Barack, Arugala and Adel Iowa

Via Bloodthirsty Liberal

How not to campaign in Iowa

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

Couple of problems here:

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

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

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

Pelosi, Most Stupid Statement of the Year

House Forms Special Panel Over Alleged Stolen Vote

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

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

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

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

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

UPDATE: It is also the most laughable.

Black Muslims Murder Editor Because of Stories About Their Murder Record

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

7 Arrested in Death of Oakland Newspaper Editor

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

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

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

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

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

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

Via This Ain't Hell

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

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

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

Liberals respond with their usual aplomb.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Blame the Messenger, Love the Troops

From Crusading Rabbit

thank a Marine!

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

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

via Fortress Australiathe address is:

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

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

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

Truth Boating Hillary

From Conservative Culture

Truth Boating Hillary

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

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

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

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

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

IMPORTANT UPDATE:
From Doug From Upland

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

For My Minion

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

Good News From The War On Terror 8/2

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

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

Independents and Other Wimps

Number of Democrats Falls to New Low, Republicans Decline Too

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

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


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


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


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


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


Pick any of your issues and think about it.


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


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


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


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

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

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

You?

The Hell With Home Depot

Success! Yes in deedy.

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

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

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

Now THAT is success in this reality based community!

Want Some Truth About Iraq and The War On Terror?

Democrats Aim To Engineer Defeat in Iraq

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

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

Liberals Love the Troops Through Lies and Greed

Via Protein Wisdom

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

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

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

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

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

A Wonderful Memory, Jong Mea

Jong Mea Restaurant

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

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

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

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

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

Out Damned Tenth Amendment. Out!

Lawmakers look to revolutionize primary plan

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

I am so traumatized.

No Lovin With Lovers of Meat

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

Carnivore sex off the menu

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

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

Does this mean we have no future together?

I am so relieved.

Tagged, But Not Yet Bagged

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I am tagging:

seejanemom

And you thought YOU were cranky?

Bob's Blog

Dinah Lord

Jon Swift

Bloodthirsty Liberal

Keeler Report

Iowa Hawk

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

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

Ankara, Turkey

Citadel wall, looking from the west, Ankara

Case Western Reserve FUGLY

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

Chief Justice John Roberts is Injured

From Kos

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

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

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

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

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

From the DU

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

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

My God, what hateful losers.

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

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

Big Government, Samuelson and the 75% Solution

When Silence Isn't Golden

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

...

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

...

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

...

This approach would force think tanks to compete.

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

Competition.

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

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

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