We have so many crazed moonbats for Obama and some that were scrubbed from the web, it’s amazing, but the one that really makes me go “hmmmm” is Scientologists for Obama. It figures that there would be every imaginable cult and terror-related organization in support of Obama, it’s been relatively easy to document.

Let’s go back in time to those pesky little missing pages….

Biden is showing that although you might have foreign policy experience, you’re not all that bright and won’t make very good decisions. I thought Biden supported Israel and that was one good thing about him!

I think the American people are smarter than to fall for the “Palin is inexperienced” line. Palin is no more inexperienced than Barack Obama, and she’s not running for president. Foreign policy experience might be important to some, but I value good judgment over experience. The role of Vice President isn’t contingent on experience, anyway - Palin falls in the middle, she’s no lightweight.

See “Beyond the Palin” by Jacob Laskin at Frontpage Magazine.

It is true that Palin lacks experience in foreign-affairs, though, as a state legislator, they were out of her purview. But Democrats make an issue of experience at their peril. For one thing, as vice president, Palin would have time to learn on the job. The same cannot be said of a President Obama. Although his foreign policy résumé is scarcely more impressive, he is running for the role of commander-in-chief. If, moreover, Palin’s foreign-policy inexperience makes her selection the most “irresponsible decision by any leading presidential candidate since [George H.W.] Bush picked [Dan] Quayle,” as the ever-excitable Andrew Sullivan asserts, voters should be even more concerned about Obama’s place atop the Democratic ticket.

If Democrats nonetheless have embraced the inexperience charge, one reason is their conviction that her youth makes Palin easy prey for Joe Biden who, in this account, will dominate the vice presidential debate. But one might question whether Democrats’ confidence is justified. It is based on the unquestioned assumption that Biden’s 35-years in Congress make him an undisputed expert on foreign policy. Biden’s recent decisions, by contrast, inspire no such confidence. In May 2006, he proposed partitioning Iraq into Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish regions. The plan, strenuously opposed by both American military leaders and the Iraqi government, looks in hindsight like a spectacular miscalculation. Likewise, Biden’s opposition to the successful surge of troops in Iraq does not recommend him as a foreign policy heavyweight. With this track record in mind, Palin could do worse than borrow Barack Obama’s line that while experience in foreign affairs is important, it is no guarantee of good judgment.

I think good judgment is what we should be looking for, and as his gaffe record indicates, not to mention the other points Laskin makes in that article about partitioning Iraq and his position on the Surge - Biden doesn’t have it.

Well you can nix the idea that Joe Biden supports Israel, and also nix the idea that he has good judgment in foreign policy matters.

I mentioned Obama’s gaffe about his Uncle liberating Auschwitz back in May, but this fellow cleverly covers it and reminds us of it again.

Hat tip, Jack, through email.

They’re all wrong, as it turns out. Palin’s 17-year-old daughter is pregnant, and is going to marry the father.

Gribbit has a post up about it that pretty much says it all.

Leftist Media Attacks on Bristol Palin - in reference to the rumors that Bristol is Trig’s mother:

Today Gov. Palin announced that Bristol is 5 months pregnant. If this is true, and there is no reason why they would lie about this tidbit of information, then Bristol became pregnant a month BEFORE Trig was born. Can we say - rumor quashed!

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The mushroom people and their associated displays on tables inside one of the buildings at the Chicago Botanic Garden - was a gathering of the Illinois Mycological Association - people who study mushrooms.

You learn something every day …I had no idea there was such a thing, although I’ve seen people comment that they like to tromp around in the woods, birdwatching and ’shrooming’. I guess this explains what that means; although I don’t find the study of different types of FUNGUS very fascinating.

Taking a short cruise around the blogosphere this morning, I’m finding some sickening examples of why liberalism is considered a mental disorder.

Take this one, as an example, at Van Helsing’s Moonbattery.com “Liberals Consider Gustav Proof There Is a God”

The Left has managed to squeeze so much propaganda out of Katrina, the approach of Gustav has them all but wetting their pants in anticipation. Here’s Michael Moore on a soapbox provided by the vile Keith Olbermann, gloating that a potentially devastating hurricane scheduled to hit New Orleans during the Republican convention is “proof that there is a god in heaven.”

Make sure you catch the video of Michael Moore on Keith Olbermann, and make sure you also catch that video of DNC chairman Don Fowler on an airplane, giddy with the news that Gustav is on its way.

How anyone could use the promise of a hurricane hitting an American city as reason to be happy and celebrate is beyond the imagination.

But so are the unhinged allegations that Sarah Palin’s son Trig’s having Downs Syndrome is Palin’s fault, or that Trig isn’t Sarah’s child at all, but actually was born to her teenage daughter. Read that at Sweetness and Light, SG’s notable post entitled “Things That Make You Hate All Democrats”.

Making up conflicting unhinged accusations in order to blame Palin in one way or another for having a downs syndrome baby - is disgusting. Palin had the courage to carry a downs syndrome child to term and love it, making a commitment to the child for the rest of her life, which is admirable. Having the child, rather than aborting him, is what’s admirable about this woman. Liberals condone aborting less-than-perfect children in their demented support of nazi-type euthanasia-a belief that making a judgment about whether or not you’ll keep your baby should be based on whether or not it will have ‘quality of life’. But who is to determine what qualifies as “quality”? Life itself is a gift; not something you should flush down the toilet because it’s at the wrong time, or ‘inconvenient’. But leave it to libs to promote fictional suppositions that merely serve their political purpose, even though it’s very clearly spelled out in numerous places including the entry at Wikipedia that “Current research (as of 2008) has shown that Down syndrome is due to a random event during the formation of sex cells or pregnancy. There has been no evidence that it is due to parental behavior or environmental factors.”

The likelihood of a teenage girl having a downs syndrome baby are incredibly slim. In fact, the probability increases as a woman’s age increases, which is one of the reasons why my parents encouraged me to have my children when I was young.

Alan Colmes has alleged that Track is illegitimate. But then…I haven’t seen the media mention that Barack Obama is illegitimate - since his father never divorced his first wife in Kenya when he took up with then 18-year old Stanley Ann Dunham. There isn’t even a marriage certificate.

So Colmes thinks that because Track was born 8 months after Sarah and her husband eloped, that the reason they eloped was because she was pregnant? These people are making a lot of desperate stretches in order to paint Palin as someone we shouldn’t believe in.

If you add up their hysteria over the RNC and McCain’s pick for VEEP, it’s no wonder they’re grasping at straws for a reason to enjoy some schadenfreude. Otherwise, Palin’s entrance as Vice Presidential candidate alongside McCain would continue to have them depressed and in need of more medication than usual.

See also The Harpies Are Out to Get Sarah Palin

Defending Sarah Palin’s Selection

Kat at Cathouse Chat discusses more about Alan Colmes idiocy:

Kim Preistap over at Wizbang! posted late last night (early this morning?) about a disgusting entry by Alan Colmes on his blog, Liberaland:Kat, CatHouse Chat, Aug 2008

Read the whole thing.

Wow.

So if you’re not a drooling McCain acolyte you don’t get to attend?

Aren’t we supposed to be setting conservatives apart from liberals in terms of accepting no debate?

AND…Palin is representative of that very idea; someone who challenges her party, holds its members to account, and she’s sharing the ticket with McCain

Something really stinks about John Hawkins’ being turned down for being able to cover the RNC.

The variety of gardens is so spectacular; it’s hard to chose where to go.

Here is a checkerboard pattern of hedges in contrast to a silvery-blue colored groundcover and the arches in the background. It makes you want to sit on one of their benches and just drink it all in.

In this gazebo, you could sit down, although standing against the railing felt great because of the wonderful breeze coming through.

There were no shortages on places to sit along the way, which made it very pleasant. If you needed to rest, or fumble for a lens, or sit down for a while, you certainly could.

This is another view of this spectacular pool. My parents had a few of these in our yard, but they were filled in when I was little because they attracted neighborhood boys that liked to catch frogs, and were expensive to keep up. Our pools were stocked with goldfish, but I didn’t see any in these waters.

The Chicago Botanic garden is a simply lovely place to while away the hours.

Of course, darling little girls caught my eye who were there with their families, and I couldn’t resist taking pictures of their sweet little faces.

They reminded me of Stephen Hanks watercolors of children.

This woman was enjoying the mild weather, with her newspaper spread out and was reading her Sunday paper. This kind of picture takes me back to when things were simpler.

I was immediately drawn to the walled English gardens with their carefully trimmed hedges. They reminded me of the privet hedge that surrounded my parents’ corner lot, and which my father was constantly tending.

Although…these are much taller and dramatic than the privet hedge on my family’s corner lot.

The music of running water was evident with numerous fountains and pools.

I’m not sure what these are called, but you can see the shooting water bursts behind the people walking; they look like white blades of grass.

The picture above is of a central circular short fountain type structure, that was surrounded by pools that had waterlilies and lily pads floating in them, guarded by fencing.

Backing up a little bit to get a broader view, this is what it looked like. See the unbelievable sight? Slightly to the right in this photograph is a PALM TREE. Unbelievable.

Carefully pruned hedges surrounded curved walkways, leaving a dramatic effect.

There were a number of places where you could find water lilies. I think the photo above is Japanese Lotus.

They come in a variety of colors.

I thought this shot was spectacular; I’ve never seen such a thing.

They’re all quite pretty, and unusual; I’d never seen them in this type of setting before.

It began to get rather crowded and hot, as the sun was rapidly going up to the high noon location. The Botanic Garden is a tremendously large place. There are buildings, a greenhouse, and a number of things we didn’t even get to; but it was such an enjoyable trip.

This doorway reminds me of ‘the secret garden’.

My husband shook his head and said ‘the British go a little overboard with their pruned hedges…’ - but I think it adds tremendous drama to a landscape, and I know it’s a tremendous effort to keep them that way.

The butterfly exhibit at Brookfield Zoo made me very aware of the butterflies and the opportunities for taking pictures of them. This one was practically posing for me; a swallowtail got away before I was ready!

There were many bold chipmunks who darted in and out among the crowds. People seem to walk - oblivious as to what’s going on - it’s no wonder they do so well and come running out only to dart underneath a privet hedge or clump of roses.

There are a considerable number of wetlands type areas where there are water lilies with their associated lily pads in the water. And along the way, you can find without looking very hard, turtles and herons and other wildlife.

i took another 200 something pictures on this trip, so I’ll be wading through them to post one or two more little vignettes.

In a courtyard there was a special show of bonsai, which was spectacular; and inside, they had a mushroom club meeting with tables of mushrooms. I didn’t find that very interesting, but I took pictures of some of the bonsai. There are a few other points of interest, but I think this is enough for today.

Hope you enjoyed them as much as I enjoyed taking them.

I finally DID get a shot of a robin, LOL…they were stealth flyers in that place.

Steve is now getting a Canon Rebel and it’s on its way. We are going to be taking a lot more of these trips; I have so many ideas of where to go and places I want to check out. He’ll probably want to go to a railway museum; but I think some of the interesting places in Chicago - like the Chicago Aquarium would be neat places to go. Or since it’s on its way to my folks place, we could take some pictures of Al Capone’s hideout - which is now a restaurant. It’s a pretty cool place to go and eat.

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