Big Ass Quote of the Day

From Kim Strassel: (ok – I’m taking a few paragraphs for content, but the QOTD is in bold)

Look at the rising Republican stars, those who have excited voters: Mr. Ryan, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. What do these men have in common? None are what the press likes to classify as “militant right-wingers,” who whip up the base with gay marriage or abortion. Most aren’t even particularly big talkers or partisan firebrands. Even Mr. Christie, who can verbal with the best of them, directs most of his volleys at entrenched interests—not political opponents.

These politicians are, instead, getting marks as the party’s “doers,” the guys making things happen. They lay out the ugly problems and then lay out the tough solutions—despite political risk. The press initially declared each of these individuals clinically insane for taking on Medicare, Social Security, public-employee unions. Yet it has been precisely their willingness to do so that has won them some measure of admiration from a public that is in the mood for action.

Friday Fun and “Why I’m Glad I haven’t Gotten Married….Yet”

John Hawkins of Right Wing News has a post going around the net about why he’s happy he hasn’t gotten married…yet.
Basically he talks about what he’s seen with his friends who got married young and how now he knows better who he could or couldn’t live with in marriage.

I just have to laugh because I bet the real reason he never got married earlier is he never met the woman he wanted to marry!! It’s not as easy as it looks if you’re a serious person who doesn’t consider “marriage” a requirement for life.

Good luck John, but I tend to agree with President Friedman….(quoted in your column)

I readily admit that the decision of when to marry is a deeply personal one, and nobody but the two people involved can ultimately determine what is best for them. But I’ve long thought it a problem that our society keeps pushing couples to wait longer and longer to get married. The problem doesn’t lie in the delay itself, but in what it says about our prioritization of marriage and family: that these aren’t things worth doing unless done from a position of financial and social stability.

Marry when you are with the person you want to spend the rest of your life with and the rest be damned.
But then, I’ve never married, so I get to still be an “expert” in such things! Happy Friday – call if you want help raising your children too!

Vietnam?

And now we have to keep an eye on Vietnam too? Good Lord.

The Vietnamese People’s Army has killed at least 72 Hmong Christian and animist religious believers, many of them mainstream Catholic and orthodox Protestant Christians, according to the Center for Public Policy Analysis and Hmong and Laotian non-governmental organizations with sources inside the region that borders on Laos. The beatification of Pope John Paul II, in Rome on May 1st was a factor in sparking the mass gatherings and peaceful, non-violent demonstrations by thousands of Viet-Hmong Catholics, Protestant and Animist believers according to Philip Smith of the CPPA and other sources inside the northern province of Vietnam.

Summing it up

John Galt at Three Sources has the best summation of this administration. He’s talking about the Obamacare waivers:

So it isn’t just the threat of tax hikes that makes the Obama Administration such a threat to American free-market liberty; or massive deficit spending, or hostility to energy production or the subjective law of appointed judges or the proliferation of unelected “Czars” or any of the other “gangster government” ploys the administration has so quickly and expertly embraced. It is the 2000-pages of statutory “we can do what we want” called the Patient Protection and Affordability Act that makes these government bureaucrats so dangerous.

UPDATE: Good point JG…..

UPDATE 2: Are you effing kidding me????? AARP gets the waiver. As Ed says

But maybe, just maybe, we could all agree that organizations that publicly pushed ObamaCare to approval should be ineligible to escape its consequences?