Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Pelosi's Transparency Leaves Voters In The Dark





Pelosi tells C-SPAN: 'There has never been a more open process'
"We will do what is necessary to pass the bill," Pelosi said.

Pelosi (left) speaks to the cameras.

Lone Republican - Holly Robichaud

If you haven't already you should be reading or following The Lone Republican on Twitter.

The Lone Republican is Holly Robichaud of the Boston Herald. I know Holly and have worked with her and I know I'm in for a real fight when Holly leads the charge, but then it is easier because I know Holly has my back.

Having lived part of the year or in Massachusetts pretty much all of my life I am fully aware of her thoughts of being a lone Republican. That said, Holly has not only been part of the establishment, she has shaken up that establishment and has won more "specials" and other elections than anybody else in the state.

Holly is a state and local as well as a big picture expert. Currently, she smells Coakly's blood in the water. I've sent a donation to Scott Brown and you can do so HERE.

If you like no-nonsense reviews of politics, you'll make her a constant read. I do.

Like Flies: Dodd And Dorgan Fall

FINALLY! Some real hope and change.

IT BEGINS: Dem. Sen. Dorgan Says No More; Will Not Run Reelection...

CHRIS DODD TO RETIRE...

I hope Byron isn't having mortgage problems as well...

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Into The Heart Of Darkness With Harry And Nancy

But on which side are they? On which side are those masters of naïvité such as Zack Space? Will they continue on is secret in their deliberations? Will they continue on in hiding from voters as they decide whether to do as elected? Do they even know in which city they are being played for rubes?

transparency
rule of law
"a government that truly is of, and by, the American people."
we should never forget that we are here as public servants, and
public service is a privilege.

It's not about advancing an ideological agenda or the special interests of any organization," Obama said.

Democratic Leaders Plan Secret Health Reform Deliberations
Despite their claims to the contrary, the way that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid have handled the healthcare bill has been anything but transparent. And, if the left-wing blogosphere is to be believed, the two congressional leaders intend to keep the deliberations secret as they try to merge the House and Senate versions of the legislation into something that will pass both chambers.

They lie about lying, but in secret which makes it not so, eh?

Monday, January 04, 2010

I'm For Longer Vacations, Myself, I Am

Obama ends Hawaiian holiday, returns to Washington

Less damage can be done long distance.

Former Democrats Deserting Obama Gang

via Another Black Conservative from American Power

This video from YouTube is driving liberals nuts which is a good reason to spread it everywhere.
Locally, Obama stickers are disappearing from cars and windows, even with the local college. Working people are seeing first hand what big government help does to them and they don't like it. Going to taverns or parties is refreshing in that if you want a moment of relief, just bring up Obama and it gets very quiet and people drift away.



Over Christmas while in New York, those that voted for Obama, et al seemed so defensive or they came right out and stated they had made a mistake. Many, who I had known as liberals, said they'd had it with the Democrats and they'd give no more money, no more support and no more votes.

I'm not sure who to nominate for Republican helper of the year, Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Waxman, Schumer, Emanuel or the professor, Axlerod.

Democrats Decending

It's not just the leadership of the Democrat Party, it's their membership, the supporters and their fellow travelers who the leadership stand with and speak with.

The 40 Most Obnoxious Quotes Of 2009

The quote which signifies the current administration and Congress is:

14) I wouldn’t dignify you by peeing on your leg. It wouldn’t be worth wasting the urine. -- Pete Stark, to a constituent

Pete Stark has a history of mental instability, but is quite safe in his district. Gee, I wonder why.

Friday, January 01, 2010

Fear The Vest

26 - 17

BDBITL + fans + team + Tressel = WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Good game. When the Ducks couldn't answer the first TD it became a grind to the finish.

Ben Keeler, you got my respect, but I'm glad you were wrong, but, again, nobody expected Tressel to reject Tressel ball. Least of all Oregon.
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An interesting mix of creativity, sometimes tedious grinding and incredible heart, but in the end it came down to coaching.

Napolitano To Ban Volleyball?

In her never ending crusade stroll to save America from terrorism man made disasters Janet Napolitano has at least been consistent. She's always wrong.

Death toll in Pakistan volleyball bombing rises to 75

Besides, volleyball has winners and losers which is the wrong message to send to kids, eh? Of course, that's also an issue for “safe schools czar,” Kevin Jennings who gets so angry about sending wrong messages to kids his hands actually ball up in fists.

This is the type of dedication America has been yearning for.

Conservative New Year's Resolution






I will read a book this year. Well most of one.






















Reading helped my mom.

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Not A Happy New Year For Democrats

After a year of hope and change the collateral damage crowd is splitting for safe turf. They didn't sign up for the debacle called Obamanism.

Dem recruits continue to head for exits

Expect more. Rahm Emanuel created the monster he calls conservative Democrats, Blue Dogs, and now they and future recruits are biting back. None of them in office currently, such as Zack Space, could have won if they told the truth of where they stood politically.

Oh, Emanuel will pour in the money for the 2010 elections to point out the utopia they have brought us, but Zack and friends can't hide or change their votes oh health care reform, cap and trade and other instruments of big government socialism.

I think Americans will take America back in 2010 thus thwarting Obamanism, but it will continue to grow unless there is a veto proof congress able turn the clock back to smaller government and more freedom.

Here's to a great 2010.

Best Quotes Of 2009

via This Ain't Hell

A sampling:

The big mistake of Republican leadership is thinking that going through the motions of listening to their "base" is the same thing as actually listening to the base. They keep trying to drag us to where they think we should be instead of joining us where we are. -- Yael

Since this is an era when many people are concerned about "fairness" and "social justice," what is your "fair share" of what someone else has worked for? -- Thomas Sowell

If we have another 2,000 people killed, I want Nancy Pelosi and George Soros, John Conyers and Pat Leahy to go to the funeral and say, 'Your son was vaporized because we didn't want to dump some guy's head under water for 30 seconds.' -- Peter King

Read the rest HERE

Happy New Year To Our Soldiers

For their bravery, their dedication, their caring when many others don't and their ability to sneer at unreasoned hate.

Marked
The tattoo on this soldier's back spells kafir, the Arabic word for infidel. He is a member of the 10th Mountain Division, serving in Wardak province, Afghanistan.

May you all be safe and successful in your mission.

Episcopal Church: Jesus Who? Huh?

As my regular reader knows I was raised an an Episcopalian. In the small Episcopal church I attended as a youth the political became more important than the liturgy as the Vietnam War was won there and lost here. Even though my father stood us all up in the middle of another "baby killing" and "rapist" sermon and walked all eight of us down the aisle and out the door, never to return again, he and my mother still had hope.

The next year, as I entered the sixth grade, I was sent to Howe Military School (why is another story) which turned my life around in many ways and all to the good. Yes, it took two years of getting the most swats and detentions, but the slow turn to productivity and self discipline took place even as my mind fought it with every ounce of strength it had. Behind the scenes was Father Bowling. He changed my life.

Because of Father Bowling I studied long and hard in school and in his communion classes. They were rough, but he cajoled, gave support and punished us when we were woefully not doing as we should. Father Bowling understood the minds of boys just entering the "dirty" world of puberty and changed the change into something good and clean with his gentle, but firm direction. I can still remember the day I sat in a small room and was told I was now ready for confirmation. I exited the room and there stood Father Bowling with a big smile on his face. As we lounged on his lawn with his wife and children eating a celebratory meal I felt for the first time in my life that I had not just accomplished something, but something of import that was good.

Soon, I entered training to be an acolyte. Father Bowling was again right there beside us cajoling, supporting and guiding us along the path. The correct and respectful way to carry the cross at the head of processions (if you were lucky enough to be chosen), the best way to swing the incense (smells and bells!) and the timely ringing to Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) were under his watchful eye. The memory of the Corp singing "For All The Saints" still sends a chill down my spine. The Word of God was spoken each Sunday High Mass and Wednesday evening services in a dignified and glorious way. It was personal. It was the word of God.

After Howe I went to another private school, which was very elite and will remain unnamed, which was also Episcopal based, but tended to favor whatever had nothing to do with the Word of God. The congregation out did each other through hats, furs, expensive shoes and snooty attitudes. Not to be out done, the students wore blazers and ties with matching blue jean shirts and Top-Siders worn and scuffed to just the right amount of shabby chic. There was no true piety nor Glory. Most of us went to the gardens at the Greek amphitheater and smoked and told dirty jokes. My path downward was set and abetted by the church.

After years of fun filled drugs, alcohol and really great rock and roll I grew tired of the "life". My total failure as a husband and a father had caused my marriage to collapse. I was looking hard at myself and didn't like what I saw. An aging rock and roller standing there with a drink in one hand, a cigarette in the other and the echoes of CBGB's music rattling around in a bruised brain is not only not pretty, it is also not productive in a way that sucks the life out of those you love. Time for a change.

I started putting my life back together and still felt I was torn between the different lives I had constructed or had fallen into. I started work in the DC area and applied myself hard. Once again I felt myself turning back to the good. My children stood with me which to this day is amazing and wonderful. One day I walked into work and saw her. She wore a dress that reminded me of my grandmother and had a smile that left me unable to speak, but once I did, I couldn't stop. I had found a partner who put me back together again.

I took her to an Episcopal church which was my first time back in many years. It felt hollow. I then took her to the crown jewel of the Episcopal Church, North America, the National Cathedral. I explained that my sisters had attended school there and I had been baptized there. She stared at the felt banners proclaiming God's love of everything the Bible speaks against and she ran her fingers over the plaques with the names of those that had donated a window or this or that and said, "Lets get outta here. I'm spooked and standing on top of an admiral. Need more?"

She, being Catholic, took me to a Catholic church. I liked it. Because of my past we couldn't get married in the Catholic Church so we got married in an Anglican church. Ironically we now attend a Catholic church bearing my name which I share with a saint. My sisters still joke that they are going to donate lightening rods to protect the building when I attend, just to be on the safe side. Even more ironical, I found out that my father had been raised Catholic, but had switched to Episcopal for my mother when they married. He referred to Jesuits, who had beaten an education into him, as God's Black Shirts. He never mentioned his religious upbringing. I later found my/his relatives buried in Holy Cross and St. Vincent's cemeteries. A long way from St. Albans and the National Cathedral. Religiously, my two lives finally dovetailed in an odd way only my family could accomplish.

I still miss the Episcopal Church. But then I read things like this:

The Hypocrisy of the Left
I was pleased to find an Episcopal church whose website focused on religion, not ObamaCare. I left a message for the priest that I was looking for a church that didn't press a political agenda because I wasn't a liberal.

I received an icy reply from the priest, the Reverend Lucy, who said with barely-contained disgust, "I don't think you should check us out."

Her response left me shaken and angry. I understand that leftists despise conservatives. I have seen that creepy look of pure hatred when I naïvely told a leftist friend about my political conversion.

But an Episcopal priest rejecting me during the holiest time of year? Isn't anything or anyone sacred?

In shunning me, the Reverend Lucy exposed not only her own hypocrisy, but the duplicity of the left itself. She unveiled the left's dirty little secret -- that their doctrines are as bogus as global warming.


I am not surprised. At all. But I still miss Father Bowling and the intellectual and spiritual sustenence he provided to all that sought them (and a few who didn't).

(click on Episcopal tag for previous postings)

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

How Is Zack Space's Death Watch?

He said he was a representative for Ohio's 18th district and he has voted for all the things his constituents don't want. Things like taxpayer supported abortion, socialized medicine, government control of corporations, banks and insurance companies, using climate control to weaken our sovereignty and unemploy his constituents and on and on. Actually, these are just the rotten anti-Ohio votes that we know about.

DEM DEATH WATCH: Beleaguered Sen. Nelson to air TV ad tonight...
30 Points Down in Reelection Bid...


Zack's buddies in the SEIU and other unions are working furiously behind the scenes to be exempted from all the things they don't like, but we'll get screwed blue with what we can't stop and what we haven't yet seen.

It's time to remind Zack that we don't like his votes nor do we like his arrogance in deciding he knows better than us. Now if we can only get Zack to actually show up and face the voters some time. Yeah, like that is going to happen.

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's 'Got Junk' Store Closed For Lack Of Product

Iowahawk, as usual, has the inside scoop on Nigeria's g-string bomber.

Man, Do I Hate Holiday Travel

Boring Update

Andrew Sullivan is depressed and still has his school girl crush on Sarah Palin. His (?) panties are still in a twist.

My 2010 New Year's wish for Andrew is that he finds a less self directed satirical obsession than Sarah Palins birth canal.

Nerdic Terrorism?

Let's see, a lonely nerd gets lonely and decides to blow up a plane?

Crazy, I'm crazy for feelin' so lonely,
I'm crazy, crazy for feelin' so blue......

Crazy, I'm crazy for fruit of the loom
I'm crazy for tryin' and crazy for cryin'
I'm crazy to make you go boom


Web Posts Suggest Depressed, Lonely Terror Suspect
Those posts, beginning in 2005, show a teenager looking for a new life outside his boarding school and wealthy Nigerian family.

Most of all, they paint a portrait of someone who seems lost and needs someone to hear him.

The postings seem hastily written and are replete with spelling and grammar errors. In one, on Jan 28. 2005, he wrote: "i am in a situation where i do not have a friend, i have no one to speak too, no one to consult, no one to support me and i feel depressed and lonely. i do not know what to do."


Hug a nerd and save the world.

Sunday, December 27, 2009

The System Worked, Eh?

Bungled accelerants and enraged passengers now seem to be part of Janet Napolitano's Homeland Security manual. It is incredulous that a person in such an important position is so stupid that she thinks anyone would believe that.

Janet Napolitano: 'The System Worked'
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano did the rounds on the Sunday shows to address the botched Christmas bombing. (Catch up on Wire coverage of the terror attempt here and here.) She stressed the safety of air travel, and repeatedly said in an upbeat tone that "the system worked" and "everything happened that should have."

This administration has in place some of the most inept people that I have ever seen in politics. Janet Napolitano is worse than Robert Gibbs who is a woesome prevaricator and she less sense than Rahm Emanuel. With personnel like this protecting our country, the Republic's future is in serious doubt.

"The system worked"? Did she really say that? Nah, she couldn't have. Could she?

Thursday, December 24, 2009

Happy Harry Reid's Fairy Tale Dust

Happy Harry is happy. Indeed, so happy that his historic happiness may have blinded him to the fairy tale dust in his eyes.

Dems not worried about post-vote backlash at home
Democrats today have repeatedly expressed a confidence that they won't face a backlash for their votes when they return home for the holidays, which would stand in marked contrast to the August recess.
...

Majority Leader Harry Reid said, "We're going to hear an earful, but it's going to be an earful of wonderment and happiness that people waited for for a long time."


Wonderment and happiness? Yeah, that's how I'd describe it. If I never wandered out of my marble palatial office. If I made sure that I never would be near the smelly hoi polloi.

Yep, those hard working smelly Americans are going to love this bill when Happy Harry shares the fairy tale dust.