1) Barack Obama is winning....in Montana:
Barack Obama is leading John McCain by five percentage points in Montana. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state shows Obama attracting 48% of the vote while McCain earns 43%.
As the story notes:
It would be truly stunning if Obama could turn Montana into a competitive state this November. George W. Bush won Montana’s 3 Electoral College Votes by twenty percentage points in 2004 and by twenty-five points four years earlier. Even Bob Dole managed to win Montana, albeit by a narrow 44% to 41% margin (Ross Perot picked up 14% of the vote).
2) Americans are praying...for more oil:
The Pray at the Pump Movement, founded by Rocky Twyman, has been holding prayer vigils at gas stations across the country. On Monday, Twyman decided to take his movement from Exxon and Shell stations straight to the steps of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C., hoping to encourage the oil-rich country to raise the amount of barrels they release each day from 200,000 to 1.2 million.
If there was ever more proof that Americans are addicted to oil! We'll quit tomorrow, just one more drink!
It's the open thread -- have a great July 4, and celebrate what matters most, family and friends, but also all the great things America has to offer, including free speech even for cranks like Chris Satullo and, yes, freedom to pray at a gasoline pump.
Just don't drive anywhere.
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Speaking of cranks, did you see Santorum's hissy fit about the Boy Scouts? I'm telling you, villages everywhere are bidding on Ebay for the right to own that idiot.— anne johnson
God will "release" more oil, all right. He did it with the dinosaurs, He'll do it with our extinct race too.- Comment removed.
- 50 days. 50 states. 50 brown-nosing pieces for Obama. We now have a new expert on AllthingsMontanaObama. See ya at the local Lukoil gas pump— shoeshineboy
- Being Gay is not a "lifestyle" nor is it a "choice." You either are or aren't gay.
- Dear anne johnson: Posted like a true lefty, right down to the ad hominem insult. Can't you lefties ever make at least an attempt at a cogent argument? Ever? Know what I think? I think a certain poster's anti-Christian bigotry is showing!— George Tomezsko
- "I think a certain poster's anti-Christian bigotry is showing!" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . That's hilarious. Christ would advocate that we love homosexuals, as He commanded that we love one another regardless of our sins. So, who's the real anti-Christian bigot here?
- I just treated myself to the Santorum column on the Boy Scouts. It was, as I expected, cogent and to the point, and bursting with a commodity decidedly not found in leftist brains: common sense. No wonder that poor annie thinks the column is a "hissy fit" (whatever that is): it reduced her poorly thought out world-view to intellectual rubble.— George Tomezsko
- "Signs of the apocalypse." The only "sign" here is the perennial leftist penchant for wishful thinking.— George Tomezsko
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- Dear monty: A point about Christianity and Christian love. While it may be true that Christ "commanded that we love one another regardless of our sins" as you put it, the left seems to be implying whenever this argument is made that Christian love and permissive behavior are equivalent. Christ did NOT teach the notion that all is forgiven, everyone is free to do as they please. That is the credo of the libertine, not the Christian. You don't believe me? Check out the advice Christ gave to the adulterous woman He saved from stoning.— George Tomezsko
- George, is it really 'common sense' to fear that you might like being gay if you become exposed to the gay "lifestyle"?
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