The Foolishness that is PETA: Today Peta asked Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream to substitute cow's milk with human milk. They said that it would reduce the suffering that cows endure with being milked.

I won't even deal with the PETA agenda here, it is just plain foolishness. Let's assume that the brilliant minds at Ben and Jerry's agree to use 10% human milk. They produce 13,000,000 gallons a year and it takes 12 pounds of milk to make a gallon. That is 156,000,000 pounds of milk to keep them in business. So 10% human milk would be 15,600,000 pounds of milk. Where is PETA going to get 15.6m pounds of milk? A lactating woman can produce an average of 750ml a day. We will round that up to a pound and a half. That means that we would need 10.4 million women producing every single day, just for Ben and Jerry. The logistics of this just makes me laugh. There is a reason that Ben and Jerry's use cow milk. It is inexpensive, tastes great, and is very efficient. While a woman can produce a pound and a half, a cow can produce 50 pounds.

I hope PETA never goes away. They come out with stuff about once a year that just keeps me laughing.

The United Socialist States of America: I watch with interest as our government is scrambling today to throw hundreds of billions of dollars to bail out the failures of capitalism. It is a really sad time for our country on so many levels. We are still the world's largest giver of help in times of need, but we are also a huge borrower. We bail out failing businesses but fail to prop up our Social Security program which has been robbed for years by politicians.

The reasons that the majority of these institutions (banks, stock firms, insurance, etc.) is that they were greedy and saw an opportunity to make a quick buck on risky loans. All of these firms had at the same time executive officers who made millions and millions of dollars in bonuses while their companies stood closer to the edge of financial peril. They have now made their money and don't care if the everything collapses. They can each easily buy a little island in the Bahamas and play golf for the rest of their lives.

So now who pays for that golf trip and that island? I do. Indirectly I am funding that lifestyle because the lost it all and the government is going to socialize it all. That means that the tax payers are going to foot the bill. I pay for that irresponsibility, and it makes me mad.

Who has the right to comment? Everyone! I am a huge fan of freedom of speech. We live in this big fantastic country where anyone can have their say. But it is interesting to me how the celebrity types get front page coverage on issues in which they have no expertise. Now if Bono wants to talk about world poverty or Angelina on adoption - let them talk because they have eclipsed their celebrity status to give their lives to support causes they believe in.

But Lindsey Lohan getting a chance to throw a barb at Governor Palin is just amazing. She is a bad actress who is known for her traffic violations, drug and drinking binges, and now her pending marriage to her lover. What gives this little girl any credibility? Sure she has the right to comment, but why would anyone listen?

Reflections on my love for Sarah Palin: When Senator John McCain announced that Sarah Palin was going to be his running mate for President I scurried to the web to learn everything that I could about her. I was immediately in love. Don't get me wrong, I am not in love with her as a person, I am in love with her as a concept and a cause. Her gender means little to me. Her race means nothing. But I love what she is, what she stands for, what she has done, and where she has been. She is an American. The media loves to demean her as being a mayor from a distant hick town, I love that. I live in a small town, by choice. She hunts, I hunt. She fishes, I fish. She eats moose stew, I love deer steaks. She is the American dream. She is a mom who got involved in local politics and became the governor of the largest state in America. What's not to love about that?

But its more than that. Finally conservatives like me have someone we can really rally behind, and rally we will. She doesn't just talk a good game, she backs it up. That is something that we rarely see in politics these days.

I compare that with Senator Obama. He was a community organizer, and that is important. Then he became a state senator, and that too is very important. However, I really don't understand how he just voted "present" so many times and never passed a single piece of legisltation. Then thanks to some disasterous decisions by Jack Ryan, Obama sailed into the US Senate almost unopposed. As a US Senator he again has never authored a single piece of legislation although he has a law degree from a prestigious law school.

Sarah Palin is the American dream for me, and she holds all the values that I hold. Its true that I am more excited about Governor Palin than I am about Senator McCain, but it is a ticket. And 4 or 8 years from now Vice President Palin might indeed step up, challenge Hillary Clinton (you know she is already preparing) and become the President.

At least we have hope, for a change.

The Candidate for Change: It turns out that Senator Obama is indeed a candidate for change. While one party holds a convention the candidate for the other party has traditionally stayed quiet for that week, allowing the press to focus on the convention at hand. This certainly is what McCain did. But on the day that McCain is to receive his party's nomination Obama has said that he is going to launch an investigation into criminal charges against the Bush administration. Politics as usual, just at an unusual time.

We need a candidate who brings hope with action, and has a pattern of positive change. Barry is all talk.

Obama vs. Palin: I found it interesting that during Hurricane Gustav Senator Obama was asked if his experienced compared to Palin's. Three interesting things come from the question and answer:

• The question was comparing Obama (presidential candidate) against Palin (VP candidate). Shouldn't the question be comparing Obama vs. McCain?
• The answer Senator Obama gave was again to denigrate her by indicating that she was still the mayor of a town with 50 employees instead of the Governor of the largest state in the USA. If we knock out the last few years of experience Mr. Obama is in deep trouble because he has nothing on his record. Check that, for Obama we can include the last three years and it is just about the same.
• Finally, his answer was just flat wrong. He defends his experience because of his ability to manage millions of dollars of campaign funds and the legislation that he has passed after Katrina. Voting on issues does not make a person experienced. Having hired someone to manage your money doesn't make you experienced. Where has the Senator actually shown his executive experience outside of this campaign? If he wants to go toe-to-toe with the Republican VP nominee he is going to lose. He needs to stay with what he is good at, sharing his visions, talking about how he is going to initiate programs for the poor and tax the wealthy. This will get him elected. But if it becomes a battle on experience (him against McCain or him against Palin) he loses every time.