Priceless part 3

Priceless part 2

Priceless

Season pass: $379
Beer at Tommyknocker's: $425
A day with Nate in calf deep powder...priceless

Mike Huckabee on Jeremiah Wright

I liked Huckabee even before this, when I heard him talking about being "Pro-Life" not ending at birth. This increases my respect even more. McCain should strongly consider picking him as a VP.

As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say, "That's a terrible statement," I grew up in a very segregated South, and I think that you have to cut some slack. And I'm going to be probably the only conservative in America who's going to say something like this, but I'm just telling you: We've got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told, "You have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can't sit out there with everyone else. There's a separate waiting room in the doctor's office. Here's where you sit on the bus." And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had ... more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me

- Mike Huckabee, offering his perspective on the preaching of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. (Source: MSNBC)

Breathtaking

Both the beauty and the altitude (almost 13,000 feet)!

Awesome times for me and Micah

A speech for the ages

This may be one of the most beautiful, convicting, and thorough speeched I've ever heard...not to mention a manifesto on dealing with the racial tensions that still exist in our nation.

Thank you Barack...you have my support as much as ever.

Praying with faith

The book of James says that when we make a request of God, we must
believe he will answer.

A bit of a strange thought. I mean, why would we ask God for something
if we do nor think he will do it?

But that is frequently the case with me. I pray because I should, or
as a last ditch attempt to affect the circumstances of my life. In
fact, I pray much more with the attitude of an agnostic.

I have met significant obstacles in my personal and professional life.
Yesterday I was so stressed I think I scared my employees :) last
might as I lay in bed I approached God and asked him to give me faith
as I prayed. Then I brought my requests with an expectant heart,
praying even with language that believed he would answer.

It changed my mindset. I began to pray more out of hope than fear. I
began to sense God guiding my thinking, and today have already seem
him answering.

Is prayer God intervening or meditation that releases answers we
already know? Is it God's voice speaking into the stillness, or the
quiet voice of inner wisdom finally finding room to speak?

Yes.

Brian Rants
*Sent from my mobile device

Spin, Spun

This is a snippet from an email from Barack's campaign manager.

Barack is a spinner too like any politician, but I think it is reasonable to say that the Clinton campaign has been a whirling dervish (how the h@#$ do you spell that?)

"When we won Iowa, the Clinton campaign said it's not the number of states you win, it's "a contest for delegates."

When we won a significant lead in delegates, they said it's really about which states you win.

When we won South Carolina, they discounted the votes of African-Americans.

When we won predominantly white, rural states like Idaho, Utah, and Nebraska, they said those didn't count because they won't be competitive in the general election.

When we won in Washington State, Wisconsin, and Missouri -- general election battlegrounds where polls show Barack is a stronger candidate against John McCain -- the Clinton campaign attacked those voters as "latte-sipping" elitists.

And now that we've won more than twice as many states, the Clinton spin is that only certain states really count.

But the facts are clear.

For all their attempts to discount, distract, and distort, we have won more delegates, more states, and more votes.

Meanwhile, more than half of the votes that Senator Clinton has won so far have come from just five states. And in four of these five states, polls show that Barack would be a stronger general election candidate against McCain than Clinton.

We're ready to take on John McCain. But we also need to build operations in places like Pennsylvania, Indiana, North Carolina, and Oregon that will hold their primaries in April and May."

I also like what Stephen Colbert said last night...here it is, in my words.

Clinton has emphasized winning big states, like Ohio and Texas. The democratic primary winner in Texas has won all of the last 8 general elections...except for 7 of them.

I say enough spin Clinton...Barack has pulled ahead, and you aren't going to catch up unless you can spin your way into a super delegate coup.

Hard life in Denver

More evidence of our difficulties in Denver. We rode our scooter to
the Avalanche game. So much fun, and we won!

Isn't my baby pretty!