Making my peace

I am attempting to make my peace with the great white death.

You folks that were not raised in Texas call it snow.

Meet my new friend- Cletus.




Cletus stands about 7 inches tall, and boasts a weight of about 2 pounds.

Cletus dreams of living a life on the lamb, perhaps finally settling in Alaska.

If that dream falls apart, Cletus hopes to end his own life by flinging himself off the balcony and landing on the head of Al Gore, as Al is preaching about global warming.

I will keep you posted on my new friend Cletus.

Pakistan's upheaval

I spoke to a friend last night who is understandably devastated by what is taking place in his former homeland, Pakistan.

He and his family grew up near Karachi, where a major upheaval is currently taking place. He is worried about his extended family that still live in the area. His immediate family all live in the US.

More than anything he is mourning the death of Bhutto.

I suppose it is hard for us to understand exactly what Bhutto meant to her fellow Pakistanis. When I asked my friend what she meant to Pakistan, he told me that she gave the common people hope. Hope for a democratically elected government. Hope for stability.

He told me that Pakistan was always under the threat of violence all the time. His father was like a mayor of a small town, and even as a child he would worry about violence against his father and his family. His father sent his sons to America about 15 years ago to start a new life. The rest of the family shortly followed suit. His father died last year as an American citizen.

He told me now the Bhutto is gone, the people of his former homeland have lost hope.

He believed that even if Musharaff manages to stop the current violence with military force that the people will be in their homes with "hatred in their hearts" and it was only a matter of time. That was a direct quote from him.

As Americans, we need to remember as we watch everything that is taking place in Pakistan that this country is full of nuclear weapons.

The violence and chaos that is taking place, puts those nuclear arms at risk of falling into the hands of the terrorists or a terrorist government.

For a little background of what Pakistan has survived over the last 60 years, check out this article from the Wall Street Journal today.

For most of its 60 years of independence, Pakistan has been run by the military, which hasn't helped resolve the question of religion and state, and in many ways planted the seeds for today's instability. Pakistan's military rulers suppressed political dissent in the 1980s and 1990s. At the same time, they provided succor to militants who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan and India in the disputed territory of Kashmir.

Blogger Holiday Party

This is directly copied from Fred at Real Debate Wisconsin:

It will be held this Sunday the 30th of December beginning at noon at Papa's social club , 7718 W. Burleigh in Milwaukee.

We are still trying to get a handle on how many people will be coming, so if you have not yet, would you please RSVP in the comments section so we can give the bar a heads up as to how much space we will need. I would appreciate it. (if you would rather not leave anything in comments, email me, fkd1015 at yahoo dot com)

This is an open blog party. If you write a blog, read a blog or can spell blog you are invited. (The Kilngon spelling, blaughh, will also be acceptable).

The bar will provide pizzas at halftime of the Packer game. For drinks you are on your own.

Also be prepared to write down a prediction for 2008. These predictions will be gathered and published after the party.


We are expecting a rather prominent guest, candidate for Supreme Court Judge Michael Gableman is scheduled to appear.

A number of your favorite blogs will be represented including: Boots and Sanders, Badger Blogger (Patrick, Bruce & Glenn!), Wigderson Library & Pub, Reality Check, Texas Hold 'Em, The Confidentials, Pete Republic, Caledonia Unplugged, Subject 2 Change, Silent E Speaks, Stepping Right Up, Fox Politics, The Asian Badger, No Runny Eggs, yours truly and many more!

If you miss the party and blame the impending white death expect the coming year to be filled with people making fun of you!

We'll see you on Sunday!

Step over to Fred's place at this link and RSVP.

Pandora's Box is Open

Uh-Oh, Pandora's box is open, the cat out of the bag, or the genie is out of the bottle.

Pick you own cliche, but one thing is certain, the truth about the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign in coming out.

On December 24th, a columnist in the main stream media, Daniel Bice, picked up on the fact that there are some serious issues with the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. This is a fact that many on the conservative side of the blogosphere has known for while now.

The Wisconsin Democracy Campaign has billed itself the watchdog of Wisconsin politics and policies. WDC claims to be against all special interest money. The WDC has twisted itself into what must be painful contortions, screaming about Annette Ziegler and her conflicts of interests for the last year.

Doing a some investigative work Daniel Bice has discovered that the WDC has their own problems with conflicts of interests.

Earlier this year, the WDC came out in support of the Healthy Wisconsin plan touted by the Democrats. The problem is that some pretty serious campaign laws were allegedly broken by the Democrat leaders of Healthy Wisconsin, Senator Jon Erpenbach and Senator Judy Robson.

Some special interest groups, along with Senator's Erpenbach and Robson financed a poll to support Healthy Wisconsin. Erpenbach and Robson both used their campaign warchests in order to partially finance the poll with the special interest groups.

Obviously, this is a campaign no-no.

Being the campaign watchdogs for the state of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign mysteriously had very little to say about this campaign no-no. In normal conditions, the WDC would be out banging their pots and pans demanding justice and integrity. Not in the case, they are not.

It appears that WDC's support of Healthy Wisconsin might have affected their judgment and the reason they had little to say about this campaign infraction.

Clearly, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, has a major conflict of interest problem sitting right in their lap.

One of the biggest problems with the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign is that the main stream media continues to bill them as a non-partisan campaign watchdog.

If the main stream media took a few moments to scratch the surface of the WDC, they would be able to clearly see what so many others including Professor John McAdams from the blog, Marquette Warrior, is able to see- the WDC is anything but non-partisan.

So let's scratch the surface just a bit:

Mike McCabe, Executive Director of the WDC had this to say in a speech at the liberal Fighting Bob Fest:

So here we are . . . in the midst of a disastrous war, in the midst of the biggest political corruption scandal in our state’s history. There’s no better place than these fairgrounds to ask ourselves: What would Bob do?

Clearly, the chief finger pointing watchdog is a anti-war zealot, speaking at the liberal anti-war zealots festival. As an individual, Mr. McCabe is certainly allowed to think and feel any way he chooses. However, Mr. McCabe was speaking as a representative of a non-partisan watchdog group. This is certainly not non-partisan behavior.

So we already know that the leader of this so-called non-partisan watchdog group is not exactly displaying non-partisan behavior, how about the rest of the leadership?

From the pages of the "WDC- Who are we?", you can clearly see who they are.

WDC Board of Directors President, Sheila Guilfoyle is with the Progressive Dane.

Now, I ask you- do the name "Progressive Dane" even sound the least bit non-partisan to you?

No? That is because they are not. This is their webpage. You cannot get much more liberal than this.

Also on the WDC Board of Directors is Mark Evenson with AFT-Wisconsin.

AFT Wisconsin is united with the AFL-CIO, here is their webpage. I don't think that the AFL-CIO even tries to hide their liberal politics, so there is no sense even asking which political direction they lean.

Another member of the WDC Board of Directors is Leigh Roberts with the Wisconsin Association of Retired Teachers.

Need I say more? Teacher's union, WEAC, etc... A little common sense is all that is needed to tell which direction this group leans in it's politics.

A quick scan alone of the WDC coalition identifies a series of liberal political special interest groups and left leaning groups.

AFT Wisconsin
Burlington Progressives
Common Cause in Wisconsin
Madison Teacher's Inc.
Peace Action Wisconsin
Progressive Dane
Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice

Between WDC's executive director, liberal board members and coalitions with liberal groups, it is very difficult to understand why anyone would reasonable believe that they are non-partisan.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with these individuals or groups supporting whatever cause they choose to support. This is America, we are all allowed to do this.

For the media to continue to identify this group as non-partisan is very difficult to understand when clearly there is a ideological bend to the WDC.

Let's stop pretending.

If it look like a liberal duck, waddles like a liberal duck and quacks like a liberal duck- it is probably a liberal duck.

Removing the school district lines

I am more than a little curious as to what people think of this.

In Kenosha, next year's high school freshman and their parents will be able to pick the high school their kids will be able to attend.

Kenosha News

The two boundary schools - Tremper and Bradford - might get most of the press since that's where the majority of students go based on where they live, but there are four other schools that focus on specific interests and needs.

Each of those schools - Harborside Academy, LakeView Technology Academy, Indian Trail Academy, and Reuther Central - will have open houses so prospective students and parents can get more information.

I think it is great that our high schools will be forced to compete for students and the best teachers.

As a parent, if you are looking to surround your child with advanced students, clearly from the test results alone, LakeView is a great school:

(blue and green are good on this chart, red and yellow not so good)


However, all of the schools have advanced and not so advanced students

Indian Trail also offers students the opportunity to excel:




The good news is that each of Kenosha's High Schools, including Bradford and Tremper offer kids the opportunity to excel.

Just like everything else in life, students and parents need to make the effort and make education a priority.

I went to high school in a district that allowed parents the opportunity to send their children to any public school in the district. It worked. At the time, it was considered to be one of the top school districts in Texas.

This should be interesting in Kenosha.

Budget mismanagement

Could someone please tell me how it is that our state government manages to collect more money than it ever has in taxes and fees, and still they cannot balance a budget?

Of course state law mandates that the budget be balanced, so Democratic Governor Jim Doyle is scrambling. Currently he is attempting to dump $100 million in over spending.

Why is it, less than two months after passing a budget, Doyle administrators are running around like chickens trying to dump $100 million is budget over expenditures.

I mean, for heaven's sake, the budget was only passed two months ago!

The answer to the above question is spending.

Governor Doyle and the state legislators increased spending in the state budget by 6.6%.

After debating the budget for months and months, the Governor's budget still is spending more money than it is bringing in.

So the dumping begins. The Governor has the audacity to claim that no one will not affected by these budget cuts:

$40 million will be dumped by the Department of Health and Human Services. Medicaid alone will be dumping $30 million.

$25 million will be dumped by the Department of Transportation.

$10 million be dumped by the Department of Corrections.

I am just not buying it.

Don't tell me that if you cut Medicaid by $30 million that some patients will not be hurt by this action.

What we are seeing in full view is horrifyingly bad money management on the state level.

There is absolutely no reason that the state is collecting more money in taxes and fees than ever before and the Governor still cannot spend the money in a proper fashion.

If the Governor is cutting Medicaid, then clearly our tax dollars are being spent on the wrong priorities.

Spending went up by 6.6%.

What is it that they are spending this money on?

For one thing, we are spending millions more for the UW system. Still UW increased the cost of tuition by hundreds of dollars per student each semester.

What are they spending the money on?

For Pete's sake, they increase taxes, they increase fees, and they increase tuition, and still it is not enough money.

It is time to hold our governor's feet to the fire and demand answers. He is not running for reelection any time soon, so there is no reason to lie to us.

In simple terms the Governor needs to explain what it is that he is spending money on, what are his priorities and why in the world we are all paying more money that ever to our state government and still our Grandma's Medicaid is being cut.

Grandma's Medicaid needs to be a priority over the Governor's state trips on taxpayer funded airplanes.

Grandma's Medicaid needs to take priority over the state purchase of more land, when the state already owns 1/5 of this state's properties. Here is a thought, why don't we

Most Wisconsinites willing pay their taxes. In exchange we expect a Governor and a state government that takes seriously the responsibility of spending our money is a responsible fashion.

Clearly, we have a Governor that does not know how to properly manage our taxes.

If we had a governor that could properly manage our money, we would not constantly be pressured into tax increases. The governor would not be scrambling with a week left, dumping $100 million that his administration is overspending on.

Are they allowed to do that?

Uh-oh

American troops seen praying in Iraq on Christmas Eve-




I betcha this lady is going to give them a nasty lecture-



(Photo borrowed from Badger Blogger)

So, Annie Laurie Gaylor, are you going to try and shut these guys down too?

These military fellows even went so far as to get themselves a Christmas tree too.


Now, I don't hate Ms. Gaylor or her group for trying to shut down our religious freedoms.

In fact, our American soldiers are fighting for her right to speak her mind.

However, now is the time to fight back.

Americans have sat back for too long and allowed Ms. Gaylor and her friends to shut down our rights.

It is our turn to speak.

I admire the mayor and the city council in Green Bay who displayed the nativity scene that has got Ms. Gaylor and her buddies all up in arms.

Here is the story connected with the photos of our American soldiers.

Our guys are over there fighting hard and we are proud of them. Pray for them to get their mission accomplished quickly and come home to all of us, safe and sound.

To our soldiers...

Yes, it is 5:30 on Christmas morning, and I am wide awake. I have been awake for well over an hour now.

This morning, my mind immediately went to our US troops serving overseas. I know that they are already up and working this morning.

All across the world this morning, our military friends are standing guard. From Korea to Germany to Afghanistan and Iraq, our soldiers stand in a precarious situations. They don't get the day off, just because it is Christmas.

As you sit down with your family and friends today, say a prayer for our soldiers who are so far away from their family and friends.

We all will be bellying up to our favorite Christmas dinners and many of these soldiers will be eating MRE's today.

God bless you men and women who are serving and protecting our families and our homes today.

Thank you and Merry Christmas.

The Reason for the Season

Merry Christmas everyone!


Luke 2: 1-14

1 Now in those days a decree went out from Caesar Augustus, that a census be taken of all the inhabited earth. 2 This was the first census taken while Quirinius was governor of Syria. 3 And everyone was on his way to register for the census, each to his own city. 4 Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the city of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David, 5 in order to register along with Mary, who was engaged to him, and was with child. 6 While they were there, the days were completed for her to give birth. 7 And she gave birth to her firstborn son; and she wrapped Him in cloths, and laid Him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
8 In the same region there were some shepherds staying out in the fields and keeping watch over their flock by night. 9 And an angel of the Lord suddenly stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them; and they were terribly frightened. 10 But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid; for behold, I bring you good news of great joy which will be for all the people; 11 for today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. 12 “This will be a sign for you: you will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.” 13 And suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,
14 “Glory to God in the highest,
And on earth peace among men with whom He is pleased.”

No really, I am Pro Choice too...

I am Pro Choice, see...

Choose one-

White Christmas?

For those of you hoping for another winter blast to add some more snow, well- you got your wish, I think.

It is kind of hard to tell. It did snow here in Kenosha yesterday, but with 37 mph winds, I think most of the snow is now in Iowa.

The wind was so bad, here in Kenosha, that after a Cessna landed safely at the Kenosha airport, the wind blew the Cessna so hard that it nosed down and slid off the runway.

Shortly after rescue crews pulled a woman and her college-aged daughter out of the plane, the wind flipped the Cessna all the way over.

That is windy, folks.

With 30+ mph winds, if you are out shopping with your kids today, keep a tight grip on 'em- don't want to lose anyone before Santa comes.

It is supposed to snow again tomorrow night- so the white Christmas appears to be on it's way.

Joy To the World Mannheim Steamroller, Murfreesboro TN

This is very cool.

H/T Ol' Broad

Illegal Immigration: The elitists are not listening

I swear, it is almost like they are deaf and cannot hear the people of this state who are screaming at their top of their lungs that they have had enough.

I am talking about the issue of illegal immigration and the editorial board at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Once again, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is lecturing the people of Wisconsin, Republicans in particular, for their stance on illegal immigration.

Clearly the MJS editorial board is completely ignoring the legal residents of this state. Not even a month ago, a very telling poll came out.

76% oppose allowing illegal immigrants to hold driver's license. 19% support giving driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.

As if that was not enough, even more of a telling sign, 86% of Wisconsin residents do not want to have the benefit of in-state tuition like all of the legal residents of this state. Only 10% of Wisconsinites believe that illegal immigrants should have that benefit.

To completely ignore these types of statistics and write the type of editorial they did, bashing the Republicans, means that MJS editorial board has completely lost touch with this issue and how it relates to Wisconsinites.

This is a sign of irresponsible journalism. The MJS board is literally lecturing Republicans for NOT SUPPORTING ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR.

It is almost like MJS does not realize that they are doing it. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is supporting the illegal behavior, lecturing Republicans for not supporting it, and giving the impression that the wise Democrats do support illegal behavior.

The excuse they are using is we need the workforce. What we cannot get the workers we need in the US by bringing them here legally?

I understand the paper's argument that the Latino community is not happy with Republicans on this issue, but for heaven's sake, the Democrats are now showing that they have the same problem.

Think back for just a moment to when Hillary's campaign began to nosedive. It was the moment she stood up in a debate and claimed that she supported driver's licenses for illegals.

As soon as she could, she began to backpeddle. The Democrats had turned on her.

As the MJS lectures lawmakers about not yet coming up with a solution to fix the problem, perhaps they should have recognized that the Democrats control both houses of Congress.

Whatever issue it is the Democrats feel needs to be addressed, they have the platform to do it.

The Democrats have the floor.

You don't see the MJS editorial board lecturing the Democrats for not fixing this issue in this op ed piece, they are lecturing Republicans and 86% of Wisconsinites that has had enough.

Why is it the MJS does not seem to recognize that the Democrats run this state and run this nation?

Why haven't the Democrats brought this issue out front and into the limelight?

If the MJS wants the issue of illegal immigration addressed in this country, then they need to talk to their buddies, the Democrats, because the Democrats hold the gavel.

Common sense tells the us that the issue of illegal immigration may indeed pick up some Latino votes for the Democrats, they could very well lose everyone else.

America has had enough. Billions and billions of tax dollars are being spent supporting health care, education and housing for illegal immigrants.

What would have really been cool is to have the WPRI poll to address the issue of health care for illegal immigrants.

That would be a tough question to answer for both Republicans and Democrats. We have already heard that one of the biggest issues in Wisconsin is the issue of health care.

How do Wisconsinites feel about paying for the health care of illegal immigrants, even as the legal residents struggle to keep themselves and their families healthy?

Wisconsin's health care is not cheap, but we have some of the best doctors in the world at our disposal in Wisconsin.

That is billions upon billions of tax dollars that are not being spent on legal residents of the US.

Wisconsinites are not alone in their beliefs on illegal immigration. All across the country, poll numbers just like ours are popping up.

Check out Ohio's poll numbers done just a month before our poll-

84% to 11% oppose driver's licenses for illegal immigrants
61% to 35% oppose giving a free education to children of illegal immigrants
70% oppose giving benefits like health insurance, welfare or food stamps to illegal immigrants

These types of numbers are nation wide.

With these types of numbers, rest assured, it isn't just Republicans that want illegal immigration problems to be dealt with. There are plenty of Democrats that have had enough also. Just ask Senator Hillary Clinton.

Amen to this!

The Packers are an embarrassment

The Packers are stinking up the joint. It has been a long time since I have seen the Packers play this awful.

Brett Favre needs to pull himself together. A third string quarterback is outplaying him. Somehow Orton can throw a pass in this weather, but Brett cannot?

Defense and special teams are playing just as bad.

Let's be frank, they are flat out being out coached also.

Bush had a good year?

According to Larry Kudlow, Bush did have a good year.

Against all odds, and despite the usual drumbeat of criticism, President George W. Bush has had a very good year. The troop surge in Iraq is succeeding. America remains safe from terrorist attacks. And the Goldilocks economy is outperforming all expectations.

At his year-end news conference, President Bush stated with optimism that the economy is fundamentally sound, despite the housing downturn and the sub-prime credit crunch. The very next day, that optimism was reinforced with news of the best consumer spending in two years. The prophets of recessionary doom, such as former Fed chair Alan Greenspan, Republican advisor Martin Feldstein, ex-Democratic Treasury secretary Lawrence Summers, and bond-maven Bill Gross have been proven wrong once again.

continued...

Personally, I am just happy I survived. That is always good news.

Long live King Jim Doyle!

There he goes again, one single man, rewriting a law in our state, and then signing that law into affect.

Whether you are for or against the new cable access bill, that is beside the point. Governor Jim Doyle significantly rewrote the bill that passed in our state legislature and then immediately signed the bill into law.

Our state legislators could go back and attempt to override the Governor's vetoes, but with a split legislature, that is unlikely to happen.

Democrats have already stated that they are not the least bit interested in overriding the Governor's vetoes.

MJS-

"I don't think there's any (vetoes) that gut the substance of the bill," said Sen. Jeff Plale (D-South Milwaukee), its chief Senate sponsor.

This statement comes from the big dog, the head man in charge of getting the original bill pushed threw the state Senate.

Senator Plale spent hours and hours writing and rewriting this piece of legislation. Legislators spent hours and hours in endless hearings, listening to both sides make their case. All of that work went right down the drain the moment they placed a bill on Governor's desk.

What happened to your spine, Senator Plale and Senate Democrats?

What has happened here clearly signals two things:

First, our Democrat controlled state Senate consists of a bunch of weaklings. The Democrats controlling the Senate do not have the courage to even make an attempt override their Governor.

Clearly, Senate Democrats do not represent their constituents in their home districts, nor will they stand up and fight for their constituents. The needs and the cares of their constituents mean nothing to these Senate Democrats. Senate Democrats represent Governor Jim Doyle. What Doyle wants, Doyle gets from his obedient servants in the state senate.

Governor Jim Doyle is king and the Democrats in the state Senate are his court jesters turning back flips for their king.

Secondly, this signals that the state of Wisconsin has given too much power to one man.(or woman, someday)

Currently there is no balance of power in Wisconsin's state government. Our state legislature has very little power to control what the governor is allowed to get away with. The state legislature is not an equal partner in governing the state of Wisconsin

In the 1930's, Wisconsin handed the power of the state over to one single person- the Governor. In the 1990's the people of Wisconsin partially fixed this problem when the "Vanna White" veto power was removed.

Next up is the the Frankenstein Veto power that our governor has.

The idea that the governor can cross out words and clump together a bunch of other words in order to rewrite legislation, is a power that no governor, from any political party, should have.

By dragging their heals on the Frankenstein veto vote in the State Senate, Senate Democrats allowed this to happen. They held off on voting for the Frankenstein veto in order to let the Governor change the budget debated a few months ago. In this veto, the Governor doubled the cap on the amount of taxes that local governments are allowed to charge taxpayers.

Now we have another piece of legislation that the Governor has completely rewritten.

Yes folks, clearly we have a "weak in the knees" state Senate led by Democrats and a governor who is king.

As Democrats across the state are running for election next year for either State Senate or State Assembly, you wonder if any of them have the courage to stand up to their governor.

The reality is, Democrats across the state are closely aligning themselves with Governor Jim Doyle. They worship their king.

What is the state Democrats mantra in 2008?

"Long live King Doyle!"?

It sure seems like it!

It's not her fault...

I grew up in Dallas and have been a Cowboy fan for years. I am also a Packer fan. When the Cowboys play the Packers, I cheer for the Packers.

I like the idea that the Packers might get home field advantage if the Cowboys lose another game and the Packers do not.

However, this garbage of blaming Jessica Simpson for the loss by Dallas is for the birds. I saw Romo play at Buffalo a few months ago and he played just as bad. 6 interceptions, I think. He got lucky at the end of the game and was playing a defense that was not so good and pulled it out. The Cowboys were within a touchdown last week and could have gotten just as lucky, but he was playing a good defense.

It is really annoying that some Cowboy fans are not mature enough to admit that Tony Romo is responsible for his own actions both on an off the field.

Romo has bad days, just like Favre does. It happens.

Get over it.

Rush doesn't like Huckabee

I caught a couple of minutes of Rush Limbaugh today, which I rarely get to do.

In the few moments I listened, it is very clear, Rush does not like Huckabee.

I heard Rush say that he didn't like Huckabee because Huckabee was for exercise and Rush is totally against exercise.

I cracked up, that was funny. (yes, people-Rush does have a sense of humor, even if the liberals and Huckabee are not laughing)

Seriously, a few others had a lot to say about Rush vs. Huckabee-

Jim Geraghty, from NRO was keeping up with Rush today.

So was our favorite Eggster.

Sshhh! You are not allowed to even say the word "Christmas"

Hat Tip: Red State

The Oklahoma Attorney General has forbidden employees for the state school, Southwestern Oklahoma State University, from saying the word "Christmas" or use of the word "Christmas" in their Christmas decorations.

When I first read this on Red State, I automatically thought that this must be a ugly rumor. Surely no attorney general in his right mind would actually try to ban someone's speech. Certainaly this man had to have read the US Constitution at some time during his schooling.

So, I started scanning the internet trying to find out some info. I came across Daily Kos. Originally Daily Kos gave the impression that this entire story was false. Now, Daily Kos isn't so sure that the story is false, anymore.

Liberty Counsel is the originator of this story. They are coughing up some names and details on who was told that the word "Christmas" had been banned. The Washington Examiner has picked up on the story.

So far, the Admissions department, the Records department, the business offices and the IT department seem to be confirming that they have all been told to remove the word "Christmas" from all decorations, emails and voice mails.

City Commissioner, Warren Goldman, contact the school's provost, Dr. Sonove and was told that the Attorney General had issued this declaration.

Folks it appears to be true, no matter how hard the Attorney General is now attempting to deny it.

Red State has encouraged folks to call the Attorney General Drew Edmonson's office and wish him a very Merry Christmas at 405-521-3921.

I plan on calling myself.