DO AS I SAY DO NOT AS I DO DO

North Carolinians marching to protest voter-ID laws must present a valid photo ID to participate in an NAACP-hosted protest against voter-ID laws in Raleigh on Saturday.

The central claim among the protesters is that the  voter-ID laws disenfranchise certain segments of the voting population, particularly minority voters and poor voters.

According to official NAACP flyers passed out at the rally, protesters must carry the precise kind of ID that they would be expected to present at the voting booth.

Notice the last instruction.

Chairman of the House Elections Committee and North Carolina Republican state Rep. David Lewis criticized  the protesters for their “hypocrisy.”

“I find it extremely hypocritical that when nearly 70 percent of North Carolinians across all political spectrums support the idea that one present photo identification when going to the polls, the NC NAACP has filed suit in court to block this common-sense idea,” said Lewis in a statement to The Daily Caller.  “However, the NC NAACP requires their protesters to maintain valid photo identification on their person throughout the march. The idea that Chairman William Barber and his followers find it more important to carry their photo identification with them when marching than when electing the President of the United States is reprehensible.”

SUNDAY RESPITE-Say the Name-Margaret Becker

THE RESULT OF LIBERAL POLICIES (Republican AND Democrat)

I have paid taxes since I was 18 years old. I still pay taxes. I despise that one penny has gone to people who think like this guy. But liberal policies (both Republican liberal policies and Democrat liberal policies) have deliberately produced a generation that believes we who work owe those who don't work (not who can't work) a living.

 That is absolutely outrageous.

Do you think college is going to do this twit one bit of good? He can't even speak English, is a "third year" college person (not student) and can't think his way out of the proverbial wet paper sack.

 Liberals are a bunch of stary-eyed chumps.

LOOK HOW FAR MAN-MADE "CLIMATE CHANGE" HAS REACHED!!

Nasa has found a unique planet which wobbles on its axis - causing weather conditions to be even more erratic than those on Earth.

Astronomers were stunned to find the planet, designated Kepler-413b wobbles wildly on its spin axis, much like a child's top.

The tilt of the planet's spin axis can vary by as much as 30 degrees over 11 years, leading to rapid and erratic changes in seasons.

'Imagine living on a planet with seasons so erratic you would hardly know whether to wear Bermuda shorts or a heavy overcoat,' Nasa said. 

In contrast, Earth's rotational precession is 23.5 degrees over 26,000 years. 

Researchers are amazed that this far-off planet is precessing on a human timescale.

Kepler 413-b is located 2,300 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. 

It circles a close pair of orange and red dwarf stars every 66 days. 

The planet's orbit around the binary stars appears to wobble, too, because the plane of its orbit is tilted 2.5 degrees with respect to the plane of the star pair's orbit.

Astronomers using Kepler discovered the wobbling when they found an unusual pattern of transiting for Kepler-413b.

'Looking at the Kepler data over the course of 1,500 days, we saw three transits in the first 180 days -- one transit every 66 days -- then we had 800 days with no transits at all. 

'After that, we saw five more transits in a row,' said Veselin Kostov, the principal investigator on the observation. 

The next transit visible from Earth's point of view is not predicted to occur until 2020, because the orbit moves up and down, a result of the wobbling, in such a great degree that it sometimes does not transit the stars as viewed from Earth.

Astronomers are still trying to explain why this planet is out of alignment with its stars.There could be other planetary bodies in the system that tilted the orbit. 

Or, it could be that a third star nearby that is a visual companion may actually be gravitationally bound to the system and exerting an influence.

'Presumably there are planets out there like this one that we're not seeing because we're in the unfavorable period,' said Peter McCullough, a team member with the Space Telescope Science Institute and Johns Hopkins University. 

'And that's one of the things that Veselin is researching: Is there a silent majority of things that we're not seeing?'

Even with its changing seasons, Kepler-413b is too warm for life as we know it. 

Because it orbits so close to the stars, its temperatures are too high for liquid water to exist, making it inhabitable. 

It also is a super Neptune - a giant gas planet with a mass about 65 times that of Earth -- so there is no surface on which to stand. 

On a related topic, a blast of global warming hit the mid-west with crippling snow and ice. Meanwhile, Florida was struck with global cooling with temperatures one degree above normal.

All of this man-made, of course. No earth tilt. No sun spots. Nothing to see here...move on.

BACK TO NEBRASKA (Denver will never accept them back)

I am my dog's trainer.

I have taught my dog to lie down and roll over.

I am also the trainer for the Denver Broncos.

They learned the same trick.

Except for the offense, the defense and the special teams, they actually did OK.

What ever happened to Omaha?

SUNDAY RESPITE-Amazing Grace-Chris Tomlin

SOTU

I was going to write about all the things Presiden BO (the amateur president) said in his State of the Union  address that were new. But there weren't any.

He DID reiterate his determination to get his way with or without Congress, but that is the direction he has been going all along. It isn't new, even though many have missed it.

Other presidents have issued executive orders, some more than PBO (tap), but none have bragged about it as part of their deliberate and specific agenda.

Despotism here we come! Right back where we started from.