In the middle of an economic downturn, rising terrorist and pirate attacks and an assault on traditional values in the US, this story is perfect medicine. It’s unbelievable and absolutely stunning (in a good way, mind you).
A 17-year-old grocery bagger was ready to wash his hands in the bathroom at the Federal Way supermarket where he works when he saw a brown canvas money bag on the floor.
Moisei Baraniuc was curious. He opened it and saw envelopes filled with money – “a pretty thick stack.”
Thick enough to add up to $10,000.
Stuffed with 50- and hundred-dollar bills, the bag contained the life savings of a Vancouver, Wash., man who accidentally left it in the men’s bathroom at Top Food & Drug on Nov. 13.
This is beyond commendable. In a world where people are quickly becoming concerned with only what affects them and how they can benefit themselves, it is amazing to see this kid do such a good thing and help out a fellow human being. I give him a huge amount of credit for doing what he did.
A lot of people wouldn’t have done the same. This new selfish force sweeping through society that believes that everything should be only about the individual and no one should even pay attention to anything outside the sphere of their little world is frightening; I’ve seen it firsthand. It’s the same sector of society that believes something is wrong only if you get caught, and the same group of people who think that they can simply walk through life doing whatever THEY think is right, regardless of how it affects anyone else.
Mr. Baraniuc: thank you for restoring some of my faith in humanity.
Don’t let them tell you how to vote! With Ted Stevens losing in Alaska and Al Franken well on his way to litigating his way into the MN seat, Georgia’s runoff election has become a critical front in the War for Freedom. If the radical left is allowed to steal Chambliss’ seat and gain a 60-seat supermajority in the Senate, Obama, Pelosi and Reid will be free to pass whatever maniacal and radical socialist policies they want.
Help keep our country free and keep the liberals at bay. Vote for Saxby Chambliss on December 2nd and preserve our way of life.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – California’s Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to hear a legal challenge against the state’s voter-approved ban on gay marriage and let the ban stand in the meantime.
A decision by the same court in May opened marriage to same-sex couples in America’s most populous state, one of a handful of states, provinces and mostly European countries where such unions are recognized.
When state voters passed the ban on November 4, social conservatives celebrated, but nationwide protests by gays and other ban opponents since then have given the debate new life.
The court case also pits two fundamental concepts of U.S. democracy against one another, with gay marriage advocates saying the proposition would open the doors to systematic repression of minorities and opponents saying courts must recognize the will of the people under separation of powers doctrine.
I am really getting tired of justices legislating from the bench. Stop stomping on the will of the voters! This isn’t democracy!
Obamania continues past the election, apparently. And it’s also getting more ridiculous.
NEW YORK — At the behest of its students, an elementary school near New York City has been renamed after President-elect Barack Obama.
The Hempstead Union Free School District board voted unanimously Thursday night to rename Ludlum Elementary School as Barack Obama Elementary School. The change went into effect immediately, school officials said Friday.
Officials for the Long Island district say they think the school is the country’s first to be named after the first black president-elect, although similar efforts to rename schools, parks and streets are under way elsewhere.
The behest of its students? Yeah, I bet. I’m sure a bunch of elementary school students walked into the office and demanded that the school change it.
I like how they are renaming a school to honor a guy WHO HASN’T DONE ANYTHING YET. He’s not even President yet and we’re already crowning him as such an amazing leader that he should have schools named after him.
What, do people think he deserves a school named after him for buying an election? Please.
This is disgusting. It’s almost, ALMOST as sickening as the new Obama collector’s plate infomercial I saw. The vomit-inducing pitch in that one says something to the effect of “Obama’s confident smile and kind eyes are an inspiration to us all.” (Video, if you have a strong stomach: here.)
People are going to be so disappointed when they finally figure out that their “savior” is just another Chicago politician on a power trip.
Ok, that’s being a little mean. He’s not just “another Chicago politician.” He’s an exceedingly dangerous product of the Chicago political machine, bent on bringing socialism to the United States and bringing democracy to a grinding halt.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term.
The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by 3,724 votes after Tuesday’s count.
That’s an insurmountable lead with only about 2,500 overseas ballots left to be counted.
Stevens, who turned 85 on Tuesday, also revealed that he will not ask President George W. Bush to give him a pardon for his seven felony convictions.
Great. Just great. It’s no loss to get rid of Stevens himself, but we need that seat. With massive voter fraud underway in MN to try and get Franken in there and a runoff upcoming for Chambliss’ seat, we are inching closer to the Democrat supermajority that will spell the end of prosperity as we know it.
With a filibuster proof supermajority, I don’t think most people realize how dangerous the Democrats will be.
The most notable, of course, is Hillary Clinton herself being mentioned for Sec State, who he spent 18 months relentlessly hammering on for being part of the “problem” and the “establishment.”
How well do you think this sits with his campaign and the voters who put him in there to “change” everything that he’s just bringing Clinton’s freaks out of cold storage? Probably not too well, I would think.
Beyond that, I doubt I am the only one sincerely frightened by Bill Clinton being able to look over Hillary’s shoulder and offer his “thoughts” on foreign policy. And you know he will.
So far, advisers to Obama’s transition team have reportedly compiled a list of 200 executive orders or administrative actions the new president can carry out soon after taking office.
Great. All we need is a Chicago politician with his hands wrapped around arbitrary power. After a couple of damaging orders to reverse Bush’s bans on abortion aid and stem cell research, I can only surmise the next few orders will deal with removing the Constitution as the document of power in the country and banning companies from making a profit.
We ain’t gonna survive four years of this madness.
Across the Pond has some good lists what orders to expect from Obama.
The Obama team is considering getting read of Bush executive orders that:
–“…barred the use of U.S. funds by family planning groups overseas that provide abortion counseling.” (Bloomberg)
–“…linked assistance for combating AIDS in the developing world to requirements that health workers emphasize monogamy and abstinence from sex over condom use.” (Bloomberg)
–“…blocked California from regulating carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles.” (Bloomberg)
–Allowed “drilling in fragile lands in Utah.” (Reuters)
So we’re looking at increasing support for infanticide (pretty soon we’ll just have a drive thru for it) and stop providing counseling on abstinence and monogamy in AIDS-stricken countries and instead just let them have 50 partners a week and infect the whole continent. Good call, Comrade Obama.
The next two are more economic-related. Why should we drill for oil on our own lands, after all? It surely makes NO sense to get oil that exists on our own land instead of importing it. Never mind that over half the populace would like us to drill. In an Obamadministration, there’s no room for public choice. All things follow the will of The Chosen One.
The Obama team is considering new executive orders that would:
–“…create a National Energy Council to coordinate all policymaking related to global climate change.” (Post)
–“…chart a new course for immigration enforcement.” (Post)
–Require “that greenhouse gas emissions be considered whenever the federal government examines the environmental impact of its actions under the existing National Environmental Policy Act.” (Post)
What? Obama, considering CREATING more government agencies to grow the size of the Fed and increase its stranglehold on our daily lives? Say it ain’t so, Joe? (at this point, Joe Biden would walk in and spew some random/incorrect statistics and then be pulled off the stage with a cane). Of course he’s going to create more agencies. Communism is about expanding the size of the centralized government, not reducing it.
A “new course for immigration enforcement” is just Lib-speak for amnesty, to the degree that we have not seen in the history of the United States. Open borders, free government services and more.
And, of course, we can’t forget some environmental alarmism in the equation. What would an Obama administration be without some tears shed over the poor earth that we are raping and pillaging with our pollution machines? Just wait til he appoints AlGore as his “climate czar.” We’ll be back to horse and buggy days in no time. Except for AlGore’s private jet, of course; he couldn’t call himself a liberal if he wasn’t a hypocrite.
But the Obama team is likely to keep an order that:
–Gave the executive branch “broad latitude for covert action in countries with which the United States is not at war.” (Associated Press)
Well, we knew he’d like that one since he’s, oddly enough, wanted to invade Pakistan for like a year. He must have had some run in with Pakistanis back in his “organizing” days.
CHICAGO — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is among the candidates that President-elect Barack Obama is considering for secretary of state, according to two Democratic officials in close contact with the Obama transition team.
A very interesting position to take from the Change Candidate who said that the old ways of Washington were no more and who insulted Hillary nonstop in the primaries for being part of the problem in Washington.
So, does this mean that people are going to figure out that the whole “Change” thing was just a campaign promise to get elected? No, probably not. Quite unfortunate.
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah, well, you know what? I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that –
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Is that your job? You just talked about being a journalist!
MATTHEWS: Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country.
Matthews wasn’t done with his odd new job description . . . An incredulous Scarborough kept pressing, astonished at such a complete 180 from Matthews’s repeated insistence during the Bush presidency that he had to hold the government accountable.
SCARBOROUGH: Your job is the make this presidency work?
MATTHEWS: To make this work successfully. This country needs a successful presidency.
