On February 16, 2007, at 12:56 pm, the world stood still for one brief second. That is the exact time and date that Olivia Renee entered into the world at hospital in Munster, Indiana. Olivia Renee is the proud daughter of #1 son Tim and his wife Jamie, but more importantly, is the first granddaughter of proud grandparents Mr. and Mrs. Lobo. The WOLF’S DEN could not be more proud.

Olivia Renee’s entrance into the world was as quiet and sweet as one could ever hope for. It started at approximately 5:30 that morning with a call from #1 son. Jamie had been experiencing contractions and lower back pain all night and our son wondered what to do. The answer from Mrs. Lobo was a resounding “Get her to the hospital, NOW!!!” Daughter-in-law had different ideas, however. She had a doctor’s appointment at 9:30 that morning and she really wasn’t worried about the contractions or the pressure. I guess it must have hit home at her doctors appointment when the sawbones told her she was 8 cm dilated and needed to go to the hospital immediately.

Believing we had enough time, Mrs. Lobo and I loaded up the wagon and headed north.  We left our beloved warm Kentucky cave for the cold, frozen tundra of northern Indiana.  The further north we went the colder the temperature became and the more snow appeared on the ground(note to self: have Al Gore explain that global warming thing again!!!).  We figured since it was our DiL's(Daughter-in-Law) first baby, she would be in labor for a good stretch of time.  Baby Olivia, however, had other ideas.  Momma was in hard labor for only an hour.  Papa just barely made it to the hospital from work.  Grandma and grandpa still had 4 hours of driving time to go when baby Olivia entered the world. 

The ease and quickness of her birth did have a serious consequence.  Momma's water bag never broke until the doctor broke it during the delivery.  Thus baby Olivia swallowed some amniotic fluid while being born.  The very same thing that protected her and cushioned her for 9 months became her enemy.  She was taken from her mother's arms and placed in the cold, sterile world of neo-natal care.  There she remained for 8 days while the fluid was being removed from her lungs and she was being protected against infection. 

So there it was.  The only way this old dog could touch his granddaughter was through the holes in the side of the incubator.  I was able to tickle her feet and hold her tiny hand.  I marveled at the strength of her grip and truly believed she was and still is the most beautiful baby in the universe. 

I've been and done many things in my life.  I have been in situations where I believed that only the hand of God saved me, though I never saw His hand at work.  Not until that fateful day when I saw baby Olivia in her incubator.  I truly believe I saw the hand of God holding her.  He was holding her and whispering in her ear "I've got you, you're mine, I'm going to take care of you and I have some wonderful plans for you!"

So welcome baby Olivia Renee!!!  The universe is yours and both grandma and grandpa will be watching and recording how God's plan for you unfolds....


P.S.  Baby Olivia would like the good folks at Townhall to know that while she was waiting in the hospital to go home to mommy and daddy, she created her own website.  You can view her pictures at Babysites.com/The Mosher family because her grandpaw aint smart enough to be able to post pics here on his blog!!!!

After the wonderful, patient, and long-suffering Mrs. Lobo read my blog "Politikin in Ol' Kentuck---Survey Says", she looked at me with mischievous look in her eye that she is famous for and asked me: "If you think you so dang smart, why dont you write a poll question?" 

Ok, so having downed a glass of my favorite concoction of PassionFlower and Wild Lettuce herbs, here it goes.  My survey question for the 2007 state of Kentucky gubernatorial race:

"If the election were held tomorrow, would you vote for a governor that promised reform if elected then went on to create a costly scandal, abused his powers by pardoning those who were indicted then cut a deal to avoid prosecution, all the while pushing threw legislation who's long-term, positive effects on the state are questionable, or a wealthy, former Representative from liberal Louisville who is now out of the limelight and is running only because she's bored and misses the action, who's only campaign strategy is to attack the above mentioned governor while dodging questions on the issues(because she has no answers) or business man from Paducah who actually has answers and solutions to the problems facing our state today and who's only real drawback is lack of name recognition?"

As with all polls I must state that this one is a totally unscientific, non-propagandist, non-leftist , non-media poll, which means the results may actually be close to the truth!

Well, well, well.  The results of the first major poll of the Kentucky campaign season are in and, yes folks, we gots ourselves a horse race.  The results are that of 500 Republicans surveyed,  Gov. Ernie has 39%, Anne Northup has 39%, and Billy Harper has 10%.  These results are significant.  They mean that less than half of Kentucky Republicans support Gov.(I am not a crook)Ernie, less than half support Anne(I'm too rich to bake cookies)Northup, and 90% of Kentucky Republicans STILL have no idea where Paducah is. 

Now for Gov. Ernie, the results can't be too good.  For a sitting incumbent who has, supposedly, done so much good for the state, to come in with such low numbers tells us what we already know: He is beatable.  Worse than that, if he is beatable in the Republican polls, odds are, he is beatable in the state election.  Incumbent or not, he can lose.  Fletcher's campaign now has no room for error.  His numbers can only go up slightly, but, with one false move, they can also plummet significantly.  For RHINO Annie and Billy Harper, the polls are more interesting.  RHINO Annie is almost in the same leaky boat as Gov. Ernie.  While it is possible for her numbers to increase, one bad batch of cookies, or one bad hair day, or campaigning without a platform or solutions to the problems facing our state, and her numbers could bottom out.  Billy Harper is actually in the best position.  He can only go up.  The more he campaigns, the more face time in front of the voters he accrues, the harder the Harperites work for him, the more of a possibility his numbers could increase before May.

Having waxed philisophical on the aforementioned polls I now utter this: I do not like or trust polls!  The news media tell us that we need polls to tap into the mindset of the voters, to show all of us what we're thinking.  This is the same leftist, atheistic, lying, fact-skewering, plageristic, media that tells us a free press is the cornerstone of democracy.

In my mind the real reason the media loves polls is because polls are another form of propaganda.  To further explore this idea, we must now enter the minds of the media.  First, the media assumes we, the people, are all stupid.  After all, we did elect Ronald Reagan and George BushII twice.  We also don't like abortions, gay marriages, or Slick Willie Clinton's
New World Order, which would eliminate all goverments of the world and subordinate us all to the United Nations(We then would become the Federation of Nations and eventually the Federation of Planets, which would enthuse Trekkies, because now the USS Enterprise could become a reality.  Then all trekkies would move out of their parent's basement and get a life.).  In order to counteract this stupidity the media believes it is their duty to brainwash us into becoming a civilized society, acceptable to Europe.  In addition to lying and fact-skewering, polls are also a part of their tools. 

Media pollsters know exactly what results they want and how to frame the questions to get the desired answers.  This is why in 2000 the standard question was:"If the election were held tomorrow, would you vote for a vice-president, who was a senator, who had a body guard assigned to him while he served in Vietnam and who's father, a former senator, was a racist Dixie Democrat who supported George Wallace and school segregation, or a pot smoking, alcoholic, frat boy from Texas who's father was President of the United States?" and again in 2004: "If the election were held tomorrow, would you vote for a senator who misrepresented his war record, symbolically tossed medals that didnt belong to him into the Reflection Pool, married rich twice, and had his picture hanging in a Vietnam museum praising his efforts in aiding in the communist take-over, or a pot smoking, alcoholic, frat boy from Texas who is President of the United States?"  Having done all that work to get both Al Gore and John Kerry's poll numbers right and get them elected, imagine their surprise when GW won both times!  Only proves how stupid we Americans are! 

In my newly adopted culture here in Kentucky, I find two things prominent: a).Kentuckians dont like polls and, b). Kentuckians dont like turn-signals.  The reason for both is that down here we value secrecy.  To us, it's nobodys business who we vote for, or, which way we're turning  (Heck, it took me two years to find out that the reason my neighbor has cows is to extract the methane gas they leave to run his still.  I have forwarded this idea to Al Gore, but have not received a reply). 

So, in my mind, there is a reasonable possibility that these poll results might be a tad off.  I should know, because I'm guilty of the same thing: lying to pollsters.  When asked in 2000 who'd I vote for, I told a pollster that of course I would support that son-of-a-senator, Al Gore.  I then went ahead to work for and vote for George W. Bush.  In 2004, when I was asked who'd I vote for, I said sure I'd vote for the American gigaloo and every communist's favorite son, John Kerry, then worked for and voted for Mr. Bush again.

So to Gov. Ernie and RHINO Annie the WOLF'S DEN would say: be afraid, be very afraid.  Because if there are a significant number of Kentuckians like me those poll numbers of yours are about as useless as breasts on a bull.  To Billy Harper, the only viable Republican candidate, the WOLF'S DEN would say: take heart, the only way you can go now is up!

Yeppers folks, we got us a horserace.  Stay tuned for the results...

Doug Giles in his column, "It's time for Conservatives to take comedy seriously"  laments that there are no conservative comedians.  We are all too uptight and somber about things.  Well, let me be the first to volunteer my services.  Here's a joke to get your Super Bowl Sunday started:

"One sunny Spring day in 2008, an old man approached the White House from across Pennsylvania Avenue, where he'd been sitting on a park bench. He spoke to the Marine standing guard and said, "I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary Clinton." The Marine replied, "Sir, Mrs. Clinton is not President and doesn't reside
here." The old man said, "Okay," and walked away. The following day,
the same man approached the White House and said to the same
Marine, "I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary
Clinton". The Marine again told the man, "Sir, as I said yesterday,
Mrs. Clinton is not President and doesn't reside here."

The man thanked him and again walked away . . . The third day, the
same man approached the White House and spoke to the very same
Marine, saying "I would like to go in and meet with President Hillary
Clinton." The Marine, understandably agitated at this point, looked
at the man and said, "Sir, this is the third day in a row you have
been here asking to speak to Mrs. Clinton. I've told you already
several times that Mrs. Clinton is not the President and doesn't
reside here. What don't you understand?"

The old man answered, "Oh, I understand you fine, I just love hearing
your answer!" The Marine snapped to attention, saluted, and
said, "Yes sir, see you tomorrow."

HA!!! I kill me!!!  I'll be here all week folks, thanks for stopping by.

Have you signed the pledge yet?  The NRSC pledge at http://www.thenrscpledge.com/, the one that says we conservatives wont support any Republican who joins the Demobats in the cut-and-run resolution.  Maybe you think you signature won't make a difference or maybe you're afraid some moonbat will find out and make fun of you. 

Did you watch the so-called thousands protesting the war?  Do you think they care about our men and women in harm's way?   Do you care?  Before you answer this question read this:
                                
                             "You Vs. Them"
 
Your alarm goes off, you hit the snooze and sleep for another 10 minutes.
He stays up for days on end.
____________ _________ ____

They came from the four corners of the state, near and far.  They came from as far as Frankfort and Paducah and as near as Louisville itself.  Some of them had well-known names in Kentucky politics: Fletcher, Beshear,Miller, and Henry.  Others not so well known, now: Harper, Galbraith.  They all came to the Kentucky Press Association's winter meeting in Louisville, KY to make their case why they should be governor.  By all accounts, it was a bust!!!

On a side note, I read that my good friend, Steele, at http://steeleskentucky.townhall.com/, was a might perturbed that our favorite RHINO, Anne Northup, was absent from the summit meeting.  Not to worry.  Everyone who knows anything about RHINOs knows that on Friday RHINOs get their hair coiffed, nails done and Botox injected so they are ready to campaign for the weekend. 

So the six who would be king came and talked.  The end result was about the same as any campaign stop.  It was all style and no substance.  The Demobats kept up their "Had Enough" mantra.  Far more disturbing to me than their worn out slogan is the new Demobat idea of how to raise revenue for schools , health care and all those unconstitutional state goverment give-away programs.  Demobat candidate Steve Beshear wants to push for a state amendment that would expand legalized gambling.( I wonder if I'm the only one who thinks "legalized gambling" is an oxymoron.)This might play well to the folks up along the northern half of Kentucky, especially with those who own and operate gambling venues, and have a lot of money to buy professional politicians such as Mr. Beshear, but I guarantee you it wont play well down here in Baptist country.  The last time I checked the Bible, gambling was still considered a sin.

Billy Harper, to his credit, knows Kentucky needs a better education system than it has now, but opposes expanding legalized gambling not only on moral grounds but also for practical reasons.  As a business man he understands that you can't plan an economy based on gambling.  He knows  that if the state repeals the Alternative Minimum Tax on businesses, more companies will invest in Kentucky, which will increase state revenues.  Gov. Ernie, of course, follows the time honored professional politician's course of waffling.  He's personally opposed to it which he believes should satisfy the Baptists, but he wont "stand in the way if it were to be put to the voters to let them decide."  which should satisfy the gamblers.  In addition, it's a pretty safe bet(if you're a gambler) that Gov. Ernie will wait until after the November election to tell us all what he plans on doing with the state's surplus.  Anne Northup's stand on expanding legalized gambling is that she may or may not be for it, adding:"Of course I am a gambler, I gamble everytime I order Chinese food".  Ok, Ok, only kidding.  She's taking the safe road like Gov. Ernie: let the voters decide.

So the six giants of Kentucky politics met on Mount Louisville and set the tone for the governor's race.  Gov. Ernie painfully tried to defend the past actions of his administration with a simple "We're not perfect. But I will say this: We brought the state out of some very difficult times..."   The Demobats were, like rats on cheese, crawling all over themselves trying to prove one was more ethical than the other.  Those candidates with actual plans and real working ideas were lost in the melee.  Already politicians across the state are predicting run-off elections for both parties. 


This summit could have been so much more.  It could have given the voters actual insights into what platforms the candidates really trully support.  Instead it was, to quote Mr. Beshear, where: "many of the policies and plans being talked about ... were merely retreads of promises politicians made in the past."   Personally I think we in Kentucky deserve better than that.....