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Her acceptance speech Wednesday night at the RNC was a home run. Better than that. Bigger. Brighter.

As I said to Nichole not 10 minutes into Gov. Palin’s speech, and as I saw on Twitter, on The Corner over at NRO, and various other sites around these here intarwebs: regardless of what goes down in 2008, methinks we’ve just been introduced to the first female President of the United States. Dang, Martha, mah knees be weak! Wooooot! :D

An excerpt from a comment I left at one of my regular reads, wizbang:

What I think is really sending liberals’ reason spiraling around the bowl is this: she’s the anti-Hillary in all the right ways. Even at this admittedly-early-hour, it’s very, very conceivable that Gov. Palin, not tag-a-long Hillary, will become the first female President of the United States. And when that happens, a large number of liberal heads will simultaneously explode — it’s ideological doctrine, after all: “Hillary is Supposed To Be The First Woman President”, just like “Global Warming Climate Change Is A Real Threat”.

So to properly celebrate all of this (even just these possibilities!), I did what any sane person would do when they found themselves excited to be excited again about saying, “NO-bama” in November:
I made t-shirts!

I’m proud to say the design is 99% original. Parts that look official were inspired by some official logos/signage I found online; the only part that wasn’t created from scratch is the star-n-bars. What’s on these shirts is a combination of (1) a close approximation of actual McCain logostuffs, painstakingly recreated by my own hand/mouse, and (2) my own ideas as to what I wanted :)

The text, however, is all mine baby: “Sarah Palin may have stolen my heart, but I’ll give her my vote.”

Obamatron: bring it. Yo’ sorry, “Hopey McChangey”, empty-suit self just got dropped off at the dry cleaners :D

So Nichole had her first pregnancy exam this Wednesday for Baby #2 — and, thanks to my new work location, I was able to come along (and help out with Audrey)! In short, everything looks perfect. We got to meet Nichole’s doctor (who actually did the ultrasound), and she seems really professional and kind — a most wonderful combo ;) The baby was 6weeks and 1day old as of Wednesday, which puts the due date right around March 17th. He’s only 0.47cm in size (about half the width of your pinky fingernail!), yet thanks to miracle of modern ultrasound, we were able to not only see him but see his heart beating!

We’ll post more news as we get it, of course. Oh: and if you have any boy names that you think would work, feel free to post ‘em :)

That’s right, campers — we’re having another one! Lil’ miss Audrey isn’t even a year old yet (she will be on August 2nd) and already we’re cookin’ again :) And yes, this time we were trying …and this was the first month! We found out on July 4th (we apparently like to announce such things on major holidays…); Nichole’s rough due date estimate is mid-March. First checkup is scheduled for July 18th, so we’ll let you all know more then.

Two and counting! Woohoo!

…unofficially, for now. But still: WOOT!

• Fred Thompson will run, advisers say (hat-tip to Argus-reader/Uncle BuzzFan)
• Thompson says he plans to run, wants to be 2008’s outsider

Terrorists endorse Pelosi’s ‘good policy of dialogue’

Abu Abdullah, a leader of Hamas‘ military wing in the Gaza Strip, said the willingness by some lawmakers to talk with Syria “is proof of the importance of the resistance against the US.

“The Americans know and understand they are losing in Iraq and the Middle East and that their only chance to survive is to reduce hostilities with Arab countries and with Islam. Islam is the new giant of the world,” he said.

I can’t add much to that.

(hat tip to the Emperor)