I told you that Mitt Romney couldn’t handle the type of spontaneous questions that Mike Hucabee subjected himself to. Proof came today when he tried to respond to a lesbian upset about his stated position opposing homosexual marriage.

“I am a gay woman and I have children. Your comment that you just made, it sort of invalidates my family,” said Cynthia Fish, a mother of a 6- and 8-year-old. “… I wish you could explain to me more, why if we are sending our troops over to fight for liberty and justice for all throughout this country, why not for me? Why not for my family?”

So, how did Ken Mitt respond?

Romney paused, asked Fish about her children and then praised her.

And…

“There are other ways to raise kids that’s fine: single moms, grandparents raising kids, gay couples raising kids. That’s the American way, to have people have their freedom of choice,” he said.

What a man of conviction he is. Not.

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40 years ago today…

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As Barack Obama continues in his quest to convince the black community that he is really “one of them”, a formidable force has told him he’s focusing on the wrong issue.

But Dr. Alveda King, who has become a leading pro-life advocate, said Obama, who is pro-abortion, is ignoring something causing real problems for the black community.

“Senator Obama may know of the ‘quiet riots’ coming from the black community, but he doesn’t understand their source,” she told LifeNews.com.

She then proceeds to tell him what that source is, quite eloquently.

“Seventeen million black babies have been killed by abortion and the cries of those children, their mothers, and their families are what Senator Obama is hearing,” King added. “I invite him to listen to those cries more clearly and compassionately.”

“I pray he will realize that hopelessness and despair are only deepened by aborting those who are the future,” she said.

The numbers for the black community are staggering.

About 37 percent of abortions are performed on African-American women, though they make up only 12 percent of the population.

The abortion rate of black women is three times higher than that of white women and 60% of African-American women who become pregnant will have an abortion. More than 14 million abortions have been done on black women and abortion businesses are frequently located in minority communities.

What a travesty, brought about by liberal social philosophy. It is a crying shame (literally) that the black community has so thoroughly embraced so-called progressive political thought.

“I join the voices of thousands across America who can no longer sit idly by and allow this horrible spirit of murder to cut down,” King says. “If the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is to live, our babies must live.”

Yes, Dr. King, it is impossible to dream if your life is taken before you have an opportunity to breathe. I do hope that Sen. Obama hears your voice.

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Look who’s rumored to be running for Congress:

the hot rumor in political circles is that New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin will run

At first glance, it makes for a pretty good laugh, Ray “The Flooded Bus” Nagin replacing William “The Freezer” Jefferson. But stranger things have happened, especially in Louisiana.

Despite these problems, I hope that Nagin runs for Congress because, if he wins, he will vacate City Hall, allowing New Orleans to receive some badly needed leadership. In Congress, Nagin can do less damage because he will have to deal with 534 other publicity-seeking colleagues.

Good point.

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It’s remarkable to watch the US Senate “compromise” during the debate on the amnesty bill for illegal aliens. Just take a look at some of the workings on the floor.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, the Missouri Democrat who ran in last year’s election on getting tough on illegal immigration, voted to preserve citizenship rights for alien absconders. So did Sen. Jon Kyl, Arizona Republican, who during last year’s debate co-sponsored the same amendment with Mr. Cornyn.

Mr. Kyl is the key senator in the “grand bargain” underlying the immigration bill, and he could be overheard by spectators in the gallery marveling to other senators at the sacrifices he’s made to keep his compromise alive: “I voted against my best friend — an amendment we wrote together.”

On the health care vote, Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and John McCain of Arizona both went to check with Mr. Kennedy before casting their votes to match his. Soon after, Mr. Kyl also switched his vote to match Mr. Kennedy’s.

It’s good to see Texas Senator John Cornyn working his tail off trying to put at least some conservative ideas into the bill. He tried but failed to prevent convicted criminals from receiving amnesty, including sex offenders and drunk drivers: Teddy outmaneuvered him on that one (remember, he’s pretty experienced on the drunk driving issue).

The Senate did pass another amendment sponsored by Mr. Kennedy that tightened rules on excluding gang members and terrorist supporters, but Mr. Cornyn said it would still allow sex offenders and repeat drunken drivers to remain in the country and get legal status.

But Sen. Cornyn did manage to get Teddy on one amendment, much to his red-faced chagrin.

After losing his absconders vote, Mr. Cornyn outmaneuvered Mr. Kennedy on another issue, getting the Senate to pass an amendment waiving confidentiality for illegal aliens who apply for but are denied legalization. With Mr. Cornyn’s amendment, which passed 57-39, the Department of Homeland Security could now use that information to track down rejected aliens and deport them.

Mr. Kennedy strenuously opposed the amendment, his face turning red as he thundered against it on the Senate floor.

This battle is not over until Teddy’s royal girth sings. Keep calling and faxing.

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1. LST and it’s merry band of volunteer contributors spend 50 weeks per year bringing you insightful and entertaining bloggy-goodness;
2. We take just two weeks per year to “pass the hat” and ask our readers to show their appreciation by throwing a few bucks into the “tip jar”.

Just to point out a few highlights, in the past six months alone, LST’s writers have…

• Kept you up to date on how “Your Voice”–Texas State Senator Dan Patrick–was doing in Austin, from his fight against the Rosebush Rule, his colleagues’ exploding tempers, Fried-Picklegate and finally getting an on-the-record vote in the Senate regarding appraisal caps;
• Helped Edd Hendee keep an Eye on the Border, providing updates on the dangerous challenges our border county sheriffs face, and the successes they’ve had as a result of your support;
• Loved and grieved for and honored and remembered and helped our nation’s bravest and finest, including both Fightin’ Bramanti brothers;
• Documented the ugly face of rampant liberalism, and its contribution to the decline of Western Civilization;
• Covered the latest developments in the property tax appraisal crisis–across the state, through the courts and in your wallet;
• Brought you the very latest on the saga of drug-runner Aldrete-Davila, Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean, and Edd Hendee’s hunt for prosecutor Johnny “Satan” Sutton;
• Unapologetically kept our eye on and our guard up against the threats we face from domestic jihad;
• Never held our fire on Fred “The Hoe” Hill, or the taxpayer-subsidized Big Government lobbyists at the Texas Association of Counties;
• Defended your Second Amendment rights again and again and again;
• Shared your disgust as our elected “leaders” in Austin abandoned us all throughout the legislative session;
• Provided our uniquely conservative slant to the nation’s gossip page–from a diaper wearing Astronaut, to “not so hot” Anna Nicole Smith lesbianism; the latest in Gay American literature, and way more News of the Nude than you ever needed to know;
• Debated the essence of Conservativism and the limits of loyalty to George W. Bush;
• Discussed along with you what to do about Mexico and the immigration reform bill being pushed as the solution;
• Celebrated Christmas the Good Old Fashion HAMAS way, as well as toyed with the terrorist group’s webmaster’s mind;
• Kept tabs on the antics both of current Mayor White, and the perpetually calm Lee Period Pee Period Out-of-Town Brown;
• Established a safe-space for you to rail against Gov. Goodhair and the madness of mandatory HPV vaccines;
• Never let you forget just how frequently METRO is full of crap;
• Given updates from the animal kingdom, where the battle between Love (panda, zoological, man-on-dead-deer) vs. War (dog, ape) continues to rage unabated;
• Hopefully brought a smile to your face–whether by giving you the opportunity to Rent an Unoffended Jew, discuss the merits of pecan pie, rage against plastic toy wrap, or acknowledge that Wesley Autrey is Da’Man;
• And more than anything else, fulfilled our highest purpose in life–documenting the all too often ChronicallyBiased, poorly edited, written for a fourth-grader, left-leaning news coverage of “Houston’s Leading Information Source”–the Houston Chronicle. (Typos, liberalism, typos, property rights, abortion, Second Amendment, DeLay-hating, Huh?-provoking, anti-Dan Patrick bias, gays in the military, Scooter Libby, al-Qaeda and September 11th, sensationalistic headlines, errors, typos and errors, lack of concern for property taxpayers, more lack of concern for property taxpayers, Dick Cheney and gay rights, Katrina refugees, the Constitution and self-reliance)

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The headline screamed:

Man, 66, performs self-amputation to free self from tree

Wow. Had to read about someone that had been trapped so long that they went to that extreme.

Alone in the woods with his left leg pinned beneath a fallen tree for 11 hours, a 66-year-old man used pocket knives to cut off his limb below the knee to free himself, a neighbor and authorities said.

11 hours? I dunno but that sounds a little quick.

Al Hill had been cutting trees Friday when one fell on him. After freeing himself, he cried out for help, and a neighbor passing through this sparsely populated area heard him.

After freeing himself, he cried out for help? After? After?

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The infantilization of America rolls on:

Injuries from trendy roller shoes are far more numerous than previously thought, contributing to about 1,600 emergency room visits last year, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday.

The injuries were mostly in children, the target market for the wheeled shoes that send kids cruising down sidewalks, across playgrounds and through shopping mall crowds.

Scott Wolfson, a spokesman for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, said last week that the agency knew of at least 64 roller shoe-related injuries and one death between September 2005 through December 2006.

Roller-shoes killed a person? I gotta believe alcohol was involved with that one.

The new higher estimate is based on a more recent and thorough examination by staff statisticians of data reported to the agency, Wolfson told the AP Wednesday.

The update follows new safety advice posted online Tuesday by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, which recommends helmets, wrist protectors and knee and elbow pads for kids who wear wheeled shoes.

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Oh for freak’s sake, why not just slap an “I’m a Dork” sign on your kid’s back and shove them out into a waiting mob while you’re at it too?

This is the part where you go into comments and share all the things you did when you were a kid that were “normal” then but would not be considered insanely dangerous.

… to the following contributors to LST’s Spring 2007 Begathon:

DAY THREE
Charles C.
Sam J.
Robert L.
John V.
Jacqueline K.
David S.
Steven M.
Jefferey B.
Lance J.

DAY TWO
Robert S., Joseph B., John F., David M., Edd Hendee, Noe S., Randall N., Peter B., Steve D., Scott C., Jim L., Angela P., Doris T., David D., Leslie F., Mike K., Jeffrey C., Sam O., Drew W., Kimmon J., Fred R., Clifton A., Kerri C., Gerald H., Charles G.

DAY ONE
David (not Benzion) B., Eric P. Johnson, Robert L., Ken R., Todd W.,
Randy B., David R., Matt L., and Steve W.

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