A Charge to Keep

There is a painting hanging in the Oval Office, at least it will be for another week or so. President George W Bush calls the painting A Charge to Keep. He states it depicts missionaries delivering the word of God to others. It is a western style painting, of course (can't be a Texan without a little western). I find that endearing and hopeful. I have read that others do not. They want to point out that President Bush is wrong about the piece of artwork. That the painter was really trying to portray a horse thief riding away from an angry mob. But that leads me to my point, yes I do have one...Isn't art different things to different people?

How many debates have there been about the Mona Lisa? Our experiences and beliefs help us interpret and identify with art. If the viewer of a piece cannot interpret the art how they see fit then what is the point? Once I was standing in front of a painting at the Houston Museum of Fine Art and was really thinking about what I 'got' from the painting. A couple came and stood next to me and began discussing what they thought the painting was about. My version of what I thought the artist was conveying and their version were completely different. I wondered if we were even looking at the same painting. But that is what art is. It is like poetry. It can mean different things to different people. So if a person looks at a painting and interprets it differently than what the artist intended, don't scoff like the 'educated elite'. That is what the painting means to him and that is the true beauty of art.

Eli Stone Cancelled

ABC has a television series called Eli Stone. I have been a huge fan since the premiere. The premise of the show is that Eli, an attorney, becomes a prophet and receives visions from
God. He uses these visions to help family, friends and society at large. The last show that I watched (12/31/08) sent me into a fit. The episode centered around the main storyline about a transgendered minister who is suing the Church because they fired him. After 40 minutes of listening to how the congregation is intolerant to the poor plight of the average transgendered American, Michael/Michelle wins the case and then blackmails the church into allowing him/her to remain the pastor. Are you kidding me? A sub story consisted of a female attorney who is pregnant and finds out that her baby might possibly have Downs Syndrome. She informs a coworker who then tells her that she should put herself first because that is what moms do. Okay, if a fetus isn't considered a baby to abortion activists then should a woman carrying a fetus be considered a mom? Luckily for the unborn baby further test show that the baby is perfect so it gets to live because we can't give birth to non perfect babies, right? Needless to say, I am no longer an Eli fan. Sorry, Eli.

I am so tired of Hollywood trying to insert their liberal views into my life. They are demoralizing society by bringing their agendas into our homes. I say enough is enough. I will not allow them to weaken my belief system or that of my children. What happened to the days where TV was for family entertainment. Now it is for their liberal social revolution. We need to take back our families, take back our society!

Side note: yeah, ABC cancelled Eli Stone!

Bookstore Propaganda

Christmas is over for 2008 and now it is 2009. Nothing to do with your Thursday evening? Go spend one of the many gift cards you received.

My husband received one for a bookstore that we frequently patron. I had a raging headache, but did not want to disappoint so we made it a night and went gift card spending and to the movie. Due to my discomfort I was feeling slightly morose, a bit moody, if you will. I wondered through the many isles of 'The Art of Henna' and 'Samurai Warrior' and made my way back to the Current Event section, which oddly enough is located all the way at the back of the store. I perused the isle and Glenn Beck caught my eye. I had been meaning to pick up a copy of his 'Christmas Sweater' book. I had passed that on my way back and there were several copies available. Then another book came to view. It was one about how the Republican party is imploding. What? Another book on how horrible George W. Bush is, which I'm really getting tired of hearing. One about how great Obama is (wake up people, he really hasn't even done anything yet!) Oh yeah! Michael Medved's book! Then another about the atrocities of the Bush years (war monger, blah, blah, blah). Another about Obama the Great and so on and so on...

It got me thinking about the Republican image. In the car I mentioned to my husband how the Republicans really need to do something about the image they project to the nation because people really have the wrong perception of us. Then I amended my statement. It is not the image that we project it is the image that is thrust upon us by the Left. If there is one thing that they do extremely well it is paint this horrible image of the average Conservative. I am an average conservative and surprisingly I am not an old white male who is trying to destroy the environment while stealing money from the poor. I am a female in her early thirties who works hard for her family. I earn under 200k, which according to Obama means I am not wealthy. Aren't all Republicans rich? I do go to church and I do love Jesus, but I don't hate gay people. Wait - that's not what the Lefts say. Don't all evangelicals hate homosexuals? My husband wants to take my minivan, which is not working, and instead of buying a new vehicle wants to turn it into an eco car that runs off of solar panels. Oh my goodness, a Republican who likes the environment and doesn't want to dump oil in the ocean?

I am so tired of the picture that is painted of the average conservative. The Left says that the Republican party is dying, that our complete and utter destruction is inevitable. We lost the election, but we are not going anywhere. This was not a landslide victory for the Democrats no matter how hard they try to repaint history. They cannot change who we are just by writing some books.

Palestinian Supporters Protest Obama

A handful of Hamas supporters marched in front of Obama's rented vacation house in Hawaii holding up homemade signs protesting US support of Israel. I say Hamas supporters because surely they understand that Hamas started this whole mini-war. Surely they understand that Hamas has plainly called for the destruction of the State of Israel. These are the people that Israel is fighting, not the citizens of the Gaza region. These wannabe hippies need to go burn their bras somewhere else. If they want the Gazans to have food and medicine, as their signs state they do, then they can go over there and give it to them. Let's see how grateful the Hamas soldiers are for the Americans!

I have a better idea. Let's go hurl objects at them, their families, their homes and see if they just want to sit there and take it or if perhaps after the weed wears off they might be a little mad. Something tells me they might not like it. But no, Israel is the bad guy. Even though Israel is working to get humanitarian aid to the citizens in Gaza. Do these Woodstock rebels want to defect and go live in Hamas controlled Gaza? I'll help them pack. I believe that we would have a hard time getting them on the airplane.