Many bloggers bitch just to hear their own voice or attract hits. What a waste.
Me, I believe in people. People organizing. People getting things done. People then going back to being individuals, which doesn't include forming a committee or a feel-good group, until they're needed again.
The Place to Discuss Our Fundamental Principles
Posted by: Fred Thompson at 9:59 AM
Spending some time on the campaign trail has confirmed a couple of thoughts I’ve had before I entered the Republican primary race.
First, conservatism is alive and well in America; don’t let anyone tell you differently. And by conservatism, I don’t mean the warmed-over “raise your hand if you believe …” kind of conservatism we see blooming every election cycle. No, I’m speaking of the conservatism grounded in principles based upon enduring truths: an understanding of the importance of human nature in the affairs of individuals and nations. Respect for the lessons of history, the importance of faith and tradition. The understanding that while man is prone to err, he is capable of great things when not subjugated by a too-powerful government. These are the principles that inspired our Founding Fathers, and resulted in a Constitution that delineated the powers of the central government, established checks and balances among the branches of government and further diffused governmental power by a system of Federalism.
Second, change – whether it “real change,” “bold change” or the “change we can believe in” variety others are selling – isn’t itself an innovative policy or a particularly strong leadership stance. In fact, from Burke to Buckley, there has been an acknowledgement that change in the political arena is inevitable and necessary, and we in the U.S. tend to experience it in regular, 2, 4 and 6 year intervals, so 2008 is hardly our first rodeo. The challenge for conservatives is calibrating whether the change being proposed is consistent with our principles and our philosophy, and whether that change is appropriate.
Our nation has some serious issues to work through for today … and for the next generation. Now isn’t the time for conservatives to be looking for a tailored message or a politically expedient route to victory if the end result is going to be the inevitable slide toward the liberalization and secularization of America, and the growth of government and loss of freedom that inevitably ensues. For us conservatives it must be about principles and policies that are grounded in freedom, free markets and the rule of law. That’s what I’ve been talking and writing about for the past few years, and that’s what I want to talk write about here on Townhall and in the new Townhall Magazine.
I joined Townhall and am writing exclusive commentaries for Townhall Magazine because I see them elevating the discourse on issues based on these principles -- smaller government, individual liberty, standing for common values that have become all too uncommon, a strong national defense and, most of all, an optimism and belief in America.
I’m glad to be back here in familiar territory, and we’ll be talking to you soon.
I'm glad as well.
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Leadership Institute Coming To Ohio
Please pass this on to everybody you can including (conservative) groups.
Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute, the premier campaign school, is coming to Columbus, Ohio on June 10th, 2008.
This all day school is for grass root activists wanting to actively participate in the upcoming campaigns. Attendees will be encouraged to volunteer for campaigns or, if they are especially good, they may be able to find gainful employment! Placement assistance will be given.
The cost to attend is ONLY $20.00. Normally it is $125.00. This includes an all day class, lunch, material, placement assistance.
To get more info please email info@cagco.com or leave info in the comment section.
Morton Blackwell's Leadership Institute, the premier campaign school, is coming to Columbus, Ohio on June 10th, 2008.
This all day school is for grass root activists wanting to actively participate in the upcoming campaigns. Attendees will be encouraged to volunteer for campaigns or, if they are especially good, they may be able to find gainful employment! Placement assistance will be given.
The cost to attend is ONLY $20.00. Normally it is $125.00. This includes an all day class, lunch, material, placement assistance.
To get more info please email info@cagco.com or leave info in the comment section.
Obama Gets Boost
Sean Penn blasts Obama's 'phenomenally inhuman' voting record...
Everybody I know waits for Penn to speak.
Everybody I know waits for Penn to speak.
Don't you?
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Democrats Backroom Deal To Avoid Looking Corrupt
Dann apparently seeks deal to quit
Facing impeachment, attorney general reportedly wants end to probe
Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann apparently is trying to negotiate the terms of his resignation, offering to quit if legislative leaders kill a bill that would authorize Inspector General Thomas P. Charles to investigate the scandal in Dann's office.
Apparently not wanting to look like corrupt backroom dealers the Democrats are making backroom deals as they look to November 2008.
I think Dann is just the tip of the iceberg.
Facing impeachment, attorney general reportedly wants end to probe
Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann apparently is trying to negotiate the terms of his resignation, offering to quit if legislative leaders kill a bill that would authorize Inspector General Thomas P. Charles to investigate the scandal in Dann's office.
Apparently not wanting to look like corrupt backroom dealers the Democrats are making backroom deals as they look to November 2008.
I think Dann is just the tip of the iceberg.
Monday, May 12, 2008
Obama's Management Style - Blame Subordinates
Obama's incmpentent staff from Taxman Blog. It is enlightening. Go read.
Will the Obama blame a staffer for offering a Smithfield Ham to Ahmadinejad when they have a no-preconditioned pillow talk?
Will the Obama blame a staffer for offering a Smithfield Ham to Ahmadinejad when they have a no-preconditioned pillow talk?
Just How Stupid Are Ron Paul Supporters?
Apparently this stupid.
Ron Paul's forces quietly plot GOP convention revolt against McCain
Virtually all the nation's political attention in recent weeks has focused on the compelling state-by-state presidential nomination struggle between two Democrats and the potential for party-splitting strife over there.
But in the meantime, quietly, largely under the radar of most people, the forces of Rep. Ron Paul have been organizing across the country to stage an embarrassing public revolt against Sen. John McCain when Republicans gather for their national convention in Minnesota at the beginning of September.
Paul's presidential candidacy has been correctly dismissed all along in terms of winning the nomination. He was even excluded as irrelevant by Fox News from a nationally-televised GOP debate in New Hampshire.
But what's been largely overlooked is Paul's candidacy as a reflection of a powerful lingering dissatisfaction with the Arizona senator among the party's most conservative conservatives. As anticipated in late March in The Ticket, that situation could be exacerbated by today's expected announcement from former Republican Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia for the Libertarian Party's presidential nod, a slot held by Paul in 1988.
They've had Ralph Nader. We've had Ross Perot cost us an election. It appears that now we have two men, Bob Barr & Ron Paul, I used to admire vying for the "Let's save America by screwing it" award.
We are yet to see just how many loons Barr can attract, but Paul has attracted buggy ones like a zapper on a hot humid evening. They are so buggy that they actually believe they are patriotic by helping Obama or Hillary win the White House. They are so buggy they believe their ideological purity forces them to throw our country to progressives because their "rightness" doesn't allow for any compromise.
They're also political babies that refuse to constructively work within the Republican party to change things as Reagan did. The little retards are miffed that none of the adults will listen to their swill so they're going to have a hissy fit to just show us all.
They're spoiled little brat traitors.
Ron Paul's forces quietly plot GOP convention revolt against McCain
Virtually all the nation's political attention in recent weeks has focused on the compelling state-by-state presidential nomination struggle between two Democrats and the potential for party-splitting strife over there.
But in the meantime, quietly, largely under the radar of most people, the forces of Rep. Ron Paul have been organizing across the country to stage an embarrassing public revolt against Sen. John McCain when Republicans gather for their national convention in Minnesota at the beginning of September.
Paul's presidential candidacy has been correctly dismissed all along in terms of winning the nomination. He was even excluded as irrelevant by Fox News from a nationally-televised GOP debate in New Hampshire.
But what's been largely overlooked is Paul's candidacy as a reflection of a powerful lingering dissatisfaction with the Arizona senator among the party's most conservative conservatives. As anticipated in late March in The Ticket, that situation could be exacerbated by today's expected announcement from former Republican Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia for the Libertarian Party's presidential nod, a slot held by Paul in 1988.
They've had Ralph Nader. We've had Ross Perot cost us an election. It appears that now we have two men, Bob Barr & Ron Paul, I used to admire vying for the "Let's save America by screwing it" award.
We are yet to see just how many loons Barr can attract, but Paul has attracted buggy ones like a zapper on a hot humid evening. They are so buggy that they actually believe they are patriotic by helping Obama or Hillary win the White House. They are so buggy they believe their ideological purity forces them to throw our country to progressives because their "rightness" doesn't allow for any compromise.
They're also political babies that refuse to constructively work within the Republican party to change things as Reagan did. The little retards are miffed that none of the adults will listen to their swill so they're going to have a hissy fit to just show us all.
They're spoiled little brat traitors.
Too Funny
Dean Barnett at The Weekly Standard
Barack Obama, Imperialist?
By now you've seen the footage of Barack Obama ruing the fact that he hasn't been able to visit all 57 states in this great union of ours. If you haven't, scroll down a bit and read Goldfarb's post on the matter. I'll wait.
This faux pas is beyond weird; I know the guy is tired, but “How many states are there in America?” is the kind of question they ask you at the hospital after you've had a seizure to see if your brain is still working.
A good friend who wasn't aware that he diabetic almost went into a coma, but was brought back in time. He was asked by the attending doctor what day it was, what the year was and how many states there are in the United States. Groggily he answered the questions one by one ending with 49 states. The doctor asked him if he was sure to which he replied, "I've always had doubts about New Jersey."
Barack Obama, Imperialist?
By now you've seen the footage of Barack Obama ruing the fact that he hasn't been able to visit all 57 states in this great union of ours. If you haven't, scroll down a bit and read Goldfarb's post on the matter. I'll wait.
This faux pas is beyond weird; I know the guy is tired, but “How many states are there in America?” is the kind of question they ask you at the hospital after you've had a seizure to see if your brain is still working.
A good friend who wasn't aware that he diabetic almost went into a coma, but was brought back in time. He was asked by the attending doctor what day it was, what the year was and how many states there are in the United States. Groggily he answered the questions one by one ending with 49 states. The doctor asked him if he was sure to which he replied, "I've always had doubts about New Jersey."
Saving New Orleans By Destroying It
via Veritas et Venustas
Brad Pitt is trying to help. Help is building houses in the 9th Ward in New Orleans where if there is a major storm, hurricane or flood again, all the house will be destroyed again, but Pitt is trying to help. I wish he'd stop. I think a whole lotta people in New Orleans feel the same way, but some people have no choice but to go with Pitt because the city government is run by morons totally incapable of policing Mardi Gras let alone a city.
Forcing starchitects, as John Massendale calls them, on people is just wrong and egotistical. How do you save a neighborhood by making it what it never was? How do you save a neighborhood by building stupid, ugly little houses that will never be homes?
Newsweek's Newspeak Where Truth Is Bad
How Obama and his team will battle the GOP onslaught.
...
There are no screamers on Team Obama; one senior Obama aide says he's heard him yell only twice in four years. Obama was explicit from the beginning: there was to be "no drama," he told his aides. "I don't want elbowing or finger-pointing. We're going to rise or fall together." Obama wanted steady, calm, focused leadership; he wanted to keep out the grandstanders and make sure the quiet dissenters spoke up. A good formula for running a campaign—or a presidency.
It worked against Hillary Clinton, whose own campaign has been rent by squabbling aides and turf battles. While Clinton veered between playing Queen Elizabeth I and Norma Rae, Obama and his team chugged along with a superior 50-state campaign strategy, racking up the delegates. If the candidate seemed weary and peevish or a little slow to respond at times, he never lost his cool. But the real test is yet to come. The Republican Party has been successfully scaring voters since 1968, when Richard Nixon built a Silent Majority out of lower- and middle-class folks frightened or disturbed by hippies and student radicals and blacks rioting in the inner cities. The 2008 race may turn on which party will win the lower- and middle-class whites in industrial and border states—the Democrats' base from the New Deal to the 1960s, but "Reagan Democrats" in most presidential elections since then. It is a sure bet that the GOP will try to paint Obama as "the other"—as a haughty black intellectual who has Muslim roots (Obama is a Christian) and hangs around with America-haters.
Obama says he's ready for the onslaught. "Yes, we know what's coming," he told a cheering crowd as he won the North Carolina primary last week. "We've seen it already … the attempts to play on our fears and exploit our differences to turn us against each other for pure political gain—to slice and dice this country into Red States and Blue States; blue-collar and white-collar; white, black, brown."
Okay, what do we have here? For openers Obama is a quiet, thoughtful team player who values good advice which is "A good formula for running a campaign—or a presidency." By contrast all others pale when compared to his obviously competent leadership.
Next the Republican Party has been scaring voters since Richard Nixon. A double-good punch with scare and Nixon in the same thought mixed in with lies about Obama's religion which lessens Wright's odious thoughts and words. Not bad even for Newsweek when truth becomes bad and when the truth is used it is a scare tactic.
It's a wrap with Obama triumphantly facing down the Republicans continued attempts "to play on our fears and exploit our differences to turn us against each other for pure political gain—to slice and dice this country into Red States and Blue States; blue-collar and white-collar; white, black, brown."
Our fears? Would those be fears of what Obama will do as president? No, not at all because he is the best candidate. Obviously. It is also obvious to Newsweek's Obama campaign that Republicans need division and fear of a BLACK man who has a SECRET agenda of ISLAM to defeat the next JFK.
I really enjoy great campaigning especially when a campaign can seemingly pull everything together effortlessly, but when will Obama acknowledge this "in-kind" donation from their outside media consultants at Newsweek because this isn't reporting nor is it opinion. It's campaigning.
If the truth is bad then Newsweek should step up and admit it is bad to lie about those they want to defeat and it is bad to not be honest about their true role in this campaign.
HT to Gateway Pundit
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There are no screamers on Team Obama; one senior Obama aide says he's heard him yell only twice in four years. Obama was explicit from the beginning: there was to be "no drama," he told his aides. "I don't want elbowing or finger-pointing. We're going to rise or fall together." Obama wanted steady, calm, focused leadership; he wanted to keep out the grandstanders and make sure the quiet dissenters spoke up. A good formula for running a campaign—or a presidency.
It worked against Hillary Clinton, whose own campaign has been rent by squabbling aides and turf battles. While Clinton veered between playing Queen Elizabeth I and Norma Rae, Obama and his team chugged along with a superior 50-state campaign strategy, racking up the delegates. If the candidate seemed weary and peevish or a little slow to respond at times, he never lost his cool. But the real test is yet to come. The Republican Party has been successfully scaring voters since 1968, when Richard Nixon built a Silent Majority out of lower- and middle-class folks frightened or disturbed by hippies and student radicals and blacks rioting in the inner cities. The 2008 race may turn on which party will win the lower- and middle-class whites in industrial and border states—the Democrats' base from the New Deal to the 1960s, but "Reagan Democrats" in most presidential elections since then. It is a sure bet that the GOP will try to paint Obama as "the other"—as a haughty black intellectual who has Muslim roots (Obama is a Christian) and hangs around with America-haters.
Obama says he's ready for the onslaught. "Yes, we know what's coming," he told a cheering crowd as he won the North Carolina primary last week. "We've seen it already … the attempts to play on our fears and exploit our differences to turn us against each other for pure political gain—to slice and dice this country into Red States and Blue States; blue-collar and white-collar; white, black, brown."
Okay, what do we have here? For openers Obama is a quiet, thoughtful team player who values good advice which is "A good formula for running a campaign—or a presidency." By contrast all others pale when compared to his obviously competent leadership.
Next the Republican Party has been scaring voters since Richard Nixon. A double-good punch with scare and Nixon in the same thought mixed in with lies about Obama's religion which lessens Wright's odious thoughts and words. Not bad even for Newsweek when truth becomes bad and when the truth is used it is a scare tactic.
It's a wrap with Obama triumphantly facing down the Republicans continued attempts "to play on our fears and exploit our differences to turn us against each other for pure political gain—to slice and dice this country into Red States and Blue States; blue-collar and white-collar; white, black, brown."
Our fears? Would those be fears of what Obama will do as president? No, not at all because he is the best candidate. Obviously. It is also obvious to Newsweek's Obama campaign that Republicans need division and fear of a BLACK man who has a SECRET agenda of ISLAM to defeat the next JFK.
I really enjoy great campaigning especially when a campaign can seemingly pull everything together effortlessly, but when will Obama acknowledge this "in-kind" donation from their outside media consultants at Newsweek because this isn't reporting nor is it opinion. It's campaigning.
If the truth is bad then Newsweek should step up and admit it is bad to lie about those they want to defeat and it is bad to not be honest about their true role in this campaign.
HT to Gateway Pundit
The Clintons Spend Their Own Money?
Doubtful unless for the first time in their life they have their own money and they don't know what it is.
Is Hillary staying to force herself onto the ticket? She hates second fiddle plus Michelle doesn't like Hillary.
What is a scenario that would put Hillary back on top without hurting her. Simple.
Let's say Obama has the nomination in the bag. The super delegates have voted and Barack is the man, but the Clintonistas have some serious dirt on him, his wife or major people in his campaign that would cause Obama to step down before being officially nominated. This dirt cannot be released by the Clintons, that would hurt them so it is released in the press, maybe the foreign press and oh so reluctantly picked up by the MSM here. The kicker is the story is either attributed or strongly hinted to be the work of Republicans.
Obama goes down.
Hillary steps in to save the day as the nominee who will enact revenge for Obama.
Republicans get blamed.
Democrats keep and enlarge their minority vote.
Democrats enlarge their Independent vote.
Republicans lose everywhere for their "typical" dirty tricks.
The Clintons make all their money back.
Is Hillary staying to force herself onto the ticket? She hates second fiddle plus Michelle doesn't like Hillary.
What is a scenario that would put Hillary back on top without hurting her. Simple.
Let's say Obama has the nomination in the bag. The super delegates have voted and Barack is the man, but the Clintonistas have some serious dirt on him, his wife or major people in his campaign that would cause Obama to step down before being officially nominated. This dirt cannot be released by the Clintons, that would hurt them so it is released in the press, maybe the foreign press and oh so reluctantly picked up by the MSM here. The kicker is the story is either attributed or strongly hinted to be the work of Republicans.
Obama goes down.
Hillary steps in to save the day as the nominee who will enact revenge for Obama.
Republicans get blamed.
Democrats keep and enlarge their minority vote.
Democrats enlarge their Independent vote.
Republicans lose everywhere for their "typical" dirty tricks.
The Clintons make all their money back.
Sunday, May 11, 2008
According To White Reporters, White-O-Cratic County Keeps Its Distance From Negroes
The main stream media loves blue/rust/black collar voters as long as those voters regurgitate what the main stream media expects. Otherwise it confuses them.
Democratic country keeps its distance from Obama
Like most people in Mingo County, West Virginia, Leonard Simpson is a lifelong Democrat. But given a choice between Barack Obama and John McCain in November, the 67-year-old retired coalminer would vote Republican.
“I heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife’s an atheist,” said Mr Simpson, drawing on a cigarette outside the fire station in Williamson, a coalmining town of 3,400 people surrounded by lush wooded hillsides.
For the MSM we'll list the confounding problems:
Mingo County - not confounding - filled with people too stupid to buy opera tickets
West Virginia - not confounding - filled with people too stupid to buy a New Yorker
Coalminers - confounding - they used to be reliable. Union members should know better that racism doesn't preclude unionism. Unionism precludes racism.
Muslims - not confounding - We're so dumb we think Obama is a Muslim which bolsters semi-rich intellectuals thinking that they're smarter than us little folks.
Atheist - not confounding - We're so smart we think Michelle Obama is an atheist which bolsters semi-rich intellectuals thinking that they're smarter.
Cigarette - not confounding - If you like tobacco you are too stupid to exist. Period.
Fire Station - confounding - Great image, but you might be conservative. Shut up and smile.
Lush wooded hillsides - Thrown in because journalism teachers taught them that.
Liars - The reporters above.
Democratic country keeps its distance from Obama
Like most people in Mingo County, West Virginia, Leonard Simpson is a lifelong Democrat. But given a choice between Barack Obama and John McCain in November, the 67-year-old retired coalminer would vote Republican.
“I heard that Obama is a Muslim and his wife’s an atheist,” said Mr Simpson, drawing on a cigarette outside the fire station in Williamson, a coalmining town of 3,400 people surrounded by lush wooded hillsides.
For the MSM we'll list the confounding problems:
Mingo County - not confounding - filled with people too stupid to buy opera tickets
West Virginia - not confounding - filled with people too stupid to buy a New Yorker
Coalminers - confounding - they used to be reliable. Union members should know better that racism doesn't preclude unionism. Unionism precludes racism.
Muslims - not confounding - We're so dumb we think Obama is a Muslim which bolsters semi-rich intellectuals thinking that they're smarter than us little folks.
Atheist - not confounding - We're so smart we think Michelle Obama is an atheist which bolsters semi-rich intellectuals thinking that they're smarter.
Cigarette - not confounding - If you like tobacco you are too stupid to exist. Period.
Fire Station - confounding - Great image, but you might be conservative. Shut up and smile.
Lush wooded hillsides - Thrown in because journalism teachers taught them that.
Liars - The reporters above.
Al Gore And His Errors Bore
35 Inconvenient Truths
The errors in Al Gore’s movie
First there was another ice age acoming, then just global cooling that changed to global warming which changed to climate change and all the while the level of man's evil has fluctuated.
A pox on all these losers.
The errors in Al Gore’s movie
First there was another ice age acoming, then just global cooling that changed to global warming which changed to climate change and all the while the level of man's evil has fluctuated.
A pox on all these losers.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Politburo Votes Dann A Non-Person
The Central Committe, just before affirming that every person is important except unborn babies, decided that Marc Dann is unimportant and a man without a party.
Marc Dann Booted from Democratic Party
Marc Dann Booted from Democratic Party
FDR, HST & JFK Negotiation Models
Obama Needs a History Lesson 
In his victory speech after the North Carolina primary, Sen. Barack Obama said something that is all the more remarkable for how little it has been remarked upon.
In defending his stated intent to meet with America's enemies without preconditions, Sen. Obama said: "I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did."
That he made this statement, and that it passed without comment by the journalists covering his speech indicates either breathtaking ignorance of history on the part of both, or deceit.
In his victory speech after the North Carolina primary, Sen. Barack Obama said something that is all the more remarkable for how little it has been remarked upon.
In defending his stated intent to meet with America's enemies without preconditions, Sen. Obama said: "I trust the American people to understand that it is not weakness, but wisdom to talk not just to our friends, but to our enemies, like Roosevelt did, and Kennedy did, and Truman did."
That he made this statement, and that it passed without comment by the journalists covering his speech indicates either breathtaking ignorance of history on the part of both, or deceit.
EXTRA EXTRA AMERICA GROWS
Barack Obama wants to be president of these 57 United States
The seven new states should put him over top in delegates. Listen for Hillary to object because there are now 114 Senators, but only 100 desks in the chamber. Barack should make those appear magically as well.
The seven new states should put him over top in delegates. Listen for Hillary to object because there are now 114 Senators, but only 100 desks in the chamber. Barack should make those appear magically as well.
Friday, May 09, 2008
Why Are Liberals Helping Terrorists?
I mean beyond the last to die question.
Morning Bell: Why Are Liberals Actively Helping Terrorists?
Congentital?
Morning Bell: Why Are Liberals Actively Helping Terrorists?
Congentital?
A Parody Of Truth Starring The IVAW & The Congressional Progressive Caucus
The proverbial two wrongs don't make a right comes to mind here. Here in Ohio we have the distinct pleasure of having at least three members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
What would a nut caucus be worth if it didn't have Dennis Kuchinich? Well, it wouldn't be a real caucus without tin-foil man. Then there is Stephanie Tubbs-Jones who married anaxe murderer. Aw, sweet Marcy, she's just Kapturvating when she calls our founding fathers terrorists.
I love the Congressional Progressive Caucus. It is more entertaining that SNL at its worst.
Now the Iraq Veterans Against the War are taking their case toCongress the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC). This should be a show. A show of losers testifying before losers in a show of solidarity to lose the War On Terror. Of course, the CPC isn't a real committee. This is Conyers' fake hearing Part Deux only more so in a theatrical sense of the absurd.
To assist the CPC and the IVAW and the pursuit of justice, a petition has been started to help get to the truth behind accusations of American atrocities in Iraq:
* Make request of the Iraq Veterans Against the War that member(s) of the Caucus be provided video of the entire Winter Soldier Investigation “testimony” proceedings and be provided access to all those who testified,
*That the Caucus require any testimony given by IVAW be presented in the following format:
D: Date(s) - When did the incident occur?
U: Unit(s) - What military units were involved?
P: Personnel - What are the names of the participants and witnesses?
E: Event(s) - What exactly happened exactly where?
S: Signature(s) - Was this reported at the time or later and were reports, affidavits or depositions signed, or will they now be signed?
* That in the event that staff determines that there has been testimony given that touches on areas where, in the words of Senator Warner, the members of the SASC “have a responsibility to establish where in the military chain of command rests the ‘accountability,’ depending of course, on the accuracy of the facts…”, the Caucus forward the information to the House Armed Services Committee (HASC),
* That the Caucus request and all documents and records, signed statements and recordings, audio, video or digital, that bear on the claims made and being investigated,
* That the Caucus demand that those making such claims or professing publicly to verify those claims be requested or subpoened to appear before the HASC under oath, to answer questions.
You can sign the petition HERE.
What would a nut caucus be worth if it didn't have Dennis Kuchinich? Well, it wouldn't be a real caucus without tin-foil man. Then there is Stephanie Tubbs-Jones who married an
I love the Congressional Progressive Caucus. It is more entertaining that SNL at its worst.
Now the Iraq Veterans Against the War are taking their case to
To assist the CPC and the IVAW and the pursuit of justice, a petition has been started to help get to the truth behind accusations of American atrocities in Iraq:
* Make request of the Iraq Veterans Against the War that member(s) of the Caucus be provided video of the entire Winter Soldier Investigation “testimony” proceedings and be provided access to all those who testified,
*That the Caucus require any testimony given by IVAW be presented in the following format:
D: Date(s) - When did the incident occur?
U: Unit(s) - What military units were involved?
P: Personnel - What are the names of the participants and witnesses?
E: Event(s) - What exactly happened exactly where?
S: Signature(s) - Was this reported at the time or later and were reports, affidavits or depositions signed, or will they now be signed?
* That in the event that staff determines that there has been testimony given that touches on areas where, in the words of Senator Warner, the members of the SASC “have a responsibility to establish where in the military chain of command rests the ‘accountability,’ depending of course, on the accuracy of the facts…”, the Caucus forward the information to the House Armed Services Committee (HASC),
* That the Caucus request and all documents and records, signed statements and recordings, audio, video or digital, that bear on the claims made and being investigated,
* That the Caucus demand that those making such claims or professing publicly to verify those claims be requested or subpoened to appear before the HASC under oath, to answer questions.
You can sign the petition HERE.
Peter Kurgman, PhD X 3 - Caricature Of?
Someone has done a masterful job of creating the ultimate professor of love who hates all that do not share his love which is why he loves his PhD candidate, Kathy.
Professor Peter Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhD
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Astrological Sign: Cancer
Zodiac Year: Ox
Industry: Education
Occupation: Full Professor of many disciplines
About Me
People say they are fortunate to know me, as my gifted insights are relentlessly instructive. Of course, as an accomplished polymath, I can speak authoritatively about anything...but my biggest goal in life is to apply my expansive mind to make The Earth a more compassionate place. I have three Ph.D's!
Interests
Progressive Economics
Social Justice
Policy Prescriptions
Recycling
Boycotting Wal-Mart
Favorite Movies
Farenheit 911
Paradise Now
Munich
Brokeback Mountain
Roger & Me
Bowling for Columbine
I Am Cuba
Favorite Books
Dude Where's My Country
Are Men Necessary?
Bushworld
The Great Unraveling
Che: A Memoir by Fidel Castro
Stupid White Men
Downsize This!
The Boondocks Treasury
Crashing the Gate
The Official Farenheit 911 Reader
Blogs
Blog Name
Team Members
Professor Kurgman, PhD., PhD., PhD.
Professor Phd, PhD, PhD has been blogging since January of 2006 and has won my heart as the penultimate liberal. In real life he is...?
Professor Peter Kurgman, PhD, PhD, PhD
Age: 58
Gender: Male
Astrological Sign: Cancer
Zodiac Year: Ox
Industry: Education
Occupation: Full Professor of many disciplines
About Me
People say they are fortunate to know me, as my gifted insights are relentlessly instructive. Of course, as an accomplished polymath, I can speak authoritatively about anything...but my biggest goal in life is to apply my expansive mind to make The Earth a more compassionate place. I have three Ph.D's!
Interests
Progressive Economics
Social Justice
Policy Prescriptions
Recycling
Boycotting Wal-Mart
Favorite Movies
Farenheit 911
Paradise Now
Munich
Brokeback Mountain
Roger & Me
Bowling for Columbine
I Am Cuba
Favorite Books
Dude Where's My Country
Are Men Necessary?
Bushworld
The Great Unraveling
Che: A Memoir by Fidel Castro
Stupid White Men
Downsize This!
The Boondocks Treasury
Crashing the Gate
The Official Farenheit 911 Reader
Blogs
Blog Name
Team Members
Professor Kurgman, PhD., PhD., PhD.
Professor Phd, PhD, PhD has been blogging since January of 2006 and has won my heart as the penultimate liberal. In real life he is...?
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Litigation Shame For Ohio
via Tony Phyrillas
Frivolous lawsuits take valuable time and money from the citizens of Ohio. Unfair and onerous lawsuits, under the guise of the "little guy" vs evil corporations and mythical "pain and suffering" rulings, are costing Ohio jobs as well as valuable time and money. Judges that have the ethics and morals of a cathouse mouse write their names in their history books by rendering absurd and legally unsound decisions, at the expense of all Ohioans for their lawyer friends and their clients who receive the crumbs.
If Marc Dann and Rev Strickland want to play their little games fine by me as long as they do them on their on time and dime.
In 2006 Ohio was rated by the Institute for Legal Reform as 19th in litigation fairness.
In 2007 Ohio had sunk to 24th.
In 2008 Ohio sank further to 32nd.
It is my hope that the Rev and the perv will leave office and set up an ethics think tank.
Out of state.
Frivolous lawsuits take valuable time and money from the citizens of Ohio. Unfair and onerous lawsuits, under the guise of the "little guy" vs evil corporations and mythical "pain and suffering" rulings, are costing Ohio jobs as well as valuable time and money. Judges that have the ethics and morals of a cathouse mouse write their names in their history books by rendering absurd and legally unsound decisions, at the expense of all Ohioans for their lawyer friends and their clients who receive the crumbs.
If Marc Dann and Rev Strickland want to play their little games fine by me as long as they do them on their on time and dime.
In 2006 Ohio was rated by the Institute for Legal Reform as 19th in litigation fairness.
In 2007 Ohio had sunk to 24th.
In 2008 Ohio sank further to 32nd.
It is my hope that the Rev and the perv will leave office and set up an ethics think tank.
Out of state.
Activism Versus Punditry
via My vast Right Wing Conspiracy
The Next Right is an important step. Another excellent site is Fort Hard Knox. I don't want to shut down servers worldwide with a mere suggestion to my minion, but I'd join these to take your conservative activism to the next level.
The Next Right is an important step. Another excellent site is Fort Hard Knox. I don't want to shut down servers worldwide with a mere suggestion to my minion, but I'd join these to take your conservative activism to the next level.
If Batchelder Controls The Heat, Dann is Done
One of my heroes, Bill Batchelder, is looking into the debacle called Marc Dann. When and if Bill Batchelder finds what he needs Dann will be looking into a new line of work because Batchelder loves the law and the state of Ohio.
One thing is so certain as to take it to the bank, Bill Batchelder will follow the law. That is a fine testament. One which Dann wouldn't know if it bit him in the butt.
Batchelder examining how to oust AG Dann
During his nearly 40 years in public office, state Rep. William Batchelder often has found himself at the center of major battles.
He helped decide how the Ohio House should respond in the 1970s to campus uprisings and in the '90s to state lawmakers accused of skirting campaign finance and ethics laws.
Now, the Republican from Medina, a constitutional lawyer, has been given the task of researching the process House members would use to impeach Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann.
Dann, a Democrat, admitted Friday to having an extramarital affair with a subordinate, and he fired or accepted resignations from four employees for their part in a sexual-harassment scandal. He apologized but refused to resign.
Gov. Ted Strickland and other Democratic leaders have said the House will try to impeach Dann if he doesn't step down.
Speaker Jon Husted, R-Kettering, asked Batchelder to guide the House on how to follow a process that hasn't been used in nearly 200 years.
''I have selected Rep. Batchelder for this task for several reasons, paramount among them because he is respected by members of both sides of the aisle on matters of great importance,'' Husted said.
via Ohio Politics
One thing is so certain as to take it to the bank, Bill Batchelder will follow the law. That is a fine testament. One which Dann wouldn't know if it bit him in the butt.
Batchelder examining how to oust AG Dann
During his nearly 40 years in public office, state Rep. William Batchelder often has found himself at the center of major battles.
He helped decide how the Ohio House should respond in the 1970s to campus uprisings and in the '90s to state lawmakers accused of skirting campaign finance and ethics laws.
Now, the Republican from Medina, a constitutional lawyer, has been given the task of researching the process House members would use to impeach Ohio Attorney General Marc Dann.
Dann, a Democrat, admitted Friday to having an extramarital affair with a subordinate, and he fired or accepted resignations from four employees for their part in a sexual-harassment scandal. He apologized but refused to resign.
Gov. Ted Strickland and other Democratic leaders have said the House will try to impeach Dann if he doesn't step down.
Speaker Jon Husted, R-Kettering, asked Batchelder to guide the House on how to follow a process that hasn't been used in nearly 200 years.
''I have selected Rep. Batchelder for this task for several reasons, paramount among them because he is respected by members of both sides of the aisle on matters of great importance,'' Husted said.
via Ohio Politics
Begala & Hillary's Party Is Just Eggheads & Afro-Americans Without Whites
Boy, I love being fought over. It's more fun than being just another sex object for a Sadie Hawkins Soirée.
Plus, now I know just how truly them Democritters love me. Theys was jus playin shy.
This whitie come lately conversation is going to help them win in November .
Plus, now I know just how truly them Democritters love me. Theys was jus playin shy.
Mr. Begala, a Clinton supporter, said the party could not win in November with just “eggheads and African-Americans,” that the party could not ignore white middle-class voters. Ms. Brazile, who said she was not “undecided but undeclared” when it came to her choice for a candidate, shot back that Mr. Begala’s notions were dividing the party. (And that she’d chugged down many a beer with Joe and Jane “six-pack” in an effort to woo white voters.)
This whitie come lately conversation is going to help them win in November .
Hillary Only Now Rediscovers Whitey
Clinton makes case for wide appeal
Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters — including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests.
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.
Yep, a pattern. It may be a pattern of remembering "working, hard-working Americans, white Americans" are due representation as well as all others. Pandering has its problems, as Hillary is finding out. It's a pattern of Democrats, when about to lose, rediscovering the rest of America.
Hillary Rodham Clinton vowed Wednesday to continue her quest for the Democratic nomination, arguing she would be the stronger nominee because she appeals to a wider coalition of voters — including whites who have not supported Barack Obama in recent contests.
"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she said in an interview with USA TODAY. As evidence, Clinton cited an Associated Press article "that found how Sen. Obama's support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me."
"There's a pattern emerging here," she said.
Yep, a pattern. It may be a pattern of remembering "working, hard-working Americans, white Americans" are due representation as well as all others. Pandering has its problems, as Hillary is finding out. It's a pattern of Democrats, when about to lose, rediscovering the rest of America.
By Knockout - The Loser Is Hillary Obama
Does Ramirez know something we don't? That looks like Rev Ted Strickland.
The Purple Donkey In The Limousine
Frank Rich, who finds odious all things conservative, has a new piece up which should delight his entire audience, his editors.
The All-White Elephant In The Room
Rich does an adequate job of minimizing the heart and the intellect of "conservative" evangelical preachers and those they endorse. Rich even has a theory of why Jeremiah Wright's video gets more play than Hagge's or Falwell's, it is Wright's histrionics and black-theater. Is Rich the reincarnation of Jimmy the Greek who portrays Wright and other black preachers as better and prettier because of their blackness and history of slavery? Probably. It is the type of cheap shot Rich employs often if he can squirm it in against white conservatives in a way as to not to appear racist himself. Rich loves his gotcha moments as proof of his moral insight of all that is wrong about America, but Rich gets to his point in the last paragraph;
Anyone who does the math knows that America is on track to become a white-minority nation in three to four decades. Yet if there’s any coherent message to be gleaned from the hypocrisy whipped up by Hurricane Jeremiah, it’s that this nation’s perennially promised candid conversation on race has yet to begin.
Abolitionists, the Civil War, Eisenhower and all the people working to put race in its place, no place, have not been candid. Only Rich and his rich intellectual friends discussing "race", global warming and other priority issues in their limousine's and jets, just out of hearing of their chauffeurs, have been candid in their speech and actions, but they never seem to notice the elitist purple donkey in their midst. That would just ruin their pâté de foie gras. Talk about tragedy.
via DaytonOS
The All-White Elephant In The Room
Rich does an adequate job of minimizing the heart and the intellect of "conservative" evangelical preachers and those they endorse. Rich even has a theory of why Jeremiah Wright's video gets more play than Hagge's or Falwell's, it is Wright's histrionics and black-theater. Is Rich the reincarnation of Jimmy the Greek who portrays Wright and other black preachers as better and prettier because of their blackness and history of slavery? Probably. It is the type of cheap shot Rich employs often if he can squirm it in against white conservatives in a way as to not to appear racist himself. Rich loves his gotcha moments as proof of his moral insight of all that is wrong about America, but Rich gets to his point in the last paragraph;
Anyone who does the math knows that America is on track to become a white-minority nation in three to four decades. Yet if there’s any coherent message to be gleaned from the hypocrisy whipped up by Hurricane Jeremiah, it’s that this nation’s perennially promised candid conversation on race has yet to begin.
Abolitionists, the Civil War, Eisenhower and all the people working to put race in its place, no place, have not been candid. Only Rich and his rich intellectual friends discussing "race", global warming and other priority issues in their limousine's and jets, just out of hearing of their chauffeurs, have been candid in their speech and actions, but they never seem to notice the elitist purple donkey in their midst. That would just ruin their pâté de foie gras. Talk about tragedy.
via DaytonOS
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Lizard Head, With Class, States Democrat Fears
The Democrats wanted to use the race card to their advantage and it became the wild card that has gone out of control and they're worried. So worried they push out their favorite junk yard dog, Mister James Carville, to try and take Obama down because Obama hasn't been following the Democrat script of being the party of race not the party that elects race except where it benefits the Democrat Party.
"The Republicans will eat him alive" is what the Clinton campaign is telling the superdelegates. Hillary is the tougher of the two, the candidate you want on your side in a knife fight, a gender reversal that prompts Carville to indulge in some ribald humor: "If she gave him one of her cojones, they'd both have two."
Besides implying that the title Ms is a misnomer in this race, Carville implies that Obama can't go for the kill. Saying someone from Chicago can't kill is like saying someone from Las Vegas can't play poker. An anamoly for sure.
The race card for the Democrats has become the high card in their dead-man's hand and it may just kill them in this election. By not sticking to the script Obama has cornered the Clinton-Democrat Party. If Hillary gets the super delegate vote, the democrats could lose significant numbers of betrayed black voters causing them to lose the White House as well as down ticket. If the Clinton-Democrats cave, well, the Democrats have a candidate so damaged as to be considered congenitally so, they lose again, but this time they lose so bad it will make McGovern look good.
One could say the Democrat's chickens are coming home to roost.
ht to Gateway Pundit
"The Republicans will eat him alive" is what the Clinton campaign is telling the superdelegates. Hillary is the tougher of the two, the candidate you want on your side in a knife fight, a gender reversal that prompts Carville to indulge in some ribald humor: "If she gave him one of her cojones, they'd both have two."
Besides implying that the title Ms is a misnomer in this race, Carville implies that Obama can't go for the kill. Saying someone from Chicago can't kill is like saying someone from Las Vegas can't play poker. An anamoly for sure.
The race card for the Democrats has become the high card in their dead-man's hand and it may just kill them in this election. By not sticking to the script Obama has cornered the Clinton-Democrat Party. If Hillary gets the super delegate vote, the democrats could lose significant numbers of betrayed black voters causing them to lose the White House as well as down ticket. If the Clinton-Democrats cave, well, the Democrats have a candidate so damaged as to be considered congenitally so, they lose again, but this time they lose so bad it will make McGovern look good.
One could say the Democrat's chickens are coming home to roost.
ht to Gateway Pundit
Obama & Clinton - Economic Parity, Justice & Equality
PC for socialism
Michelle Obama
"They don't want the whole pie," she told the women. "There are some who do, but most Americans feel blessed just being able to thrive a little bit. But that is becoming even more out of reach."
"If we don't wake up as a nation with a new kind of leadership...for how we want this country to work, then we won't get universal health care," she said.
"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."
Hillary Clinton
Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
Barack Obama's website
Obama's campaign Web site reads, "Obama will protect tax cuts for poor and middle class families, but he will reverse most of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers."
"Obama will make available a new national health plan to all Americans, including the self-employed and small businesses, to buy affordable health coverage that is similar to the plan available to members of Congress."
"Obama will raise the minimum wage and index it to inflation to make sure that full-time workers can earn a living wage that allows them to raise their families and pay for basic needs such as food, transportation, and housing."
Barack Obama
"Well, obviously, race is still an important factor in our society. There is still discrimination. There’s still barriers to opportunity. But I think what’s important to note is that Dr. King went down to Memphis as part of the poor people’s movement and recognized the link between economic justice and racial justice. But on the economic front, we just found out-- that last month, we lost 80,000 jobs, over 200,000 so far this year. And so often that is just disproportionately impacting African American and Latinos.
Having an agenda that ensures economic justice, that everybody can get paid a decent wage and find a job. That part of Dr. King’s dream has not yet been achieved. And I think has to be one of the challenges to America in the coming decades."
Bill Clinton
"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
Yoga Berra
We’re lost, but we’re making great time!
At least Yoga understands.
Michelle Obama
"They don't want the whole pie," she told the women. "There are some who do, but most Americans feel blessed just being able to thrive a little bit. But that is becoming even more out of reach."
"If we don't wake up as a nation with a new kind of leadership...for how we want this country to work, then we won't get universal health care," she said.
"The truth is, in order to get things like universal health care and a revamped education system, then someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more."
Hillary Clinton
Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
Barack Obama's website
Obama's campaign Web site reads, "Obama will protect tax cuts for poor and middle class families, but he will reverse most of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers."
"Obama will make available a new national health plan to all Americans, including the self-employed and small businesses, to buy affordable health coverage that is similar to the plan available to members of Congress."
"Obama will raise the minimum wage and index it to inflation to make sure that full-time workers can earn a living wage that allows them to raise their families and pay for basic needs such as food, transportation, and housing."
Barack Obama
"Well, obviously, race is still an important factor in our society. There is still discrimination. There’s still barriers to opportunity. But I think what’s important to note is that Dr. King went down to Memphis as part of the poor people’s movement and recognized the link between economic justice and racial justice. But on the economic front, we just found out-- that last month, we lost 80,000 jobs, over 200,000 so far this year. And so often that is just disproportionately impacting African American and Latinos.
Having an agenda that ensures economic justice, that everybody can get paid a decent wage and find a job. That part of Dr. King’s dream has not yet been achieved. And I think has to be one of the challenges to America in the coming decades."
Bill Clinton
"It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is.
Yoga Berra
We’re lost, but we’re making great time!
At least Yoga understands.
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Okay, Obama Can't
I'm listening to the presumed messiah of the socialist hopes in America.
I wouldn't believe him if he gave me the time.
Oh, and quit the preacher cadence. It's worse than Hillary's southern accent.
Two fakes don't make a right.
I wouldn't believe him if he gave me the time.
Oh, and quit the preacher cadence. It's worse than Hillary's southern accent.
Two fakes don't make a right.
Monday, May 05, 2008
Halp Us Steven Cing
Stupidity Is Contagious
"I don't want to sound like an ad, a public service ad on TV, but the fact is if you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don't, then you've got, the Army, Iraq, I don't know, something like that. It's, it's not as bright. So, that's my little commercial for that."
"Pandering extraordinaire" Works For Me.
Corker calls gas tax suspension "pandering extraordinaire"
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker called a federal gas tax holiday proposed by Republican colleague and presidential candidate John McCain “pandering extraordinaire” today.
Hey Corker, why don't you pander? I could use 40 cents off right about now. I know, the gas tax builds and maintains roads, but how about all the other wacky taxes? Can't we use the taxes used to support the left handed lesbian nun mother earth chorus for highways. That way you can make the gas tax suspension permanent, drill for some oil and build some refineries.
Or is it "pandering extraordinaire" to state what you all in congress should be doing?
U.S. Sen. Bob Corker called a federal gas tax holiday proposed by Republican colleague and presidential candidate John McCain “pandering extraordinaire” today.
Hey Corker, why don't you pander? I could use 40 cents off right about now. I know, the gas tax builds and maintains roads, but how about all the other wacky taxes? Can't we use the taxes used to support the left handed lesbian nun mother earth chorus for highways. That way you can make the gas tax suspension permanent, drill for some oil and build some refineries.
Or is it "pandering extraordinaire" to state what you all in congress should be doing?
Pity PETA or PETA Pity?
DAY AFTER: PETA wants jockey suspended after Derby death...
It is so typical for groups such as PETA to use those they profess to care for to make money by making headlines with stupid statements.
It is so typical for groups such as PETA to use those they profess to care for to make money by making headlines with stupid statements.
Sunday, May 04, 2008
The Crude Cost Of Reid & Pelosi
Remind me, when was it that Reid & Pelosi took power telling us they had a plan to reduce the cost of fuel? Wasn't it when gas cost about $2.15.
Way to go Happy Harry & Nana.
38 Years Ago
Kent State, May 4, 1970
Four dead in Ohio. There are experts who still disagree about who fired first.
Four dead in Ohio. There are experts who still disagree about who fired first.
Bring Our Troops Home NOW!
From BOB OWENS: vis Instapundit
Fifty-four shootings in two weekends. Shot-up bodies recovered in groups of three and five. Is this Ramadi? Basra? No.
Welcome to Chicago.
It's an Obamanation out there in that place on the Sea of Discontent where heartbreak and lonely meet. It's enough to make one bitter, eh?
Fifty-four shootings in two weekends. Shot-up bodies recovered in groups of three and five. Is this Ramadi? Basra? No.
Welcome to Chicago.
It's an Obamanation out there in that place on the Sea of Discontent where heartbreak and lonely meet. It's enough to make one bitter, eh?
I'm Hoping For A Massive SUV Sale!
The New York Times notes that U.S. car buyers have suddenly gone ga-ga over small cars. One in five purchases is now a compact or subcompact, while SUV sales are off 28%. "It's easily the most dramatic segment shift I have witnessed in the market in my 31 years here," said George Pipas, Ford Motor's chief sales analyst.
I love my Cherokee, but oh, the conundrum, another SUV or a new muscle car.
I love my Cherokee, but oh, the conundrum, another SUV or a new muscle car.
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Obama & The Weathercouple
Obama has always been less than truthful about his friends and families so it isn't surprising that he would fib about Ayers and Dohrn, aka, the happy bombers. They are a power couple as dangerous as Bill & Hill though Bill & Hill have a longer and more populated line of unexplained deaths in their past.
via Protein Wisdom
Dems 2008: Elizabeth Wurtzel on Barack Obama’s other friends, the “Weathercouple” [Karl]
Apparently, back when he was running for state senate, Barack Obama had fund-raising events at the home of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and there’s been some press about the senator’s friendship with this controversial Weathercouple. Many reporters are well aware, even though Mr. Obama has described his connection to Ayers and Dohrn as “flimsy,” that the senator’s relationship with his radical Hyde Park neighbors is actually quite warm, even close.
The Democrat's nominees really are Worse and Worser.
via Protein Wisdom
Dems 2008: Elizabeth Wurtzel on Barack Obama’s other friends, the “Weathercouple” [Karl]
Apparently, back when he was running for state senate, Barack Obama had fund-raising events at the home of Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, and there’s been some press about the senator’s friendship with this controversial Weathercouple. Many reporters are well aware, even though Mr. Obama has described his connection to Ayers and Dohrn as “flimsy,” that the senator’s relationship with his radical Hyde Park neighbors is actually quite warm, even close.
The Democrat's nominees really are Worse and Worser.
Smoking Kills Gays Who Kill Free Speech?
From Terry Frank
Ryan Sorba has authored a book called the Born Gay Hoax. He was invited by the Smith College Republicans to deliver a speech that was promptly interrupted by gay activists who climbed through the windows. They eventually overtook the podium and college officials called off the speech.
I don't smoke anymore, but I will not deny that I enjoyed smoking immensely and I am happily married. Does that mean I get to add 10 to 30 years onto my life?
Epidemiological studies are scientific plastic surgery. One gets what one wants, but it's obvious to others.
Ryan Sorba has authored a book called the Born Gay Hoax. He was invited by the Smith College Republicans to deliver a speech that was promptly interrupted by gay activists who climbed through the windows. They eventually overtook the podium and college officials called off the speech.
While the medical consensus is that smoking knocks from two to
10 years off an individual’s life expectancy, the IJE study found that
homosexual conduct shortens the lifespan of “gays” by an astounding “8 to 20
years” — more than twice that of smoking.
“[U]nder even the most liberal assumptions,” concluded the study,
“gay and bisexual men in this urban centre are now experiencing a life
expectancy similar to that experienced by all men in Canada in the year 1871. …
[L]ife expectancy at age 20 years for gay and bisexual men is 8 to 20 years less
than for all men.”
I don't smoke anymore, but I will not deny that I enjoyed smoking immensely and I am happily married. Does that mean I get to add 10 to 30 years onto my life?
Epidemiological studies are scientific plastic surgery. One gets what one wants, but it's obvious to others.
Friday, May 02, 2008
Democrat War Mongers
via Tony Phyrillas
Can't totally blame LBJ for Vietnam. The first messiah (before Obama), JFK had a heavy hand in starting the Vietnam War. Just ask the Diem brothers. Of course you'll have to dig up their assassinated butts, but even those pesky peace makers make some mistakes. Just don't ask a Democrat about this because in their opinion George W. Bush actually started the Vietnam War, caused cancer and made your juice spill this very morning..
At Least A Stake Will Get Rid Of A Vampire, Not So Dann
Marc Dann wants to bring respect back to the State Attorney General's office and staff. To do so he is auditing this, studying that, forming committees, starting groups, quoting John Wayne, groveling, stuttering and promising to keep his zipper up.
He's heartbroken, ashamed, he's wearing a size 14 Achilles heel, he admits that what he has had to do is very-very-very-very difficult, his admission is punishment enough, he's embarrassed, he's red-faced, he's accepting responsibility for his actions by firing others, but he's gonna work real hard to change our opinion of him and his office.
Marc Dann, believe in what your messiah says and embrace "real change" if you want to bring respect back to your office.
Quit, you lying sleazy cheat.
He's heartbroken, ashamed, he's wearing a size 14 Achilles heel, he admits that what he has had to do is very-very-very-very difficult, his admission is punishment enough, he's embarrassed, he's red-faced, he's accepting responsibility for his actions by firing others, but he's gonna work real hard to change our opinion of him and his office.
Marc Dann, believe in what your messiah says and embrace "real change" if you want to bring respect back to your office.
Quit, you lying sleazy cheat.
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
So What If Pulled Pork Is Not Halal?
At least here in America. Halal can mean lawful or actions permitted by Shariah law without punishment imposed on the doer in many matters. We are not the Middle East. The right question is, is Islam as practiced worldwide, halal? Is it halal to keep your daughters stupid, pregnant and subservient? Is it halal to murder oneself to murder innocents for a bribe of 72 virgins? Is it halal to use death, dismemberment, beatings, threats, public humiliation and other crimes against others that one disagrees with?
If these things are halal then the hell with halal.
I bring this up because I received a question from a very thoughtful person concerning shariah or sharia law and the taking of America by Islam as they appear to be doing in Europe and Asia.
I think that we too will crumble without hardly a blink...what do you think?
jennifer
I do not believe we will.
I have lived and worked in DC, LA, NYC, Boston, Taos and other places and there is a difference in thinking among certain circles. I feel sorry for those that, as a friend quipped, have become so urbane that they are insane. That said, there are differences between Butte, Paducah and Billings as well. Unlike Europe and Asia, America is ployglot both literally and figuratively. We are a united people in a united state of steel workers, bankers, soldiers, ranchers and doctors, lawyers and such.
The urbane insane love to quip that our founding fathers were just a bunch of dead white guys, ie, all alike. How intellectually shallow. To understand our founders is to know just how different they were except in the vision and determination to build a better nation. Some were wealthy, some became wealthy, some lost their fortune and some died. To say that Jefferson, Adams, Burr, Hamilton, Madison and Franklin were all the same is not ignorance, it is stupidity because even a fourth grader has readily at hand descriptions of each. Their differences were wedded together, often not too prettily, to shape a nation. Yes, they were that important that you can still see their prints in the mold of each new generation of Americans.
It is not that Americans want to be a Washington or a Jefferson, nor do they want to be a John Wayne, George Washington Carver, Clara Barton or a Ronald Reagan, but they do want to emulate them in passion, excellence and devotion to principle.
Islam in America so far has only had to deal with lawmakers, philosophers and the media. They best watch out when they start running into the America that remembers what America is and will become. America's greatest strength is not just its people, but those people's belief in God, liberty and their neighbors. That America will not swear or violate as they kill those that would harm America and the American dream.
To travel America is to be awed. Its beauty alone staggers the mind. Its differences all wedded together, sometimes not so prettily, is what makes it strong and wildly brilliant. The human race shares basic needs and desires, but here in America, as those basic needs are daily met, Americans reach for the sky in little and big ways.
My son, three generations out of the coal mines grinding down hope, is wrestling with the question of becoming a doctor, an economist or a rally race car driver. My father died young just as all the males in his family before him even though he was the first to graduate from high school, college and medical school and married "up" to my mother whose fore bearers settled Jamestown, Richmond and numerous other towns and regions. I think my family special, but they are not unique.
They are American.
Islamofacists cannot possibly understand that which is why they will fail in their violent hope of the caliphate including America. How could their tribal tradition ever hope to understand a southern lady marrying a hard scrabble boy from the streets of Akron whose son married an Italian girl from New York whose godfather was a Brooklyn cop named Leo?
Jen, we must always keep up our guard, but Tehran will never play in Peoria. If they ever try to go off Broadway they'll find that my uncle, Old Zeth, can still nail them in the eye at 10 yards with tabaccy or 100 yards with a single shot. It would be no matter to him except he'd have to put down his book and his pulled pork sandwich to deal with any halal crap which would make him cantankerous. Trust me. No one wants to try to make him mad twice. I got the welts as reminders, but I also have the love, the wisdom and the patriotism handed down by a long line of Zeths. So do you and the majority of Americans.
If these things are halal then the hell with halal.
I bring this up because I received a question from a very thoughtful person concerning shariah or sharia law and the taking of America by Islam as they appear to be doing in Europe and Asia.
I think that we too will crumble without hardly a blink...what do you think?
jennifer
I do not believe we will.
I have lived and worked in DC, LA, NYC, Boston, Taos and other places and there is a difference in thinking among certain circles. I feel sorry for those that, as a friend quipped, have become so urbane that they are insane. That said, there are differences between Butte, Paducah and Billings as well. Unlike Europe and Asia, America is ployglot both literally and figuratively. We are a united people in a united state of steel workers, bankers, soldiers, ranchers and doctors, lawyers and such.
The urbane insane love to quip that our founding fathers were just a bunch of dead white guys, ie, all alike. How intellectually shallow. To understand our founders is to know just how different they were except in the vision and determination to build a better nation. Some were wealthy, some became wealthy, some lost their fortune and some died. To say that Jefferson, Adams, Burr, Hamilton, Madison and Franklin were all the same is not ignorance, it is stupidity because even a fourth grader has readily at hand descriptions of each. Their differences were wedded together, often not too prettily, to shape a nation. Yes, they were that important that you can still see their prints in the mold of each new generation of Americans.
It is not that Americans want to be a Washington or a Jefferson, nor do they want to be a John Wayne, George Washington Carver, Clara Barton or a Ronald Reagan, but they do want to emulate them in passion, excellence and devotion to principle.
Islam in America so far has only had to deal with lawmakers, philosophers and the media. They best watch out when they start running into the America that remembers what America is and will become. America's greatest strength is not just its people, but those people's belief in God, liberty and their neighbors. That America will not swear or violate as they kill those that would harm America and the American dream.
To travel America is to be awed. Its beauty alone staggers the mind. Its differences all wedded together, sometimes not so prettily, is what makes it strong and wildly brilliant. The human race shares basic needs and desires, but here in America, as those basic needs are daily met, Americans reach for the sky in little and big ways.
My son, three generations out of the coal mines grinding down hope, is wrestling with the question of becoming a doctor, an economist or a rally race car driver. My father died young just as all the males in his family before him even though he was the first to graduate from high school, college and medical school and married "up" to my mother whose fore bearers settled Jamestown, Richmond and numerous other towns and regions. I think my family special, but they are not unique.
They are American.
Islamofacists cannot possibly understand that which is why they will fail in their violent hope of the caliphate including America. How could their tribal tradition ever hope to understand a southern lady marrying a hard scrabble boy from the streets of Akron whose son married an Italian girl from New York whose godfather was a Brooklyn cop named Leo?
Jen, we must always keep up our guard, but Tehran will never play in Peoria. If they ever try to go off Broadway they'll find that my uncle, Old Zeth, can still nail them in the eye at 10 yards with tabaccy or 100 yards with a single shot. It would be no matter to him except he'd have to put down his book and his pulled pork sandwich to deal with any halal crap which would make him cantankerous. Trust me. No one wants to try to make him mad twice. I got the welts as reminders, but I also have the love, the wisdom and the patriotism handed down by a long line of Zeths. So do you and the majority of Americans.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Church's Chicken Is Sharia?
I never liked Caribou Coffee, nor Starbucks, etal, but I love fried chicken. Church's has every right to do business as they see fit. I have every right to eat where I see fit. It won't be Church's.
Branching out, with limits
In many ways, the 2005 initial public offering for Caribou Coffee was like any other.
It contained information about the popular coffee chain's growth strategy, an industry overview and its financials.
But Page 16 of its prospectus may have left some would-be investors scratching their heads:
"Our compliance with Shari'ah principles may make it difficult for us to obtain financing and may limit the products we sell."
...
Arcapita's diverse holdings, which include Southland Log Homes, Cypress Communications, Church's Chicken and American Pad & Paper, show that a company with strict investment guidelines can succeed in the United States, the world's biggest --- albeit secular --- economy.
Arcapita Bank, founded in 1997 as First Islamic Investment Bank, had $2.3 billion in assets at the end of June.
I hope the Church's Chicken employee handbook doesn't mention sharia to resolve employee disputes. That could give a whole new meaning to chicken fingers.
Branching out, with limits
In many ways, the 2005 initial public offering for Caribou Coffee was like any other.
It contained information about the popular coffee chain's growth strategy, an industry overview and its financials.
But Page 16 of its prospectus may have left some would-be investors scratching their heads:
"Our compliance with Shari'ah principles may make it difficult for us to obtain financing and may limit the products we sell."
...
Arcapita's diverse holdings, which include Southland Log Homes, Cypress Communications, Church's Chicken and American Pad & Paper, show that a company with strict investment guidelines can succeed in the United States, the world's biggest --- albeit secular --- economy.
Arcapita Bank, founded in 1997 as First Islamic Investment Bank, had $2.3 billion in assets at the end of June.
I hope the Church's Chicken employee handbook doesn't mention sharia to resolve employee disputes. That could give a whole new meaning to chicken fingers.
DNC Howard Dean Is A Liar
When asked about President Bush's comments that having US troops in Iraq for another 50 years would be acceptable was, "Maybe 100. That's be fine with me. As long as Americans are not being injured or harmed or wounded or killed, that'd be fine with me, and I hope it would be fine with you, if we maintain a presence in a very volatile part of the world where al-Qaida is training, recruiting, equipping and motivating people every single day."
The quote, and the real intent of the quote, is obviously about stability in the Middle East, but Howard Dean twists it to his intent which is furthered by using terrorist footage of American troops being blown up.
Instead of addressing the obvious, that the "religious" terrorists are murderers that do not represent the majority of Iraqis, Howard Dean uses the murderers as an example of what will be the norm for 100 years.
This is negative campaigning at its worst and Howard Dean and Democrats should be ashamed, but as a fellow member of the United Church of Christ with Moyers, Obama and Jeremiah Wright there is little possibility that shame will cross his mind.
Monday, April 28, 2008
Tom Hayden Says Hillary Clinton Is Like Richard Nixon
Liberals, the gift that just keeps on giving. Obama and Hillary, worse and worser.
Tom Hayden Looks at Clinton's 60s Past
In The Nation, former 60s radical Tom Hayden -- in an essay called "Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream" -- hammers Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, for attacking Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, for his association with former Weather Underground member William Ayers. "Hillary is blind to her own roots in the sixties," Hayden writes. "She was in Chicago for three nights during the 1968 street confrontations. She chaired the 1970 Yale law school meeting where students voted to join a national student strike again an 'unconscionable expansion of a war that should never have been waged.' She was involved in the New Haven defense of Bobby Seale during his murder trial in 1970, as the lead scheduler of student monitors. ... She wrote that abused children were citizens with the same rights as their parents.
"Most significantly in terms of her recent attacks on Barack, after Yale law school, Hillary went to work for the left-wing Bay Area law firm of Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein, which specialized in Black Panthers and West Coast labor leaders prosecuted for being communists. Two of the firm's partners, according to Treuhaft, were communists and the two others 'tolerated communists'. Then she went on to Washington to help impeach Richard Nixon, whose career was built on smearing and destroying the careers of people through vague insinuations about their backgrounds and associates. ...
"All these were honorable words and associations in my mind, but doesn't she see how the Hillary of today would accuse the Hillary of the sixties of associating with black revolutionaries who fought gun battles with police officers, and defending pro-communist lawyers who backed communists? Doesn't the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whom Hillary attacks today, represent the very essence of the black radicals Hillary was associating with in those days? And isn't the Hillary of today becoming the same kind of guilt-by-association insinuator as the Richard Nixon she worked to impeach?"
Hey Hillary, with friends like this... it would be easier to dodge sniper fire.
Tom Hayden Looks at Clinton's 60s Past
In The Nation, former 60s radical Tom Hayden -- in an essay called "Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream" -- hammers Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, for attacking Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, for his association with former Weather Underground member William Ayers. "Hillary is blind to her own roots in the sixties," Hayden writes. "She was in Chicago for three nights during the 1968 street confrontations. She chaired the 1970 Yale law school meeting where students voted to join a national student strike again an 'unconscionable expansion of a war that should never have been waged.' She was involved in the New Haven defense of Bobby Seale during his murder trial in 1970, as the lead scheduler of student monitors. ... She wrote that abused children were citizens with the same rights as their parents.
"Most significantly in terms of her recent attacks on Barack, after Yale law school, Hillary went to work for the left-wing Bay Area law firm of Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein, which specialized in Black Panthers and West Coast labor leaders prosecuted for being communists. Two of the firm's partners, according to Treuhaft, were communists and the two others 'tolerated communists'. Then she went on to Washington to help impeach Richard Nixon, whose career was built on smearing and destroying the careers of people through vague insinuations about their backgrounds and associates. ...
"All these were honorable words and associations in my mind, but doesn't she see how the Hillary of today would accuse the Hillary of the sixties of associating with black revolutionaries who fought gun battles with police officers, and defending pro-communist lawyers who backed communists? Doesn't the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whom Hillary attacks today, represent the very essence of the black radicals Hillary was associating with in those days? And isn't the Hillary of today becoming the same kind of guilt-by-association insinuator as the Richard Nixon she worked to impeach?"
Hey Hillary, with friends like this... it would be easier to dodge sniper fire.
One-upmanship As Reconciliation
Wright at the National Press Club is doing his judgemental one man show. Chastising those that have not read what he has read or have taken away from their reading a different interpretation Wright is giving his interpretation of what the world should be. His world is worse off for white men, especially white American men according to the Black Liberation theology of Wright.
After listening to his speech I envision a train wreck at which the survivors are desperately looking at what should be done to clean up the mess of scattered ruin while the train engineer smugly avers that the mess is better understood when people apologize for the inherent wrongness of the way the system was built.
Wright spoke defiantly, always switching the point to keep his opponents off kilter and made any question a personal attack on him, blacks and the black church. Wright spoke, smirked and ridiculed just as a smart ass punk does in the school yard. Wright answers only to his god and thus is infallible while saying Obama is only doing what politicians do which is to be a two-faced liar because that is politically expedient.
In short, Wright believes that all that has happened is really just an attack on the black church, but he is available to be Vice President.
Wright is simply using God and Obama to further himself because in the end, it is all about Jeremiah Wright. Wright is shameless.
After listening to his speech I envision a train wreck at which the survivors are desperately looking at what should be done to clean up the mess of scattered ruin while the train engineer smugly avers that the mess is better understood when people apologize for the inherent wrongness of the way the system was built.
Wright spoke defiantly, always switching the point to keep his opponents off kilter and made any question a personal attack on him, blacks and the black church. Wright spoke, smirked and ridiculed just as a smart ass punk does in the school yard. Wright answers only to his god and thus is infallible while saying Obama is only doing what politicians do which is to be a two-faced liar because that is politically expedient.
In short, Wright believes that all that has happened is really just an attack on the black church, but he is available to be Vice President.
Wright is simply using God and Obama to further himself because in the end, it is all about Jeremiah Wright. Wright is shameless.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Right On Cue Sharpton Enters Stage Left
America's own rage boy finds the cameras again.
This time people get shot for attempting to run down policemen and Al is enraged. Last time it was a 15 year old telling a horrible story which Sharpton ran with for all it was worth which was nothing when the story was found to be a hoax. Didn't stop Al. Won't stop Al. Al hates facts.
Taliban, al-Qaeda Lose More Local Support
Don't tell the Democrats that now there are more people willing to oppose the Islamofascists. Unlike Pelosi, etal, these people know what it means to believe.
Taliban bitten by a snake in the grass
The Taliban and their al-Qaeda associates, in what they considered a master stroke, this year started to target the Western alliance's supply lines that run through Pakistan into Afghanistan.
Their focal point was Khyber Agency, in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, a key transit point for as much as 70% of the alliance's supplies needed to maintain its battle against the Afghan insurgency.
The spectacular blowing up on March 20 of 40 gas tankers at Torkham - the border crossing in Khyber Agency into Afghanistan's Nangarhar province - sent shock waves through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led (NATO) coalition. So much so that it made a deal for some supplies to transit through Russia, a much more arduous route.
The Torkham success was followed by a number of smaller attacks, and the Taliban's plan appeared to be going better than they could have expected.
Then came this week's incident in which the Taliban seized two members of the World Food Program (WFP) in Khyber Agency, and it became obvious the Taliban had been betrayed, and all for the princely sum of about US$150,000.
Their Khyber dreams are now in tatters.
Read the rest. It is a very interesting story of the Taliban and al-Qaeda running into problems when locals are offered a choice. They lose if the locals believe they, their families and villages will be protected. It's also called trust. Something the Democrats and liberals cannot understand. Trust in America and our allies. Rough concept for them.
Taliban bitten by a snake in the grass
The Taliban and their al-Qaeda associates, in what they considered a master stroke, this year started to target the Western alliance's supply lines that run through Pakistan into Afghanistan.
Their focal point was Khyber Agency, in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas, a key transit point for as much as 70% of the alliance's supplies needed to maintain its battle against the Afghan insurgency.
The spectacular blowing up on March 20 of 40 gas tankers at Torkham - the border crossing in Khyber Agency into Afghanistan's Nangarhar province - sent shock waves through the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led (NATO) coalition. So much so that it made a deal for some supplies to transit through Russia, a much more arduous route.
The Torkham success was followed by a number of smaller attacks, and the Taliban's plan appeared to be going better than they could have expected.
Then came this week's incident in which the Taliban seized two members of the World Food Program (WFP) in Khyber Agency, and it became obvious the Taliban had been betrayed, and all for the princely sum of about US$150,000.
Their Khyber dreams are now in tatters.
Read the rest. It is a very interesting story of the Taliban and al-Qaeda running into problems when locals are offered a choice. They lose if the locals believe they, their families and villages will be protected. It's also called trust. Something the Democrats and liberals cannot understand. Trust in America and our allies. Rough concept for them.
Friday, April 25, 2008
I am sick of "green"
While working I have the news on. Every few minutes there are ads asking Americans to make our country green. On the news there are stories explaining how "green" is making America better as if it is fact.
Hour after hour. Day after day. Week after week. Month after month.
Boogers are green.
Hour after hour. Day after day. Week after week. Month after month.
Boogers are green.
Moyers Is Wright On Religion
Bill Moyers provided a platform for Jeremiah Wright, a fellow pastor in the United Church of Christ, to continue his pr campaign to alter the meaning of his own words. As if words do not have meaning. BTW, I did say fellow pastor.
Rev. Wright says 'devious' forces behind use of his words against Obama
"I think they wanted to communicate that I am unpatriotic, that I am un-American, that I am filled with hate speech, that I have a cult at Trinity United Church of Christ," Wright said in the first interview he has granted since comments critical of U.S. policies surfaced on television and the Internet."
'And by the way, guess who goes to his church, hint, hint, hint?' That's what they wanted to communicate. They know nothing about the church."
Moyers is a member of Wright's denomination, the United Church of Christ.
Last year Moyers had a different tone.
Journalist Moyers Blasts Religion-Based Politics In Magazine Interview
Moyers replied, "If you have to talk about God to win elections, that doesn't speak well of God or elections. We are desperate today for cool thinking and clear analysis. What kind of country is it that wants its politicians to play tricks with faith?"
Moyers, whose broadcasts on PBS have spanned several decades, holds a master of divinity degree and is known for his interest in religion.
And before that the things people like a Wright said were repugnant.
January 4, 2002 Now we must now reaffirm that vow, because we have some work to do on the home front. We have our own version of theocrats in people like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. They took bin Laden’s line – that what happened on 9/11 was God’s judgment on a decadent America. On Robertson’s television program Falwell said, ‘We probably got what we deserved.’ and Robertson replied: ‘Jerry, that’s my feeling.’ And what is the sin for which God condoned terrorism to punish America – why, the sin of the Bill of Rights. The sin of tolerating people Falwell and Robertson and bin Laden don’t like – feminists, gays, lesbians, rationalists, humanists, liberal judges, pro-choicers, the ACLU, People for the American Way. Yes, said Falwell, ‘(They) helped this to happen. So it was that people like Luis Bautista, William Steckman, Elizabeth Holmes, Linda Luzzacone, and Fred Scheffold had to die to propitiate a wrathful God.
Repugnant? Of course, but under that Bill of Rights they so detest they are entitled to their repugnant opinions. But such rights cannot mask their repulsiveness as human beings – piously spreading their virus of holy hate from the safety of plush studios and stately pulpits where they are isolated from the consequences of their malevolence. Let God do the dirty work – while they rake in the takings of bigotry and bile. We must say to these people – over and over again – what Mohammed Ali said to bin Laden: God is not an assassin.
It’s an old and enduring riddle -- how faith, “The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” – becomes a toxic chemical compound capable of changing plowshares into swords?
Can't have it both ways Reverend Moyer. If Falwell was wrong, so is Wright. Of course, if you exhonerate Wright while condemning a Falwell you become a hypocritical warrior for what you believe is "right". That would be like beating plowshares into swords to use against those with which you disagree, eh? Kinda like the Islamofacists. Kinda like Jeremiah Wright.
God bless America Reverends.
Rev. Wright says 'devious' forces behind use of his words against Obama
"I think they wanted to communicate that I am unpatriotic, that I am un-American, that I am filled with hate speech, that I have a cult at Trinity United Church of Christ," Wright said in the first interview he has granted since comments critical of U.S. policies surfaced on television and the Internet."
'And by the way, guess who goes to his church, hint, hint, hint?' That's what they wanted to communicate. They know nothing about the church."
Moyers is a member of Wright's denomination, the United Church of Christ.
Last year Moyers had a different tone.
Journalist Moyers Blasts Religion-Based Politics In Magazine Interview
Moyers replied, "If you have to talk about God to win elections, that doesn't speak well of God or elections. We are desperate today for cool thinking and clear analysis. What kind of country is it that wants its politicians to play tricks with faith?"
Moyers, whose broadcasts on PBS have spanned several decades, holds a master of divinity degree and is known for his interest in religion.
And before that the things people like a Wright said were repugnant.
January 4, 2002 Now we must now reaffirm that vow, because we have some work to do on the home front. We have our own version of theocrats in people like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell. They took bin Laden’s line – that what happened on 9/11 was God’s judgment on a decadent America. On Robertson’s television program Falwell said, ‘We probably got what we deserved.’ and Robertson replied: ‘Jerry, that’s my feeling.’ And what is the sin for which God condoned terrorism to punish America – why, the sin of the Bill of Rights. The sin of tolerating people Falwell and Robertson and bin Laden don’t like – feminists, gays, lesbians, rationalists, humanists, liberal judges, pro-choicers, the ACLU, People for the American Way. Yes, said Falwell, ‘(They) helped this to happen. So it was that people like Luis Bautista, William Steckman, Elizabeth Holmes, Linda Luzzacone, and Fred Scheffold had to die to propitiate a wrathful God.
Repugnant? Of course, but under that Bill of Rights they so detest they are entitled to their repugnant opinions. But such rights cannot mask their repulsiveness as human beings – piously spreading their virus of holy hate from the safety of plush studios and stately pulpits where they are isolated from the consequences of their malevolence. Let God do the dirty work – while they rake in the takings of bigotry and bile. We must say to these people – over and over again – what Mohammed Ali said to bin Laden: God is not an assassin.
It’s an old and enduring riddle -- how faith, “The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen” – becomes a toxic chemical compound capable of changing plowshares into swords?
Can't have it both ways Reverend Moyer. If Falwell was wrong, so is Wright. Of course, if you exhonerate Wright while condemning a Falwell you become a hypocritical warrior for what you believe is "right". That would be like beating plowshares into swords to use against those with which you disagree, eh? Kinda like the Islamofacists. Kinda like Jeremiah Wright.
God bless America Reverends.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Obama & The Amendments
Not a musical group as far as I know.
I have always loved listening to people whine about negative political advertising because the whiners are those that just got skewered. One step further, people whining about negative political advertising don't even know what real negative advertising is and what it is not.
If campaigner #1 does a bone head thing and campaigner #2 points it out, that is not negative advertising. If, after getting hit, campaigner #1 hits back with scurrilous nonsense, that is negative advertising
I am supporting John McCain, but I am allowed by the secret society of evil Republicans to disagree with him. Really, it's in the bylaws, but written only in lemon juice. John McCain is wrong about condemning the North Carolina ad about the ever entertaining Jeremiah Wright that shows Wright making a complete ass of himself. That they tie Obama to Wright is not by inference because it is a known fact. That Obama gave the "speech" not disowning Wright, but disowning his words is as disingenuous as Nana Pelosi lusting with love for the troops, but disowning their mission even though the objects of her lust are getting killed because of her public disowning of their mission. If Nana had done this on the streets of Little Italy while growing up in Baltimore a little old lady would have spanked her and told her to go home before she completely disgraced the neighborhood.
When the uproar over Wright started, Obama chief strategist David Axelrod asked his friends at Jasculca Terman -- a public affairs firm -- to advise Trinity on how to handle the crush of media coverage, and they did, pro bono. Jim Terman, the president of the firm, said, "We were not asked to provide our advice about the reported speech of Rev. Wright in Washington" and did not know about it until it was scheduled.
McCain denounced the North Carolina GOP party ad. "It's not the message of my campaign," he said. He wrote a letter to the state party chairman imploring them to pull the spot. The ad "degrades our civics," McCain said. The Republican National Committee also told the North Carolina party the ad was not "appropriate or helpful."
Obama, in Indiana, said he assumes if McCain "thinks that it's an inappropriate ad, that he can get them to pull it down since he's their nominee and standard bearer." The spot as I write this has not been pulled.
I'm pretty sure that McCain's understanding of the amendments, I'm thinking 10th here, is guiding his deploring, but not allowing his ordering that the ad be taken down. This is something Obama won't even try to understand because the federal government and its employees, elected and hired, can and should do what ever they want and the Constitution be damned.
I have always loved listening to people whine about negative political advertising because the whiners are those that just got skewered. One step further, people whining about negative political advertising don't even know what real negative advertising is and what it is not.
If campaigner #1 does a bone head thing and campaigner #2 points it out, that is not negative advertising. If, after getting hit, campaigner #1 hits back with scurrilous nonsense, that is negative advertising
I am supporting John McCain, but I am allowed by the secret society of evil Republicans to disagree with him. Really, it's in the bylaws, but written only in lemon juice. John McCain is wrong about condemning the North Carolina ad about the ever entertaining Jeremiah Wright that shows Wright making a complete ass of himself. That they tie Obama to Wright is not by inference because it is a known fact. That Obama gave the "speech" not disowning Wright, but disowning his words is as disingenuous as Nana Pelosi lusting with love for the troops, but disowning their mission even though the objects of her lust are getting killed because of her public disowning of their mission. If Nana had done this on the streets of Little Italy while growing up in Baltimore a little old lady would have spanked her and told her to go home before she completely disgraced the neighborhood.
When the uproar over Wright started, Obama chief strategist David Axelrod asked his friends at Jasculca Terman -- a public affairs firm -- to advise Trinity on how to handle the crush of media coverage, and they did, pro bono. Jim Terman, the president of the firm, said, "We were not asked to provide our advice about the reported speech of Rev. Wright in Washington" and did not know about it until it was scheduled.
McCain denounced the North Carolina GOP party ad. "It's not the message of my campaign," he said. He wrote a letter to the state party chairman imploring them to pull the spot. The ad "degrades our civics," McCain said. The Republican National Committee also told the North Carolina party the ad was not "appropriate or helpful."
Obama, in Indiana, said he assumes if McCain "thinks that it's an inappropriate ad, that he can get them to pull it down since he's their nominee and standard bearer." The spot as I write this has not been pulled.
I'm pretty sure that McCain's understanding of the amendments, I'm thinking 10th here, is guiding his deploring, but not allowing his ordering that the ad be taken down. This is something Obama won't even try to understand because the federal government and its employees, elected and hired, can and should do what ever they want and the Constitution be damned.
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Chicago, Iraq II
Reid & Pelosi as well as Chuckie Schumer and others to call for an immediate withdrawal from Chicago, Iraq saying it is untenable and we, as a nation, should not be involved in a civil war.
Bloodbath In Chicago: 5 Found Shot Dead...
Five people have been fatally shot on the South Side on Wednesday afternoon, a fire department source confirms. Police responded to reports of "multiple people shot" in the 7600 block of South Rhodes Avenue, police News Affairs Officer Marcel Bright said. The shooting took place inside a residence, he said.
Fat Jack Murtha in an uncoordinated echo stated that he is tired of gang members who he called "regional freedom fighters" being wantonly "murdered in cold blood" by uncontrollable Marines. When asked about reporters rolling their eyes every time Murtha opens his pork stuffed mouth, Pelosi got chaffed by her hair shirt, "This is not the American way," she said of a political climate she said brands those with dissenting views as unpatriotic, "but this is what's happening."
Pelosi later restated her support of the troops, but showed continued support for Murtha, her hatchet man, by saying that maybe it wasn't Marines murdering, that it could be Army, Navy or other BushCo-bot personnel like typical out-of-control police reminding reporters of her Rodney King stories.
Wednesday afternoon's shooting comes on the heels of a particularly violent weekend in the city. Between Friday night and early Monday morning, 36 people were shot in Chicago, nine fatally, and two people were stabbed.
Jay Rockefeller, extraordinaire inheritor of wealth and political power, mused that here in America we'd be really, really pissed if Chicago invaded us. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said with finality, "Chicago is lost and I tried to warn the president. He wouldn't listen to me".
Democrats in congress refuse to set any withdrawal time tables until the city and Cook County agree to give back a portion of patronage and other corruption dollars raised there since Mrs O'Leary's cow rebuilt the city.
Prior Chicago Here
Bloodbath In Chicago: 5 Found Shot Dead...
Five people have been fatally shot on the South Side on Wednesday afternoon, a fire department source confirms. Police responded to reports of "multiple people shot" in the 7600 block of South Rhodes Avenue, police News Affairs Officer Marcel Bright said. The shooting took place inside a residence, he said.
Fat Jack Murtha in an uncoordinated echo stated that he is tired of gang members who he called "regional freedom fighters" being wantonly "murdered in cold blood" by uncontrollable Marines. When asked about reporters rolling their eyes every time Murtha opens his pork stuffed mouth, Pelosi got chaffed by her hair shirt, "This is not the American way," she said of a political climate she said brands those with dissenting views as unpatriotic, "but this is what's happening."
Pelosi later restated her support of the troops, but showed continued support for Murtha, her hatchet man, by saying that maybe it wasn't Marines murdering, that it could be Army, Navy or other BushCo-bot personnel like typical out-of-control police reminding reporters of her Rodney King stories.
Wednesday afternoon's shooting comes on the heels of a particularly violent weekend in the city. Between Friday night and early Monday morning, 36 people were shot in Chicago, nine fatally, and two people were stabbed.
Jay Rockefeller, extraordinaire inheritor of wealth and political power, mused that here in America we'd be really, really pissed if Chicago invaded us. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said with finality, "Chicago is lost and I tried to warn the president. He wouldn't listen to me".
Democrats in congress refuse to set any withdrawal time tables until the city and Cook County agree to give back a portion of patronage and other corruption dollars raised there since Mrs O'Leary's cow rebuilt the city.
Prior Chicago Here
For The Person Who Has Everything
REUTERS: PENIS THEFT PANICS CITY...
Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.
Rumors of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
Please don't tell me 'The Plumbers" are responsible for penisgate.
via Drudge (of course)
Police in Congo have arrested 13 suspected sorcerers accused of using black magic to steal or shrink men's penises after a wave of panic and attempted lynchings triggered by the alleged witchcraft.
Reports of so-called penis snatching are not uncommon in West Africa, where belief in traditional religions and witchcraft remains widespread, and where ritual killings to obtain blood or body parts still occur.
Rumors of penis theft began circulating last week in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo's sprawling capital of some 8 million inhabitants. They quickly dominated radio call-in shows, with listeners advised to beware of fellow passengers in communal taxis wearing gold rings.
Please don't tell me 'The Plumbers" are responsible for penisgate.
via Drudge (of course)
Pennsylvania & Democrat Troubled Waters
People, especially those on the left, have a new mantra(s) that McCain's lead in some polls is a loss because of the Dem infighting. They love to add that voters do not want four more years of BushCo.
As is usually the case in the modern leftist movement know as the democratic Party they stare into their crystal ball with a myopia that is breath taking as we observe them divining the future.
The voter is asking whether they want another four years of the Clinton mindset without the political savvy of William Jefferson and with the bad characteristics of every horror picture's bumbler that always misreads the situation putting the good guys in further danger.
The voter is asking whether they want Obama's change for change sake when that change is pinioned to a history of sixties chaos and personal misjudgement so profound it stuns even those with a political tin ear.
Anyone who says that this candidate or that candidate will win in November is either speaking with God or is a moron. No liberal operative I know would bother to listen if God did speak to them. Any candidate that starts the post convention race politically exhausted, in dire need of huge chunks of change and hurt and damaged is logically fighting an uphill battle.
Hillary has the gumption, but does she have the strength?
Obama has the chutzpah, but does he have the savvy?
McCain does and he has survived very troubled waters.
As is usually the case in the modern leftist movement know as the democratic Party they stare into their crystal ball with a myopia that is breath taking as we observe them divining the future.
The voter is asking whether they want another four years of the Clinton mindset without the political savvy of William Jefferson and with the bad characteristics of every horror picture's bumbler that always misreads the situation putting the good guys in further danger.
The voter is asking whether they want Obama's change for change sake when that change is pinioned to a history of sixties chaos and personal misjudgement so profound it stuns even those with a political tin ear.
Anyone who says that this candidate or that candidate will win in November is either speaking with God or is a moron. No liberal operative I know would bother to listen if God did speak to them. Any candidate that starts the post convention race politically exhausted, in dire need of huge chunks of change and hurt and damaged is logically fighting an uphill battle.
Hillary has the gumption, but does she have the strength?
Obama has the chutzpah, but does he have the savvy?
McCain does and he has survived very troubled waters.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Chicago, Iraq
Chicago, a city known as an ideal Democrat city, a city where Democrats have ruled supreme, a city where Republicans must wear a scarlet "R", a city blessed by the messiah Obama also is a city torn by sectarian violence.
Chicago Gang Violence Escalates: 32 Shot, 6 Die In 2 Days...
Chicago appears to be more dangerous than Baghdad. Oh, that's right. It isn't Chicago's fault. It is the fault of President Bush and white history. Just ask the bullfrog, the Democrats that run it and Congress.
Croak, squeak,belch. No matter. It is the combined sounds of a racket.
Chicago Gang Violence Escalates: 32 Shot, 6 Die In 2 Days...
Chicago appears to be more dangerous than Baghdad. Oh, that's right. It isn't Chicago's fault. It is the fault of President Bush and white history. Just ask the bullfrog, the Democrats that run it and Congress.
Croak, squeak,belch. No matter. It is the combined sounds of a racket.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Maher - Pope Benedict Was A Nazi
To me Bill Maher is a fraud. From his "roughing up" a member of the audience who he thought was out of line to his pathetic charge that the Vatican is in charge of organized pedophilia and that Pope Benedict was a Nazi.
Big Lizards has nailed Maher. Go read.
Bill Maher is a ratings whore chasing the mighty dollar by fraudulently attacking those who are honestly doing so.
And he is not funny.
Big Lizards has nailed Maher. Go read.
Bill Maher is a ratings whore chasing the mighty dollar by fraudulently attacking those who are honestly doing so.
And he is not funny.
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