Madonna

Madonna has banned her 10-year-old daughter from dating until she's 18.

Gee, I wonder why.

Daddy always said "There is nobody more self rightous than a reformed whore."

Or was that a "unreformed Liberal"?

No matter.

Irani Rocket Hoax?

Chairman Short, aka Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has fired a rocket into outer space.

Or so it seems.

One can only hope his nuclear program is a lie as well.

Jeffery Hansen

Moose Peterson

Al "Baby Boom Boom" Gore

Al Gore’s Personal Energy Use Is His Own “Inconvenient Truth”
Gore’s home uses more than 20 times the national average

Bush approval rating at 76%

GOP is abandoning Bush? Not quite

Cottage

Take names, kick ass and throw them out

It seems that some people are forgetting who is the Commander-in-Chief. More importantly, these people would abandon their troops when most needed. I wouldn't follow any of these non-leaders into battle.

US generals ‘will quit’ if Bush orders Iran attack

SOME of America’s most senior military commanders are prepared to resign if
the White House orders a military strike against Iran, according to highly
placed defence and intelligence sources.

I'm tired of flakes inside government deciding they are more important and know better than those elected to lead.

I'd find out who they are, empty their offices and give 10 minutes to resign and get off the property.

Let the netnuts begin their braying, "Even the military hates him."

Martin Luther on Islam

Here is what Martin Luther had to say about Islam

I have some pieces of Mohammed’s Koran which might be called in German a
book of sermons or doctrines of the kind that we call pope’s decretals. When I
have time, I must put it into German so that every man may see what a foul and
shameful book it is. In the first place, he praises Christ and Mary very much as
those who alone were without sin, and yet he believes nothing more of Christ
than that he is a holy prophet, like Jeremiah or Jonah, and denies that he is
God’s Son and true God. Besides, he does not believe that Christ is the Savior
of the world, Who died for our sins, but that He preached to His own time, and
completed His work before His death, just like any other prophet.On the other
hand, he praises and exalts himself highly and boasts that he has talked with
God and the angels, and that since Christ’s office of prophet is now complete,
it has been commanded to him to bring the world to his faith and if the world is
not willing, to compel it or punish it with the sword; and there is much
glorification of the sword in it. Therefore, the Turks think their Mohammed much
higher and greater than Christ, for the office of Christ has ended and
Mohammed’s office is still in force.From this anyone can easily observe that
Mohammed is a destroyer of our Lord Christ and His kingdom, and if anyone denies
concerning Christ, that He is God’s Son and has died for us, and still lives and
reigns at the right hand of God, what has he left of Christ? Father, Son, Holy
Ghost, Baptism, the Sacrament, Gospel, Faith and all Christian doctrine and life
are gone, and there is left, instead of Christ, nothing more than Mohammed with
his doctrine of works and especially of the sword. That is the chief doctrine of
the Turkish faith in which all abominations, all errors, all devils are piled up
in one heap.

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Read more at The Gates of Vienna

Also check out their 910 Group site and join. It is very worthy and Gates of Vienna opened my eyes.

Probably can't happen in America

Supporters of US Vice President Dick Cheney hold a banner outside the hotel where he delivered his Australian American Leadership Dialogue in Sydney. Cheney on Saturday met Australian Prime Minister John Howard, one of Washington's staunchest allies, for talks likely to focus on troop deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.(AFP/Torsten Blackwood)

But this can.

Balazs Sprenc

Budapest, Hungary

Church

Kowtow to Radical Islam or Else-MCB II

Here is an update to my earlier report thanks to Little Green Footballs.

Read the whole document,

http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/pdf/Schoolinfoguidance.pdf

Micheal Ramirez

One man, one vote and the two party system

"I don't vote party. I vote for the man/woman/candidate"

I have heard a variation of this so many times. What a crock of crap. As if these people even know the candidate outside of what they've been told by the candidate's campaign. Unlike the candidate, the party is known by its actions, platform and many candidates. A party is the better indicator of the future decisions made by candidates.

Growing up I heard exciting news about Buckley's Conservative party of New York and Libertarians forming their own party and I agreed with them on so many issues. The Republican Party seemed to have become a shell of what it had been and I was ready to join the revolution.

I hated the Rockefeller Republicans, I hated that we weren't being allowed to win in Vietnam and it was apparent that America was going to be socialist soon. I was perfect fodder for the divide and lose party. Young, passionate and hard working, but I pulled back from the brink.

I had heard from family about the perils of multi-party governments and how America didn't need to be like Italy and its revolving door governments of ever changing coalitions. I was told of the ensuing chaos of one newly formed government simply rescinding the policies of the previous newly formed government. I was swayed intellectually, but not in my heart which was guided by passion.

What changed my mind was pure political power.

The two party system of political power is what has made America great. Some call it black or white policy making because they want nuance. Others call the two party system nothing but back room power-brokering because they're not in the back room.

The two party system is the backbone of political clarity in America. Statements claiming that there is no difference between the two parties are the statements of shallow people. There are vast differences.

Pure political power is the power to state this is what the majority of Americans want. Period. Pure political power is the power to chastise or take down the party leadership by party members when they shirk their duty.

Multi-party politics is weakness and vacillation. Multi-party politics is multi-power politics which cannot present a clear course for the country, only a trend, because there is no majority.

These are all true, but they are not what I mean by the pure political power.

What changed my mind is that the two party system of politics is the power of numbers. Diluted, it becomes less powerful in that visions are diluted, purpose is diluted, indeed progress is diluted. The sweep of history is shaped by great movements, good and bad, not the by little snipping of minor players and parties. Large numbers organized to a purpose bridge the bad and the mediocre to continually move forward.

President Ronald Reagan swelled the ranks of the party activists, especially the young, and brought down the wall, Russian Communism and brought vigor and wealth back to America. President Franklin Roosevelt turned a nation weak from poverty and depression into a force that made tyrants tremble. In both cases most people and politicians could argue tactics, but shared common goals, more with Roosevelt, less so with Reagan, but these two Presidents lead powerful coalitions within a two party system that changed America and the world.

Now, an Internet third party called Unity 08 is trying to make its ideas, which I think will weaken America, felt in the political marketplace through smooth logic and false sincerity. I also think the effort is being made to hurt the Republican/Conservative/Libertarian Party. What is their real intention?

Now imagine that America's centrist majority has a way to fight back
instead of simply griping that it's stuck with choices thrust upon it by 300,000
voters in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina. Allow me to introduce Unity
'08 (www.unity08.com), a third-party movement that may actually work. I'm not talking about another Texas billionaire who says he can save us from our
two-party duopoly, but an entirely new form of political self-help. This time
voters would use the Internet to draft nominees for a virtual convention in
June, by which point Unity '08 will have gotten itself on the ballot in nearly
every state. Names like Bloomberg, Gore, Giuliani, Obama, and Romney will draw
support from vastly more voters than Clinton and McCain may have tallied in
America's low-turnout primaries. To be eligible for nomination, the only
condition these and other contenders must agree to is this: If they win, they
will name a running mate from the other political party.

Meaning, I guess, that we would have a Presidential chaperon to temper bad behavior. This is nothing more than a "can't we all just get along" movement if taken at face value. Do these people really think we'd be better off if Roosevelt had a Hooverite as VP to temper his vision or a Carter to soften Reagan's stance on communism? What rubbish.

Unity '08 is one of the most electorally subversive ideas in years. The
brain behind it is Doug Bailey, a 73-year-old former Republican consultant, who
left the game in the late 1980s before founding The Hotline, an online
newsletter that has become the Beltway's political bible. Joined by former Jimmy
Carter advisors Gerald Rafshoon and Hamilton Jordan, Bailey launched Unity '08
to steer politics back to the underrepresented center.

The center being the "3/5's man" part of the electorate ruled by overbearing masters of the left and the right. Again, rubbish.

Mr. Bailey decries the "negativity" of campaigning today and the hyper partisan nature of the electorate.

Just to take presidential campaigns. You want negative, go check out these campaigns.

Jefferson-Adams, 1800 "He is a mean-spirited, low-lived fellow, the son of a half-breed Indian squaw, sired by a Virginia mulatto father."

Jackson-Adams, 1828 “Don’t Put A Whore In The White House!”

Lincoln-McClellan, 1864 "ignoramus" , a "butcher" and "Honest Ape"

Grant-Greeley, 1872 "not only a drunk, but now drunk on power"

or

Cleveland-Blaine, 1884
"Ma Ma, where's my pa. Gone to the White House, ha ha ha" retorted by "Blaine, Blaine, James G. Blaine, The Continental Liar from the State of Maine"

Comments such as referring to stained blue dresses aren't exactly new.

Unity 08 wants to bring comity to the partisanship of politics, but ignores that the greatest partisanship face offs brought us our greatest triumphs such as Republicans facing down Democrats in the Civil Rights debates, the Republicans winning over the defeatist who said they wanted to split the nation to save the nation during the Civil War and the debates, both legislative and by the electorate, concerning the continued appeasement of Russia or the defeat of Russia.

Third parties? No. They weaken our Republic.

Unity 08 wants to strengthen the Left and help them gain more power. Unity 08 is specifically designed to weaken the Right and squash the vigor with which we experiment in this freedom lab called America.

I'll stick with the two party system.

Kowtow to radical Islam or else - MCB

It is easy to sneer at France, England and the rest of Europe for their radical "muslim" problem, but this is a warning shot across the bow of England and the rest of the world.

If England doesn't bend to the Muslim Council of Britains' (MCB) will, then it isn't MCB's fault when violence follows against the citizens of England. After all, MCB tried to "fix" the problem.

This is a set up for killing and it's coming to America soon. Bend over Liberals and maybe they'll kill you last.

DEMANDS for a ban on “un-Islamic” activities in schools will be set out by
the Muslim Council of Britain today.

Targets include playground games, swimming lessons, school plays, parents’ evenings and even vaccinations.

And the calls for all children to be taught in Taliban-style conditions will be
launched with the help of a senior Government education adviser.

Professor Tim Brighouse, chief adviser to London schools, was due to attend the event at the capital’s biggest mosque. His presence there was seen as “deeply worrying”, and a sign that the report was backed by the Government.

Tory MP Greg Hands said: “The MCB needs to realise it has to move closer to the rest of the community, not away from it. The presence of Tim Brighouse implies Government backing of this report. This is very worrying.”

Terry Sanderson of the National Secular Society said the report was a “recipe for disaster”. He added: “Schools with even just a handful of Muslim kids will find they have to follow these guidelines because there aren’t the staff to have one set of classes for Muslims and another for the rest. The MCB shouldn’t try to force its religious agenda on children who may not want it. The Government needs to send the MCB packing. Schools should be about teaching, not preaching.”

The report, Towards Greater Understanding – Meeting The Needs of Muslim Pupils In State Schools, says all schools should bring in effective bans for all pupils on “un-Islamic activities” like dance classes.

It also wants to limit certain activities during Ramadan. They include science lessons dealing with sex, parents’ evenings, exams and immunisation programmes.
The holy month – when eating and drinking is not allowed in daylight hours – should also see a ban on swimming lessons in case pupils swallow water in the pool. When swimming is allowed, boys should wear clothing covering their bodies “from the navel to the neck”, even during single-sex pool sessions, while girls must be covered up completely at all times, apart from the face and hands.

The MCB adds that schools should ensure contact sports, including football and basketball, “are always in single-gender groups”.

Even school trips are targeted in the report, which wants them all
to be made single-sex “to encourage greater participation from Muslim
pupils”.

It wants Arabic language classes for Muslim pupils, and says the
Koran should be recited in music classes. And all schools should ensure they
have prayer rooms with washing facilities attached, it says.

In art classes, Muslim children should not be allowed to draw people, as this is forbidden under some interpretations of Islamic law.

And while the MCB insists that all British children should learn about Islam, it wants Muslims to have the right to withdraw their children from RE lessons dealing with Christianity and other faiths.

Susan Verberg

Reality-based lies accepted as truth

News articles, opinion pieces and the most read section of any newspaper, the Letter to the Editor, all slip convenient lies in to support their "inconvenient truth". Recent polling shows that maybe the public isn't buying all of their tripe, but how much is being accepted is witnessed by the blatant insertions of lies.

Dann’s transportation should set example
Wednesday, February 21,
2007

State Attorney General Marc Dann is free to drive whatever he wants
("Ohio attorney general will ride high in his SUV," Dispatch article, Feb. 8).
But for a man who campaigned on restoring ethical integrity to government, he
has to justify how he can drive that carbon-spewing, gasguzzling hog while the world is trying to mitigate a global climate catastrophe and our troops are dying for oil abroad.

Dann should show some leadership and set an example.
RICH JAMES
Columbus

(emphasis mine)

This submitter is a typical frequent LTE writer who always slips in this garbage. This time it is about our newly elected State Attorney General, but it could just as easily be about an article on salad dressing that he disagrees with because Lord knows that man is evil, but Republicans and George Bush are the most evil.

The garbage is their "inconvenient truths" that we are expending blood for oil so that oil can be used to further destroy the earth.

What if we are fighting for oil? I do not believe we are, but what if? Is it noble to fight for a substance that prevents millions from freezing each winter? Is it noble to feed, cloth and create jobs, all of which oil has come to support, so people can afford the heat and food to give life sustenance? Is it noble to topple dictators and tyrants that would use oil to blackmail the world for their own nefarious desires?

If the earth is warming, why is Antarica's ice packs getting thicker? Why is the ice in the Artic not thinning as the global warming nuts are stating? If the earth is warming, is it a weather trend as many who are just as expert are saying? Is it man? Is it cow flatulence? Is the cow flatulence being fueled by the cattle defoliating grasslands just to feed themselves and man's desire for meat? Or, is global warming a made up theory to give the chicken-littles of the world something to cry about and others to pontificate and make money?

The bottom line is there is no proof that "our troops are dying abroad for oil", nor is there proof that there is a "global climate catastrophe", but they are "truths" that are stated over and over in the media, the classroom and public pulpits, both secular and nonsecular, all over America and the world. This does not make them true. It just makes them annoying.