"Mocha" is one of those terms that confused me the more I saw it. I became aware that I wasn't really sure what it meant in the context of food products. Did it refer to coffee or chocolate? Or both? Some quick research provided the truth. From Wikipedia:

Mocha ( Arabic : المخا [al-Mukhā]) is a port city on the Red Sea coast of Yemen . Until it was eclipsed in the 19th century by Aden and Hodeida , Mocha was the principal port for Yemen's capital Sana'a .

Mocha is famous for being the major marketplace for coffee from the 15th century until the 17th century. Even after other sources of coffee were found, Mocha (also called Sanani (meaning from Sana'a) or Mocha Sanani) beans continued to be prized for their relatively chocolaty flavor—and remain so even today. From this coffee the English language gained the word mocha, for such combinations of chocolate and coffee flavors as cafe mocha .

From another Wikipedia article, for Cafe Mocha, we see this:

A Café mocha is a variant of a cafe latte . Like a latte it is typically one third espresso and two thirds steamed milk , but a portion of chocolate is added, typically in the form of a chocolate syrup , although other vending systems use instant chocolate powder. Mochas can contain dark or milk chocolate.

So the bottom line is that the generic term would refer to a product that has a blended coffee and chocolate flavor.

Why is so damn difficult to find a person who can stand in front of the American people and proudly proclaim a sentiment like this?

...I don ‘t know about you, but I am impatient with those Republicans who after the last election rushed into print saying, “We must broaden the base of our party”—when what they meant was to fuzz up and blur even more the differences between ourselves and our opponents.

It was a feeling that there was not a sufficient difference now between the parties that kept a majority of the voters away from the polls. When have we ever advocated a closed-door policy? Who has ever been barred from participating?

...

Let us show that we stand for fiscal integrity and sound money and above all for an end to deficit spending, with ultimate retirement of the national debt.

Let us also include a permanent limit on the percentage of the people’s earnings government can take without their consent.

Let our banner proclaim a genuine tax reform that will begin by simplifying the income tax so that workers can compute their obligation without having to employ legal help.

And let it provide indexing—adjusting the brackets to the cost of living—so that an increase in salary merely to keep pace with inflation does not move the taxpayer into a surtax bracket. Failure to provide this means an increase in government’s share and would make the worker worse off than he was before he got the raise.

Let our banner proclaim our belief in a free market as the greatest provider for the people.

Let us also call for an end to the nit-picking, the harassment and over-regulation of business and industry which restricts expansion and our ability to compete in world markets.

Let us explore ways to ward off socialism, not by increasing government’s coercive power, but by increasing participation by the people in the ownership of our industrial machine.

Our banner must recognize the responsibility of government to protect the law-abiding, holding those who commit misdeeds personally accountable.

And we must make it plain to international adventurers that our love of peace stops short of “peace at any price.”

We will maintain whatever level of strength is necessary to preserve our free way of life.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.

- Ronald Reagan, 1975

Sarah Palin could have said something like this. John McCain couldn't have said this with any credibility. Hopefully the dumb Repiblician leadership will get their heads out of the sand and understand that our citizens can do great things when government will simply get the hell out of the way.

Do you want a country of citizens who cower feed at the nipples of the government every day, and know little else?  Or do you want a country of citizens who work hard, take responsibility for their actions, and grow and prosper in the freedom that our Constitution guarantees?

Read the whole thing here.

I was eagerly waiting Rush's take on the Obama win. I knew he'd have some great commentary and insight which would brighten my mood. Here are some of his basic points:

• The election was a celebration of conservatism because elections real conservatives won elections all over the place. (look at the races in Texas, for example).  Palin attracted crowds which helps prove that her core values are widely accepted, even though the MSM is trying to claim she killed the ticket.
• The stock market is down! How can this be?  Obama was supposed to usher in a new USA, a new World. How can Wall Street be worried with so many good things coming?
• The election proved that Republicans can't win by moving to the center and bowing to liberal agendas and trying to attract moderates. Poling data showed that 2/3 of moderates voted for Obama, 89% of Republicans votes for Mccain, and 80% of conservatives voted for McCain.  If 100% of conservatives had voted for McCain, would he have one?  This strategy to reach out to the other side and look appealing to them was a big part of the Republican strategy. FAIL!
• The Obama presidency will be one big campaign.

But Islam is a religion of peace!

NAIROBI, Kenya - The United Nations said Tuesday that a Somali stoned to death by Islamist militants after she had been accused of adultery was a 13-year-old girl who had been raped while visiting her grandmother.

“Reports indicate that she had been raped by three men while traveling on foot to visit her grandmother in the war-torn capital, Mogadishu,” Unicef , the United Nations children’s agency, said in a statement.

“Following the assault, she sought protection from the authorities, who then accused her of adultery and sentenced her to death,” Unicef added. “A child was victimized twice — first by the perpetrators of the rape and then by those responsible for administering justice.”

What a lovely country. It's no surprise that in a continent that sold its people to the slave trade that this kind of brutality still goes on.

Here's more blood from an unrelated incident in Kenya:

The thing I keep asking myself is, "What's next?" After hearing of the Obama victory, my only thought for was that my taxes will be going up. Now that the Democrats have made the declaration that things are going to change, it will be interesting to see what those changes are. Here's my tribute to the Obama win.

What does the Obama run say about our country?

1. The Republicians suck at promoting themselves and embracing and promoting conservative values.
2. The MSM still has a stranglehold on the free flow of truth to the populace.
3. A large segment of the population appears to be motivated by government handouts.
4. The Democrats rope in a lot of voters by pitting Americans against each other and talking about how they dislike our country.

I think it's interesting that a candidate with such socialist values has made it this far. I have said it in the past, and I'll say it again: We have lived in such prosperity as a country for so long that most people have forgotten about what it  took to make this country great. Now that we are faced with the possibility of electing a socialist president, we see that a big portion of the populace doesn't seem to know which way is up. They will believe anything. They have not lived through a world war or a depression, and they have no full understanding of history. They're motivated by government handouts and have no clue that this will be their demise, just like a frog being slowly boiled alive.

This is a good time to start getting in line with your fellow comrades and studying up on some basic concepts of Communism so that you can fall in line with the changing of the guard. Here are a few links to get you going. First, start with the basics:

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Communism

How Communism Works

When you're ready to test your newfound knowledge, here's a good practice guide:

Study Guide for the Communist Manifesto

If you're still young here's a great group to get involved with to show your support for the common good:

The Young Communist League

Finally, it's always a good idea to advertise to your fellow comrades that you're on board with the program and not a trouble maker:

Communist t-shirts from Cafe Press

(Unfortually Cafe Press is not yet state-owned, but that may be changing soon.)

You may also want to partake in some continuing education by exposing yourself to artwork that celebrates the fantastic benefits of the Communist state. Here's a great example showing the power of the Communist warrior and how he supports the common good:

A popular talk radio host summed up the 2008 presidential race in a very witty way:

(Paraphrased) If Obama is elected, Obama voters are expecting to get something from the government and McCain voters are expecting the government to take something from them. The reality would be that everyone would have something taken from them, whether it be money, liberty, or rights.

If this man is elected, get ready for every hard-working person to get reamed to the tune of $1,200,000,000,000 dollars total. Take a look at the Obama Spend-o-Meter.

The government has been limp in its battle to stop illegal immigration, but now the environmentalists are getting involved:

  National forests  and parks — long popular with Mexican marijuana-growing cartels — have become home to some of the most polluted pockets of wilderness in America because of the toxic chemicals needed to eke lucrative harvests from rocky mountainsides, federal officials said.

Weed and bug sprays, some long banned in the U.S., have been smuggled to the marijuana farms. Plant growth hormones have been dumped into streams, and the water has then been diverted for miles in PVC pipes.

Maybe now there will be more movication to keep this scum out our country. These drug cartels are heavily armed. I wonder if the gun-control people people can get them to drop their weapons?

Here's a review of history:

1. Democrats push for banks to grant subprime home loans to people who have little means to pay them back.
2. Democrats resist all attempts by Republicans to investigate these practices.
3. The credit crisis hits and the stock market craters
4. The Democrats are now thought to be seen as the saviors for the whole situation.

Bend over everyone, get ready for mroe socialism. Anh oh, don't forget about the 5 million loans to illegals.

Even when you learn that it's not only the Dems that are involved in all of this, one still has to ask: Why is yet again more government the solution to this mess? And if you believe that only the republicians are to blame, why would you ask the Democrats to fix things? All they want to do is pass more regulations and rules and generally have the government control more things.

Windows Vista still seems new, right?  Well, it's been 18 months since the launch and Vista has been poorly received. Microsoft has been hard at work on the Vista replacement, named Windows 7. Gates has claimed Windows will use less memory and be more efficient:

We’re hard at work, I would say, on the next version, which we call Windows 7. I’m very excited about the work being done there. The ability to be lower power, take less memory, be more efficient...

ha! We'll see. I'm not holding my breath. What would I like to see in a Microsoft desktop OS? Here's my list:

1. Efficient use of hardware resources
2. Stability
3. Simplicity

Windows XP gives me these features now for the most part, that's why I have been using it for 7 years. However there is always room for improvement. Vista did not improve on much, that's for sure, and the improvements it did have were outweighed by the problems with it. It still amazes me that a company like MS produces such flops like Windows ME and Vista. It demonstrates that a huge company doesn't always do things right, even in regard to its core business.

This site, windows7news.com, has a lot of good information.

This article provides some evidence that's really no surprise to a conservative. It doesn't get any more simple than this:

The U.S. tax system is highly progressive. The top 1 percent of income earners, by household, paid 39 percent of all federal income taxes in 2005, whereas the bottom 50 percent paid a little over 3 percent. Further, 32 percent of all tax returns filed in 2005 were from people who paid no federal income tax at all.

Take a look at the graph provided with the story.

Liberals often whine about how some people aren't paying their fair share. NO SHIT! The POOR aren't paying their fair share!

I    am   tired    of    pulling    the    cart    for    the    slackers.