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Hannitized in Tulsa

Hannitized in Tulsa

This blog has been quite neglected of late as we have been relocating to Tulsa, Oklahoma. It’s no small task to relocate over an ocean. But all is well and the Lord is blessing us here in Green Country.

We’ve been doing lots of things just getting situated here, but last night we took a break and went to see Sean Hannity on his book tour. Our Real Estate agent told us he would be in town. Sean Hannity is quite a bit different with a crowd than on the radio or on his TV show — more jokes and he really can work a crowd. It was a lot of fun. I don’t know how he manages to do it — he’s traveling all over the country, doing radio and TV, and still took the time to sign over 3000 books after the show.

Virginia Government: Those kids are ours!

In Virginia, children still belong to the government, and parents do not have the right to educate their children unless they have what the State considers a sufficient education themselves. [Article] Virginia throws parents a bone and allows them access to the development of their children if they are enrolled in a course that the all-knowing and all-perfect State education system approves of. With all of the hoops Virginian parents are required to jump through to control the education of their own children, one wonders: what is the legal recourse that a parent has if the Virginia education system fails their child?

The Clowns of the Courts

Last year, the elected Supreme Court Chief Justice of Alabama was told by a federal appeals court judge to remove a piece of furniture from his courthouse. In that case, no law was being broken, and the Judge Moore’s refusal to comply cost him is position. [See Rule of Law verses Rule of Judges]

Now, in San Francisco, the mayor has ordered that marriage licenses be given to homosexual couples, despite the fact that California citizens voted overwhelmingly to make it law that a marriage is between one man and one woman. In this case, the mayor is clearly breaking the law, and no legal or constitutional acrobatics are necessary to realize that. Unlike in the Alabama Ten Commandments issue, there is a clear law on the books in California prohibiting what is being allowed in San Francisco.

And yet, nothing is being done. It is in fact the responsibility of the governor of California to oversee the execution of California’s laws. However, Governor Schwarzenegger has simply issued a statement that he “encourages” San Francisco officials to abide by the law. How nice… and the courts? They are allowing this show to go on for a while because someone misplaced a semicolon in a legal filing. Perhaps the California courts will eventually affirm that the marriage licenses in question are invalid, but the damage has been done.

What we have here is a clear and blatant double-standard. Where Judge Moore broke no law and merely did not bow to the whim of an activist judge, the mayor of San Francisco is openly defying a law recently passed by the majority of California voters, and getting away with it. Whereas Judge Moore could be attacked and vilified because he was upholding what he believed was the foundation of law in Alabama, Mayor Gavin is untouchable because his cause is politically correct and designed to completely dismantle the traditional definition of a family unit.

If this continues and so-called “gay marriage” eventually becomes legal in the US, a government marriage license will be utterly meaningless.

Democrats not satisfied with National Guard documents

Today Bush released hundreds of documents in an effort to show that he really, honestly did serve in the National Guard. Democrats, who now care about military service since it suits them (what with Kerry having been in Vietnam and all), are unconvinced. It’s now rumored that Bush will order the de-classification of time travel technology so that they can go back in time to Alabama and actually see Bush appearing for duty. Democrats respond that even that would not be convincing enough. Terry McAuliffe was recently overheard suggesting that Bush’s dental records (also released recently) were faked by Carl Rove, and that he can’t wait for the presidential debates so that Americans can see that unlike Bush, Kerry really does have teeth.