates 16-year-old daughter.

Let them keep talking.  It shows their fears.  It can't do anything but drive away any undecided voters who hear it.

Just who is the party of hate, again?

-Colonel Steve

McCain/Palin - A Great Ticket

John McCain made a brilliant move on so many fronts by picking Sarah Palin for V.P.  I had heard about her some time ago because of her bold moves in Alaska, but I did not think about her as a VP candidate, because I was concentrating on all the traditional candidates that everyone was talking about.  I have read a great deal about Sarah today and AM I IMPRESSED!  There has been a lot said today and her accomplishments have certainly been discussed but no one has touched on the some of these accomplishments and the character that America has been looking for for quite some time. 

From wikipedia:

1) She ran for City Council in 1992 and served two terms from 1992 to 1996.  She made a campaign promise to reduce the salary of her position and followed through with it and reduced property taxes by 60%. 

2) She also served as president of Alaska Conference of Mayors.

3) She was appointed Ethics Commissioner of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission from 2003 to 2004 and resigned over a lack of ethics of fellow Republican leaders. 

4) In 2006, she ran against the Republican incumbent Governor and won the primary for Governor.  Later, winning the election. 

5) She promoted and successfully got an ethics bill and did away with pork barrel spending that had gone on by other Republicans. 

6) While she initially supported the Gravina Island Bridge project, once it became a source of wasteful spending involving large sums of federal money, she opposed and stopped the project. 

7)  In Alaska, she has won the public support with ratings of 76% to 90% approval. 

I can not believe the things I have heard today especially the comment from John Roberts from CNN on Friday's "Newsroom" program.  We used to call CNN, "the Clinton News Network", because they are so liberal.  However, when this man makes the comment, "There's also this issue that on April 18th, she gave birth to a baby with Down's Syndrome...Children with Down's syndrome require an awful lot of attention.  The role of Vice President, it seems to me, would take up an awful lot of her time, and it raises the issue of how much time will she have to dedicate to her newborn child?" 

Now, let's be truthful here - If someone like McCain, McConnell, Bush or Cheney had made that comment or even Sean Hannity, or Rush Limbaugh, the NOW gang would be in an uproar.  Even Obama and Biden would be in on the lynching.  That is a very sexist thing to say.  How she handles her home life is none of John Robert's business.  That is up to her and her husband.  What if her husband had been the pick for V.P., this comment wouldn't have entered into the conversation. 

Great job McCain!  I'm very excited about this Presidential ticket.

-Lady Colonel

Being Invisible

Nicole Johnson, on being the invisible woman:

It struck me, watching this, that Nicole's talk was applicable to a bigger audience than just the women in attendance.  In a big way, she was talking to all of us.

The greatness we see around us today, here in America, was built by a few "named" people and many "nameless", invisible ones.  People that time has erased their names, but not what they've built.

Many of the nameless were not attempting to get their names recorded in history books, and they succeeded in that.  Many of the named were also not attempting to be recorded in history.  In that, they did not succeed, but what they did in building this country is still fondly remembered.

Today's politics seems to have bred a third type of person.  A person not only seeking to do something great, but to be recorded in history as great as well.  One who wishes to be oh so visible in all that they do so others will note it and praise them for it.

I hope the ones I speak of realize that greatness is not something they can control individually, but is something future times will note when it is time to write about them.  If it should pass that nothing is written about them, does that belittle the greatness they do today?  I think not.  Doing something only to be noticed so cheapens the greatness one strives for.

-Colonel Steve

Men and Women Really are Different

As noted by The Independent, New Scientist Magazine is publicizing a review of neurological research that men and women are truly different at the brain level.  Like they have two different organs between their ears.

Most of us already knew the concept that we had more differences than just unique plumbing.  It went much deeper than that.  It's nice to see science catching up with what common sense has been telling us for eons.

-Colonel Steve

Women in Science and Engineering

For years, women have been striving for "equality", probably better described as "freedom".  One of the areas ladies have been striving for equality (freedom) in is the studies of math, science, and engineering.  After years of wide open chances to move into these areas, it's been discovered that what has occurred is the freedom for women to say "no".

Now two new studies by economists and social scientists have reached a perhaps startling conclusion: An important part of the explanation for the gender gap, they are finding, are the preferences of women themselves. When it comes to certain math- and science-related jobs, substantial numbers of women - highly qualified for the work - stay out of those careers because they would simply rather do something else.

One study of information-technology workers found that women's own preferences are the single most important factor in that field's dramatic gender imbalance. Another study followed 5,000 mathematically gifted students and found that qualified women are significantly more likely to avoid physics and the other "hard" sciences in favor of work in medicine and biosciences.

The bright minds of both genders have naturally gravitated to what they individually do best.  It was found that among those who had equal talents, men gravitated to working with things while the ladies gravitated towards working with people. 

Both of these traits are equally important.  What's great is that all of these folks gravitated towards the very things God gave them talents for.  Yes, men and women are different.  Vastly different.  But what has grown and developed over the years is the freedom for both genders to seek after what they individually like.

I love it!!

-Colonel Steve