bRight & Early

You’ve had a week, but it’s still not to late to enter this weeks bRight & Early Caption Contest.

For the others I’m going to try and display this weeks caption contests as a gallery.

Support Your Local Gunfighter
Blonde Sagacity
Cowboy Blob
Gone Rick Motel
Right Pundits
Rodney Dill
RT
WILLisms
Wizbang

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That’s how many visitors I need in the next two weeks to get to 100000 by my Blogiversary. That’s only 793.6/day. Um, yeah.

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Strike up the music the band has begun
The Pennsylvania Polka
Pick out your partner and join in the fun
The Pennsylvania Polka
It’s starting in Pittsburgh. It’s now number one
It’s bound to entertain ya
Everybody has a mania to do the polka from Pennsylvania

Pittsburgh takes a 1-0 lead at 6:21 in the first period. It’s going to be a good one

The Flyers tie it!

12:50 Period 1 — Richards Scores! Flyers lead 2-1

14:11 — Penguins tie it back up. This is going to be a barn burner.

19:53.5 — Malkin (Any relation Michelle) puts the Penns up 3-2

END OF 1st Period

4:50 Period 2 — Malkin again (short handed). 4-2 Pittsburgh.

That was the end of the scoring. Game one goes to the Penguins. More Sunday night.

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Regular readers will know that Senator John McCain was not my first choice in the race for the presidential nomination. I disagree with some of his policy stances, but understand that the president’s role on policy is constrained to the bully pulpit, and his use (or pocketing) of the veto pen.

Aside from his role as commander in chief, one I am satisfied Sen. McCain will fulfill with the highest regard for the best interests of our nation, the presidential power of appointments, particularly judicial appointments, can not be over emphasized.

The speech given by Sen. McCain at Wake Forest University on Tuesday expressed a clear understanding of the role of the judiciary and the importance of having a president who will nominate men and women that understand that role.

For decades now, some federal judges have taken it upon themselves to pronounce and rule on matters that were never intended to be heard in courts or decided by judges. With a presumption that would have amazed the framers of our Constitution, and legal reasoning that would have mystified them, federal judges today issue rulings and opinions on policy questions that should be decided democratically. Assured of lifetime tenures, these judges show little regard for the authority of the president, the Congress, and the states. They display even less interest in the will of the people. And the only remedy available to any of us is to find, nominate, and confirm better judges.

Quite rightly, the proper role of the judiciary has become one of the defining issues of this presidential election. It will fall to the next president to nominate hundreds of qualified men and women to the federal courts, and the choices we make will reach far into the future.

I believe that potential nominations from Sen. McCain would be quite different than those put forth by either of his opponents.

For both Senator Obama and Senator Clinton, it turned out that not even John Roberts was quite good enough for them. Senator Obama in particular likes to talk up his background as a lecturer on law, and also as someone who can work across the aisle to get things done. But when Judge Roberts was nominated, it seemed to bring out more the lecturer in Senator Obama than it did the guy who can get things done. He went right along with the partisan crowd, and was among the 22 senators to vote against this highly qualified nominee. And just where did John Roberts fall short, by the Senator’s measure? Well, a justice of the court, as Senator Obama explained it — and I quote — should share “one’s deepest values, one’s core concerns, one’s broader perspectives on how the world works, and the depth and breadth of one’s empathy.”

These vague words attempt to justify judicial activism — come to think of it, they sound like an activist judge wrote them. And whatever they mean exactly, somehow Senator Obama’s standards proved too lofty a standard for a nominee who was brilliant, fair-minded, and learned in the law, a nominee of clear rectitude who had proved more than the equal of any lawyer on the Judiciary Committee, and who today is respected by all as the Chief Justice of the United States. Somehow, by Senator Obama’s standard, even Judge Roberts didn’t measure up. And neither did Justice Samuel Alito. Apparently, nobody quite fits the bill except for an elite group of activist judges, lawyers, and law professors who think they know wisdom when they see it — and they see it only in each other.

It is this presidential power that concerns me most about Clinton and Obama, and encourages my support of Sen. McCain. It is a power that can not be over looked, or over emphasized.

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Feeling better is not the same as feeling good. The fact that I feel 100% better than I did last night does not mean that I am at 100%. Still, I think the worst is behind us all. Yeah!

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This time line starts on Sunday night. It’s been a good weekend. Got some stuff done online and a the house. Everything is going well, until bedtime. Youngest child (3 almost 4) starts erupting like “Ol’ Faithful”. The good news? We were outside walking the dog so, other than a patch of grass getting an unscheduled dousing, not too bad. Oldest child (10) is staying with her aunt and uncle. She’s out of the mix — we think.

Monday morning — I know that the youngest won’t be going to day care, but there are still the others to get ready for school. I wake up the next oldest first, and on his way to the bathroom he imitates his brothers performance from the night before. Not quite the volume, but more than enough to keep him home for the day. I go to work and stay just over half a day in order to come home and help with crowd control. Oldest girl stays another night with her aunt.

Tuesday morning. I get next to youngest girl up first. She showers, come out in to the family room, and, you guessed it. So I get her brother up (the middle child). Right before he gets to the shower he decides that it’s his turn. Two down. Next to oldest makes it all the way through his shower before showing us that he’s not ready to go back quite yet. However, the youngest is now feeling better. I drop him at day care and I go on to work. To recap, the oldest and youngest are in school, the three in the middle are at home.

This morning. Children 2, 3, 4, and 5 all get ready for school. Oldest girl goes to school from her aunts. Cindy’s daughter, mother to 3 and 4, will not be going to work this morning. She started her bout ’bout 4am. Luckily it was before I got up. I am a sympathetic up-chucker. See it, hear it, smell it . . . do it. So far I’ve avoided this thing. All the younger set is where they’re supposed to be, and I go to work. 10am. Oldest girl, who has also avoided this mess, avoids it no longer. A call from the school clinic and home she comes. Her mom’s not feeling to well either. Still, I, the rock, the impervious one, am going strong. Lunch and weekly conference call go off without a hitch.

And then, around 2:45, it hits me. I didn’t lose it, and I managed to work the entire shift, but something was churning. So far that’s all it’s done, but not all it’s wanted to do. Naturally, all the kids being newly better are bursting with energy. I have none. It’s taken nearly two hours to write this poor excuse for a post.

Any bloggers out there want to throw out a post, let me know at lakelandjim at gmail dot com. I’ll get you set up.

Not much more to say until I feel better. Let’s see how tonight goes.

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My college choir director had this bit of advice for when you are given a compliment, “Say thank you, and shut up.” The idea was to appreciate the kind words and not to go off on some tangent about how you really messed up the third number or something like that.

The same suggestion applies to gifts. When you get a gift, the best thing to do is just say “thank you” and put a sock in it. I’m going to ignore that advice and do a bit of speculation about a gift I received last night.

Wyatt sent me a link to this story. The focus of the article is not the words written for the Daily Mail, or even the subject matter. The story is:

Not the story of Elisha Cuthbert and her new boyfriend Calgary Flames hockey player Dion Phaneuf, but a chance to display pics of Jack’s “little girl.”

So, did Wyatt pass this gem on to me because of our shared appreciation for all things Bauer? Or does he know that Elisha Cuthbert is one of the top search words that brings traffic to this blog (not to mention the few hits I’ve got from “Cougar Bait”)? Perhaps he is trying to help push bRight & Early over 100,000 visitors (11,814 to go).

Or maybe it would be better if I took my directors advice and just let the pictures do the talking. Thank you. I’ll shut up now.

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Polls in the last two big prizes in the Democratic primary season are closing. I’ll throw some results up here from time to time tonight, when I can stand it.

Besides, Ziva (Cote de Pablo) gets shot on NCIS tonight. That should be much more interesting (and visually pleasing) to watch.

First Update: Fox News calls North Carolina for Obama with less than 1% reporting. Clinton is ahead 57-43 % in Indiana which has not been called.

2nd Update: Ziva doesn’t get shot. CBS (During the commercial break) projects Hillary to win Indiana.

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