It’s the day before Christmas, and the sky is a beautiful clear blue, the air is warm, and the north-south contrails of our fighter jets are spreading out across the heavens over Los Angeles, reminding us that we are still vulnerable to attack by our foes, but that our technology and brave men and women of our military are on the job. Life is good!

I’m trying to be in a positive mood today, hard after reading our local rag-of-record. Let’s see, in their ever continuing bashing of our President and his policies they pile on with the rest of the MSM with a story about the monitoring of mosques and other Islamic focused businesses and locations for radiation, which after 9/11 seems pretty reasonable to me. Guess it’s just a carry over from their frenzy about the monitoring of Al Queda connected communications from outside the country to those inside the U.S. without warrants, which by Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, was something Alito backed in the Nixon administration. Oh, there’s that dirty word, Nixon. You know, that’s another of the Left’s hot-buttons. They revel and wallow in memory of Watergate as if it was a hit of Ecstasy — in their own minds, their finest hour. I hate to say it, but this country may never be right again until all us baby boomers are dead and buried, soon to be forgotten.

Take Tim Rutten for instance and his column for today. Actually, I’ll let Hugh Hewitt take him apart, cause he does it so very well!

The Los Angeles Times’ Tim Rutten Goes Ahab

Tim Rutten is one of the near dozen hard left columnists in the full time employ of the Los Angeles Times. (There are zero conservatives.) He is an amiable fellow, with pretensions of seriousness unsupported by either the ability or the willingness to do the work of careful research and reasoned analysis.

So instead he strikes a pose and sticks with it. There are about six of the poses, and one is that newspaper people are noble and fearless, and talk radio is shallow and shrill.
(…)
But if he’s going to slander me or some other radio show host again, perhaps he can borrow the spine to do so by name.

Reading Rutten this AM I kept thinking, if he had just read the Powerline article on the warrantless call monitoring, he wouldn’t look like such a fool. But, to his audience out here in SoCal, he’s a prince, not an idiot. Just a couple more, both letters to the Editor. From a Emeritus Professor of History in a Los Angeles college:

(…) But I can’t swallow the stories about Christ rising from the dead, being the son of God or relieving me of my sins. I’m responsible for those.

And, Rex in Long Beach wants us to know that he can read:

Allen tells us that she has learned to live with the cognitive dissonance between what Christian orthodoxy requires of its adherents and what scholarship says about the likely history of the events described in the New Testament Gospels. In her favorable review of the Anne Rice novel, she shows us how one can even come to love it. Sure, the Flat Earth Society also deserves to be taken seriously, but only as entertainment, right?

Well, see ya in the afterlife fellas, uh no, probably not — unless either has a change of heart along the way, which we will wish and pray for.

A good story was of how our military men and women are being treated out in public. Although writer Faye Fiore can’t quite seem to grasp that folks actually do support President Bush in the Iraq War effort, she does a good job of showing the respect and charity towards our military in simple daily encounters — very uplifting.

And, one more. Robert D. Kaplan has an Op/Ed piece showcasing the caliber of future leaders that are being molded in the Iraq War environment.

IF YOU WANT to meet the future political leaders of the United States, go to Iraq. I am not referring to the generals, or even the colonels. I mean the junior officers and enlistees in their 20s and 30s. In the decades ahead, they will represent something uncommon in U.S. military history: war veterans with practical experience in democratic governance, learned under the most challenging of conditions.

What a difference that will make for a pool of politically motivated men and women to be available as Representatives and Senators, refined in the crucible of a just war, instead of the rabble of anti-everything good that occupies nearly 1/2 of our government today. Kinda sounds a bit like our parents’ generation. That’s a comforting thought for a nearly perfect Christmas Eve morning, LA Times or no.

Off to the last minute preparations for tomorrow. I’ve been so terribly sick for what seems like forever, that I have nothing done yet except for sending out cards, so I have a bit to do today. Hope that all of you will have a wonderful holiday, and that tomorrow brings for you the love of family and friends, and the inner piece of knowing the true meaning of the day, that the Christ is born to mankind, that the Savior has come to the Earth. More on that tomorrow. (db)

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