Islam-British Law can go to hell

Soon to be seen in your neighborhood!

Dedicated to Yasser Arafat and All The Men He Loved

The Skinny on Arafat

Communists, Kerry and Co-conspirators

Via Never Yet Melted The Source of John Kerry’s Famous Senate Speech
and
Gateway Pundits

Propaganda Redux

Take it from this old KGB hand: The left is abetting America's enemies
with its intemperate attacks on President Bush.

...

During the Vietnam War we spread vitriolic stories around the world,
pretending that America's presidents sent Genghis Khan-style barbarian soldiers to Vietnam who raped at random, taped electrical wires to human genitals, cut off limbs, blew up bodies and razed entire villages. Those weren't facts. They were our tales, but some seven million Americans ended up being convinced their own president, not communism, was the enemy. As Yuri Andropov, who conceived this dezinformatsiya war against the U.S., used to tell me, people are more willing to believe smut than holiness.

The final goal of our anti-American offensive was to discourage the
U.S. from protecting the world against communist terrorism and expansion. Sadly, we succeeded. After U.S. forces precipitously pulled out of Vietnam, the
victorious communists massacred some two million people in Vietnam, Laos and
Cambodia. Another million tried to escape, but many died in the attempt. This
tragedy also created a credibility gap between America and the rest of the
world, damaged the cohesion of American foreign policy, and poisoned domestic
debate in the U.S.

Unfortunately, partisans today have taken a page from the old Soviet
playbook. At the 2004 Democratic National Convention, for example, Bush critics
continued our mud-slinging at America's commander in chief. One speaker, Martin
O'Malley, now governor of Maryland, had earlier in the summer stated he was more worried about the actions of the Bush administration than about al Qaeda. On another occasion, retired four-star general Wesley Clark gave Michael Moore a platform to denounce the American commander in chief as a "deserter." And
visitors to the national chairman of the Democratic Party had to step across a
doormat depicting the American president surrounded by the words, "Give Bush the Boot."

Statement of Mr. John Kerry

...I am not here as John Kerry. I am here as one member of the group of
1,000 which is a small representation of a very much larger group of
veterans in this country, and were it possible for all of them to sit at
this table they would be here and have the same kind of testimony....

WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION

I would like to talk, representing all those veterans, and say that
several months ago in Detroit, we had an investigation at which over 150
honorably discharged and many very highly decorated veterans testified to war
crimes committed in Southeast Asia, not isolated incidents but crimes committed
on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of
command....

They told the stories at times they had personally raped, cut off
ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot
at civilians, razed villages in fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war, and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country.

We call this investigation the "Winter Soldier Investigation." The term "Winter Soldier" is a play on words of Thomas Paine in 1776 when he spoke of the Sunshine Patriot and summertime soldiers who deserted at Valley Forge because the going was rough.

We who have come here to Washington have come here because we feel
we have to be winter soldiers now. We could come back to this country; we could
be quiet; we could hold our silence; we could not tell what went on in Vietnam,
but we feel because of what threatens this country, the fact that the crimes
threaten it, not reds, and not redcoats but the crimes which we are committing
that threaten it, that we have to speak out.

Is it a coincidence that the left of the 60-70s to now have used the same words, as if scripted, to tear down the United States of America.

Genghis Khan
raped
taped
human genitals
cut off
cut off limbs
blew up
razed

and more

Coincidence? I think not.

...

Demand Tolerence-Tolerate Demands and Liberal Double Speak

While waiting on the phone, playing the adult game of phone tag and other kinda work things this morning I had some fun. While reading earlier this morning I got tired of wading through liberal newspeak, words and catch phrases and decided to make a list.

This is my short list. Feel free to send me more.

Enlightenment
Social Justice
Corporate Line
Separation of Church and State
WASP
Colonization
American Imperialism
Diversity
Blood for Oil
Oil War
Racist
Recount
No Justice No Peace
Oppression and Exploitation
Working Class
Cognitive Dissonance
global justice
sit in
Post-conception contraception
Redistributionist paradigm
Utopian Global Governance
Affirmative Action
Intolerance and Hatred
(insert victim group) Community
Redistribution
Corporate Welfare
Fetus
police brutality
Global Warming
Wage Inequity
(insert)ism
Hate Speech
Hate Crime
Wealthy Fat Cats
Least Among Us
(insert) – Americans
Identity
patriarchal culture
Politics of Inclusion
Injustice
Inequality
class ethnic gender envy
Multiculturalism
Moral Relativism
New Democrat
Power to the People
Social Engineering
Social Justice
Corporate War
Truth to Power
Victimology
Welfare
Women and Minorities
Zero Sum Game
Economic Justice
Spending Cuts
Budget Cuts
Nazi
Fascists
Whistleblower
Stolen Election
Swiftboating
Anti-intellectual
Entitlement
War on Poverty
Pro-choice
Redeployment
Christianist
Duck Pit
Misogynist
Sexist
So-called Liberal Media
Theocan
Neo Con
VRWC
Wecovery
Open Borders
New Property
Empowerment
Hate Crime
Hate Speech
Disenfranchise
Marginalize
An Intervention
Rovian
Happy Holidays
Jesus-freaks
Metrosexual
OSHA
Israeli Apartheid
politics of personal destruction
Christian Right
Global Village
It Takes a Village
Feminism
Politics of Choice
Women’s Liberation
Forced Motherhood
Bush Lied (insert) Died
Gun Violence
Revenue Enhancements
Politics of Meaning
Undocumented Immigrant
Level playing field
Social Activist
Fair Society
Interdependence
Fair and Just
Fairness and Equality
War on the Working Class
Bush Knew
Bushitler
Deceiver in Chief
Support Resistance
Love the Soldier, Hate His War
End War
No War
Kyoto
Oil Makes War
Think Globally Act Locally
Stop the Draft
Draft for Equality
Zionism is Nazism
Boycott Israel
Religious Reich
Wall of Separation Between Church and State

Pelosi Toasts Bonds-Pelosi Bonds Toast

Finally, Pelosi Toasts Bonds And His "Rightful Place Among Sport's Immortals"

Yeah, well, botox, steroids, whatever.

Secret Shoppers Needed in Toledo Government

From Thurber's Thoughts

More unnecessary spending

And then there is the concept that our mayor is spending tax dollars to
evaluate local businesses. To further add insult to injury, he publicly chastizes them because they don't 'measure up.' If I were a prospective visitor who'd just read this article, I'd be looking for a hotel in Perrysburg, as the mayor certainly didn't cast our hotels in a positive light.

I can't help but wonder - after he's finished with the hotels, what
will be next? Will he turn his attention to local restaurants? retail outlets?
movie theaters?

Perhaps everyone would be better served if he turned those secret
shoppers on the city departments and agencies...especially since he has direct
authority over those entities - and that's what he was elected to do.

I think this is a great civic idea. The Mayor doesn't seem to listen to the citizenry. Maybe he'll listen to his own "truth squad". Did he say anything about "The Kaptur Inn"? I must have missed that.

HT to Carnival of Ohio Politics via the always cool, never nerdy, "Run BAK" aka, Ben Keeler.

...

A Michael Totten Must Read

Via Crusader Rabbit

An Iraqi Interpreter’s Story
By Michael J. Totten

MJT: Anything you want to say that I didn’t ask you about?

Hammer: Because of the few bad Iraqis who work as interpreters for
the U.S., no one trusts us. But if you give me a gun I will fight harder than
the Americans. You can go home. I can’t. I have to live in this country. If the
Americans don’t give a Green Card to me and my family, I have to stay in this
prison.

At Camp Taji the First Cavalry Division thinks interpreters are the
enemy. They decided that interpreters who aren’t American citizens have to take
the American flag off their uniforms before they are allowed to enter the dining
facility.

I cried that day.

I wasn’t supposed to, but I complained. I said It’s okay for me to
die outside wearing the American flag, but I can’t eat wearing the American flag
with Americans? That was the worst day of my life with the American
Army.

I’ll tell you what I tell my family. If I die here, wrap me in the
American flag when you bury me. I don’t want to be wrapped in the flag of Iraq.

Hammer is looking for employment in and permanent relocation to the
United States for himself, his wife, and his son. If you can sponsor him for a
Green Card and help save his family, email him at superlink_par@yahoo.com and superlink_70@yahoo.com

Making The World A Better Place One House At A Time

It’s a Female Dog, or Worse. Or Endearing. And Illegal?

I have banned the words "butch" and "hoe" not only in my house, I have extended the ruling to the boundaries of my yard.

We had to fire our gardener, O'Donnell. You have to break a few eggs for the omelet, eh?

If Loving You Is Wrong...

we've been right about everything the last five years

So laugh at their increasing irrelevance. 2006 was a vindication of
everything we've worked for those years, and 2008 won't be any
different.

So says the Kos. If you don't want to read the whole rant, the summary is "Nanny-nanny poo-poo."

Got relevance? I guess the white street boys yearly get together with Kosmo didn't go diversely well this year.

Stick a fork in it Kosmo. You're ranting.

The Most Perfect Building Ever Built?

Militaristic Democrats Get More Troops Killed

HT to Webutante

UPDATE: I am hat tipping Webutante because her site is very cool. I do most of my hunting in the meat and fish section of Krogers (a regional grocery store), but I have always loved deep sea fishing and I have had an affinity for learning and doing fly fishing. This very fine lady knows her stuff. I am enjoying, but also learning from her site. Plus, I love big sky country though my area is down in the 4 corners area as well as Taos.

I Got Your Union Bug Right Here

Left-Leaning Bloggers Debate Forming Labor Union

Sitting at a panel titled "A Union for Bloggers: It's Time to Organize"
at this week's YearlyKos Convention for bloggers in Chicago, Burgard said she'd
welcome a chance to join a unionized blogging community.

"I sure would like to have that union bug on my Web site," said
Burgard, a blogger who uses the moniker Bendy Girl.

NYTs Smaller Pages--Smaller Lies

Honey, They Shrunk The ....Times? Smaller 'NYT' Coming on Monday

Angkor Wat

I love B&W photography. It is my preference, but this site is impressive.
Each of the 23 towers of Angkor Thom, one of the largest sub-cities inside Angkor Wat, is covered with these faces. Like many of the remaining ruins, this one was built by king Jayavarman VII, whose face has been combined with Buddha's throughout the city to create a combined royal and religious imposing presence that permeates the city.
www.stuckincustoms.com

Ron Paul's Presidential Victory Margin Grows

Who do you think won the Republican debate?

Ron Paul 19,680

Mitt Romney 3,039

Rudy Giuliani 2,545

Nobody. I'm waiting for Fred Thompson or Newt Gingrich to enter the race. 2,333

Nobody won. I'm voting Democratic. 2,050

Mike Huckabee 1,805

Sam Brownback 950

Tom Tancredo 541

John McCain 515

Tommy Thompson 354

Duncan Hunter 334

Total Vote: 34,146

Ron Paul has increased his Presidential vote lead submitted by his hand picked staff of 30 to 19,860 which breaks down the multiple voting and the dead vote to an average of 656 votes per person, depending on how long each voter has been dead or how long the semi-alive voters could concentrate during one session at the computer.

It is reported that Hoffa delivered the increased dead vote, but Hoffa did not return phone calls in reference to this story. Youngstown police also had no comment nor did the turf at Giant's Stadium.

Daily Kos supplied the necessary voters in the semi-alive/conscious column, but was too busy scrubbing comments detrimental to American soldiers and the kos cause to comment for this story.

Favorite son, Texan Lyndon Baines Johnson, former President, stated that Paul would be supported financially whole heartedly by Brown and Root if Lady Bird heard the singing and if, a big if, Brown and Root got the final "okay" from cough VP Cheney who now mentally controls Halliburton, the present owner of Brown and Root. Johnson was not available for comment for this article, but unnamed sources in Iraq stated it is all a "corporate profit scheme" that supports the war. The same source stated that Building 7 was imploded by unnamed operatives from Israel.

Developing....

Roma

Gods of Rome but not Roman Gods

Trey Ratcliff

Roman Forum Temple Ruins

By Weinerd

Paul--Never a Reason To Go To War

GOP Hopefuls Generally Agree on Iraq

Republican presidential contenders sparred over abortion on Sunday but
generally agreed the United States must remain in Iraq as part of the war on
terror.

"Just come home," countered Texas Rep. Ron Paul, the lone dissenter
on a debate stage when it came to Iraq. He said there had never been a good
reason to go to war in the first place.

"Has he forgotten about 9/11?" interjected former Massachusetts
Gov. Mitt Romney.

I beg to differ. Let's just discuss one war, WWII. Evil is a weed that must be destroyed all the way to its deepest root. To ignore evil is to acquiesce in evil.

To not help people that are being slaughtered, tortured and held in political bondage is an evil. An unthinkable evil that stuns me coming from Americans who have enjoyed so much freedom and now have become so selfish as to not help others.

Selfishness becomes stupidity for those unwilling to defend themselves, especially those who close their eyes and deny even the necessity.

Ron Paul Wins Debate, Wins Presidency

Brownback 22% 6,634

Giuliani 15% 4,530

Huckabee 3% 887

Hunter 2% 488

McCain 2% 490

Paul 40% 11,760

Romney 12% 3,639

Tancredo 3% 796

T. Thompson 2% 504

Total Votes: 29,723

President Elect Paul enthusiastically thanked all 30 of the people that voted for him 392 times each, "With campaign workers such as you, the "will" of the people will be realized throughout my next 6 terms as president."

Democrats Raise Price of Gas & Food, Worse than OPEC

House Approves Taxes on Oil Companies

Declaring a new direction in energy policy, the House on Saturday approved $16 billion in taxes on oil companies, while providing billions of dollars in tax breaks and incentives for renewable energy and conservation
efforts.


Republican opponents said the legislation ignored the need to
produce more domestic oil, natural gas and coal. One GOP
lawmaker bemoaned "the pure venom ... against the oil and gas industry."

The House passed the tax provisions by a vote of 221-189. Earlier it
had approved, 241-172, a companion energy package aimed at
boosting energy efficiency and expanding use of biofuels, wind power and
other renewable energy sources.

"We are turning to the future," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.

Yep, Nancy, we are headed in a new direction and it has little to do with energy policy except for you to pander to the enviro wackos for their votes. As usual, Congressional liberals don't really want to look at the effects of their policies such as bio and the rising cost of food in the wake of their feel good legislation.

Result, higher food prices, higher gas prices including home heating fuel and more taxes to the government and less money to actually solve problems that we, as a nation, face.

The right direction would be more domestic drilling and the building of more refineries, Congress won't accept that.
...
Somebody should tell Congress that they are doing work on behalf of the pricing department of OPEC right here in America, but then I believe they already know that.

Barack, Arugala and Adel Iowa

Via Bloodthirsty Liberal

How not to campaign in Iowa

"Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula? I mean, they’re charging a lot of money for this stuff." --Barack Obama, Friday in Adel, Iowa

Couple of problems here:

1) There are no Whole Foods stores in Iowa, so chances are no one from
Adel had "gone into" one lately.

2) Iowa grows mostly corn. Agricultural commodity issues are vrey
important here, but arugala isn't likely as critical to Iowans
as corn.

Maybe next time barACK can say it right. It's a Vejh. It. Ah. Buhll.

Pelosi, Most Stupid Statement of the Year

House Forms Special Panel Over Alleged Stolen Vote

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) accused Republicans
of blatant obstructionism.

"They've just been deluged by the success of the Democrats on behalf of
the American people," she said.

I've heard that Ahmadinejad actually believes the crap he spouts. Maybe the San Francisco Treat does too.

I mean, how does she say that with a straight face? How can 16 words be so wrong on so many levels?

Translation: I'm a delusional dame deluged by a do-nothing Congress being devoid of depth.

UPDATE: It is also the most laughable.

Black Muslims Murder Editor Because of Stories About Their Murder Record

Murder, mayhem, smashing other's inventory, sodomy, rape and a neighborhood bakery.

7 Arrested in Death of Oakland Newspaper Editor

A day after a prominent newspaper editor was shot to death downtown,
the police here on Friday arrested seven men and seized several weapons that
they suspected were used in his killing and those of two other
men.

Oakland police officials said they suspected that the men were part of a group operating “a very violent criminal enterprise” out of a neighborhood bakery.

The arrests came after a predawn raid by SWAT teams at the bakery,
the Your Black Muslim Bakery, and three bakery-owned properties, where the
police found several firearms, including the gun they believe was used to kill
the editor, Chauncey Bailey, of the weekly Oakland Post.

Mr. Bailey, 57, was shot several times at close range on Thursday
morning at a busy intersection near the Alameda County courthouse here. He had
been working on an article for the newspaper about possible links between the
bakery and several killings in the area, said Walter Riley, a lawyer for the
newspaper’s publisher, Paul Cobb.

I love the smell of baked goods in the morning. It smells like victims.

The Surge, Liberal Lies and Their Desperate Effort to Not Lose the Loss They Need

Via This Ain't Hell

At the "screw'em" YearlyKos konference on skrewing the kountry and Irak.

AN ODD CLOSE. As the Military and Progressives panel came to an end, a
young man in uniform stood up to argue that the surge was working, and cutting
down on Iraqi casualties. The moderator largely freaked out. When other members of the panel tried to answer his question, he demanded they "stand down." He demanded the questioner give his name, the name of his commander, and the name of his unit. And then he closed the panel, no answer offered or allowed, and stalked off the stage,

Wes Clark took the mic and tried to explain what had just occurred:
The argument appears to be that you're not allowed to participate in politics
while wearing a uniform, or at least that you shouldn't, and that the questioner
was engaging in a sort of moral blackmail, not to mention a violation of the
rules, by doing so. Knowing fairly little about the army, I can't speak to any
of that. But it was an uncomfortable few moments, and seemed fairly contrary to
the spirit of the panel to roar down the member of the military who tried to
speak with a contrary voice.

Liberals respond with their usual aplomb.

Five bucks says the guy was a plant.
Posted by: Farinata X August 3, 2007 11:45 AM

I'm with Farinata on this one. Read Greenwald's post today to get
an idea of how hard the Bushies are working on properly propagandizing this war.
They know they've lost, now it's just the apportioning of blame.

"Since when is it a progressive principle to act as the "thought police"?"

Shut up, troll. you have become tiresome.
Posted by: brewmn August 3, 2007 12:10 PM

Simply put, the success we are now seeing in Iraq could be the end of liberal hope of destroying Bush and condemning Conservatives to the back benches.

They practice the freedoms our soldiers defend, but they wouldn't understand freedom if it bit them in the butt.

I agree with you brewmn, trolls have become tiresome, so why don't you shut up.

Blame the Messenger, Love the Troops

From Crusading Rabbit

thank a Marine!

"US Marine Colonel Simcock, the commander of USMC Regimental Combat
Team 6 in Iraq, is asking for 6,000 positive emails to his Marines. That's one
email for each Marine in his RCT command.

COL Simcock is concerned about the effect of the negative
barrage that those Marines are getting through the electronic
media.

via Fortress Australiathe address is:

RCT-6lettersfromh@gcemnf-wiraq.usmc.mil

so come on--get off yer backside and let these guys know that the MSM
doesn't reflect the way most of us in the West feel about our troops.

I can only add to letting Marines know how much we support them the fact of how much we loath the MSM.

Truth Boating Hillary

From Conservative Culture

Truth Boating Hillary

In the following timeline, we will see apparent evidence of Hillary
Clinton’s Senate campaign understating over $750,000 in contributions to her
2000 Senate campaign, from one Peter Paul.

Evidently, Hillary’s campaign initially denied even knowing Peter
Paul, and then later, admitted meeting him but never had a conversation
regarding his contribution to her campaign.

Hillary Clinton will finally be under oath in the historic civil suit, Paul v Clinton in Los Angeles Superior Court. Voters are going to see the details of the greatest campaign finance fraud in history and the Clinton role in the collapse of Stan Lee
Media.

It is going to take an army armada of bloggers to break the media
blockade that has protected Hillary. It is time for TRUTH BOATING
HILLARY.

Read the rest including the complete time line. Please post it on your blogs and pass it on to friends, family and your local media.

IMPORTANT UPDATE:
From Doug From Upland

Let me clarify a few points if I may.
1. It will be shown that the $1.6 mil given in-kind by Peter Paul was all illegal and should have been returned.
2. In her April 7, 2006 declaration, Hillary sworn that she could remember nothing of what she and Peter discussed at either the Spago lunch or Gershman. Peter had 5 hours of home video. Things will be shown on film that should could not have possible forgotten discussing.
3. Hillary has had filed on her behalf four false FEC reports.
4. With the new video evidence, we expect new complaints to the FEC and the Justice Dept....
Doug from Upland
dougfromupland Homepage 08.04.07 - 2:43 am #

For My Minion

When I want to view the other side of the story about Iraq I go to

Good News From The War On Terror 8/2

Right Wing Champ does the digging and I reap the benefit. For you, my minion, it should be a must read to soften the head banging urge you feel watching and reading the news. I won't lecture you again about listening to Congressional stars like Mugger Murtha and Harry "Iraq who" Reid.

Of course, you didn't listen to me about that girl you met from the pool hall. Tell me again, what did the doctor say?

Independents and Other Wimps

Number of Democrats Falls to New Low, Republicans Decline Too

The number not affiliated with either major party jumped a full point to
32.9%. That matches the highest level ever recorded by Rasmussen Reports (see history).

Wusses, wimps and "I wanna have it both ways" type of people.


You think we should get out Iraq? Be a Democrat.


You think Iraq strategically and tactically is important to the War on Terror, be a Republican.


You think open borders is the correct way to go? Be a Democrat.


You think immigrants should follow the law, be a Republican.


Pick any of your issues and think about it.


I am so tired of people that state, "both parties suck", or "I'm independent. I vote for the candidate". BS, you're either part of the solution or you are part of the problem. Fence sitting is worse. A political party reflects those that vote for and those that are active in the party. This is true at the national and state level as well as at the local level. The local level is the beginning or training ground for politicians seeking higher office thus very important.


Independents, like the Green Party and others, dilute the direction of the elected. Ask the Democrats about Nader and ask the Republicans about Perot. These two examples selfishly and arrogantly thwarted the will of the majority, thus the will of the nation.


If you don't like the direction your party is taking, get off your butt and get involved. To say that neither party represents you is disingenuous. Either you are looking for the perfect match or you are looking to avoid a commitment. If you won't get involved then you are just whining and the rest of us do not want to hear it.


Fence sitters and independents enable big government liberals to grow government in terms of size, budget, regulations and laws that strangle the citizenry and business by not being organized to stop them. Many independents also vote for the candidate that will give them the biggest share at the public trough. These are the lowest of the low in my opinion.

Our traditional one man, one vote and the two party system made us strong. All those that say we need a third party do not appear to know history. Those that say they're all crooks and liars do not stop and reflect that our elected officials reflect us as our choice. To all those crooks and liars shouting they're all crooks and liars, you are one in the same.

I am a conservative, but I don't need a Conservative Party because that would dilute my vote. I vote with Republicans because they reflect my hopes, desires and values far more than the Democratic Party.

You?

The Hell With Home Depot

Success! Yes in deedy.

Home Depot and Bill O'Reilly are small potatoes. Our coalition of 1 goes for the economic jugular of capitalism!

I have successfully gotten Helen's Hairspray and Skagg's Beauty Shop to cease supporting, through advertising, any show that features Donald Trump because of his indifference to "little people" which includes us. All of us!

We have it on good authority that Donald Trump will liquidate all of his holdings, as a peace offering to us, and live as his father did.

Now THAT is success in this reality based community!

Want Some Truth About Iraq and The War On Terror?

Democrats Aim To Engineer Defeat in Iraq

The Democrat Party is determined that the United States must lose this War
on Terrorism. While there is plenty of evidence that our recent troop surge in
Iraq is working in our favor, Democrats are declaring defeat, and are even
trying to engineer it outright.

Read the rest. The truth will do your heart good. And your blood pressure.

Liberals Love the Troops Through Lies and Greed

Via Protein Wisdom

From Wonkette: Tillman executed by American soldiers on orders from higher ups

No, I won't link to Wonkette. Besides, with my meter count her server couldn't take it.

I won't link to this story except to those that are truly trying to find the truth, because Wonkette and those like her are lower than a rat bastard for trying to make this story true just to hurt our efforts and troops and to build her miserable meter count.

You can get a good round up of this story from Ace of Spades.

When the story first started percolating out of their cesspool I had these thoughts. Now, I will let you read Ace and Jeff because I am too angry to write coherently and without swearing which I do not like to do, especially on this blog, but to use an honorable man for their dishonorable goals is just too.......

A Wonderful Memory, Jong Mea

Jong Mea Restaurant

I was actually looking for a photograph of the old Jong Mea restaurant when I came across Lani's blog where she discusses her family and the Jong Mea. I did not know they also had restaurants in Mansfield and Indianapolis.

The Jong Mea was a traditional Cantonese restaurant when my parents took us there. The Won Ton soup was unbelievable, not like the watery bowl with a couple of soggy dumplings that seems to be the norm now. Jong Mea's Won Ton soup had a variety of vegetables, pork strips and delicate, but firm dumplings. Add their spare ribs and a platter of Shrimp in Lobster Sauce or Moo Gai Pan or Pork Egg Fu Yung and you're talking dinner. Dinner with authentic ingredients. And really nice people. Most restaurants didn't care for a family of eight, plus friends, walking in. The Jong Mea welcomed us as family. My fathers 2nd "father", Papa Presutti and his wife Mama (it wasn't until years later I realized their real names were Salvatore and Rosa), owners of Presutti's Villa on West 5th, once went to the Jong Mea with us. The meeting of Italian and Chinese made an evening of eating that was unbelievable.

Top it all off with an almond cookie that smelled of almonds before it even reached the table and a small bowl of sherbert.

To find such a Chinese restaurant today in Columbus would be wonderful.

UPDATE: I believe I was wrong when I said "Mr. Lee". Upon reflection, it was Mr. Look. Spelling correct? I hope so, because Mr. Look and Mr. Chin were, when I was young, elderly men who maintained their honor and dignity and I was lucky enough to have parents that allowed them to point out when I was out of line. They were men to be respected. I can still taste the smell and the food.

Out Damned Tenth Amendment. Out!

Lawmakers look to revolutionize primary plan

I am tired of the same flowers always being planted in front of the capitol building in Columbus. Why won't Congress get off their lazy butts and do something about it. I mean what are we paying them for?

I am so traumatized.

No Lovin With Lovers of Meat

Like meat? No meet. I am so bummed on so many levels. So, so many. Really.

Carnivore sex off the menu

One vegan respondent from Christchurch said: "I believe we are what we
consume, so I really struggle with bodily fluids, especially sexually."

Honey, I struggle too, but I try not to discuss bodily fluids in my local paper even if they are sexual.

Does this mean we have no future together?

I am so relieved.

Tagged, But Not Yet Bagged

I have been tagged by Tom of Blogical Conclusions to think of 8 things about myself. So, in no particular order of importance.

HERE ARE THE RULES:
01. Post the rules before you give the facts
02. Players start with 8 random facts/habits about themselves
03. People who are tagged need to write their own blog
04. At the end of your blog you need to choose eight people that you tag and list their names. Don't forget to leave them a comment, telling them they are tagged, and to read your blog.

1. I played drums for a couple of bands that toured as an opening act for name bands. One day I woke up, sold my drums and went west to fight fires. My friends, fellow band members and later, after hearing tapes, my children were mystified why I didn’t make music a career. When I explained to my family that it would have been hard to have and raise children from a morgue I think they understood.

2. I heard Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan speak when I was twelve. That year I also fell in love with art and architecture as I carried nails and boards for older men building a church. It was a very important year.

3. At 15 years of age I was 12 feet tall and bullet proof and my father was small and stupid. Nine days before his birthday and 40 days before my 16th birthday he died and I found that I had had my facts exactly opposite.

4. I spent one of my birthdays with the Rolling Stones in Manhattan and Key West as an apprentice to a photographer who was shooting the images for their Black and Blue album.

5. My two best friends are almost to the left of Trotsky, but I love them like brothers.

6. I am momma’s boy. She was a beautiful and smart southern lady and my father knew it the day he met her and asked her to marry him. I once made the mistake of uttering a vulgarity in front of her. I miss her everyday.

7. I love NASCAR and everything that goes fast, but own and drive a Jeep.

8. I love pretty much all music, especially Willie Dixon and Dvořák, but at the moment I am bouncing back and forth between The Memphis Horns and Debussy when I drive my Jeep. My wife drives an A-4 slowly and tortures me by playing the Bee Gees on our long trips to the Eastern Shore. And smiles about it.

I am tagging:

seejanemom

And you thought YOU were cranky?

Bob's Blog

Dinah Lord

Jon Swift

Bloodthirsty Liberal

Keeler Report

Iowa Hawk

NYC, Welcome to the New Architecture, Same as the Old Architecture

Proposed for Queens above/Bronx blight below (1960s)

Ankara, Turkey

Citadel wall, looking from the west, Ankara

Case Western Reserve FUGLY

The Peter B. Lewis Building for Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management.

Chief Justice John Roberts is Injured

From Kos

I hope he's OK too, but .. Recommended by:
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.. I cannot help thinking of all the injury and death he will cause
by whittling away at abortion rights. I think he's probably an
honorable man, with skill and integrity, but his misguided values and basic
beliefs will cause a lot of suffering that he will never see and probably never
think about.
by Nab on Mon Jul
30, 2007 at 12:29:08 PM PDT
(emp. mine)

Death? Roberts is causing? Oh, that's right, a "fetus" isn't a baby. A baby has no heartbeat nor does an unborn child feel pain.

Nab must be referring to the injury and death of the women that have their babies put to death.

I personally don't hope he's ok
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I
want new Supreme Court justices instead of Roberts, Alito & Scalia (Thomas
can stay as the one actual consistent conservative) and I will take them any way
I can get them. granted, I'm assuming that none of Bush's nominees would
be able to get through, and that we'd have 8 justices until a centrist Dem
justice could get confirmed after the election. If it makes anyone feel
better, I'm not rooting for death, simply incapacitation to the point that they
must resign their posts. It's not my fault those are the only two ways for
justices to leave (other than resignation, which will never
happen).
Currently undecided between Edwards, Obama & Richardson
by DoGooderLawyer on Mon Jul
30, 2007 at 12:53:03 PM PDT

He must be a Do Gooder Lawyer. He sounds like one.

From the DU

kaygore (1000+ posts)
Mon
Jul-30-07 04:05 PMResponse to Reply
#15
20. Better prayer.
Dear God,Please release Satan's hand-maiden, John Roberts, from his worldly cares and allow him to join once again with the Prince of Darkness in the lowest reaches of Hell.We pray this in the name of your son, our lord, Jesus.Amen.

NoodleyAppendage (1000+ posts)
Mon
Jul-30-07 03:59 PMResponse to Original
message
14. See. That's what happens when you attempt to goose step down the stairs.
Neocon, pro-fascist horseplay is inherently dangerous.J

My God, what hateful losers.

UPDATE: From libhomo
Everybody knows that fetuses are not babies. There is no such thing as "an unborn child."You undermine your credibility with your factual errors.libhomo Homepage 07.30.07 - 10:35 pm

I undermine my credibility? This self described epitome of evil to the religious right states that unborn babies, ie fetuses, are not babies. The lack of logic astounds me. How can a newborn be considered a baby if it cannot survive by itself? Oh, but everybody knows that. Right? How sad. How narcissistic.

Big Government, Samuelson and the 75% Solution

When Silence Isn't Golden

Aug. 6, 2007 issue - If you haven't noticed, the major presidential
candidates—Republican and Democratic—are dodging one of the thorniest problems they'd face if elected: the huge budget costs of aging baby boomers.

...

By 2030, their share could hit 75 percent of the present budget,
projects the Congressional Budget Office. The result: a political
impasse.

...

As an antidote to this timidity, I propose that some public-spirited
sugar daddy (the MacArthur Foundation? Warren Buffett?) sponsor a short book. A
possible title: "Facing Up to an Aging America." Six leading think tanks would
be invited to participate: three liberal—the Brookings Institution, the Center
on Budget and Policy Priorities and the Urban Institute—and three
conservative—the American Enterprise Institute, the Cato Institute and the
Heritage Foundation.

...

This approach would force think tanks to compete.

Samuelson must have gotten lost or was looking elsewhere when he stumbled on the truth.

Competition.

If the government would allow citizens, taxpayers and business' to compete in a free market without too much taxation, too much regulations and a federal government that has over-reached in every aspect of business and life then we will have all the tools necessary to survive.

Defend us, secure our borders, deliver the mail and follow the Constitution. Oh, and get the hell out of our way. You're too big, too fat and too stupid to keep up with us.

For anyone to believe that the government can support, through handouts, so many people, to the tune of 75% of our nation's budget, shows these people are too ignorant to pontificate.

FUGLY

Divorce or just two neighbors that don't like each other?

Of course this could be caused by a schizophrenic owner.

Whatever. It is fugly.

Liberal Censorship by Kos, MoveOn and CAF Losers

Liberals Going After Fox Advertisers

MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like
DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign
will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos.

The groups have successfully pressured Democratic presidential
candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are also trying to
get Home Depot Inc. to stop advertising there.

I hate censorship. I'm off to Home Depot so I'll be back in time for the Fox evening news.

The Compassionate Misanthropism of the Clintons

In the ’60s, a Future Candidate Poured Her Heart Out in Letters

“Can you be a misanthrope and still love or enjoy some individuals?” Ms.
Rodham wrote in an April 1967 letter. “How about a compassionate
misanthrope?”

Yes, it's called being a liberal Ms Clinton.

Why Won't He?

Edwards: "They want to shut me up"

Another Inconvenient Truth. Stupidity.

Pat Tillman

We have confirmed that Tillman had arranged to meet with a leading anti-war
intellectual, Noam Chomsky, upon his return stateside. One can imagine the panic
in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the vision of the much trumpeted
poster-boy hero of the War on Terror returning home and speaking out against the evil charade of the War.

That aspect, combined with the nature of the wounds, the destruction of
evidence, the first-level coverup, and the dream promotion of the commander in
charge... well, you see where this is going.

McBushCoHitlerYouth had Tillman killed because of Chomsky, the bastard. McBushCoHitlerYouth panics, asks BossCheney what to do. BossCheney hurridly calls ReRunRumsfeld who gets the Joints on the horn and ReRun tells them to kill the poster-boy hero before he shows the War on Terror to be the sham it is. Really. How in hell did we miss that?

Don't you see what is GOING ON? I didn't think so you morons.

Turn left immediately. Now. Do it. Terrorism is a charade. If you'd only open your eyes you wouldn't see the carnage.

Thank God kestrel9000 is on duty. Protecting America from itself. Playing Exposing charades about the nonexistence of terrorists, terrorism and Islamofascists.

Ever notice that these lying morons know exactly what dead people were planning, thinking and what they said to "inside sources"? How convienent they can "channel" the deceased who can't call b*llsh*t. Kinda like John Edwards and dead babies. And the fortune those dead babies directed him to ask for from the courts. Edwards made a lot of dead baby money. By channeling. Dead people.

Geez. No wonder these people grasp at straws. It is all they have.

Richs, Race and Relationships

The first two rules of holes

Similarly — as I noted in the post — there are a complexity of issues
involved in what are most frequently trotted out as racial disparities. You
bring up redlining without saying exactly with what about the practice you take
offense. Is it the fact that the subprime loans are granted in the first placde?
Or the fact that they are granted disproportionately to minorities?
The reason why Blacks (or Hispanics) find themselves with lower credit ratings
isn’t, I don’t think, intrinsic to race. We can trace the policies that got us
there, but they are many and varied.

I argued some of these particular instances several years ago with
Aaron Hawkins of Uppity Negro (who has since passed away), including
disproportionate traffic stops for Blacks in certain areas, etc.

...

But overall, it’s been my contention that policies that tend to focus
on fixing “racial disparity” — when the solution is tied solely to race (again,
I have written in favor of affirmative action based on opportunity) often times
do nothing but either exacerbate the disparity, or else have the effect of
creating a new group of victims or perceived victims, which in turn leads to a
stoking of racial animus.

Many years ago I did a study for a PAC that tracked certain racial groups and subsets within their racial group on the effect of government "help". In each case it was startling. One figure that has stuck in my mind was a comparison of black women and white women (aged 15-30, I think) that had children out-of-wedlock. Prior to the government "help" black women had a far lower rate of illegitimate birth than white women. After 20 years of government "help" those figures flipped completely. This study included years prior to the prevalence of abortion on demand.

My family is almost a mini-UN and I have found through experience with them and my extended family (and the history of my father's family) that accepting government largess is the first step toward failure, generally. In each case, within my family, it was an attitude that being on the "public dole" was to be shamed. Those who rose above that shame by getting off the "public dole" were believed to have not earned it.

Of those that refused the "dole", some stayed as working-poor, but proud. The majority became self sufficient and instilled that pride in their children and grand children. It is now our generation's job to carry on the pride. We like as little government as possible in our family's life.
I suggest you click on the above headline and read Jeff's full post and the comments. It will be well worth your time. If not, get the government to refund the cost of your time.

I Just Can't See It

Let the Cleavage Conversation Begin

Caer Rhun Crucifix

Power to the People or Shower for the Sheeple

Cindy does New York. Not a film I'd like to see.

HT to Gateway Pundit

Vatican 1 - ? 0

Bloodthirsty Liberal

Can’t argue with this—happy to see His Holiness is reading Mark
Steyn—but what does the head office propose to do about it?

Once, the heads of European nations listened to the Pope, but now they've gotten too smart for their britches burkas.

I'm seeing a head-britches connection being covered up by burkas Political Correctness, but that's just me.

The Vatican is winning, but against who?

Ron's Sheehans Leave an Eerie Paul

Ron Paul’s “nutbags” are doing the GOP a service

Cindy Sheehan is a good example of how a conspiracy theorist
nut job can hamstring her own party. As long as she was linked to
Democrats, she hurt the Democratic Party. The best news the Democratic
Party has had this past month is the announcement that Sheehan is leaving the
party and will challenge Speaker Pelosi next November. Pelosi, far too
extreme for most Americans, is now safely triangulated as a “moderate” because
Cindy Sheehan is foe instead of friend.

Ron Paul’s supporters are the Republicans’ Cindy Sheehans...

I'm not quite sure conspiracy theorists are the backbone of a successful political party today nor, as a very young man, was I sure that the Confederate battle flag was a symbol that would help Goldwater. I'm seeing Trilateralists and the followers of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion lurking in the background.

Can you say Lew Rockwell? Nough said.

Liberal Hate Machine Not New

The haters:

Allen Whitney Brown

Born in Charlotte, Michigan, Brown began his career as a street juggler and musician before finding regular employment as a comedian and comedy writer.

...But do I still support the individual men and women who have given
so much to serve their country?

No. I think they’re a bunch of idiots. I also think they’re morally
retarded...

Wonkette site

In a stunning rocket, Rudy Jew-liani basically admitted that he doesn’t know anything at all about foreign policy — or maybe that he knows too much. In an interview with the Jew York Times, Rudy inavertendly revealed that the US has been fighting an entire extra war these last few years that only he knows about.

As reported by Jeff Jacoby

As in years past, Republicans were almost routinely associated with Nazi
Germany. Former Vice President Al Gore referred to GOP activists as "brown
shirts." Newsday columnist Hugh Pearson likened the Republican National
Convention to the "Nazi rallies held in Germany during the reign of Adolf
Hitler." Linda Ronstadt said that the Republican victory on Election Day meant
"we've got a new bunch of Hitlers." Chuck Turner, a Boston city councilor,
smeared National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice as "a tool of white leaders,"
like "a Jewish person working for Hitler."

Nina Totenberg

But this isn't the first time the NPR diva has publicly wished death on a
conservative. "I think he ought to be worried about what's going on in the Good
Lord's mind," she said of Senator Jesse Helms in 1995, "because if there is
retributive justice, he'll get AIDS from a transfusion, or one of his
grandchildren will."

Clint on his blog

Ding Dong, Jerry’s dead. Another evil son of a bitch who will hopefully
rot in hell.

On the 2004 elections

But do stay in touch after the borders slam shut. When you finally tire
of living on the modern, corporate plantations of Cargill, Tyson, ConAgra and
Smithfield; when you tire of shopping at Wal-Mart and sending your daughters to
sling hash at Denny's in hopes that they'll meet the nicer sort of truck driver;
when you tire of sneaking into Blue America as illegal white-trash wetbacks
eager for casual work dusting our parlors; and when, like men, you finally rise
up in rebellion against this immoral usury -- then, and only then, let us
talk.

We'll gladly get your backs. But first you must grow the brains and
the balls needed to profit from our help.

This is just a sampling, but the loving reason of liberals just goes on and on.

WAL-MART Masturbation Pool in Massachusetts

Woman Banned For Life From WAL-MART... Please Dear God, my wife?

Florida jury convicts inmate for masturbating in jail cell... Nope, no relative. I checked.

Swimming Pool and Water Stolen From Yard... My boy IS home.

SHOCK: Teen charged with bestiality in Massachusetts... No family lives there. Phew!

If I Did Not Make Myself Clear

I have only committed the mistake of believing in you, the Americans.

How can we live with this?

A New Day

Last night I returned home with my son after a two day business trip within which he helped me big time. He may or may not decide to continue to work with me, but these 2 days that I got to spend with him was and is a sunrise fresh and clean. And beautiful.

Selfish? You bet your buns. Man-O-man, good Lord almighty, I'll take this selfishness as a sin if I get to do this again.

e-mail Funny

Father O'Malley rose from his bed. It was a fine Springday in his new New Mexico mission parish. He walked to the window of his bedroom to get a deep breath of the beautiful day outside. He then noticed there was a jackass lying dead in the middle of his front lawn. He promptly called the local police station.

The conversation went like this:

"Good morning. This is Sergeant Jones. How might I help you?"

"And the best of the day te yerself. This is FadderO'Malley at St.Brigid's. Dere's a jackass lyin dead on me front lawn. Would ye be so kind as to send a couple o' yer lads to take care of da matter?"

Sergeant Jones, considering himself to be quite a wit,replied with a smirk, "Well now father, it was always my impression that you people took care of last rites!"

There was dead silence on the line for a long moment.

Father O'Malley then replied: "Aye, tis certainly true, but we are also obliged to notify the next of kin."

John Kerry's Newest Vietnam

It also belongs to Pelosi, Reid, Schumer and the rest of the rat's nest we like to still refer to as "our Congress". RINOs, unlike the elephant, have no memory and so now we come to the point where another part of the world that will be justified in no longer trusting the United States of America.

The following is a disgusting remnant of our past that is actually a precursor of our future if we let the refuse infesting our Congress "win" their way.

Dear Excellency and friend,

I thank you very sincerely for your letter and for your offer to
transport me towards freedom. I cannot, alas, leave in such a cowardly fashion.

As for you and in particular for your great country, I never
believed for a moment that you would have this sentiment of abandoning a people
which has chosen liberty. You have refused us your protection and we can do
nothing about it. You leave us and it is my wish that you and your country will
find happiness under the sky.

But mark it well that, if I shall die here on the spot and in my
country that I love, it is too bad because we are all born and must die one day.
I have only committed the mistake of believing in you, the Americans.

Please accept, Excellency, my dear friend, my faithful and friendly
sentiments. Sirik Matak.

This is not the America I wish to live in. To turn our back on the people of the Middle East just so some moral reprobates can win elections to gain more power disgusts me so deeply I am at a loss to truly express it.

UPDATE: Sirik Matak was shot in the stomach days after this letter was written by the Khemer Rouge along with what was left of the free government of his country. Unfortunately Sirik Matak lived for another 3 years before he died. His compatriots died that day. All murdered by the Khemer Rouge. The killers were communists. They were also, just like Islamofascists, common thugs, murderers and slugs on the body politic.

Victory Caucus

The improved Voctory Caucus is up and a must read.

Victory Caucus

The Surge is Working

One can see it working if one just looks.

Al-Qaeda faces rebellion from the ranks

Fed up with being part of a group that cuts off a person’s face with
piano wire to teach others a lesson, dozens of low-level members of al-Qaeda in
Iraq are daring to become informants for the US military in a hostile Baghdad
neighbourhood.

The ground-breaking move in Doura is part of a wider trend that has
started in other al-Qaeda hotspots across the country and in which Sunni
insurgent groups and tribal sheikhs have stood together with the coalition
against the extremist movement.

When their own are turning on them because the forces of freedom are clearly a better choice then al Qaeda is starting to die. At least in Iraq.

Of course, democrats can't admit this because such an admission would signify a lie and failure on their part. That is nothing new,

Are Your Floors Polished

Istanbul Mosque.

Hogwarts, EEEEEwwwwwwww

This may explain where she got her little, er, problem from.

PIG EARS!

Harry Potter

Who?

I knew a John Potter.

Slovenia

Ljubljana

My son's college roomate was Slovenian. Slovenia is a beautiful country that has thrown off communism with great aplomb and success.

Web Metro Map

This is a very cool site.

Strange Maps

Ron Paul and His Loveable Band of Wackos

As I've said before, Ron Paul has some good ideas. Is this the candidate and are these the people we want in charge?

'NYT': Ron Paul for President -- Of the 'Wackos'?

A feature piece in this coming Sunday's New York Times Magazine on
Republican candidate for president, Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, portrays his
followers as including a wild mix of "wackos" on both ends of the political
spectrum. Paul, a libertarian, has been gaining media and public attention of
late.

The cover line reads: "A Genuine Radical for President." The headline
inside: "The Antiwar, Anti-Abortion, Anti-Drug-Enforcement-Administration,
Anti-medicare Candidacy of Dr. Ron Paul."

The article closes with the author, Christopher Caldwell, attending a
Ron Paul Meetup in Pasadena. The co-host, Connie Ruffley of United Republicans
of California, admits she once was a member of the radical right John Birch
Society and when she asks for a show of hands "quite a few" attendees reveal
that they were or are members, too. She refers to Sen. Dianne Feinstein as
"Fine-Swine" and attacks Israel, pleasing some while others "walked
out."

Okay, start with the "He was misquoted" and then change the subject. Oh, don't forget to tell me to read the Constitution, etc.

That is the way to win votes and at an avergae of 10 votes per coffee klatch, you only have 6,204,000 to victory!

Remember Complaining?

Shudda Your Mouth You Racist

They are the religion of peace!

Via Barking Moonbat Early Warning System

Lady Liberty Remembers

Merle Bishop

Conflicting Epidemics

75 percent of Americans overweight by 2015

No doubt the rest are Bulimic.

Up is down.

A new ice age caused global warming.

Win by quitting.

Stupidity is pandemic.

Any Color Model-T You Want As Long As It Is Black

Tolerance is a virtue in Muslim societies as long as you agree with them 100%. Otherwise you're burnt pork.

Via Crusader Rabbit

Looking for Diversity? You won't find any here!

Saudi Arabia - Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is
punishable by death. Bibles are illegal. Churches are illegal. Easter
celebrations are illegal. It is punishable by death for a non-mulsim to enter
the “holy” muslim cities of Medina and Mecca.

Go read the rest of above at Fortress Australia where there is a wrap up of laws concerning Christianity. It isn't good.