Pursuing Holiness

This is what happens when children (either actual children or immature adults) have children. They play dress up with their babies up like Bratz or Barbies. They pimp them up, Jon-Benet style.

Where are the grownups? Society is so dumbed down in terms of intelligence and education and in terms of emotional maturity that this sort of thing passes for acceptable. We simply don't have enough adults left to corral these people and put them in time out.

Click through to see the Anxious Index chart at Suitably Flip:

The so-called "Anxious Index" now indicates less than 28% of economists surveyed believe the economy will slip into recession next quarter. ... This might seem like cheerworthy news, but please try to keep in mind the recessionistas and professional gloomsayers whose lives become ever drearier when beset by good news.

The recessionistas are in my prayers.

Message to the Obama campaign and their backers: "Hope" is as sh***y a foreign policy as it is a birth control method. And you aren't the ones who will pay the price for you to learn that lesson.
How To Soft-Sell A Terrorist Takeover (Wizbang)

This is very cool:

Amputee vets see eye-to-eye on Segways - CNN.com
U.S. Army Sgt. Jacque Keeslar lost both legs in Iraq nearly two years ago. To get around, he relies on a wheelchair and a pair of artificial legs, which help him walk in short bursts.

Veterans at Walter Reed are using Segways that are custom designed for their injuries to get around. ... Now, thanks to a specially designed Segway, the battery-powered transporter, Keeslar says he can ditch his wheelchair and get around without people looking down on him.

Keeslar was among 30 vets who received their own modified Segways this week, courtesy of Disability Rights Advocates for Technology.