Christopher Estep’s America

In what is a refreshing decision, the California Supreme Court actually upheld the will of the people of that state and upheld the ban on same-sex marriages:

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The California Supreme Court upheld a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage Tuesday, but it also decided that the estimated 18,000 gay couples who tied the knot before the law took effect will stay wed.

The 6-1 decision written by Chief Justice Ron George rejected an argument by gay rights activists that the ban revised the California constitution’s equal protection clause to such a dramatic degree that it first needed the Legislature’s approval.

The court said the people have a right, through the ballot box, to change their constitution.

This should be obvious to anyone, but liberals aren’t as smart as the average bear I suspect.  We conservatives are constantly told when a liberal gets their way in court that we should shut up and accept it.  Unfortunately, that pill is a bitter one for liberals and they think it doesn’t apply to them:

Gay rights activists immediately promised to resume their fight, saying they would go back to voters as early as next year in a bid to repeal Proposition 8.

The split decision provided some relief for the 18,000 gay couples who married in the brief time same-sex marriage was legal last year but that wasn’t enough to dull the anger over the ruling that banned gay marriage.

"It’s not about whether we get to stay married. Our fight is far from over," said Jeannie Rizzo, 62, who was one of the lead plaintiffs along with her wife, Polly Cooper. "I have about 20 years left on this earth, and I’m going to continue to fight for equality every day."

 

California high court upholds gay marriage ban

That is an exact quote from my 13-year old son when I showed him the picture of Cynthia Nixon and her girlfriend.  And he wasn’t joking.

Did she know that’s not a guy?  No, I mean before they started dating?  Seriously?

– Jesse

Seen today on Twitter, courtesy of Jim Geraghty:

"After ECFA passes, the rest of America will finally be that shining city on a hill called Detroit."

I laughed out loud for a good 5 minutes.  And if you’ve ever been to Detroit (as I have, hundreds of times) you understand that pictures such as the one above are the the norm and not the exception.

All joking aside, don’t forget for even a moment that the so-called EFCA card check legislation is nothing more than legalized thuggery.

This is literally no difference than the Mafia coming to your door telling you, “you don’t have to accept our protection”.  And yet, do you really have the choice to decline?  Of course you don’t!

Why are secret ballots bad everywhere else in the world?

From Michelle Malkin:

Jack Kemp was diagnosed with cancer in January. He died today at the age of 73. Didn’t agree with him on many core issues, but he was a GOP institution with a wonderful family.

RIP.

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Here’s a tribute from the Heritage Foundation:

Heritage Foundation President Edwin Feulner tonight issued the following statement on the death of former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Jack Kemp:

“Jack Kemp was a leader – whether it was in a football huddle, a national political campaign or a policy discussion about the Austrian school of economics.

Michelle Malkin » Jack Kemp, 1935-2009

Notice I said possible, not easy.

ATHENS, Ga. — UGA President Michael Adams said Monday that George Zinkhan has been terminated, as police continue to search for him in connection with a triple murder.

He’s accused of killing his wife and two men during a reunion picnic on Saturday outside the Athens Community Theatre.

Now if Professor Zinkhan wants his job back, he’ll do the smart thing and say that his wife was either a Republican, a Christian, or both.  It’s even more likely if he can produce tapes of his wife using the President’s middle name or declares himself that the WTC bombing is America’s fault.

UGA Professor Fired, Still on the Run - 11Alive.com | WXIA | Atlanta, GA

Just a little flashback that seems to make a bit more sense these days:

So now, President Obama is trotting the globe, bowing to foreign leaders and apologizing for the American way of life. 

Really.  What did you expect?

Hat tip to Michelle Malkin.

Reason number 99,997,678 to homeschool your kids, via the SFChronicle:

There was a time when teachers would freak at the sound of Jimi Hendrix’s “Purple Haze” or “Stone Free.” Now the San Francisco school district wants them to get in the spirit.

“Remember the first time you heard Jimi Hendrix?” reads the cover of the district’s new 51-page education guide. “Our plan is as transformational now as his music was then!”

The manifesto is aimed at transforming the educational “experiences for every child in each of our schools.”

To drive home the point, a portrait of the ’60s rocker - looking somewhat pensive, somber and perhaps stoned - graces the cover and every page of the manual.

I’m tempted to say “have they lost their everloving mind?” but that train left the station years ago.  America has lost its way.  We are on the road to total depravity when we start using heavy drug users as icons to model our teachers after.

Michelle Malkin » San Francisco education reform: Be like Jimi Hendrix

Way to take the law into your own hands!!!

Pike County, Ga.) — Cobb authorities say forty-three year old Randall Keith Fisher, the focus of an all-day search, shot himself Saturday to avoid being captured.
Cobb Police issued a lookout for Fisher late Friday night after finding sixty-seven year old John Harvey III dead inside a house on Post Oak Tritt Road.
Saturday night, in Pike County, where police were on the lookout for Fisher because he had ties to the county, a Sheriff Deputy and a Zebulon City Police Officer stopped the 2008 Honda Civic he was driving.

Pike officials say Fisher shot himself with a rifle as officers approached the vehicle. Fisher later died at a hospital.

Cobb Murder Suspect Commits Suicide In Traffic Stop - 11Alive.com | WXIA | Atlanta, GA

One of the key tactics of propaganda is the redefinition of language.  Some great examples include:

• Disinformation – Lie
• Mistakes were made – Fine.  We acknowledge that you know we screwed up, but we’re still not going to admit it.
• Investment – Taxing you and then giving it to someone else

But President Obama used a new one last night.   He called it “Narrow Prosperity” and it made me ill to hear it.  While engaging in his usual badmouthing of George W. Bush, Dear Leader went a step further to state, in effect, that any growth that occurred in the Bush administration doesn’t count either.  Oh sure, there was prosperity but there was “narrow prosperity”.

The danger of this term is that it reinforces class-warfare.  Its use employs another primary tactic of propaganda, that of “divide and conquer”.  Like racism, the fascisti can use this term to simply end discussion.  All prosperity during a republican administration is invalid because it was narrow, and by definition didn’t occur equally across the board.

Yes, this is just one phrase in a million of them, but it illustrates the real intent of the Obama administration, Fascism. Make no mistakes.  When we allow others to assume some kind of righteous authority to decide that prosperity is bad, we might as well hang it up because they’ve won.

Don’t let them win and don’t let ANYONE decide that prosperity is bad.  It’s the essence of liberal guilt and they’re welcome to keep it.

One of the regular mailings I get is the “Motivational Quote of the Day” from Nightingale-Conant.  In today’s political and economic climate, truer words have never been spoken:

"Look to the present. The great disease of ‘I will be happy
when …’ is sweeping the world. You know the symptoms.
You start thinking: I’ll be happy when I get that … BMW …
promotion … status … money. The only way to cure the
disease is to find happiness and meaning now."
— Marshall Goldsmith: a world authority in management