DNC Press Secretary, Please Note on Your Resume

Every Press Secretary, Communications Director and staff love good press. When dealing with your constituents, it is important to get the campaign's message out in a clear and concise way garnering support for the candidate or party's position.

Success should be measurable, i.e., volume of reporting, favorable Op-Ed pieces and the width and depth of support. Always make sure designated staff members, not volunteers, are availible 24/7 (if possible) to answer questions, offer additional information and just be friendly. Remember, just being there means a lot to reporters on a deadline and many times will just write what you have offered as their own copy. THIS IS A GOOD THING!

Tehran: 23:17 , 2007/04/27 Print version Email this to a friend
Tehran Times Opinion Column, April 28, By Alireza Davari
Vietnam flashback
TEHRAN, April 27 (MNA) -- The U.S. Senate recently passed a bill according to which U.S. military forces would have to leave Iraq by March 2008. However, President George W. Bush has repeatedly stated that he would veto the bill. But it appears likely the U.S. will be forced to leave Iraq in a far more humiliating way than the Soviet Union left Afghanistan.

This would be a major defeat for the United States almost as bad as the Vietnam debacle.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have cited the increasing unrest in Iraq as the main reason why U.S. forces should be withdrawn from the country.

The Democrats in Congress believe that stability can only
be established in Iraq through a political solution, although such views seem
overly optimistic, like the White House’s claim four years ago that U.S. troops
would be welcomed as liberators. However, U.S. citizens are worried about the
White House’s mismanagement of the war since it has become evident that
maintaining stability in Iraq is almost impossible.

Many U.S. officials have even admitted that the implementation of Bush’s ambitious policies in Iraq over the past four years has been a miserable failure. Iraq has become a smoldering ruin while Bush is trying to prevent a total collapse by calling for the deployment of even more troops to the region.

Yet, after a meeting with Bush, Reid told journalists that the United States had lost the war and that a troop surge would not help. He went on to say that success in
Iraq would only be possible through political and economic means, not war and
bloodshed.

Yet even this relatively honest senator did not tell the whole truth about how much the Iraqi people have suffered over the past four years of occupation.

On the other hand, the fact that the U.S. media occasionally mentions the terrible conditions the Iraqi people are experiencing indicates that U.S. citizens are apprehensively following the Iraq story.

U.S.-style democracy seems to mean only endless pain for
Iraqis. The violence that came with the occupation claims the lives of about 100
Iraqis every day, on average. Two out of three Iraqis do not have permanent
access to clean drinking water. Hundreds of thousands of children suffer from
malnutrition and many of them are dying from preventable diseases. The health
system is falling apart.

So far, four million Iraqis, or in other words, one out of every seven citizens, have felt compelled to leave their homes. Should the current trend continue, the tide of refugees will turn into a regional tsunami with significant political consequences, which, of course, would not be in the best interests of the U.S.

Despite all these problems, the Bush administration refuses to acknowledge the terrible humanitarian disaster brought on by their mistake and is pretending that they can handle all the problems in Iraq. However, the reality tells a different
story.

Half of the displaced Iraqis have fled the country. Jordan,
with a population of six million, now hosts 750,000 Iraqi refugees, and Syria,
with a population of 19 million, hosts 1.2 million refugees. Jordan has
officially declared that it will no longer allow Iraqi men between the ages of
17 and 35 to enter the country. According to the New York Times, Kuwait has
completely shut its borders to Iraqi citizens. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia is
building a border barrier costing $7 billion to prevent Iraqis from entering the
country. The U.S., which is the main cause of all this misery, has accepted only
500 Iraqis, mostly just the educated asylum-seekers.

The Bush administration has lost more than the military battle because the consequences of the U.S. occupation are far-reaching.

Bush and his warmonger supporters have failed to realize that establishing stability in Iraq requires political strategies, not military ones. The new plan to increase troop levels in Iraq has met much opposition so far while there has been a rise in suicide bombings and other violence since the U.S. implemented the new Baghdad Security Operation, which is a joint effort by U.S. and Iraqi
troops.

Indeed, the recent assessment of the first months of the ongoing Baghdad Security Operation by high-ranking U.S. military officials like Peter Petraeus and William J. Fallon is vague.

It should be noted that U.S. casualties in Baghdad have increased by 21 percent since the Baghdad Security Operation was launched on February 14.

U.S. officials claim that the decline in violence in certain areas of Iraq, particularly
Baghdad, is due to the new U.S. military strategy, but the real reason is that
certain groups have chosen to take a hiatus.

As Bush and other U.S. officials are calling for a troop surge and constantly defend their new Iraq strategy, the Democrats are trying to find appropriate ways to limit Bush’s power.

Democrats in the U.S. Congress have also said that they will vote against Bush’s bill requesting an additional $93 billion for the military. This would undermine the plan to deploy another 21,500 troops to Iraq.

From a wider perspective, the miserable conditions in Iraq
and the dispute among White House official show that the U.S. will soon find
itself forced to withdraw from Iraq, just like the Soviet Union was forced to
withdraw from Afghanistan.

Thus, U.S. officials should draw up a timetable for withdrawing their forces, as Democrats in Congress are demanding, in order to end this war, which is becoming increasingly unpopular in the United States.

PA/HG
END
MNA

Remember, every vote counts. A great communications staff will always expand our base and effect a win! After all, victory is always our goal.

h/t Gateway Pundit

Support The Veto

Shamelessly stolen from Dinah Lord because it is a great idea!

Pick up the phone and call the White House
tell them what you think of the Defeatocrats latest attempt to undermine this country. Support the veto.

White House Comment line:
202-456-1111

Feeling fired up?

Call Harry Reid's orifice and demand his resignation. 202-224-3542

Seven Gents And A Lady

It was like a bachelor party for a funeral.

PETA Asked Me To, So I Did

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Iraqis Smarter than Democrats

Well, who didn't know that?

Iraqi Spokesman Criticizes Senate Vote
"We see some negative signs in the decision because it sends wrong signals
to some sides that might think of alternatives to the political process," Ali
al-Dabbagh told The Associated Press.

...

"Coalition forces gave lots of sacrifices and they should continue their
mission, which is building Iraqi security forces to take over," al-Dabbagh said.
"We see (it) as a loss of four years of sacrifices."

An anonymous source from an unnamed group in a nonaligned region threw a rock through this reporter's window with a note attached stating "Sammy bin Laden salutes all the "patriots" who voted for us. Their speaking to truth leads to our power."

Reid is Dead Meat

The ever loyal Winter Soldier has Reid's back.

Opinion
John Kerry: Standing With Harry Reid

John Kerry

Thu Apr 26, 11:05 AM ET
They're at it again. When I came here to the Huffington Post and supported Speaker Pelosi when she was attacked by the right-wing, I said, "They thrive on destroying our leaders - we can't let them." I take no pride in my prognostication.

Now they're going after my friend and Majority Leader Harry Reid
(news, bio, voting record). And once again, it's up to us to defend him.

Thank God I'm not, but if I were Harry Reid I would pooping in my pants right now.

With Kerry's support, Harry is dead meat

No problem. For $200 he's a lawyer too.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - A man was held Wednesday on charges that he
performed dental work on customers without a license in his "filthy" garage,
authorities said. Roger Bean, 60, was arrested Tuesday and held on $6,000 bond.
Bean performed denture fittings and made false teeth in his garage, charging
just $200 for a full set of dentures, a procedure that typically costs more than
$2,000, authorities said. But he was not licensed to practice in Florida.

Palm Beach County Sheriff's detective Don Zumpano said there were "health
risks with operating this type of facility outside of your house," adding that
Bean's workspace was "filthy."

Neighbors and clients, however, praised Bean for saving them thousands of dollars.
Ron St. Mary, 73, head of the neighborhood crime watch, said Bean is no criminal.

"He's helping the old people who don't have a few dollars," he said. "I think the world of him."

It was not immediately clear if Bean had an attorney.

Reid is "one of the biggest political hacks we have here in Washington."

From Broder:

On "Fox News Sunday," Schumer offered this clarification of Reid's
off-the-cuff comment. "What Harry Reid is saying is that this war is lost -- in
other words, a war where we mainly spend our time policing a civil war between
Shiites and Sunnis. We are not going to solve that problem. . . . The war is not
lost. And Harry Reid believes this -- we Democrats believe it. . . . So the
bottom line is if the war continues on this path, if we continue to try to
police and settle a civil war that's been going on for hundreds of years in
Iraq, we can't win. But on the other hand, if we change the mission and have
that mission focus on the more narrow goal of counterterrorism, we sure can
win."

Everyone got that? This war is lost. But the war can be won. Not since
Bill Clinton famously pondered the meaning of the word "is" has a Democratic
leader confused things as much as Harry Reid did with his inept discussion of
the alternatives in Iraq.

Nor is this the first time Senate Democrats, who chose Reid as their leader over Chris Dodd of Connecticut, have had to ponder the political fallout from one of Reid's tussles with the language.

Hailed by his staff as "a strong leader who speaks his mind in direct fashion," Reid is assuredly not a man who misses many opportunities to put his foot in his mouth. In 2005, he attacked Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the Federal Reserve
Board, as "one of the biggest political hacks we have here in Washington."

He called President Bush " a loser," then apologized. He said that Bill Frist, then Senate majority leader, had "no institutional integrity" because Frist planned to leave the Senate to fulfill a term-limits pledge. Then he apologized to Frist.

When a Broder says this, it makes Reid all the more scarier and he scares already. Schumer too, especially after all his practice, he stills lies so poorly.

US Senate - We Submit to al-Qaeda

Forty-eight Democrats and independent (Socialist) Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont voted in support of the measure, including Republican Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Gordon Smith of Oregon.

Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., and 46 Republicans voted against the legislation.

Sens. Mike Enzi, R-Wy., did not vote.

Way to go guys, you make America, free people everywhere terrorists so proud.

Losers.

Oh, and Sherry Brown voted for the pullout. Voinovich voted against, according to his office, because of the time table. Congrats to you George. on this one.

Wait period in Iraq?

DINAH LORD: Dems want 15 day waiting period for US troop action

Maybe the Dems will next legislate a "time out" clause for terrorists that behave badly. Oops, Democrats do not believe terrorists are capable of bad behavior, because they are victims!

Go read Dinah. Now.

Haditha - Murtha Doesn't Know Jack

Via Blue Star Chronicles

From NewsMax

Philip V. BrennanWednesday, April 25, 2007
Convincing evidence that corroborates NewsMax.com’s accounts of the Haditha insurgent ambush has compelled the prosecution to take extraordinary steps to bolster their crumbling case.

The stunning announcement that all charges are being dropped against
Sgt. Sanick P. Dela Cruz, formerly accused of murder in the Haditha incident
where 24 Iraqis were killed during an insurgent ambush against the Marines, is
indication that the prosecutors have a very weak case against all the
defendants, lawyers for the some of the accused say.

Crumbling Case

“Dela Cruz provided several sworn statements to the government,” Mark Zaid said. Zaid is one of the attorneys representing defendant Sgt. Frank Wuterich adding that
as part of its obligations the government turned over statements to Wuterich’s
defense team.

“Unless there’s something new that he is suddenly going to come
forward with, it’s not entirely clear that it’s damaging to my client at all,”
Mark Zaid, one of the attorney’s representing Sgt. defendant Frank Wuterich,
told NewsMax.com.

“Those statements were available for the government to use,
and we found that there are numerous conflicting statements within his own
statements.”

The announcement of the deal with Dela Cruz is further evidence
that the cases against the Kilo Company Marines and several of their superior
officers are in deep trouble. It comes on the heels of postponements of Article
32 hearings slated for Lt. Col. Jeffrey Chessani, the battalion commander and
two of the enlisted men charged with murdering civilians in Haditha on Nov. 19,
2005.

Baseless Charges

Although the prosecutors said they needed more time
to prepare their cases, there is much more to the story than that NewsMax.com
has learned, and it paints a shocking picture of a prosecution that should never
have been pursued.

In a nutshell, the case exploded when an intelligence
officer dropped a bombshell on prosecutors during a pre-hearing interview when
he revealed the existence of exculpatory evidence that appears to have been
obtained by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and withheld from
the prosecutors.

This officer, described by senior Marine Corps superiors as
one of the best and most dedicated intelligence officers in the entire Marine
Corps, was in possession of evidence which provided a minute-by-minute narrative
of the entire day’s action — material which he had amassed while monitoring the
day’s action in his capacity as the battalion’s intelligence officer. That
material, he says, was also in the hands of the NCIS.

Much of that evidence remains classified, but it includes videos of the entire day’s action, including airstrikes against insurgent safe houses. Also included was all of the radio traffic describing the ongoing action between the men on the ground and
battalion headquarters, and proof that the Marines were aware that the
insurgents conducting the ambush of the Kilo Company troops were videotaping the
action — the same video that after editing ended up in the hands of a gullible
anti-war correspondent for Time magazine.

When asked by the prosecution team to give his copies of the evidence to the prosecution, he told NewsMax.com that he was reluctant to do so, fearing it would again be suppressed or misused, but later relented when ordered by his commanding general to do so.

Confronted by the massive mounds of evidence that Marine Corps sources tell NewsMax proves conclusively that the cases against the Haditha Marines are baseless, the prosecutors were forced to postpone the Article 31 against Lt. Col. Chessani and two of the enlisted men in an attempt to regroup.

By granting immunity to the officer on the scene of the house-clearing effort, the prosecution, lawyers say, has further weakened its case.Because the intelligence officer was slated to return to Iraq for another tour of duty, arrangements were made prior to his departure to videotape his testimony for use in the hearings which would take place after his departure.

Those familiar with his testimony, which included masses of classified material, insist that the narratives of the day’s events disclosed by NewsMax.com in a long series of stories about Haditha were accurate presentations of the true facts and a total repudiation of all the slanderous material leaked by the Pentagon to the media.

Thanks to this officer’s testimony, the defense team was able to present over one hundred classified exhibits, including video.

Lawyers for some of the accused told NewsMax that the officer’s eight hour-long deposition will be made available to the defense in all the cases for use at the various Article 32 hearings which begin with Lt. Col. Chessani in May. Because most of it remains classified, it will be reviewed in private by the hearing officers and not revealed in the open hearings.

NewsMax, however, can reveal that the facts of what happened early
that November morning clearly show that the incident was part of a planned
ambush by insurgent forces, that the civilians tragically killed in the were
used as human shields by the insurgents, and that despite claims by Rep. John
Murtha, there was indeed an ongoing firefight between the Marines and the
enemy.

In short, what the intelligence officer provided, was a fully backed
up account that puts the listener at the scene of the action and takes him
though the entire day’s action. All of this information was made available to
senior officers up the command ladder including the Battalion commander Lt. Col.
Chessani.

It was so complete it eliminated any need for further investigation.

Robert Muise, the Thomas More Law Center attorney who
questioned the officer, told NewsMax in a statement, “The intelligence officer
is a crucial witness in this case. During his testimony, he effectively
described the enemy situation prior to, during, and after the November 19
terrorist attack, providing the necessary context for the decisions that were
made as a result. His testimony shows the complexity of the attack this day, the
callousness of the terrorists toward the local civilians, whom they use to their
advantage, and the error of viewing this incident in a vacuum.

“The officer also showed how the insurgents used allegations of wrongdoing by Marines as propaganda to support their cause. In fact, another witness, who was the
assistant intelligence officer during the attack and is now the current
intelligence officer for the battalion, testified that since the Haditha
incident received so much negative attention, terrorist propaganda alleging law
of war violations against American servicemen in Iraq has ‘ballooned.’”

Addressing this point, Richard Thompson, the president and
chief counsel of the Thomas More Law Center said, “The government’s politicized
quest to find wrongdoing in this case will ultimately harm the war effort, and
it has already resulted in an incredible expenditure of time, money, and scarce
resources, which could be better used fighting the terrorists.

“Our job is to allow the facts of November 19, 2005 and beyond to be presented to the investigating officer rather than the scurrilous and unfounded accusations from
anti-war politicians and media who rely on insurgent sources for their stories
about our decent and hard fighting men in uniform.”

In the past few days, as an apparent part of the prosecution’s damage control effort, some Pentagon officials leaked the once classified 130-page report, by Maj. Gen. Eldon A. Bargewell of the Army, to the New York Times and The Washington Post. That report, however, failed to conclude that any officers covered up evidence or
committed a crime — the basis of the charges against Lt. Col. Chessani and the
other officers charged.

In previous attempt to stir up animosity to the defendants, some people in the Pentagon leaked information allegedly compiled by the NCIS to the Washington Post.

As NewsMax demonstrated, that information was false.

Biased Media Weighs In

A shocking example of the sort of slanderous material being leaked to the media was this story broadcast by WKRN in Nashville, Tenn., which reported that military prosecutors said marines went on “a killing rampage in November 2005 in Haditha, Iraq, after their Humvee was destroyed by a roadside bomb killing one marine and injuring two others.”

According to the WKRN report, “The surviving marines went on a
killing spree shooting two dozen Iraqi civilians including unarmed men in the
street and men, women, and children in their homes.”

They went on to quote one Gen. Jack Keane, rescribed as an ABC News consultant, who said that “at that point, there was a fundamental . . . breakdown in the chain of command. They became more like a gang than a military unit. The order and the discipline fundamentally broke down and they were seeking revenge.”

The Pentagon report, WKRN admitted, “did not find specific evidence of a cover-up but concludes that nobody was interested in investigating the allegations.”
The facts show that these reports are blatantly false, and typical of the shamefully distorted media coverage of the Haditha killings.

On April 3, the prosecution granted immunity to talk to prosecutors to Lt. Max Frank, who arrived at the scene after the IED blast of the explosion. The grant was made as part of an order to “cooperate and truthfully answer all questions posed by investigators.”

He has not been charged in the case.

According to Muise and Brian Rooney of the Thomas Moore Law Center both former Marine officers now representing Lt. Col. Chessani, Frank, who personally witnessed the scene of the attack shortly after the fighting and assisted with removing the civilian bodies from the insurgent-occupied homes, insisted that there was no evidence of “executions” and that he saw no evidence of misconduct.

Muise observed that Frank was testifying under a grant of immunity by the government, which he said added further credibility to his testimony.

Lt. Col. Shelburne, the military defense counsel for Chessani who questioned Kallop, noted, “This officer’s testimony is significant. He was on the scene shortly after the attack. He saw the location of the bodies. He personally observed the damage caused by the attack. And yet, he saw nothing that caused him to suspect any wrongdoing on the part of the Marines. Moreover, this officer was given immunity by the
government, so the only way he can get in trouble is if he testifies
untruthfully.”

Reid, Pelosi and Murtha should go. As starters.

e-mail, Nope, can't help myself

A lady opened her refrigerator and saw a rabbit sitting on one of the shelves.

"What are you doing in there?" She asked.

The rabbit replied: "This is a Westinghouse, isn't it?", To which the lady replied "Yes."

"Well," the rabbit said, "I'm westing."

US Congress - We Submit To al-Qaeda

Iraq Capitulation
Roll Call Vote 265

Two Republicans – Reps. Wayne Gilchrest of Maryland and Walter Jones of North Carolina – joined 216 Democrats in passing the bill.

Other Republican Votes
Emerson – present
Cubin – not voting
Davis, Jo Ann – not voting
Westmorland – not voting

The U.S. Congress, where Victory Through Strength becomes Winning by Running.

My Rep., Zack Space voted for this. To our troops and the freedom loving people of Iraq, Afghanistan and others throughout the Middle East praying for peace and freedom, I apologize.

The "People's House" has become a sniveling den of lackeys for terrorists.

George Bush - Would Be Fascist Dictator

Naomi Wolfe.

Her given name means pleasant, above all, and beauty. Ironic, eh? Now add Wolfe.

The woman who hoped to influence the masses through subliminal gender language using unnoticed socks, neutral tones and women to create the image of an alpha-male, all to secretly win an election, sees a conspiracy. Enter George, aka Hitler or Pinochet.

Fascist America, in 10 easy steps
It is very difficult and arduous to create and sustain a democracy - but
history shows that closing one down is much simpler. You simply have to be
willing to take the 10 steps.

As difficult as this is to contemplate, it is clear, if you are willing to
look, that each of these 10 steps has already been initiated today in the United
States by the Bush administration.

Naomi "Socks" Wolfe is not new to conspiracies.

To Wolfe, Jeanne Kirkpatrick broke the "no-uterus rule" stating that she had;
"a voice so Olympian, so neck-up and uninflected by the experiences of the female body, that the subtle message received by young female writers is: to enter public voice, one must abide by the no-uterus rule."

Thus, one of the greatest women of this century was not abiding by the feminist conspiracy because of her stubborn individualism, but take Laura Bush, the new alpha uterus woman who, with her husbands handlers, moves women and men without their knowledge, but does so with a conspiracy of tones, clothes and altered male projections of perception.

"dressing the entire GOP convention, for instance, in matching tangerine and
turquoise, color-coordinating the Cheney grandchildren to give a visual sense of
order and unity—the Democrats keep being bumped to the inside pages because they send out their candidate and his wife in neutrals."

Okay, we've gone full circle here, and I won't mention how Ms. Wolfe says that Ms. Heinz Kerry is cuckolding her husband publicly every news day (thus causing him the election), but these two examples were just for the electoral soul of America, let us get back to the fascist America that will bend all of us to its will.

Right now, only a handful of patriots are trying to hold back the tide of
tyranny for the rest of us - staff at the Center for Constitutional Rights, who
faced death threats for representing the detainees yet persisted all the way to
the Supreme Court; activists at the American Civil Liberties Union; and
prominent conservatives trying to roll back the corrosive new laws, under the
banner of a new group called the American Freedom Agenda. This small, disparate
collection of people needs everybody's help, including that of Europeans and
others internationally who are willing to put pressure on the administration
because they can see what a US unrestrained by real democracy at home can mean
for the rest of the world.

We need to look at history and face the "what ifs". For if we
keep going down this road, the "end of America" could come for each of us in a
different way, at a different moment; each of us might have a different moment
when we feel forced to look back and think: that is how it was before - and this
is the way it is now.

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary,
in the same hands ... is the definition of tyranny," wrote James Madison. We
still have the choice to stop going down this road; we can stand our ground and
fight for our nation, and take up the banner the founders asked us to
carry.

Good God Almighty, Naomi has joined the John Birch Society. No wonder she sees conspiracies which are not pleasant or beautiful. She gets that from the lupus side of her family.

Lupus, Latin for wolf. Lupara, Sicilian for wolf-shot or shotgun which brings us back to the need for the 2nd Amendment.

Hartshorne as a student at Yale

Title: A church for a summer colony
Artist: Hartshorne
Date: c1933

Reid: Petraeus is a Liar

Sen. Harry Reid is in over his head and has possibly gone insane. His total detachment from reality is showing more each day. When will we see the complete meltdown?

BASH:He also said that General Petraeus is going to come to the Hill and make it
clear to you that there is progress going on in Iraq, that the so-called
surge is working. Will you believe him when he says that?

REID: No, I don't believe him, because it's not happening.

Who was it that referred to Conservatives by snarking "Hate is not a family value"? Reid's hatred of Bush and his lust for power, I believe, have unhinged him.

UPDATE: Sniper One thinks his problem is mere stupidity.
UPDATE: Thanks to the tube like magnificence of the Internet Bloodthirsty Liberal captures Rudy's thoughts on Dems in general.
Gateway Pundit reports that the San Francisco Treat will not meet with General Petraeus. That's leadership!
MVRWC has the audacity to think a soldier has an opinion worth listening to.
Red State says resignation now!
WMD brings Boehner in his A-Game showing true leadership. Read on-Matt nails Reid and the SFT as well.

Elysium by Brandon of Javajive

Ostroy, Harry Reid Groupie

Andy Ostroy, who believes the media and its writers have become whores for the right wing writes for the media. Now that we know what he is, what's he cost?

Sen. Harry Reid Is Right About Iraq War
OPINION by ANDY OSTROY
Last week Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., caused a ruckus in
Washington by saying that there is no military solution to the Iraq War. That
it's over and it's time to get out.

"I believe myself that the secretary of state, the secretary of defense —
and you have to make your own decision as to what the president knows — that
this war is lost, and that the surge is not accomplishing anything, as indicated
by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday," Reid said.

...

Bush and his war-mongering cronies took it upon themselves to invade a
sovereign nation under the guise of (a) retaliating against Sept. 11; (b)
protecting America and Britain from WMD "mushroom clouds;" and then (c) building a stable democracy in the Middle East. As we now all know, there were no WMD in Iraq, there was no connection to bin Laden and al Qaeda and true, sustainable democracy is but a fantasy. Failure, failure, failure. And the insurgents have been empowered and emboldened by this failure, not weakened. And Bush's desperate "troop surge" is not going to make one bit of difference in changing Iraq's military and political landscape.

...

Stop regurgitating all this BS about progress and success and show it to
us.

Ah, the usual Liberal restating what Reid didn't say to make it more acceptable.

Next in the Liberal litany of usuals;
Supporters of the GWOT are war-mongering cronies of Bush
Iraq was a good sovereign nation, just remember the flying kites and balloons
No WMD, i.e., Bush lied and got Congress to lie with him
No al-Qaeda connection, but anyway just imply Bush said bin-Laden
No sustainable democracy because everybody knows it should have happened by now

Ostroy is right about emboldening the terrorists (he lovingly calls them insurgents), he and Reid and their ilk empower and embolden them everyday and as long as they voice terrorism's daily talking points, the surge may not work.

Andy, stop regurgitating the Liberal BS about failure and regression and you won't be able to continue as a whore for the right wing media. Maybe the BS is your price.

e-mail chuckle

The old priest lay dying in the hospital. For years he had faithfully served the people of the nation's capital. He motioned for his nurse to come near. "Yes, Father?" said the nurse.

"I would really like to see Ted Kennedy and Hillary Clinton before I die" whispered the priest.

"I'll see what I can do, Father" replied the nurse.

The nurse sent the request to the Senate and waited for a response. Soon the word arrived. Kennedy and Clinton would be delighted to visit the priest.

As they went to the hospital, Clinton commented to Kennedy "I don't know why the old priest wants to see us, but it will certainly help our images." Kennedy couldn't help but agree.

When they arrived at the priest's room, the priest took Kennedy's hand in his right hand and Clinton's hand in his left. There was silence and a look of serenity on the old priest's face.

Finally Senator Kennedy spoke. "Father, of all the people you could have chosen, why did you choose us to be with you as you near the end?"

The old priest slowly replied "I have always tried to pattern my life after our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ."

"Amen" said Kennedy.

"Amen" said Clinton.

The old priest continued..."He died between two lying thieves. I would like to do the same."

Chuck Hagel Faces the Truth

This from High Plains Patriot via Gateway Pundit :

Monday, April 23, 2007
Bruning Polling Ahead of Hagel
From Jon Bruning's press
release today, 23 April. Polling funded by Bruning's exploratory committee, completed by experienced, reputable polling firm.

Ballot 1
If Chuck Hagel
decides he does want to pursue a 3rd term in the Senate, and the Republican
primary election for U.S. Senate were held today between Jon Bruning and Chuck Hagel, for whom would you vote?
**Jon Bruning
leads Chuck Hagle 47%
to 38% statewide
**Bruning leads Hagel among
conservatives 57% to 31%Bruning leads Hagel among Republicans in Congressional District 2
(53% to 35%)
**Bruning leads Hagel among
Republicans in Congressional District 3 (52% to 33%). Congressional District 3
represents 42% of the Republican primary vote
Bruning leads Hagel in Douglas
County (Omaha) 54% to 34%
Bruning leads Hagel in the
Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney media market 49% to 34%
Bruning leads Hagel in Lancaster
County (Lincoln) 48% to 41%
Bruning leads Hagel in the entire
Omaha media market 44% to 42%
Hagel leads Bruning in 3 GOP
primary subgroups:
Congressional District 1 by 46% to 37%
Moderates by 46% to 37%
Liberals by 46% to 32%

Ballot 2"
Now suppose you learned that many Republicans here in Nebraska are
dissatisfied with Chuck Hagel because of his unrelenting criticism of
President Bush and for voting with liberal Democrats for a defense bill that
calls for withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq and is loaded with pork barrel
spending. They are also upset that Senator Hagel has suggested publicly that impeachment of President Bush is an option, saying "You can impeach him. And before this over, you might see calls for his impeachment." Knowing this, if the Republican primary for U.S. Senate were held today between Jon Bruning and Chuck Hagel for whom would you vote?"
**Support for Jon Bruning increases by 8 points statewide while
support for Chuck Hagel drops by 7 points - a 15 point net shift in
the Attorney General's favor.
**Bruning leads Hagel in
Congressional District 1 by 12 points (48% - 36%) and among moderates by 4
points (45%-41%). Only among liberals does Bruning trail Hagel (39% - 46%).
**Bruning
widens his lead over Hagel in Douglas County (Omaha) 57% to 33%,
Congressional District 2 (56% to 32%), and seniors 65+ (52% to 33%).
**Support for Bruning increases significantly among conservatives
(63% to 23%), voters under 50 years of age (56% to 33%), those over 50 (55% to
30%), those in Lancaster County (Lincoln) 55% to 38%, the
Lincoln-Hastings-Kearney media market (57% to 26%), the Omaha media market (50% to 35%), and Congressional District 3 (59% to 27%).

posted by Brian Bresnahan

Good, I hope they throw his arrogant tail out of office.

Time for Harry Reid to Vamoose

Reid is a reed in the wind, only without the reed's strength, suppleness and usefulness.

First.
The Democratic strategy to use the ongoing violence in Iraq to their
political advantage in the run-up to the 2008 elections requires some skill and
nuance. But it's growing harder to believe Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid --
Nevada's own -- actually possesses those skills.

The Democratic strategy is anything but straightforward.
Sen. Reid and his colleagues know there is much political hay to be made by
criticizing President Bush's planning and conduct of the post-war occupation.
But they also know that while "cut our losses and pull out" plays well in
Democratic caucuses, it failed in the Connecticut general election in 2006, when
Sen. Joseph Lieberman and his anti-surrender stance handily defeated end-the-war candidate Ned Lamont -- even though Sen. Lieberman had to run as an independent to pull it off.

That's the kind of "poll" that really counts.

Thus, the Democrats' careful strategy requires them to appear to oppose Mr.
Bush's ongoing occupation of Iraq (to please their pacifist base), without
taking any concrete, "binding" actions to change the status quo.
Enter Sen. Reid, flopping around in big red shoes like Bozo the
Clown.

Second.
Reid has instead given moral support to the terrorists. His "leadership"
has been to try to cut off our forces' war funding. Now he has told the
Islamofascists that victory is theirs if they can just keep blowing up U.S.
soldiers and Iraqi citizens a little while longer.

In aiding and comforting the enemy in wartime, Reid has betrayed the office
he holds, shamed the Nevadans he represents and made the Democratic Party he
leads synonymous with surrender. There is one way he can repair the damage he's done to the nation: step down.

Third.
…actively undermining our fighting men and women in Iraq. His legislative
efforts to starve our armed forces in the middle of a war are as contemptible as
anything I’ve witnessed in my 25 years in Washington. And yesterday he made a
statement that was so disgraceful and brazen that it could have been uttered by
Tokyo Rose during World War II or Jane Fonda during the Vietnam War. The difference, of course, is that Reid is the highest ranking Democrat in the
United States Senate.

And.
David Broder, the sagely insightful “dean” of the Washington press corps, attacked Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) today over his claim that the war in Iraq is lost.

Speaking on XM radio, Broder said that Reid should “learn to engage mind before mouth opens,” and suggested that Reid’s Senate allies “have a little caucus and decide how much further they want to carry Harry Reid” and his “bumbling performance.”

Asked if Harry Reid is “an embarrassment,” Broder said, “I think so,” since “every six weeks or so there’s another episode where he has to apologize for the way in which he has bungled the Democratic case.”

Hang up the gloves Harry. Even the ref is laughing at you.

(All emphasis mine)

"Screw the Troops" and Other Copperhead Methodology

Read this and imagine how our nation and our world would look today if the Reids, Pelosis and the New York Times of Lincoln's time succeeded. They were scum then and they are scum now. I say this as the great grandson of an officer with the Virginia 8th.

This is eerily like today.

Newspaper OpinionsThe Press and Army Morale
"'Spend Much Time in Reading the Daily Papers': The Press and Army Morale in the Civil War."

by James McPherson

...

News from the homefront as well as from other theaters of war affected army
morale. A soldier's conviction that he was risking his life for a worthwhile
purpose, a Cause with a capital C, was rooted in the support of his family and
community for that Cause. Some of that support, or the lack of it, was conveyed
to soldiers by the letters they received from home. But much of it came via the
press and the political process, which were intertwined institutions during the
Civil War. In both North and South, antiwar movements arose and flourished at
times when the war seemed to be going badly for one's own side. These movements
advocated an armistice and a negotiated peace. The governments in both
Washington and Richmond viewed such proposals as defeatist at best, treasonable
at worst. So did most soldiers. They labeled the peace proponents in the
Confederacy as "Tories" and in the North as "Copperheads." On both sides,
opponents of the war -- or more accurately, perhaps, opponents of their
governments' war policies -- made their case through the press as well as
through the political process.

After the triple disasters to Confederate arms
in the summer of 1863 -- Vicksburg, Gettysburg, and the Army of Tennessee's
retreat from its namesake state some Southern civilians began urging a
compromise peace. A nineteen-year-oid private in the 7th Alabama Cavalry
denounced what he called this "miserable class of men that now infest the
country," while another Alabamian, an infantry captain, deplored the lack of
"patriotism of a great many of the people at home. The army cannot be sustained
without the cooperation of the people." Even in South Carolina, a few Tories
seemed to surface after Gettysburg and Vicksburg, causing a nineteen-year-old
veteran from that state to cry out: "Shame for South Carolina! Go back into the
union, degraded despised dishonorable.... This is the way we are rewarded -- our
own people forsake us in the trying hour -- and after our all -- honour-and
everything else is at stake.... Degrading, wretched, unpatriotic, infamous
thought!"24

In 1863, peace sentiment manifested itself most powerfully in North Carolina. The
state's largest newspaper, the North Carolina Standard, edited in Raleigh by
William W. Holden, became an outspoken advocate of peace negotiations. So
incensed toward Holden were Confederate soldiers that on the night of September
9-10, 1863, several men of General Henry L. Bennings's brigade of Georgia
troops, passing through Raleigh on their way from Virginia to Georgia where they
would suffer heavy losses at Chickamauga ten days later, broke into the
Standard's office and wrecked it.25

Union soldiers did the same to so-called "Copperhead" papers in the North. And judging from the volume and bitterness of soldiers' denunciations of homefront
"traitors," the Copperhead press in the North was far more extensive and
outspoken than the Tory press in the South. Especially during the early months
of 1863 and again in the summer of 1864, the drumbeat of defeatism and anti-war
editorials in Copperhead newspapers caused morale problems in Union armies. A
captain in the 8th Connecticut complained in January 1863 that "the papers (many
of them) published at the North & letters rec[eive]d by the soldiers are
doing the Army an immense amount of evil." From Grant's army in the Western
theater came similar testimony from a captain in the 103d Illinois: "You can't
imagine how much harm these traitors are doing, not only with their papers, but
they are writing letters to the boys which would discourage the most loyal of
men. . . . I put in a great deal more of my time than I would wish to, in
talking patriotism at the boys ... to counteract the effect of these letters
[and papers] ... and doing good solid cursing at the home cowardly vipers." An
enlisted man from Iowa believed that the Copperhead press not only discouraged
the boys in blue but also encouraged the enemy. "The Rebels in the South well
know how we are divided in the North," he wrote in March 1863. "It encourages
them to hold out, with the hopes that we will get to fighting in the North, well
knowing that 'a house divided against itself cannot stand."26

At the same time, however, a backlash against the Copperheads' anti-war rhetoric
forged a bond of unity among Union soldiers that actually improved their morale.
"Copperheadism has brought the soldiers here together more than anything else,"
wrote a corporal in the 101st Ohio in April 1863. "Some of the men that yoused
to be almost willing to have the war settled in any way are now among the
strongest Union soldiers we have got." Many Northern soldiers lumped the Rebels
and Copperheads together as twin enemies who deserved the same treatment. "My
first object is to crush this infernal Rebellion," wrote a Pennsylvania infantry
captain in March 1863, "the next to come North and bayonet such fool miscreants
as [Clement] Vallandigham" the foremost Copperhead political leader. A private
in the 49th Ohio told his sister in June 1863 that "it would give me the
greatest pleasure in the world to be one of a regiment that would march through
Ohio and Indiana and hang every Copperhead in the two States."27

When Northern homefront morale plunged to perhaps its lowest point in the summer of 1864 because of horrendous casualties in the Army of the Potomac without much apparent progress toward victory, Union soldier morale remained higher than it had been in the spring of 1863 because of this bond of unity against the Copperheads. As a New York captain wrote to his wife, "it is the soldiers who
have educated the people at home to a true knowledge ... and to a just
perception of our great duties in this contest."28

That is one reason why many Union regiments established their own camp
newspapers at various times and places during the war -- at least one hundred
such newspapers, most of them short-lived. (There seem to have been few if any
counterparts in Confederate camps.) They bore such names as Stars and Stripes,
Whole Union, Banner of Freedom, New South, Free South, American Patriot, and
other such patriotic titles. Many Union soldiers (and some Confederates as well)
also served as army correspondents for their hometown newspapers. Perhaps the
most famous of these was Wilbur Fisk of the 2d Vermont, whose dispatches have
been published in book form in two modern editions. Fisk signed his letters with
the pen name "Anti-Rebel," which pretty much sums up their dominant theme.29

That is why almost 80 percent of the Union soldiers who voted in 1864 cast their
ballots for Abraham Lincoln on a platform of conquering a peace by military
victory, compared with 53 percent of the civilian vote for Lincoln. As one Union
officer put it in August 1864, at the low point of civilian morale, "We must
succeed. If not this year, why then the next, or the next. And if it takes ten
years, then ten years it must be, for we can never give up, and have a Country
and Government left."30

...

The Copperhead's grand children and great grand children are alive and well today. They're just as scummy.

Jane's not Dead!!!!!

Nor has Jane been ill. She's back tomorrow and my coffee will taste all the sweeter for it!

I will not make any bad'ems, like I have Jane's Addiction. oops.

Now, my vast audience...., we need to get Tom Blogical to post more! He's good and if you're so smart, why didn't you come up with Blogical Conclusions for your masterpiece?

Dr. Helen

Just saw Instapundit's better half, Dr. Helen Smith, on a true crime show. Pretty cool. So is she.

Hey. I was just flipping through the channels to find some news.

I'd Bitch-Slap Harry Reid

Following up on his the war is lost , the Liberal Minister of Myopia, Harry Reid sinks to a new low.

Reid: Congress Will Pass Withdrawal Bill Despite Veto Threat
Reid noted disapprovingly that in a speech last week, Bush repeatedly said
there were signs of progress in Iraq in the wake of a troop increase he
ordered last winter.

"The White House transcript says the president made those remarks in the
state of Michigan. I believe he made them in the state of denial,'' said
Reid.

Here in Ohio we have the Buckeyes to offset the bad taste of Dennis Kucinich. I guess Nevada can say they have whorehouses to offset the bad taste of Reid.

Of course, we have to pay more to enjoy the Buckeyes, but it lasts longer.

Dead White Guys

I'm sure you've read this, as I have, but it is good to remind one's self of what these dead white guys stood for, against and by.

"Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor."

Our Founding Fathers paid the price for the United States of America.

By Jeff Jacoby, Globe
ColumnistCopyright 2000 Boston Globe

On July 2, 1776, the
Continental Congress voted 12-0 -- New York abstained -- in favor of Richard
Henry Lee's resolution "that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to
be, free and independent States."

On July 4, the Declaration of Independence drafted by Thomas Jefferson -- heavily edited by Congress -- was adopted without dissent. On July 8, the Declaration was publicly proclaimed in Philadelphia. On July 15, Congress learned that the New York Legislature had decided to endorse the Declaration. On Aug. 2, a parchment copy was presented to the Congress for signature. Most of the 56 men who put their name to the document did so that day.

And then?

We tend to forget that to sign the Declaration of Independence was to commit an act of treason -- and the punishment for treason was death. To publicly accuse George III of "repeated injuries and usurpations," to announce that Americans were therefore "Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown," was a move fraught with danger -- so much so that the names of the signers were kept secret for six months.

They were risking everything, and they knew it. That is the meaning of the Declaration's soaring last sentence:

"And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm Reliance on
the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives,
our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."

Most of the signers survived the war; several went on to illustrious careers.

Two of them became presidents of the United States, and among the others were future vice presidents, senators, and governors. But not all were so fortunate.

Nine of the 56 died during the Revolution, and never tasted American independence.

Five were captured by the British.

Eighteen had their homes -- great estates, some of them - looted or
burnt by the enemy.

Some lost everything they owned.

Two were wounded in battle.

Two others were the fathers of sons killed or captured during the
war.

"Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor." It was not just a
rhetorical flourish.

We all recognize John Hancock's signature, but who ever
notices the names beneath his? William Ellery, Thomas Nelson, Richard Stockton,
Button Gwinnett, Francis Lewis -- to most of us, these are names without
meaning.

But each represents a real human being, some of whom paid dearly
"for the support of this Declaration" and American independence.

Lewis Morris of New York, for example, must have known when he signed the Declaration that he was signing away his fortune. Within weeks, the British ravaged his estate, destroyed his vast woodlands, butchered his cattle, and sent his family fleeing for their lives.

Another New Yorker, William Floyd, was also forced to flee
when the British plundered his property. He and his family lived as refugees for
seven years without income. The strain told on his wife; she died two years
before the war ended.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, an aristocratic planter who
had invested heavily in shipping, saw most of his vessels captured by the
British navy. His estates were largely ruined, and by the end of his life he was
a pauper.

The home of William Ellery, a Rhode Island delegate, was burned to
the ground during the occupation of Newport.

Thomas Heyward Jr., Edward Rutledge, and Arthur Middleton, three members of the South Carolina delegation, all suffered the destruction or vandalizing of their homes at the hands of enemy troops. All three were captured when Charleston fell in 1780, and spent a year in a British prison.

"Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor."

Thomas Nelson Jr. of Virginia raised $2 million for the patriots' cause on
his own personal credit. The government never reimbursed him, and repaying the
loans wiped out his entire estate. During the battle of Yorktown, his house,
which had been seized by the British, was occupied by General Cornwallis. Nelson
quietly urged the gunners to fire on his own home. They did so, destroying it.
He was never again a man of wealth. He died bankrupt and was buried in an
unmarked grave.

Richard Stockton, a judge on New Jersey's supreme court, was
betrayed by loyalist neighbors. He was dragged from his bed and thrown in
prison, where he was brutally beaten and starved. His lands were devastated, his
horses stolen, his library burnt. He was freed in 1777, but his health had so
deteriorated that he died within five years. His family lived on charity for the
rest of their lives.

In the British assault on New York, Francis Lewis's home
and property were pillaged. His wife was captured and imprisoned; so harshly was
she treated that she died soon after her release. Lewis spent the remainder of
his days in relative poverty.

And then there was John Hart. The speaker of the New Jersey Assembly, he was forced to flee in the winter of 1776, at the age of 65, from his dying wife's bedside. While he hid in forests and caves, his home was demolished, his fields and mill laid waste, and his 13 children put to flight. When it was finally safe for him to return, he found his wife dead, his children missing, and his property decimated. He never saw any of his family again and died, a shattered man, in 1779.

The men who signed that piece of parchment in 1776 were the elite of their colonies. They were men of means and social standing, but for the sake of liberty, they pledged it all -- their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

Which politicians of today would be this resolute?

Architecture as Politics

I have been reading a most excellent site, veritas et veustas, which posted a piece concerning the traditional architecture school at Viseu, Catholic University of Portugal.

I am merely a self-taught designer (Fine Arts background), not an architect and I am married to an absolutely wonderful woman who is Catholic (Either I or my Episcopal Church has fallen), but I am not Catholic, so I cannot adequately address the two issues of Catholicism or architecture with much force. What struck me as an appalling parallel though was a piece referenced in the above Massengale piece by Nikos A. Salingaros that speaks to the fight between traditional and modern architects by quoting Andres Duany.

"The problem with countering the avant-gardists (they are not modernists, and we cannot grant them that position) with Reason is that they have set up a field of
combat that explicitly devalues the light of reason and privileges the raw force
of unreason. In other words, they are set to fight by rolling us into the gutter
in the night. By proposing to counter them with reason we are proposing to
counter them with 18th Century gentlemen's dueling rules. They will continue to
trounce us. Reason is but one weapon to be used in the appropriate
circumstances. Power is another -- and the only one they play by.

Check out the details of the coup! Classic! Perfect! Can anybody not now see what utter sons-of-bitches we are up against? Have I not been saying that we need to learn to attack, like them? What are we prepared to do now? Well ... how about some more moral superiority discussions?...”

I have come to respect all of the people referenced here and I hope I do not cause them consternation by using their work in an improper way, but if you replace Traditional Architecture with Republican/Conservative and replace avant-gardists with Democrat/Liberal, you have the same argument with the same problems.

Modernist Liberals/Progressives speak in non-sensical circles stating that their new “reality-based” reason is actually more reasonable than reason itself because theirs is the only reason.

This “reality-based community” has gained much power by debasing not only reason, but the language of reason. Today, a patriarchal relationship is not a tradition or a choice, but is an evil. Our Global War on Terrorism is lost, not based on reason or military wisdom, but it is lost based on polls.

Our future is not to be built on the strength of reason, but on an innovation idea of what they think our future should look like.

“…they spend their time learning how to design and build sensitive and adaptive
buildings. By contrast, the "other side" spends all of its time in mastering the
arts of war and propaganda. Their main (phony) argument is that they are being
innovative; never mind that they are religiously following cult dogma.”

In many cases, architecture is a reflection of the moral health of a society. To Liberal/Progressives, the architecture of the Soviet built slums is their architecture. So to is the “modernistic” architecture of communist China, of Castro’s Socialist paradise and the ruined plans of Hitler’s Germania.

Theirs is not a future in which I would like to live. Hell, the here and now requires rejuvination to counter their shallowness and constant (non)moralizing.
.

Sheryl Crow Discriminates Against Prisoners

I propose a limitation be put on how many squares of toilet paper can be used in
any one sitting. Now, I don't want to rob any law-abiding American of his or her
God-given rights, but I think we are an industrious enough people that we can
make it work with only one square per restroom visit, except, of course, on
those pesky occasions where 2 to 3 could be required.

Normally, prisioners get three squares per day. What if they need a fourth? ACLU?

Go Green. The Lie will Make You Rich. Hopefully

Go green because it's cold. Go green because it's warm. No matter.

Impact of global warming looms on the horizon

... The letters were ignored.

They were ignored because in the 1970’s Newsweek, the Christian Science
Monitor, the New York Times and countless books and articles were warning of the dangers of global cooling.

Things have changed. Global warming is now being noted, and I in the
meantime have become a little skeptical about some of the claims being put
forth. I’m skeptical despite the fact that “everybody knows that the science is
in.” The science isn’t even close to being in.

Be aLgore and produce (not really) a film that you directed (not really) to show how man has created a nightmare for man. The end of the world.

The Greenies have no clue, but they have a retail and an emotional product to sell.

Cold, hot, man made, natural?

Who cares when YOU can change the world.

Who cares when you can make big money.

What if their change makes things worse?

They won't discuss that. It would be like calling Sheryl Crow an airhead.

Faux pas.

Why Were Dead Soldiers OK When Clintons Were in Charge?

Go to Gateway Pundit to read more, but ask why are Reid, Pelosi, Schumer upset now. Because we are freeing over 50 million people and bringing democracy to the region? Because we have Iran in a pincher move from the east and the west? Because Hamas is pissed off? Probably.

al-Qaida's Cucumber Fetish

American commanders cite al-Qaida's severe brand of Islam, which is so extreme that in Baqouba, al-Qaida has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are different genders, Col. David Sutherland said.

Architectural Garden III by Thea Schrack

Juan Williams Dumbfounds Fox Sunday News Panel

Juan Williams finally did it. Using all the savvy and intelligence he possesses, Juan pontificated that Senator Harry Reid was right, that supporters of the GWOT were incapable of seeing the truth and that we should be fighting al-Qaeda, but not al-Qaeda in Iraq. Juan made this argument with all the passion and knowledge he could muster.

The pregnant pause that followed showcased the incredulity of the panel. The silence highlighted the looks of the stunned and embarrassed cast. Even Mara Liaison, normally an ally had to take a moment before she could ask, meekly, "What do we do after we leave?" (paraphrased)

savvy - (no) check
intelligence - (no) check
passion - (no) check
knowledge - (no) check

Now I think I know who is writing the scripts for the Reid Schtick and Stupid Show.

Obama Demeans Seung-Hui Cho, Calls Him Crazy

Obama hears from Aunt who's nephew enlisted within the last year knowing he would probably go to Iraq.

Obama Hears Tearful Plea to End Iraq War

but even though Obama doesn't think terrorists are crazy, he calls Seung-Hui Cho crazy .

"We're still selling handguns to crazy people," Obama said. "We're supposed to
have a system that these people are screened out. What's clear is the background
check system in this case failed entirely."

Personally, I am shocked. SHOCKED that Obama is so insensitive. Throw him out of the Presidential primaries. Immediately. Right now. What an insensitive lout.

Rosalynn Carter is gonna kick his ass, as is proper.

Ending Discrimination

Just take a look, he says, at the words that are still used to describe those with mental illnesses—crazy, psycho, loony, insane. “Demeaning terms are no longer socially acceptable when describing other disabilities. Why are they still applied to those with a mental illness?”

Impeach his candidacy. Obama offended and cannot be defended. If the straight jacket does not fit, you must acquit.

We, as a nation, need a sensitive man, er, a sensitive person as President. Like Hillary is when she is massaging Bill's head with a lamp or an ashtray.

Electing such an insensitive lout would be, well, loony.

Virginia Tech Massacre - Our Fault

Well, your fault. YOU caused Cho Seung-Hui to have hateful thoughts, a deranged mind and to murder. Me? I was busy doing something else. You bully.

Virginia Tech: Is the Scene of the Crime the Cause of the Crime?
By Mark Ames, AlterNet. Posted April 20, 2007.

Media: Cho Seung-Hui did it because he was crazy and "evil." History:
Schoolyard massacres are rebellions against oppressive and bullying environments
by students who can't take it anymore.

Another rampage massacre, this time the worst ever. Which means another
fake attempt at trying to understand this uniquely American crime -- these
interminable rage killing sprees in our workplaces and our schoolyards.

What makes the Virginia Tech massacre more horrifying isn't just the body count but the reaction of the living: The official fake soul-searching is more idiotic
than ever, revealing, if anything, a culture that is so insanely delusional and
incapable of self-reflection that it almost makes these rampage massacres seem
relatively natural.

The footage from Seung-Hui's "media manifesto" has played on
cable news on an endless loop for days now, and no one has considered the merits
of his grievances -- except to cast them as proof positive that Cho Seung-Hui
was one sick guy.

Of all the idiotic reactions, so far none tops an article posted on MSNBC.com, written
by an "investigative reporter" with the ill-begotten name of "Bill Dedman."
His investigation allegedly revealed that Cho Seung-Hui, the shooter, displayed
alleged classic warning signs of a rampage shooting. Citing a landmark Secret
Service study of schoolyard rampage massacre, Dedman observed, "In more than
three out of four school shootings, the attacker had made no threat against the
schoolteachers or students. But most attackers engaged in some behavior prior to
the incident that caused others concern or indicated a need for help. The
attackers posed a threat even though they hadn't made a threat."

In other words, if you think someone's weird, but he hasn't threatened anyone, he's a threat.

Read more of this equivocating porn. If you wish.

Everyone is a victim, especially the murderers, rapists and terrorists and YOU are the cause of it all. When you see a self absorbed hatemonger, look carefully and you will see your reflection, but remember, when your killed, it will be your fault.

Remember to say thank you.

The Love of Islam

Just as Hillary sez, it takes a village.

Taleban uses boy to behead 'spy'

The Taleban in Afghanistan have used a boy
of around 12 to behead a man they accused of spying for the US.

I have it on good authority that this group is the same as the Taliban and just as ruthless. Really.

Earnhardt Gets It.

For Earnhardt, negotiation may prove the easiest part

Congratulations, Junior. It's beginning to look like you're going to get
controlling interest in Dale Earnhardt Inc., the race team your late father
founded. You played hardball, and you won. Teresa, your stepmother, really
didn't have much of a choice. You're the whole show. You walk, and she's left
with a once-promising but enigmatic outfit that chronically underperforms.

Of course, you'll never be as smart and efficient nor as subtle as Hillary and Little Jonnie Edwards.

Lucky you.

How Sick is the Left?

DAILY KRAP

Depending on how strong your stomach is, click on the image and go read the article and comments.

My Mother, Genius

• e-mailed to me
  
  1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE. "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning."
  2. My mother taught me RELIGION. "You better pray that will come out of the carpet."
  3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL. "If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week!"
  4. My mother taught me LOGIC. " Because I said so, that's why."
  5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC. "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going to the store with me."
  6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT. "Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."
  7. My mother taught me IRONY. "Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."
  8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS. "Shut your mouth and eat your supper."
  9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM. "Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"
  10. My mother taught me about STAMINA. "You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."
  11. My mother taught me about WEATHER. "This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."
  12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY. "If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"
  13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE. "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."
  14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION. "Stop acting like your father!"
• 15. My mother taught me about ENVY. "There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't have wonderful parents like you do."
  16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION. "Just wait until we get home."
  17.. My mother taught me about RECEIVING. "You are going to get it when you get home!"
  18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE. "If you don't stop crossing your eyes, they are going to get stuck that way."
  19. My mother taught me ESP. "Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"
  20. My mother taught me HUMOR. "When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."
  21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT. "If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."
  22. My mother taught me GENETICS. "You're just like your father."
  23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS. "Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"
  24. My mother taught me WISDOM. "When you get to be my age, you'll understand."
  25. And my favorite: My mother taught me about JUSTICE"One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!"

Friday Fugly

Impeach Senator Harry Reid

The power to set Foreign Policy resides only in the Presidency.

"War in Iraq lost": US Democrat leader

Apr 19 01:50 PM
US/Eastern

The war in Iraq "is lost" and a US troop surge is failing to bring
peace to the country, the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress,
Harry Reid, said Thursday.

"I believe ... that this war is lost, and this surge is not accomplishing anything, as is shown by the extreme violence in Iraq this week," Reid said, on the same day US President George W. Bush was giving a speech at an Ohio town hall meeting defending the war on terror.

The right to impeach public officials is secured by the U.S. Constitution in Article I, Sections 2 and 3, which discuss the procedure, and in Article II, Section 4, which indicates the grounds for impeachment: "the President, Vice President, and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

Possibly, a better form of impeachment might be giving soldier's families, relatives of Iraqi's killed by the terrorists, and those trying to ensure Iraq's future 30 minutes in a locked room with Senator Harry Reid. Alone. No press. Leaving only a video to show to Nancy Pelosi, Schumer, et al.

Michelle Malkin has a better idea.
Never Yet Melted has some thoughts

Also see:
Frontline America
Right Wing Champ
Gateway Pundit
Sweetness & Light
Ridgecrest Blog
Blogical Conclusions has some relevant questions for the Hairy Reed

I Blame the European Press for the Holocaust, Not Charlton Heston

Blame Charlton Heston

In the strongest editorialized image of the day, German cable news
broadcaster NTV flashed an image of the former head of the National Rifle Association, the US gun lobby: In other words, blame rifle-wielding Charlton Heston for the 33 dead.

I also blame the European press, through their refusal to see truths and their pathetic proselytizing to murderous thugs and terrorists world-wide, for some of the worst wholesale slaughters in history. Here's a short list of other things, using their logic of blame, that they are guilty of:

Kosovo
Katyn Forest
The Iron Curtain
Red Brigades
The Irish Republican Army
al-Qaida
The Salafist Group for Call and Combat
The Polisario Front *
Abu Nidal Group
Basque Fatherland and Liberty
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Hamas
Hezballah
Palestine Liberation Organization
Baader-Meinhof

and other murdering groups and individuals because the European Press has not only had sympathy with these groups, but have also aided and abetted them in my opinion.

Of course the difference is that Charlton Heston headed up a peaceful group that never set out to harm or murder anyone and neither Heston or the NRA had anything to do with pathetic mass killer, Cho Seung-hi.

But, then, the European Press wouldn't know the truth or the facts if they got bit in the butt by them. They can pick on a man who can't defend himself. How typical. Cowards.

UPDATE: * I am told by Will that the Polisario Front is non-violent for which I thank him for the clarification, but Algeria is still arming the Polisario Front in its fight with Morocco while the UN urges negotiations.

Ohio's Embarrassment

April 17, 2007

Dear Colleague:

This week I intend to introduce Articles of Impeachment with respect to the conduct of Vice President Cheney.

Please have your staff contact my office . . . if you would like to receive a
confidential copy of the document prior to its introduction in the House.

Sincerely,
/s/
Dennis J. Kucinich
Member of Congress

When will the 10th District of Ohio end our state's national embarrassment of having this person in office? He wastes time, money and hope of a sane dialogue by his life long need for attention and recognition through sophistry, nay intellectual immaturity.

One can only hope his actions and his thinking directing them is buffoonery, because the alternative is too frightening to contemplate.