Here is something new…I’m actually posting an opinion blog…been a while.

But listening to a reply of Hugh Hewitt’s radio show from Tuesday has just put me in the mood to voice my incredulity. I have to say that Hugh can be such a dork sometimes. This ludicrous pretense he has that he isn’t in the bag for Romney. PLEASE!!! I mean come on Hugh.

Hugh has gone into his “I’m going to mock and, ridicule and otherwise impugn your wisdom, intelligence and political acumen if you suggest that there is ANY other candidate besides Romney. It’s one of Hugh Hewitt’s more distasteful attributes. He did the same thing to everyone who thought Harriet Miers had to go. He was wrong then too.

I could actually take it if he was just honest about his position and admitted that Romney is his choice. But he pretends that he hasn’t decided yet. Never mind that he has written a book called “A Mormon in the Whitehouse.” The fawning over a Romney advertisement for Pete’s sake…and not even a very good one.

1371 Robert II succeeded to the throne of Scotland beginning Stuart dynasty

1495 French King Charles VIII enters Naples to claim the crown

1561 William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais

1746 French troops conquer Brussels

1819 Spain renounces claims to Oregon Country, Florida (Adams-Onís Treaty)

1821 Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million

1854 1st meeting of the Republican Party, Michigan

1856 1st national meeting of the Republican Party (Pittsburgh)

1865 Tennessee adopts a new constitution abolishing slavery

1889 Dakotas, Montana & Washington admitted to the union

1941 Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam

1945 Arab League forms (Cairo)

1973 Israeli fighter planes shoot down a civilian Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 killing 108

1980 USA beats USSR in Olympics hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal

Birthdays

George Washington

1130 Pope Innocent II elected

1624 English parliament comes together

1733 Georgia founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah

1865 Henry Highland Garnet, is 1st black to speak in US House of Representatives

1909 NAACP founded

1912 Pu Yi the last emperor of the Manchu Dynasty renounced his throne following the establishment of the Chinese republic.

1921 Winston Churchill becomes British, minister of Colonies

1924 President Calvin Coolidge makes 1st presidential radio speech

1938 German troops entered Austria

1950 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb

1955 President Eisenhower sends 1st US advisors to South Vietnam

1973 The first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam War

1999 The Senate voted to acquit President Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.

2002 Yugoslavian ex-president Slobodan Milosevic went on trial for war crimes.

Birthdays

Abraham Lincoln, Charles Darwin, Christina Ricci, Anna Pavlova

1674 English re-conquer New York from Netherlands

1775 English Parliament declares Massachusetts colony is in rebellion

1825 House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US President

1861 Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & Vice President of CSA

1861 Tennessee votes against secession

1867 Nebraska becomes 37th US state

1942 Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US

1943 Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, epic battle ends

1943 FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry

1994 Israeli minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Arafat

Birthdays

Constantine XI Dragases last Byzantine Emperor, William Henry Harrison (9^th President of the United States) Joe Pesci, Mia Farrow

First off I want to apologize to anyone who regularly visits my sight for its lack of content recently.

A combination of an overwhelming work load coupled with such utter disgust with the government at all levels that made me want to throw up may hands topped off by just a tiredness of the negativity that constantly blogging about the failures of our leadership to lead responsibly and courageously brings finally took its toll and so for the past couple weeks there just hasn’t been much blogging on my part.

Then James over at http://bigasrants.townhall.com tagged me…a sort of chain letter blogging.

So here are apparently the rules:

"People who get tagged need to write a blog stating 6 unusual or weird things about themselves as well as state this rule clearly. In the end of the post, you need to choose 6 people to be tagged and list their names and links. Don't forget to leave a comment that says you are tagged in their comments and tell them to read your blog."

1. I was once so rabidly socialist that like most liberals I despised my country for it capitalist blah blah blah…only to eventually realize it was myself I didn’t like very much…wow what a difference growing up makes.
2. I adore my inlaws.
3. My Bachelors degree is in Theatre Directing and I was involved in theatre from the time I was 14 until I was 27…then I got a real job.
4. My family tree on my mother’s grandmother’s side traces their direct line back to one of the original colonists of Connecticut.
5. I love to cook and bake breads as a hobby.
6. I concur with Ben Franklin who wrote in a letter to the French Economist Andre Mollet, “Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyard; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.”

Who I am tagging…

Grampus

The Interface

Gamecock

Conservative Sense

Fighting For Our Lives

The Valletta Papers

1508 Maximilian I crowned Holy Roman Emperor

1626 Huguenot rebels & the French sign Peace of La Rochelle

1778 France recognizes US, signs treaty of aid in Paris; 1st US treaty

1778 England declares war on France

1788 Massachusetts becomes 6th state to ratify constitution

1899 Spanish-American War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate

1945 Russian Red Army crosses the river Oder

1952 Princess Elizabeth becomes Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain

1989 Lech Walesa begins negotiating with the Polish government

2001 Ariel Sharon elected prime minister of Israel

Birthdays

Ronald Reagan, Aaron Burr, Jeb Stuart, Babe Ruth, Zsa Zsa Gabor

0962 Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor

1141 Battle at Lincoln King Stephen captured

1461 2nd battle of St Alban's-Lancastrians defeat Yorkists

1878 Greece declares war on Turkey

1932 Al Capone sent to prison (Atlanta GA)

1943 Battle of Stalingrad ends with final surrender of the German army, turning point of WWII

1971 Idi Amin becomes dictator of Uganda

1990 South African President F.W. de Klerk lifted a ban on the African National Congress and promised to free Nelson Mandela.

Birthdays

Talleyrand, Farrah Fawcett, James Joyce, Ayn Rand