Category: misc

Huckabee blogger conference call

Mike Huckabee’s website has posted the audio of the blogger conference call from earlier today.
The call started off with James Robinson, who heads his own ministry in Texas and hosts the television program, Life Today. The ministry brings aid to people around the world.
Michael Ferris, president of Patrick Henry College also joined the former governor and bloggers on the line.
With Ferris, Huckabee talked briefly about his support of education in public schools, private schools and homeschooling. He said he believes all parents should have an opportunity to choose the best education for their kids, and personally he sent his children to public schools. “I believe in competition in education. This is a mom and dad decision not a bureaucrat decision.”
Robinson and Ferris both gave their support to Huckabee during the first portion of the conference call.
Ferris said Huckabee was the most able communicator he’s ever met.
Ferris also said Huckabee is a real conservative and senators and mayors don’t win the presidency.
Huckabee said news from the polls has been encouraging and he’s now tied for support with McCain in several states now.
As for immigration, Huckabee said he doesn’t support the current legislation because it doesn’t focus on border security and doesn’t require authentic paperwork at the border or a legitimate reason for entry into the country – such as American’s are now required to have when crossing our own borders.
“We’re a nation not selfish about our freedom. American’s don’t resent the immigrants, they resent their government for botching the manor in which they’ve been allowed to come in.”
On media attention, regarding fundraising:
“Our goal is not to get elected by the national media but it’s to get elected by folks out there in America.”
On his energy plan:
Huckabee plans to have true energy dependence before the end of his second term.
“This is not only for the economic factor but for the security factor… If we want to see innovation and conservation the Fair Tax helps us accomplish both. If our only tax is your tax on consumption people will find ways to be less consumers of energy because it will be in their best interest.”
Huckabee also said companies will have advantages to innovate because they won’t be taxed for coming up with innovations.

Listen to the full conference call online.

Benoit strangled his wife and smothered son

The latest from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is a report that WWE wrestler Chris Benoit strangled his wife and smothered his son before hanging himself in his weight room.

The couple and their 7-year-old son were found dead Monday in their home on Green Meadow Lane just east of Peachtree City. Nancy Benoit and her son, Daniel, were killed during the weekend and Benoit died Sunday, police said.
The son was found dead in bed. Nancy Benoit was found in the home office. The cause of death for both was ruled asphyxiation.
Benoit is believed to have hanged himself on late Saturday or early Sunday.

The paper also reports that Benoit and his wife had previous marriage problems including some abuse and a separation in 2003.
To me this is such a sad state of affairs. It’s true evidence of a confused and lost world.
Only the king of deception, Satan himself, could lead someone to do something so horrific to their own family members.

Where’s the music?

Looking for Internet radio today, including OrangeNoiseRadio?
Like most Internet radio stations, we’ve gone silent today for all but our VIP listeners. We’re thankful for those who support Internet radio so we’re cutting them a break.
But it’s all part of the Internet Radio Day of Silence to protest the Copyright Royalty Board decision to hike up the royalty rates we pay to recording companies.
NPR covers both sides of the story from back in March.
NPR also has coverage on today’s silent protest.

Eating for energy or stress relief?

Lifehacker blogger Brian Armstrong talks about his new ideas behind eating healthy.
While I haven’t been eating the most healthy meals ever, Laurie and I can say that we definitely notice when we haven’t been eating as healthy as we should.
She’s probably eaten healthier than I have for a while so I think her body notices it more. She can definitely tell when she’s had too much sugar in her system.
Armstrong says, “The way I used to eat: I associated unhealthy food with pleasure, and healthy foods with pain.”

I would think about that burger, fries, and milkshake all day. About how juicy and tasty it would be, how satisfied I would be afterwards, and how good it make me feel.

Now he says, “The way I eat now: I associate unhealthy food with pain and healthy food with pleasure.”

Have you ever noticed that after gorging yourself on that burger, fries, and shake…you feel a little bit tired? Have you ever had indigestion, and felt like a brick was lodged in your stomach?
These are the sort of feelings you can begin to associate with unhealthy food.

Armstrong takes it a step further and shows you what you’re doing to your body with unhealthy foods.
Thinking about what your clogged arteries look like when you eat a burger and it may cause you to loose your appetite a lot faster.
See for yourself or watch what happens when a doctor has to put a stint in your heart to keep it working.
(you may not want to look if you have a weak stomach)
On the flip side, think about being full of energy and strength when you eat healthy foods.
If you can re-associate your thinking of healthy foods and unhealthy foods it may make a huge difference in what you decide to eat later on.

Huckabee suggests Pelosi for alternative energy

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I thought this was a great “quote” from a conference call with bloggers today from presidential candidate Mike Huckabee.
While talking with the bloggers, Christianconservative reports that the former Arkansas governor said that current alternative energy plans probably won’t happen.

In the past, those plans have been in the 25 to 30 years range – “What that means is they never happen,” Huckabee said – if he’s elected president, the Governor will pursue alternative energy sources aggressively.
We could put a wind mill outside of the capitol, Huckabee said, so that every time Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi make speeches, “we should have enough power to run most of the east coast.”

Not bad, not bad at all.
Huckabee also touched on immigration and said he wasn’t a fan of the current proposed legislation saying if other Americans could get out of back taxes by simply paying $2,000 they’d come out “so far ahead.”
He also stood behind his support of the Fair Tax. The Fair Tax would eliminate the IRS and the current tax system and move our tax system to a system of sales tax, or consumption tax.
I am a huge proponent for this idea as well.
It will be interesting to see what happens next in the race. Some have suggested Sen. John McCain may pull out before too long, but we’ll have to wait and see.