Around the ‘Sphere

It is a slow news day today, and when that happens; I go looking for stuff to link and/or write about.

Let’s take a stroll around the Blogosphere shall we?

Texas Student Kicked Out of School over RFID Badge – CBNNews.com

IS CONSERVATISM A CASUALTY OF THE TIMES OR ITS SALVATION? — Illinois Review

What Are American Traditions? by Russell Kirk – The Imaginative Conservative

Rachel Lucas is still nuts about that dog that she bought.

Victory Girls is a great blog to read.

It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn – Pundit Press

The LIVING HELL of Socialism- in Photos – The Reaganite Republican (He remembers like me…)

Saturday Movie Matinee: Black Friday Shoppers Become Feral Over Phones – Nice Deb

Obama Claus – AARA News Service

Arab paper: Syria, Iran instigated Gaza conflict – John P. McTernan, Ph.D’s Blog

Gallup: 62% of Americans say stopping illegal immigration should be a top priority – Numbers USA

Pro-Life Group: New Flu Vaccine Flucelvax Not Abortion-Based – LifeNews.com

ROLL CALL! Amusing Bunni needs us RIGHT NOW! – Zilla of the Resistance. (This one sounds serious…go help, if you can)

Batsh*tcrazynews is a very funny site with an even funnier logo.

George P. Bush Begins ‘Quest for Public Service’ – Newsmax

Pro-Life News, Nov. 23, 2012 – GREATER FITCHBURG FOR LIFE

Election Results – What Do We Do Now? – John Birch Society:

Petraeus Scandal Questions – Liberty News Network

Revolution by Treaty – Liberty News Network (Good Video here folks, give it a watch):

Video: Agenda 21 – How it will affect you?:

That’s it for this week! Leave links below if you have anything that you might think someone else would like to read or watch!

Thanks and enjoy the weekend!

-Pat

Bill Quick on Larry Hagman

Bill Quick on Larry Hagman:

Can’t say I’m surprised. He was downright scary on the recent horrid “reboot” of Dallas. Looked like zombie Hagman. You wanted to send small children out of the room when he smiled.

Good Lord, I thought I was a grumpy old coot. 😯 😉 😀 😛

UPDATED: FOUND!: Local Story: Have you seen this kid?

Via the Detroit Free Press:

Police in Clinton Township are searching for a 15-year-old emotionally impaired teenager who has been missing for a week.
Dakota Strine has run away before, according to police and his mother, Kelly Rowland, 39. But Rowland said he’s never been gone for this long.
“We’ve always found him within an hour. But he’s been gone over a week, including missing a holiday,” she said.
Clinton Township Police Capt. Richard Maierle said Friday that Dakota lives with a guardian near his mother’s home in the area of 15 Mile and Kelly roads. He said the teenager went to take out the trash Nov. 16 and didn’t come back.
Maierle said Dakota may have run away and could be at a friend’s house.
“We have no indication whatsoever that he’s been in any physical harm or was abducted or anything like that,” Maierle said.

Here is his physical description:

Dakota is 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighs 158 pounds and has light brown hair and hazel eyes. Rowland said he was last seen wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans and black and blue tennis shoes.

If you happen to run across the young man, you should really do the following:

Anyone with information should call Clinton Township police at 586-493-7900.

I do these kind of posts as a public service to the community around here. I will be praying that these people will find their son. Not being able to find a kid is a nightmare, and I would not wish it upon anyone.

Update: Fox 2 Detroit is reporting the following via Facebook:

BREAKING NEWS: 15-year-old Cody Strine of Clinton Township has been found unharmed. Police confirm that he is safe and back with his family right now. Stay with FOX 2 as we learn more about this story’s happy ending!

Thank goodness! 😀

Hey, Hey! Cut it out!

Some rather funny stuff in the blogosphere today.

Bill Quick reacting to InstaPundit’s mail from a reader on this story here:

Glenn, If I had this teacher in high school I would have worked myself blind to get an A.
Remember when “working yourself” was supposed to cause blindness?

Hey, Hey! Cut that stuff out! Surprise

You’re fogging up my laptop screen here and I cannot see how to write! Nerd

2012 election voting broken down by region and religion

I found this to be mildly interesting…

Via VDare:

Hail to You uses Reuters’ America Mosaic polling explorer to check out his theory that the reason Episcopalians voted for Obama more than other Protestants did is because they are concentrated in the Northeast. So he looks at whites’ voting by religion for the Northeast and the South.
Mostly, it looks to me like whites in the Northeast went about 15-25 points less for Romney than did whites in the South and that holds for religious subsets. For example, Romney won 29% of the Jews in the Northeast and 46% of the Jews in the South. Romney got 45% of the Episcopalians in the Northeast and 66% of the Episcopalians in the South; 52% of the white Catholics in the Northeast and 72% of the white Catholics in the South.

Here are the charts:

The South via Hail to you:

…and the Northeast:

Mildly interesting indeed. The Republican Party has a bunch of work to do by 2016. We blew it this time around, we need a grassroots type and not another establishment type. This is why all of this talk about Jeb Bush makes me want to throw up. Please, no more Bush’s, not more President’s by pedigree. We want a real Conservative Christian President and not some wish-washy moderate and fake Christian. A protestant Christian would be nice too.

Also too, someone who is a not a chicken-hawk, neoconservative, warmonger would be nice too. For once, I would like to see a Republican run that is not all eager-beaver to run off to war. There used to be those kind of Conservatives out there; we need to bring them back. Another thing that the Republican Party needs to do is actually work harder here in Michigan. The reason Romney lost Michigan, is because he put little or no effort into winning here at all. Once he saw that Obama had him out numbered here in Michigan, he, like John McCain, gave up in Michigan. Ronald Reagan worked very hard here in Michigan and won big. The Republican Party could learn much from Ronald Reagan’s work here in Michigan.

Just my opinion.

Larry Hagman RIP

You might find this amusing that I am covering this; but Larry Hagman was a big part of my life in the 1980’s. You see, Dallas followed the Duke’s of Hazzard, which I watched every week.

The Story via Dallas News:

Larry Hagman, who played the conniving and mischievous J.R. Ewing on the TV show Dallas, died Friday at Medical City in Dallas, of complications from his recent battle with cancer, his family said.
He was 81.
“Larry was back in his beloved Dallas re-enacting the iconic role he loved most,” his family said in a written statement. “Larry’s family and close friends had joined him in Dallas for the Thanksgiving holiday. When he passed, he was surrounded by loved ones. It was a peaceful passing, just as he had wished for. The family requests privacy at this time.”
The role of J.R. transformed Mr. Hagman’s life. He rocketed from being a merely well-known TV actor on I Dream of Jeannie and the son of Broadway legend Mary Martin, to the kind of international fame known only by the likes the Beatles and Muhammad Ali.
Mr. Hagman made his home in California with his wife of 59 years, the former Maj Axelsson. Despite obvious physical frailty, he gamely returned to Dallas to film season one and part of season two of TNT’s Dallas reboot.
Friends were in shock Friday, especially those who saw him only days ago. But those close to him say he knew the end was coming and he was glad to have his family in town for Thanksgiving.

One thing you have to know about Larry Hagman is this, he was no flunky actor, he was a professionally trained actor from the old school. He was a veteran of the Broadway stage long before he was ever a TV actor. He really knew his chops, and due to his southern upbringing, he took to the role of J.R. Ewing like a duck to water. The awesome thing about that role is that Larry Hagman made it absolutely believable. The show and JR Ewing were a part of the American culture in the 1980’s. Sure, it was Hollywood’s way of mocking the wealthy, but that was what Hollywood did; nothing hurtful or sinister, just harmless comedy and a bit drama on this show.

Larry Hagman, a great actor, and big part of American culture is now gone. Rest in Peace, Mr. Ewing, you have more than earned it.

Sick: Abortion Mill Planned Parenthood in Florida offers black friday coupon

This comes via LifeNews:
A Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in southern Florida is offering a black Friday discount — including $10 off a visit to the abortion center today.
Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast offered the special, saying, “Visit our West Palm Beach or Kendall Health Center for special after Thanksgiving savings on Friday, November 23rd.”
Sickening, Kill your baby on black Friday!
Pro-life blogger Jill Stanek noticed the Black Friday discount and responded, “Planned Parenthood brings new meaning to the term, “Black Friday,” doesn’t it?”
This is the same abortion business where the chair of the national Democratic party headlined a small rally last year.

But yet, we Conservative Christians are the knuckle dragging, backward, heartless types. These bastards have no shame at all. This crap right here, is why I abandoned the Democratic Party. This and the utter disrespect of our Military.

Others: Weasel Zippers, The Gateway Pundit and The Other McCain