Christian dating sponsored by who?

On the way to work today I caught the daily Kim Komando update.  It was about the Christian dating site BigChurch.  All well and good, until she mentioned who owns it.  And who would that be?  Penthouse.  That's right - Penthouse.  Take a look (all links are safe)

• Go to the BigChurch homepage
• Click on the Corporate link down at the very bottom
• Then, click on management team

You are redirected to Penthouse Media, which is "Globally recognized as the premier adult entertainment and lifestyle brand, Penthouse Media Group Inc. is the largest adult entertainment company in the world."

Signing up for BigChurch and paying their fees would directly finance Penthouse and their pornography.  I don't know about you, but that's not what I would want my Christian website doing.

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Is the Surge a Success?

The jihadists seem to think so. Ace points the way to a fascinating look at the attitude and morale on the other side of the war. It's not a pretty picture for them.

A prolific jihadist sympathizer has posted an ‘explosive’ study on one of the main jihadist websites in which he laments the dire situation that the mujaheddin find themselves in Iraq by citing the steep drop in the number of insurgent operations conducted by the various jihadist groups, most notably Al-Qaeda’s 94 percent decline in operational ability over the last 12 months when only a year and half ago Al-Qaeda accounted for 60 percent of all jihadist activity!

The chart on the Talisman Gate blog says it all.  Their operational capacity has been severely reduced since the start of the surge.  They have been run out of one stronghold after another, culminating with Maliki personally overseeing the current front against AQI in Mosul.  A front he had to leave in order to meet with Rep. Pelosi in Baghdad.  The good thing is that even Pelosi is finally succombing to the overwhelming evidence and acknowledging that the surge is working - something that even the jihadists have understood for some time now.

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In the Military? Forget about running for President

OK, this is just ridiculous. Apparently volunteering to serve your country in the military will now disqualify you from being president. At least, according to the Democrats.

Republican presidential candidate John McCain's family background as the son and grandson of admirals has given him a worldview shaped by the military, "and he has a hard time thinking beyond that," Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Ia., said Friday.

"I think he's trapped in that," Harkin said in a conference call with Iowa reporters. "Everything is looked at from his life experiences, from always having been in the military, and I think that can be pretty dangerous."

Harkin said that "it's one thing to have been drafted and served, but another thing when you come from generations of military people and that's just how you're steeped, how you've learned, how you've grown up."

As Powerline says "So it's OK to serve in the military, but only if you're drafted. Given that we now have an all-volunteer military, that standard will rule out everyone currently serving."

Let's apply that requirement to some of our past presidents. We would have to rule out:

• George Washington
• James Monroe
  
• Andrew Jackson
• William Harrison
• John Tyler
  
• Zachary Taylor
• Franklin Pierce
• Andrew Johnson
  
• Ulysses Grant
• Rutherford Hayes
• James Garfield
• Benjamin Harrison
• William McKinley
  
• Theodore Roosevelt
• Harry Truman
  
• Dwight Eisenhower
• John Kennedy
• Lyndon Johnson
• Richard Nixon
• Gerald Ford
  
• Jimmy Carter
• Ronald Reagon
  
• George H. W. Bush
• George W. Bush
  

25 of the 42 people who served as President were also members of the military at some point. And that does not include those who served in state militias.

And any of you presidential hopefuls currently serving - too bad.  At least, according to the Democrats.

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My sacrifice to save the world from Global Warming

I am willing to make the sacrifices necessary to save the planet from global warming. So, I will be taking donations to travel here and buy a Tesla Roadster.

Forget the cheesy-suited, high-pressure stereotype of your everyday car dealership (“How can we can get you in one of these today?”). With its exposed wooden rafters, slick concrete floors and chatty central bar, Tesla Motors’ first store on Santa Monica Boulevard here is an art gallery/coffee house/Apple store hybrid for plug-in vehicles—and the salespeople want you to gawk as much as buy.

“Have a look around, have fun, and if you have any questions, ask,” a friendly employee told us within three steps of our first visit to the store, which opened here on Tuesday. Then she handed us a cup of java and a brochure.

Yeah - I'll take two.

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Outsourcing and insourcing

Now China has decided to build its own jumbo jets. 

Alone this would be no big deal, but it is indicative of a trend that is worrying many about our military capabilities.  Essentially, we are getting to a point where a war with the wrong country would substantially impact our ability to even wage war.  The glaring example of this right now is the sourcing of the Air Force's new tankers to EADS, which is the European consortium that owns Airbus, instead of contracting a US company (Boeing) to do it.  But when you think about all the electronics and chips and cables and even clothing that comes from China and ends up in critical military gear, the problem is even worse.  Some experts worry about back doors being hardwired in these chips, but what if we can't even get them anyway?  Spare parts become impossible to find, and new equipment is out of the question. 

When you base your warfighting around communication and high technology as we do, that supply line has to be safe - from the raw materials all the way to the soldier in the field.  Due to globalization in the defense industry, we are rapidly approaching the place that the proper operation of the links in that chain can not be assured, while China is doing the exact opposite.

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An Al Gore Two-fer

Gore has been promoting global warming as his pet cause for many years. Evidently nothing is sacred to the crusade. Here's Al Gore using a pile of 60,000 bodies in Myanmar as his soap box. Largest cyclones and death count are here. They cover a time span of warm and cool temperatures - not very indicative of global warming.

Of course, that just heightens Al's hypocrisy. I recently received an email I immediately assumed was a hoax. But, Snopes says it's the real deal.

House #1 - A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2400. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 12 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in the Northern or Midwestern 'Snow Belt' area. It is in the South.



House #2 - Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every 'green' feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground. The water (usually 67 degrees F.) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter of the electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled into a 25,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.



HOUSE # 1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; it is the abode of the 'environmentalist' Al Gore. HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas; it is the residence of the President of the United State, George W. Bush.

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