Person of the Week: Arnold Schwarzenegger

Age: 60

Birthplace: Thal bei Graz, Steiermark, Austria

Claim To Fame: actor, legendary bodybuilder and Governor of California

Why He's Person of the Week: for keeping his promise and vetoing yet another attempt by liberals to get a gay marriage bill passed in California. The Governor turned down a measure by Assemblyman Mark Leno, D-San Francisco, that would have lifted the state's ban on same-sex marriages. Leno tried the same stunt in 2005 despite the fact that California voters, via Proposition 22, have long made it clear that they don't want same-sex marriage.

Schwarzenegger announced back in February that he would veto this year's version if it reached his desk and said last month that he would keep turning down such bills as long as lawmakers kept sending them to him. “It would be wrong for the people to vote for something and for me to then overturn it,” Schwarzenegger said in September, referring to voters' approval of Proposition 22 in 2000. “So they can send this bill down as many times as they want, I won't do it.”

Proposition 22 was intended to prevent California from recognizing gay marriages performed in other states or countries. Props to Governor Schwarzenegger for doing what's right and keeping his word, something pretty rare for a politician.

Note To Al Gore: Please Run For President

C'mon Al, run for President again. Please. Go ahead and make a fool of yourself again, like in 2000 when you couldn't even carry your own state. But forget about that, that was a long time ago. Now you owe it to your loyal minions to run, yunno the idiots who still think the Presidency was "stolen" from you seven years ago. Plus, now your global warming propaganda machine is clearly working as its gotten you a piece of the Nobel Peace Prize (and that comes after The Great Lie that is "Inconvenient Truth" got you an Emmy and even a couple of Oscars), conning the liberal elite to the point that you're now enjoying official rock-star, VIP status around the globe. Hypocritical liberal celebrities worship the ground you walk on as you've convinced the world that God has nothing to do with abnormal weather patterns. But who cares about that. Who cares when another run for President by you could put an end to Bill & Hillary tyranny. And we know that despite what your minions like to tell us, how much you still despise Slick Willie. After all, if was you who ran away from a still-popular President while campaigning back in '00 because we know how much you hated being saddled with Monica. So run Al, please, go for it. Ever since you were a kid you've wanted to be President and your ego must be big enough now to assure you that you can beat the great Hillary and win it all. Run Al. This could be your last chance. You owe it to your loyal minions, Leo DiCaprio, Tipper and most importantly, yourself.

Thomas Sowell Quote Of The Day!

"The really fatal fact about Anita Hill's accusations was that they were first made to the Senate Judiciary Committee in confidence, and she asked that her name not be mentioned when the accusations were presented to Judge Thomas by those trying to pressure him to withdraw his nomination to the Supreme Court. Think about it: The accusations referred to things that were supposed to have happened when only two people were present. If the accusations were true, Clarence Thomas would automatically know who originated them. Anita Hill's request for anonymity made sense only if the charges were false."

- conservative author and pundit Thomas Sowell

Moms Against Skanky Bratz Dolls

Good to know that some mothers out there are doing what they can to make sure their daughters don't ever have to look to Britney, Lindsay or Paris for role models:

Moms are hunting through toy aisles for more wholesome-looking dolls, concerned that the scantily clad Bratz dolls with their Party Palace and Magic Make-up Studio are sending their daughters the wrong message about how they should dress and act.

With their heavily made-up faces, short shorts and halter tops, Bratz are the No. 2 best-selling dolls in the country, just behind Barbie, but creeping up on her with their own lines of clothing, school supplies, video games and, most recently, a live-action movie playing in theaters.

Moms are not happy about it.

"I don't want my daughter viewing herself that way," says Gloria Baca of Tempe, who has steered her daughter, now 10, away from Barbie and Bratz in favor of an American Girl doll by Mattel named Josefina. Discerning moms are buying dolls that are hip-looking but without the fishnet stockings and crop tops. And they're finding a growing number of more-wholesome dolls to choose from.

"There is definitely a backlash against this girls-gone-wild syndrome. Parents are asking, 'Do I really want this for my daughter?' " says Len Simonian, whose award-winning line of preteen fashion dolls, Only Hearts Club, actually looks like girls and does the things that girls do - dance (not on a platform in a Party Palace), ride horses, have sleepovers and take care of pets.

In a survey of 1,010 mothers with daughters ages 4 to 9 that was released last month by Synovate, a market-research firm, 85 percent of moms said they are "tired of the sexpot dolls and characters" in stores.

Air America Launches Atheist Programming

No surprise here. If I had a dollar for every liberal I've ever run into who either referred to themselves as an "atheist" or an agnostic" I'd be mega-rich:

(CNSNews.com) - The liberal talk radio network Air America announced this week it will launch a nationwide show focusing on atheism. The first national show will feature Christopher Hitchens, author of "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything."

The Freethought Radio Program, hosted by the co-presidents of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, has been airing on Air America's Madison, Wis., affiliate since April 2006.

On Saturday, Oct. 6, the show will begin airing on 14 other affiliates from Palm Springs, Fla., to Eugene, Ore., and on XM Satellite radio.

"You can turn on the radio or TV 24/7 to be preached at," Annie Laurie Gaylor, co-president of the FFRF, said in a statement. "This is one hour a week of the public airwaves that offers an alternative."

Gaylor said the program "offers irreverent views, news, music and interviews," including a regular news feature called "Theocracy Alert."

Politiks As Usual: In The News 10/8/07

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New ABC Drama Takes "Big Shots" At Traditional Values

Keith Olbermann's Obsession With Bill O'Reilly

The Truth About SCHIP

Al Gore "Likely Winner" Of Nobel Peace Prize

ACLU Lawsuit Against Ten Commandments Is Defeated

If liberals weren't Godless, they wouldn't be putting up fights like these:

The founder of Liberty Counsel says the dismissal of an ACLU lawsuit against a Ten Commandments display in one Kentucky county is not a good sign for anti-American organizations.

The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit in 1999 against Harlan County Schools over a display that included the Ten Commandments, the Mayflower Compact, the Declaration of Independence, the Star Spangled Banner, and other historical documents and symbols. Eventually, the lawsuit was partially consolidated with two other cases involving the same display in two courthouses.

Now a federal district court has dismissed the Harlan County case. Liberty Counsel founder Mat Staver says the dismissal is the latest defeat for the ACLU.

"Since 2005 the ACLU has lost one Ten Commandments case after another," he observes, "and I think it's only logical and consistent that as part of our American history we are able to display the Ten Commandments as a universal symbol of law in a court of law or other public places around America." And while he is sure "the ACLU doesn't like it," he vows that his group will continue to fight to preserve that great religious heritage.